Carol wasn't happy about Shane's hitting Ed even though you think she might be. It was her marriage like Jim had said and as soon as Ed's face cleared up he'd start again maybe worse than before and in more secret places, she feared what would happen to Sophia.

She still cared for Ed's old self in a sense, not that the facade had been real but it had felt like love back then and she hated seeing anyone even him be beat up like she had been, but this time she knew deep down he deserved it. It made her sick to her stomach when he'd asked Sophia to stay behind with him, Carol had quickly taken her away, no one was hurting her little girl even if it meant hurting Carol more. Sophia rarely talked about her daddy with anyone, even her own mother and Carol was absolutely fine with it, for she had no words for him either.

"You're so weird." Amy laughed at Dale's father to son watch story and everyone joined in. Carol enjoyed the freedom of laughing almost as much as watching her little girl laugh, she didn't do that so often. Amy stood up abruptedly and Andrea asked where she was going.

"I have to pee. Geez try to be discreet around here." Causing everyone to laugh louder this time. Carol knew it was Amy's birthday the next day and she'd found a couple of party banners and tablecloth's here and there and even found some candles that she still had to give Andrea. It was strange having a birthday party amongst all of this, it was really strange. Intact, Carol didn't remember the last time somebody celebrated her birthday, Ed had made sure she cut all of her friends off and her family to wasn't very close anyway.

When it was Ed's birthday he would make her buy things for him that were too expensive for them to have.

"We out of toilet paper?" Amy asked though no one paid her any mind until Carol opened her mouth to speak but it was muffled by Amy's screaming. A walker was chewing on her extended arm. Walkers were in the camp. Carol whimpered pulling Sophia closer and trying to keep her away from any of them. All of a sudden one turned into two and three turned into four, it was chaos and the men weren't back yet, where were they? There were hardly any weapons around for her to grab and all she could do was pull Sophia closer.

Suddenly two walkers were cornering her and her daughter up against trees and she shut her eyes not bothering to scream for hell hiding Sophia behind her. Suddenly blood splattered onto her cheeks and hands and she was staring into Daryl Dixon's blue eyes, she'd never really noticed the color until now...

Shaking her head getting rid of her thoughts she nodded a thank you and he shrugged running up behind another one and jamming an arrow into its skull. The last gunshot flew out which was Rick's and everything seemed to be quiet.

"Ed!" Carol all but shouted and ran all the way to their tent leaving Sophia behind with the rest of them, she could hear two sets of footsteps behind her but it didn't matter. There was a walker inside the tent munching on Ed's flesh, it turned to her, its wild eyes became hostile and as it opened its mouth Carol could see Ed's wedding ring lodged in flesh.

She let out a horrified gasp and an arrow ran past through her head into the walker and Carol looked inside to see Ed's mangled body, his face was still intact and for once his eyes looked innocent.

It had taken them hours to gather up all the body's and when Carol had broken the news to her daughter she had gotten what she expected, a small cry of fear of what was for them and a relieved expression. No more daddy.

Daryl was still worried about his brother, still pissed that they'd left him on the roof to die but he was glad that he wasn't sure he was a walker like all of these people. He hadn't known any of them, barely spoken to them, but every family seemed more distressed than the last and when it got down to one of the last to plumage an axe into the person's it was Ed.

Daryl grit his teeth, no one had like him, no one would morn for him except his wife and daughter, not that he deserved it. He was just another abusive pig.

"I'll do it, he's my husband." Carol's quiet voice snuck up on him, he hadn't even noticed her walk near him, damn woman was like a mouse.

He gave her a strange look,would Darly even be able to drive an axe into his brother's head if he had the chance? He wasn't sure if he should give it to her when she stuck her hand out with long skinny fingers, he grimaced and handed it to her stepping back a little. He was ready to take it from her and do the job himself if she couldn't.

He watched as she looked at the body for a moment with washed out hope and then held the axe up with all the strength her petite body would muster. He watched as she got the axe right through his skull, and then did it over and over again letting out cries of pain and suffering he'd put her through. Daryl didn't even think she'd had that in her.

Being abuse was fucking terrible, he had to agree, and it made you hurt, worse than ever. He had no idea how agonizing it would be to be with someone for that long and have a child with the person and be hit almost every single day for nothing. He was glad he hadn't met another abusing person besides his daddy and he supposed Merle, but that was more of what he said and let happen than what he did. Once she finished the body was a mangled site and he couldn't tell who it had been, she handed him the axe and walked away without a word. He felt stupid for staying while she did it.

He slung the axe over his shoulder looking down at the body and grimaced driving one more swing into his skull for good measure.

"See ya in Hell, Ed."

Sorry this chapter was so short and it took a little while to update was busy with homework, I have ideas for flashbacks so they'll mostly be that until they get to Jenner. The next flashback will be about Carol's reason for being claustrophobic. Thank you sooo much to the reviews also :)!