Yikes, I'm out of practice, but here goes another attempt at a tumblr prompt.

It has only been two weeks since the people from Woodbury had arrived, but already they were proving to me more difficult then they were worth.

Maggie was getting ready to go on a run with Daryl, Glenn and Carol. That was a larger group then they were used to taking, but it was rather difficult to gather enough supplies for everyone that was at the prison with only two people.

"Hey Maggie, ya'll are going out on a run today, right? Need any extra hands?" The voice that showed up beside her belonged to Tyreese. Since he and his sister had joined the group, they had been eager to prove to Rick and the others that they were worth their salt. They were pretty good to have around, and they didn't make bad company, but Maggie was determined to only go on a run with her family today.

"Nope, I think the four of us can handle it. It's a pretty simple list we've got today." She responded, turning to face him as she finished loading her gun.

"Four? Whose going with you?" Tyreese asked her, probably searching for a way to squirm his way into the mix.
"Glenn, Daryl and Carol." She responded busily, packing ammo in her pockets.

"Carol? I didn't know she went on runs with you guys," Tyreese murmured, his voice was shocked, and Maggie suddenly felt the need to defend her friend.

"Carol is more then capable of going on runs with us, actually, she's pretty good to have around." The bite in her voice was probably unnecessary, but Maggie had watched Carol grow into her own, and having some new guy question that didn't sit well on her nerves.

"I wasn't saying that she couldn't, I mean, that's not what I mean…I was only thinking, Carol is a pretty impressive lady, isn't she?" He breathed out quickly in defense, and once his voice steadied, he continued,

"and you know her better than me…so, you wouldn't happen to know if she was, I don't know, single or anything, would you?"
Maggie snorted, cocking her head to the side and raising her eyebrows, unsure of what to say.
Was Carol single? As far as Maggie could see, the answer was yes, but here lately, she and Daryl had been getting a hell of a lot closer than they were at the farm, and on the road, if that was even possible.

She didn't know if they were exclusive, or even if the idea was in their heads, but she knew that they were really close, and both felt very strongly about the other.

They acted like a couple sometimes too, if she was being honest. Even if it wasn't exclusive, even if they were only close friends, she didn't want to risk messing that up by giving him false hope, so she didn't give him a definite answer,

"Don't go there."
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Maggie hadn't given him a real answer, so Tyreese felt no qualms about talking to Carol. It's not like he was flirting with her or anything, and even if he was, why shouldn't he "go there"? She had strong relations to her group, but for the most part, she seemed unattached.

"Hey Carol, I heard you were going out on the run today." He smiled at her, watching her pack ammo into a small bag attached to her belt.

"Yup. Why, do you need something?" She responded kindly, to focused on her task to actually look him in the eye.

"Nahh, I was just curious, you don't usually go on runs, do you?" Carol looked at him, and for a moment he was unsure if she had offended her or something, but she responded just as sweetly as always.

"No, I don't usually, but they can't expect me to sit around here forever." She ended her sentence with a laugh, and Tyreese found himself questioning, not for the first time, what she thought of him.

She was always sweet, talked to him if there was room for a conversation, but the more time he spent at the prison, the more he recognized that she was like that with everyone. Was that why Maggie had told him what she did?

"Carol, you ready to head out, Glenn and Maggie are already outside." Daryl's voice invaded the silence from the door, snapping Tyreese out of his thoughts long enough to watch Carol as she and Daryl were leaving.

He smiled and offered a goodbye, to both of them, out of respect, but his smile dropped as he caught Daryl's eye.

His eyes were narrowed, his face concentrated on something, wearing an indefinable expression, intimidating, yet indefinable. The look was gone almost as soon as Tyreese noticed it because now Daryl's attention had moved towards Carol.

She was backing out the door, tugging on the sleeve of his jacket impatiently, eager to leave the prison. He walked outside after them, watching Daryl poke her in the ribs gently, as he said something to her. Tyreese could here Carol's tinkling laugh, followed by Daryl's much gruffer one.

He found this odd. Carol smiled and laughed with everyone on occasion, even the new ones, Daryl didn't. The smile on his face was a new sight for Tyreese, and even if he'd seen Carol smile before, the look on her face while she was with Daryl couldn't have been anymore different.

From the side of the car, Maggie was watching him watching them. She shook her head, and that's when he realized.

'Oh. That's why I shouldn't go there.

Opinions please? I haven't put much thought into the whole Tyreese/Carol/Daryl dynamic because in all honesty, I can't see it, despite the comics. So this one had to be short, simple and to the point, but most likely will be revisited once the show starts back again, and I can see a bit more.