❝last man standing doesn't matter when it's a pile of bodies you're standing on. so you fight but you be good.❞
[twd seasons 1-?]
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chapter eleven: peach pits 4635 words
"I'll kill him."
Lori had to lunge for Lin's arm to stop her from running for the camp. "Lin, don't."
"The scratches on Shane at the CDC," Lin reminded Lori of the very visible evidence of what Shane had done.
"You knew?" Lori nearly gasped. They'd been so careful in the quarry, leaving for the forest at different times, returning at different times and always keeping their flings at near silent. Lin's responding laugh was sad, incredulous.
"Lori," she sighed, nodding then after. "I knew. You both weren't exactly that careful. Even before all of this." Lori's head dropped, her eyes going to her feet. She brought her hands up to her elbows, hugging herself for the comfort she needed at the moment.
"I never told you because I couldn't face putting that guilt on you, Lindsey. You always liked Rick and always supported the two of us. And I couldn't live with myself for letting my own family fall apart." She reached up to swipe at the tears beginning to form there. "And then all of this happened and Rick got shot and Shane said he was dead. I just wanted to feel something for the first time in a long time."
"So it's Shane's?" Lin asked, afraid of the answer she was going to get.
"No," Lori shook her head hard to the side. "It's Rick's and that's all I'm going to believe." Lin exhaled and rubbed at her forehead.
"What are you going to do, Lori? Have you told them?" When Lori didn't answer, it was all Lin needed to know. Lori didn't want to keep the baby, Lin could figure out that much. She wished that she could make the decision for her, tell her that this baby could be such a good thing, but she couldn't. Lin reached for Lori's hands, taking them in her own. "Whatever you do Lori, you're my sister. If this is something you're going to do, know that I'm there for you every step. But if you don't want it then I can't stop you. But you have to tell Rick. If you don't, I will."
Lori nodded, but didn't give any inclination as to what she was planning. And Lin knew that she wasn't going to get much more out of this, out of Lori. "Just be careful," Lin asked of her. Lori pulled on Lin's hands, hugging her little sister to her chest. She sighed right near Lin's ear and the nurse could hear how her breath shook, how scared her older sister was. If she kept this baby, she knew that she'd be there at her side the entire time. She'd had Carl through c section, which made things just even more complicated than it already was. But Lin knew that she was going to help Lori, no matter what it took.
The next morning Daryl was awake before Lin, pulling the wrapping off his head and shoving the covers away from him. He'd spent the night in a comfy bed but now it was way too comfortable. He felt like he was slipping down through it, the springs stabbing at his arms, scratching along his biceps as he sunk through the water vapor padding down to the hardwood floor.
