Barely Alive // TWD // Daryl Dixon

Chapter 01 -- Starting Over

"Every great warrior must learn to endure and overcome the adversities of life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Cecilia's POV

Another week had passed and now the fence is fixed, we have the courtyard once again. With so many people helping, taking the bodies of the walkers outside wasn't that hard and keeping the ones outside away from the fence so it could get fixed wasn't a hard task either.

Two different runs were organized, one to bring seeds so we can plant them and grow our own food, Maggie had to go because she knows that kind of stuff, Glenn, Sean and a guy from Woodbury, named Joshua were going as well.

The other run was to collect food, anything that was edible and that we could consume now. Daryl, Sasha, Michonne and I were going on that one.

We didn't want to leave together so there would be more people at the prison but we needed to get stuff quickly and get to work on those crops so we had no choice but leave at the same time. Rick, Hershel and my mum were staying and I knew they could handle stuff here while all of us were gone.

"Do you always go on runs?" Amanda asked me as I prepared my stuff and put them inside a small backpack.

"I used to go on more at the start of this," I told her with a smile. "It's better than staying here."

"Don't you get scared?"

"Sometimes," I admitted. "And I've been close to dying a couple of times but doing this it's the only way to gain experience, it's not the same to just shoot at a target safely inside somewhere than being out there and shooting moving things that actually want to eat you."

When I was in Woodbury Chris, Amanda's older brother, told me he had never killed a single walker and he didn't even know how to shoot, obviously Amanda didn't either and she was a bit overwhelmed to see how bad the world really had gotten.

For the first week after we brought the people from Woodbury here, Amanda literally followed me everywhere, making me extremely irritated and I felt stalked but now, this week she had half followed Beth and half followed me, giving me at least some hours to myself or letting me spend them with Daryl, with her there, Daryl mostly avoids me, he can't stand her.

"How did you learn to shoot?" she asked me as I made my way out of the cell.

"I learnt before the world went to shit," I said, not wanting to tell her why I really learnt. "I lived alone, I had to be cautious. The neighbourhood wasn't that good."

"Oh."

I walked outside with Amanda following me close behind, Amanda was a really outgoing girl and always needed to have someone to talk to, she couldn't really be alone and I was completely different, I enjoyed some people's company but whenever I could have alone time I wouldn't miss the opportunity.

"You should go find Beth," I told her as I put my backpack on the back part of the pick-up, we were taking it while the other group was taking the Hyundai. "I'm going to leave soon."

"Right," she said smiling. "Good luck and I do hope you come back."

Amanda smiled at me one more time as she waved and headed inside the prison, looking for her next victim for the following, at least, six hours, I sighed in relief as I finally enjoyed some peace and quietness today.

"Somehow, I always do," I muttered as Amanda finally got inside.

We were going really far to look for new places where we can find food, we were going to run out of stuff if we just keep looking for it nearby, so that's why we were leaving so early, only about twenty minutes after breakfast.