⌜ chapter eight ⌟
MJ, Rick, and T-Dog walk down the steps of the platform, and she's watching Daryl. Just as he turns to aim his crossbow at T-Dog's head, she steps forward and grabs the underside of his weapon, pushing it up. Rick's got his hand on his gun, ready to intervene.
Daryl's looking down at MJ, and she's studying his face. The crossbow's pointed toward the sky, and she's got the upper hand — a fact they're both aware of.
"You're angry and you're scared. Believe me, I've been there more times than I can count." She speaks up. "Now, you can shoot him and give us another problem to worry about. Or we can keep looking for your brother. The choice is yours."
He feels her start to let go of the crossbow, and he lowers it so that it's at his side. He then looks at T-Dog. "You got a do-rag or something?" Daryl asks him. T pulls a blue bandana out his back pocket and hands it to Daryl. He takes it and walks over to Merle's hand, laying the cloth on the rooftop. "I guess the saw blade was too dull for the handcuffs. Ain't that a bitch." He says as he picks up the hand by the pinky.
"How do you do that?" Glenn asks MJ as he walks up beside her.
"My younger brother's six-four. He's only three inches taller than our older brother, but he still feels the need to make up for those few inches." She says. "They're two big guys...and I'm always caught in the middle. Over the years, you learn to watch for signs of aggression — how to defuse a situation before it escalades."
"I ain't an animal for you to study." Daryl says as he looks at her.
"No, but that was a decent comparison."
"Are you always such a bitch?" He asks as he goes to put the wrapped up hand in Glenn's backpack.
"Lately." She squats as she looks at the area with the blood. "He must've used a tourniquet — maybe a belt, if he had one. If he didn't, there'd be a hell of a lot more blood." She says as she stands up straight.
Rick tells T-Dog to get Dale's tools that they left behind last time. MJ and Daryl start to follow the trail of blood that leads away from where the hand was left. They end up at a different exit than the one they came from, and she pulls her angel blade back out.
Daryl follows directly behind her with his crossbow raised, and Rick and Glenn are walking behind him. The four of them start down the stairs, and Daryl calls out for his brother. She continues down with her blade raised, and they go into a room in the building. There's one walker, and she quickly kills it.
As she and Daryl make their way out of that room, Rick and Glenn come from a different hallway with T right behind them. They find two dead walkers, and she moves past them.
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