Summary: When Rick and Daryl along with the group arrive at the Greene farm, they aren't expecting to bump into two familiar young who have pasts with them. Daryl and Bailey Greene find that their feelings have changed for each other but with Bailey carrying a painful secret, can Daryl mend her heart. Rick reunites with his old friend Anna who changes his and Carl's world for the better. Rick/OC, Daryl/OC, Merle/Beth, Glenn/Maggie, Carl/Sophia

Somebody To Die For

Chapter 9


"Plenty of sofas and everything down here too," Andrea said with a small smile, as Maggie came back from upstairs.

"We only got six bedrooms and two bathrooms," she said as everyone looked at her.

"Better than nothing, I guess," Hershel shrugged; as he helped the women take the supplies into the kitchen.

"Well, Carl and Duane could share; Sophia and Penny could as well." Carol said as everyone started to unpack their belongings.

"The water still works." Bailey said pleased as she held Aoife while she helped Maggie unpack their supplies when they found a cupboard with medicine and other things.

"Looks like they left some useful things around here," Maggie said with a smile.

Rick nodded. "Alright, but I don't want the kids on their own, Hershel and Patricia, you share a room with Glenn and Maggie, Merle and Beth, you share a room with Daryl, Bailey and Aoife, Carol and Sophia, you share with Andrea and Penny, and Milton and Phillip, you can share with Morgan and Duane. Shane, Lori, T-Dog and Dale get the other room."

They all nodded in understanding and headed upstairs to take their things up as Rick, Carl and Anna headed into their room and started to unpack.

Anna helped Carl unpack his things and then unpacked her own when she saw a photo of her and Alistair at her graduation, Connor hadn't come.

She sighed as she set the photograph down on the bedside table, and pulled some blankets out of her bag. They had been lucky enough to get the room with the double bed, so she layered on three or four blankets, trying to make sure it would be warm enough.

She then checked that she had her sword in her holster along with her gun when she saw Carl frowning.

"Some of our ammo is gone." He said checking the box.

Anna looked into the box and noticed he was right. "I wouldn't worry about it, kiddo," she said softly as she ruffled his hair. "We probably just left some behind, I'm sure we'll pick up some more around here somewhere."

Carl nodded and they headed back downstairs to join the others as they all helped search the place.

"The fridge is filled with rotten food so we can't use that but we can use the oven for food." Carol said as she stored tins into the cupboard along with Bailey and Beth.

"We found dog food for Charlie as well along with two dog bowls." Sophia said proudly.

Anna smiled at them all. "Good work guys, I'm sure we can make this place work out, it'll be just like the farm in no time. Except with a little less space."

"We'll take what we can get," Carol said with a small laugh.

"That is the truth." Bailey said as Maggie and Glenn headed outside to go on watch while the others planned to do when summer arrived.

"We should go to Fort Benning." Shane said looking at everyone as Lori cuddled into him and they all stared at him in shock.

"Fort Benning's gone." Daryl said as he sat beside Bailey and Aoife.

"It's been overrun with walkers," Rick said with a shrug. "Or didn't your best friend Dave tell you that? You two seemed pretty close," he said, watching Shane carefully.

Shane's face tightened as he glared at Rick, "We aint best friends." He said coldly when T-Dog spoke calmly.

"I think Shane should be leader."

"Well, T-Dog, if that's what you think, then why don't you and Shane leave the group?" Rick asked with firmness to his voice. He wasn't going to have anymore arguing, he would put an end to this shit. "I'm not keeping you here, you're welcome to leave, but as long as you're a part of this group, you're under my leadership," he said, not losing his cool. "End of discussion."

Tension surrounded the room like ice as everyone finished eating their lunch as Daryl and Merle got up to do some hunting.

"Rick's got balls of steel alright." Merle said respect in his voice.

Daryl nodded. "He sure does, I think he's finally learned how to keep Shane in his place," he said as they looked for tracks.

"About damn time," Merle agreed.

Daryl smirked as he fired his crossbow at a couple of squirrels that feel onto the ground as he strung them on his belt.

"Five of them." He told Merle.

Merle nodded. "That ain't gonna last us long, baby brother," he said as he continued looking. "It's a big group; we need somethin' to feed 'em all."

"I aint gonna see Bailey and Aoife starve." Daryl said as they soon stumbled across a deer grazing in the grass.

"Look's like we found dinner." Merle said pleased.

Daryl nodded and fired his crossbow a couple of times at the deer. The two brothers waited until it had fallen to the ground, before going over to drag it back to the house.

They brought it back into the house where Bailey and Beth helped them prepare it for dinner as they also got ready for the hand to hand combat training along with gun training.

"This should be ready in two hours." Beth said as they all headed outside to train in the heat with their bottles of water on the ground.

"Do we really have to do this everyday?" Anna asked, pulling at her clothes which were sticking to her sweaty body as she worked on her sword aiming with Rick. "It's a million degrees out here, and we girls like to take some time out every now and again, sunbathe and shit, y'know?" she asked with a chuckle.

Rick smirked at her. "You'll get your reward if you're a good girl," he said mischievously, causing Anna to shake her head and laugh.

"Rick Anthony Grimes, I didn't know you were such a dirty man." She laughed as she practiced pointing her sword aiming.

"Daryl's just as bad, ya know." Bailey giggled as she had her back to Daryl's as they practiced aiming their weapons.

"Ain't fuckin' gonna be any of that, now Beth an' I gotta share a room with ya," Merle grumbled as he worked on his positioning with Beth.

"You know, tomorrow we should go out and find some proper walker targets," Andrea suggested, as she helped Penny with her small knife, while Phillip smiled at the two of them. "It would be more helpful to practice on the real thing."

"That's a good idea, but don't do anything dangerous." Rick said as they headed to where empty beer bottles were and started to shoot at them with their guns.

Penny, Sophia, Duane and Carl hit the bottles perfectly when Lori glanced at Phillip in surprise.

"You let your daughter carry a gun?"

Phillip nodded at her. "Yes, I do, actually," he said as he looked at her. "I think it's great that she can defend herself. What happens if she ever got separated and couldn't fire a weapon? She'd be dead in five minutes, that's what."

"I think it's a great way to give her independence," Anna smiled at him.

"I think it's wrong and disgusting." Lori snapped and headed inside the house as everyone watched her go in annoyance.

"She acts like she owns the place." Bailey said annoyed.

"That's because she thinks she does," Rick said as he pulled Anna into him. "But I've got you now," he said with a smile as he brushed her hair out of her eyes. "Let's go get cleaned up before dinner," he smirked, as the two of them went inside.

Merle and Beth looked over at Carol and Patricia, who were becoming expertly skilled with their weapons. "Are ya two sure ya weren't some kind of assassins before this?" he chuckled.

"No but we're letting out our rage on the bottles." Patricia said laughing as they all finished up and headed inside to get clean.


Everyone had gotten washed up at the kitchen sink, while Rick and Anna came out of the shower looking pretty happy, as they all sat down at the table for dinner. Everyone got a much larger plate, not to mention they actually had meat, thanks to Daryl and Merle's hunting.

"This smells good." Morgan said as they all tucked into the food and enjoyed themselves as they talked and discussed things.

"So who's going to kill some real walkers then?" Merle asked everyone.

Everyone put up their hands.

Merle chuckled. "Looks like those walkers don't stand a chance then," he said with a smirk, as he continued to eat his dinner.

"You bet they don't," Anna chuckled as she curled into Rick.

They all smiled at each other as they finished eating and cleared the table as Rick and Carl went on watch while everyone else washed up and made sure they had their stuff ready for tomorrow.

"I'm looking forward to see how that so called training goes." Shane said as they all got ready for bed.

I'm sure it will be brilliant," Lori said flatly as she headed to their room with him, Dale and T-Dog, sending everyone glares as they went.

Merle shook his head. "The sooner they're gone, the better," he spat, tired of the tension between them and the rest of the group.

"Ya don't say." Daryl said dryly as they all headed upstairs to bed and went into their rooms and said good night.

"Ya two better not fuck while we're in here." Merle said as he got under the sheets with Beth who laughed.

"Merle!"

"Same goes for the two of ya," Daryl muttered, as he reached out to turn off the light, and tried to squeeze into the other single bed. "Night, guys."


Everyone was up the next morning when it was decided that Dale and T-Dog would stay at the house while the rest of them headed into the local town to practice their training on some walkers, Hershel was also staying behind.

Lori, who didn't want to put the baby in danger, decided she wanted to stay back too, as the others got into their vehicles and drove to the nearest village.

"Alright, bring on the walkers," Glenn said stepping out of the car, his knife up and ready to fight.

Almost instantly walkers started to swarm out of the house as they all formed a circle with their partners.

"Formation!" Rick called; they automatically formed a circle, facing outwards, weapons brandished. He barked another command and they broke into two groups.

They were so skilled at this by now; they barely broke a sweat as they began to take out walkers easily. It had been a problem for them when they had first started, and walkers were a big problem. But as time went on, walkers became more and easier to deal with; it was the living humans that were a problem. They all worked on taking the walkers down, even the children were doing well. Everyone covered each other and knew how to use their weapons perfectly; they had become somewhat masters of them.

Daryl was in a circle with Bailey, Merle and Beth while Rick was with Anna, Glenn, Maggie, Carol and Patricia.

Eventually, Rick had told everyone, their goal was to develop "muscle memory" when it came to defending themselves: to be able to reload a gun in an instant, to decide in a trice whether to slash up through the jaw or into the eye socket of a walker, etc. It was sombre stuff, but they all knew they could not afford to grow complacent again like they'd done on the farm.

They had gotten rid of most of the walkers, and were looking down at the dead bodies when Anna frowned. "Oh god, I feel sick," she muttered, as she covered her mouth. "Too much death."

Bailey rubbed her back gently as they all stared at what they had done; they knew it was the only way to survive though.

"I think we did well." Carol said proud.

"I think we damn well did," Merle said happily as he kissed Beth gently on the cheek. "I'm proud of ya," he said quietly.

Rick took Anna's hand as they went back to their vehicles. "Come on, let's go get some lunch, it might make you feel better."

She laughed at that as they headed back to the house only to find Hershel on the floor, he had been knocked out and half of their supplies were gone.

Charlie was barking loudly and they followed him into the kitchen were half of the tinned food was gone along with half of the ammo and medicine, Aoife was sitting in her high chair looking scared, tears were swimming down her face.

"Daddy!" Maggie and Beth cried worriedly as they rushed over to Hershel along with Anna, who crouched down to check him out, as Rick looked around the kitchen worriedly.

"Fuck!" he growled, looking through their boxes. "They've took our stuff. We let them into our group, and they've took our damn stuff!"

"RV is gone too," Glenn said, looking out the window. "They're long gone."

"Damnit I knew I shouldn't have let them in." Rick cursed as Anna placed a cold flannel to the back of Hershel's head.

"Keep this on, it will stop the swelling." She told Beth and Maggie as Bailey rocked Aoife gently in her arms as Daryl looked at him worriedly.

"Can't believe I trusted them enough to leave them here," Rick said, rubbing his face tiredly.

"It's not your fault, Rick," Anna said softly, as she rubbed his arm. "You thought they were alright on their own, plus Hershel was here... you didn't know what they'd do."

"If they come back, they're dead and Shane is a dead man walking." Daryl snarled as he and Bailey comforted Aoife.

"What are we missing?" Morgan asked worried.

"Half of the medicine and food." Patricia said angry.

"Well, look on the bright side, we still have half," Carol said softly, as she tried to stop them all from panicking. "They could have taken it all."

"At least they're finally gone," Merle added as he and Beth sat down on the sofa.

Everyone nodded and went to get cleaned up with Bailey and Daryl taking Aoife up for her nap as they placed her in the crib.

"Ya were really great today, I'm proud of ya." Daryl said kissing her hard on the mouth.

"Everyone did well," she said as she changed out of her clothes and put clean ones on, before picking up all the dirty clothes in the room. "I should go help Carol with the laundry."

Daryl nodded "I'm gonna take watch with Rick." He said as Sophia and Penny came in looking clean as they kept an eye on Aoife while they headed downstairs.


"Hey, Carol?" Bailey asked as she put the dirty clothes into a basket. "Want to come down to the lake with me and we can do some laundry?"

Carol nodded. "Sure thing, sweetie," she said as she went to collect her own washing pile, and got some soaps out of one of the cupboards.

"I'll come too, if you don't mind," Andrea said with a small smile, as the three women walked down to the lake.

They all headed down to the lake where they started to wash the clothes with bars of Felt's soap and scrubbed out stains, Bailey wished she had her grandmothers washing wringer.

"I feel like I'm in the dark ages again." Andrea said as she washed a pair of Penny's jeans while Carol cleaned a shirt that belonged to Carl.

"I'm glad Rick has Anna." Carol said warmly.

Andrea nodded as she smiled up at the spot on the roof where they took watch where Rick was looking out. "So am I, he deserves a good woman like her," she said softly.

"Anna's a tough woman; she survived being on her own before I found her." Bailey said as they saw Rick watching Anna as she came out carrying a laundry basket.

"Mind if I join you guys?" she asked softly, as she sat down beside them and started to wash her clothes in the lake. "It's a beautiful afternoon; it's a shame to be inside."

"You and Rick not having fun in the shower today?" Andrea laughed, as the women joked around, trying to make laundry a little less tedious.

Anna blushed a deep red as she laughed along with them softly, "We did yes but we had other things to do as much as I wanted to have him on me." She said giggling as the three women smiled at her.

"What's Phillip like in bed?" Carol asked Andrea amused.

Andrea looked shocked for a minute, as the other three laughed. "Oh, we know," Carol said with a small wink.

"OK, OK," Andrea chuckled as she sighed happily. "He's very... giving," she smirked, as the other three burst into uncontrollable laughter. "He knows what he's doing."

"Oh Lord." Carol said as she laughed and they looked at Bailey then with warm smiles on their faces.

"What's Daryl like in bed?" Anna asked Bailey wickedly.

"No complaints," Bailey said with a small chuckle, as she washed a little onesie that belonged to Aoife. "How about Rick? He must be good if you keep going back for more."

"He's amazing, like a sex god." Anna said with a soft smile as she glanced up to see where Rick was keeping watch.

"Was it Randall's group who hurt you?" Carol asked gently.

"No, it was my older brother Connor's group." She said cleaning a black shirt that belonged to Rick as she placed a t-shirt that belonged to Carl on the washing line.

"I'm sorry," Carol said quietly. "I didn't realize."

Anna shook her head. She hadn't seen Connor since then anyway, hopefully he was long dead by now, as harsh as it might have sounded. "It's alright. I haven't seen him around in a while; he's probably a walker now."

"That's horrible what he did to you." Andrea said as they finished the laundry just as it started to rain and they grabbed the clothes as they hurried inside.

"Let's put them on the washing line in the living room." Bailey said softly.

"Sounds good," Carol said as they went into the house and hung up the clothes, hoping they would dry. With Phillip's help, they managed to start a fire in the fireplace, which would hopefully heat the room up a little, as Rick and Daryl came in soaked from the rain.

"Whoever's on watch next, dress for a flood," Rick said with a small laugh, as he shook the water off himself.

They all laughed at that as Merle and Beth headed up to watch, taking an umbrella with them as they went outside.

"Get in front of the fire Rick, you're gonna end up getting sick otherwise." Anna said as she and Carl sat him in front of the fire.

Rick smiled at her as he sat down. "What would I do without my doctor, eh?" he chuckled softly, as Carol brought him in a hot cup of coffee, and a blanket.

"You would probably be sick as hell." She said amused as they watched Daryl get warm as well as they all sat and listened to the rain and thunder when Penny and Sophia came down with Aoife who waved at Daryl and Bailey.

"She wanted you two." Sophia said smiling faintly.

Bailey smiled softly at Sophia as she took Aoife out of her arms and rocked her gently. "Hey, baby girl," she said as Aoife cooed up at her. "I hope you behaved for Penny and Sophia?"

"She did," Penny said with a grin.

"Good I'm glad she did." She said smiling as they all headed up to bed with Morgan and Phillip taking watch as Anna took Rick to their room as Carl went to play with the other kids.


"You're freezing." She said rubbing his chest.

"I'll warm up soon enough," he said softly as he climbed under the blankets with her and held her tightly.

"Staying out in the rain was just an excuse to cuddle, wasn't it?" she asked with a smirk as she wrapped her arms around him.

Rick chuckled. "You bet it was."

She laughed at that as he saw the marks on her body and held her tighter to im as he remembered her mentioning that she had been attacked by another group.

"Did they do that to you?" He asked darkly.

"Connor was the one who did them." She said quietly.

"Your brother?" he asked softly, as he held her close to him and rubbed her arms to keep her warm.

Anna nodded. "Yeah. But he's gone now, don't worry."

"I'll kill him if I ever see him, you know that? Shane too," he told her.

"I know you will but I know Shane's like a brother to you as well." She said kissing him gently as they both fell asleep holding each other.


The kids were still downstairs playing, with Daryl and Merle watching over them while everyone else was in bed. Carl was playing hide and seek with the group in the sitting room, and hid behind the couch, waiting to see if Sophia would find him. While he was waiting, he glanced out the window, and froze, as he seen several bodies stumbling towards the house. Several dead bodies to be more exact.

"DARYL!" He called out and Daryl hurried over as he saw seven walkers stumbling towards them growling and snarling at them all.

"Go get the others, NOW"!" Daryl told him and he nodded as he ran upstairs while he ran up to get Bailey and Aoife.

"BAILEY WAKE UP!"

Bailey shifted in her sleep, and groaned as she sat up. "What..." she mumbled tiredly. "Sleepy, wanna sleep..."

"MOVE!" Daryl yelled, as he yanked her out of bed harshly by the arm, a little painful, but he needed her out of there. He picked up Aoife in his other arm and took their bags, before he dragged the two of them downstairs.

"Oh shit, no." She said seeing the walkers as she pulled on a pair of socks then her boots as Rick ran down with Anna.

"Fuck, how did they get here?" He asked as they tried to see how many there were.

"I dunno, but we gotta get outta here," Daryl said urgently, as he looked around for the keys to his truck. The walkers were closing in on the house fast.

He found the keys as they grabbed a bag each holding the supplies as they all ran outside to the vehicles with Charlie jumping in the back with Penny.

"Let's go." Daryl yelled as they saw more walkers.

Rick pulled away in his car, leading the rest of the group, as they headed away from the house. They all slumped into their seats, tired and defeated after yet another possible home was ruined.

"We just got there," Anna said sadly. "Now where do we go?"

"I'm not sure but we'll look around." He said taking her hand as they drove down the highway as they saw an RV sprayed in blood.

"What the hell?" Bailey asked as they all stopped at the RV.

"Is that Dale's?" Andrea asked wearily as she and Phillip got out of the car while Milton stayed with Penny.

It looks familiar," Rick said quietly as he looked around the outside, a little worried as to what might be inside it, if anything. "Should we look?"

"Yeah, I'm right beside ya," Merle said, pulling out his gun as they opened up the RV door.

They looked in to see that the inside of the RV was covered in blood and lying in the driver's side was Dale with a single gunshot wound to the head.

"Someone killed him." Rick said looking around as he felt worry run through him

"You don't think it was Lori, Shane or T-Dog, do ya?" Merle asked quietly, as they put a blanket over Dale. "They were his friends."

Rick sighed and yawned. "I don't know. We need to get out of here though; it's not safe to be out in the open in the dark."

Merle nodded and they headed outside as they buried Dale as the others watched on sadly and then got into the cars as they drove on and after a few hours found a motel.

"Well, it has a roof and it has beds, so I'm gonna say yes to this," Rick said as they all parked up and got out, looking exhausted and run down.

They all got out of the cars and headed inside the motel, it was warm as they all headed inside and Daryl pulled Bailey and Aoife into him tightly.

"Well at least it's warm." Bailey said softly.

"And it's got a fence around the place." Daryl said as they all headed into their rooms with Bailey getting Aoife ready for bed.

"We love you Aoife, so very much." She said kissing her daughter on the nose.

Aoife smiled and clapped her hands as Bailey set her down on the bed while she got changed into something she could sleep in. It was nice to have a proper bed again, instead of the wooden floor at the library, and the single bed at the lake-house.

She pulled on a pair of black sweats and a tanks top as Daryl pulled on something for bed and the three of them got under the sheets.

"At least the bed's bigger." Daryl said smirking.

"Yeah, well, bed or no bed, it's not going to take me long to sleep," she said yawning, hoping Daryl wasn't going to interrupt her sleep this time, yelling that there was walkers outside. "Night Daryl, night Aoife."

"Goodnight sweetheart," Daryl said softly, as the three of them fell asleep.


The next morning Carl and Anna were on watch while Rick, Daryl, Merle and Morgan searched around the motel.

"You think we'll be able to stay here?" Carl asked the woman who had become his mother.

"I'm not sure, I hope so." She said ruffling his hair as they saw a black truck coming into the car park.

"You have got to be kidding me," Anna muttered as she looked through the binoculars, and seen two people she really didn't want to see. She called out to Rick from the rooftop, but Rick had already noticed and had stormed towards the vehicle. "What the hell are they doing here?"

Merle, who was right beside Rick, pulled open the car door and grabbed T-Dog's shirt. "Y'all stole our supplies! Ya better be here to return 'em, or you're in trouble, you too lady," he spat at Lori.

"Look we need a place to stay; Shane got killed by a group of walkers to get them away from us." Lori said pleadingly.

"Please spare us the sob story." Carol told her harshly.

"So what, ya expect us to welcome ya'll back?" Daryl snarled at them.

Lori looked down at her stomach then back up at Rick with expectant eyes. "Well... yeah."

"No, fuck that!" Daryl snapped, shaking his head as he looked at Rick, before his attention turned back to T-Dog and Lori. "Not only did ya steal our supplies, ya knocked out Hershel and left my daughter unattended, fuck knows what could have happened to her. Therefore, we ain't got any reason to look after ya and yer kid."

"So that's it, you're all just gonna throw us out to the wolves?" T-Dog said desperate as he looked at them all pleadingly when Hershel spoke.

"Shall we have a meeting to discuss what to do?" He asked them all and they all nodded and grudgingly let T-Dog and Lori in.

"What do ya wanna discuss here, Rick?" Daryl snapped, sitting down looking tired. "They're trouble, look what happened last time ya trusted them. Not to mention they probably killed Dale. And how do we know Shane is even dead, this could be another fuckin' part of their plan! They should be locked in the damn basement if they're stayin' here."

"Daryl, why don't you go take some time to cool off," Rick suggested, not wanting to anger him anymore, both Daryl and Merle had quite the temper. "Let us discuss what to do."

Merle nodded in understanding and took Daryl with him as everyone decided that T-Dog and Lori would stay, they would be in separate rooms and not have their weapons.

"We can't let her out there while she's pregnant." Anna said tiredly and they all nodded as Daryl and Merle came back mot looking angry.

"Sorry for snapping at ya like that." He told Rick.

Rick shook his head. "Don't worry about it. But I want someone watching the two of them at all times, especially T-Dog. Lori isn't in a fit state to do much, since she's pregnant," he added, and everyone nodded and went to do their tasks for the day.

Bailey and Beth went to do some laundry in the kitchen using the bars of Fel's soap and began to wash the clothes as they talked.

"You seem happier." Beth said smiling at Bailey.

Bailey gave her a small smile. "As long as everyone is safe I'll be happy enough. Not to mention we haven't seen Dave since we left the farm, maybe he's finally dead," she added with a humourless laugh. "What about you, how are you?"

"I'm alright, I'm glad dad's ok with me being with Merle." Beth said as they finished washing up the clothes and hung them out to dry as they started to mend clothes with Carol who had come in with Andrea and Maggie.

"Anna's checking over Lori and Carl, Duane and Sophia are with Milton and Penny." Carol said as they mended the clothes.

Beth nodded as she patched up a hole in one of Merle's pairs of jeans. "Anna has a heart of gold, after everything Lori put her through; she's still nice enough to care for her."

Carol smiled. "She sure does."

"Anna's a strong woman; I wish I was like her when Dave was a bastard to me." Bailey said wishing she had never met Dave.

"What happened to you wasn't your fault, Bailey." Carol comforted her and she smiled sadly at all of them.

"I know I've got Daryl and Aoife along with you guys." She said smiling gently.

Carol gave her a sad smile. "I used to be the same as you, you know. My husband, he used to beat me, make my life hell. I know how you felt, and because you didn't leave him, that doesn't make you weak," she said softly. "It makes you a fighter, the same as anyone else. Heck, I didn't leave Ed until he was killed with walkers back at the quarry. Sophia hated life with him, but I couldn't bring myself to walk away from it."

"You thought he would change," Bailey said quietly, a look of understanding in her eyes. "I know all about that."

Carol hugged her warmly before they continued to mend the clothes when they saw Hershel and Phillip come down from watch.

"It's clear; we didn't see any walkers or other groups." Hershel said as he sat down along with Phillip.


"That makes a nice change," Carol said with a small chuckle, as she started heating up the deer that was leftover for dinner. Once again, their food supply was running a little low, especially since Shane and the others had took off with half of it. She plated what they had and passed it around; as everyone sat down to eat.

Rick and Anna shared their food with Carl while Daryl gave half of his to Bailey and Aoife who was in an onsie.

"Are there any towns we can go on a run to?" Anna asked as they ate.

"We could check the map, but any towns could be quite a bit away. Lucky we found this motel in the middle of the road," he said, but he knew they needed more supplies, since half of theirs were gone. "I guess we could go and see what we could find. Even if we found a couple of houses we could look through or something like that."

Everyone nodded as they all finished eating and Glenn went to go get the map as Bailey and Carol washed the dishes while Penny and Sophia took watch.

"I'm glad they know how to protect themselves." Caro said as they washed up.

Bailey nodded and looked out the window where she could see the two girls sitting on the roof, with the sun going down behind them. "Me too. It's good for them, you know, in case they don't always have us around to look out for them. Who knows what could happen to any one of us."

Carol nodded in understanding as they finished washing up and Bailey went to play with Aoife who was laughing at all of them as she played with Bailey's wavy curls.

"You like playing with my hair, don't you?" She asked amused.

Aoife giggled and tugged gently on her hair, making her and Carol laugh, as she snuggled into Bailey.

"I'll take that as a yes then," Bailey smiled at her, as she stroked her cheek gently.

Aoife cuddled into her more as Daryl came in and smiled when he saw Aoife cuddled into Bailey, her light blue eyes sparkling.

"Hey there sweetheart." He said tickling her and she laughed happily as she grabbed at his hair smiling happily.

"Ya like the hair, huh?" Daryl smirked as he took her into his arms. Aoife chuckled and pulled gently at his goatee, making Daryl smile. "Christ, yer a little monster, ain't ya?"

Aoife's answer was a blinding smile before she simply fell asleep in his arms, her light snores making everyone smile.

"I'll take her to bed," Bailey said standing up, as she picked up Aoife and took her to their room.

"So who's all coming on the run tomorrow with Anna and me?" Rick asked.

"I'll go." Daryl said looking at them.

"We'll go as well." Maggie said as Bailey came back.

Rick nodded. "Alright then, if you guys are sure. We're going to try and set off early, around six or seven, just after the sun is up. Hopefully that way we can get in and out without any trouble," he said, as Anna gave him a small smile.

Everyone nodded and headed off to bed with Daryl and Bailey heading into their room as they got ready for bed.


"Seeing as how we've got a room to ourselves, can I touch ya?" He asked smirking.

"What about Aoife?" she asked quietly, looking at the sleeping toddler in the bed. "It's too cold for her to be on her own," she said, as she got changed.

"Good point, sorry." Daryl said hugging her as she kissed him gently on the lips as they picked up Aoife who was fast asleep in her onsie.

"Ya good with her." He said softly.

"Carol taught me what to do," she said, as she got into bed with Aoife in the middle of them. "Besides. She's not hard to look out for, she's well behaved."

"She's our little baby girl." Daryl said with a warm smile as they all cuddled up together and fell asleep


Anna stretched as she walked downstairs, ready to go out on the run. She smiled as she sat down at the breakfast table, where Carol handed her a small bowl of porridge. "Someone's bright and cheery this morning," Carol smiled, glad to see Anna happy.

"I'm just happy that I have all of you with me." She said as she tied her hair into a bun as they saw Bailey and Daryl come in with Lori following behind them.

"Good morning you two." Bailey said smiling as she fed Aoife.

"Morning, guys," Anna smiled as they sat down and ate their breakfast. "Morning Lori," she added, but got no reply. "Whatever."

Rick came into the main room looking fresh, with a couple of bags over his shoulder. "You guys ready to go? Maggie is starting the car."

Everyone nodded and Bailey, Carol and Beth hugged them all as they watched them get into the car and Daryl kissed Aoife and her good bye before they drove off.

"Carol, wanna take watch with me?" She asked as she checked that she had her scythe, knife and gun.

"Sure." Carol said and Bailey took Aoife as well.

"We getting this little lady trained up for watch duty too?" Carol smirked, as they both went up to the roof, and sat down on one of the chairs that were up there.

Bailey chuckled. "Yeah. Plus... I don't want to leave her, you know, with Lori and T-Dog around and all..."

"I understand, don't worry sweetie." Carol said as they looked over the motel and part of the woods when she spoke.

"Will Lori need a c-section?"

Bailey sighed, having studied all various things when she trained to be a nurse. "It's possible yes, if she can't push the baby out naturally. She told Hershel she needed to have a c-section with Carl, so that makes it more likely. Let's just hope we can save her and the baby."

Carol nodded in understanding as they continued to keep watch.