Dixon's Daughters

part twelve

- recap - 

I knew that everything would be alright and the little girl would pull through and eventually be ok. Otis came back without Shane and Lori was a wreck because her kid was shot and her boyfriend might be dead.

I looked at everyone in that room and heard a car pull up to the house.

- recap over -

I walk out onto the porch, a black man and a blonde female walk up the steps of the porch. I looked at them and noticed the man holding his arm furrowing my brows the woman notices and nudges her friend, "It's not a bite. I cut myself pretty bad though." The man says, "Come inside, Patricia will patch you up."

It was the middle of the night, Hershel was still doing surgery on the girl since Otis made it back in time. I sat on the swing that was on the porch, I felt someone sit beside me, "Thank you for helping my little girl." It was Rick, I looked over and said, "You'd do the same if it was Presley, so it's no problem." He nodded. Hershel came outside wiping his hands off on a towel. Rick and I stood as Hershel began to talk, "She's stable, if it weren't for Shane and Otis she would not be here right now. She should wake up in a day or so, but she has to rest so only two people in the room at a time." Rick said thank you and walked into the room to be with his daughter.

I looked over at Hershel and we both walked back in the house. I walked over to Patricia who was sewing up the mans arm, he looked up at me and smiled, "Thank you for letting us into your home, my name is T-Dog and this is Andrea." he said, "You should thank Hershel, it's nice to meet you my name is Natalia, that's Grayson and Oliver, " I point over to them, then I point to Merle who is playing with Presley on the ground, "That's my Uncle Merle and Presley, my sister."

"Did you just say, Merle?" T-Dog questioned and I nodded, "Yes, do you know him?" I asked and T-dog nodded with a sour look on his face, "Merle get over here." He walked over with Presley in his arms, "What's he doing here?" He growled out not looking happy to be near him.

"He's apart of Ricks group." I said taking Presley out of his arms since she reached for me, "You know where my baby brothers at?" Merle asked T-Dog, T-Dog shook his head, "After we went back into the city, and you weren't there he stayed with us until we went to the CDC then he said something about needing to look for his daughter, then he left to look for her." He said.

My mouth slightly dropped as I listened to them talking, my father was alive and looking for me.

-time skip-

I sat on the porch swing for the second time that night, I put Presley to bed and Merle tucked in for the night, Oliver and Carl shared a room, so did Grayson and Beth. Hershel was a little skeptical at first but after convincing from Beth that he had nothing to worry about, he let him. Lori was in with her daughter, Andrea and T-dog were sleeping on the couch and Rick was sitting next to me. We sat in silence, with our thoughts.

I felt someone shift from beside me, opening my eyes I look around it was about 7 am since the sun was starting to rise. Rick was sleeping and I was leaning against him with his coat on top of me, I sat up and he started to wake up. We didn't say anything to each other because we weren't sure what to say, I stayed on the porch swing for a while.

About an hour later a camper pulled, a few cars pulling up behind it. An old man with a fishing hat and a yellow button-up shirt got out with a few people trailing behind him, he takes his hat off when he sees me, "Uh, were apart of Ricks group. Is Judith ok?" He asks, "She's stable, you guys can go in and see her. It's the first bedroom on the right."

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I walked into my room and sat on my bed facing away from the door, I didn't hear Merle come in. He sat on the bed and I jumped a bit because of the face I didn't hear him.

"Why didn't you tell me you were with him?" I asked he looked at me, "You had other things to worry about Sunshine." He finally said after a few minutes. "I have to go find him." It was clear that I made my mind up but Merle thought otherwise, "Can't let you do that, you need to look after Presley, she needs you and I can't have you wandering off and getting yourself killed." I glared at him, "I'm not a little girl! I'm old enough to make my own decisions."

"You didn't act old enough when you let the Governor come in and manage to drug your drink and rape you! You didn't fuckin' decided to tell him to leave when you didn't want 'em there! Now did you?" He yelled at me, "Yer not goin' anywhere and that's final. Do you understand?" I nodded as tears fell down my face, he got up and stormed out of the room slamming the door as he left.

Someone knocked at the door when I didn't say anything they let themselves in, I felt the bed dip and someone rub my back and not saying anything, I turned and hugged the person. They let me stay like this for a while before I pulled back to see who it was, it was Rick.

"Everything will be alright, just let him blow off steam." He paused, then continued, "Don't leave, Grayson and Presley need you, I bet your dad will find us. I told him the general direction we'd be in." I nodded all this crying got me tired, I lied down as he left and fell asleep.