Author's note: Can anyone else tell just how bored I've been in class lately? Well, I have been. I'm currently in school to become a paralegal and its very law, so either I'm very interested or trying my hardest to stay awake. Oh well, I just have more time to daydream about the walking dead and all the characters. I saw the first episode of season 4 on Sunday night and absolutely loved it! More importantly, Daryl's finally in the story and it only took three chapters! (Well, sort of anyway…) Review if you feel like it, I love reading them and it helps me along with writing the story to hear that people enjoy it or what they feel about certain things. :D PS I kind of got this thing that because Carol had taken so much abuse she developed a fear of not just her husband, but of all men.
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Andrea slammed her door shut and ran up to where Merle was on the porch, not even giving him time to put down the knife before pulling him forward and slamming their mouths together. Carol wasn't sure if she should get out of the car of not, or if it would affect either of them at all. It probably wouldn't, but she stayed where she was anyway.
When Andrea finally broke her lips up with Merle's she grinned at him. "I brought a friend with me." She whispered quietly. Merle growled a tiny bit, slightly upset that they were no longer sucking face; "And why did you do that darlin'?" He was also slight angered to here that she had brought someone without even telling him, after all they had only been together (if they could even call it that) for a week now. Andrea leaned forward so she could whisper into his ear, "I thought she could distract that brother of yours so we could get a few rounds in." What had he been thinking before that? Certainly it was how amazing his girl was and how she should invite friend more often. "Sounds like a fucking fantastic time Darlin'"
Andrea waved over to Carol who was still strapped into her car seat and debating on whether or not she should get out of not. Of course the hand wave made the whole argument invalid, but sometimes she argued with herself just to give her life a tiny bit of humor. Carol got out of the car and made her way up onto the porch, joining the pair.
Merle frowned at the slight woman who was now on his porch; she was wearing a long sleeved fluffy shirt in the middle a hot summer day and walked with a slight limp that screamed someone made me put too much pressure on my knee caps. His mother used to have that same problem because his bastard of an old man didn't give a flying fuck about what happened to her, as long as he got off in a warm hole.
He wanted to ask but he could see Andrea slightly shaking her head at him. So she knew to, perhaps there was another reason to why she had brought a friend with her. God, seeing Andrea with protective instincts kind of made him want to knock her up. Anyway next thought, his brother was going to like this friend of Andrea's; he was always a fan of the quiet types who would still speak their minds. Andrea nudged him to get his attention, "Merle, this is my friend Carol. She didn't want to stay home when her husband wasn't there so I invited her to have dinner with us." Yeah he could bet that was the case, more likely Andrea wanted to get her away and show her that the life she was living now wasn't normal and she could be having so much better of a life without what's his face.
Carol just stared at Merle for a few minutes, not really sure what to do. She wasn't used to meeting new people, in fact this was probably the longest she had been out of the house in almost a year and she felt out of her element being this far into the woods. She couldn't remember a time when she had even come into the woods like this. Merle was kind of a scary guy on top of all of that as well; a punch from him would most likely break bones. Not that Ed hadn't broken her bones before, it just that it would be hard to explain to Ed how a broken bone had happened without him being there to cause it.
"Well Carol, you can head on inside with Andrea, I'll be in as soon as I'm done with this rabbit. Make yourself comfortable, I love having guests." Merle cringed through saying with as much of a grin as he could manage. He wanted Carol to know that she was safe and welcome here, she reminded him of his mom before she turned to drugs, innocent and sad about life.
Carol got a weird feeling about Merle but she didn't know if it was bad or not. He seemed really nice, but that last smile he gave her didn't reach his eyes and that reminded him of the way the Ed's never had. Still Andrea didn't seemed to be bothered of it, in fact she seemed ecstatic about how much of a gentle man he was being. She sighed slightly while following Andrea inside, who had clearly already been here a few time before. If Andrea wasn't bothered, then Carol told herself that she should be either.
They sat down together on an old scratched up couch that had not only seen better days, but had probably lived several better lives. It was completely quiet besides the fact that they could hear the showering running. "I guess Merle's brother is in the shower, I think Merle told me that he is a mechanic. Probably just got off work." Andrea babbled. Carol was starting to notice when Andrea was bored she liked to talk about Merle, which made her smile; that was the way a relationship should be.
The front door opened and closed, revealing a slightly more bloody Merle then he had been before who was wearing a frown and staring over at the closed bathroom door. "Hold on a second ladies." He said walking past them with a wink. He harshly knocked on the bathroom door a few times and shouted; "Daryl you ass get outta the damn shower, companies already here!"
Carol tried not to flinch at the sudden shouting, but she failed miserably and her face flash slightly red from embarrassment. She saw Merle look at her from the corner of his eye with a frown; Carol could only guess that he thought she was a pansy for not liking shouting. Of course, she didn't have any time to apologize for it because then the shower turned off and only about a minute later, the door opened.