It had been a few weeks since Daryl and Aaron had brought Morgan back to Alexandria. When Daryl saw Rick execute that guy he first thought that the moment had come and his group would take over Alexandria like they had spoken about. But Deanna quickly resolved the situation by sending everyone besides Rick's group and Jesse's family back home and announcing a town meeting for the next day to deal with the incident and decide how to go from there.

While Maggie took the three of them aside and explained what happened, Deanna and the rest of the group brought Reg's body back to Deanna's house. Even though Morgan still was skeptical but he agreed to follow to Deanna's house to talk with Rick and the others.

After that a lot changed in Alexandria. Deanna seem to have realized that the people of Alexandria couldn't live in their bubble anymore. She ordered that every citizen had to participate on regular shooting practice, supervised by Michonne and Sasha. Glenn carefully selected a few of the better shots to train them for their raids, so no more would have to die if they go outside. And Morgan filled in Deanna and especially Daryl and Aaron about the wolves. At least as much as he knew, not that it was that much to begin with. Rick still worked as the constable but a lot of the older residents still were skeptical about him, even though Deanna tried her best to make them clear that he maybe wasn't all that crazy as he might seemed.

During all that time, Daryl still tried to keep a low profile and pretty much stuck to his own group. From time to time some of the women tried to start a conversation with him, when they met him on his way outside the walls to shoot some rabbits, but he just didn't know what to say to them. So he mostly just smiled at them awkwardly and walked away. He didn't even understand why they even bothered with him.

Since he hasn't been out recruiting with Aaron since "the incident", today was another day where he spent his day with hunting. Deanna stopped recruiting for now, to give the residents of Alexandria time to get used to the changes. After a successful hunt he was sitting on the porch of Rick's house and skinned rabbits while he watched Carol doing some gardening work. As he looked up a younger woman, who has tried to talk to him, before walked by. When she saw him she immediately smiled and waved at him.

Daryl just watched her walking by and then turned to Carol: "Do you think they're planning something?"

Carol looked up from the patch she was working on and asked confused: "Who?"

"You know... the others!" It was clear that he meant the residents that were here before his group arrived.

"Why would you think that? Did you saw something?" She looked a little alarmed.

"I don't know, it's just... every time I see one of them, they always try to make small talk or ask me how I'm feeling."

The last thing he would have expected was Carol laughing out loud after this statement.

"What is so funny?" Daryl asked confused.

"Oh my sweet Daryl." Carol smirked at him. "Let me ask you something. Is it possible, that they were all women?"

Daryl scowled at her. "Yes. Why do you ask?"

"I've heard a few of them talking about when I was at the storehouse, but I didn't expect them to actually trying to approach you. With all that bad guy-vibe you have going and all. But I guess that makes you even more desirable."

Daryl looked at her with a blank expression.

Carol gave him a light clap on the back of his head. "They were flirting with you! You may not realize it but you're a very handsome man, Daryl Dixon."

His only respond to that was to blush slightly and then grabbing the last remaining rabbit to skin it.

"I don't understand why you never had a fling or anything like that with somebody anyway. You can't tell me that you've never had the opportunity. Besides me I mean." She grinned at him.

He looked up and shot her an apologizing glance. Then he stood up to bring the skinned rabbits into the kitchen. While he was walking into house he heard her saying: "That not what I meant. But don't you think right now would be the perfect opportunity to get yourself some? Maybe you should give them a chance, you would deserve it!"

While he was dropping the rabbits on the counter, he was thinking about what Carol just said. Since the whole zombie thing has started he never had given it much thoughts. Mostly because his mind was always occupied with other things like finding food, shelter or fighting against walkers.

Come to think he never actually had met someone he would even had considered for some sort of romance or whatsoever. But even before all this has started he just wasn't the type for relationships or falling in love with someone on the first sight. The only time he remember to be in love was in high school when he had a huge crush on Christine Tanner. Unfortunately she was the most popular girl in school and never even noticed him. After that he only had hooked up with some girls from time to time, but mostly because his brother almost forced them on him and he didn't want to be a virgin for the rest of his life.

To be honest he always felt a little uncomfortable around most girls (except Carol and Beth) and he didn't really liked when they were flirting with him. He felt way more comfortable around guys and sometimes he wondered if he might doesn't like girls "that way" at all. But every time his mind wandered that direction, he heard the voice of his brother in his head and he convinced himself that he just haven't met the right girl yet. Maybe he really should try to get to know some of the single women of Alexandria.

While deep in thought he suddenly heard a knock at the door. He saw Aaron looking through the back door and gesturing him to open the door. Feeling kinda caught he needed a few seconds to restore himself. For a second the thought crossed his mind that Aaron appearance right at this moment might be some kind sign of a higher power to point his mind in the right direction. He shacked his head to get rid of these silly thoughts. Apparently Aaron interpreted that wrong. He made an apologizing gesture towards Daryl and was about to leave. Daryl quickly made his way to the door and stopped Aaron.

"What is it?" Daryl asked.

Aaron never had come over to their groups houses before, so there must be a reason. Has Deanna decided that they could start recruiting again?

"I'm sorry, is this a bad time?" Aaron asked uncertain.

Daryl tried to avoid eye contact with Aaron, because he felt kinda caught, not that he obviously was really doing something wrong. "No, I just... nevermind. What do you want?"

"Well, I guess I have a mission for us."