ANGEL FACE ➵ DARYL DIXON [2]

Chapter Nine: Meet Us In The Dead Of Night

Chapter 9

"THE MOST DANGEROUS DRUG I KNOW HAS A HEARTBEAT."

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"Claimed!"

"Claimed!"

"Claimed!"

"Claimed!"

The group of men swarm the empty cars. There's no gas, but there is car seats for a comfortable sleep. The garage has no other people or groups, but there was people here before them as car parts are missing.

"We'll stay here for awhile," Joe announces, then claiming a car while Daryl doesn't do much of anything.

After some time, he lays down the bin bag with his rabbit inside, using it as a pillow as all the cars have been claimed. Joe glances over to him, how his arm is up over his face trying to block out the men and maybe get a quick nap. He's over in the corner away from the rest, distancing himself and making it clear not to socialize or annoy him.

He doesn't feel himself around the men like he was with his original group back in the prison. He would even rather have Markus at this point than the claimers. At least they had a backstory. Even if it wasn't the best and Daryl nearly choking him to death when he found out Kendra had been seeing him.

He still remembers how their faces looked when he walked into that room with no assumption of anything happening behind the cherry wood door. He knocked on her bedroom door, red roses in his right hand as he always bought her every Sunday. He felt bad them last couple of weeks, his drunken behaviour brutal and Kendra having to watch. He had to make it up to her, planning to take her out for a nice meal and enjoying each others company.

But now she had someone else's company.

He twisted the handle, walking into a makeout session between Kendra and a man he had never seen before. Their lips were locked tight, Kendra's arms up over his neck and pulling him down. Just like what she did with him.

Daryl dropped the flowers in shock and rage, Kendra yelping away from the man who dressed to impress. Her face was bright red, her hair scattered and breathing heavy. The man just looked as shocked, looking back and forth between Kendra and him. But Daryl saw through him. The man knew Kendra was his. And what he had done.

At first, his anger was completely portrayed at the unknown man, pushing Kendra out of his way to get to him. Daryl punched him across his face, falling down onto Kendra's cream white carpet and getting blood all over. Kendra screamed, begging Daryl to stop as he wasn't letting up. He could never.

He punched and punched, getting him in a very tight and strong chokehold. The man bubbled saliva, his face turning purple and eyes popping out of his skull.

"Stop it!" Kendra shouted, crying and yelling for her dad to help.

Not long after, Kendra's dad bursted through the door into a violent mess. He pulled Daryl off of Markus, not understanding the situation fully, but understanding a bit.