Rose blinked at the sunlight as she felt herself get kicked softly with her father muttering incoherent things as she sat up. Scrunching up her face she noticed her dad was cuffed to a pole and he was becoming jittery which wasn't normal.
"Dad?" She asked as she stood slowly, her father's face turned to her and an almost comical sight was his reaction.
"Baby? What happened to your shoulder? Were ye bit?" He asked number 1.
Confused Rose glanced down at her shoulder and laughed slightly, her father looked at her as if she was crazy. She shook her head.
"The horse we rode her on wasn't very nice, bit me on the shoulder" She answered as she sat beside him.
Merle sighed in relief and nuzzled her cheek with his knuckles as he chuckled shakily. Rose frowned at his wrist which was turning slightly purple from the restricted blood flow from the cuffs.
"H-how?" she asked as she leaned over to get a saw for him to cut the chains with. Merle growled as he kicked at some rock that was digging into his thigh.
"Jackass officer chained me after he knocked you out, gave you that big dome on your head" he spat as he readied the saw at the chain.
"Really?" Rose gaped, unbelieving. Merle nodded as he started to saw, gritting his teeth as he tried to keep the chain in place, a few moments later the chain snapped and Merle cursed as the saw gave him a little cut on his wrist.
"Ya bugger" he spat as he stood, ruffling Rose's hair before looking over the town, the sun was setting and apart from the walkers growling, it was pretty peaceful.
"We gonna stay here for the night?" Rose asked as she sat down, snuggling onto the pole tiredly.
Merle bit his thumb as he sighed and turned to Rose with a stern look.
"We gotta stay here, wait for yer uncle then we can get the fuck outta here" Merle answered as he sat beside his little girl and let her lean against his chest, wrapping an arm around her he kissed her head and sighed in content.
"'m happy yer back" he murmured into her head as he leaned his head on her smaller one.
Rose smiled and closed her eyes.
"me too"
When Rick saw Daryl for the first time he saw the Dixon resemblance, blue eyes and brown hair and shitty attitude.
"You gotta niece? Rose?" He saw Daryl tense at Glenn's question and mumbling a 'yeah' under his breath as he sat on the log doing something to his bow, getting ready to leave for his brother.
"Well… we sorta bumped into her, she's with Merle on the roof" He finished. Daryl jumped up and stormed over to Rick.
"Ye not only left ma brother but ya left a little girl there?! Ya sick prick!" Daryl shouted as he pointed at him threatingly before running into the back of the van wanting to get there even faster.
"Get in ya bunch of pricks!" He screamed as he pulled Glenn in with him, waiting for T-Dog and Rick. Rick sighed giving a last kiss to his wife and son before following the angered mans actions and getting into the van.
"They better be okay or else…" He heard Daryl mumble as they pulled out of the camp and onto the road.
"Don't worry they will be" Glenn's cheery response was heard from the back. Rick glanced at T-Dog who nodded although he looked a bit nervous.
Bring it on.
