Hidden Secrets*Daryl Dixon*

Chapter Three: I Am A Monster

I looked in the mirror to make sure I didn't have a bruise on my face. My black hair fell just past my shoulders and my died red bangs have faded into an orange-ish color. I'll have to dye it again. My pink full lips were normal. My green eyes looked fine, but on my left cheek there was clearly a bruise. Damn.

I sighed and left my cell to meet everyone else. I kind of hoped no one asks what happened. I mean it is funny, but also embarrasing. I entered the cafeteria, where everyone else usually meets to eat breakfast. I only see Michone and Carol making breakfast.

"Hey guys." I greeted. They were cool people. Carol was like my mom and Michone was my badass bestie. "Where is everyone else?" I asked and sat on the counter.

"They are somewhere with Rick. Training I guess. You Woodbury people aren't very experienced." Carol answered. They both were still working on Breakfast and haven't looked at me yet.

I laughed, " I don't really consider myself a Woodbury person. I don't know any of them really." Carol laughed too and Michone cracked a smile.

"Well we still have to find their do's and don'ts." Michonned said and turned around to look at me. She gasped and Carol turned around and gasped too. "Oh my! Are you okay?" Carol asked cupping my face in her hand to inspect it. "Did Daryl do this to you?" Michone asked basically growling.

I gaped. "What!? NO! Oh my god!"

"Then what happened?" Michone asked again.

"I hit my fucking face and the metal bar thingy on my bed this morning!!!" I answered truthfully and shocked. They should know Daryl would never hit a woman.

They looked at my bruise and started laughin. It did look at lot more serious than it was. bruises (that is a link to the bruise) I reached to grab Autumn's hand only to relize she wasn't there. She wasn't there this morning either.

"Where's Autumn!? Have either of you seen Autumn!?" I yelled. They stopped laughing.

"Yeah, dear, she's playing with Carl over by Judith's bed." Carol informed me. I let out a breath I didn't even relize I was holding. I relaxed.

"Oh, sorry." I apologized. "No need to apologize. If I had a kid, I'd panick if I lost my kid," Michone started then looked at Carol, "Sorry hun." Carol shrugged and continued making breakfast. "Autumn isn't my daughter. She's like my daughter and I raise her as my own, but she's not." I explained.

"What happened to her parents?" Carol asked.

I turned my head away, "I don't want to talk about it..."

[Flashback

It was two weeks into the appocalypse. I was with my aunt Caroline, my Uncle Richard, and their daugter Autumn in France. We're on our way to the CDC(Center of Disease Control). I left my parents and joined them in the begginging. My parents are abbusive, selfish, assholes, and would've used me as walker bait. I consider these people as my actual loving parents. I turned around and heard Autumn scream. I ran to her and drove my kitauna into the walkers skull, when I was attacked from behind by a Walker. I felt his dirty teeth bite down on my back. The last thing a heard was Autumns screan and a shot fired.

~later that evening~

My entire body was on fire. My lungs were screaming, and I felt the fire traveling through my veins. It hurt so much. My heart wasn't beating anymore. I'm dead. I'm dead! I'm FUCKING DEAD! Then how am I still breathing, why and I still thinking? Why am I still in so much pain!? I felt a giant ball of fire in the pit of my stomach. Put it out! Someone put it out! I tried screaming but I couldn't open my eyes. I could't think strait. I couldn't feel anything, other then the pain. Open your eyes!!!! I yelled at myself. I heard voices around me. Then I felt someone shake me.