Save Me, Save You
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summary: twenty-nine year old Kathryn Smith and her daughter three year old Jasmine have been on their own until they meet the Atlanta group on the highway. both mother and daughter carry with them a scared and frightening past but Kathryn is also carrying with her something more. Enter Daryl Dixon Hunter, tracker, and all around bad ass as well carries a dark past can they both save each other or will someone or something tear them apart?
Theme song: I Need You Now by: Lady Antebellum/ Back To One by: Brian McKnight
Chapter 16: In His Arms Once More and Hello Uncle Merle
Kathryn jolted awake, sweat pouring down her face. She looks around remembering she wasn't with the Governor, but she was also not with Daryl nor was he with her.
Sighing, she gets dressed out of her pjs and grabs his poncho putting it on.
Kathryn picks the twins up, her mother walks in grabbing Joe. They both go and feed them bottles since they had been off breast milk for a while.
After their feeding, she decides to take them out again.
She had noticed about this time that Jasmine and Carl had started hanging out more.
Glenn had become crazy because of what happened to him and Maggie, Rick well he was still AWOL.
She felt like she needed to get her twins out of the chaos.
She sat down in the field yard, the babies cooing and squealing as the stared at the grass.
Kathryn giggles at them, how she wished Daryl was here to see them.
Chrissi reaches out for the tall weeds as it caresses her cheek.
The infant squeals and coos and Joe follows along with her.
"You two are so goofy you know that?" Kathryn laughs as she watches them.
Carol comes down telling her that she and Axel were going to make shields on the cat walk.
Kathryn nods; she grabs a wheat grass and pulls it out of the ground. She tickles the babies with it making them giggle.
"You like that…uh? That tickles?" She asks in her baby voice.
Kathryn looks up as her father hops by. "Dad you need help?"
Hershel turns and smiles. "Yes please, I want to try and talk some sense into Rick."
Kathryn nods. "Ok yea, I can help." She gets up putting each child on each shoulder.
They walk to the fence, her father starts whispering Rick's name so he won't attract walkers.
They stand there waiting until Rick gets close "You know I wouldn't have hobbled down here if it wasn't important. Are you coming back soon?" He asks.
Rick looks around then at Kathryn who was holding the twins.
He continues. "Glenn's on a war path, smart as he is he can't fill your boots. I'm afraid he's reckless, we need you now more than ever."
Rick looks at them. "If you're so worried about it, you leave."
Kathryn shakes her head, the man is unstable,and he's cracked she thought.
Hershel looks at Kathryn and the babies. "What are you doing out here?" He asks Rick.
Rick looks away from them. "I...I've been, I've got stuff out here."
Kathryn sighs. "How much longer will you need?" She asks, she now really wished Daryl was here.
Rick starts talking like a child looking nervous "I...I don't know."
"I know what he needs! A padded cell!" She thinks to herself.
Hershel looks desperate, asking if Rick needed help.
Kathryn holds in a snort. "Too late for that crazy train has already left the tracks." God she needed to stop with the smartass comments in her head.
Her and her father turn to leave. "I saw something," Her and her father turn around to look at him. "I saw...I saw Lori, I'm seeing Lori. I know it's not really her. But there's gotta be a reason, it's gotta mean somethin."
Once again she shakes her head. "Yup, man is cracked."
Hershel asks if he had heard Lori's voice on the phone.
Rick nods. "Yea and Shane's."
"Do you see them now?" Rick looks at Hershel like a lost puppy and shakes his head.
Her father tries talking sense into him, which is hard to do when someone goes skitzo on ya.
Rick finally says that he can't return with them, he begins to walk away.
"Damn it Rick get your ass back here! You fucking OWE me! You made my husband leave!" She yells at him.
Hershel stops her shaking, his head huffing as she mutters fuck him.
She turns when gun fire goes off; Kathryn screams and dives to the ground covering her babies.
Her father lands on top of her. "When I say go, I want you to take the twins and run back to the prison."
She looks back at him. "But!" He shakes his head. "No buts listen!"
Kathryn nods as the gunfire gets louder the twins start wailing.
"Crawl to the bus!" Hershel yells, Kathryn nods as she keeps crawling and covering the babies.
Tears brim her eyes but she pushes them back.
A stray bullet hits her leg through and through, Kathryn screams but doesn't stop.
Everything seems to stop, Kathryn looks at her father.
That's when a bread trucks comes ramming through the gates and up the gravel walk.
Kathryn's eyes grow wide, her babies wailing. They stop where Kathryn was still.
Her fear hit her, she was gonna be sick. The gate behind the bread truck falls open.
Walkers come pouring out of the truck moaning and groaning. It doesn't help that the babies are attracting them. "Daddy, what do we do?! The babies, I can't let them die!"
Her father grabs her arm. "Do not panic and listen to me, we are going to get out."
She nods as Rick yells for them to get out.
Her father kneels up and starts shooting, he picks the walkers off one at a time.
"You're gonna run out and we don't have ammo!" She yells.
Hershel ignores her and keeps shooting.
Michonne comes running to them hacking off heads.
Glenn comes driving up; Kathryn stands more like limps to Michonne who helps her to the truck.
Glenn helps Hershel; all of them pile inside as he pulls away.
Kathryn looks at Michonne. "Thank you, thank you for helping us."
Michonne nods, looking down at Kathryn's leg.
The young mother lays her head back breathing heard. "I know I got shot dad, will fix it back inside." She smiles.
WD~WD~WD~WD
Once inside, Hershel sews up Kathryn's leg.
Daryl stands beside her. "I'm sorry...I left thought it was right." He mumbles biting his thumb.
Kathryn shakes her head. "Don't need to be, you did what you had to. Don't ever doubt yourself."
Daryl sighs. "Ya keep tell'n me." Kathryn nods. "You and I'll keep telling till it sets in your head cowboy."
Daryl smirks as he kisses her. Jasmine hadn't come to talk to him yet, he knew she was probably mad.
After Kathryn was stitched everyone debated on whether or not to stay or go.
"We have to stay...the babies can't live on the road not yet any way." But her voice of opinion went unheard as everyone grew loud.
Merle made valid points though and she hated that she agreed.
Her and Daryl stood leaning against the rails as Rick said they were staying.
Sighing she looks at her boots, Hershel yells at Rick to get his head out of his ass.
Though not that bluntly, Daryl looks at her. "Come on, we need to talk."
She nods agreeing with him he leads her into another cell.
They sit on the bed. "What happened? Before we saved ya?" He asks quietly.
Taking a deep breath, she goes into an explanation, before too long Daryl is standing and pacing pissed.
Merle had told him what happened, he just didn't want to believe him.
"Daryl I'm sorry...what I did...going out on that run." She shakes her head wiping her eyes.
"It's never going to happen again." Daryl stops and looks down at her. "I also understand...if you don't want to have anything to do with me."
Daryl closes his eyes, opening them and kneels in front of her.
"Darlin I ain't going to stop loving you, I will have everything to do with you."
He grabs her pulling her into his lap. "Yer right, ya ain't going back on runs again. Won't let it happen."
She nods sighing, for the first time since she's been back at the prison she felt safe.
"I love you Daryl Dixon." Daryl kisses the top of her head "I love you to Kathryn Dixon, with all my heart."