Merle's hidden Daughter

holy hell

I could hear him sigh, before giving in and putting his drink down and motioning with his head for me to follow him. I quickly walk to catch up to him, and follow him out to the garden. He stops and points to a medium sized cage where Elizabeth was cramped with Bella and Max, children ran around it teasing them and I stomped over there snatching a girls wrist who looked around 12 and yanked her away from the cage where she was poking them with sticks, and lowered my face to hers. A mother got up and started towards me and I watch out of the corner of my eyes as Negan stops her and tells her she cant interfer. "Listen little girl-" I began not caring that at most she was 6 years younger then me "- I should snap every little fucking finger off on your little hands, but I wont. Let this be a lesson to you and your friends, IF ANYONE TOUCHES MY DOGS AGAIN THEY WILL FUCKING DIE" I snap, my voice deadly and I stare into the small girls eyes and watch as she shakes in fear. "Do you understand me? Does everyone understand me?" I speak up looking at all of the children, fear in all of them. They quickly dropped the sticks and nodded with tears welling in their eyes, I bent back down to the little girl in my grasp. "Run, and stay far far away" I whisper and let go and watch as she runs to her mommy crying.

The little girls father picks her up and holds her closely apologising to her and crying, I feel my eyes widen in shock before they narrow angrily and I turn quickly and walk over to the cage, there was one kid left, a small blond haired boy who looked about 5, "Boo" I whispered in his face and watched as he took off to his mommy to. I broke the lock to the cage and petted Elizabeth, and helped her pups down who were quite big now. They began jumping on me, barking and my hard exterior melted and I dropped to the floor giving them all the love they wanted as well as some very embarrassing baby talk. I heard a chuckle and looked up, my eyes narrowed as his annoying voice made noise. "Thats ADORABLE'" He chuckles and it irritates me how he over exaggerated the word adorable. "Fuck off Negan" I snapped and everyone around stopped talking, "Oh?" He asks smirking at me, "I dont think thats what you should say to me after I kept your muts safe and gave them back to you" He laughed. "Your the one who brought us here, we just find back there" I snap. He squats in front of me and leans close, "Back where? Alexandrea? What grow old just you and Daryl?" He laughs after saying Daryls name and I fight the urge to hit him. "Thank you Negan" I grit out and stand up connecting the dogs leashes and looking up at Negan in the eyes.

"But if I decide growing old with him is what I want then thats what will happen" I snap at him. "What happened?" He asks as I walk away, I stop and turn back to face him "What?" I ask confused. "Did daddy leave? Or maybe he touched you? Or maybe you wanted him to" With each word he gets closer until hes in my face. "My father is-was a good man, he died a good man" I growl out in his face, "Did you hold his hand and watch him go? Maybe- Maybe you thought you would be daddies little girl forever and you could run around the field and have him chase you and teach you more hunting skills?" He laughed dryly. "I never got that! None of it, my dad was a drunk just like my pop, until he got his life back together for us" I snap. "And then good ol' Rick saved the  day by bringing you two together and happily ever until he died peacefully in his sleep and he was buried, am I correct?" He states more then asks. I fight back tears and swallow the lump in my throat, Negan noticed all of it and was enjoying this, my lack of response made him think he was correct and he opened his mouth ready to continue.

"RICK. Rick was the one who separated us in the beginning and I thought he was dead! just to find him years later only for Rick to decide he wasnt allowed in the group so Daryl went with him, family tends to stick together but I was left behind, surprise surprise! Oh and when they came back he became the father I needed, just to disappear and for me to find out he went to go kill his old boss who was trying to hurt us. I waited days for him! Only to finally be told that the guy killed him and made him become a walker! And Daryl found his brother like that and had to kill him! Do you know what its like to have just lost your father and your uncle wont even be in the same room as you because of how much your just like your daddy?" I snap, by now a couple of tears had escaped and Negan was no longer in my face or scowling at me, he was staring at me shocked, if anything could break me in this world it was family, anything else id kick your ass for. But he managed to get to me and I knew hed use this as a weakness, I turned and began to speed walk away from him.

"Jasmine! Jasmine stop right now!" I hear Negans voice and the sound of his feet catching up, so I begin to run. Ive never run from my problems, literally and it made me angry. I didnt understand my own feelings and that made me even more angry. I seen Daryl and I took off running at full force to him, "Daryl!" I scream and just as he turns im close enough to see his messed up face before slamming into him, I grabbed his shirt and held it tightly I refuse to cry. He stood up and took me and the dogs down to the side of the building where we alone, as soon as he looked at me I couldnt help it, he watched as I dropped to the floor crying. Everything ive held in for years coming out and it was hard to breath, he pulled me to him and just let me lean on him crying, I knew it was hard for him even after all this time together it was still hard for him to express emotion or be comfortable around it. "Im so sorry I got him killed" Daryl speaks up his voice cracking, I stop loudly sobbing and look up at him as tears continue to flow. "What?" I ask confused. "If I didnt punch Negan he-" He stopped as a sob escaped his mouth and tears poured down his face, "-I didnt even help Merle" He cries. 

I sit up and hug him, hes stiff at first as he cries before he relaxes and hugs me tight crying loudly into my shoulder. I had to be strong for him, Elizabeth comes over and rubs against him, he pulls back still crying and looks at her. "Get out of 'ere ye mutt" He speaks through tears, she turns her head to the side lightly before liking his face and I laugh loudly at his shocked face, she barks happily before paying attention to her pups. "Yer mutt is dumb" He tells me and I cant help but laugh more. "She likes you" I tell him while laughing, he snorts with a smile on his face acting like he knows she doesnt and I hold my stomach as it starts to hurt from my endless laughs. We stand on our feet once a guard yells at us, he starts heading to us and so does Negan. I stand in front of Daryl and Elizabeth stands the same in front of her pups, "Nobodies touching him" I snap, the guard stands in my face and I smell his horrid breath I think I heard his name as bill. "Be a good little bitch and move so Daryl here can learn his lesson" He speaks, Daryl begins yelling but I hold him back. "Move it girl! You dont want to be associated with this dirty hick" He speaks and I spit in his face before punching him as hard as I could and I see two teeth fly out of his mouth. "Dont you dare disrespect him" I growl out.

The guy takes a deep breath and wipes his lip before something slams against my head, I gasp and my body slams against the wall and I slid to the floor, I couldnt breath. I could hear myself gasping for air but none was coming into my body, everything was blurry and the voices were muffled and when someone tried to help me up a horrible pain shot through my arm and I screamed. It was broken, my lip was busted and my head is bleeding. My vision came back but I couldnt move, I looked past Daryl who was sitting in front of me scared trying to get me to talk to him, to see Negan beating the guy to a pulp before he began hitting him with that bat, lucille he called it. "Holy fuck" I heard him mumble to himself when he took in the mess he made. He radio'd for someone to come clean the mess before turning and looking at me just as Daryl quickly scooped me up and I screamed so loud that I began coughing. I watched as Negan grabbed my dogs and led the way somewhere with Daryl following. "Doctor" I heard Negan call as we entered a room and Daryl set me on a bed, the room was white and it was clean, in fact it was spotless except for the dirty  blood stain in the middle of the room and tools on a shelf across the room. 

The doctor checked me out before looking at me, "You have a concussion, how bad, im not sure. You also caused a hairline fracture in your left arm, and bruised your spine." He spoke before grabbing some pills and a glass of water and giving me both, I reluctantly took the pills knowing I wouldnt be able to help Daryl if I didnt. "Youll be fine to walk around in an hour or two as long as you dont push yourself and your careful, I already put your arm in a sling and bandaged your head so your fine now" He stated, "Thanks" Negan stated before the doctor just looked at him, looked down and left the room. Maybe if I had my guard up ready I wouldnt have been so easy to knock over, but at the same time I havent eaten much at all so I was a bag of bones to him. "You go back to your cell" Negan stated, and Daryl came over and hugged me tight telling me he loves me before he was forced to his cell. Negan took one last look at me before closing the door and leaving, I tried to sit up but it was useless. My body was so weak I had been fighting sleep for so long and not eating, there was nothing I could do but lay there feeling helpless and hopeless as darkness began to take over my vision and my head fell against the pillow and I couldnt move my hands as my eyes opened and closed as I fought to stay awake. I was scared of what could happen, but my eyes closed anyway and everything went black.