Among the Unknown: A Daryl Dixon fanfic

Chapter 10: You owe me

Here's chapter 10 for you all! Sorry it took so long to update, I got sick recently and have been feeling like absolute shit... >.< Thank you all for being so patient! OH! I can't forget..... HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!! :D

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Taylor’s P.O.V:  

We continued to stay at our little camp site on the side of the road for the next few days. Rick, Daryl, T-Dog and I would go on occasional runs and searches for a new place to stay.

We found a bunch of shacks and little places that were secure but didn’t have enough room for everyone. I had started to lose hope until Rick pointed out this large prison.

“Hey look!” Rick shouted, everyone directed their gazes upon the large gated building

. “Watta shame..” Daryl muttered, continuing walking.

“No, no, guys! We could take it, we just have to clear out the courtyard and lock the fences, the prison could be ours.” Rick said, certainly excited.

I understand that this had been the first place that could be somewhat sustainable to being out next safe haven. Though something about it wasn’t quite right.

“We could at least check it out, sounds like a good idea. I mean really, what do we have to lose?” I asked rhetorically, looking in between Rick and Daryl.

“Our lives..” Daryl muttered before turning on his heel and heading toward the prison.

I looked over at Rick and watched him shrug and follow Daryl right in his steps. There was a tall long fence surrounding the entire prison, along the fence had maybe 10 or so walkers gathered in one area. One of the sets of gates was open so walkers had come in and wandered around the courtyard

 “Okay, how about we run past the gates, lock em, T-Dog and Taylor will run to both of those guard towers and shoot down as many walkers in the courtyard. Daryl and I will handle as many as we can on the ground.” Rick finished, pointing at the courtyard.

“Yeah, seems legit.” I said, shifting my weight between my legs.

Daryl stared at me, he looked pretty concerned. He nodded and walked over to me, Rick and T-Dog got the hint and walked a few yards away talking.

Daryl stopped about a half a foot in front of me, I could feel his breath on my face.

“Yer gonna run to that guard tower as fast as ye can. I’ll cover ye, but.. Ye better not get hurt alright?” He said, lowering his voice to a whisper.

His voice was breaking as  he finished, clearly not liking the idea of the plan.

“I’m not gonna get hurt, I promise you, I wouldn’t let that happen for anything, you understand?” I looked deep into his eyes, “I love you!” I blurted before I could think.

I had been so scared to say that because I thought it would have freaked him out. His eyes widened and his mouth parted slightly.

“Ye what?” He asked, shit... I think I scared him..

“I-I love y-you..” I couldn’t help the flow of stutters coming from my mouth, I was so afraid he would be scared off by that.

He stood there for a second, his face emotionless. Before I knew what was happening, his lips were on mine engulfing me in a rough, passionate kiss.

I fell back a little from being slightly startled, I wasn’t expecting that.

I WAS expecting him to turn around and stomp off, probably not talking to me for the rest of the night. He pulled away and looked me in the eyes.

“I love ye to..” He said, his voice deep and sexy.

I could have fainted when he said that, my knees went weak immediately. Daryl fucking Dixon just told me he loved me.

“I don’t mean to interrupt your love session but it’ll be getting dark soon so we need to get a move on.” Rick shouted, I could see out of the corner of my eye, T-Dog trying to muffle a laugh but it came out full blown along with Rick’s.

Daryl was still staring at me, I hadn’t taken my eyes off him.

“I’ll reward ye if ye come back to me in one piece.” He said huskily before he walked away. I knew exactly what he meant by “reward” and I was going to get it!

We ran toward the prison and past the gates quietly and quickly. I had my knife drawn and was in a ready position. We had crouched down right inside of the gates far down enough that the grass hid us from view. Rick mouthed “one, two, three” and we were off.

I heard gunfire as I ran toward the east guard tower. There were about 5 or so walkers that were in my way. Once I got close enough to them, I jumped and drove my blade through their heads and they hit the ground. I ran and climbed up the ladder to the top of the tower, I set up my rifle that Rick had given me and fired at random walkers in the courtyard.

After about 15 minutes of non stop gunfire, all the walkers in the courtyard were dead and we shut and locked the gates.

“Good job guys!” T-Dog shouted as we all high-fived.

He was such a joker, man! We made our way past the gates after making sure they were secured. It was becoming dark so we headed back to our vehicles, we would clear out the inside of the prison tomorrow and move our gear in.

“You so owe me.” I whispered in Daryl’s ear before climbing on back of his bike.

He smirked and started the engine, I hugged his waist and we drove back. Thoughts started going through my head about the prison, would it be safe? How long are we going to stay there? Will we find survivors? I guess we’ll just have to wait to see what tomorrow brings....

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