*I DON'T OWN ANYTHING THAT YOU KNOW* MY FIRST WALKING DEAD FANFIC, I HOPE YOU ENJOY.

Rick had just reunited with his family. It may have been just one more person added to the group. But the more the better, epically if that person could use a weapon. For the moment the campgrounds at the cory worked. The walkers weren't coming that far up the mountain, but it was close enough to town to go for supplies. The question was still weighting heavy on every one's mind. Who is going to tell Daryl that his brother had been left in the city. Left on his own, to find his own way back.

While Rick rejoiced with his family Daryl was in the woods hunting. As the sun rose over the trees Daryl finally had a good shot, pulling the trigger he hit the deer right behind the shoulder it. Walking to where the deer was standing it was easy to see the blood. Daryl followed the trail just as he had many times before this hunt.

Walking for an hour he began to get frustrated. With all the blood the deer had lost it couldn't have gotten much farther. Slowly he stopped, the sound of something in the distance drew his attention away from the blood trail. The breaking of twigs under the foot of something, an all to familiar sound . The sounds got louder as what was making them moved toward him. This wasn't an animal, the sound was being made by a human. Dead or alive?

Daryl stopped, positioned himself behind a tree and waited. It took only three more steps before the sound was on just the other side of the tree. Quickly he jumped from behind the tree, crossbow drawn and ready to shoot. "Who the hell are you?"

Before Daryl stood a young twenty something girl. She threw her hands up out in front her, begging him with her eyes not to shoot her. She had her short brown hair pulled back, with strains falling lose on every side. She was wearing jeans and a tank top that was clearly to large for her. She kept her eyes down finding it hard to make eye contact with him. "My name is Kelly." She answered him and slowly put her hands down hoping he would finally put his bow down.

"What the hell are you doing out here?" Daryl asked dropping his bow to his side. He turned away from her focusing back on the ground trying to pick the blood trail back up. Kelly watched as he circled the area. He quickly got furious when he couldn't find what he was looking for.

"I woke up one morning and the house I was staying in was filled with walkers, I ran and got lost." Kelly rolled her eyes. She couldn't help but feel stupid. She was a grown ass woman and some how she got lost. He never looked up at her, his eyes were glued to the ground.

"Dam it!" Daryl kicked a large branch in front of him. He'd lost his blood trail. He looked up at Kelly pissed off. If she hadn't distracted him he wouldn't of lost his deer. "Dam girl." He hissed at her before he turned and started walking away. Kelly looked around unsure weather or not to follow him. Deciding that it was better to follow some pissed off redneck than wonder around the woods lost she quickly picked up the bags she had been carrying and followed behind him.

Kelly didn't know who he was, what he was doing out in the woods, or weather he wanted her following him. At that moment she didn't care. After being lost in the woods for a week she would of followed a walker if it meant getting back to a road. Daryl was very much aware that the girl that cost him his deer was following him. Which only annoyed him even further.

"Tell me something?" Daryl finally spoke after some time of walking in silence. "How dose an adult get lost in these woods?"

Kelly looked up at him insulted. Shaking her head she just continued to follow him. She wanted to tell him where to go, maybe even put a foot in his ass, but knowing that he was her way out of the woods she just kept her mouth shut.

After almost another hour of walking Daryl emerged from the woods. "Oh shit!" He jumped at the sight of Shane and Rick pointing guns at him. The two had just happen to be on look out at the spot Daryl chose to come out of the woods. "Dam people, some one's gonna get shot. You two jumping like school girls over a mouse." Daryl walked past Shane returning to camp.

Kelly walked out of the woods a moment later. "Who's that?" Rick asked looking at the stray following behind Daryl.

"How the hell should I know. I found her out in the woods. Because of her I lost my deer." Daryl walked past the group and straight to his tent.

"I'm Kelly." She answered walked toward the group. "I was lost, and just kind of followed him." She hated to admit that she'd gotten lost.

"Well come on I'll introduce you to the rest of the group." Lori ushered her to follow the group as every one walked back to camp.

The next few days Kelly found that she spent most of her time reading. And when she wasn't doing that she was just people watching. Listening to what each one said and how they treated each other. She had always tried to get a feel for people before she got close to any one.

When the group came back from their search for Merle it was decided that they would move the camp to a lake, just an hour away. They were divided into two groups. Those that would go ahead and set up camp, and those that would stop a small town on the way there to gather supplies. Kelly was selected to be apart of the team that went ahead to set up camp.

The lake was an hour from almost everything. It was further up a mountain than their previous camp. The general feeling among everyone was that they would be safe, at least for the time being. Or until they could come up with another plan.

Kelly talked with every one, forming friendships with almost every one. But she still spent most of her time alone. She was a bit of a loner. Even though the world had changed completely she was finding it hard to change her ways.

Once camp was set up she retreated back to her tent. She laid just out side on the cool grass with a book raise just above her face. It wasn't long before she herd the vehicles of the others return to camp. Every ran to their loved ones and rejoiced at their return. As she had no one running back to her the just laid back down and returned to her book.

As the days passed Kelly helped out as much as she could.. But for some odd reason she couldn't stop watching Daryl. Since they'd come back without his brother he seemed to be trying to do his best to fit in. But he seemed like a teenage boy trying to take the bra off his first girlfriend. He tried to talk to people and make himself useful, but he just seemed lost. She couldn't help but feel sorry for him, but at the same time there was something about him that she didn't like. She couldn't put her finger on it at that moment.

Sitting by her tent Kelly watched as Daryl cleaned his recently caught squirrels. She tried not to stair, but every time she thought about it she was looking at him. What was it about him that bugged her so much? She just had to figure it out, it was driving her nuts. Did he look like some one she knew. Maybe his name, Dixon, did she know that name from somewhere? He looked up once to notice that she was looking at him. She quickly looked away.

The last thing she needed was him making some snide comment about her staring at him. So when it he caught her staring a second time, Kelly quickly got up and wondered off into the woods alone. She didn't know how she felt about Daryl. At that very moment she was confused. On one hand she felt as though she had a school girl crush on him. But on the other hand he reminded her of some one from her past. And that made her want to keep her distance. As far as she was concerned, Daryl Dixon was the last person she wanted to buddy up with.

THERES CHAPTER ONE, I HOPE YOU LIKED IT, AND IF YOU DID PLEASE LET ME KNOW, I LOVE FEEDBACK, NICE TO KNOW SOME ONE ELSE ENJOYS READING. CHAP TWO WILL BE UP SOON!