"Damn that's my deer." Daryl said as he came into the clearing of camp to see a fucking walker eating the deer he tracked all night.
When he walked back to camp yelling for Ashlyn and Merle he was greeted with fucking Shane and some new guy in his face.
"I need to talk to you about them." Shane said and Daryl turned to glare at him.
"They dead?" he ask but Shane shrugged.
"Don't know." he said and Daryl snapped.
"What the fuck you mean you don't know. They either is or they anit." He spat and the new guy stepped forward.
"I can explain." The man said and Daryl looked him up and down and snorted.
"Who the hell are you?" Daryl ask.
"Rick Grimes." He said and Daryl glanced over towards Lori and Carl and knew this must be the missing husband or the wife Shane's been banging.
"Rick Grimes. You got something you want to say to me?" he ask and Rick nodded.
"Your brother was out of control. Beating up on everyone. I hand cuffed him to the roof to calm him. The women saw what was happening and tried to cut my head off so I cuffed her too. It was my plan to un cuff them as we left but something happened and they were left behind." Rick said and Daryl turned his head away to blink back tears. His heart was pounding in his ears. They left his wife behind.
"Let me get this straight. You not only left my brother behind but our wife too. You cuffed them to a building in the middle of a walker infested city and just left them there?" Daryl ask in a deadly calm voice. When Rick nodded Daryl snapped. He threw the squirrels he hand at Rick and grabbed his knife and lunged, striking Rick across the face with his fist before Shane put him in a head lock.
"Get the fuck off me." Daryl yelled but Shane tightened his gripped and brought Daryl to the ground.
"I want you to calm down." Rick said and Daryl kicked at him but he dodged it.
"Fuck you. How would you feel if I left your wife cuffed to the roof to die?" he ask and Rick nodded. He'd be just as pissed.
"I understand but I need you to calm down so we can talk about this." Rick said and Daryl nodded and Shane let him go. Daryl stayed on the ground breathing heavily. His body was radiating anger.
"It wasn't all his fault. I dropped the key. I tried to get Ashlyn to come with me since she wasn't cuffed to anything but she refused to leave Merle behind." T Dogg said and Daryl shot him the bird.
"Fuck all of ya. This is how you treat the women that's been making sure you all had food. Screw you. Tell me where they are and I'll go get them myself." Daryl said wiping his face and Lori stepped forward.
"He'll show you. Wont you?" She ask Rick in a not to happy voice and Rick sighed and nodded.
"I'm going back. I can't leave them there." He said and turned to make Glenn go with them. T dog volunteered too and Daryl watched as Rick and Shane argued about it before Rick finally got in the van when Daryl started honking the horn.
"You better pray to go there alive." Daryl told T dog when was sitting across from him in the van and he man gulped and nodded. He had been praying just that. He felt bad as hell about it and didn't think he'd be able to live with himself if they found them dead. Plus Daryl would kill them all.
They parted the van and Daryl jumped out and walked quickly beside Glenn.
"Guns or Merle and Ashlyn first?" Rick as Glenn and Daryl hissed.
"Merle and Ash we anit having this discussion." He demanded.
"We are." Rick said and Daryl glared at him.
"Merle and Ashlyn first. There closer." Glenn said nodding and led the way.
Merle woke to the sound of someone yelling his name and he shook his head and glanced down at Ashlyn. She was asleep on his shoulder and he tried to shake her awake.
"Ash. Wake up sugar. Help is here." He said just as they cut the chains off the gate and Daryl burst forward.
"Merle, Ash." He yelled as he jumped over the pips and landed in front of them. Merle's eyes were wide with worry when she couldn't get Ashlyn awake.
"Ash." Merle yelled followed by Daryl who was shaking her now too, frantically.
"What happened?" he ask Merle.
"We passed out from the heat. She hasn't eaten since yesterday morning." Merle said and they watched as Daryl cursed before picking her up and laying her on the ground.
"Get these fucking cuffs off?" Daryl said and Rick came forward and unlocked the cuffs from her wrist and moved over to Merle.
"We gonna have a problem?" Rick ask Merle who glared at him.
"No now let me go so I can take care of my wife." He said and Rick nodded and reluctantly un cuffed Merle and watched as he crawled over to Daryl who was trying to get Ashlyn to wake up.
"Did yall bring any water or food?" Merle ask and Glenn nodded and handed him two bottles of water and a cereal bar.
"What's wrong with her?" Rick ask getting worried when she wouldn't wake.
"She has low blood sugar. If we don't make sure she eat regularly she passes out." Daryl explained and Rick nodded and waited. They poured some water on her face and she jerked away and blinked. When she saw Daryl was there and she was not cuffed anymore she sighed in relief.
"Told Merle you'd come for us. He tried cutting his hand off but I told him." She said and Daryl looked at his brother who just shrugged. They made her drink and eat until she was feeling better and was able to stand without falling over. As soon as she was up she swung her fist and punched Rick right in the face. He back away from her in shock while holding his jaw as she glared at him while taking her sword and knife back.
"That's for fucking chaining us here to die you prick." She said before walking away. Both Glenn and T dog tried to talk to her but she glared at them both.
"You helped hold me down while this fuck cuffed me and left us for dead. As far as I'm concerned you're on the same shit list as that prick." She spat and pointed towards Rick who was wiping the blood off his lip from her hit. Merle and Daryl just smirked. Yep there wife was a feisty kitten with claws alright.
After that Rick and Glenn talked about getting the guns. They wouldn't let Ashlyn help because she was still lightheaded but when they returned with the guns and no Glenn and another Mexican boy instead she knew she should have helped.
"What happened?" she ask as they tossed the boy into a chair.
"Him and his hommies tried to take the guns but got Glenn instead." Daryl told her placing a hand on her hip she nodded and turned to see the boy leering at her.
"Damn chicka. Who is fine." He said and Merle and Daryl both went after him only to be held back by Rick.
They met up with G after that with the guns and it looked at first like it was going to go south. A lot of the men kept eyes Ashlyn and Merle and Daryl made sure to keep her between them at all times. Finally an old women came in and stop the fighting and led Rick and the other through the old folks home to where Glenn was safe and sound.
Rick and G talked for a while and he apologized for everything. Rick accepted and gave him a few of the guns and ammo. Merle and Daryl both knew that was a waist.
"Someone took our van." Glenn said when they walked back to where they left it and it was gone. Groaning they picked up the pace and headed back for camp. When they got there all hell was breaking lose.
Walkers were everywhere so were half their people dead. Rick tossed them all guns and ran forward to try and find Lori and Carl. Ashlyn shot and killed as many walkers as she could until she ran out of bullets.
"CARL." She heard and looked to the right to see the boy running from a group of walkers while his father tried to fight his way to him having run out of bullets himself. Throwing down the gun Ashlyn took out her sword and ran towards Carl.
"Ash no." Daryl and Merle both yelled just as she took the heads off two of the walkers that were about to bite Carl.
"Stay behind me." she told the boy who was scared to death. Ashlyn kept him behind her as they fought their way back over towards the RV. She had to pick him up at one point when a crawler grabbed his leg and she stabbed him with her sword.
"Oh thank god." Lori breathed in relief as Ashlyn walked over and sat the boy down next to his parents. Merle and Daryl were at her side in a second looking her over.
"Good thing I'm not in the habit of leaving people for dead, anit it?" Ashlyn ask Rick who looked at her with tears in his eyes. Lori looked to Rick when she said that. Rick nodded unable to speak.
"What's sad is between the two of us. You're the cop that's sworn to protect and I'm just the redneck's whore. It's sad to think that I'm the better person between the two of us. You shouldn't cast people off and leave them behind so quickly thinking they can't be trusted or useful and you shouldn't put all your trust in others that truly mean you harm." She told him casting her yes towards Shane quickly. Rick opened his mouth to thank her and she stuck her hand up to stop him.
"Don't bother. My opinion of you will not change based on a thank you or an apology. Trust has to be earned and I think I just proved out of the two of us I'm more trustworthy since I didn't let your son die in revenge for what you did to me and my family." She said and walked off leaving everyone stunned. She was right and Rick knew he needed to work to make it up to them. She saved his son and he owned her now.