Forever and ever (sequel to the redneck has feelings?)

Permanent

Ricks pov

"Who are you?"

My heart froze when she said those 3 words. The room fell immediately silent. I looked across at daryl and then over to Carl who both had the same hint of worry in their eyes. I turned back to kayla. Her eyes widened with fear and looking around the room very quickly.

"Who are you? Where am I?" She asked scared.

I heard daryls breathing hitch as he quickly stormed out of the room yelling,"Herschel!!!"

"What's going on?" She asked worried.

"It's alright, calm down you're safe" I tried to assure her keeping my voice from cracking.

Carl just starred frozen. Footsteps immediately re entered and in walked a frantic daryl with Herschel. I moved so Herschel could take my place and noticed daryl had started pacing.

"Alright kayla" Herschel started to say but she cut him off,

"Who are you? What's going on? Where is my family!"

Daryl stopped pacing and we all just starred at her. Tears were in her eyes because of how truly scared she was.

"You really don't remember anything do you?" He asked.

She hesitated,but shook her head. I felt like my insides were being twisted. Carl stormed out of the room.

"Carl!" I yelled after him, but he didn't respond.

I pinched my nose in frustration as daryl began to yell,

"What does that mean?"

Herschel looked at him with apologetic eyes and then back to kayla,

"Do you know either of these men standing behind me?" He asked pointing to daryl and myself.

Kayla looked at us and then shook her head,"no I don't"

That caused me to gulp and daryl started getting irritated,"why the hell not! What the hell happened Herschel!"

Herschel smiled to kayla and said lightly,"stay right here, we will explain everything, I just have to talk to these two first"

She hesitated but nodded. Daryl stormed out of the door with Herschel and I behind him. Once in the hall daryl started pacing again and yelled,

"The fucks goin on!"

"When she fell, she hit her head pretty hard causing a concussion which can cause memory loss" Herschel again.

"How long?" I asked concerned.

"It depends. Could be hours, days, or it could be permanent"Herschel said.

Daryl stopped pacing,"no it can't be permanent! There has to be a way to fix her!"

"There's nothing I can do" Herschel said.

"There's gotta be something!" Daryl yelled.

"You need to calm down daryl" I said.

"Calm down? You expect me to calm down! My wife don't remember me! She don't remember nothin! What about the twins! How the hell am I goin to tell them their mom don't know who they are!" He yelled.

"I understand son, but right now the best thing we can do is just start things over with her. Do things to try to jog her memory a bit." Herschel explained.

Daryl was breathing heavily,"how the hell are we gonna tell er her families dead and Thers walkers walkin around?"

"I'll do it. Go check on the kids" I said.

"No I..." He started to say but I cut him off,

"Daryl...I need to. I'll come get you when I'm done"

He hesitated, but nodded. I saw tears in his eyes that he was fighting to keep away. I nodded back and took a deep breath as I walked back into the room