*Authors note* Here's another chapter for you guys! Thank you so much for reading! There's a Boondock Saints reference in this chapter because I saw the pefect oppritunity to put it in the story ;)
Cattra1992 - Thank you for your awesome review once again! & I can't tell you if Emily will go back to Daryl or go with someone else sorry! I appreciate the review though and glad you found last chapter as intense as I planned it to be!
Chapter 10
After a while of sitting at the fire I heard someone approaching. If it's Daryl I'm gonna punch him right in the face. Oh its Lori, even better. "Hi.." She said timidly as she sat down beside me. "Hi." I muttered as I took another drink. "I just wanted to say I'm sorry for everything I said. I realize how stupid and immature of me it was. I've been thinking about everything I said a lot and I feel awful about it. I know you and Rick don't have anything and I heard that you and Daryl aren't together either because of me. I'm really sorry if there's anyway I can make it up to you I will. If you want Rick I won't hold it against you either, he's a good man." Lori told me quietly. Lori's apologizing to me? Well I'll be damned. "I'm not gonna lie and say 'its okay', but I forgive you. Life's too short now to make enemies. As for Rick I haven't really thought about it, I mean now that Daryls fucking that new girl I suppose I could have Rick, but I don't know if I'm even ready for anyone else." I explained calmly. She nodded her head in understanding. "Well whatever you do I'll support you in anyway, I don't want you to hate me. I actually think we could be friends, I mean I really liked you before you told Rick about me and Shane. I still like you, don't get me wrong, I stopped for a while though." Lori explained to me. "I don't hate you, I liked you before all that too. I hope you know that I didn't tell Rick about Shane on purpose. I had no idea he was your husband until after I brought up that you and Shane were together." I told her nicely. "Its alright, it was a honest mistake." She said sweetly. I held out my hand for her to shake. "Friends?" I asked. Lori pulled me into a hug. "Friends don't handshake, they hug." She told me. I laughed and hugged her back. "Get some rest, Carls gonna need you when he wakes up." I told her kindly. She nodded, got up and walked into the house. I was once again left alone at the camp fire. "Why the hell did ya hug her?" I heard a familiar voice ask. "Get the fuck away from me. She came to apologize for what she did. She actually meant it. Believe it or not I like man period more than I like you right now." I told Daryl harshly. He didn't go, instead he sat down beside me. Jesus, I'm not drunk enough. I took another swig from the whiskey bottle that was now half empty. "Are you daft or just willfully deaf? I said fuck off." I told him. "Things ain't gonna get fixed if we don't ..talk." Daryl muttered. I rolled my eyes at him. "What is there to say? That when Lori made up some bullshit about me fucking Rick you believed her, then when I wanted to talk you blew me off every chance you got. Then like a day later I catch you fucking some girl who you haven't even known for twenty four hours. Is that what you wanna talk about? Go fuck yourself Dixon." I told him harshly. Daryl sighed. "I'll stay here all night." He told me. "Good, I was just leaving." I said as I got up and headed for my tour bus. Daryl grabbed my hand gently to try and stop me, but I just moved out of his grip and walked off to the bus. As soon as I got to the bus I went to bed. This day sucks, tomorrow I'm going out looking for Sophia.
When I woke up the sun was shining bright. I have the worst headache ever, but I'm just gonna have to suck it up because I'm finding that little girl today. I rolled out of bed, got dressed and walked over to the others outside. Everyone was there except Daryl. Kenzie couldn't look me in the eye and everyone else looked at me with pity. I don't understand why, I just caught Daryl fucking someone its not like my daughters missing. "So who wants to come with me to look for Sophia?" I asked. "Daryl already went out, he's still gone. Why don't you come help us get a walker out of the well instead?" Rick informed me. "Alright, lets get to it then." I muttered as I walked towards the well. I looked down the well and saw it. "Whoa! That's a big fucker!" I exclaimed. I began to laugh. "So how are we doing this? Bullet in the brain and be done with it?" T-Dog asked. "That's a horrible plan." I muttered. "No, its a good plan!" He protested. "Its a stupid plan, if that thing hasn't infected the water already putting a bullet in its head sure will." Andrea told him. I smiled at her, finally someone with some sense. "Then what do you ladies suggest we do?" Kenzie said rudely. Jesus I hate her, I thought she seemed nice, but nope she's just a dumb slut. Andrea looked at me and rolled her eyes. "Well I suggest using rope or some shit to lower someone down into the well and wrap the rope around the walker. That way we can pull it up with no blood or guts. Is that good enough for you?" I asked her equally as rudely. She just scoffed. I noticed Andrea smiling at me. Andrea seems nice, a little whiny when it comes to her gun, but nice. I should talk to her more. "Who's going down there?" Glenn asked. Everyone except Maggie and the band tured around and looked at him. "Oh." He muttered. My friend isn't gonna be used as walker bait. "No! Glenn isn't gonna be the one who always has to be used as walker bait, not this time!" I told everyone firmly. Maggie smiled at me and Glenn looked relieved. "Well then who do you suggest does it?" Kenzie asked in a snarky voice. "You." I said happily as I smiled at her. "Me? What? Why?" She asked. "Everyone has done something for this group and I honestly haven't seen you do anything, you gotta do something." I explained as I continued smiling at her. "She's got a point mate." Aaron said with a smile on his face as well. Kenzie looked at us defeated. "Fine, get your stupid fucking rope." She said. I smiled at Glenn who returned the smile.
Once we got the rope we lowered Kenzie into the well. "Okay just wrap it around the swimmer." Jim told her calmly. "Okay." She muttered. As we were lowering her into the well the tree we were using as a pulley snapped. "Shit." Shane muttered as we all struggled to pull her up. "Get me the fuck out of here!" She screamed. I couldn't help but smirk. When we finally got her up everyone looked defeated. "For christ sake, if ya want something done right you gotta do it yourself." I mumbled. "You're going down there?" Aaron asked. "Yep, go get Merle, he'll help." I told him and he did. After a few minutes of waiting he came back with Merle. "Yer fuckin' crazy." Merle muttered. "Well Kenzie couldn't do it right the first time so I gotta take over." I explained. "Fuckin' useless slut." He muttered. I couldn't help but to laugh. As I was lowered down I realized how stupid of me it was to do this, but whatever we need water. Once I got close enough I wrapped the rope around its body and asked them to pull me back up. Once I was up we all began to pull it up. "Its stuck!" Glenn yelled. "Everyone stop pulling, its just gonna rip it in half!" I warned them. "I'll go move it, just stop pulling guys." I told them. No one stopped pulling and before I could even move the body was ripped in half, its organs were spewing into the water. "Fuckin' told ya." I mumbled. "Wanna come on watch with me?" Andrea asked. I shrugged, might as well. "Sure." I said happily as we began to walk towards the five minutes into our watch we spotted a walker. "Walker!" I called out. "I got it!" Andrea said. "No, let the guys get it. Either don't shoot or run over there and stab it in the head. The noise will just attract more mate." I explained to her. "I bet I can nail it." She muttered. "No, somethings wrong. They would've killed it by now if it was a walker Andrea. I'm gonna go check it out." I told her. I got down from the RV and started running towards the figure. "Oh shit, Daryl?" I asked. He looks like he got fucked up. "That's the third time ya pointed that at me, you gonna pull the trigger or not?" Daryl muttered to Rick. Before I could even comprehend what happened Daryl he had been shot. "No!" Rick and I yelled. "I was just kidding." Daryl muttered before blacking out. Fuck he can't die. I ran closer to him and helped Rick drag him to Hershel. "What happened?" Hershel asked. "He had an accident of some type then got shot." Rick explained. "We don't have any room in my house, is there anywhere else we can take him to be worked on?" Hershel asked. Without even thinking I blurted out "He can take my bed on the tour bus." Rick looked at me surprised, but he didn't say anything. Hershel told us to take him there.
Once Hershel got back with the supplies I watched as he stiched him up. Once he was done him and Rick left, but I couldn't bring myself to leave. I sat on the edge of the bed and held Daryls hand in mine. I didn't even realize it, but I'd been sitting like that crying for hours. Finally Daryl woke up. I quickly let go of his hand and wiped my eyes. I still don't forgive him for what he did to me at all. "How long have ya been here?" Daryl asked quietly. "Since ya got here." I muttered. "When was that?" He asked. Jesus what's with the twenty questions? "Hours ago." I mumbled. Daryl smiled. "What the fuck happened to you anyways?" I asked. "Damn horse knocked me off and sent me flyin' down some cliff, I ended up with one of my bolts through my side. Then when I tried to climb up I got at least half way up then fell back down, then got attacked by walkers, made it back here only to get shot." He explained to me. "Oh shit." I muttered. Daryl didn't say anything. "I'm gonna get going." I said as I began to get up. Daryl grabbed my hand and looked into my eyes. "Please stay." He begged. "Nah, I think I'll go get Kenzie and tell her you're awake. She's been asking about you." I muttered. Everytime she'd try and come in my brother would stop her, but I knew she wanted to come check on him. Daryl looked hurt by my words. "Will ya ever let that go?" He asked quietly. "Let it go? Wow you've gotta be kidding me. I walk in on you fucking another woman and I'm supposed to let it go? Everytime we have a fight am I gonna walk in on you fucking her then just have to let it go?" I asked harshly. Daryl sighed. "Yer right, it was beyond wrong. It was horrible and I'm sorry. I don't deseve you, I never did." Daryl told me quietly. "You're right, you don't. Before you fucked her you did, but you fucked up everything we had by doing that." I said firmly as I got up and walked to the door. Before I left I turned around and said one more thing. "Even though you're an asshole I'm glad you're alive, don't fuckin' scare me like that again." I told him. After I said that I left the room and sat down in the main area of the tour bus.