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

Chapter Twenty Six

Dale sighed while looking up at the stars "I'm sorry addy. I want to keep this world as peaceful for you as I can but it seems like I'm failing. When they do this, it will be crossing a line that they can never come back from. That's not a world I want for you." He looks towards addy who was starting to fall asleep in his arms.

He desperately wanted to protect her innocence but this world was changing people and he feared what it would mean for her. He truely loved her like a granddaughter. He never had that chance before. He sighed again and looked back up at the stars, not paying attention to his surroundings.

After a couple of minutes dale heard a moaning sound not far from them. He started walking towards where something was laying in the grass. When he got closer he noticed it was a cow and it had been attacked.

Dale was instantly alarmed. He bounced addy and whispers to her "addy baby, wake up." She frowned in frustration at being woken up. She sat her head up and rubbed at her eyes as dale turned around. Her eyes flung open when dale yelled and she felt a forced push her and dale to the ground.

Dale had one hand on the walkers throat trying to keep it away from addy as he tried to push her out from between them. "Addy! Run!". When she crawled a little away from them she heard dale yelling in pain.

She turned back around and saw the walking ripping him apart. She was so terrified she let out the most horrific scream that echoed across the field. She watched as dale kept trying to fight the walker off as she kept screaming and crying. She didn't know what to do.

Not far off people were screaming out for the pair. Rick was running as fast as he could towards the sounds of his daughter. "ADDY! BABY!" He finally saw them in the Felix and ran as fast as he could push himself.

A force ran straight passed addy and tackled the walker off dale. Addy couldn't tell who is was because she was so terrified that she just kept crying and screaming in fear. Who ever it was killed the walker and crawled to dale then started screaming out for help.

She didn't know but it was Daryl. He looked at her when she was standing "Lil one! Are you hurt? Did it get you?" He said as he held tightly onto dale's hand. But she didn't hear him and kept screaming.

They others finally made it to them. Rick went straight for addy first and picked her up. He cradled her to his chest, muffling her screams as she clung to him. He pulled back for a second to quickly look her over and was thankful not to find a single thing wrong. Her pulled her back tightly against him and looked over at dale in shock.

He stood back up and rushed to dales sight while hiding addy's face from seeing anything. Dale reached up for him "rick!" Rick was panicking at the sight of dales injuries "all right. Just listen to my voice." Dale just kept his hands tightly on ricks arm. Rick kept trying to calm him down "listen to me, all right? Just listen to me. Okay, just hold on now"

Dales eyes kept travelling to addy. Even in the pain he was experiencing, he couldn't help his need for her to be safe. He truly loved her. Rick looked back at the group "get Hershel! He needs blood! We got to operate now!"

Addy couldn't pay attention to what was happening. Everyone was yelling and she was being jolted around as she clung tightly to her daddy. She started coughing as her tears continued to fall.

The yelling got louder as she felt her daddy stand up but then she heard Hershel's voice and everyone stopped talking. All that could be hear was dale gasping and frowning, and addy's crying and coughing.

Rick screamed "No!" He spun around clutching his daughter tightly. He couldn't handle this. They were losing dale and there was nothing he could do about it. He turned back to wards dale as everyone started crying. He kneeled down beside him and pulled his gun out. Dales pain was clearly getting worse.

Andrea yelled at them to do something because he was suffering. Rick held his gun up and just smeared at him. This man was someone he respected and looked up to. He protected his daughter. He couldn't do it no matter how badly he didn't want him to be in pain he just couldn't pull the trigger.

Daryl could see it in ricks face he just couldn't do it. He looked at addy clinging tightly to her dad and knew he couldn't leave this all just to rick. He respected dale as well. He walked up beside Rick and gently took the gun from his hands. Rick looked at him and he nodded. Rick stepped back and held addy tighter to him as he watched Daryl kneeled down.

Rick kissed addy's head and bounced her in his arms as her coughing started to get worse. They all jumped at the sound of the gun shot. Rick bent his head down against addy's as tears started falling down his cheeks.

Everyone was crying and didn't know what to do. Hershel heard the sound of addy's coughing and knew they needed to get her back to the house. He walked up to rick and put his hand on his shoulder to get his attention.

Rick looked up at him as he said "rick, we need to get addy back to the house. She needs her medicine and I need to check her over to be double sure she wasn't injured." Rick couldn't say anything but just nodded as he turned to walk with Hershel back to the house. He couldn't even process the rest of the group right now. He needed to know addy was ok.

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The next morning everyone gathered around dales grave. Rick stared down at his grave with a heavy heart while holding a still sleeping addy. He silently thanked Dale for many things. For being a grandfather figure for his kids. For keeping a straight head on the group no matter how bad things got. For fighting for their humanity. And most of all for saving his baby girl at the sacrifice of his own life.

Rick took a temp breath and began speaking "dale could get under your skin..... He sure got under mine.... because he wasn't afraid to say exactly what he thought... how he felt.... that kind of honesty is rare.... and brave.... whenever I would make a decision.... I'd look at dale... he'd be looking back at me with that look he had... we've all seen it one time or another.... I couldn't always read him, but he could read us... he saw people for who they were... he knew things about us... the truth... who we really are... in the end, he was talking about loosing our humanity... he said this group was broken... the best way to honour him is to break it... set aside our differences and pull together, stop feeling sorry for ourselves and take control of our lives... our safety.... our future... we're not broken. We're gonna prove him wrong... from now on we're gonna do it his way... that is how we honour dale"

After rick finished, everyone else finished paying their respects and started to go off to do what needed to be done. Addy started squirming in ricks arms, starting to wake up. Daryl walked passed them and patted addy's head gently while giving rick a nod before leaving.

Rick looked down at her as she finally opened her eyes "hi baby, did you have a good sleep." Addy rubbed at her eyes as rick sat her up in his arms. She shook her head no. She remembered what happened the night before and she was still very upset. Rick sighed as he kissed her cheek knowing it was take a while for her to get passed this just like everyone else.