The Walking Dead [Daryl Dixon]

Chapter 8- Always accountable

Daryl's P.O.V.

"You found us okay" The brunette said "Here we are. We earned what we took" She moved in front of the blonde

I heard a branch snap behind me. Once I turned around some asshole hit me wide eyed across the face making me black out instantly

-

Haley was sitting on her porch eyes glued to the ground. She hadn't gotten a wink of sleep hence the bags under her eyes that were forming. She stayed in the same place all day

"Hey"

She finally looked up to see Maggie sitting next to her "I can feel it" Haley slowly said

Maggie looked at her as she spoke "Something happened to Daryl, I can feel it"

There was only silence for a minute "He's gonna come home" Maggie replied

Haley slowly nodded "He's in trouble"

-

I opened my eyes slowly to see my hands were tied up. Damn pricks I thought. I could hear crickets chirping. I tried moving my hands but no use. I picked my head up and saw a blond man "Get up" He demanded I didn't move "Hey, get up" He said again. And again I didn't move. He clicked the gun and pointed it at my face "We're moving. Here's the deal, you don't say shit, and I don't kill you"

"I ain't who you think" I said my voice sounding deep and strong

He clicked the hammer and pointed it closer to my face "Say something else. Go ahead"

We stared at each other and he grabbed me up leading me to the two girls "Follow them" He said

Looks like I had no choice. The girls grabbed the bags and we began walking "Here drink the rest" The brunette gave a water bottle to the blonde

"We should save it" The blond replied

"We will find some more. Drink. Your suppose to stay hydrated. It all works together"

"Yea it does" The blonde replied and drank the water

I kept walking behind them. After the brunette grabbed the water she handed it to me "Have it" I kept walking around her avoiding the water. The guy took it "We don't need you falling down. Drink" He stopped in front of me

I stared at them before I grabbed the water and chugged it "They find us maybe we give you to them, they let us call it even"

I finished the water and looked at him "You see were reasonable people, everybody's got their code. You feel you gotta knee, that's fair enough. We don't" He grabbed the water from me and handed it to the brunette "Let's go" He pushed me and I began to walk behind the girls

"I can't believe we're back" The blonde said along the way

"It's not home anymore, but it's better then where we were" The brunette replied

"This is a pit stop" The man behind me said "We pick up Patty nothing more then that"

"How'd you do it?" The blonde asked

"You saw where we left the truck?" The man replied

"Mmhmm" The blonde said

"We opened the valve and drove all the way in from Farmview road. Ran from the tree line till we got to the pavement. Lit up the matchbook from the Sweetwater and dropped it dropped it in on the trail. Then we just ran for the car. Got in the the dead ones were there. They were beating on the hood and then, and then boom. Knocked them on their asses and took an axe to each one" The man explained

"Then we just watched it go up" The brunette said "No more moans, no more of that wailing. It was just the fire, just burning them all away"

I looked around "You did all this?" I asked in my husky voice

"It was right at the start" The brunette replied "Everything stopped tv, radio. We were here. The forest was full of them. And the other ones in town, they were drawn to it. They just walked right into the flames. We got most of them. Thought we ended it for us. She was in DC. We thought everyone was fighting then wherever they were"

"Yea we thought that's what everyone was doing" The man said. He still had his hand in my back "Fighting it. That we'd all win together" He took his hand off my back "We were stupid"

I looked back and stopped walking "You'll don't think your being stupid right now?" I asked as they turned around to look at me

The man grabbed his gun clicked the hammer and pointed it at my face "Are you saying I should kill you? I mean it are you gonna try and pull something on us? Are we just being thick here by not removing all doubt? Right now by me not pulling this trigger, is that a mistake?" He asked

I stared at him "I'm serious" He said "I really wanna know. You made a choice to kill for someone else to have them own you for a roof over your head and three squares so maybe I'm not considering all aspects here. You tell me, am I being stupid?"

"No" I finally answered. I swallowed "Look, I got somewhere to be" At home with my family, my girlfriend "We can make a deal I can help you out" Wherever I moved he moved with the gun still pointed at my face

"Your one of them. Your hurt and alone and you'd say anything. We should've never trusted you people to begin with. Go on, keep moving"

I stared at him and walked passed him as I heard walkers growling. He pushed my to the front and we made it out of the woods to reveal a fence followed by a building behind it

"Son of a bitch" The man said as they three moved closer while I stayed behind. This may be my chance. To get away. The girl dropped the bag. They began talking and I looked back in the forest. The blonde girl fell with the brunette catching her. Nows my chance, I quickly grabbed the bag and took off running. I could hear gunshots at me and yelling but I kept going. I ran and ran through the woods and into the burnt forest. I jumped into a small hill and panted and I leaned back against it. I untied my hands quickly and grabbed what was in my pocket. A ring, I cut it off of a walker awhile back. I'm gonna make it home, and I'm putting this ring on Haley