A/N: Saw 'Warm Bodies' today! I loved it! It was hilarious!
Apologize for lack of Daryl… Although I tried to show some of his conflicted feelings! He's just a ball of mystery.
Prompt: Mistakes
.o.o.o.
"Daryl." Rick approached the redneck. He was sitting on a folding chair sharpening more sticks as Anna sat on the ground between his legs, reading one of Dale's old novels.
"I'll uh, see what's for lunch." Anna stood and left the men, noticing the tense atmosphere. She looked at them as she stood by Carol, the older woman stirring some sort of stew. She watched as Rick nodded towards the barn and they headed towards it.
"I hate it when they leave the women out." She muttered squatting to help Carol cut some fresh vegetables Maggie had given them.
"Boys will be boys…" She replied with a short laugh. Anna laughed and they chatted until the men came back, calling them to follow them up to the house. Putting out the cooking fire, they followed confusedly.
"We decided that Randall is too much of a liability. He may not be dangerous, but his group defiantly is." Rick explained to the entire group once they convened in the Greene's living room. Silence took the group.
"Y-You're kidding right?" Dale exclaimed. Anna released a breath she wasn't aware she was holding. If no one was going to speak out, she was going to go crazy.
"Life nowadays is precious." She spoke during a break in the argument. She tried not to be on either side; she knew Randall was a danger to the group, but he was still a human being.
"We can't just kill him! We don't kill the living!" Dale spoke animatedly, but everyone still looked resolved. Slowly, he called on each member, trying to gain any kind of support.
"Anna?"
"Dale… I agree with you that he's just a kid but… he's dangerous." Anna made up her mind, deciding to stand by Rick.
"Daryl?"
"My opinion don't matter much anyway…" He muttered, crossing his arms and looking away. Anna and Dale tried to convince him otherwise, but Daryl insisted that Rick always looked to Shane anyway. They backed off, neither satisfied.
Dale walked off, dead-set on changing the minds of the other survivors.
"Daryl, I just want you to know…" Anna started, pulling him aside as they walked out the house. "You'll always be my number one, okay?"
"Whatever…"
"Not 'whatever'. I mean it. And what I said before… I still mean it." Anna blushed as she remembered confessing her love to Daryl.
"… Thanks." Daryl left gruffly, mulling over the things she said. He still didn't understand what she saw in him. Or why she stayed with him even after all this shit.
.o.o.o.
"Hey Carl, whatcha been up to?" Anna caught up to Carl as he emerged from the woods. He jumped and looked very shaken up, but tried to play cool.
"Oh, just uh, climbing trees. Boring guy stuff." He ran off, leaving Anna suspicious.
"Hey Lori…" Anna followed after Carl, letting him talk to his mother before running off to do god-knows-what.
"Yeah?" The pregnant woman turned around and smiled.
"Did Carl tell you what he was doing while we were um, talking?" Anna asked. The smile dropped from Lori's face and was replaced by confusion.
"No, he just asked when dinner was." She explained, sitting down. Anna sat with her, leaning in.
"I caught him coming out of the woods and he seemed very nervous. I'm worried about him."
"… I just hope he didn't do anything wrong."
