We drove for hours until we see the car Merle took. We pull up to the rundown warehouse with two silos, we get out and walk around looking for evidence to where they may have gone. I go around the side of the building and Daryl takes the other side. I open one of the doors and find Walkers caged up. What the hell? I ignore them and walk back outside, I see Daryl slowly approaching a Walker.
Oh God it's Merle I watch as Daryl pushes Merle away, he comes back and Daryl pushes him away again. Merle spins around and comes back, Daryl stabs him in the shoulder and they both fall to the ground, I take a few steps closer. Daryl starts to cry and stabs Merle repeatedly, he screams and takes his anger out on Merle's face with his knife.
He falls to the ground backwards and lays there crying. I walk up to him and he brushes ne off, I don't hold it against him. I don't blame him for being upset.
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We walk back to the prison in silence. I let my mind drift into the past,
A specific summer actually, the summer of 1999. The summer I lost my mother, the summer I moved back in with my dad, the summer I lost my innocence, but most importantly the summer all the abuse started.
I'd been living with my dad for almost 2 years, counting the year I lived with him before I went back with my mom, and he started the abuse mentally. But abuse is abuse, no matter what way it's pressed. He would call me names, tell me I was useless and that I was a mistake and that I should've been aborted. I tried to shake the words off, but the harder I tried the worse it ate me alive.
It wasn't until 2 years after that summer that the abuse turned physical, the first incident was when I was 12. He got mad because I had a C- in Algebra, I tried to explain to him that I was one of the few kids taking Algebra in the 7th grade, but it didn't matter to him. We were sitting at the dinner table when he brought it up, "What are your grades?" he asks taking a swig of beer, "I have an A in everything but Physical Science. I have an A- in there and I-" I pause, "I have a C- in Algebra" I mumble and let out the breath I was holding, "Oh. When does the semester end?" he asks, "Tuesday" I reply, "That gives you a week, Jade! 1 week to get that up! There is no way you're gonna do that" he shouts, "I can do it dad, I promise. Just give me a chance" I plead laying my fork on the table. "Get the hell outta my face before you regret it!" he shouts. "But I'm hungry, can I take my dinner to my room?" I ask daringly, he stands up, I fall to the ground off the chair and scoot to the wall, he throws his beer bottle at the wall, it shatters into a million pieces and the glass shards shower over me, he scoops me up by my arm, "Ow! That hurts!" I yell, he slaps me, "I said go to your room! Next time you better not question me, little lady. You do as I say, got it?" he growls, "Understand?!" he asks after a moment of silence, I nod and bite my tongue. He pushes me and I run upstairs with tears pouring down my face.
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I didn't realize how long I'd been reliving the past until we get to the gates of the prison. We go in and Michonne is sitting at the table, "Wow, ma brother died fer' nothin" Daryl growls and storms up to the perch and goes to lay down, "Jade?" Rick asks carefully, I look at him for a moment then I jolt my head slightly backwards, beckoning him to come outside. "Merle's dead. We came across the car he took and Daryl and I split up, I came back around the building and saw Daryl stabbing a Walker, I got closer and saw it was Merle. Rick please be careful, this struck him hard, just leave him be for a while. We don't need him exploding and hurting someone" I say, he nods in agreement. "I'm sorry for the loss" he says and walks back inside.
I go out hunting and get very little game. Today is just not a good day. I sing gently to myself as I hunt. "Summer has come and passed,
The innocent can never last,
wake me up when September ends" I sing and eventually tears start sliding down my face, I sing through them with a shaky voice, "Like my fathers come to pass,
Seven years has gone so fast,
Wake me up when September ends" I pull the arrow out of the squirrel I just shot, "Wake me up when this world ends" I sob thinking of how fucked up this world is right now.
I go back to the prison and hand what game I have to Carol, "Jade. Are you ok?" she asks, "Yeah. I'm good" I lie walking off to grab clothes before heading to the shower. Maggie is in there "Jade?" she asks, "Yeah?" I question, "Are you ok?" she asks, "Yeah" I say and walk to the shower in the far back of the room, I close the makeshift curtain, which is really just a strung up sheet, and pump the water over me.
I get out of the shower and decide to go collect evidence of Merle's crime scene. I got this odd feeling in my gut that Merle didn't die of viral contamination; I believe it was murder.
"Rick, I'm going back to where Merle is and I want to bring his body back and bury it for Daryl, I'm gonna take my jeep and I'll be back soon" I say before walking out to the garage.
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Never Wake The Dead (TWD Fanfic)
Fanfiction"What did you see?" he asks, "Nothing" I say, "Tell me!" he shouts, I spit in his face, he wipes it off, "You are a beauty, you know that? It would suck to dispose of such a beautiful, spiteful, badass young lady, wouldn't it?" he says and grabs the...
