Caryl fluff, maybe :) x
Daryl POV:
I could hear her crying as I walked towards the showers, I looked through the door looking to see what was wrong. She was stood naked in front of the mirror staring at her body tracing the scar the Governor have her. That was what her nightmare was about last night. I had been too tired to stay away and watch over her and she had to suffer through one. I wouldn't make that mistake tonight. I walked silently through the shower block sitting on the bench near her looking at the floor I didn't want her to get the wrong impression.
'Ya beautiful with or without the scars woman.' I heard her gasp and reach for the towel next to me.
'Thought you told me scars were badges of honour, you saved us from a mad man, seems like a fuckin great badge to have earned.' I looked up and saw her give a small laughing, it was better than her crying, hated seeing her crying.
'They're both dead, he'll all of them bastards that hurt you are, if they ain't I'll fucking kill em nice and slow, make you testicle necklaces if you want, you seemed to like that idea.' I smirked looking at her, she had stopped crying.
'Thanks Daryl but most of them probably died before this all happened.' She whispered.
I hated that I couldn't take it all away from her and make it all better, I really wish I could find the rotting corpse off all the men that hurt her and destroy them, rip them to fucking pieces.
'Come on get dry, don't want you getting sick to add to the long list of what's wrong with you.' I smirked at her to show her I was joking, I didn't want her to feel bad that she was hurt.
I turned around while she dried and passed her her clothes I didn't want her thinking I was only here to look at her body.
Once she was ready we walked through to the common room, when I left Hershel had been cooking, so at least I knew it would be something we would be able to enjoy.
'Daryl, will you wrap my ribs for me when we get back, I don't want to bother Hershel.' I could hear the nerves in her voice.
I swallowed, that would been seeing her topless with her permission, I wouldn't be like become I would have to touch her, I hadn't touched we yet Merle and Hershel had done all the looking after I couldn't.
'It was stupid, it doesn't matter.' I watched her walk away her steps becoming quicker till the point she was nearly running, I must have stayed quiet too long.
'Carol wait! I will do it I just thought you wouldn't want me touching you.' I waited for her to laugh at me, tell me it wasn't like that she just wanted to be friends and not be a burden to anyone.
'Daryl I wouldn't have asked if I didn't trust you.' I went back to walking next to her. As we reached the cell block I could smell Hershels cooking, it wasn't as good as Carols but it was amazing. He would have probably made stew or something again. I would have to go hunting in the morning, try and get back before Carol wakes up, get Merle to watch over her while I'm gone, she can watch him finish his gate or something.
I let Carol pick a table she seemed wary of sitting with all the group and I wasn't going to force her, she picked the table in the corner, you couldn't see anyone really on that table, it was shaded by the walls so she wouldn't have anyone staring at her. I grabbed at couple bowls quickly moving some of mine onto hers before she would notice, I didn't need her feeling guilty that she was having some of my food. She needed to heal and she was too damn skinny anyway. I sat next to her, just close enough so our thighs slightly touched.
When Merle came in he sat with us eating the stew as though someone would steal it from him at any moment.
'Gates nearly done, just gotta try attach it or something using the doors off the last truck, thinking getting some cement or some shit to hold it better maybe try bolting it onto the other trucks gonna do it tomorrow, we chain linked it for now so that yards safer.' I nodded as he talked, he had changed a lot since he got to the prison, actually seemed to give a shit about people who went blood. He had spent the day with a black man and a Korean, fucking impressive for Merle.
'Was thinking bout going hunting tomorrow, get us some meet.' I looked at Merle hoping he would get my silent question of him looking after Carol while I was gone.
'Sounds good, mouse can help me with the gate, yell at me when it ain't level.' We both looked at Carol hoping she wouldn't refuse.
'Sure, I haven't really had time to see your construction work yet, might as well see how bad it is.' I watched her try to wink at Merle with her good eye, the other one was still slightly swollen but it had gone down a lot and was now just about closed shut.
I looked at Merle who was laughing at Carol like she just said the best joke in the world, 'That girl's a god damn fire cracker, insulting my building like that, should know I am the best damn builder in Georgia!' I watched as Carol started to giggle at Merle, wincing as it hurt her ribs, I would wrap them after she finished eating.
The stew was nice but Carol didn't seem to be enjoying it, she just looked like she was eating it to stop me getting at her over it.
'Ya ain't gotta eat it all if ya don't want.' I whispered to her, she nodded quickly stopping eating and pushing it away from her. I looked at the bowl she had eaten about half, she would have eaten the whole thing if I had added most of mine, she just didn't eat much. I saw Merle looking at the bowl, I just shook my head and tipped my head toward her, she looked like she was about to be sick, if she ate anymore she probably would be sick. He nodded going back to finishing his bowl.
'One of you two can have what's left, I'm going to go back to my cell' She whispered standing up and moving away. I looked at Merle and could tell he was worried. I grabbed the bowl of food, quickly eating it, we would have to start making more food so she ate a little bit more each time.
'Ya gotta watch her boy, this could break her if she keeps dreaming like this.' I nodded looking at him.
'Keep an eye on her while I go hunting, don't want her alone to think about everything, might sound like a pussy but I jest want er happy.' I waited for him to taunt me or say some shit about it.
'Little mouse deserves to be happy, she saved all of us and doesn't even know it yet.' He was right, maybe if we told her what she had done for all of us she would be able to stop seeing herself as weak, she was stronger than all of us.
Once I finished I left Merle at the table and followed Carol, I didn't want to have to wake her up to wrap her ribs. I got to her cell and saw her lying on her bed reading one of the books she had on her table. She looked relax, I didn't want to have to stop her reading, but if I didn't her ribs would never heal.
'I didn't think you were coming.' She looked up from her book, smiling as she placed it down on the table, I could see some petals sticking out of the page she was on, I would ask about that later.
'Course I was coming.' I muttered moving further into her room. She threw the bandages at me and lifted her top so I could wrap her ribs before letting her go back to reading or go to sleep.
'Tell me if it's too tight.' She nodded as I started wrapping them, I couldn't look at the scars and bruises without getting angry, wanting to kill something, make people pay for everything they had done to her. All the hurt and pain.
When I finished I moved away from her, I couldn't stand being too close to her and keeping control of myself.
'I'll stay in here tonight, stay on the floor, make sure you're alright.' I stuttered moving back from her.
'Mouse. Doc wants you to take some pills stop shit hurting.' I looked from Merle to Carol and saw the fear in her face. If she didn't want to take them she hadn't got to.
'If you don't wanna, you ain't gotta.' I held her had drawing patterns on her wrist with my thumb. She seemed to relax before nodding and lying back on her bed picking up her book.
'Merle she don't want them, I'll stay with her tonight, look after her.' Merle nodded, before walking down the corridor to probably his cell for the night. I wasn't use to Merle being like this, letting me have what I wanted, him caring about someone who wasn't blood, hell him just caring bout anyone other than himself was shocking. I started to settle against the wall on the mattress on the floor, if she was okay tonight then I would move back next door to my cell. She would have one of us on each side. I know that Rick and the others have been shouldering most of the work while I looked after her, but I would start tomorrow, I could go hunting when Carol could do watch with me afterwards just until her ribs were better, I didn't want her pushing herself, she hadn't got to. But she saw herself as a burden.
'You can sit up here, it's not like the bed isn't big enough.' I heard her whisper down to me. I looked up and saw she was leaning on the bed looking down at me.
'M'fine, you should be resting.' I mumbled back to her, shifting on the mattress to get comfortable.
'I can't sleep if I know you're going to be uncomfortable down there because of me.' I looked up at her and saw she had rolled over to the far side of the bed. There was plenty of room for me to sit there, but she would have been so close.
'Fine, I'll sit there, but you better go to sleep.' I scolded, when she looked over at me I gave her a small smile so she knew I was joking.
I sat on the edge of her bed, it was a hundred times comfier that the floor, it was a lot warmer too. We would have winter setting in soon and need to start getting supplies like warm clothes and things for fires to keep everyone warm. Carol would probably be the warmest with all these clothes Maggie had got her and this giant bed.
I watched her, waiting for her breathes to even out before I would even think about going to sleep, I was a light sleeper so if she did get bad I would know but I didn't want to have to worry about her when she was awake. She was good at hiding her emotions when she was awake, probably would have got beaten if she cried in front of that dead sonovabitch husband.
Once her breathing slowed I slide down into the bed, it was more comfortable than anything I had slept in before, even when the world was working, I tried to stay awake thinking about everything that had happened, but I couldn't keep my eyes open.