Author Note: This is a Daryl/OC. My OC Annalise Grimes is Rick`s daughter to a high-school sweetheart, he is unaware of her existance until she is three years old when her mother dies in a hit and run. Rick is already married to Lori when she comes to live with them.
Time Line:
DAY ONE. Wildfire is created.
Rick is shot.
DAY FOUR. Ususually sighting appear on the news.
DAY SEVEN. Global Outbreak accures.
People panic & the CDC closes it doors.
DAY NINE. Shane declares Rick dead and take the remaining Grimes to Atlanta.
Walkers overwhelm Atlanta.
DAY TEN. Bombs fall on Atlanta.
DAY ELEVEN. Quarry group band together.
Chapter One
Day Fifteen.
It`s a strange thing human nature, some adapt to natural disaster or world apocalypse so much easier than others and some refuse to change as the world around them does. It`s like sink or swim or in this case adapt and survive or remain the same a die in the old world.
I pray that I can change enough to survive this new brutely world that we now live in, I pray that my family has what it takes to last until this ends if it ever does. However I cannot see this group lasting, I see them now acting like this is a camping holiday.
I watch as Carol hangs out today`s washing on the clothes line, the Morales family sit in front of their tent playing, Amy and Andrea are fighting like sisters do, even my little brother Carl is playing with his toy cars in the dirt. We are not prepared to survive this new deadly world. None of us spare a small handle of men have the weapons and the knowlodge to use them and experience in fighting back the dead and yet here I sit drying dishes with little more than a butter knife to defend myself with.
'NO' I shake my head, 'this craziness stops today, no more are we women folk near simply to cook and clean, I will learn to protect myself and camp. I will take watches or go on supply runs with Glenn - I will not be weak.' I think to myself as a whisper appears in my mind.
'Your father didn`t raise to be weak and let the men do all the work, no you be strong just like he was.'
"Sissy, you okay?" My sweet brothers voice startles me out of my inner thoughts.
Carl`s bright blue eyes remined me so much of dad, "Yeah, just thinking too much that`s all." I laugh it off.
"You looked sad, you thinking about dad?" He asks.
A fresh wave of grief smacks into my heart and instant tears threaten to fall.
"A little bit, but mainly thinking about doing more around here. Maybe taking watches or going with Glenn on supply runs, or simply learning to defend ourselves." I try to turn the conversation away from dad, however Carl wasn`t letting me.
"Dad promised I learn how to shot soon, like he taugh you at 12." Carl hinted.
I smiled as I remembered how daddy taugh me and how bad i was. "Maybe, we can`t really do that noe because of the noise but one day."
"Come on let`s find mom." I took his hand as we walked towards the main camp area.
Carl however started grabbing me towards our tent, "I forgot Sophia wants to borrow your Harry Potter book, can she as I was telling her before how good the books are and can you believe she`s never read them!" Carl rambles excitedly.
I`ve been reading a little bit of Harry Potter to him every night and I was glad he enjoyed them because I love my books. I`m a secret book worm - mum said to pack excentails so I packed all my favourites like: The Hobbit, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Vampire Acadmey and Twilight, just to name a few.
"She can as long as it comes back in the same condition she gets it in - which one does she wont?" I asked in a stern voice because no-one damages my babies.
"The chamber one she said and she already promised to protect your book." Carl rolled his eyes at his weird sister.
"Hey I saw that you little rat." I playfully took a swipe at him.
"Aha missed me" he laughed as he ran out with the book under his arm.
It was nice to see him laughing and playing like a kids should, I exited the tent as Carl ran over to Sophia and Carol who immediately open and started reading aloud the wonderful tale of Mr Potter. Carol briefly looked up and smiled at me - I nodded back, anything to see Sophia happy instead of the scared little girl she normally is.
Scanning the immediate camp I frowned as neither mom or Shane are present, 'That`s odd.' I thought as I wondered over to the edge and looked down at the small lake. A tingle of fear flutter inside my belly as no-one was down there.
"Dale you seen mom or Shane lately?" I called up to Dale who was on watch on top of the RV.
He lowered his binoculars as he wiped his sweaty forehead, "Lori went mushroom hunting and Shane is checking the perimeter. I wouldn`t worry too much lil miss they be fine." He tried to reassure but if anything he made it worse.
"How long have they been gone for?" I prayed it hasn`t been long.
"Twenty minutes."
Panic was setting in now, "Which way Dale?"
Dale could tell by my voice that I didn`t want a hopefully reassurance I wanted a direction, "She went south." He pointed in the right direction, "Yell if you need help" I ignored him as set off south to find my mother and to settle this strange sick feeling in my stomach.
My heart was pounding as I entered the woods and immediately started searching, just as I opened my mouth to call out I froze; "Stupid idiot you can`t be yelling out, you`ll attract walkers." I berated myself as I shook my head. I quickly walked a fair distances around the set perimeter but nothing indicated my mother presences so I turned around and headed east trying to find Shane, I mean who knows maybe their together.
I shrugged my shoulders at that thought only to pause a second later as a moan reached my ears.
'Oh fuck me' I thought as cursed myself all this worrying about walkers getting mom I didn`t even think to grab my baseball bat. 'Okay relax look around for a weapon - maybe a decent size rock or solid branch - I am not a damsel in distress I am a Grimes and Grimes are fighters.' I physied myself up for battle with a walker.
"Oh please let their be only one." I whispered to myself as I clenched a large football size rock in my right hand.
"Let`s go find this fucker." I said as I swiftly went in the direction of the moaning that was slowly getting louder.
With my breathing getting faster I turned a corner and my heart stopped, it wasn`t a walker.
It was way, way worse.
My mother was screwing Shane...
Shane my Uncle in all but blood was fucking my mother...
The woman who raised me and loved me as a mother was naked and on her back and humping like bunnies with her husband, my father`s best friends who was also naked as the day he was born.
My brain must be fried, it has to be the sun stroke because what my eyes are seeing can`t be happening. It`s a nightmare, it`s a nightmare.' I thought in denial.
I pinched my upper arm hard, 'Ouch mother fucker' that hurt as I absentmindly rubbed my arm I dropped my rock.
The thumped seemed to echo as the rock hit the ground.
Like a deer in the headlights they froze until Lori gasped, "Oh god Annalise, Shane get off NOW."
They scrambled to get their clothing and dressed in haste as I continued stand there in shock, however my mind was starting to piece together little clues that I had unconscienly held on to - like strange looks passing between them, bits of conversations that are hasterly change whenever Carl and I are close by but most importantly a question that burned my mind; How long had this been going on for? Before Daddy was shot or after he died. I dunno what hurt more.
Bile forced it`s way into my mouth as I fell onto my knees as I vomited on the forest floor.
A hand was calmly rubbing my back as bile burned my throat, "It`s okay honey let it out." Lori was trying to comfort me but all I felt was betrayal. I pushed her away as I stood up as disgust fills my heart and anger laces my words.
Shane steps forward, "It`s not what it looks like Annalise."
"It`s not what it looks like! I am not a child. I know and clearly understand that my mother is fucking her husbands best friend when my father hasn`t even been dead a week. So please explain to what part did I misunderstand? Go on please tell which parts doesn`t make you a disgusting whore?" I yelled as angry tears ran down my face like rivers.
Shane growled as he stepped forward me "Hey you don`t step to your mother like that, you little shit."
Lori pushes against his chest with her hands, "Please Shane back off, she has a right to be angry and nothing she can say isn`t something I`ve already thought about. Besides this is between my daughter and I."
Laughter escaped me as I cried, "Oh no your wrong this does involve him, he`s your lover. So Shane how does it feel to be screwing your best friends wife? Was this a dream of yours? Or is she simply a warm body to take the edge off. I mean your always been a player and there`s not many woman left for so I can see the appeal, however I`d really think that anyone else would of been better but that`s what happens when you think with your dick."
Anger raged over his face and for a split second I feared him as his finger gripped his gun.
Lori turned towards him "Please Shane go, let me talk to her alone." She pleaded.
A strange look replaced the anger, a look I couldn`t name as he backed away and picked up his shirt and putting it on.
A urge I couldn`t control forced me to yell out, "Maybe you should really check the perimeter now that you`re satisfied your baser urges."
Ten minutes earlier I loved that man as beloved uncle but now all I felt was an uncontrollable sick disgusting hatred for him as well as a tremor of fear.
"Oh just to clear this up; Shane you are nothing to me now. Not an uncle, friend just an stranger that will not speak to me and if you do your little secret might just become public knowlodge." I threatened him and Lori.
He hestitated but Lori ordered him to go, as tears ran down her face as she pleaded with me.
"Please baby let me explain." I could see the pain I was cousing but at the moment I didn`t care.
I stepped away from her, "There`s nothing to explain, I never would have believed this if I didn`t see it with my own two eyes. I thought you loved daddy, how could you do this to us. I loved you as the only mother I`ve ever known but now I fell sick looking at you. It`s been six days since daddy died." I knew I wasn`t making any sense but my thoughts were so eratic.
"Baby please, I know your angry and you have ever right to hate me but nothing you say will change how much I love you and I am your mother in everyway that counts. You`ll always be my baby girl." Pain laced every word she spoke from her heart, she tried to reach for me but I backed away quietly.
"Maybe to you but for me that`s not how I feel, I feel sick. I can`t be near you right now and until this feeling does away I think that I should sleep somewhere else. Obviously Carl can`t know a this will break his heart. I need you to leave me alone now." I stumbled as I walked away from her.
"I love you Annalise so I`ll give you your space, please be careful and remember that you are my little girl and always will be." Lori called out with all the love she could muster.
Sobs choked me as I ran away from the pain, grief and shock. I ran blindly as trees whipped past me never feeling the branches cut into my face. I ran until I collapsed into a crying mess on the forest floor as exhaustion took me into oblivion.
END OF CHAPTER ONE.