Important Story Note: There is no Ed in this story, he was never there, so Carol is single with her daughter during the apocalypse. And no one died in the walker invasion of the quarry.
My Baby Boy
A Walking Dead fanfic
Chapter 2: Start of a Once Forbidden Relationship
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Carl leaned closer to his face and met his lips with Daryl's in a kiss. He was scared what Daryl's reaction would be, but he gave it a shot anyway. He'll worry about his reaction later. Carl wishes he could stay in this very moment for a while. Daryl didn't react at first since he was so shocked by what's happening. Once he got over his shock…he kissed back with just as much feeling and brought up his hands to rest on Carl's waist. Then Daryl flipped them to where he was now on top of Carl, never breaking their kiss, Daryl's arms now on the ground near each side of Carl's head. Daryl ended the kiss for a moment, but then kissed him again, this one more brief but also slower. Then their kiss ended by Daryl leaning his head back to look down at him.
Carl was shocked to say the least. He wasn't expecting Daryl to accept the kiss. Since he did, then he accepts his feelings? Carl hoped so since he's been crushing on him for the past few days ever since they first cleaned meat together and had their first official conversation. He knew it was considered wrong and immoral to society in more ways than one in their situation, but he didn't feel that way, plus there is no more society, so what does keeping those rules matter anyway? There are no rules for this new world, the old rules no longer apply to how things run now, so why not do what you want. Carl looked up at Daryl with surprised eyes. Daryl smiled in amusement.
"Why that look, kid?"
"I-uh….I never thought you would accept me….kissing you."
Daryl smiled tenderly. "Well, I do. More than accept, in fact. I love it."
Daryl can't believe how soft he's acting. Hell, how soft he's been acting. It's only because of the kid, and only towards the kid. Around and to everyone else he acted tough as nails, but when around Carl, those nails turn to fluffy clouds. He never quite understood it, but he's learned to accept it.
"Really? Does that mean…."
"Yes," Daryl assured. "I have feelings for you too. Been trying to hide it, but you kissin' me…..couldn't just brush that off."
Carl was surprised by that. "Wow….h-how? When?" He fumbled.
Daryl chuckled at his scatterbrained reaction. "Somewhere during the times we spent so much time together. I do admit that I tried to brush it off and forget about it at first because of what problems it would cause, but I realized that I just couldn't. You already meant so much to me, so I just accepted it. Just accepted it yesterday as a matter of fact." He explained as he ran his hand over the side of Carl's face tenderly in a slow rubbing motion. All of this made Carl so happy. So happy in fact, he wore a big grin and hugged him tightly, Daryl chuckling and hugged back.
"That makes me so happy! This is so amazing." Carl said as they separated from their hug and Daryl helped Carl up.
"I'm glad. Let's keep this a secret for now, okay?" Daryl asked.
"Yeah, good idea. I'm not ready to know the group's reaction, worst of all, my parents."
Daryl chuckled at the parents part. "Yeah, I'm not lookin' forward to that one either, babe. I'm sure they'd chew me out."
Carl chuckled at that. A couple days later, their camp site got invaded by a few walkers sometime in the late morning. The stronger and braver members of the group were taking down walkers left and right trying to protect everyone from getting bit. Daryl and Carl were having a conversation at the time, so Daryl protected him by putting him behind him while he wielded his crossbow at the approaching walkers.
"Stay behind me, kid!" Daryl exclaimed. One came up from behind Daryl and Carl, though, and grabbed Carl and pulled him backwards toward its mouth.
"Daryl!" Shouted Carl in terror.
Daryl spun around and shot the walker in the head just in time before the walker could take a bite. Daryl puts his hands on each of Carls arms and kneels down and checks him for any injuries. Once he was clear of any, Daryl met his eyes which shone in fear from the near death experience. Seeing this, Daryl's eyes shone with empathy and kissed him briefly, and then hugged him.
"Sh~, yer okay. Yer okay sweetie, I got cha. Nothin's gonna hurt cha." He comforted softly.
Unknown to them amongst the event of the group getting all the walkers killed, T-Dog caught sight of Daryl kissing Carl. That was more of a shock to him than the sudden walker invasion on their campsite.
"It seems all the walkers are taken out. I'm gonna go help burn them. Be back in a few, okay." Daryl stated to Carl.
Carl nodded still feeling a little shook up. "Okay."
Daryl gave a sympathetic smile. "Why don't you go find yer mother. I'm sure you don't want to be alone right now."
Carl nodded and walked off to search for his mom. When Carl was gone and Daryl turned around to walk off to take part in burning the walkers, T-Dog stopped him.
"Uh…hey, man, um…..can we talk for a moment?" T-Dog asked a bit nervously.
Daryl rose a brow, but agreed nonetheless. "What?"
"I don't know how to put this, dude, but um…..were you just kissing Carl?"
A shimmer of fear and nervousness gleamed in Daryl's eyes for a split second, so quick that T-Dog never even noticed it. Daryl didn't show at all of what was expressed in his eyes at that split moment.
"Yeah, what of it? Got a problem?" He said in a threatening undertone.
T-Dog took a step back and lifted his hands up. "Alright, alright, chill, I'm not attacking you, I'm just wanting validation of what I saw."
Daryl was silent for a few seconds, pending on responding, then he finally spoke.
"Yes…I did. That's what people in love do." Daryl was about to walk around him, but T-Dog stopped him in his tracks when he spoke next.
"Whoa, wait…..you're in love?" He asked shocked even more than before.
Daryl turned only his head towards him. "Yep. What, you think I would mess with em? I have a higher character than that. I may not be expressive, but I'm not heartless."
And with that, Daryl walked away to tend to the walker bodies. T-Dog blinked. He never would'a thought that Daryl was capable of love. Seems he was wrong. Well, if he isn't playing with Carl's heart then he and Daryl are cool. He's never had anything against gays, and he's not gonna start. Later that day after the sun had set and the day was over and night fell, everyone in their tents asleep except for the lookout which was Shane tonight, Daryl laid in his tent under his blankets still awake deep in thought. Then he heard rustling of the ground, footsteps. He quickly grabbed his crossbow and directed it towards what popped in his tent.
"Whoa, calm down, it's just me!" The one who entered Daryl's tent whisper yelled.
It was Carl. Realizing who it was, Daryl put his crossbow back off to the side of him.
"Damn, kid….scared the hell outta me. What are you doing sneaking out of your tent this late at night? Walkers just came to the camp a few hours ago." He said displeased that Carl would take such a risk by himself after what happened today.
"I know, I'm sorry, but I really want to sleep with you tonight. I've never been able to sleep with you when we all go to sleep at nightfall."
Daryl stared at Carl to assess this situation. He sighed. "Alright, but only if you sneak out of here before the others see you in here in the morning."
Carl's face erupted in a grin and lunged forward towards him in a hug. "Yes! Thank you! Love you so, so much!"
Daryl smiled as he hugged back and shook his head in amusement.
"You are somthin' else, you know that." Daryl stated before they ended their hug.
Carl grinned smugly. "Yeah…I know I am." He stated playfully as he crawled over to his side and got under the covers.
Daryl grinned and rubbed Carl's head messily. "You little deviant."
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End chap 2.
Aw! I got the feels when I wrote this one. Just...so...ADORABLE! x3 For anyone who doesn't know by what I mean by 'feels', that means felt emotion, so basically I felt all the emotions that are conveyed in this chapter because I emphasized them so much. I'm a very empathic person, so it's not hard for me to feel emotions expressed from things or people. Anyway, one more chapter left!
sneak peak of final chapter: Everyone is packin' up and moving out of the quarry because of the walker invasion the day before, so the group sets out on the open road in their vehicles to look for a new place to call home. During their trip, they take a leg break and even catch an opportunity to stock up on some supplies from abandon cars, but a walker horde comes down the highway. While everyone hides, walkers cut off Carl's way of hiding under cars and make him take off in the only direction he could, the woods. Yet another member of the group finds out about their relationship which causes Rick and Lori to know about it. Till next time. ^ - '
