My ankle seemed to heal pretty fast, I didn't know how many days it had been but it was around a week before I could walk properly on my foot without it hurting as much. I gave Rick the crutches back and went back to normal, the slightest limp still there. I never knew what time it was of course it was just the light and the dark. And currently it was the dark. Sort of. In my dream land it was currently the light, 6.04 on a Sunday morning it was like I wasn't even away from the prison. I was still in the prison grounds but it was empty, the grass was greener as though it hadn't been trodden on, the fence was seemed to be stronger and there were no walkers at the fence, no flesh eating, corpse sticking zombie creatures could be seen within sight. I turned around and saw my brother, not just Daryl but Merle too, Daryl was clean cut and like he'd actually showered for once and Merle just looked kinder in face. I smiled and walked through the muddy green grass to them, my brother's wrapped their arms around me and I did the same to them. I only looked up when I heard the door bang open, I looked past and I saw my father along with a woman who looked moderately like me, I was almost scared and went to hide behind Daryl when I saw my dad was smiling. A genuine proper smile. I'd never seen him smile before.

I didn't wake up screaming, of course I didn't there was no need to, I'd had no nightmare and I was not scared by the dream. I sat up in the bed, my hair was scraped back and my blanket was oddly fallen over my naked torso. I pulled the blanket tighter over my body and leant over to the chair to the side of the bed, I pulled the clothes from it and put them on the blanket. I looked up when I heard footsteps pass my cell "Hey, Michonne" I shouted to the black woman who was walking past, she slowed then stopped outside the cell. I quickly let my blanket fall then pulled on my t-shirt "Are you going on a run today?" I asked her, I had only been with this group for about a week or not but I already felt like they counted me as one of them. "Yeah I am" she said, I looked at her and nodded before pushing the blanket away from my body, I was wearing small panties and stood there for a second before I pulled my jeans over my calves and thighs and zipped them up. "Is it alright if I come?" I asked and I watched as she studied me before nodding, a small smile forming on her lips. She told me to meet her outside in 5 minutes before walking away; I watched her go before sitting on the bed and pulling on my faded black army boots.

Once I was finished getting ready, I quickly grabbed some food and ran outside to where Michonne was stood against a car. I went over to her and was about to get in the car after her when the door opened and Daryl came out laughing with Carol. "Where're you going?" he asked and came over, I looked at him before telling him I was going on a run. "No you're not" he told me and pulled me away from the car by my arm. "What? You can't tell me what to do, Daryl" I said to him and he practically glared at me "Michonne go on the run alone, Jaden is NOT going on a run" he stated sternly as if he was my dad. I stared at Daryl then watched Michonne get into the car. I watched her drive away before walking off, making sure I shoved past Daryl as hard as I could.

"Jaden don't walk away from me!" Daryl shouted after me as I headed towards the cell blocked, I didn't stop just carried on walking up the steps and inside the building. "Don't ignore me when I'm talking to you!" I heard Daryl say sternly and he spun me around, he placed his on my shoulders and I glared up at him. "Oh sorry I forgot you could tell me what to do, Daryl. Get off me!" I snapped at him and pushed him back, although he was much older than me I was still quite strong and managed to make him stumble a little and let me go so I could walk away into my cell. "I don't want you going out on runs, Jade, I don't want you to get hurt!" he said to me a little quieter now, I was sat on my bed and looked up at him glaring. "Daryl, I'm 17 year old, I've survived on my fucking own this whole fucked up apocalypse without your help! Don't think that just because we found each other again you can suddenly feel the need to protect me! What is it? Guilty conscious? From all those times you didn't protect me from dad because if that's what it is then that's low!" I shouted at him, I didn't even care who in the block heard it, damn I didn't even care if the whole walker population heard it. "I'm sorry" he muttered and I laughed in his face "No you're not, Daryl, don't fucking lie. I'm your younger sister and you just left me, maybe you thought I'd of forgotten but fucking hell Daryl why would I? After everything dad did to me you just walked away and left me to deal with him. You left me alone to deal with his hitting, kicking, biting, his abusing and name calling. Even you're not stupid enough to think he just abused me physically and you just left me to handle that alone" I screamed at him, I watched as his head snapped up at what I was implying "I never knew he raped you…" he said quietly and I again laughed in his face. "Yes you did, even Merle knew that and he cared even less than you did" I said to him and walked out the cell.

"Jaden wait" Daryl said and I just stopped in the doorway of my cell, I didn't want to look at him and I just looked ahead where everyone was staring at me and my brother arguing. "I do care about you, Jaden, so did Merle" he said to me and I finally spun around to face, he looked sad and he did actually look like he was sorry about what happened but I just ignored his face and walked over to him as close as I could get. I glared up at him "If you cared you'd of taken me away from dad. You wouldn't of let him hit me, slap me, punch me, kick me, rape me; you wouldn't have let him call me piggy all the time. You would have taken me away to live with you. I expected it from Merle, I was never expecting him to come and save me but I thought you might and you know what? That's what kept me from killing myself, Daryl, thinking that you'd come and save me is what stopped from killing myself" I told him sternly, I watched him stare at me as I pulled my arm up "You never even noticed" I whispered to him and showed him the many scars on my forearm where I'd taken a blade to my skin and dragged it across.

I turned again and walked out my cell; I walked out the door of the block and went over to a car. I pulled open the door and climbed inside, Merle had taught me to drive a couple of times well tried to anyway; I was only just 16 when he had done and he'd only taught me three times but I knew what to do. I put the key in the ignition and started to drive it down the drive. I knew that Carl would still be at the gate waiting for Michonne's arrival back so I drove down to him, he didn't even look who was in the car and opened the gate for me allowing me to drive away. He probably thought I was Maggie or someone going out for something.

Daryl's POV

I watched her walk away but didn't say anything I just let her go, I knew she was right I should have gone back and taken her away from dad. He'd been bad to her with me and Merle around I could only imagine what he did to her without us around. I looked up to see Carol watching me but I just ignored her and walked out of Jaden's cell and going into mine. I sat down on the bed and was about to try and sleep when Rick came rushing into the cell "Jaden's gone!" he said through pants and I sat up "What?" I pretty much snapped angrily, Rick caught his breath and leant against the wall "Carl saw her go off in a car, he let her through the gate because he just assumed she'd been told to go, I'm sorry Daryl" Rick told me, I just stared at him before getting off my bed and shoving past Rick, I went down the stairs and out the building to my motorbike.

I started the motorbike and drove down the driveway "OPEN THE GATE!" I all but screamed at Carl, he didn't hesitate in opening it and I drove out and started through the forest. There was only one place I could think of that she'd go to. Our old home. I drove on the road for what felt like had been hours but I eventually got to our old house in the hills and climbed off my motorbike, there didn't seem to be any walkers around so I walked straight up the path and pushed the door open walking inside. "Jaden?" I called out quietly, I shut the door behind me and started walking through the hall. I had my crossbow loaded and had it pointing forwards, my torch was positioned a top of the crossbow and I walked through the house which brought back so many memories I almost wanted to cry. I stopped at the fireplace in the living room and picked up a picture from there, the light from the torch hit it and I smiled when I saw the picture of me, Merle, mum, dad and baby Jaden. Dad was actually smiling and I think it was the first and last time he ever did smile.

"I never saw him smile again after that picture" I heard Jaden's voice behind me, I put the picture down and spun around to face her. The light hit her face and it was then that I saw the almost black circles under her eyes, I watched her as she sat down on the sofa and I sat down beside her. "I killed dad…" she finally said after saying nothing for about 5 or 10 minutes, I looked at her and she just stared ahead. "What?" I asked her, she just kept looking forwards not even blinking. "When the outbreak happened dad took me with him and some of his friends, I thought that maybe things would be different now but it never stopped. He carried on abusing me physically and sexually, he let his friends have their way with me as well. I eventually had had enough of it and tricked all his friends before killing them, then I tricked dad and tied him to a tree, I staged him in the heart and sat there watching him turn. I didn't stab him in the head, I sat and watched him turn into a flesh eating monster and I left him there" she told me and she finally looked at me, my eyes were wide in shock and I could only manage one word "Wow" Jaden looked at me and nodded before saying something else. "I don't know how to love…" I turned on the sofa and looked at her not really understanding what she meant. "I never felt any love to me from someone, I never knew what it felt like to be loved so I didn't know how to love anyone else, I didn't know Daryl. I can never say that I love you or Merle or anyone because I don't know what it means to love" she told me, I opened my mouth to speak but didn't bother; I just pulled her into a hug and held her close. "I'll show you how to love" I whispered in her ear before kissing the side of her face.

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