Shattered

Chapter Thirty-Four: Painful Goodbye

       I laid on the bed not wanting to get up. Maggie and Carol have tried for days but I couldn't get up. I didn't want to. Daryl hasn't taken a step in here since I flinched away from him making it all worse. I heard Judith crying and sighed. When she kept crying I finally got up. I went up to the nursery and found her in the crib. "Oh what's wrong baby girl?" I picked her up and smiled down at her. After changing her I walked down and made her a bottle. Her hands found mine and she held on. I let out a small laugh just watching her. "Its good to see you up. How's your ankle?" "Painful." Maggie smiled and sat on the table. "Have you seen Daryl?" "No. I don't think he wants to see me." "Grace you were attacked he understands." She took Judith from me and motioned to the door. "Check the tower." I sighed and walked outside. It was nice to finally feel the wind on my face after being inside for so long. I snuck up the stairs and opened the door. I slid my arms around his waist and put my face in his back. 

        "Let's skip the apologies." "I can do that." He turned around to face me slightly smiling. "I love you Daryl. More than yesterday and less than tomorrow and I always will." I leaned up and kiss him. He pulled me closer and pulled me back in for a rough kiss. I didn't realize how much I missed him. My fingers ran along the buttons of his shirt eventually getting them all undone. I put my hands on his bare chest and smiled. "You sure about this?" I stopped for a minute before nodding. To put things simply we were all over each other. I needed him to make me forget. As his rough lips trailed down my soft body he made everything disappear.

        He laid on top of me placing small kissing along my neck softly biting here and there. I moaned softly enjoying the silence between us. It was like we didn't lose anything. The world wasn't falling down around us it was just the two us without a care in the world. Not that it matters much Daryl is my whole world and here he is in my arms. We heard a shot and jumped up. I threw on my clothes and grabbed my gun from beside the door. I looked over and saw Rick holding his leg on the ground. I looked into the woods and shot the person running the other direction. I hurried over to Rick and Daryl went after the shooter. "How bad is it?" "Not good but from what I can see it didn't hit the bone. Come on we need to get you inside." Maggie came rushing out and I told her what happened. I got Rick to the table and hurried back outside. I tossed Glenn a gun and started scanning the wood line. "You see anything?" "No. Just watch for Daryl don't shoot him."

          I heard a scream and Glenn took off running. Daryl came back holding Martinez. Glenn came running out shouting about walkers in D. I hurried through with Daryl right behind me. I pulled out my knife and killed a few walkers. Daryl ran in and grabbed a little boy right before he was bit. Once we got almost everyone out I closed the door and started shooting at the walkers inside D. I was easily killing the disease filled monsters when one of them fell on top of me. It bit down on my gun trying to bite me. I rolled over and started hitting it with the butt of the gun. I jumped up the stairs and took out the walkers in the upper level. I was reloading when a lot of them came around towards me. I was backed into the railing and looked below me at the other walkers. I jumped off and landed on a few of the walkers. I moved back and heard another shot. Behind me a walker hit the ground. I turned to see Carl. We shared a quick nod and continued shooting. "Close the door I'll cover you." I nodded and grabbed the lock from him. I moved around the walkers and pushed the door closed and locked it. I heard walkers dropping behind me and I came back to Carl's side. "Thanks." "Anytime." When the last walker fell we hurried back outside. "We need to get covered now." "How? Walkers are in the prison." "Our block is clear. Let them in there until we find out what we need to do. We heard another shot and everyone hurried inside. Daryl pulled me away from the chaos and opened the door to the guard tower. He whistled for Rick who came limping over. We went up the stairs where we saw Martinez tied up. "We meet again." "I swear every time I see you, you keep getting uglier." I rolled my eyes and bent down to his level. "You know I see the way you look at us in fear. You think we're going to kill you but we don't do that. We'll get our answers and let you live. Now we can do it the easy way or the hard way."