A Way To Survive |TWD - Reader Insert|

|CHAPTER 7|

When morning came, you woke up practically hanging from the couch. You slid off the couch, and quickly got up. You then walk to your room, and give it a quick knock. You had to go and get your clothes, but you remembered that Daryl was in there, and didn't want to show up out of nowhere. After waiting for a minute or two, and not hearing anything, you slowly open the door, and see that the bed was empty.

"When did he?" you ask yourself. You simply shrug, and go inside to get changed.

After you dressed yourself, you decided to go and check on Daryl. You rationalized that he went to his tent. After you got close to the camp, you could see Daryl in his tent, poking holes in the lining with an arrow.

"Knock knock bitch," you say with a slightly hushed voice.

"Need somethin'?" Daryl looks at you with an unamused look on his face. You just chuckle at his dry response.

"Nah, just wanted to make sure you didn't trip and fall on your way here," you joke, "saw you weren't in the room when I checked."

"Walking over here was the easiest thing I did in the past 24 hours," he says sarcastically, and looks away from you.

"Speaking of that," you begin, and he looks back at you, "sorry I couldn't find you. I was looking for hours, and I thought that maybe you already got back."

"Nah, you did fine. You brought that bitch ass horse back, so Hershel ain't that mad at me," he chuckles at his own words, and you give him a soft smile.

"Whatever you say bud," you say, and begin to exit the tent, "just take a nap already."

After you exit the tent, you hear a whistle.

"Hey! Peach man, [Y/n]," Shane yells for both you, and who you assumed to be Glenn, over.

After going to the car they were at, you could hear Rick talk, "the creek flows south, right past that farmhouse Daryl and [Y/n] found. Maybe Sophia dropped the doll there, and the current brought it downstream."

"So what, you think she took this road, and then she went North?" Shane asks, Rick just nods.

"Yeah, what's up that way?"

"A housing development," Jimmy says, "it went in maybe 10 years ago."

"Take a run up there after gun practice. I'll hold down fort here, but take backup. After what went down with Daryl, I don't want anyone going out alone. We stay in pairs," Rick tells Shane.

"I'll take suggestions on a partner," Shane tells Rick, and you put your finger on the tip of your nose.

"Not it!" you yell, and they all glance at you with a dumbfounded look. Glenn then walks up to you all, with a basket of peaches in hand.

"See how they do on the range, and then take your pick," Rick tells Shane, and then takes a peach from the basket.

Glenn looks at Rick with a worry in his eyes, and then looks at Lori. Okay, what the fuck? Glenn just seems to be out of it, and Lori seems to not want him to say something.

"My binoculars," Shane tells Glenn, and this snaps him out of his slight daze. After Glenn left the car, you could see both Beth and Patricia walk up to the car. Beth speaks up.

"We'd like to join you for gun training today."

"Hershel's been very clear. I can't involve any of you in what we do without his okay," Rick said.

"He doesn't like it, but he consented," Beth replied.

"Otis was the only one who knew guns," Patricia started to explain, "now he's gone, we gotta learn to protect ourselves. Her father saw the sense in that."