Chapter 28

Glen ran towards us as we made it to the car, I kept my head down the whole time.

"Rick thank god."

"Now we got a problem here, I need you to back up." Glen saw Merle and pointed his gun at him, everyone was yelling different things, I stepped between Merle and Daryl and pushed Merle behind the tree protecting him. Daryl turned and saw the back of my head, and the fact that I was pushing him and got the wrong idea. He grabbed my hair, pulled me down to the ground, and hovered over me with his knife out. He stopped when he saw my face he just looked at me.

"You're supposed to be dead." His was rough; I sighed and pushed his off me. I stood up and walked over to the car, Daryl just looked at me.

"Whoa brother you've gone native." He turned and yelled at Merle.

"It's better than you hanging out with that psyco back there."

"Right, he is a charmer, I got to tell you that. He's been putting the wood to your girlfriend Andrea big time baby." He licked his lips at Michonne. Glen was shocked.

"Andrea's at Woodbury?" Rick was trying to get everyone to drop their weapons. I sat down behind the car and broke down crying, I put my head on my knees and cried. Daryl came around the car and saw me, everyone else stayed and talked in the forest, it was just him and me.

"Emily?" I looked up at him and moved away from him.

"Stay away from me." He looked confused. "Please just leave me alone."

"Why?" he looked down at me and got down to his knees and looked me in the eyes. "I thought you were dead all this time, Carol sai-" I stood up and walked down the road away from him, he caught up to me and stopped me.

"Go back to Carol then!" I yelled in his face. "But if you go to where she is I won't be going with you." He looked down. "I thought so." I turned and started to walk into the forest. I couldn't go to the prison, if I saw Carol I would probably kill her and I knew that no one wanted that. Daryl didn't follow me into the forest. I walked for a few hours when I came across a cabin near a creek, I found a bucket and some cloths. I filled the bucket and got undressed, I cleaned all the blood away. I found a sheet in the room and wrapped myself in it. Then I walked to the creek and washed as much blood as I could off my clothes I brought them back to the cabin hung them on a tree and went inside to sleep. I was free from Woodbury. I found Daryl and lost him again because of my stupidity and I was alone with only a knife for protection, this day could have started better.

Daryl

I stood there talking to Rick, Glen and Maggie, Merle was just waking up from being knocked out by Rick. Emily left quickly; I didn't even find anything out about her, about our baby.

"He isn't coming to the prison. Do you really want him in a cell next to Carol, Beth, Holly, Caitlin?" I had to interrupt Glen.

"He ain't a rapist." He looked straight at me.

"No but his friend is." Maggie looked at Glen. Rick interrupted him.

"He was the one that took Glen and Maggie." I sighed.

"We're not going to take him but we are going to take miss samurai?"

"No."

"He is my brother." Rick looked at me. "He is blood." Glen looked at Merle.

"He isn't family. My family is standing right here, and is waiting at the prison." Rick grabbed my arm.

"He isn't our family, but you are." I looked back at my brother, and out towards the woods where Emily disappeared.
"Fine." I turned away. "We'll fend for ourselves." They followed me.

"That's not what we wanted." I turned and looked at Rick.

"Don't tell me to leave him you've done that one time before. I ain't going to do it." I went to the car and grabbed my stuff. Merle saw me and came over to me.

"Come on baby brother." I grabbed his arm and pulled him towards the forest where Emily left." Rick stopped me.

"Where did Emily go?" I looked back.

"She ran off, didn't want to see Carol. I don't know why. If I find her I'll send her to you if you want." He nodded at me, I turned and followed Merle he put his arm around me. I heard their car pull away and race down the road.

I looked down at the trail Emily left, Merle didn't know what I was doing, after a while he came over to me and saw the trail.

"Whoa now baby brother, what you following her for? Huh." I pushed him out of the way.

"I needed to talk to her, ain't none of your business." I walked along the trail till I saw a building come into view, a small cabin. I walked closer to the cabin and saw some clothes hanging off a tree, I felt them they were partially wet. I walked up to the door of the cabin and looked in in window, I saw in the corner a small body curled up under a sheet, I couldn't see if it was her. I went to open the door but it was locked, the body did not move. Merle pushed me aside.

"Here let me." I stood back and Merle pulled out his knife, he started to pry the door open. He got the door open and walked in straight towards the corner. I grabbed his arm and pushed him back.

"Get outside. Now."

"No, little brother I'm fine here." I saw him looking past me. I turned around and saw Emily sitting up holding the blanket against herself, blank expression on her face.

"Both of you leave. Now!" I turned to her.

"No. I ain't leaving. We need to talk." She looked down at the ground. Merle sat on the ground.

"I'm not going either, like this sight." I turned to him angry.

"Get the fuck out Merle, go hunt or something but just leave." He pouted stood up and walked out the door slamming it after him. I turned to Emily, I saw she had goose bumps, I dropped to my knees and grabbed my bag, she just looked at me. I pulled out the poncho she had given me and handed it to her, she just held it in her hands and looked at it, tears fell down her face, I moved forward and held her in my arms, she cried into my chest.

I sat there with her for hours, she stopped crying and started to get up.

"What are you doing?" I looked up at her. She smiled.

"I want to get my clothes, they are probably dry." I stood up and walked outside bringing her clothes in for her, I handed them to her she just looked at me. "Are you going to turn around?" I rolled my eyes and turned. I waited and looked out the window, I saw Merle walking back. I turned to talk to her as she pulled her shirt on; she had bruises all over her body. I just looked at her stunned.

"What did they do to you?" she looked up from the ground at me.

"Does it matter?" she grabbed my poncho from the floor and threw it to me. "I'm gonna kill him anyway." I was shocked I have never heard her speak like that before.

"No you're not going anywhere near him." She looked at me when Merle walked in.

"What is she dressed for." She walked over to him and pulled out her knife, putting it against his throat, pushing him against the now closed door.

"You are going to shut up now." He just looked at me, while she stood there. I said something I knew would get her attention.

"Em, where's the baby?" she dropped the knife letting it fall to the floor.

"Dead." She ran out of the cabin. Merle looked at me.

"Daryl, what baby?" I just shook my head and ran after her. I found her sitting beside the creek.

"Em, I found out from Lori. Why did I have to find out from her and not you?" she stood and looked at Merle coming out from a bush.

"Now little brother what trouble have you got yourself into?" Emily snapped.

Emily

I ran to where Merle was standing, knocking him to the ground and punching him. Daryl grabbed me and threw me off him, I tried to get up but Daryl held me down.

"Get off me!" Merle grabbed the gun from Daryl belt and pointed it at me.

"I should shoot this bitch right now." Daryl screamed at him and pushed him to the ground.

"Everyone calm the fuck down." I sat up and looked at him, I saw a walker behind him.

"Daryl." He ignored me. "Daryl, behind you." He turned and saw the walker. He got knocked to the ground the blade falling out of his hand. I jumped up and pulled the walker off him, I reached for my knife but it was not there. Damn it I dropped it in the cabin. "Merle, shoot it! Shoot it now!" he put the gun down and left me to fend for myself. I pushed the walker to the ground and stood on its head. I turned to where Daryl and Merle sat on the ground looking at me, Daryl was being held back by Merle. He push Merle away.

"Get off me!" he jumped up and started to check my arms for bites. "Why did you hold me back?"

"Wanted to see if she could take care of herself." I was so angry, I walked up to Daryl and put my arms around him, I found his knife and took it without him noticing, he pulled away and I threw the knife at Merle just missing him, the knife was stuck in the tree. "She is fucking crazy." I walked away calling over my shoulder.

"You would be to if you were held captive for a year, tortured every day and they beat you so you had a fucking miscarriage." Daryl dropped to his knees, I turned and looked at him. "I'm sorry Daryl, I didn't want them to hurt you so I didn't tell them about the group or the farm." He looked at me.

"We just need to get over it. We are not going near Woodbury ever again. And I will never let him hurt you again." I walked over to him and dropped to my knees.

"That's what you said at the farm, but I'm gonna die one day and you know what, you're the only one that cares if I die."

"That's not true, the group ca-" I stopped him.

"Really. That's a load of shit. I will never be able to be in the same room with Carol without wanting to kill her." He looked at me confused.

"What? Why?" I put my hand on his face.

"Go back to the prison. Ask her." He shook his head.

"What about Merle?" I shrugged. "I'm not leaving him." I smiled.

"I need to go see Holly, Caitlin and Jordan. But I'm not going to stay." He went quiet. "What's wrong?"

"Jordan went missing the night the farm got overrun." I stood up. And looked down at him.

"How is Caitlin doing?" we heard rustling from the trees beside us. Daryl jumped up with his crossbow ready.

"Fuck." We heard someone yell. Then Caitlin walked through the bush towards us. "Hey Daryl, that trackin' worked." He laughed. She saw me and ran towards me and tackled me to the ground hugging me. "You were supposed to be dead." I pulled away from her.

"Why does everyone say that? I was running with Carol and she hit me over the head with a gun and jumped on Daryl's bike, she said 'only one of us is getting out of here.'" I mimicked her. Caitlin turned to Daryl.

"I told you there was something off about her. But you wouldn't believe me." I looked at him.

"Caitlin is smart." He smiled.

"I know and she is good with guns now. Trained her myself." He smiled.

"Well a lot has gone on." I turned to Caitlin. "What are you doing here?"

"Rick said Daryl left. So I came out to look for him." He frowned.

"The group needs you go back." She looked at me.

"But Emily." He turned to her.

"Emily can't go back yet. I'll send her later." She nodded and walked back the way she came." I turned to him. "Let's go huntin'."