Among the Unknown: A Daryl Dixon fanfic

Chapter 18: Father

Daryl’s P.O.V:  

I walked into the cell block and up the steps to our perch. I found Taylor sitting down on the mattress taking off her boots.

  “Hey baby.” I said climbing up the steps and being met by her green eyes.

  “Hey, is everything alright?” She asked, she sat down her boots with a thud by the wall.

  “Yeah, yeah everythins fine. Rick and I are goin on a run ta a pharmacy to git ya a test.” She nodded,  

  “Did you tell Rick?” She asked cautiously. I paused, would she be mad that I told him? I hope not.

  “Yeah, I told em.... I needed ta tell somebody and I can trust him.” I personally was praying in my head that she wouldn’t get mad.

  “Okay, I trust you and I trust him.” I nodded and leaned down and kissed her lightly. Her lips so soft against mine sending a spark through me.

She is the only one that can make me feel this way.

  “I’ll be back. Don’t ya go doin somethin stupid, stay safe babe.” This made her smile. Her perfect white teeth seemed to glisten like how her eyes do. They were beautiful!

  She nodded and laid down in the bed, sniggling into the foam mattress while I wrapped blankets around her. She must have been tired after all we’ve been up to these past few days.

  I left her to rest and headed back out of the cell block over to a patiently waiting Rick.  

  Taylor’s P.O.V:

  “Taylor baby....” A voice crept into my mind knocking me more and more out of my sleep state.   I was perfectly find being asleep, I wasn’t hurting anybody so why must you wake me up?

  I groaned and wrapped myself tighter in the blanket hoping that the voice will go away and let me sleep.

I still felt extremely exhausted even though I knew I had been asleep for a few hours.

  “Taayyllooorr....” The voice kept prodding on. I rolled over and pried my eyes open to see who my awakener was. Daryl was leaning down my me rubbing my side.

  “You’re a sleep ruiner!” I slurred, sleep was still heavy in my voice as I tried to stay conscious. He chuckled and flashed that famous Dixon smirk at me.

  “I got the test.” As he spoke, the smirk slowly disappeared from his face.

I sat up slowly facing him as he sat next to me.   The ground became the most fascinating thing the longer I stared at it. I felt that familiar dip in the mattress as he positioned himself next to me.

We sat in there for a minute or two in silence.  

“What’s on yer mind?” He gently ran his hand up to the small I my back and traced circles in it.

  “I’, scared... scared of being pregnant...” I spoke truthfully. I have always had a fear of being pregnant.  

“Why’re ye scared?”

  “Because... I don’t want to end up like Lori.. Bein separated from you and having THAT happen to me..” I looked away as the words came tumbling out of my mouth. I couldn’t lie, I had to tell him! I don’t want to die, not like that.

  “No, yer not gonna end up like Lori. I’ll handcuff ye to me ta make sure that doesn’t happen!” He replied, I gave a small smile.

  “D-Do you promise that if I am pregnant.. You wont leave me?” I blurted out. A sudden flash of fear struck through my body. What if he does leave? What if I am pregnant and he doesn’t want a kid?  

“Ya think I’d leave ya?” I could tell by his tone, he was shocked at what I said.

  “I ain’t a coward! I ain’t no pussy! Don’t a dare think fer a minute that I’d skip out on you an this kid! I wouldn’t do that and ya know it!!” He yelled, throwing his hands in the air and pointing at me. Tears were brimming my eyes though I was trying so hard not to cry.

  “If ya are pregnant, I’m gonna be here fer ya. Right here! I’ll fight fer ya and this baby! I may not have had tha best Pa, but Imma try my damn hardest to be tha best father this kid has ever had!!” He continued to yell, tears were streaming down my face and I couldn’t control them

  It was like someone had turned on a fountain or sprinkler and broke the OFF button. Anytime I’d try to stop the tears, they would just come down even harder.

  “I ain’t leavin ya, understand?” He spoke so kindly now, like he had just vented all his feelings and now there was no more anger in him, just sympathy.

  His thumb rested on my chin and raised my head up making my eyes meet his icy blue ones. They burned through mine as if I just became transparent and he could now see everything there was to me.

  His eyes held determination and confidence, I knew he was telling the full on truth when he said he’s gonna be the best father he can, and he was gonna be!

  “I’m sorry! I’m sorry!” I barely choked out the words through all the tears.

He pulled me into his chest and I just cried and cried to the point that I thought I had soaked his shirt.

“Shhh.. It’s okay... It’s okay... shhh..” He whispered in my ear, it suddenly felt like that same day that Shane had tried to attack me and rape me.

Daryl rescued me and took me into his tent and kept trying to calm me down telling me it would be alright. I pulled away,

  “Hey, now... no more tears.” He spoke softly as he brushed away the stray tears on my cheek with his thumb. I nodded and sniffled trying to suck up those tears.

  “Ya can do this, WE can do this.” He said as he pushed something into my hand.

I looked down and saw the small box that held the pregnancy test. Daryl took my hand and led me to the bathrooms.   He stopped right before the door and squeezed my hand,

  “Everythin’s gonna be alright sweetie.” He said barely above a whisper, he squeezed my hand one more time before letting go.

  “I’ll be right ‘ere.” He said while slowly taking a few steps back. I nodded, I turned around and pushed the door open to the tiled bathroom with stall lining the wall.

I pushed open the first stall and walked in shutting the door behind me. I continued as if I was just using the bathroom but stopped and took the test out of the box positioning it underneath me.

  After a minute, I removed the test but hid the screen that showed the results. I wanted both Daryl and I to see it at the same time.

I pulled up my pants and walked out of the stall pushing open the door that led out of the bathroom.   Daryl was just a few feet away leaning against a rail, when he saw me come out he pushed himself off the rail and ran over to me.

  “I haven’t looked yet, I wanted us to see it together.” I said, my voice trembled a little and I was shaking.

Daryl lightly placed his hands on my waist as I stared at the test that still had my finger covering the screen.

I took a deep breath and squeezed my eyes shut.

  I slowly removed my finger...

  1.....

    2.....

    3.....  

  I opened my eyes and peered down at the test....

      POSITIVE