For You // R.G.

Chapter 55

I moved wooden pallets with huge water barrels on top, trying to set up a site for a sniper. Rick wanted the group to set up protection along the prison just in case the governor came back. I then heard someone come out of the prison, I turned to look and saw that it was Daryl. He glared at me and kept walking in his direction, I watched as he went to go to the food stand where Patrick and some of the other group members were eating. I sighed, knowing Daryl was still angry about Merle being found dead at Woodbury. Of course I felt terrible about it, Merle was actually a good person when you were on his good side. I wanted to have him around longer, he was helpful and loyal but when Daryl came back to the prison after he left to find Merle, he was angry at Rick and I. Mad at me for not looking for him and mad at Rick for taking my side. I remember standing there with Rick keeping himself in between Daryl and I so Daryl wouldn't start anything physical,

"He was right, your pride is where your dick is." Daryl says to Rick in a I should've believed him tone. Rick shouted his name as Daryl walked away but Daryl didn't flinch.

I watched Daryl as he came from the food stand to go back in the prison, I was going to follow him in when Rick and I bumped into each other. He held my shoulders, making sure I was okay and knowing it was me, he smiled.

"Hey, I wanted to go talk to Daryl." I say in a way that told him to let me go but he didn't,

"I think he still needs time."

"It's been a month, Rick. He hasn't changed at all."

"I don't want you talking to him alone, max-"

"He's not going to try anything... We've known each other too long." I say, I was sure of myself before I actually said it but as I spoke I started to doubt myself. Rick sighed and removed his hands from my shoulders and took his gardening gloves off.

"Please, just let me take care of it."

"Why do you keep doing this? You have to trust me someday." I say desperately

He bows his head, "Being together doesn't stop me from caring about you. If anything it makes my concern greater." Rick explained into my eyes now

"I just mean, maybe you could loosen the reigns a little? I'm not as rebellious as you think I am."

"You just defied me by making your own plan attacking the prison... I think you're a little bit of a rebel still." He says with a small smile. He then looks away, "I've gotta clean out the snares out there, I'll be back in an hour."

"I want to go." I say, grabbing ahold of his arm as he started to walk away. He stopped and looked back at me, he snickered,

"Why?"

I sighed, ever since everything settled down, it's been a little boring around the prison,

"I've been bored."

"Bored is good. Just go inside and take care of Jamie. Hang out with Sena, you haven't talked to her in a few days." He suggests,

"She's busy with Derek." I say, he smiles at me, he moved over to me and kissed my lips sweetly,

"Don't do anything stupid." He jokes, he left me there as he walked down the dirt path to go check the snares.

..

"So, how was your walk with Carol?" I asked Jamie as she played with her stuffed dog that Rick picked up during a supply run a few weeks ago. She looked glum, something was up.

"Do you think my parents are still alive?"

I was caught off guard from her question, she hasn't asked about her parents or Oliver at all. I was going to eventually find the time to talk with her about it but I guess today was the day.

"Um..." I took a deep breath, she looked up at me. I tried to think of a good way to answer, "they may be... But I don't know for sure."

She returned to her doll.

"I miss Oliver."

I nodded, "I do too."

"He wasn't even bitten, how did he turn into a monster?" She asked innocently. I remember Rick telling me that unless you're shot in the head, you die and come back as a walker.

"He died from the gun shot... And then he turned."

She stayed silent for a long period of time before I heard footsteps in the cellblock, I could recognize the sound of the shoes to be Rick. I didn't want to leave Jamie because of how she was feeling, so I let Rick walk up to us. But once I saw fresh blood on his shirt I stood up and went over to him,

"Max- I gotta talk to you-"

"What happened to you?" I asked, I was checking his arms for any bites, I started to lift his shirt up to see if he was bitten on his torso but he took my hands gently, giving me the notion that he wasn't bitten.

"I'm fine. I was in the woods and there was a girl pretending to be a walker to survive. She took me to where she was living, and she... She tried to kill me."

I hugged him, I held him as he kept explaining what happened,

"she- she had her dead husband still..." He says, he sounded disturbed by it all, and I couldn't blame him. "She ended up killing herself."

Rick and I separated, he looked into my eyes, "Jamie needs to learn how to shoot."

I looked over at Jamie who was still playing with her animal, she wasn't listening at all.

"What happened?" He asked, noticing her unusual change in mood. I explained it to him and he went over to her. He whispered to her a couple of things that I couldn't hear, but she nodded to what he was saying and hugged him. She wrapped her arms around his neck to hold onto him as he stood up and carried her up to the top bunk of the cell. She laid down, he gave her you to her.

"We'll wake you up when it's dinner time." Rick says and pats her. She nods, I kiss her head and we both leave the cell.

"What did you tell her?"

"Just to take a nap."

"But she should be able to talk about this with us." I protested, he looked at me and sighed as if he was going to tell me something I didn't want to hear,

"Look, I've had a kid before. We will talk with Jamie another time, but right now she looked tired."

"So?" I asked, not understanding why he put her to bed in the first place. He then moved into my face and kissed my lips. I started to kiss his lips as passionately as he was kissing mine, he also grabbed my butt, making me moan into his mouth. We were backing up until my back reached a wall where he started to touch all over my body, still managing to kiss me so well.

"Is- this- why?-" I was asking the reason why he put Jamie to bed

He came out with a "mhmmm," while kissing me, I was getting on board with this whole deal as his lips coaxed me. I couldn't get my mind off of what happened to him in the woods, he hadn't talked about it that much and it was worrying me. I separated from him, his hot breath blew against my skin and it made it hard to keep from him,

"You- you don't want to talk about what happened in the woods?" I asked. He shook his head and kissed my neck,

"Rick-"

"You're making me feel better." He says by my ear, he then starts to put his hands under my shirt, but that all ended when we heard,

"Hey!" We both separated from one another hastily, seeing who the hell was calling to us and it was Derek and Sena. I stood there with Rick's body pressed against mine, his hands slowly left my body and I felt like dying because all I wanted to do was continue with Rick. But Sena stood there snickering,

"Sorry to interrupt but we just wanted to know if you guys were planning on making a supply run anytime soon?"

I had Rick's shirt in my clenched fist to keep him from leaving, he just turned his head to talk with them,

"Tomorrow... We'll go tomorrow." He answers, he then goes back to me and stares at me with lazy, heavy eyes. I felt butterflies but I remembered that they were still standing there so I had to control myself,

"Is that it?" I asked impatiently, Derek nodded, he was anxious to leave and Sena just laughed again, now leaving. Rick's lips returned to my neck.