Your Crying Shoulder

You Can't Have Her!

Daryl's pov

"Daryl?" She coughed.

Herschel, Rick, and I ran over to her bedside as the bright eyes opened for the first time. A sense of relief filled me thinking I'd never see them open again. Rick sat on the side of her bed and gripped her hand,

"Mae? Can you hear me?"

"Officer grimes?" She moaned,"where are we? Where's daryl?"

Rick ran a hand through her hair, "he's here."

Her head turned painfully to the left and for the first time made eye contact with me. A sense of pride filled me. This girl was tough. I smiled lightly and small enough the others couldn't see, but if know she did cause she smiled painfully back.

" That's Hershel. We're in his house. You had an accident. All right?" Rick said as she turned back to face him.

"Oh...right. Is Carl alright?" She asked.

"He's perfectly fine thanks to you." He said.

She smiled,"good..can't have another grimes get shot now could we?"

Shaking my head, Rick laughed. Leave it to her to be sittin here dyin and she's making jokes.

"How are you feeling young lady?" Herschel asked.

"It hurts, a lot." She groaned.

"I know. I know."Rick comforted her.

"What about Sophia? Did we find her?" She asked.

Rick looked hesitantly to me and I stepped closer to her bed,"not yet, but I'm gonna go out and look fer her"

Her head whipped to me,"I wanna help"

My eyes widened as she tried to sit up, but was immediately brought back down by Rick. This girl is sittin here with bullet fragments in her body and she wants to go out lookin for a lost little girl? She may be crazier than I thought.

"Mae no, you can't" Rick said.

"I'm afraid he's right mam, you won't be going anywhere for a while. You still have bullet fragments in your body" Herschel said.

"Well take them out" she said.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple." Herschel sighed.

"Shane and one of Herschel's men went out to get the supplies to get them out. Until then you have to rest." Rick said.

I saw tears swell up in her eyes as she turned to me,"daryl?"

I starred back as her voice cracked,"you have to find her. Please"

Nodding in determination I said,"I'll find her"

Her lip trembled, but she nodded back and her tears left her eyes. It was weird to see how much this whole Sophia ting upset her, but now I had more of a need to find her. I woke from my thoughts when she started chuckling. Arching an eyebrow, she turned back to me,

" You should have seen it."

"What?" I asked.

"The deer. It was so pretty. It was so close. I've never been..." She started to say but then she became still.

My heart rate accelerated as she lay there, eyes wide open like she was dead.

"Mae?" Rick asked worriedly pushing her shoulder to wake her up.

My eyes darted from Mae to the old man until Mae's body started shaking and she was throwing herself everywhere.

'What the hell is happening?" I yelled and gripped onto her shoulders to try to keep her still.