Yeah okay, ANOTHER Daryl and OC Walking Dead fic

Yeah I can't help it
He's just so pretty
I'll still carry on my other one too but idk. My boyfriend gave me this idea (and he still claims he's not gay. Bless him.)

It's really quiet AU but y'know. Set just after Hershels farm just so you know.

Enjoy and review.

Asuka heard the group of people before she saw them, it was the wailing which caught her off guard. She wasn't sure if she should lower the gun or begin to fire straight away.

"Mama," she heard Chris ask. A frown plastered over his seven year old face as the wailing from outside seemed to have woken him.

"It's alright baby," she tried to sooth him. Not taking her eyes off the gate which stood at the edge of the perimeter. "Go back to you bed. I'll be in to tuck you in a bit."

She faintly heard his footsteps fade away and the door shut softly, her senses trained on making sure that he was safe before she returned to keeping her eyes on the gate.

"Stay where you are," she screamed. Hearing the wailing cease as they heard her. She could see their silhouettes in the faint glow of the morning sun as they froze in front of the gate.

"We just want to talk," she heard someone with a Southern accent yell. A malicious laugh escaping from Asuka's lips before she could stop herself.

"Yeah, well let's try talking like this for now. And don't even think of slipping through that gate there are mines everywhere and I will blow your legs off. Start firing and I'll put the electric fence on and shoot you back." The silence which hung in the air made Asuka smile slightly. The fact that there was no reply from them straight away meant that they were scared, which meant that she had a better chance of getting them to leave.

"There are walkers out here. We just need to talk. Please, my son – he's just a kid. We've just escaped a heard." The same man yelled out making Asuka's heart drop.

A kid. She couldn't leave a kid out of there, which was why the house was primarily populated by kids.

"You drop your fucking guns next to the fence and walk to the middle of the field. Shut the gate behind you." Asuka yelled, flicking a switch on the board above her head to turn the land mines off. Her heart plummeting as she clung to the gun with a death grip as she swung her over the edge of the window. Jumping onto the tree before shimmying down, smiling as she felt her feet hit the grass. Not wanting to trudge down the stairs and bother about worrying the children.

Daryl was not happy about leaving all of his weapons by the wall at all. But he did what Rick told him too, and if Rick seemed to trust the girl with the Brooklyn accent then so did he. Although a larger part of Daryl suspected that Rick was now just desperate.

"This is a bad idea," he heard Carol whisper to his right as she pulled herself closer to him. And it took everything Daryl had right there and then to not tell her to go away. Ever since he saved her from Hershels she always seemed to rely on him for support.

"Is the best damn idea we got," Daryl growled in response, watching as the lithe girl jumped from the tree and he was surprised at the woman in front of him.

She was short, at the most five foot five, and she had black hair which looked as if it had been hacked at recently with a knife. She looked surprisingly clean, the cleanest Daryl – or any of the group had seen – since the outbreak started. From the soft glow of the sun which was rising in the sky, you could see that even though the Georgia sun had been relentless so far her skin was pale white.

"Thank you," Rick said honestly, edging forwards with his hand outstretched.

"Any of you bitten?" she asked. Slipping her gun into her waistband as she surveyed the group. Her eyes sticking on Carl.

"No. We're all clean here," Lori spoke up.

Daryl instead kept his eyes trained on the girl, as she kept her hand balanced on the gun.

"I'll assume y'all want to stay," she drawled, the accent looking weird on her Asian frame. Speaking up again before Rick could open his mouth, a growl escaping her lips. "Stay in the place I made safe for my kids. The place that I worked my ass off and lost people on. And you think I'll let you stay because you're lost and you have a kid?" Her tone making the hairs on the back of Daryls neck stand on edge.

"Calm down China girl," he began with a frown, but Asuka cut over him.

"I'm Japanese."

"You're house is big enough," Rick spoke up, trying to keep his tone platonic. "We can work our keep and as soon as we can we'll be out of your way. Please." He said when he realised that her expression hadn't changed at all and Daryl felt an irrelevant surge of longing to know this girl who wouldn't be swayed when it came to protect her own.

"It's my wife," Rick continued. "She's pregnant."

Daryl watched several emotions play across the girls face, the first was obvious annoyance and then worry but then it reverted back to annoyance as she beckoned for them to follow her as she walked into the mammoth house.

"If you try anything I will kill you. Just to make that clear," she said over her shoulder. "And you," she pointed at Daryl over her shoulder. "Put the knife you have in your pocket on the side. I am not blind or stupid." Which made Daryl smirk as he pulled it from his waist band.

"My names Asuka, and what I say you do," she waved her hand to dismiss all other sounds which they were making behind her. "I do not care about your names until the morning. You can make yourself comfortable down here. Sleep well." She muttered, leaping up the stairs two at a time. Leaving the group bemused and worried behind her.

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