The twin's had joined up with the Wolves and Murphy had settled down. He was tight with Connor again. He realized that he and Daryl missed the huge bonding stage of being twins and he and Daryl were becoming closer. They were so alike that they were confusing everyone except Carol and Merle who could spot them a mile off. They did try to fool the boys but they didn't even make it though the front door without one of the boys directing a question to their dad. Daryl was amazed they knew even though they dressed and did their hair the same. Daniel just told them that they didn't even look alike they could just tell.

"But how do you know?" Daryl had asked Mitch.

"Because I'm not five years old. You also stand with your foot funny, and you look at us different from Uncle Murphy." Mitch told him.

"Look at you like what?"

"Like you're ... well you love us... Uncle Murphy thinks we are pains and he doesn't really like us that much." Nathan come across to join in the conversation.

"Uncle Murph just wants you... he looks at you like you look at us... he's wanting you to love him like you love us." Daniel joined in with the conversation.

Daryl was surprised of their in depth idea's on his feelings towards them. He kept telling them over and over that he loved them, he was a big tough guy in his gang but he wasn't afraid to tell them they were wanted and he was there for all of them. They had no doubt they were loved by Daryl and they could tell the different's between both the men in a glance by the way they glanced at the triplets. Daryl wondered if Murphy was jealous of the triplets. He loved his boys more than he ever knew he could. He loved Carol too more than he ever knew it was going to be possible.

They had settled down with constant support by both their parents and managed to deal with some of their pasts not all of it but they were happy, and really loud. They also were typical smart arses. Nathan had stopped trying to score any sort of buzz and Mitch underneath everything was a pussy cat, and wasn't too bad on the end of the tools with his dad working after school on the car they were supposed to be fixing up. Daniel to everyone's surprise was still chasing Charlotte about and Martinez was chasing Daniel. But the boys were happy, and now they were with Merle for the afternoon going to a car show a few towns over.

"You like it?" Daryl asked Carol, they were on her couch and he was taking a look at her very first tattoo. She was straddled across his lap. She had one knee on either side of his hip and she was moving up and down in a bouncing motion like she was riding him, even though they were both fully clothed. He was lying flat on his back staring up at her. He was in a funny mood pretending he wasn't interested in doing anything but chatting for the afternoon they didn't have their boys. Carol was back at work again and moonlighting as the show runner in the gang. She kept on top of things regarding everything that they needed to to get done.

"I like what it means."

"That you are a badass?" Daryl asked he had a twinkle in his eyes and Carol was doing her best to tease him by moving around on his crotch, he wasn't biting yet but they did have all afternoon.

"That my family is important to me." Her inner wrist baring the initials of her boys intertwined. "Do you like it?"

Daryl bore a matching tattoo but his was somewhere else, up his inner arm. It rubbed up against his left side of his chest near his heart. Carol was lying flat on top of Daryl on the couch. The boys were all out chasing girls or doing stuff that teen aged boys did on a Saturday night and for the first time in a long time they had time together. Daryl was keen to take it to the bedroom but Carol was happy where she was, lying on top of her man.

She moved his arms and pinned them down at the wrist she smiled down at him, she moved down to kiss him. He moved his head around so she couldn't he was teasing her. Mocking her almost as if he was frightened of her. "Don't beat me again!" He yelped as she attacked his neck with her mouth. He tilted his neck to the side so she could kiss him some more. "Help... you need to ask me if I want to have sex." He teased her.

"OK." Carol pulled her shirt up over her head and tossed it to the ground. Carol unhooked her bra and pulled it down her arms. He watched her taking everything off, he still had his arms above his head where she left them. He took in his fill of her breast then glanced down as she started unbuttoning his shirt. She could feel him growing under her.

"You lock the door?" Daryl muttered, he cast his eyes towards the front door the last thing was he wanted to be sprung by his son's with their topless mother sitting on top of him.

"No... and I invited everyone over to watch, Martinez and Andrea are coming for a coffee." Carol teased him.

"I can't preform like a circus act." Daryl growled at her, he finally moved his arms and put them on her breasts. "I need a few pointers." He lifted his head up and managed to latch onto her nipples. "So are we going to even talk about it?"

"Talk about what?" Carol bounced on him slightly.

"About getting married?" Daryl asked her.

"Get married?" Carol looked down at him and she narrowed her eyes, he knew.

"Carol we need to decide if we are going to get married or not, I want to... the boys, lets just do it."

"Ok... as long as we can talk about having a baby." Carol threw it out there. She had been thinking about it, having another baby. Daryl was just lying there staring at her not believing that she finally agreed to marry him and also threw out there that she wanted another baby. He took a deep breath thinking about what she said, he nodded that he would be ok with that. He'd be ok with everything as long as she was taking the lead and she stayed with him.