GLENN'S POV:
After that walker down in the well, I had been re-motivated to start helping out. I wanted to get out and help search, but I knew I would just end up messing that up. So I would just stick to what I did best and hope Daryl knew what he was doing.
Lori had asked me to get something for her on my supply run, but I wasn't exactly sure what it was. All I knew was that she wanted me to keep quiet about it. This was sure to end up bad.
I was on my way into a small town, riding on a horse. This supply run was different though, Maggie was here, too. She was rather pretty. I caught myself trying to impress her more often lately.
"You know, normally, uh…" I started, once again trying to sound cool. "This is the kinda thing I do on my own. Solo." I chuckled. "Its sorta my thing, you know? I'm a loner."
I looked over at her, but she was just staring at the ground. She hadn't said a word for the entire trip.
"You alright?"
"I'm fine," she answered without looking at me.
"I saw the look on your face," I said as we trotted up to a pharmacy. "Back at the well. Never seen one killed up close before?" She didn't answer, but I already knew. "Guess its kind of a shock. You know, being out on the road, we've seen a lot. I guess we've gotten a little numb to it," I mumbled, thinking about all the walkers we had killed without a second thought.
"Whoa," Maggie said, halting her horse. "I guess so."
We tied the horses to a stop sign and walked up to the pharmacy. In the window was a piece of cardboard with something written in Sharpie. "Take what you need and God bless".
We walked in. Maggie seemed a little bit less cautious than I was. I was still too used to Atlanta where walkers popped up everywhere and at the most inconvenient times like it was protocol.
"I'll go see what antibiotics are left. What else is on the list?" Maggie asked, turning to me.
I handed her the piece of paper with everyone's request (minus Lori's) written down on it. "Why don't you get started?"
"What about you?" she asked, reading over the list.
"Um, I'm gonna look around and see what's worth grabbing. Just general stuff." I opened my backpack and began looking for Lori's thing.
I looked on the rack that said "Feminine Hygiene" like Lori told me to. They seemed to be out of virtually everything, but on the floor, I found it. It was a pregnancy test. My eyes widened and my breath came a little bit faster. Lori thought she was pregnant? She couldn't be pregnant in the middle of-
"What'cha got?" Maggie asked from behind me.
I dropped the small True Blue box into my backpack and picked up another box as a cover. "Uh, umm… Nothing, just," I stood up and faced her. "like I said, general stuff."
She took a look at the box in my hands. "Condoms?"
I sighed, cursing my terrible luck.
"You gotta a girlfriend I don't know about?" she asked.
"Me? No," I answered hastily.
"Then you're a pretty confident guy."
I shook my head. "No. No, no, no. I wasn't- I would never-"
"Somethin' wrong with me?"
Ugh! Why cant I ever do anything right?
"No! No, I-I-I would never have… sex…" I sighed and shook my head. "Uhh… I-I'm lost, I'm-"
She looked at me for a minute before saying, "I'll have sex with you."
"Really?" I asked disbelievingly.
All of my word-stumbling had gotten me laid.
We rode up the long driveway of the Greene farm on the horses. I couldn't help the large smile that would go away.
"Don't spoil it," she warned as we came inside the gate.
"So it was good?" I asked, smiling again.
She looked back at me. "It was a one time thing."
I grimaced. What was with her?
I tied up the horses and Lori came out of the house and walked up to me. "Did you find it?"
I pulled my backpack off and looked around inside it then pulled out the plastic-wrapped box and handed it to her.
She stuffed it in the back of her shirt and I left, still confused about Maggie's behavior, angry with myself because I had sex with a stranger in the middle of a pharmacy with walkers all around while my sister is missing, and miserable because on top of all that, I couldn't get rid of my nightmares.
DARYL'S POV:
I made my way out the back door.
So she loved me, huh? I couldn't help but feel a little glad that she did. But I had to remind myself that she was still lost.
I walked down the back steps. "Kaiya!" I called. I looked around, walking over to the side of the house then back. "Kaiya!"
As I walked I noticed something white blooming between two trees. I walked closer to get a better look. It was a Cherokee Rose. I smirked a little, remembering the story. I picked the flower carefully.
Maybe this would help Glenn feel a little better.
I made my way back to the farm, thinking about Kaiya. I found Glenn sitting in the RV. I had put the rose in an old glass bottle. I set it down on the table in front of him. I could tell he had been thinking about Kaiya; his eyes were red.
"A flower?" Glenn asked, somewhat surprised that I would have picked a flower.
But he didn't know that this flower was special. This was Kaiya's flower. "It's a Cherokee Rose," I explained, watching the petals. "The story is when American soldiers were movin' Indians off their land, on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee mothers were grievin' and cryin' so much 'cause they were losin' their little ones along the way. Exposure, and disease, and starvation. A lot of 'em just… disappeared. So the elders said a prayer. They asked for a sign to uplift the mothers' spirits, give them strength. Hope. The next day, this rose started to grow right where the mothers' tears fell." I looked up then.
He looked surprised that I was being so nice to him and that I knew the story behind a damn flower, but I knew this was what Glenn needed. Something to uplift his spirits and give him strength and hope.
"I'm not fool enough to think there are any flowers bloomin' for my brother. But uh… I know this one bloomed for Kaiya."
Glenn started to smile.
I turned around and began to walk out. "Oh and Glenn?" I called over my shoulder.
"Yeah?"
"If you tell anyone about that I'll kill ya."
He paled a little bit.
I chuckled and walked out of the RV.
I feel a little weird having Daryl give Glenn the flower, but it made more sense in this fic than if he gave it to Carol. Anyway, I hope you guys liked it! :)
