(A/N) No I do not own the walking dead I am just using its characters and story so that I can better my own writing in a fun creative way. This is my first time ever writing a fanfiction so I would like reviews and comments on things that I can do better at. I don't mind getting bad reviews it'll just make me a better writer in the end. Hope you enjoy my characters that I add through out the story.
Chapter 1 Don't Look Back
(A/N) Yes I know another one but this is just to say that my main OC is an eight year old girl. This idea has always been in my head but I was too nervous to attempt to write in a child's point of view. Heck I'm nervous to write in an adults point of view but I figure learn by trial and error. Okay that's all for this A/N. There won't be more in this chapter but there will be more in other chapters.
Child OC (POV)- I picture her as Mackenzie Foy when she was little.
The monsters are after me and all I can do is run like momma told me to. Momma yelled to run and don't look back as a monster bit into her and she pulled away from it but was quickly surrounded and pulled into the arms of the monsters. Blood lots of blood.I turned and ran even as I heard her screams behind me. Tears sting my eyes and little sobs escaping from me. The branches of the trees sting my skin leaving a wet burning feeling on my body. Eventually I come to a stop and look behind me. Some part of me expected momma to come out from behind a tree, and pull me into her arms. But that wasn't gonna happen. Stumbling over my tired feet I sink down to the ground in front of a big tree.
Taking in a breath before the sobs started up again with a vengeance. My thoughts turning to fear and worry. What was I going to do? The panic that caused these thoughts reared it's ugly head again with another thought. What do I do now? Looking around I see that I'm surrounded by trees with no buildings or roads in sight. I stand up on shaking legs and sniffle a bit. No more crying. I have to keep going and live like momma would want me to.
Pushing the thoughts of momma out of my mind I start to walk forward. Keep going down look back, I repeat to myself in my head. The sun was starting to go down now and it was getting dark and cold. Wearing just a T-shirt, jean shorts and tennis shoes. I wrapped my arms around myself as my body shivered. It had to been a couple of hours since I started running. The sun was higher in the sky when I was with momma.
As it got darker and dark I could no longer see the sun at all with the trees in the way. Eventually I come to a stop and look around again, to see if maybe there was a house or something that I could get inside of for the night. Nothing within sight and with the light fading fast I need to make a choice. Do I sleep here on the ground, look for other shelter, or attempt to climb up a tree to safety. It can't be that hard to get up a tree. I saw the kids on our street climbing them all the time, I can do this.
Looking at the trees around me I spot a very tall tree with a thick branch hanging. It was high up so the monsters shouldn't be able to get me. Going around the tree I see a bump in the tree so I put one foot up and push off the ground so that I'm holding all my weight on that foot. I grab ahold of a thin shaky branch in one hand and another branch in the other. Trying to pull myself up using these branches I quickly reach for a higher branch and bring my foot onto the branch that one hand had left. I repeated the process a couple more times until I could move my body from the branches to the thick branch.
Now standing on the branch I sink down and let one leg dangle on either side of the branch and leaned back against the trunk. Now that I was sitting I could feel my arms and legs shaking and aching. To tired to move I close my eyes and then my world went dark.
Letting out a sigh my eyes blink open to see a bright light shining in my eyes. Closing my eyes quickly and looking down confused as to why I was in a tree, before I remembered yesterday. My eyes burned and lips trembled but I squeezed my eyes shut to keep the tears in. She wouldn't want me to cry for her, she'd want me to be strong and live. Swallowing I realize how dry my mouth is and go to reach for my backpack, only to remember that I didn't have it. Which meant that I had no food or water.
With nothing to drink or eat my only option is to keep moving and hope I find food or water somewhere. Shuffling around the tree I start to climb down. Half way down I hear a crack and the branch I had my feet on broke sending my lower body into the trunk. And just like that I'm falling having lost my grip on the other branches. My body skidded on the trunk before I hit the ground on my back. My eyes scrunched closed as I tried to catch my breath.
My back hurt badly. I don't want to move but I could hear the crunching of leaves and the groans. Eyes snapping open I sit up despite the pain and see it a monster headed right for me. Ignoring the pain I stand up and run. I wasn't running very fast, not like yesterday and I had a stinging pain going through my ankle that I hadn't noticed before. But I can't stop or it'll eat me. So with my hurt ankle and aching back I continued on. I could still hear it so I look back only to crash into something very big.
On my back for the second time today I whimper when I see another monster. Oh god I'm gonna die, it's gonna eat me. Closing my eyes tightly I wait for pain. "What the hell?" A deep rough voice says.
Opening my eyes and seeing this big man with short brown hair wearing a sleeveless shirt and holding a weapon aimed at me I freeze. My eyes locked on his blue eyes in fear. He went to say something but his eyes and weapon shot up when he heard the mister coming our way. An arrow flew from his bow thing and into the monster.
He scanned the forest looking for a threat before looking back down at me. Still laying on my back I started to feel yucky and then everything went black.
Daryl Dixon (POV)
"Hell no kid, come on get up." I said in an incredulous tone.I nudged her foot with mine but she didn't move. She looked pale and had scratches on her face arms and legs. Nudging her again I grumble under my breath,"Of course this happens to me, Merl's gonna have a field day when he sees this." Shifting my crossbow across my back I bent down and gather her up in my arms. Frowning down at her I start towards camp. Hell just wait until everyone sees this. "Now why do I have a feeling that you are gonna cause me nothing but trouble."
Two hours into the treck back to the quarry I hear a whimper and look down to see the girl was wakin up. Little eyes open and look up at me in fear. I get ready to set her down before I sadness and hope fly across her face. Stopping I said, "You don't gotta worry about me little one, I ain't gonna hurt ya."
Looking like a scared little kitten she said nothing. Sighing I say, "Look kid I need to know your name and if there's someone out there lookin for ya. Do ya think you can tell me that at least?"
Tears fill her eyes and she says in a little voice,"No ones looking for me sir. Momma got bit by the monsters." Cursing in my head I ask,"How long you been on your own kitten." She looks confused and says "My names not kitten." Grunting I say
"Well what is it then?"
"My names Emmalyn Grace Anders." She hesitated for a second before asking "What's your name sir?"
"Daryl Dixon," I say gruffly before we return to mostly silence. Of course bein around a kid that wasn't going to last long. "Where are we going Mr.Daryl?" Wasn't a unreasonable question but I was not really in the mood to chit chat. "Camp."
Short and to the point. Only fifteen minutes away from camp now. "Oh," she says curling in tighter on herself and wincing. "Are ya hurt?" She looks back at me and says quietly, "I-I fell out of a tree." She stops for a second before continuing with, "My back and ankle hurt."
"How'd ya fall out of a tree?" I ask curiously. Her face turns a bit red and she grumbles," Dumb branches snapped." A snort leaves me before I can stop it. I go to say something when I see the camp site. Well here we go. Hearing someone say Shane. I let out a scoff at what he would say when he sees us.
Shane walks over along with Lori. "Who's this?" he asks in that I'm better then you tone of voice. "Kid ran into me a couple of hours ago, running from the walkers."
"She alone?" Fighting to not roll my eyes I say,"Of course."
"Alright, how about I take her and find a place to get her settled," he says before reaching across to take her from my arms. Before he could grab her she wiggles from my arms onto the ground and stood behind me. Grabbing onto my belt loop. Shane looked surprised but said, "Girl we just want to get you somewhere safe and trust me ya don't want to stay with him."
"I'll stay with Mr.Daryl." She says softly. Completely shocked I go to say somethin but Lori crouches down and says, "Honey you really can't stay with Mr.Daryl, he wouldn't be able to take care of you,now come on with me so we can get you cleaned up." She held out her hand to her but she just burrowed further into my leg, hiding her face.
"No!" She shouted when lori's hand got closer to her. "I'll stay with Mr.Daryl." By now a lot of the group had come close to see what the commotion was about. Shane made a grab for her and I quickly blocked him. "She can stay with me." Shane laughed in a mocking sort of way and says, "I wouldn't trust you or that brother of yours with a little girl in your care." I narrowed my eyes at him and asked seething "And just what is that supposed ta mean?"
"Don't know what you might do to her all alone in a tent." Does he mean, oh he does. I angrily step forward into his face and spit out "I ain't ever touched no kid like that and neither has Merle!" Dale gets in between me and Shane and says, " Now son, no one is accusing you of wanting to hurt the girl." Dale and I both knew that, that was what Shane had been implying. But of course typicall Shane knew he had crossed a line and said "of course not, I just think she's be safer with someone who has kids."
"I believe this conversation is over. She wants ta stay with me, so stay with me she will." I say calmly and slowly. I couldn't believe I had just said that but this girl was all alone with no one to take care of her and she had somehow gotten to me enough that I had actually agreed to care for her. In some ways I can relate to her being alone. When Merle was doin a stint in juvie I was alone with the old man.
Hearing someone else say something I focus enough to hear chinaman say, "If she wants to stay with him, let her. She obviously feels safe with him and I don't think it's our place to tell her what to do." Well let's just say I was a bit shocked that the chinaman had the balls to defend her staying with me. It seemed that most of the group seemed a bit shocked too.
Well now that, that's settled I scoop up the girl and walk away from the middle of camp toward my tent. Merle was sitting there skinning and gutting a rabbit when he heard me coming and looked up. "Oh, hell no lil brother, I know you ain't bringing back some lil girly over here." He says. "She's my responsibility now, and she ain't got no one to take care of her."
Merle scoffs and says, "So just take her over to the pig and olive oil and let them take her in,boy!" Glaring I said, "She wants to stay with me and unlike some I don't abandon my responsibilities." I could feel her shrink against me and hide her face in my shirt when Merle got this ugly look on his face, "And just what is that supposed ya mean boy?" Sighing I said, "Nothing, I'm just gonna take her inta my tent so she can get some rest." He nods once and says, "That's what I thought."
Just like him to get the last word in. Walking into my tent I set her down and zip the entrance up before lookin back at her. She looked scared and nervous. My face blanked and I went to ask her something but she says, " Are they gonna take me away Mr.Daryl?" And for the first time in a long time I felt something in my heart hurt at how scared she was. "No, they ain't gonna take ya away, and call me Daryl just Daryl." She nods and gets this look of relief on her face.
I cross the text to my bag and grab a canister of my clean water and some jerky out of it before handing it to her. She looked shocked but quickly started to drink only slowing when I said "Easy, if ya drink too fast you'll get sick." She responded with another nod and finished off her food and water before letting out a big yawn. "You can sleep on the sleeping bag right there",I point to my sleeping bag and pillow. She looked around and then said, "What about you?"
"I'll be fine on the ground for tonight and I'll find something tomorrow." Nodding tiredly she crawls to the sleeping bag and crawls under the blanket. When her head touched the pillow she was out.
For a second I just watch her. I hadn't been able to really get a look at her in all the time she was with me. She had long dark brown hair that was in some messy braid that had probably been neat at some point. She had a lot of freckles on her face and the arm that was sticking out from under the blanket. She had a paler face and a small button nose to go with her little face and big eyes green eyes.
How in the hell I was gonna take care of this girl I don't even know, but I would because she had looked at me with trust and had wanted to stay with me. Thinking she would probably sleep through the rest of the afternoon and night, I settled down with my head on my bag and closed my eyes to rest from the long stressful day.
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