Layla POV
The night had made the air cool a lot meaning I was instantly hit with an unwelcoming icy breeze when I woke up. I sat up rubbing my eyes and yawing looking for Daryl until I remembered Lacey! All of a sudden, I became alert and frantically looked around for her but she was nowhere to be seen.
"Daryl?!" I whisper yelled into the masses of trees surrounding me. I waited a few seconds before I heard leaves crunching and snapping behind me. I turned around, expecting it to be Daryl but I was immediately mistaken and assured it was a walker by that dreaded low growling sound. Seriously? I just woke up!
It was less than a couple feet away and the gruesomeness of it made me jump a little as it clumsily stumbled toward me.
I reached for my knife from my belt but my fingertips never reached the handle. It wasn't there!
The walker was inches away when I spotted my knife on the floor where I had slept. Must've dropped out in my sleep. Natural instinct took over as I reached for my crossbow on my back but that wasn't there either, it was resting against a tree near where the walker had come from. Realising I had to weapon to use, I relied on my legs to carry me as far as possible away. I started up a sprit though I could practically feel the walker's grotty hands on my back.
As I ran, I kept an eye out for Lacey and Daryl as I ran deeper and deeper into the woods with no idea where I was going.
I thought that by now I would've out ran it until the all too familiar sounds of the moans of walkers echoed around my like a church choir in a forest.
Daryl POV
I took a note of the deer tracks I had found then began to make my way back to our little camp. Layla should be up by now, it's been a while. When I got back, instead of the morning muttering I expected to hear from Layla and Lacey, it was silent. The quiet around me had sense of violence, anticipation, and cold, frozen, still. It was too quiet. I wanted to call out but I knew it wouldn't do me any good. There were a million possibilities of what could've happened but no matter how hard I tried, I could only think about the worst case scenarios. I left down the blanket on the forest floor as if she came back, it would be the first place she'd go to. Everything else was shoved in a bag and slung over my shoulder before I started into the woods again with my crossbow pointing in front of me.
Layla POV
My reflexes were still kicking in as I hadn't got enough sleep recently anyway. I couldn't tell where the noise was coming from anymore either. The air seemed to heat up around me, becoming humid and making it hard to breathe. It made no sense. It wasn't warm, I couldn't see my breath in the air. My breathing hitched and quickened into shallower breaths as I panicked, looking for anything to do. It got so warm that my eyes began to tear up as I blinked and rubbed my eyes frantically, trying to restore my vision. Nothing worked. I started to stumble backwards, just away, or toward, I couldn't tell.
Something caught my ankle and I fell backwards with a yelp. I immediately imagined the rotting hand of a walker, tightly grasping at it, about to bite but when I looked, there was nothing. I twisted my head around, looking for it but the woods seemed hollow of life. The volume of the walkers moans around me seemed to I crease drastically in a split second, bringing me to believe they were even closer than before. My eyes were still heavily blurred so everything looked like a green and brown smudge. I squinted them shut tight and the groans grew louder. The more I listen thought, the more it seemed like words within the noise.
"She's gone..."
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Okay I did have an ending in mind when I started this but writing this chapter I've completely changed it and this is where the change starts to happen as it's almost the end now. Im so sorry I legitimately screwed over my publishing schedule and now I'm just publishing randomly😂
To be completely honest, I'm just publishing as frequently as I can cus I'm super excited to finish this THANKYOU❤️
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Fanfiction[COMPLETED] When Rick was in that hospital, when he rode that horse into Atlanta, when Merle got left behind... Ever wondered where Daryl was? I mean, we know he was 'hunting' but what actually happened out there? The only thing you need know is...
