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Aurora awoke to feeling as if she was being sandwiched only to open her eyes and find her sister on one side and Brenden on the other. "Lovely...I wonder how long I have been sleepin." She said to no one as she managed to wiggle out of the tent without waking her sister or Brenden. She slipped on her boots and stretched a bit noticing the sun wasn't even up yet. "Leave it to me to actually be able to sleep and still wake up before dawns early lights." She laughed to herself before deciding to go check out the farm and a bit of the surrounding area. She reached into the tent and grabbed her bag slinging it over her shoulder as she left.
"Now what is there to see around here?" She wondered out loud as she began walking towards the fields. She passed everyone's tents when she made it to the Dixion's tent and she noticed a small fire going. "Must have forgotten to put it out last night." She said shrugging her shoulders as she past paying no more mind to it.
She walked for a good hour to hour and a half and by time she found a nice quiet spot the sun had begun to rise as she was doing her daily stretches and workout. "What are you doing?" A young Korean guy said startling her.
"Hoy Shit! Do not sneak up on me!" She said grasping the front of her shirt as her heart sped. "And I am working out. Have to stay limber...plus haven't been able to in a few days." She said going back to her suicide jumps she felt his eyes still watching her and she stopped what she was doing to turn and look at him. "Yes?"
"I wanted to introduce myself. I'm Glenn." He said slightly amused at her excercise routine.
"I'm Aurora." She said giving a wave. "Is there anything else you needed Glenn?" She asked sitting down pulling a bottle of water out of her bag. "Want one?" She asked as he said no.
"Why did you attack Andrea?" He asked a bit hesitate at first but then coming straight out with it.
"You mean the fight where she threw me to the ground first while I was holding a five-year old little boy in my arms?" She asked her wall immediately flying up which he must have noticed because he quickly reworded himself.
"No! No not that time...she deserved you beating the shit out of her for doing that." He said shyly smiling a bit. "The first time...when you defended Merle Dixion..."
"You have a problem with him to? Let me guess you were one of the one's who left him chained to a roof?" She stated more than asked the younger man.
"Well no not really...he was just an asshole when we first met him. He was rude and racist sexist too. and I was there when he was chained but I didn't do it...I even went back to help find him."
"I don't care how bad a person is no one deserves to be left chained to a roof top with no hope...plus that man may be a dick but he saved me more than twice since I have known him. In my book to save someone else in a time like this with the dead walking and no consequences for letting them just die that shows a lot more of a person's character than a few choice words they may say. He even went out to look for Sophia and me." She said sitting against a tree. "You come to get information on me for your group?" She questioned him and he looked away. "I take that as a yes. Look I lost my temper with her the first time because you shouldn't go around shooting people and the second time she deserved it. I am not a violent person I just don't like being messed with I also know I over reacted the first time and if she gave me time I was going to apologize. But meeting up with the sister I thought dead worrying about a little boy and helping with a wounded man I had a lot on my mind at the moment." She said looking at the man who had sat down next to her.
"I understand they were all just wondering if you were a bitch and was going to start punching everyone." He said as she laughed a bit.
"Nope. Well how about you walk me back to camp? I am done with my work out anyways." She said getting up and waiting for him. "So who goes on runs around here?" She asked halfway back to the camp.
"I do most of the time by myself but I always clear it with Rick he's basically the self-proclaimed leader of our group. Why?"
"Well I need more clothes maybe another bag and a few more things. Plus I need a new weapon on account of the fact I lost mine in the woods. Which sucks! It was a beaut! But thanks for the information." She said separating from Glenn as they got back to the tents. "Have a nice day and I hope the information I gave you is helpful and puts everyone at ease." She said going towards the house seeing Maggie outside.
"Good Morning. What were you and Glenn doing?" Maggie asked with a hint of jealousy? maybe.
"He interrupted my workout to get information on me about why I attacked the blonde bimbo." Aurora said immediately seeing Maggie lighten up. "Is it alright if I go see Merle? Check his bandages so it's one less thing your daddy has to worry about?"
"Of course not...actually my daddy wanted to talk to you but I'm sure he won't mind if you go see Merle first he is busy at the moment anyways checking on Carl." She replied opening the door for Aurora.
"Who's Carl?"
"That's Rick and Lori's Boy." She said looking a bit sad. "Our farm hand Otis accidentally shot him when he was hunting. Didn't see him standing behind a deer and the bullet went right through and hit the kid. Otis and their guy Shane went to get equipment and Oatis gave his life so Shane could bring the supplies back."
"I'm sorry about your loss." She said quietly as she walked past her towards Merle's room. She knocked on the door with no answer so she slowly opened it and crept in only to be met by Daryl's big blue eyes looking at her.
"Didn't answer so who ever was knockin' would go away." He said looking away from her over to Merle's sleeping body.
"Sorry I have to change his bandages..." She said making her way to the supply cupboard. "After I'm done I will be out of your hair I promise just don't want to risk infection." She said grabbing cleaning supplies and fresh gauze.
"Why did you stick up fer Merle yesterday?" Daryl's voice was low and his southern drawl drew her in. "And why did you punch her in the first place when he got shot?"
"He saved my life a lot actually...and he's not as bad of a guy as everyone thinks. At least not in my opinion." She said removing the wrap from his head.
"You and him fuck?" Daryl asked immediately regretting it. It was none of his business anyways and he didn't even know why he wanted to know in the first place.
Aurora looked at the younger Dixion brother for some reason she was surprised by his choice of words. "No...we did not fuck. We just traveled together to find our siblings. He wanted to find you and I wanted to find my sister." She said as she began to clean the wound. Daryl looked at her still not sure why he even bothered to ask but he thought she looked as if she was telling the truth even though you never could tell with people but then again why would she lie to him...maybe out of embarrassment.
"You know that hurts right?" Merle grumbled not even bothering to open his eyes as he let Aurora finished cleaning his head wound. "How long have I been out?" He asked finally turning to Daryl.
"Since you got shot in the head." Daryl said looking down at his feet.
"Who the hell shot me and why?" Merle asked genuinely confused.
"It was blondie...you know the bitchy one and she thought you a walker." Daryl said laughing a bit. "Course how your ass came back I thought you one to for a minute. What the fuck happened out there?"
"Fell down a hill." He said wincing in pain as Aurora cleaned his stub of a hand.
"Quit being a baby Dixion." She said wrapping the wound. "It's healing good...but you do need to stay off your leg for a few more days as well as get lots of rest because your opened wounds."
"Well damn...I don't wanna be held up in a bed all day."
"To bad you have no choice. Alright I will see you later I have to go." She said throwing all the used supplies away and heading out the door to find Hershel closing it behind her.
"Everyone happy I got shot?" Merle asking looking at his baby brother. "And what the hell happened to her face?" He asked he didn't want to bring it up to her but he was curious.
"I was." Daryl said grinning at his brother; "and you're little friend and blondie got into a scrap 'cause of you."
"Whatcha mean 'cause of me?" Merle asked moving himself to where he was sitting up which caused a pain to shoot up his side.
"Well when you got shot you're little friend punched blondie spit on her then said if you die she was dead. Then blondie attacked her while she was holdin that little boy who send them into a full-blown cat fight and she came out good compared to the bitchy blonde." Daryl said.
"Damn. Told you I make girls go crazy." Merle said laughing a little bit.
"Yeah. You fuck that girl or something that why she's all pro Merle? I haven't seen a girl who would stick up for you that much since Mindy." Daryl asked again not sure why he cared if his brother fucked some chick.
"Naw I didn't. Saved her life a few times though and she saved mine a few times too."
"Ain't that sweet." Daryl said taunting his brother.
"Hey Hershel." Aurora said finally finding him in the garden after searching all over the house for him.
"How is Merle doing?" Hershel asked as he pulled himself up from weeding the garden.
"His hand and his other wounds are looking good and I told him he has to stay off his feet for a few days."
"That's good." He said as he poured himself a glass of lemonade after pouring Aurora one.
"What did you need to see me for? Maggie told me." She explained taking a sip of lemonade.
"Well I wanted to check your head for a concussion or anything. Merle told me you were knocked out when he found you in the woods?" Hershel questioned wanting to make sure she was okay. "And after your fight last night I really wanted to check."
"Yeah I guess when I was coming out of a tree something spooked me and I fell hitting my head on the ground...I don't remember passing out but I do remember waking up and Merle and I were walking back to the farm." She said completely forgetting that she had passed out.
"Well if you don't mind I would like to check your pupils and keep you in the house at night so I can continue to keep an eye on you. Even though you slept last night doesn't mean there wasn't damage." He said as he shone a light into her eyes.
"Yeah that's fine as long I don't have to stay inside all day." She said hoping that wasn't the case.
"Of course not but I don't want you going around doing intense work though." He said as she checked out so he let her go.
"Thank you Hershel and do you mind if I sleep inside can Brenden sleep in the room with me...he doesn't really like me to leave." She said smiling at the thought of the little boy.
"That is not a problem at all." Hershel said as she walked away leaving him to tend to the garden.
Once Aurora was done meeting with Hershel she went back to the tents to see everyone sitting around conversing. "Hello and good morning!" She said waving at everyone and everyone but Andrea smiled and waved back. It was the first time since the fight that Aurora had seen Andrea and Hershel was right she walked away the lucky one. Andrea's face was a bit swollen and she had multiple cuts as well as a broken nose and she was wearing a wrap around her rib cage.
"So since yesterday you didn't meet everyone I figured we can introduce you now." Rick said standing up in front of the group with a cup of coffee. "Everyone you already know this is Aurora...Aurora this is Lori Shane Carol Sophia TDog Glenn Dale and you already know Andrea." He said pointing to everyone in the group.
"Hello everyone!" She said happily as she sat next to her sister who was holding a still sleeping Brenden. "Does anyone need any help with anything today?" She asked wanting to be useful and not just sit around all day.
"Well you have medical training right?" A very skinny brunette she know knew as Lori asked her.
"Yes I was a nurse for five years."
"Well I was wondering if you could check Carl just to make sure he is okay. Hershel is busy with Patricia...Oatis' wife and I just want to know how he is doing..." She said her eyes thick with worry.
"Oh god yeah I will go check on him as soon as he wakes up!" She said grabbing a cup of coffee for herself. "Oh I also have some food to put in with whatever you have. Merle and I found some food right before we left the city. It's not much but it's something."
"Anything helps we are running low on food." Carol spoke up since she was the unofficial secretary of food.
"Well I am going to make a run anyways...I can look for any food while I'm out." Glenn spoke up getting an approval nod from Rick. "Did you want to go Aurora? Maggie and I are going." He said remembering how she wanted to go get some things any ways.
"Well I can ask Hershel...he told me not to do anything to strenuous on the account of I bumped my head and passed out in the woods and well he just wants to monitor me make sure I'm okay." She said as everyone stared at her.
"Alright just let me know." Glenn said shrugging his shoulders. "If not you can just give Maggie a list of what you need and she can try to find it." He said staring off into space.
"Alright thank you Glenn." She said smiling at the younger mans kindness.
"Okay so does everyone know what they are doing today?" Rick said taking the spot light again and everyone nodded. "Okay good." He then turned to go about his day as did the rest of the camp.
"What are you doing today?" Aurora turned to her older sister who was still holding Brenden.
"Ummm I am watching the kids...there is a little pond near the camp so we may go check that out...wanna come?"
"Yeah I just have to check Carl and Merle see how they are doing then I will head that way and look for you."
"We can wait we have to wait for little man to wake up. It is so crazy him being all alone for even one night and surviving." Jamey said brushing his hair out of his face. "He is so precious and that hair color..." She said laughing a bit. "He reminds me of Bryce..." She said sorrow filling her eyes as both sisters looked down.
"Yeah he does..." Aurora agreed. "Well I am going to head inside and do you know that I actually have my bathing suit." She said as her sister gave her a questionable look and asked why. "Well when all this went down Todd was going to have a pool party after work so I wore it under my clothes and after the first day I just threw it in my bag."
"Only you would pack a bathing suit for the apocalypse." The older sister said as her younger sibling left.
Aurora headed towards the house once more seeing another blonde and a boy sitting on the porch instead of the usual Maggie. "Hello..." Aurora said startling the young pair. "My name is Aurora." She said waving.
"Hi I'm Beth this is Jimmy. I'm Hershel's youngest daughter." She said letting go of Jimmy's hand to wave. "I like your tattoos...I always wanted to get one but my dad always said I couldn't get one while under his roof."
"Well thank you." She said smiling.
"What's that one say?" Jimmy asked looking at her sleeve.
"It is lyrics to a HIM song."
"Who's HIM?" He asked and she looked stunned.
"You don't know who HIM is?! Oh my child you just don't know..." She said laughing a bit at the sincere confused look on both the younger kids faces. "They are...well were a Finnish Rock band. Amazing musicians." She said explaining to them. "However do you know if Carl is up? His mother wanted me to check on him." She asked figuring she should get back to what it was she went to the house for in the first place.
"No he's not...the other one is though. Sounds bored he's in there singing." Beth answered.
"Singing?"
"Yeah...been at it for thirty minutes. I can let you know when Carl wakes up. We usually take him lunch."
"Thank you...I guess I'm going to go see about a singing redneck." She said entering the house and sure enough Merle was singing.
"OHHH here comes Johnny with his pecker in his hand he's a one ball man and he's off to the rodeo... it's an alla man left and an alla man right come on you fuckin' dummy get your step right get off the stage you god damn goof you knowwwww...You piss me off you fuckin' jerk...get on my nerves..." She walked into the room and Merle was staring at the ceiling oblivious to the world around him.
"Woohh!" She cheered causing him to stop and look at her.
"Well if it isn't Miss Sweetcheeks. Come to visit 'Ole Merle? Can't get enough right?"
"Nope wanted to see who had the lovely singing voice. Sounds like an angel." She said laughing as she took the seat Daryl once had next to the bed.
"Well there ain't shit to do in here! Man get's bored!" He said
"Never pegged you for the type to sing." She said propping her feet on his bed. "So how ya feeling?"
"Better...doc came in and gave me some pain meds."
"Lucky you."
"Yep." He said shifting in the bed not feeling any pain.
"Where's your brother?"
"Don't know...think he went huntin. I ain't his keeper."
"Not a man for many words huh?"
"Yeah he was always the quiet one."
"Well you shouldn't need your bandages changed and if you start feeling a bit better tomorrow the day after that I will see about getting you up and about. Can you move your ankle at all?" She asked getting you to look at Merle's ankle that was swollen.
"A bit. Can I ask you somethin' girly?" Merle asked his face looking serious as could be.
"Sure." She said wrapping his ankle then sitting down facing him.
"Why did ya stick up for me with blondie?"
"You too? Geesh that seems to be the million dollar question." She said looking away. "Merle you may be a dick sometimes and scared me to death when we first met plus almost killed me." She said subconsciously rubbing her neck "But you saved me multiple times and you didn't have to...you could have just brushed your hands off and went about your day. There would have been nothing bad to come from it and the world wouldn't miss me but you didn't. You chose to kill that walker when we first met...carry me out of the building that was being over run when I was in shock. You could have left me in the woods...and let Edward rape me...but you didn't. You chose to save the life of some chick you didn't know from Eve and for that I am grateful I don't pity you I respect you. Plus you ain't half bad company to have around and when you got shot I was upset and worried. You've grown on me in our short adventure together like a tick." She said laughing.
"I ain't good." Merle said looking like he was in deep thought.
"Yes you are Merle...whether you chose to believe it or not you are. Everyone makes mistakes in their life just have to let go and move on." She said feeling bad for the man in front of her. "My turn to ask you a question." She said as he looked up.
"Hmm?"
"Why did you chose to save my life all those times?" She asked genuinely curious about the mans reasoning behind it.
"Don't know just did. Never really thought 'bout why." He said as a knock at the door caused them to stop talking and look.
"Hey I just wanted to let you know Carl is up." Beth said quietly as she peeked from behind the door.
"Thank you dear." Aurora said getting up from her seat. "I'll bring you something to eat when I'm checking on Carl...have you eaten?" She asked as he shook his head no. "Alright I will see you in a bit." He just nodded his head as she left the room not looking where she was going until she ran into someone falling on her ass. "Ow." She said looking up to see the younger Dixion brother standing in front of her his eyes squinted a bit as he bent down to help her up. "Sorry I didn't see you."
"No problem just watch where ya goin next time." He said as he gave her his hand to pull her up.
She blushed a bit feeling the heat come from her face. 'What am I a school girl?' She thought to herself hoping the attractive redneck didn't notice her blush too much. "Thank you." She said quietly as he walked into Merle's room and she turned to head to Carl's.
