Title: Daryl & Andrea
author: untapdtreasure
pairing: Daryl & Andrea
A/N: These were a series of drabble prompts I recieved over at .com. They were writtent for stillsurivingandrea. The chapter titles will tell you the particular prompt. I put them in this particular order because I wanted this series of drabbles to tell a specific story.
A/N #2: I'm not a Andrea/Daryl shipper, but I liked the challenge that I was presented for this one, and I did a rp with this rper of the same nature. You can find it in the thread section of the above mentioned tumblr. It is incomplete as we no longer rp together do to differences between us, but I wanted to share this because I thought others might enjoy it.

prompt: break me

If she'd heard him that night, she never let on, and he hadn't uttered the words since. He'd been trying to distance himself from her, knowing that if she didn't feel the same way that she was just scratching an itch and he served the right purpose. They never touched when around other people, never let on that they were sneaking into one another's tents for weeks now, and he wasn't sure how to handle that.

He met her at the door of his tent that night. He was dressed for the woods and he pushed her back out as she started to climb in. "This has to stop," he said without looking at her. He knew full well that if he looked at her, this whole thing would fall apart right there at his feet. One look into her gorgeous blue eyes and he'd be lost, and damn it. It wasn't fair.

"What? Why?" she stammered, trying to get to where she could see his eyes. "Is there someone else? Is this…are you not happy?"

He snorted, "No, Andrea. I'm not happy…" He'd told her he loved her. The words that were the hardest for him to ever say and she'd never heard them. That wasn't her fault, but he couldn't help but feel like he'd put himself out there only to be rejected. "It's just the way it is. We gotta quit while we're ahead. While we can still stop it before…" He bit his lip and shook his head. "Just don't come here anymore."

He slung his crossbow onto his back and didn't look back as he hurried into the solace and protection of the woods.

Andrea's tear streaked face glinted in the moonlight and her words faded into the sounds of the crickets around them. "But I love you…"