Blue : Daryl's baby girl

Chapter Ten : Blood trail

Blues P.O.V

As I caught up to Daryl he was just opening a door on the other side of the roof and looking inside. I put my nose down and sniffed the blood the lead a trail inside. "Can your dog track" rick asked watching me. "Damn right she can, Blue find Merle." Daryl said with a bit of a smirk as I yiped once and started leading the way. As we entered the building it came to a staircase heading down. Daryl yelled "Merle! You in here!" Pretty stupid in my opinion but oh well.

After searching different rooms throughout the building Daryl and I come across a lone female walker. Daryl quickly shots her with his crossbow and I ran to retrieve the arrow. I set it in Daryl's waiting open hand and wag my tail as I get my head pat. Daryl then leads the way out the room meeting up with the others as we round the corner seeing two dead walkers on the ground. I sniffed around them smelling Merle on them. He must have killed them.

"Had enough in him to take out these two sumbitches, one handed" Daryl says as he reloads his crossbow. Toughest asshole I ever met, my brother. Feed him a hammer and he'd crap out nails." Daryl said finishing reloading and straightening up. "Any man can pass out from blood loss. No matter how tough he is." Rick said stepping forward. Daryl said nothing as I continued following the trail.

We came to the entrance of another room and the smell of burnt flesh overwhelmed my nose. "Merle!" Daryl yelled unaware of the smell. "We're not alone here, remember?" Rick said annoyed stepping up. I looked up at the two and whined trying to get them to smell the problem. Both man looked at me confused but Daryl then said "screw that, he could be bleeding out you said so yourself, and Blues picking up on something wrong." I carefully walked forward into the main area of the room and the sight made me whine again. Daryl quickly followed not sure what was wrong but soon understood as the others also entered the room.

The was an over whelming smell of burnt flesh and blood. There was a stove in the room that was still on flames flicking. On the stove was a blood docked belt and a piece of iron covered in burnt flesh. Well the others gathered in the room I followed the blood to a busted window where there was bloody rags and a dead end for the trail.

I turned to get the others attention to show them what I had found but they were to busy looking at the burnt mess.

"What is that burnt stuff?" Glenn asked looking sick to his stomach. "Skin." Rick said picking up the peice of metal. "He cauterized the stump." Rick said putting the metal down. "Daryl didnt seem to surprised as he said "Told you he was tough. No one can kill Merle but Merle." Rick turned to him and said "dont take that on faith, he's lost a lot of blood.". I've had about enough of their chatting and backed twice alerting them of me. "What you got Blue?" Daryl asked starting over the others following. I turned and jumped up with my front feet on the edge of the broken window.

Daryl almost snickered as he said to Rick "didnt stop him from busting out of this death trap.". As everyone reached where I was Glenn said in shoke "he left the building! Why would he do that?". Daryl turned to him and said "why wouldnt he? He's out there alone as far as he knows, doing what he's got to do. Surviving.". Tdog shoke his head and said "you call that surviving? Just wandering out in the streets, maybe passing out?". Daryl had moved away from the window me following closely. "What are his odds out there?" Tdog asked and this seemed to set Daryl off as he rounded around and snapped "no worse then being handcuffed and left to die by you sorry pricks." Glenn and Tdog seemed to look down on guilt but Rick approached Daryl. "You couldn't kill him. Ain't worried about some dumb dead bastard." Daryl said to Rick. "What about a thousand dumb dead bastards? Different story?" Rick asked Daryl. Daryl seemed to being fuming which caused my fur along my back to stand up and my shoulders to tense as a growl was forming in my throat. "Why dont you take a tally? Do what you want. We're gonna go get him." Daryl said stepping forward. Then Rick put his hand up and pushed Daryl back yelling "daryl wait!" Daryl yelled "get your hands off me!". I growled and jump forward aiming for Rick's hand. He jumped back just in time for my teeth to just graze his thumb. "Blue heal, you cant stop us." Daryl said as I stayed by his said still growling at Rick since I was given no commened to stop. Rick looked at his slightly bleeding thumb and then to Daryl before saying "I dont blame you. He's family, I get that. I went through hell to find mine. I know exactly how you feel. He cant have gotten far with that injury. We could help you check a few blocks, look around for him but only if you keep a level head and control of your dog.".

Daryl seemed in thought as he finally said "I could do that, and blue is just protective. She didnt mean it." To show there was no real hard feelings I waged my tail and gave Rick's hand a forgiving lick which he smirked at. Then Tdog spoke up "only if we get those guns first. I'm not strolling through Atlanta with only my good intentions, okay?". This seemed to be an agreed plan.