Carol all but flung herself at him when he pulled up outside her work to take her home, he held her tight.
'I'ma sorry,' he said quietly, 'I didn't get it, now I do,'
Carol didn't say anything because she wanted to blast him for being so stupid all this time, she lost count how many times she asked him to come home, she knew she treated him rough the past few weeks but he had to know he wanted her, even though he didn't know he did or tried to feel like he didn't want her.
'The kids?' Carol asked against his chest.
'Well Merle has the boy cleaning shit with a tooth brush, and Soph was up a ladder cleaning the grease off the walls in the work shop when I left.' Daryl told her.
'Is that mean?' Carol asked.
'Nope,'
Daryl moved her over starting up the truck taking her home, he came in behind her looking around at everything in the house. 'I'm just going to move in? Just bring my stuff?'
'Unless your supper attached to Merles place?' Carol asked him.
'What about Andrea?' he asked.
'She can stay here too,' Caro told him. He just stood then nodding, moving close to put his arms around her.
'I promised Rick I'd keep Carl till he got off shift, so I bring him here after work, what am I doing, can I come home tonight?' Daryl looked at her, Carol nodded. She yawned and rubbed her eyes.
'Yeah, whatever you want to do, I'm going to sleep, you guys get dinner on the way home, then just stay, you can get your stuff at the weekend,' Carol told him. She yawned again, he helped her get through the bathroom and to bed. She all of a sudden having finally relaxed about everything was dead tired. She was happy.
He tucked her in sitting by her leaning in to kiss. She yawned and was asleep. Daryl watched she looked happy and relaxed. He had taken a lot of pressure off her by agreeing to what she wanted for years. To come home.
Back at the work shop there were two very tired teen's complaining that they should be allowed to have a tea break for afternoon tea. Merle relented and gave them a can of coke each and some food from the cupboards and was standing drinking a coffee watching them closely while they stood in the corner of the work shop drinking and talking to each other.
'Your Dad's mad,' Carl stated.
'Understatement, he's past being mad, Uncle Merle's mad too,' Sophia looked over to Merle to see if he was still looking at them.
'He's watching,'
'Your lucky he's just watching,' Sophia looked towards the car park seeing her Dad's truck come back in, she stepped further away from Carl. Daryl come in looking at them indicated for Sophia to follow him to the office. She followed him down the hall wondering if she was going to be read the riot act or not.
'Ya Ma and I are getting back together,' He told Sophia, she looked at him and rolled her eyes.
'About time,' she stood there waiting for the next thing he was going to say.
'And you are going to be on your best behavior and a tight leash, no more dating,' Daryl told her.
'What! No! That's not fair,' Sophia cried. 'You can't do that,'
'I can and I did, I don't want you upsetting your Ma, so until you can behave at school, no more dating,' Daryl told her.
'I'm telling Ma!' Sophia cried.
'Good luck with that, but we got a call to the school about what you did,' Daryl looked around not knowing what to say next but he knew what minds 15year old boys had and he didn't want them acting that out with his daughter, no way.
'But you dated at 15,' Sophia complained.
'Soph, you and Carl go clean up get changed we are closing up to go get dinner in 1/2 hour.' Daryl told her, sitting down at his computer finishing work there for the day before leaving with his two teenage brats.
Merle come down to the office, 'How's Carol?'
'I'm going back, she's taking me back,' Daryl told him.
'Bout time,' Merle wandered out to keep an eye on Sophia and Carl.