Baby grimes (season two - the walking dead fan fiction - rick grimes daughter)

Chapter Twenty Three

Rick startled awake at the sound of someone knocking on the door. He looked over to see Carl waking up as well and addy just burrowing her head under the pillow. He smirked and got up to answer the door.

Shane stood there looking back at rick impatiently. "So?... we need to talk. Get this all sorted out... no point in delaying." Rick didn't say anything for a few seconds. He was pissed that after everything, Shane had the ball's to come to we're his children were sleeping, early in the morning because he was to Damn impatient to wait for everyone to get up. He took a deep breath "we'll be out in a second." He didn't wait for Shane to say anything and closed the door in his face.

He turned back to see Carl with a small smirk on his face. Rick shook his head and took a deep breath to calm himself before walking over to the bed. "Sleep alright Carl?" Carl nodded "yeah. This was cool. Like a sleep over. Although I don't now how you manage to share a bed with her some times. She's a bed hog. I woke up at one point with a nappy bum on my head. How she managed to get turned around like that I don't know. I'm just glad she's starting to get past the point of setting her nappy every night. That would have been gross."

Rick laughed and reached down to pick up addy as she attempted to stay under the pillow. Carl smiled and helped his dad pull the pillow away. Addy looked at them with her messy bed hair all over the place with a pout on her face. She was having a good sleep and didn't feel like being awake yet.

Rick kissed her cheek and turned to Carl "why don't you go get dressed and see if breakfast is ready. We'll meet you out there in a minute." Carl nodded and got up to kiss addy's cheek then left the room. Rick looked down at her as she tried to curl up in his arms. "What are you doing cheeky girl. It's time to get up. I'm sure if your good, hershel will take you to see the chickens"

At this addy quickly sat up straight and smiled at rick "ya! Chic chic! I luf chic chic." Rick smiled and put her down on the bed to grab their change of cloths for the day. Rick sighed sadly when he tried to get addy dressed as she threw a tantrum over not wanting to wear what he picked out.

Addy bounced out of the room, big smile on her face with rick close behind, shaking his head and trying not to laugh. He had given in to her and let her pick out what she wanted to wear and surprise surprise, she picked her unicorn onesie yet again. He was happy she loved it so much but it needed to be washed again.

Addy kept bouncing around with a surprising amount of energy this morning. Rick got to the door behind her and opened it for her. She was about to run down the stairs but rick scooped her up quickly "Oi, Addison no! You know not to run near the steps. You could get hurt." He attempted to be stern. It was finding it hard not to laugh because she really wasn't listening to him this morning. She looked around at everything, flopping her head back and forth like a rag doll, making rick have to hold her more carefully so he didn't dropped her.

He adjusted her on his hip as he walked over to where the rest of the group were getting ready for the morning. He walked up beside Shane but didn't say anything to him as he watched addy start waving to members of the group.

Lori poured some coffee into a cup and stood up turning to rick and Shane "so what you gonna do? We'd all feel better if we knew the plan." Andrea rolled her eyes and glared at rick "is there a plan?"

Glen shook his head at her attitude but asked rick "we gonna keep him here?" Rick looked around at the group and he eyes landed on Shane giving him a look. Rick sighed and adjusted his hold on addy before addressing the group "we'll know soon enough." He motioned his head in the direction of where daryl was coming toward the group. Some of the others turned to see him.

Daryl walked up beside rick and patted addy's head as he spoke "boy there's got a gang, 30 men.  Got heavy artillery and they ain't looking to make friends. They roll through here, our boys are dead. And our women, they're gonna.... they're gonna wish they were."

Addy whispered in ricks ear "wha dat? No nice?" Rick kissed her head and whispered back "no baby, very bad men." Rick looked back up when he herd carol addressing Daryl "what did you do?" He saw her looking at daryl's bloody hand. Daryl snarked back "had a lil chat."

Addy gasped gently and pointed at daryl's hand "oh no! Dar boo boo. Daddy kiss."daryl scrunched up his face while a few of the others snickered. Rick tried not to laughed and cleared his throat a couple times to try and regain his composure. "No one goes near this guy."

Lori walked up to ricks side and put her hand in his arm. Shane watched the interaction and everyone could tell he was pissed. Lori asked "rick, what are you going to do?" Rick looked at addy as she tried to chew on the collar of his shirt, he tried to keep a distance from Lori as he replied "we have no choice. He's a threat. We have to eliminate the threat."

Dale was shocked "your just gonna kill him?" Addy gasped looking up at her daddy with his shirt collar now all slobbery, hanging out of her mouth. Rick hated that dale had worded it like that in front of her. Rick kissed her forehead and turned to the group sternly "it's settled. I'll do it today."

Rick turned and walked off from everyone trying to calm down. He looked down at addy to see her still chewing away on his shirt "oi, why are you using my shirt like that?" Addy just smiled around the piece of shirt in her mouth and continued on her task.

Rick shook his head and remembered that she most likely is missing her dummy. That hadn't Weined her off of it yet and her doctors had said it was ok to use it a bit longer with her because of her slowed development. He made a mental note to try and find one again.

His thoughts were interrupted by dale catching up to them "you can't do this! You don't want to do this! I know you don't." Rick kept walking as his anger started to rise again since he was trying to get addy away from the conversation. He replied stiffly "i thought about it all night. Knowing what we know now. I don't see a way out of it."

Dale cut him off "but you can't just decide on your own to take someone's life." Addy didn't like her grandpa's tone and frantic talking. It was scaring her. She stopped chewing on her daddy's shirt and turned her head away leaning on his shoulder and trying to get away from the scary talking.

Rick tightened his hold on her when he noticed her mood changed and tried to get dale to stop "the group seemed supportive" dale threw his hand up frustrated "what, because they didn't speak back? You didn't let them." Dale almost his addy when he flung his hand around and rick stopped dead in his tracks. Dale was slightly scared realising his mistake.

Rick sighed and turned back to dale. Dale tried to reason with rick "there's gotta be a... a process." Rick walked back up to dale "and what would that be? We can't call witnesses, go before a judge." Dale was clearly frustrated "so he's automatically guilty by association and sentenced to death?... he's just a kid! ... gimme some time to talk to everyone"

Rick tried to reason with dale "we cant" but dale cut him off again "try to figure out another way." Rick tried to talk over dale "no, we can't drag this out... people are scared. This hold conversation is scaring my child right now."

Dale looked down at her guilty but still tried to reason with rick "I get it and I'm sorry for scaring her but this is why they need time to discuss this. She is to young to understand but the others aren't." Rick shook his head "no, no, no! They need to be safe. I owe them that."

Rick tried to walk away but dale chased after him again "you think about your son and daughter. The message that you're giving them. Shoot first, think later." Rick was annoyed that dale would use his kids like this to try and get his agenda across. Dale continued "I'm asking for one day to talk to everybody. You can give me that. Think.... think about Carl... about this little angel in you arms."

Rick sighed "I am" rick thought for a few seconds then replied "we reconvene at sunset, then what happens, happens." Rick walks off again and this time dale doesn't follow. Thunder sounds over head making addy jump and cling onto rick tighter. She hates the loud noises of storms. Rick heads back to the house quickly to get her inside before it starts raining.

Carl came running up behind them as they got up on the porch. Rick smiled at him "hey bud. You free?" Carl noded. Rick put addy down while kissing her cheek a couple of times "I've got to talk with hershel for a bit. Mind keeping her with you? If it rain don't let her be out there getting wet."

Carl nodded and held his hands out to addy "yeah I'll keep her with me. Some big brother and baby sister time." Addy squealed and bounced over to Carl, holding tightly onto his arms as he swung her up and down a couple of times. Rick smiled and patted Carl's head before walking inside.