Bitten ( Daryl Dixon / The Walking Dead Fanfic )

Chapter 9

"ye okay?" Daryl asked whilst smirking as he turned to see me holding the back of his chair. I nodded as I felt my face turning pink and quickly walked out the house. I stood in the porch as I looked around for Rick. He was putting empty backpacks and duffel bags in the mint coloured car. They're planning on going to town I thought, I walked up to Rick and he leaned on the car and smiled. "Hey, aren't you going to go in for breakfast?" I asked as I leaned next to him and looked up at the sky. It had become quite cloudy and I suspect it's going to rain later on. "No.. not hungry, nice shirt by the way " He nudged me causing me to laugh. Finally someone with a sense of humour !

"Thanks, listen I want to go to town too, I know the place better and there's some things I need" Rick rubbed his forehead and look towards the house. " I'm not sure if Shane or Daryl would think that's such a good idea" he replied in a hush tone. Before I could tell him that I did not give a fuck, Glenn, Shane and Daryl walked out of the house and started making their way towards us.

"We should get going, it's going to start raining soon" Glenn said as he noticed the cloudy weather too. I took a deep breath in and said "I'm going with you guys" I looked at Shane then at Daryl expecting them to be all 'hell no it's not safe' but instead they just nodded and got in the car. I looked at Rick who also seemed really confused and shrugged at me.

I sat infront and Shane, Daryl and glenn sat at the back whilst Rick drove. It was a quiet journey except when Daryl slapped the back of Glenn's head when he got too close. We reached the local town in 10 minutes and it had started to rain a little.
"Right I'll go in the pharmacy and find the list Carol has given for Hershel and anything else that may be useful. Ariana you can go into that dollar store and find anything we need with Glenn. Shane and Daryl there's a gun shop around the corner according to Ariana, check it out." We all nodded and Rick smiled "okay then be back here in half an hour."

We all quietly got out the car and grabbed the empty bags, I took the light blue denim backpack because well it was awesome. Glenn and I started walking towards the dollars store and I saw Glenn take out his gun. That's when I realised I only had brought a pocket knife, my heart started racing, how could I be so stupid ? It started to rain heavily and Glenn started running towards the store "Come on Ariana " he said realising I had completely stopped in the middle of the road. I nodded and quickly followed him in. The dollar store was a mess but thankfully there were no walkers. We quickly started filling our bags with canned food, shampoos, clothing and other things. "This place is a goldmine !" Glenn exclaimed and I laughed and nodded. We were about to walk out the store when Rick rushed in "Get down ! Get down !" he said in an urgent tone. We quickly bent down and looked out the store windows.
The rain was heavily coming down and there was a herd of walkers slowly walking past the car. "what about Shane and Daryl ?' I whispered as I put my hand on Rick's shoulder. "They'll be fine" he replied and and squeezed my hand lightly.

We stayed like that for about 10 minutes and another 5 just to be sure. "Okay I think we're good" Glenn said although he still looked really worried. We cautiously made our way out, I opened the door and we quickly walked to the car. I opened the trunk but before I could put my backpack inside it I heard Rick and Glenn shout my name. I turned to look at them and thats when I felt a sharp pain in my shoulder and heard a growl coming from behind me.

I heard a gunshot and the growling stopped, I turned around to see a walker on the floor with blood around its mouth. That's when I realised the blood covering my whole right side and let a scream out. I looked at the deep teeth marks on my shoulder and started feeling weak. My vision started going blurry and my legs felt weak, I was about to fall and closed my eyes but I felt someone's arms around me. I opened my eyes and through my blurry vision I could make out it was Rick. "I-I w-won't turn " I said in a dry and weak voice, "shh Ariana" I heard him reply in a shaky voice. My head was pounding and my eyelids felt heavy. I wanted to tell him about the bite marks above my stomach but my eyes were closing and I couldn't move. They're going to shoot me I thought before blacking out.