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Snippet #2

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The day was hot, hotter than yesterday and even hotter than last week. That suggested in of itself that summer was coming right around the corner, if not already here. Daryl wiped at the sweat dripping down his forehead, snaring when he could see the amount of liquid that had drenched his forehead now drenched his arm. Michonne made a noise of disgust, especially when he flung his arm outward towards her to sling the sweat away. He smirked at her reaction; badass or not she couldn't change that she was-indeed-a girl on the inside. Then again, he wasn't above the fact that it was pretty gross of him to do that.

Daryl withheld a groan of aggravation as more sweat seeped through his sleeveless, button up shirt. He already smelled to high heaven, a shower would be in order once they were done. Taking out the huge amount of walkers beyond the fence was tough work, sweaty work too. Rick was further down the line with Glenn and Maggie huffing and puffing as they took out walker after walker. They probably felt and smelled much like he and Michonne do at the moment.

Pretty damn disgusting.

Looking beyond them and letting Michonne take the lead in killing the most walkers-a silly, non-verbally confirmed game they were playing against each other-to see Carl keeping watch in the tower, the boy was getting better at the sniper rifle as the day wore on. Down on ground level though, he could make out Beth and Carol doing laundry while Judith sat in the make-shift bassinet with a picnic umbrella over her head to keep the sun's rays at bay. At this point in the day it was probably best they kept the baby outside over inside. They were all coming to learn that the prison that was keeping them safe during the night was also trying to cook them alive during the day.

At least outside there was an occasional cross-breeze floating around, though it didn't do much more than push hot air into your face. Daryl wiped away some more sweat before jabbing his hunter's knife into the skull of a closing in walker, it crumbled to the ground with barely a protest. Michonne was further ahead slicing through walker after walker, peering over her shoulder cockily to see where he was and how many walkers lay in waste from him. She was quite the competitive one, she was.

Daryl quickly stalked after her to move ahead and try to catch up to her, probably wasn't going to happen this day but he had to try. After a few more minutes of stabbing and jabbing while trying-without succeeding-to avoid walker guts and blood on any of them they began to drag the very dead walkers towards the burn pit. Daryl didn't much care either way so between the five of them; he had accumulated quite the grime and blood all over his clothes and boots. Maggie commented on it and he only shrugged in return.

"Ain't a fuckin' beauty pageant." He grumbled back while helping Rick pick up a rather large walker, he clearly enjoyed way too much fast food before he died.

"I'd vote for you, Daryl!" Glenn piped up, holding back a chuckle.

"I think pink would suit him nicely." Michonne added, a slow smirk making its way on her lips. Daryl scuffed at the bunch of them as more and more non-hilarious comments came.

"Ya know when I was gittin' married ta Lori, Shane mentioned we should do an opposite wedding where the man wore the dress and the woman wore the suit." Rick commented as he kicked a very skinny, skeleton of a walker into the pit.

"I bet it didn't go over too well with Lori." Maggie said brightly.

"Nah, actually she thought it was a funny idea. Though she figured doing it for the rehearsal dinner would be best." Daryl shook his head, bunch a pansies; his brother would have called them.

"Did you guys do it?" Glenn asked, gritting his teeth as he and Maggie dragged another large and in charge walker to the pit.

"No. Lori's parents wouldn't have it." Rick shrugged before adding, "Wish we had though, the look on their faces would have been worth it."

Everyone laughed aside from Daryl who rolled his eyes. A small smile was hidden on his lips though as he rolled a walker down the pit. It was nice seeing Rick talking about Lori and Shane without getting upset or withdrawn. He worried a lot about the sheriff lately, but it seems things were starting to turn around for him.

"Hey all you hard working walker killers want something refreshing to drink?" Carol called out from the gate as she waved a hand entrancingly towards the bottles of water in her other arm, Beth was walking towards her with some more bottles from the lone watch tower, Carl could be seen drinking a bottle there.

Carol handed off the three she had while Beth gave Michonne and Daryl the two of three she was carrying. The water wasn't cold to touch, more lukewarm than hot though so it was better than nothing. Daryl went to unscrew his bottle and bring it to his mouth when a hand grabbed his ankle causing him to drop his bottle to the ground as he turned to see a walker aiming to take a bit out of his leg. A katana slicing through its temple stopped the walker's progress dead in its tracks.

"Thanks." Daryl said. Michonne nodded as she pulled her katana out of the walkers head before using her weapon to point to the forgotten water bottle on the ground.

"There goes your water."

"Great…" Daryl grumbled as he picked up the empty bottle to see it was now dirty with walker blood on it. Shrugging with a sigh, he tossed it down into the pit.

"Here, Daryl. I may have already drank some of it, but you can have the rest." Beth offered rather shyly as her hand stretched through the chain-link fence to hand him her water. He looked it over briefly before taking the bottle from her hand with a nod of thanks.

Beth smiled brightly, a softly mumbled 'welcome' reached his ears as he downed the rest of the water from her bottle. Hearing a catcall, he handed back the empty bottle as he searched out who was making the noise.

"Oh look at that! So priceless! Beth and Daryl shared an indirect kiss!" Glenn laughed as Maggie joined in. Carol giggled as Daryl felt his face burn up from the implication of their words.

He looked towards the blonde to see her equally red and shying away from his eyes as she somewhat glared at her sister and brother-in-law.

"If ya wanna play that game then Glenn and I have kissed many times indirectly." Rick commented jokingly causing Glenn to make a gagging noise as everyone laughed. Daryl connected eyes with Rick to see him smiling with a nod, clearly helping to take the spot light off the redneck.

"You're the best indirect kiss I've ever had with a man, Rick." Maggie pushed Glenn towards Rick jokingly.

"You two deserve each other." More laughter ensured as everyone make jokes while Glenn tried to mock kiss Rick. He didn't seem to enjoy a real kiss as much as the indirect one.

"Sorry 'bout that, Daryl…" Beth mumbled quietly, her eyes directed towards the ground as she avoided his gaze. He shook his head.

"Don't be sorry…never had a indirect kiss before…" Daryl waited a moment to let the words sink in then started back to work putting walkers into the pit as everyone settled down and started doing their job.

Beth watched for a moment longer before turning away to join Judith and to finish up the laundry. As she sat down her thoughts moved back to what Glenn had jokingly said and blushed again. She never thought of it that way, hadn't thought much of anything when she offered her half way drank water to him. She was glad though that Daryl didn't take offense to it and just shrugged it off. Still if she had to have an indirect kiss with someone than at least it someone good looking like Daryl.

It made Beth wonder if he thought similar.

A laugh erupted from her mouth as she shook her head. "Yeah, right. Good one, Beth…"

"Good what?" Carol questioned as she stared at the blonde.

"Nothing, nothing at all."…

A/N: Yuck, I just can't seem to end these things right. I feel like this one started out strong but then got a little distorted at the end. Oh well, I enjoyed writing it and I thought the humor was good. Hope y'all like it and let me know whatcha think! Also Happy Birthday to me!

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