Quarrycamp, season 1
Carol treated Daryl's twisted ankle. Ed disagrees.
Sophia and me
"This will do for now," Carol said while adjusting the elastic bandages around Daryl's ankle. "Try not to walk on it for a few days, and you'll be fine." They brought this man to her this afternoon. Carl and Sophia found him in the woods when they were out to pick berries.
They didn't have a real doctor or nurse with them, but people tend to turn to her when it came to minor first aid things like cuts, bruises and twisted ankles. "Yeah, I'm an expert on those little domestic injuries, isn't it ironic."
"Thanks," the man muttered. "Merle bro, help me walk will you." The older man he called Merle stepped up reluctantly and supported his brother. Carol watched them as he limped through camp.
With a sigh Carol gathered the medical supplies when she heard footsteps behind her. "What are you doing spending all our stuff at some stupid strangers?" Ed snarled at her through clenched teeth. Sure back home he would just have yelled, but now, with no privacy left he was afraid to let others notice his true colours.
"Ed, They brought him to me he needed his ankle done, and I can re-use the banda- "
"Shut up, now it's a bandage, the other day our food, what's next, give away our car cause some stranger asks you?" He grabbed her upper arm with force. "I try to provide for my family, keep them safe. And you just give everything out like it's nothing." His grip tightened, Carol was sure she would have bruises in the morning. She made a mental not to wash her only long sleeved t-shirt to wear.
"I'm sorry, I will tell next time we have no medical supplies left." She gazed at the ground with tearfilled eyes. "You better do so yea." He let go of her.
"Oh, one more thing, I don't like you getting too acquainted with the men out here. Not that they would want you, but you never know…not too many women around nowadays." Ed marched away leaving Carol to her business.
"Too acquainted with the men," she thought…what was he thinking? Sometimes she permitted herself a thought about what life would be like if Ed was gone. She couldn't imagine herself with another man, to go through everything again…first romance, then being oppressed, the first hit, learning to read his needs so she won't get too many beatings…no way
The men in camp were nice to her, like that Daryl guy just now, thanking her for helping and all, but Ed had been like that before they got married. She long lost her believes in romance. She was sure, if Ed was gone, it would be Sophia and her, there wouldn't be a man she 'd need.