Merle's hidden Daughter

new beginging different life

We left the church and ended up at a barn. "Stay in here" rick and Daryl both demand. "Why can't I come!" I snap. "Everything that's happened, you need some time." Rick states sadly. "I'm ready now, I'm stronger. Daryl helped me" I tell them. "We talked about Merle." I tell him. "Why dont you call him dad anymore?" Glenn asks. "I stopped calling him that when he left me, same with Daryl. He's more like my brother now, and Merle to. He wasn't ready to be a dad, not in this world or the one before." I tell them. They nod and rick walks over and hugs me tightly. "You've grown so much, your no longer that small little girl scared. Your a beautiful young lady. I'm so proud of you" he tells me. I can't help the tears that form in my eyes, "thanks" I hug him back.

"Rick!" Maggie and Sasha yell. Daryl, rick and Glenn rush out and I follow right behind. There was a guy standing there with his hands in the air showing he meant no harm. Rick ties him up and brings him into the barn, Judith begins to cry after a couple of minutes and I watch rick sadly try to calm her. She was hungry, we all are. "There's apple sauce in the bag" the guy speaks. He told us his name was Aaron. Rick stares at him, ignoring him. "If I was gonna poison you guys I would've did it with the water." He states. I look at him, he was the one who left us all the water. We waisted that, dumped it right out and filled the containers up with rain water. Rick makes Aaron take a bite before he takes his own bite making me giggle. He looks at me and smiles as he feeds Judith. "Rick" I laugh as I see him take anther bite. "What?" He questions smiling. "Stop eating apple sauce, you look like a baby" I giggle and he walks over and puts the baby spoon in my face. I giggle before taking a bite of it to and miss being a child. He walks back over to his spot and continues to feed her, Aaron looks at me. "There's pictures in my bag." He tells me. I look at him with a straight face. "Of?" I question. "My group, my home" he tells me. I crawl over and open the bag looking through the pictures to see a small town fortified with a wall. "Reminds me of woodbarry and terminus" I state. Rick was over and takes the pictures from my hands looking through them as Carl finishes feeding Judith. I catch him taking a tiny bite every now and then.
"Where's your people?" Rick asks. "Privacy, most didn't feel comfortable about it" the guy shrugs. Rick puts the pictures down and they prepare to leave. "Please come back, all of you" I speak to the small group leaving. I hug all of them and watch them leave, my heart melting. An hour after they leave a lot of walkers start banging on the doors and me Carl, Katrina and kat all go out to fight them. I was fighting off three walkers while everyone else was busy so I trip one and push it onto the floor, before stabbing one in the head and kicking the last one. I slam my boot down on the second ones head before doing the same to the last one. I hear a scream and look over kat was being bit on her shoulder and Katrina screams running over to it killing the Walker. Me and Carl continue to fight off more not seeing the last walker by Katrina that she never killed. I stab the last one by me in the head and hear anther scream. I look over to see the walker ripping Katrina face off. "No!" I scream and run over stabbing the walker. Katrina holds her dead younger sister in her arms as she starts to bleed out to. "Take care of Kate for us please" she cries. "I will. I'm so sorry you guys" I cry. "Its not your fault" she sighs and leans forward. I wipe my tears and slowly slide my knife into the back of Katrina's head before nicely laying her down and doing the same to kat.

Carl and me Barry them, and go inside. "Where's kat?" Kates little self runs over and looks up at me. "She's in heaven sweetheart" I cry out. I take her to their graves making sure I pay very close attention to make sure no walkers were around. We head back inside and I put her to sleep. Everyone falls asleep and me and Noah stay up on watch. "What's your best memory?" Noah asks me. "When me, my dad, my uncle and rick were all together and they were trying to get along for me and teach me new things" I tell him smiling a little remembering it. "Yours?" I ask him. He just shakes his head and smiles at me. "Do you want to go out with me?" He scratches the back of his head awkwardly. "Yeah" I smile at him. "Really?" He asks. "Yeah" I kiss his cheek.

I get up and head into the back room but stop halfway when I see carl sitting down on the floor, his head in his hands. "Hey you ok?" I ask and kneel on the floor.  "You like like him?" He asks. "Carl-stop we tried this remember? We dont work out, I want to be happy and I think Noah can do that. Youll find a girl for you" I tell him. He shakes his head and looks away. "I'm gonna go check on the babies." I tell him and stand up before patting his back and heading into the back room. I see Gabriel sitting there sleeping and I shake my head. I walk over and kiss Judith's head and then Kate's. Sighing I head back out and sit with Noah as we take our watch. "Do you think this place is real?" Noah asks. "I hope so, we need this. Rick is starting to loose it and its so painful to watch that." I tell him. He moves over and wraps an arm around me hugging me. "It'll be ok" he mumbles. That's the last thing I remember before falling asleep. I wake up to someone picking me up, when my eyes open I realize I'm on someone shoulder. "Daryl?" I ask yawning. "Yeah" he tells me. He slowly sets me down and we begin to drive. "Where are we going?" I ask. "Its called Alexandria" a different guy speaks. "That's my partner Eric" Aaron tells me. I nod and smile at them. "Where's the babies?!" I gasp. "Relax Maggie is holding Judith and kate is sleeping next to her." Carl tells me.

The drive was long but we finally stopped and all got out admiring the large town, the gates are still closed but we can hear children's laughter and we all look at each other with a small smile. Maybe hope is still there, maybe this will be a better life for us. The gates open after Aaron tells them to and we all head in, right away seeing children running around laughing and playing. Some people stop and stare at us as they lead us to the leader, said her names Deana.