Love the Other Half

The Day Before The Storm

          Rick's colt python still pointed at my head. I couldn't move. I wouldn't move until his gun was away from Dwight. "Rick... get that goddamn gun away from him and me. I swear I will drop you to the floor." I say to Rick with a growl. He looks at me and I can see in his eyes he doesn't want to hurt me, but an enemy is inches from his face.

          I look over at Daryl and see that he is staring at Dwight. I turn around and see that Dwight is staring right back at Dwight. "Look at me." I hear Rick say. I turn and face towards Rick. Knowing he was talking to Dwight. "Why?" Rick asks Dwight. Still not moving from my position. I go into animal mode. Watching everyone's movement and making sure they don't go for Dwight. I could hear Dwight sighing behind me.

          "'Cause I want it stopped. I want Negan dead." Dwight says to Rick. "So why don't you kill him?" Rick asks Dwight. "Can't just be me. They're all Negan." Dwight says. It was quiet for a few moments until Tara spoke up. She slowly walked towards Dwight. Which caused me to step in front of her, blocking her from him. "That girl you murdered... she had a name. Her name was Denise, and she was a doctor. And she helped people." Tara states to Dwight. I understood her pain. I really did. I would be pissed too. Hell I am pissed at Dwight for it. It's something I will never forgive him for.

          I could feel the regret radiating off of Dwight from behind me. I looked around the room again, making sure no one was making any sudden movements. "I wasn't aiming for her." Dwight said to Tara. Which was a really stupid thing to say because that caused Daryl to attack. Even if I was in the way... which I was. Daryl charged at me and I tried to stop him, but that just made it worse. Daryl grabbed me by my arm and slung me to the other side of the cell. I hit my head on the wall and fell down to the floor. When I opened my eyes, my vision was blurry and my head hurt something awful.

          I reached behind me and touched the back of my head and when I brought my hand back to my face, I was surprised there wasn't any blood. I saw Rick look at me with concern in his eyes. He was about to run over to me and check on me, but I shook my head at him. Telling him that I was fine at the moment. Which was a lie. I looked up at Dwight and saw that Daryl had him pinned to the wall with a knife inches away from his eye. I stood up and I had to close my eyes for a second so that I wouldn't fall over.

          "Do it. Do it" Tara kept repeating to Daryl. I wanted to reach back and knock the shit out of her, but I couldn't. I didn't want to take my eyes off of Dwight. "You wanna end it this way... you go ahead. I'm sorry. I am. I know you want to." Dwight said to Daryl. I walked up to Daryl and looked at him in the face. "Daryl... don't you dare. You hear me?" I said to him. I had a feeling what I was saying was going in one ear and out the other. "We can't trust him." Michonne said.

          I looked over at her. "You can... he wouldn't risk me getting hurt or Negan finding me. That includes Daryl in this. "He owned me. But not anymore." I hear Dwight say. I turn back towards Dwight and see the pain in his eyes. Knowing Daryl, when Daryl stares at you, he looks right into your soul. It can be creepy.

          "What I did, I was doing it for someone else. Now she's gone." Dwight said to Daryl. I gave Dwight a confused look. I know he was talking about Sherry, but what happened to her? Did Negan kill her? "So now I'm here." Dwight says to Daryl. Dwight looks over at me and smiles. I gave him a small smile back. He looks away from me to look at Daryl. "And you're here, because of her." Dwight said to Daryl, motioning his head towards me. "If he wasn't for her, you probably would have rotted in that cell." Dwight says.

          "Do it!" I hear Tara shout at Daryl, which causes me to jump. I turn around and look at her with fury in my eyes. "There's another choice." I could hear Dwight say to Daryl behind me. "Daryl... Daryl you know her." Tara said to Daryl, trying to make Daryl push that knife into Dwight's skull. I turn back around and look at Daryl and Dwight. "Daryl... don't do it. If you do it... I swear I'll kill as many of you as I can before one of you take me down. You know I'm not a liar." I said to Daryl. Trying my best to stop him from killing Dwight.