An Unexpected Turn. (Entered for Wattys 2017)

Chapter 19~~i didnt think we lost so many

Georgia POV
I was looking for my group, I heard some panicked people after I rustled a bush. Then I heard a familiar voice.

"Stop freaking out! I didn't kill my best friend so you could all run off and die!"

"You killed Shane?!" Another familiar voice said.

"Shane killed the prisoner" a voice I could recognize anywhere.

I whispered to myself "Daryl!"

"Shane tried to lure me out to kill me. It was either him, or me" the first voice said.

I ran towards the voices then a shot rang out. It hit the tree next to me. I raised my hands "I surrender" I smiled at them.

"Georgia?" Lori said, amazed.

"You all think I was one of the walkers?" I walked up and hugged her. I noticed the only one with a gun out, was Kenny.

"Sorry Georgia" he said.

"It's alright" I smiled.

"You guys are crazy. She's not here" Daryl said. My smile faded.

"Daryl. Turn around" Carol told him.

"It's not her"

Carol forced him to turn around. He looked at me. Then Carol said "Thank you Georgia for saving me"

"Anytime" I hopped down from the ledge "hi Dixon" 

"Are you?"

"I'm real. Damnit can't you realize that! Stop being ignorant! I didn't die" i walked up right next to him and I hit him. "I'm not dead yet. If I was, you wouldn't have felt that." I turned away from him and looked at rick "Anyway, how did the prisoner die?"

"Neck was snapped. No bites. No scratches"

"How?"

"Edwin Jenner told me, we are all infected. No matter how we die... we turn"

"And you kept this from us?!"

"I figured you would feel safer"

"Sure"

"It doesn't matter. You know why? Because We, are the walking dead"

We looked at him....

~a few hours later~

I was laying next to Daryl. Everyone was asleep.

"Are you awake dar?"

"Yes"

"Do you think I'm dead?"

"No"

"Then why do you act like I'm not here"

"You gave up your life for Carol"

"She shouldn't die yet"

"So you risked your life?"

"No. I ran. As quick as possible."

He turned over and faced me "then why did you save her?"

"I have a feeling she can help us one day"

He pulled me closer to him. I breathed in his scent. He smelt like the forest. I held onto him. He moved me lifted my chin, and kissed me. I slowly drifted off to sleep, listening to his breathing.

~8 months later~

Lori and myself, we were both ready to pop. We've been on the road forever, but everyday rick and Daryl went to try and find a place. We've been around anywhere in the area. I feel like today's the day we find the place to stay. Daryl and I kept my truck and his bike. We also kept two of the cars. I started writing in my journal.