"Sure you don't want me to help? I've got a little time before Rick and shane come back." I say.
Carol shakes her head, "No I'm good." She says, hanging up the wet laundry on the clothesline.
I nod my head, "Okay."
I turn and make my way over towards where the others are gathered around the car, waiting for Rick and Shane to come back. Today is the first proper day we are going out and looking for Sophia. The search party consists of myself, Daryl, Shane, Rick, Andrea and T-Dog. Hopefully with this many people, we will be able to cover enough ground and hopefully find her.
"Morning guys, let's get going. We got a lot of ground to cover." Rick greets as he walks towards us all.
He lays out the map that Maggie gave us yesterday and pins it down with some sticks, "Alright, everyone is getting new search grids today. If she made it as far as the farm house Daryl found than she may have went further east than we thought."
"I'd like to help."
We turn and see looking Jimmy at us hesitantly, his hands in his pockets, "I know the area pretty well and stuff."
"Hershel's okay with this?" Rick asks and Jimmy nods, "Yeah, yeah. He said I should ask you." He says, a bit of hesitancy in his voice.
I eye him as Rick nods, "Alright then, thanks."
"What Daryl found doesn't scream Sophia to me. Anyone could have been held up in that farm house." Shane says, sitting in the doorway of the car.
"Anybody includes her right?" I state.
"Well whoever slept in that cupboard is no bigger then yay high." Daryl says, gesturing to just above his waist.
"Good lead." Andrea nods.
"Maybe we will pick up her trail?" Rick says and Daryl shakes his head, "There ain't no maybe about it."
He leans over and points to the map, "I'm gonna borrow a horse, head up to this ridge right here. Get a birds eye view of the whole grid. If she's up there, I'll spot her." Daryl says as Dale comes up beside me and places the bag of guns on the hood of the car.
"Good idea." T-Dog says, "Maybe you will see your chupacabra up there too."
I stifle a smirk and look down at the ground as Rick speaks, "Chupacabra?"
"You've never heard this? First night of camp, Daryl tells us about the time he went squirrel hunting and saw a chupacabra." Dale says unconvinced as he hands out guns.
Jimmy scoffs and Daryl narrows his eyes at him, "What are you grinning at jackass?"
"So you believe in a blood sucking dog?" Rick asks, a smirk in his voice and Daryl responds instantly in a defensive tone, "You believe in dead people walking around?"
Jimmy goes to pick up a rifle and Rick stops him, "Hey, hey. You ever fired one before?" He asks Jimmy.
"Well if I'm going out I want one." Jimmy states and Daryl grunts, "Yeah and people in hell want slurpees."
Daryl slings his crossbow over his back and walks away and I stifle my smirk as I take a rifle off of Dale as well as my normal handgun.
"Why don't you come train tomorrow? If you're serious, I'm a certified instructor." Shane says.
I nod my head and turn to him, "For now he's coming with me." I say, slipping my gun in the waistline of my jeans.
"He's yours to babysit then." Shane says.
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Always (A Daryl Dixon/ The Walking Dead Fanfiction)
Fanfiction"It's you and me Daryl, like it always has been." I say, looking into his dark blue eyes. "The way it always will be." He states. I nod my head, a small smile on my lips, "Always." Bree Winchester had known the Dixon brothers since she was running a...
