Awkward Talks

ReedusLover3

It had been a week since my encounter with Knox, and that made me uneasy. He practically avoided me all week which made me think he had been planning something. I knew he would retaliate since he hated Daryl and I together. I noticed Carol was acting funny too, she would try to not talk to me and only did if she had too. She also tried getting closer to Daryl which made me see red, she was trying to tear us apart. Daryl had told me right away when she tried something like rub against him in the hallway, and I was thankful he wasn't the only one disgusted by her. Carol was my friend but she was crossing a line. Maggie had noticed this, and immediately was annoyed.

"She is planning something. Her and Knox." Maggie whispered to me as we gathered more firewood. "I can feel it."

"I can too, it is making me nervous." I admitted as I glanced up to see Knox and Rowina talking to each other on the porch. "Should I talk to Rick?"

"Maybe.. I don't think he can do much though."

"Fuck." I cursed, annoyed. "Confront Carol?"

"Why don't you talk to Daryl about it?" Maggie suggested as we reached the porch steps, making the siblings glare at us.

"Yeah, I will." I smirked as Knox grew angry. "I will talk to you later, Mags." I hurried inside and to my room where Daryl was messing with his arrows. He looked up and gave a half smile at seeing me, and then set down his arrows to hug me. "Hey."

"Hey, Beth." His hands trailed down to cup my ass. "What's wrong?"

"I am worried about Knox.. and Carol."

"Why?" He looked concerned and held me tighter against me.

"I think they are planning to tear us apart.."

"Well they will have a hell of a time trying." Daryl joked, making me frown.

"Don't joke about that. Has she done anything to you?"

"She just keeps trying to take care of me, and offers to do everything for me. I just tell her no thanks and that you can do that for me." Daryl sighed. "She gets angry but makes sure to hide it."

"We need to do something."

"We ignore them."

"What?"

"We ignore 'em. If they try to break us up, then they will have fun trying 'cause it ain't fucking happening." I loved when Daryl was like this, it was sexy. "Why are ya' looking at me like that?"

"You're just badass, that's it.." I smirked at him. When dinner time rolled around Daryl and I made our way to the living room with our eyes observing Carol and Knox who seemed to ignore each other. I noticed how Carol kept trying to catch Daryl's attention, and it made me stick closer to him. As we all ate, Rick made an announcement that he needed Daryl, me, Glenn and Maggie for a meeting in his room later that night. I saw Knox's angry face at the statement but he quickly hid it so no one would see it. When everyone was settled for the night Daryl and I made our way to Rick's room where Glenn and Maggie were already waiting.

"Alright, we need to have a back-up plan in case this place doesn't work." That made Glenn look at Rick with a confused look.

"Why? What's going on?" Glenn asked from his spot against the wall next to Daryl.

"I feel like Knox and Rowina are planning something to tear us apart." Rick answered him. "I want to go out looking tomorrow for a good place to stay.. doesn't have to be fancy like this place." His voice was hushed, making sure that no one outside the room could hear him.

"Are we all going out together?" Maggie asked.

"No, I am sending Daryl, Elizabeth and T-Dog out tomorrow. After tomorrow I want you, Glenn and myself to go out to search too. They'll know if we go out all at once, and I am definitely not leaving the group alone with the two of them." Rick referred to Knox and Rowina.

"Sounds like a plan." Glenn nodded. "Thought you said they were good people, Elizabeth?"

"I thought so.. Guess when shit happens, people change." I told him. "I will go tell T-Dog the plan."

"We'll start working on areas to search." Daryl told me. "Come back as quick as you can, don't bring T-Dog or tell Sasha." I nodded then left the room to go down the hall to T-Dog's room, the one he shared with Sasha. Knocking lightly I heard everything go silent in their room, and then Sasha opened the door with her clothes messed slightly.

"Did I wake you?" I asked.

"Uhm.. y-yeah, you did." Sasha stuttered. "Need T-Dog?"

"Yeah." I motioned for the dark skinned man to follow me as we walked outside into the darkness. "We're gonna get more firewood!" I called out to Carol and Rowina who were sitting in the kitchen.

"Be safe!" Carol told us- well probably just T-Dog. It was all an act with her, I knew she didn't care about me.. she wanted me gone from this group.

"Why are we-" T-Dog began to ask.

"We need more wood, and Rick asked me to grab you and get some more." I told him, giving him a glare. We walked farther into the woods until I stopped when we were far away from the house where no light was seen from it. "Tomorrow Rick is sending you, me and Daryl out on a run."

"For what?"

"We are searching for a new place." I whispered lowly. "Just in case. Don't tell Sasha, or anyone else. All that they know is we are going on supply runs and getting things from Sasha's house. Alright?" T-Dog nodded. "Grab some wood so they don't get suspicious if we come back with none." We quickly gathered a large pile and then dropped it by the fireplace. "Thanks, Dog, I probably couldn't have gathered that much without your help." I thanked him as we sat the pile down.

"Yeah, no problem. Night." He told me, passing me to get to the staircase. I waited a few seconds before following him up the steps to Rick's room. Knocking lightly, the door opened for me to come in and I found Rick, Glenn and Daryl peering at a map. They had already circled out where we would look. They had made sure to put it far enough from large cities but close to small ones that would have some sort of convenience stores. As the night progressed we had all the areas planned out so we all headed to bed.

"Seven a.m., be up by then." Rick told Daryl and I as we left the room and went to our own. Carol and Rowina had gone to sleep already so the downstairs area was quiet and dark. When we were in the confines of our room I stripped down to just my underwear and tank-top as I slipped on wool pajama pants and a long sleeve shirt. Sliding under the covers I waited for Daryl as he changed quickly. Lifting the covers to get under them, Daryl pulled me to his chest and we soon fell asleep.

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Daryl had woken me up right at seven o'clock and then left to wake T-Dog. I changed into clothes that would handle the weather outside, it was already getting chilly out. Slipping into a long sleeve black sweater with gold stripes, jeans and my combat boots I waited for Daryl to return. When he did, he changed fast and then we prepared our weapons. I slid my hunting knife into my boot, put my handgun in the back waistband of my jeans and then slung my bow over my shoulder with the canister of arrows. Daryl had nearly the same weapons as me, but he had a shotgun that he held in his hand.

"We'll eat breakfast on the road." He told me as we exited our room to find T-Dog with his arms wrapped around Sasha. They quickly pulled away when we exited the room.

"Hands off, I told you not to touch me." Sasha quickly covered for them, her usual snarly tone. "God, get some boundaries."

"Hell, maybe I just wanted a hug." T-Dog grumbled. Daryl and I stared at each other with our eyebrows raised.

"Ready?" I asked T-Dog before giving Sasha a knowing look. The three of us left quickly in Otis' old blue truck- me squished between the two men. It was quiet for the most part of the trip as we searched for large homes. Nothing seemed suitable for our group. As we were making our rounds back T-Dog pointed out a large home that was pushed back from the road. It was barely noticeable in the woods and seemed large enough. Daryl took the front while T-Dog watched our backs as we moved through the house. There was only three walkers total in the house but they were odd. They were becoming slow.. like the cold was affecting them. In total there were six rooms which could fit the whole group. "This is perfect. It's far away from the old house, bout an hour so they would have trouble finding us. We'll tell Rick when we get back." The men nodded and soon we were in the truck again. T-Dog marked off where the house was on the map and Daryl drove with me leaning against his side, my hand on his knee. "So, T-Dog.." I gave a smirk at the man who immediately knew what I was talking about. "You and Sasha, huh?" I saw Daryl give a smirk towards the man with me.

"Nothing is happening between us." T-Dog said with indifference.

"Come on." I urged him. "Last night when I went to get you, Sasha's hair and clothes were all messed up- so were yours; you smelled like her too, her perfume. Not to mention this morning you two were hugging.." I saw T-Dog tense slightly.

"Fine.." He mumbled, annoyed at me. "We are dating.. Don't let that slip to anyone though, we want it a secret."

"No worries. So I was right." I gave a grin of triumph at T-Dog's confession. "Least I don't have to worry about hiding mine."

"Lucky you." T-Dog said sarcastically. "Least mine isn't so obvious."

"What?" Daryl and I both spat out, looking at the man who now looked like he shit himself.

"Well.. uhm..."

"Spit it out, man!" Daryl pressed.

"You two didn't really hide your relationship well." He began. "When it was at the farm you really didn't have interactions that much, but when you started sleeping in his tent people began assuming. Then when you yelled at everyone earlier that you can 'kiss your woman' too it was pretty obvious." T-Dog looked like he was holding something back so Daryl glared at him.

"Got something else to say?" Daryl asked harshly.

"Uhm.."

"It's alright, T-Dog, you can tell us." I said sweetly to him which made him double-take.

"When you two had.." he paused. "had sex it was obvious."

"What!?" I shouted which made T-Dog cower into the seats. "How did you.. What the hell.."

"You weren't loud or anything but there were some times it was obvious."

"Like when?" I questioned him, my face red.

"When you were screaming Daryl's name." T-Dog said awkwardly. I let out a groan as my face went red, so I buried it in Daryl's chest.

"Oh god.." I moaned annoyed as Daryl let out a laugh.

"Let 'em think whatever the fuck they want. They have sex all the time, so can we." Daryl shrugged making me look at him with my face still red. "Relax. Ya know, ya are really adorable when ya blush." That made me blush even more. After that the car wasn't silent, we all made jokes and comments. I still hadn't gotten over the fact that everyone in the group knew Daryl and I had sex, but I relaxed more. Daryl was right. If they did whatever they wanted, so could we.