Chapter Ten: Everything's About to Change

WARNING: I sadly don't own QAF or WD:(

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Told you I was making the next one lol:p

"Talk"

'Thoughts'

Dreams

Chapter Ten: Everything's About to Change

Brian's POV:

I walked back to the living room with my drink and smirked at the sight before me.

Em and Glenn were making out on the couch.

"Well I must say I'm not entirely shocked since Sunshine told me about this. I just didn't believe it until now." I said and laughed when they jumped a part.

"We wanted to keep it a secret until the time was right." Glenn said and I smiled at him and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"They excepted Rick and Daryl, there's no reason for them to not except you two." I told him and Glenn gave me a thankful smile. I looked at Em and saw the same expression on his face. I smiled at them both and walked to the front porch and saw Daryl on the sit swing. I walked over and sat by him and just looked out at the land.

"They're only been gone an hour. So why does it feel like a month's gone by?" he asked and I smiled at him.

"I feel the same way when I'm not with Sunshine. To me, time only works normal when I'm with him. Nothing else matters." I told him and Daryl looked at me.

"That's how I feel right now." he said and I looked at him.

"You have Carl here too. Hang with him and the others and I promise time will fly and before you know it he'll be pulling up and you'll be with him again." I said and he smiled at me.

"Thanks Bri. I feel better now." he said and I put a hand on his shoulder.

"Don't thank me. Thank my family. I can't tell you how many times I hear that speech." I said and we both laughed. "Let's go see if anyone needs help. I'm sure THAT will speed time up." I said and he nodded and we both went inside together.

As it turned out no one really needed help but we found a soccer ball and we got a game started with me, Micky, Linds, and Hunter on one team and Daryl, Ben, Mel and Carl on the other. The others came out to watch and help keep score.

Before any of us knew it hours went by and we had played about three games with my team winning two of them. We were in the middle of the fourth one, with Daryl's team leading, when we heard a car pull into the driveway. "Someone's running from something." T-dog said and as the car came closer Maggie broke into a run.

"That's dad's truck!" she yelled and the rest of us looked at each other in worry.

"Where's Rick and Justin's car?" Linds asked and Daryl and T-dog broke into a sprint with the others right behind them. When I finally had the courage to move I ran over to the truck only to have Ben and T-dog come back to me and place a hand each on my shoulders.

"Bri stay away you're not gonna want to see this." Ben said and I looked at him and saw that he was fighting back tears. Looking at T-dog he was fighting them to.

"Ben what's going on?!" I asked in a near panic and I looked back at the truck to see that Daryl was helping Rick get something out of the back. When I saw what it was my heart stopped. I started to struggle but Ben and T-dog's grip was strong. "No! Let me go! GOD DAMMIT LET ME GO!" I yelled as Rick ran inside holding Justin with Hershel and Daryl not far behind him.

"Brian you need to calm down a little before we let you into that house." Ben said and I glared at him.

"FUCK YOU BEN! Let me go now!" I yelled and finally got free and ran straight to the house. Once I was inside I ran for the room everyone was crowded around and stopped when they turned to me and everyone had tears running down their faces. I slowly made my way through them until I was finally able to see Justin.

I broke down at the sight before me.

Justin was laying on the bed with his shirt off and the cover up to his waist and he was deathly pale. The thing I couldn't stop staring at was the wound on his side. I walked over to him and I felt some relief when I saw his mark was completely unharmed. But that wound was very bad.

"He got bit Bri." Rick said gently as he came up behind me. I turned to him with wide eyes.

"H-how did he get b-bit?" I asked and he sighed and told me everything. By the end of the story I was shaking and seeing red. "What did this James look like?" I asked and Rick thought for a second.

"He was your height, short brown hair, green eyes and tannish skin. He had a scar going down the entire left side of his face too, and one on his right forearm." he said and I nodded and made a mental note of his description.

'If I ever found you James I swear I'll kill you slowly.' I thought and went around to the other side of the bed and crawled until I was by Justin and lifted him slightly and held him as Hershel made his way back in.

"He's loosing to much blood. I don't know how much I can do for him since it's so close to the mark, but I'll be damned if I don't try to help him." he said and I nodded and held him closer and dared with my eyes for him to make me leave Justin's side. He smiled at me and I relaxed a little. "I'll need you to be here when I go to work on him. I don't have time to put him under and it might help us lose him rather than save him. It's going to be very painful for him and I'm going to need you to be here to help hold him down." he said and I nodded and Rick, Daryl and Glenn stepped forward.

"We'll help you too. One person won't be able to hold him down once you start." Rick said and Hershel nodded and looked at the others.

"I know you want to be here, I don't blame you, but I need for everyone to leave and shut the door alright." he said gently and they nodded and started to leave until it was Deb and Carl standing there.

"Help my brother." Carl said and Deb started to cry a little and shut the door. Rick and I looked at each other and saw tears in each others eyes.

"I need to get started." Hershel said and to everyone's dismay Justin started to stir.

"B-Brian?" he asked and I smiled at him.

"I'm right here baby, I'm right here." I said and he whimpered.

"H-hurts" he said and more tears came to my eyes.

"I know baby, Hershel's gonna fix you up right now. Rick, Daryl and Glenn are here too." I said and he opened his eyes slightly and I got scared when I saw they were glazed over. Hershel must've saw them too because he instantly walked over to the wound with cleaning supplies.

I tightened my hold on him and looked at him. "Baby Hershel has to clean the wound before he cleans it OK." I told him and he groaned a little and screamed when Hershel started to clean the wound. My heart shattered completely at the scream and Rick, Daryl and Glenn came over and grabbed a part of him and help me keep him still.

"Shhh, it's OK baby. I'm here, I'm here. Shhh." I kept saying in his ear as Hershel cleaned the wound. Five minutes later Hershel looked at me and sighed.

"I've cleaned it as best as I can. I'm gonna have to start now." he said and nodded at him and inwardly smiled when he still asked me for permission to touch Justin. As Hershel was getting the stuff I couldn't help but look at the wound and quickly let go of Justin and puked on the other side of the bed. The wound was the size of a small orange and looked like shit, literal shit, was coming out of it.

"I thought you fucking cleaned it?!" I asked and he sighed and looked at me as I cleaned my face and brought Justin closer to me.

"I said I did as best as I could." he said and came back over to Justin's side. "He can hear you still. This is going to hurt him far more than cleaning it did. I need you to warn him so he doesn't move, if he does I'll have the risk of hitting the mark and everyone here knows what'll happen then." Hershel said and I guess Glenn didn't know because he leaned over and asked Rick what it meant and when Rick told him Glenn paled badly.

"Sunshine baby, Hershel has to patch it up now. This is going to hurt a lot but I need you to not move for me OK. Squeeze my hand as hard as you need to but you can't move OK." I told him and he opened his eyes and nodded slightly and I took his hand in mine and the boys grabbed a part of Justin to make sure he didn't move. Hershel started and Justin screamed louder than before and instantly squeezed my hand to the point that no blood was getting into my hand.

I barely noticed though, I was more focused on Sunshine and praying he'll make it.

This went on for what felt like an eternity but was only an hour and a half later Hershel stood up and whipped his brow. Justin had passed out from the pain about fifteen minutes after it started, much to our relief because his screams were killing each of us little by little, and I just held him. Planning on not letting go for a long time.

"I've done everything I can do. He'll live but he'll be in a lot of pain for awhile and won't get his strength back for awhile either. We're lucky he's still with us, that bite was so close to his mark that there were times I thought it actually hit it." Hershel said and I Justin closer to me. I turned to the others and smiled at them.

"Thank you, all of you, you being here helped me and Justin and Hershel a lot." I said and they all smiled at me.

"I've grown fond of Justin and I know Em speaks highly of him." Glenn said and I smiled a him and looked at Justin and petted his sweaty hair.

"How long 'til he wakes up?" I asked and Hershel looked at Justin.

"I'd say not until tomorrow morning at the earliest. The latest tomorrow night." he said and I nodded and pulled Justin more to me and got comfortable for sleep. I looked up at Rick and smiled brightly at him.

"Thank you for bringing him to me." I said and he looked at the ground.

"I promised to protect him and he ended up getting bit! You should be yelling at me not thanking me." he said and I shook my head.

"You tried to get him away from James. No one could've known how today was going to end. You tried to protect him and brought him here to me. I say that's doing a good job protecting." I said and he gave me a soft smile and pulled Daryl flush to his chest and held him tight.

"I'll be back tomorrow morning. Right now I just need to old my boys." Rick said and I nodded in understanding and watched him leave.

"I'll be back too. I just really want to be with Em right now." Glenn said and I once again nodded in understanding. When everyone had left I looked down at the precious creature in my arms and smiled at him.

'I'm so glad you proved to be immune to both the bite and the scratch. Just please don't make this a habit.' I begged and laid my head on the top of his and fell asleep.

And there you go!:) hope you guys like it so far!:) to those that are probably wondering I'm going to go ahead and tell you. Since the mark is Justin's weak spot, the fact that he got bit so close to it is why it got as bad as it did. If he were to get bit on say his arm then it would still be bad but not as life threatening as it was near the mark. Hope that clears something up for people lol:p again hope you guys like it so far!:)