My Angel (Daryl Dixon x OC)

(22) I shot you!

Daryl's POV

I was led in one of the tents, fiddling with one of my arrows and poking it through the tents 'window'. I heard footsteps coming from the door, I turned my head at the sound and saw Andrea walking into the tent.

"This is not that great, but..." She said as she gave me a book and I flicked through the first couple of pages.

"What, no pictures?" I asked with a smirk.

"I'm so sorry, I feel like shit." She said with a sigh.

"Yeah, you and me both." I said, whilst repositioning my pillow.

"I don't expect you to forgive me, but if there's anything I can do...."

"You were tryin' to protect the group. We're good. From what I heard I don't think Lily was." I told her as I pointed to her face.

"You miss her?" She asked me.

"Yeah...........I do." I said, looking at my arrow. Andrea look down before standing. She began to head out when I spoke again. "But hey, you shoot me again, best pray I'm dead."  I smirked. She laughed before turning and leaving. I placed the book down and as it hit the floor, a shot from T-Dog echoed through.

"Walker!"

"You sure? We don't want another situation like before." Rick said, whilst T-Dog continued to look through the binoculars.

"It's hard to tell." T-Dog answered.

"How about this. If I shot it in the shoulder and it gets back up, then it's a walker." I said as I walked over to the pair.

"Daryl, you're still-" Rick began.

"I'm fine." I interrupted. I loaded an arrow in my crossbow and aimed at the shoulder of the moving creature. I pulled the trigger and saw the arrow fly into the shoulder. The body flew to floor at the impact. After a couple of minutes, waiting to see if the being would move, when it didn't I started to panic.

"It's not moving." Glenn pointed out the obvious. "You don't think its...." He trailed as he looked over to me.

"Shit." I muttered before we ran over to where the body is. As we got closer I instantly felt guilt and regret. It was Lily. the arrow went through her right shoulder and edged it way out of her back.

"No!" I screamed. "Lily, I'm so sorry!" I cried as I held her face in my hands. I carefully picked her up into a bridal fashion and began to run towards the house.

"Daryl...." She said weakly.

"Lil, I'm so sorry." I tried to nuzzle my face into her hair. I felt her body go limp as she passed out. I ran into the house and shouted for Hershel. He came in and I set her down on the table. He called for Beth and Maggie to get his supplies. By this time, Lily regain her consciousness and was screaming in pain.

"I have to get the arrow out." Hershel stated.

"But the shock. It could kill her. She's also lost alot of blood from her leg" Maggie shouted at her father. My eyes widened at the statement. I can't lose Lily. I just got her back.

"Just fucking pull it out." Lily screamed out. And without hesitation, Hershel yanked the arrow out of her shoulder. Lily's screams were filled in the air.

"Quickly, we got to stop the bleeding." Hershel commanded. After Hershel stopped the bleeding from both Lily's shoulder and leg. Lily passed out again.

"She'll be fine. If we're lucky, she'll heal quickly." Hershel assured me. I looked down at his face and saw only Lily's blood.

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Lily's POV

All I saw was darkness. Pitch black. I didn't know if I was in heaven or hell. I tried to move but my body wouldn't comply. I kept hearing sobs from my right and felt warm, callousal hands wrap themselves around mine.

"I'm so sorry, Lil.....God I can't believe that I...I shot you.." A familar voice said. I soon pin pointed it and recognized it as Daryl's. I mean no one calls me Lil except him.

"I'm sorry about a lot of things. I'm sorry about how I always have a go at you. Telling you, you can't go out there. And what happens you go and do exactly that." He laughed a bit before sobbing again. "I only say those things because I was scared that I was going to lose you......Looks like I'm facing that now." He said before crying again. I tried to open my eyes but they wouldn't open. "I guess I was just scared of getting close to you. I've never felt like this before....never loved anyone before like I do for you." He said as he squeezed my hand. My heart rate picked up at his words. He loved me. Daryl Dixon loved me. "Just give me a sign....anything." He said. I tried to squeeze his hand with mine as hard as I could.

"Lil....Lily, can you hear me?" He asked as his voice gained a little bit of hope of me hearing him. I squeezed his hand lightly in confirmation.

"Haa, Lilith...my Lilith." He whispered in my ear as he brought his lips to my forehead and gave it a kiss.

I smiled to myself, thinking that this moment both could and couldn't be any better.....

[sorry this one is a little short. But Daryl finally confessed, so yay? I kind of wanted to get this little bit out of the way before carrying on with the story line. Stay tuned for chapter 23. xx]