Parldro42082- (Chapter 27) Lol, hope you weren't disappointed on who it was. I'm glad you like them all together!

Mrskaz453- Thank you! I wasn't sure…It did rather annoy me in the show how (before season 3) people seemed to take him for granted. And Rick didn't know the whole situation with Shane, he only knew the old Shane. Daryl is my fav character because he does more for the group than anybody else and he's just down right awesome. Y'know…I was considering Elizabeth being an OC for Rick…lol. It would annoy Lori too lol. Thank you and they are a rather cute miss-match family aren't they?

Violet Lylybelle- I was glad to reunite them. Season 3 is going to be very interesting for me to write. I have so many things that I'm going to change for the purpose of it and I'm so excited to write it! Hmm…we'll see about Elizabeth…I'm not positive on her motives still. Thank you! I was very unsure of it, but I'm glad that y'all thought that it worked.

HarleyMastiff82- I'm glad you think so, and that's true. Thank you!

Tori D- Thank you!

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Marie enjoyed the feel of the early spring wind blowing through her hair. It flew behind her as they sped quickly down the empty Georgia road. Her face rested against the woodsy smelling man driving the rumbling motorcycle. She had her arms tightly wrapped around his waist, keeping herself steady. One of his hands held onto hers comfortingly. She'd grown used to riding on the bike. Gavin had taken to riding with his uncle, his cousin, Elizabeth, and Jillian. Lori hadn't been able to stand being in the same car as Rick so she rode with the Greene family T-Dog, and Glenn. Marie and Elizabeth had become pretty close over the last few months, as had Rick and Elizabeth. Being as though his wife didn't really want to be so anymore, Rick had taken off his ring, so had she and they both moved on in a sense. The beeping of a horn brought Daryl to the side of the road. He waited for Marie to get off the bike before he put the kickstand up. Rick got out and stood at the hood of the green Hyundai with a map.

"There's a creek bed down that way," T-Dog stated, it was easily visible from where they stood. "We're pretty low on water. Can we go down get some, boil it later?"

"Knock yourselves out," Rick replied. "You goin' with them, Marie?"

"Yeah, I probably should," she replied. "Why?"

"Can you watch over Carl? Make sure he doesn't get into too much trouble?" the older brother asked. He knew that his son would more likely listen to Marie than the boy's own mother.

"Of course. What are you two going to do?" she asked, looking from her brother to Daryl.

"Should probably go hunt while y'all wash yer panties," Daryl replied.

"Be careful," Marie said, her hand resting on his bicep. The man nodded and dipped his head down to press a light, quick kiss to her lips.

"You too." Marie went down to the creek where everyone else had gone. Rick was happy some good had come out of the whole situation for someone. He'd never seen his sister so happy. Daryl was good for her, and for Rick's nephew.

"Do you think we'll every find some place safe?" Liz asked, coming to Marie's side as they filled up water jugs.

"Yes. I know my brother and he won't give up until we all find a safe place. He hasn't ever given up on anything the entire time I've known him. This won't be the exception." The dark haired woman nodded and went back to her task. "Was Gavin good on the ride here?"

"When is he not? I think he wanted to be up there riding with you two on that motorcycle." Marie laughed softly, remembering how Gavin had asked Daryl to teach him to drive it.

"I believe it. If there was another seat I'd let him, but it just wouldn't work." Liz laughed and they both went about their business until the task was complete. They were the first two, along with the children, to head back up to the road. Daryl and Rick soon came back from their little hunting trip, Rick's smile was large, and Daryl even had a small grin on his handsome features.

"Find us somethin' good to eat?" Marie asked.

"No to eat," Rick replied. "Better."

"What could be better than food?" Gavin asked.

"A prison, a safe fenced in prison," the Grimes man replied.

"A prison?" Marie repeated, not convinced. "Wouldn't it be over run?"

"It's not too bad, got a few stragglers, nothin' we can't handle," Daryl replied.

"If it's safe, let's go," Marie said after some thought. Her natural instinct was telling her that prisons were bad, dangerous even. But, she needed to let her apocalypse instinct take over. And that told her that it would be safe and the children would have a yard to play in. A prison yard, but a yard nonetheless.

"A'right," Daryl agreed, giving her a small smile. Rick re-gathered the group and Marie followed Daryl to his motorcycle. He got on first and then she climbed on, using his strong shoulders for support. "This'll be good for us," he said over the engine.

"I know," she replied, her hands rubbing against his chest and belly comfortingly. He put one of his hands over broth of hers.

"Don't think that's the best a ideas," her doing that reminding him how long it had been since they had been together. The first time they were intimate was soon after they told each other they loved each other when they had found another farmhouse to spend the night at. Elizabeth, knowing what it was like to be in love, offered to watch Sophia and Gavin; they had happily accepted. Their first time together wasn't out of a storybook, he was a little out of practice, being as it had been nearly a year, and she hadn't been with anyone, save Shane at the beginning of it all, for nearly four years before the apocalypse.

"Mm, well when we're safe in that prison-"

"Ya ain't leaving my side fer quite a while," he said with a grin. After they got back into the swing of things, their lovemaking was mind blowing for both parties.

"I like the sound of that," she grinned, bringing her face up to kiss an exposed part of his neck.

"Babe," he warned hoarsely. Somehow, she'd found that that spot drove him crazy.

"What?" she asked, sliding her tongue across his skin. All too soon, they pulled into the prison yard.

"I'll get ya back," he said as she stood.

"Sure you will," he swatted her ass as she made her way toward the other cars. She yelped in response. He sent a smirk her way as Gavin ran and wrapped his arms around her legs.

"Momma, why'd Daryl smack yer butt? Was ya bad?" the young boy asked.

Daryl took to Marie side and responded, "Very."

"What did she do?" he asked innocently. Marie playfully smacked Daryl's arm. Sophia came and stood by the rest of her 'family'.

"What did who do?" she asked the younger boy.

"Daryl smacked my momma's butt…I asked what she did bad," Gavin explained. Sophia just smiled at the couple; she understood what flirting was, Marie had explained it to her when she asked.

"No, it just means he likes her," Sophia grinned.

"Mm, I love 'er," Daryl smiled and pressed a kiss to her cheek.

"Aw," Sophia smiled, like every little girl, she'd dreamed of growing up and falling in love. She thought it was sweet to see Daryl and Marie so easily loving each other, even in the apocalypse, she'd never seen that in her own house.

"Okay, we need to do this organized," Rick said. "Marie, you and Sophia go up in that guard tower over there. Hershel and Carl in that one," Rick pointed to the tower opposite of them. Marie started to walk in the direction of the tower but stopped promptly because Daryl's hand gripped her wrist.

"Be careful," he said.

"I will, you too though," she leaned in and pecked his lips. He nodded and she walked off, Gavin on her trail. He knew to follow her and she'd keep him safe. As she passed her brother, he handed her a rifle and she handed a handgun to Sophia. Marie and Daryl had taught her to shoot before winter go there and if she honest, Sophia was a pretty damn good shot. At first, she was afraid of the gun, the kick back scared her, but she quickly got the hang of it. They watched from above as the group used pointy weapons to kill the walkers through the fence. Marie and Sophia supplied as much cover as they could as Rick made his way to close the gate.

Once that task was complete, Daryl shouted, "Light it up!" Marie and Sophia rapidly shot all of the walkers in the yard. Everybody smiled in happiness that they'd have a safe place to sleep tonight. Marie held a hand out to Sophia; the younger blonde quickly high-fived her. Marie looked to the ground and saw Daryl looking up at her with a smile; she blew him a kiss with a large grin on her face.

That evening, everyone sat around the fire. Gavin and Sophia fell asleep as soon as they laid down. Marie smiled and kissed both of their heads before standing her making her way to the fallen bus in which Daryl was standing.

"How're you doin' up there?" she asked, her hands on her hips.

"Be better if ya was up here with me," he smiled, offering a hand down to her. She took it and he pulled her up. She smiled and kissed his lips sweetly.

"They were out so fast," she said, as she caught his line of sight to where Sophia and Gavin were laying.

"Been a busy day," he commented.

"Yeah," she agreed, rubbing her right shoulder. She noticed his eyes drift to her hand. "That rifle, it's got a little bit more of a kickback than I remember."

"Here," he offered. His hand worked at the sore muscles. "Better?" he asked as she let out a pleasured moan.

"Much, thank you." He nodded and they stood for another moment. "Y'know…" she said, leaning closer to him, so her voice was so low he could barely hear her. "If we're quiet this bus here provides some pretty nice cover…"

He looked at her for a moment, studying her features to see if she was being serious. She only looked back at him with a small smile, full of mischief on her face. "C'mon then," he said as he slid down the side and back to the ground where they'd be hidden from the rest of the group, where they'd mostly gone to sleep. She did the same and he caught her before she hit the ground, he slowed her drop rate and pulled her lips to his right away.

The next morning, the group was idly standing around. Marie stood back from them as she held her son's hand. Sophia was off talking to Carl about something or other, Daryl and Rick were walking away from where they were just speaking near the bus. The former made his way over to his girl. He slipped his hand into Marie's; he looked at her as her eyes focused somewhere far off.

"Hey babe," he said, pulling her out of her daze.

"Hm?" she asked.

"I want ya to stay out here with Gavin and Soph…" he started watching her face to gauge her reaction. She started to object, but she figured she'd let him finish before she argued. "It's not gonna be safe in there an' he can't lose his mom," he motioned to her son. "Ya can take out some a the walkers through the fence, keep 'em off a us."

She understood his reasoning completely. He was right; Gavin needed his mother. She could tell that Daryl didn't like telling her what to do, he wasn't like that, and that was one of the many things she loved about him. "Okay," she replied, giving him a small smile. "You're right. I'll stay out here and do what I can." He gave her a smile and kissed her quickly. They weren't into making out in front of the group; they were more of a private couple and were only themselves behind closed doors.

"I love you," he told her. He loved that she listened to what he had to say and even though she could be stubborn at times, she wouldn't shut him out when he had something important to say.

"And I love you," she pressed her forehead to his and gave him one more kiss. The two went their separate ways.

After ten minutes of stabbing walkers through the head, Marie made her way back to where Lori, Elizabeth, and the kids were standing.

"You're up, Liz," Marie said. They'd decided that one of them needed to keep an eye on the children, not trusting Lori to do so. The brunette passed the long pole to the other woman. Once Elizabeth was gone, Lori looked over at her sister in-law with a disgusted face. "What?" Marie asked, trying her best to be civil to the woman with a huge pregnant belly.

"How dare you disrespect Shane by going and being with a dirty redneck?"

Whoa! Where the hell did that come from? Marie asked herself. "Excuse me?" she had to be sure she'd heard the other woman right before she lost her temper.

"You heard me! How dare you, after being with Shane and supposedly 'loving' him go be with Daryl, the dirty redneck that murdered him?"

"Listen here, bitch," Marie had had enough. Enough of Lori walking around like just because she was Rick's husband, by law and such, like she was the queen of the fucking apocalypse! "You don't even know the whole story!" she grabbed Lori's arm roughly and pulled her away from where Gavin stood. Her son looked at her with confused eyes. She wouldn't let him hear what was about to come out of her mouth. "Daryl didn't murder Shane! Shane wanted it! He wrote me a damn letter and told me so himself!" she swore if Whori Lori wasn't pregnant, she would've punched her so hard in the face.

Lori only scoffed. "Whatever. You don't know how to be in love! If Shane wouldn't have made the stupid decision of choosing you over me, he'd still be alive! I love him!"

"You don't know what love is you cold, heartless bitch! My brother loved you! And what do you do? The second he's gone? You go sleep with his best friend! And you do that how many times? Then you think you're in love with him? So don't you dare talk down about the man that I love, the man that my son loves like a father in front of my child! How dare you?"

"Your son deserves to know the truth about what a murderer Daryl is," Lori said, crossing her arms over her chest. Marie had had it, pregnant or not, Lori was getting what was coming to her. She pulled her fist back and punched the other woman's face. She figured it couldn't hurt the baby if she punched her face.

"I warned you," Lori got up and pulled her own fist back, Marie ducked and avoided her likely poor attempt at a punch. She war ready to lunge when she felt a pair of smaller arms wrap around her middle. They weren't pulling her back, just holding her in place.

"Please don't," Sophia said, the natural peacemaking side of her peeking through. Marie had forgotten herself and that there were younger eyes waiting for her to set the example.

"I won't," she assured Sophia, who only then let her go. "Thank you," the blonde nodded and made her way back to Carl, Gavin, and Jillian. "I'm sorry you had to see that, kids," she mumbled.

"That was awesome," Carl commented enthusiastically.

"Carl, that was not awesome. Violence is never the answer. What I just did was not how you are supposed to handle a situation, you understand me?"

"But it worked! Bitch had it coming!"

"Carl Chandler Grimes!" Marie exclaimed. "I don't care who she is, that is your mother and no matter what you don't speak about her that way!" she reprimanded. "You're not an adult, even if you can use guns and kill walkers; that type of language should not come out of your mouth." He nodded; he'd never heard his aunt like that before. She clearly meant what she said. "Okay, good," she said. She wouldn't ask him to apologize to Lori because then she'd have to do the same otherwise be deemed a hypocrite.

A few minutes later the rest of the group came back and they all made their way into cellblock C. The tension between the two women was clear to everyone else but they didn't ask.

"We'll be safe in here?" Marie asked Daryl as they walked side by side.

"Yeah, took out all the walkers," he decided he could wait to ask about what had happened with Lori. He'd noticed the more intense glares she was sending their way.

"Where do we sleep?"

"Pick one, I guess," he shrugged. She walked up the stairs and to the cell on the end. She noticed something when she walked inside. There was only one bunk bed.

"How is this gonna work?" she asked out loud. Gavin and Sophia were behind them, waiting to know where to take their bags.

"What?" Daryl asked curiously.

"There aren't enough beds in here," she said. She didn't exactly want Gavin or Sophia sleeping on the bunk above them…that could get awkward.

"What if we put 'em next to us, in the next cell?" she didn't like the idea of being too far away from either of them. She turned to face the two children.

"What do you two think? Would that work for you?" They both nodded.

"If I get scareded can I still come over here?" Gavin asked.

"'Course, we ain't goin' anywhere," Daryl smiled and ruffled the boy's hair.

"Then that's fine with me," he said.

Everyone settled into their new home and by nighttime, everyone was ready for bed. Marie tucked Sophia into the top bunk and kissed her forehead, and then she did the same with Gavin on the bottom.

"I love you both, sleep tight."

"Love you too," they both replied. Daryl too said his goodnights and they both walked back to their own cell. It was completely dark around them and Daryl switched on a flashlight to give them light enough for her change clothes. Marie slipped out of her jeans and sweat cover tank top before pulling on one of Daryl's sleeveless, button down shirts. He just rolled his eyes and laid down. He knew that she liked changing into separate clothes before bed, and lately she'd been favoring wearing one of his shirts. Daryl on the other hand, just wore what he'd worn the day before to bed. If they were in some place safe, he'd end up losing the clothes by the next morning.

"Ya good?" he asked once she'd pulled her hair into a bun rather than a pony tail, which, more than likely he'd take down within the next twenty minutes. For some reason, he preferred her hair down, but he knew it was dangerous with the walkers; they could grab it or any number of things.

"Now," she smiled and laid down on the small space that he left. These bunks were small!

"What happened with ya an' Lori earlier?" he asked, his hand taking place on her hip. She groaned and buried her face against him. "C'mon, can't be that bad." She sighed. She and Daryl didn't keep secrets from each other, so she waited a moment longer.

"She said some things that she shouldn't have said, in front of Gavin. So I pulled her to the side and we argued for a bit and long story short, I ended up punching a pregnant lady."

"She ain't no lady," he mumbled.

"Well, she's still pregnant," she replied.

"What was it ya called her? Whori Lori?" he asked with a small smile, causing Marie to scoff.

"Yes. I just…I don't want to talk about her anymore," she said. "I don't really wanna talk anymore…I say we use our privacy towards a better purpose." Daryl grinned, catching her drift.

"I love you. Be careful out there, please," Marie said. It was scary that Daryl was going out into the prison to clear out more of it, where he'd come in close contact with walkers.

"Always am, love you too. Hold down the fort here," he kissed her lips once, lingering for a moment while he pulled her hair tie out and slipped it onto her wrist. "You can have this when I come back," he said, making a point to hold his wrist up.

"That's my last one!" she protested. He just shrugged.

"Better really hope I come back then," he smirked.

"You can be a real ass, you know that?"

He just shrugged and followed Rick out of the cellblock. He did turn and steal one last glance at her before disappearing with Maggie, Glenn, Hershel, and Rick.

AN: Nearly 4,000 words later, here I am! I will mostly follow the episodes but add my own twist to them, given that y'all know what happened in the regular season. Plus, I will add extra detail that weren't in the show given that it doesn't focus on just one character. I know that I will skip the episode "walk with me" (it's all bout Andrea/Michonne when Merle finds them and they go to Woodbury. I'm so excited to get further into the season! I have so much planned, y'all might hate me after, but…we'll see.