Megan Grimes, thirty two years old and pregnant with her first child. It should be a happy time for her but instead she's fighting to survive with her sister in law and nephew. What happens when Daryl becomes overly protective of the mother to be?
So let's pretend Rick did have a sister. She's pregnant and was married before this all happened but lost her husband really early on. More of that will be explained throughout the story.
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"How are you feeling?" Lori asked Megan for the third time that morning.
Megan sighed heavily brushing her dirty blonde hair out of her eyes. "I'm fine Lori. Stop asking!" She snapped.
"I'm sorry, I'm just worried, pregnancy was hard enough before this happened, now you've barely got enough food to keep you going, little water and no medical care-"
"Don't you think I know that!" Megan snapped angrily gaining the attention of the others in the camp. "You think I want this? I should be in my nice warm house with my husband picking baby names and choosing colours for the nursery but instead I'm stuck here with a bunch of people I barely know, my husband was ripped from my arms and my brother is nowhere to be found! You want to make me feel better?" She asked. "Then shut the hell up!"
Lori recoiled from her words slightly shocked by Megan's aggression.
"My, my, she's a feisty one." Merle chuckled from across the fire.
"Shut up Merle!" Several voice chastised.
"Why don't you go and sit in the RV and calm down a bit?" Dale suggested calmly to Megan.
She nods slowly and walks away leaving the others to stare and whisper.
"You should be a little more sensitive." Andrea told Lori. "This isn't how anyone is suppose to live especially not a pregnant women who's lost her husband and brother."
"Yeah I get it." Lori snapped.
"Think before you say shit next time." Daryl tutted.
The next day the group decided to go into the city. A small group was chosen to go.
Megan watched as they packed to leave. She wanted to go too, she hated sitting around doing nothing but everyone treated her like glass because she was pregnant. She understood where they were coming from but she still couldn't help but feel useless.
Merle was being his usual self, winking at her. She shook her head disgusted at him. He knew she had just lost her husband Matthew but he still flirted with her at every chance he got, even the pregnancy didn't seem to put him off, he'd even tried to sneak into her tent until his brother scolded him which caused the brothers to argue. The older brother seemed to have a thing for pregnant women it seemed. He looked like he had probably knocked a few up too and had no idea where they were.
She smiled remembering when she first told Matthew she was pregnant. He had been so excited.
Megan stood starting at the three pregnancy test that lay on the bathroom counter. Tears rolled down her cheeks as she looked at the positive tests. They were tears of happiness.
She and Matthew had been told the chance of her getting pregnant were slim but there was the proof.
Excitedly she rang Matthew and ordered him home as soon as possible.
"Megan! Megan, are you okay?" He asked panicking as he came through the front door. She had been sketchy on the phone and hadn't told him why she needed him home which made him think the worst. He was always over protective.
"I'm fine. Come on." She said taking his hand and practically dragging him to the bathroom. "Look!" She grinned as tears filled her eyes once again.
"Are they.." He started.
"Pregnancy test..." She finished.
"And they're..."
"Positive..." She grinned.
He looked over at her with a huge smile on his face before picking her up and spinning her around in the small bathroom.
"Oh baby, that's amazing!" He chuckled happily.
He put her down and hugged her tight. "We're going to have a baby." He whispered as he touched his forehead with hers.
"We are." She whispered before kissing him softly.
They had finally gotten what they had wanted, what they had wished for but Matthew was never going to see his baby that was if she or the baby survived this living hell.
"You all set?" Megan asked Andrea.
"Yeah, we're good." She smiled.
"Be careful and make sure you all come back in one piece." She warned but smiled as she said it.
"Yes ma'am." She chuckled.
Megan hugged Andrea before watching them leave.
She heard a grunt behind her, turning around she saw Daryl.
She smiled and nodded.
"I'm going hunting." He muttered.
She nodded again. "Okay, be careful."
He snorted. "Whatever. You who should be careful." He muttered before walking into the trees and out of sight.
She shook her head and headed to the water where Carl and Sophia were playing.
She watched them splash in the water smiling and giggling while wondering if she would ever see her child smile and laugh. Was it really possible in this world now?
'Was there a cure for this virus?' Was always a question that ran through her mind.
Would they always be running from the walkers? Would her child ever be able to have a normal life?
She looked down at her stomach, she was just starting to show if she flattened her shirt against her stomach. She couldn't be sure of exactly how far gone she was because she never got to go to her appointment. The world had started to turn to shit before then.
The day past slowly, Megan helped with chores and watched Carl and Sophia around camp making sure they didn't get into trouble. She was barely allowed to do anything even washing clothes took ten minutes of arguing with Lori before she could do it.
She knew Lori was just being overly protective and she should appreciate it but she deep down she was annoyed with Lori.
Rick, her brother had been in a coma before it all began. They had been told by Shane that he was dead but Megan didn't believe it. She would never believe it until she either saw his body or him as a walker, until that day he was alive.
The group that had gone into the city had been out longer than they expected and they were everyone was beginning to worry that something had happened while out there. Everyone knew the city wasn't safe.
"Meg!" Carl shouted.
"Hey Carl. You okay?" She asked.
"Yeah, I can't find Mom or Shane though."
"Oh." She replied and looks around the camp. "I haven't seen her either. I will go look for her." She replies.
He nods. "Okay."
"Don't be walking off anywhere either." She warned him.
He rolls his eyes but nodded in agreement.
It didn't take long for Megan to find Lori and Shane obviously Carl hadn't looked that well however Megan hadn't expected to see what she saw. Lori was kissing Shane.
Megan scowled at the scene and contemplated calling Lori out on her actions but the sound of a car alarm blaring brought everyone from their thoughts and doings to find out where the noise was coming from.
"What can you see?" Shane shouted up to Dale who was on top of the RV trying to find out where the noise was coming from.
"Nothing yet!" He called back.
"That noise is going to bring the walkers up here!" Lori shouted worriedly.
The sound was getting closer and so was the sound of an engine and soon a red car came into view.
Glenn jumped out of the car with a huge grin on his face until Shane scolded him.
"Turn that damn thing off!" He shouted.
"I don't know how."
After a few moments of messing with the car Shane had the alarm off.
"What the hell? You've probably attracted all the walkers." Megan snapped at Glenn.
"I got a new car." He muttered.
"What for? And where are the others? Are they okay?" Megan asked just as a truck pulled up behind the car Glenn had arrived in.
"We got a new guy with us." Glenn said.
Everyone was beginning to greet those who had come back. No one seemed to notice Merle hadn't arrived back.
Megan greeted Andrea with a hug. "Came back unharmed I see?" Megan chuckled.
"I did. Same can't be said about Merle." She said.
"What do you mean?" Megan asked.
Before Andrea could reply they heard Carl about.
"Dad!"
That instantly made Megan look around.
"Ricks here?" She asked herself.
She looked over to where Carl was and saw him and Rick hugging and Lori joining in.
Megan broke down in tears and walked over to her brother.
"'Meg!" He smiled through the tears.
"I knew it, I knew you weren't dead." She cried as she hugged him.
"No I'm not dead." He chuckled.
They pulled away from the hug and Rick seemed to be looking around for someone.
"So where's Matt?" He asked.
Megan looked away and Lori replied for her.
"He's gone." She said softly.
"Oh, Megan, I'm so sorry."
Megan said nothing, instead she walked away to her tent.
She closed her eyes trying to block out the images of Matthew being taken from her but they never left.
By the time Megan and Matthew had heard the news of the new virus that caused people to eat other people there was already walkers roaming around the city of Atlanta.
Lori had called just a few hours earlier telling them to pack up and meet them at her house.
They did as she said, together they all set off on the road. Shane had heard of different places that where safe to go to so that's where they were heading. However the roads were blocked by people desperately trying to leave. The sounds of car horns, people shouting and screamin echoed through out the city.
Megan, Matthew, Lori and Shane got out of their cars trying to decide what to do.
"The city can't be safe. There's more people there, more chances of bumping into those things." Matthew said.
"Yeah, yeah, I agree. We need to get somewhere they can't."
"Oh god!" Lori cried. On the other side of the road a man was screaming as a women bit into his neck.
Megan only saw a split second of it before she was vomiting.
"Let's get out of here." Shane ordered.
Somehow they managed to turn back the way everyone was coming from.
They stopped again to look at a map and figure out what to do.
No one saw the walker creeping up behind them, no one listened to Carls shouting at them from inside the car. no one noticed Matthew turning around and coming face to face with the walker, it was only when the walker bit into his chest and he screamed that they realised.
A gun shot rang out before they could react. The walker dropped to the floor.
Megan was instantly by Matthews side holding him tight as he slowly slipped away.
"Sweetheart we have to go. He can't be saved now." A mans voice came from beside her.
It was a man she didn't recognise but would later learn was Dale. Behind him was two blonde girls, Andrea and Amy.
Matthew had gone, he was dead..
"But what about him?" She asked through the sobs.
"Nothing we can do." Shane said.
She wanted to stay with him, she wanted to bury him, she wanted to grieve but she couldn't. Another walker appeared before them.
Shane didn't give her time to protest as he pulled her to her feet and dragged her away from her husbands body as she kicked and screamed.
She cried for days, they met with new people, they found a place that seemed safe but she felt so alone.
At the time they didn't know that if you got bitten you would turn into a walker.
One of Megan's biggest worries was coming face to face with her dead husband.
"Megan, dinners ready. You need to eat." Megan heard Lori say from the entrance of her tent.
Megan nodded and wiped her tears before she followed her to the fire.
Rick tried to talk to her but she brushed him off.
"She's hurting. Give her time." Lori said softly patting his hand.
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A new Daryl/OC fanfiction
Yes I know it doesn't go exactly by the story in the television series but this is a fan fiction. I'm not going to follow it word for word. Plus I don't know how everyone met to begin with, so if you have a problem with it then play pretend, use your imagination or just don't read.
If you want a word for word fanfiction look somewhere else.
People may die in my story before they did in the show and I might keep people alive who died in the show.
Anyway...let me know what you think.
Thank you for reading.
Frankie.