AMBER | Daryl Dixon

Just A Few More Steps

Daryl's POV

We had been on the move all night and I have only one thought constantly rolling through my mind; Amber.

"She is alive. She stood right infront of me, living and breathing. After so long, she has grown so much." I thought.

After all these years, I had thought she was dead, but I was clearly wrong. But she was gone as fast as she appeared. Just like that.

I never thought I'd love someone as much as I love that child even though she wasn't really mine to begin with.

"Baby doll, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I left you. I want to go back, I do, but I can't. Not after what happened. I'm sorry."

I was brought out of thought when the car came into view.

"Glenn!" Rick shouted, as we all rushed towards the car.

"Rick? Rick! Rick!" Glenn yelled back, re-appearing from behind the car along side Michone.

"Now we got a problem here. I need you to back up." Said Rick as he held up his hands, watching as Glenn reached for his gun and aimed it at Merle.

"What the hell is he doing here?!" Glenn shouted and then all hell broke loose.

"Hey! Hey! Hey!" I said, standing in front of Merle.

"Put it down!" Yelled Rick as he walked closer towards Glenn.

"Whoa whoa whoa!" Said Merle as he backed up into a tree with his hand up.

"He tried to kill me!" Yell Michone as she held up her sword.

"If it wasn't for him-" Glenn began but was cut off by Rick. They just continued arguing until a sword was pointed towards my face.

"Get that thing outta my face!" She backed away as Merle spoke from behind me.

"Man, look like you've gone native brother." I turned around to find a smirk on old Merle's face.

"No more than you hanging out with that psycho back there." He chuckled.

"Oh, yeah, man. He is a charmer, I got to tell you that. Been putting the wood to your girlfriend Andrea. Big time, baby." He said, earning a few weird looks from me and Glenn.

"What?" I asked, walking up towards him some.

"Andreas in Woodbury?" Asked Glenn.

"Right next to the Governor." Replied Merle as he tilted his head up some.

"I told you to drop that!" Yelled Rick towards Michone.

"You know Andrea? Hey, do you know Andrea?" I looked at Michonne until Merle opened his god damn mouth and answered for her.

"Yep, she does. Her and blondie spent all winter cuddling up in the forest. Mm-mmm-mmm. Yeah. My Nubian queen here had two pet walkers. No arms, cut off the jaws, kept them in chains. Kind of ironic now that I think about it-"

"Shut up bro!" I yelled back harshly as laughter escaped his lips.

"Hey, man, we snagged them out of the woods. Andrea was close to dying."

"Is that why she's with him?" Asked Rick towards Michone.

"Yeah."

"Snug as two little bugs. So what you gonna do now, Sheriff, huh? Surrounded by a bunch of liars, thugs, and cowards-"

"Shut up!" I yelled and he seemed to be getting annoyed too.

"Oh, man, look at this. Pathetic. All these guns and no bullets in them." He said, looking down at us with a smirk.