I Love You Big Brother

City Roadtrip

I couldn't sleep. The rest of the group were sat around the fire for the majority of the night just talking. I tried to block out most of the conversation but my ears perked up at the mention of Daryl's name.
"Have you given any thought to Daryl Dixon?" Dale said looking over to Shane, "I mean if you thought Soph took the news badly how do you think Daryl will?" I laughed at that. They knew they screwed up. After a few minutes of them trying to decide who should be the one to tell Daryl about Merle and how they should do it, Glenn said something that made me smile.
"Your talking about Soph and her brothers like they aren't actually people. I'm sure most of you would of reacted in a similar way if it happened to someone in your family! I mean you have her chained up over there like she's an animal! She's not. She's my friend."

Glenn's words made everyone fall silent. They must of had some sort of impact because everyone started looking over at me with guilty expressions. Glenn was right, I did feel like an animal.

However his words clearly didn't change Shane's mind about uncuffing me since everyone went back to their tents for the night without giving me another glance. I decided there was no point in waiting to be freed so I just sucked it up and tried to get some sleep.

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I was woke up by the sound of quiet chatter. I opened my eyes to see everyone was already awake milling around camp. I have no idea how I didn't wake up beforehand since I'm usually a light sleeper.

Glenn saw I was awake and came over to talk to me. He was complaining about how they were stripping apart the car he had come zooming into camp in yesterday. I laughed at this. He then told me that Shane was going to let me out once he got back from collecting water. This made me feel a bit better but still none of the anger I had for most of the people in this group had subsided yet.

I saw Shane pull up in his jeep but before he could come over to me a blood curdling scream came from outside the camp.
It was Carl and Sophia.
My blood ran cold. Everyone ran of into the woods leaving me alone to think the worst. I loved little Carl and if anything were to happen to him I would be broke.

A few moments later Lori and Carol came back to camp hugging their children.
"Oh my god are they okay?!" I yelled over to them. Lori gave me a small nod they all headed into the RV followed by some of the others. I hated not knowing what was going on, it felt like I was a little kid again.

A rush of relief soon came over when I heard a familiar voice coming out from the woods.
"Merle! Soph! Where are y'all? I got us some squirrels!"
It was Daryl walking into camp with his crossbow and a load of squirrels over his shoulder.
"Daryl over here!" I yelled while waving my non cuffed hand in the air. When he saw me his face instantly looked full of anger and confusion. He came running over shouting "the hell happened!?" while trying to pull the handcuffs of the RV. He looked at me angry waiting for a response.
"Oh your not even ready for this big brother, but I'll let them tell you." I said while gesturing towards Rick and Shane who were walking over to Daryl.
"You wanna tell me why you got my little sister handcuffed to the damn RV!" He yelled while walking up to Shane.
"Woah hold up. I was about to let her go." Shane said while chucking the keys at Glenn. Glenn then quickly ran over to me and unlocked the cuffs. I rubbed my wrist in pain as Glenn helped me up. Daryl saw me wince and that just made him angrier.
"You better tell me what the hell is going on right now!" He growled at Shane after inspecting my wrist which had been rubbed raw from the cuffs.

"There's no easy way to say this so I'll just say it" said Rick while walking up to my brother.
"Who are you?" Daryl replied glaring at Rick.
"Rick Grimes." Said Rick in response.
"Well Rick Grimes," Daryl said in a rather mocking tone, "you got something you wanna tell me!?"
Rick then repeated almost the exact same sentence he said to me but added the part where I lunged at him with a knife. Daryl then paced back and forth, which I knew was his way of trying to calm himself down.
"Hold on. Let me process this. You saying you handcuffed my brother to a roof, and you left him there!" Daryl was really angry now.
"Yeah." Was all Rick said while looking at the ground almost as if he was ashamed.