(Normal POVS)
Laura made her way cross the courtyard to the horse fencing,seeing the small group of children looking at the horse Aarat was grooming. One of the little girls saw her coming towards them and ran over to her.
"Laura!" She yelled cheerfully while jumping into her open arms, Laura hoisted her up in the air and swung around.
"Daisy, how's my sweet pea doing?" She asked while placing Daisy on the side of her hip.
All the kids from the sanctuary loved Laura and Brent, it's like they had this loveable attraction with children.
"Good, my tooth finally came out!" Daisy said showing Laura her the missing front tooth in her mouth.
Laura smiled and started walking over towards the other kids, they all saw and greeted her with bright smiles.
"Hey kiddos, what's with the surprise visit. It's not my birthday yet." She said playfully,everyone giggled at her.
"We want to see your horse Laura." One of them said, looking at them and to Aarat Laura had another idea in mind.
"Tell you what guys, who wants to ride it with me?" She said, instantly all of them cheered and jumped in excitement.
After helping each kid over the gate and letting them pet the horse Laura watched and finally noticed that she never given him a name yet, rubbing her temple she tried coming up with something.
Let's see... Max.. Maximus..nah to Disney... Phoenix...
" Laura what's the horseys name?" Daisy asked tugging at the leg of her pants, looking at her Laura rubbed at the top of her head.
"I don't know sweet pea, how bout you help me pick a name." She said, Daisy looked at the horse and stuck out her tongue trying to think.
For a next minute Laura watched her and looked at Aarat who was helping the kids up and letting them touch the horses face.
"Spirit..I like Spirit." She heard Daisy finally say, that actually suited him pretty well.
"Spirit..I like it Sweet pea!" Laura said then raised her up in air, Daisy squealed in joy and wrapped her small arms around Laura's neck.
"Alright who wants to take Spirit for a ride first?" Laura asked, everyone raised their hands and asked to be picked first.
It took about almost an hour for almost everyone to get a chance to ride Spirit along with Laura, during the whole time some of the saviors would stop and watch as the kids were having the time of their lives.
Laura deeply enjoyed spending time with the kids, it made her feel like a big sister that she never got a chance to be. Especially Daisy, the first time Laura met Daisy's mother she was just one.
Back then since Laura couldn't help the saviors Negan had placed her with helping out with watching over the kids that would come to the Sanctuary, and automatically they all fell in love with her.
Laura came up along the fencing to have the last kid to hop down from Spirit, Daisy was in Aarats arm when they walked up to her.
"My turn...my turn!" She said eagerly, Laura was about to pull her up when Aarat cut them off.
"I don't think it's safe for you squirt, you're to little." She stated, the look Daisy gave her almost made Laura laugh.
But then she instantly felt bad when Daisy began to cry, her little lip quivered while tears slipped down her cheeks.
"She'll be fine Aarat, I'm gonna be holding onto her tight." Laura assured causing Daisy to smile a bit, they looked at each other for a second before Aarat gave in and handed Daisy up to her.
Laura made sure she was settle right in front of her before beginning to have Spirit start moving, looking over she signalled for the Savior at gate entrance to the horses to open it.
He looked at the both in skepticism to having her out with Daisy, Laura looked at him with an annoyed expression.
"Don't worry we won't go far." She said, shaking his head the guy finally opened the gate to allow them to pass over outside.
Laura tapped the back of her heel against spirit to have him move forward, Daisy held onto spirits fur but not tight enough to hurt him.
"Ok Daisy you ready?" Laura asked earning a excited nod from her, making sure she had support of Daisy Laura tapped on Spirit three times signalling him to move faster.
The sound of Daisy's laughter could be heard as they dashed across the open field, Laura smiled as she held Daisy close to her as Spirit continued on.
It was probably not a good idea to go on passed the open field away from the sanctuary, but Laura was having to much fun with Daisy to even think about it.
This was as close as she could probably get to having a little sister experience, and she knew that nothing bad would happen to Daisy on her watch.
"This amazing!" Daisy cheered, her little hands rose in the air as the wind blew through her orange locks.
Laura was happy that Daisy is getting to experience the beauty of the outside the Sanctuary, it's a shame that she'll never get to enjoy more of it how things were normal back then.
It was about a few minutes later that Spirit slowed down at Laura's command, bringing them to an open field area and a water pond. This place was a secret spot where her and Brent would sometimes come by and hash it out together, Aarat would come here to but to smoke it out and take a dip.
"Laura... Thank you for bringing me out here." Daisy said while looking back up to her, Laura stared down at her and smiled.
" Don't mention it sweet pea, least I can do for your birthday." She said then patted the top of her hair, Daisy giggled and rubbed at Spirits long hair.
Setting herself off Spirit Laura helped Daisy down to the ground and walked along with her to the end of the pond, the their reflection coming off the water.
"Aye sweet pea, what do you want to be when you grow up?" Laura asked as she grabbed a small pebble and flicked it across the pond.
Daisy picked up a small pebble and tried doing what she was doing, taking a moment to really think about her answer.
"I want to be like my dad, he was brave and strong man. At least that's what mommy tells me." She said, Laura couldn't help but feel a tinge of pain hearing her say that.
Of course Laura knew Daisy's father before he had passed, he died from a herd of walkers. It was so hard to know that her mom found out, even though he was around for the first year of Daisys life she doesn't really remember him.
"That's good Daisy, I know you'll grow to be strong and brave just like Frank." She said.
"What did you want to be when you were l..little Laura?" Daisy curiously asked, taking a second Laura tried to remember.
Finally remembering she started to giggle at the thought of it now, earning a confused expression from Daisy.
"What's funny? She asked with a smile, shaking her head Laura threw another pebble at the pond.
"I wanted to be a pirate." She admitted, Daisy giggled at her confession.
"That's pretty silly Laura, Pirates are bad guys." She said, Laura smirked at her.
"Yeah but I'd be a good pirate, stealing from the bad guys and giving them to little monkeys like you." She said while picking her up and tossing into the air.
"Hey! Haha" Daisy laughed while falling back into Laura's arms, they both laughed along each other.
It was about time for them to leave so Laura called Spirit back over to them from where he was eating at the grass, while she did that Daisy was looking around when spotting someone just a few yard away.
"Aye Laura who's that man?" Daisy asked while tapping at her arm, Laura quickly turned around and saw what she was talking about.
Her breath hitched when seeing a walker strolling across towards them, she felt so fucking stupid for not even noticing him sooner or realize they were causing so much noise to allure him.
Of course Daisy wouldn't know what he was ,she hasn't stepped foot outside the Sanctuary or seen one before.
"Daisy... Grabbing my hand and lets go." Laura said as she grabbed at Daisy hand to pull her towards her, Spirit was trauting up towards them.
"Why...is he not a good guy?" Daisy asked, Laura couldn't fully explain to her what he was because she's too young to understand.
"Yes Sweet pea, he's a bad man and we need to get back home before more like him come." Laura said half truthfully while placing her up onto Spirit.
"Ok..but Laura there's more coming from behind him" Daisy pointed out, looking out Laura could see a few more of them following his path.
" Shit.. ok. Come in Spirit take us home." Laura said after rushing up onto him, turning him towards the direction of where the came from.
With great haste they pulled out of the field and began heading towards the universe marked direction from where Laura brought them, Daisy was gripping on to Spirit so she wouldn't lose her balance.
"Laura please tell Spirit to slow down!" Daisy asked loudly, before Laura could respond back something lash out from the side of them.
Spirit got startled and started hurdling fast into the opposite direction from Laura was directing him.
"Spirit heel.. heel boy!" Laura yelled in demand but he wasn't paying attention to her, she tried get a good grip on the harness leash but lost her balance and was thrown off.
"Laura!" Daisy screamed when she too fell off Spirit after her, Laura hit the ground pretty hard.
Her head got it hurt pretty hard, making that bad ringing noise in her ears. Looking over she saw Spirits body moving away faster and faster away from them, disappearing past the trees.
"Laura..Laura are you okay.?" Daisy asked while trying to help her sit up, Laura managed to set herself up without making her headache worse.
"Yeah sweet pea I'm fine, we need to get back to home now." She said mean while pulling out her gun from the back pocket.
Daisy noticed something trickling down the side of Laura's face from the forhead.
"Laura.. Laura you're head it's bleeding." She pointed out in worry, Laura wiped at it and saw that she was right.
Fucking shit...why did I think it was a good idea of being out here?
Groaning I'm aggravation and pain Laura picked up Daisy in one arm while holding her gun in the other, the pain in her head was starting to worsen but she needed to find some place safe for now.
(Simon's POV)
All day the look that Laura gave me this morning was still on my mind, it fucking bothered me so much to the point where every little things someone said pissed me off.
Negan had me going over protocol for heading to the out post later in today with Brent and the others, I wasn't even paying attention to what they were saying with what was going through my mind.
"Simon... Simon. Si"Brent yelled capturing my attention, looking across to see him staring at me impatiently.
"Where the hell is your head at man, been telling you about the numbers for five minutes now." He asked, rubbing at my face I groaned in frustration.
"Sorry.. just didn't get enough sleep last night." I somewhat lied, feeling a sudden nudge on my right side.
"Yeah I bet you didn't, seeing how you left with Laura." David commented with a smugged look, I could see Brent's expression tense up.
Fucking prick said that on purpose knowing damn well how Brents protectiveness over his sister.
"Fuck off David, Brent walk with me." I sneered then began pulling Brent off to the side away from everyone, I could feel the anger radiating off him.
"What the hell happened with you two last night, now that he said that I noticed how different Laura acted this morning." Brent stated, sighing I rubbed at the sweat building up on my forehead.
I knew that I was probably gonna get my ass chewed out but if he heard it from someone else or Laura it'll look even worse on me, nervously I grabbed Brent by his arm.
"Ok..yes something did happen with me and Laura." I said, instantly Brent pushed my hand away and grabbed at the front of my shirt.
"You fucking slept with my sister Simon so help me God!" He sneered while bringing his hand up to throw a punch, I grabbed at his hand and brought it down.
"Calm your fucking dick boy I didn't screw your sister!" I yelled, in the back of my mind I really wanted to but I couldn't bring myself to do that.
Plus we were both drunk, I couldn't take advantage of Laura in that vulnerable state.
Somewhat calming down Brent released his hold of my shirt, backing up he collected himself for me to explain myself.
"Listen, I brought her outside to show her the horse I brought back with is from the other place. She was happy and then kissed me." I explained, Brent took a deep breath and shook his head.
"Damn it...did something else happen because Maddie said that she was acting strange when you showed up with Negan." He asked, fucking knew that she would say something to him.
"Yeah...I felt wrong for kissing her but I said something wrong and got her upset. Later on that night...she saw Amber leaving my room." I said quietly so no one could hear the last part.
" You slept with Amber?!" Brent whispered in shock, shaking my head I pointed my finger at him.
"No I fucking didn't, she came barging in my room and tried to get me to sleep with her, when I refused she left the room all angry. She must've said something to Laura because she was pissed the fuck off." I said, Brent seemed to get the gist of what I was saying.
"So you guys kissed, but you didn't feel right because of how Laura feels towards you." Brent said, I looked at him confusingly.
"What do you mean how she feels about me?" I asked, he raised a brow and shrugged his shoulders.
"Dude I might not be my sisters favorite at times, but she always comes to me to confide in. She likes you man, despite my many reasons of not fucking agreeing to it." He said with a side smirk, shaking my head I rubbed at the back of my neck.
"Jesus. Am I really that bad. Can't be worse than Negan, that fucker had more woman than me and you. Trust me I might be a prick but I actually have respect for women." I stated, Brent looked at me for a moment before speaking out.
"Do you respect my sister?" He asked out of nowhere, I couldn't help but feel a bit offended he would even ask that.
"Of course I fucking respect Laura, the hell do you take me for Brent. I've been there for her and you guys since the beginning of building up this damn place. Who's the one that makes sure that she's safe when you're not around, and has been keeping an eye on these shit for brains." I sneered, he rolled his eyes and crossed his arms over his chest.
"Don't make it seem like I asked you to do all that, you've done that all on your own. Just admit that you like Laura." He said, I glared at him for not being able to come up with something to argue back.
Fucking shit...why does it have to be so damn hard to accept it already
"Even if I was to have feelings...I'm not saying that I do...it doesn't feel fucking right Brent. She's not a kid anymore but whenever I see her it's like I'm looking at a stronger, fierce spirit woman. "I said ,this was fucking harder than I thought.
At first I thought that Brent would be unreasonable if I told him what happened, but he acts like it was to be fucking expected finally.
"Listen.. I might not like the idea of Lauras feelings for you because I'm her older brother and a father figure to her at the same time. But she's a grown woman now and I have no right to control what she does in her life. If I remember correctly, you're the one that said to let her find her own ways." Brent pointed out, couldn't help but chuckle at his statement.
"Fucking got me there...but it's not like it matters now because she won't let me talk to her." I said in frustration, Brent folded up the paper still in his hand and tucked it into his pocket.
"I'm pretty sure if you just explain to her what went on she'll get a good understanding." He said, nodding in response I looked over to the gate for a moment till something coming from the distance caught my eye.
Keeping my eye on it I realized that it was Lauras horse, but there was no one riding him.
"What the fuck..open the gate now!" I yelled as I made my way towards it, Dwight began opening them as I slipped my way pass and grabbed ahold of the horse.
"Aye boy what happened?" I asked the horse, rubbing at the side of him I tried not to over panic myself with awful possible assumptions of what happened.
Aarat and Brent came running over to me and they both looked just as worried hell as I am right now.
"Where are they, Laura and Daisy?!" She asked in panic, I looked at her in anger and shock.
"She took Daisy out with her, fucking shit Brent grab the damn truck and the guys. Aarat tell Negan what happened and to not get Daisy's mom panicked." I said before getting in the horse, not even waiting to hear either of their response I tapped my heel for him to start moving fast.
So many bad ideas of what could be happening to them right now, shaking my head I tried to make quick haste and hoped that the horse would take me to the where the last place they were at.
Fucking Laura.. please let them be alright.
(Laura's POV)
"Laura..Laura...don't fall asleep." I felt Daisy slightly shake my body, we managed to find a abandoned looking shack to hold up for the time being till I felt better.
The bleeding finally stopped but I think that fell kindof gave me a concussion, my vision kept in going in and out, plus it felt like the world was doing rollercoaster loops.
"Sorry Daisy, a few more minutes and we'll be fine to head back home." I said trying to assure her worried expression.
It was quiet outside, a bit too quiet for my comfort. What ever the hell that spooked Spirit off was fast and not a walker, but one things for sure I need to get Daisy back safe before we run into it again.
Ever so slightly I began standing up in my feet, trying the very best not to stumble backwards when I stood up.
"Alright sweet pea, I need you to grab onto my hand the whole time and to not let go. Stay close by me and whatever happens to close your eyes. Alright sweetie." I said to Daisy while placing my hands over her face, she nodded her head and wrapped her small hand around mine tightly.
Reaching for my gun I peeked out the crack of the door to make sure there was no sign of walkers before pulling us out into the open, the throbbing pain started getting worse but I brushed it off.
"Laura..who were those people out in the field.. they looked scary." Daisy asked, trying to avoid her question I began to quicken our pace.
"They we're just bad people ok sweetie, nothing to worry about." I tried to assure her, she made a pouty face and tried pulling her hand out of mine.
"Don't lie Laura..I'm not a baby and stupid. They did not look like normal people." She stated, groaning I looked back down to her.
Of course she would be aware of this one day,but I just didn't want to be the one to explain what was going on with the world right now.
"Daisy...those people.. they're really sick."I said, she look at me in confusion.
"Sick... shouldn't we help them. Maybe we can help.." she tried saying but I shook my head.
"No Daisy they're not sick like how you get with a cold...badly sick to where nothing can cure them...we have to stay away from them or they'll get us badly sick also." I said, the look in her face showed that she was trying to process everything in the best that she could understand.
"How would we get sick by them?" She asked, before I could think of a good way to respond a sound of twigs snapping in the distance startled us both.
Quickly I pulled Daisy right beside me and looked at out surroundings to see where that came from, my heart was racing out of fear.
"Laura what is it?" Daisy whipered,I could tell she was getting scared by how tightly she was grabbing at my leg.
My eyes darted in every direction drastically, till something in my peripheral vision. I gripped onto Daisy and place my hand finger over her lip to let her know to not make a sound.
Standing ever so still I watched as the figure appeared to be not aware of our presence from this distance, this one was definitely a walker no doubt in my mind. But for some reason it's stature was a bit odd from all the others I encountered with.
Its body seemed fidgety and out of place, slowly as possible I started moving me and Daisy backwards to make our exit and get away so it won't see us.
Making about ten steps back I was starting to feel relief that it wasn't able to hear us, but regrettably I was to busy keeping my eyes on it that I didn't see what was coming up behind us.
"Laura!" Daisys voiced screamed piercing at my ear drums, turning my head to see a walker literally right up behind within arms reach of us.
Yanking Daisy back I didn't blink twice and pulled the trigger shooting right through the fuckers skull, in retrospect I should have told Daisy to look away but now was not to time to censor what was happening.
Looking down at her I could see how terrified she was, but when I looked back behind us I could see that we captured it's attention. All the color to my face drained when I got a good look of it's front, it looked so horrifying.
Not even in a split second the things fucking makes it way over to us, what threw me so much is that it was running.
What..how the fuck?!
"Laura.. Laura he's coming!" I heard Daisy's voice scream pulling me out of my thoughts, I hauled her up into my arms and started hauling ass out of there.
I couldn't look back to see ,but from how bad Daisy was screaming and crying for me to move faster it was right on us.
Without dropping my gun I pushed myself over the limit of my past running skills to give us more distance away from it.
"Daisy is he still there?!" I yelled over my shoulder for her to hear, she looked back behind us and shook her head drastically.
Out of now where something tackled the side of me causing us to fall and Daisy to get loose from my arms. I crawled up over to pull us up till another one of those things shot itself onto me.
I heard Daisy screaming for me, using all my strength I put my foot against it's stomach and pushed it off me. Pulling out my pocket knife I repeatedly stabbed into it's skull, when I whipped my head around I looked to see Daisy missing.
Daisy..Daisy?!" I screamed at the top of my lungs as my heart began increasing it's pace.
Within that moment I heard her voice calling out to me, it sounded so petrified and loud.
"Laura..Laura help me?!" Her voice screamed on the east of me, in a split second I ran into the direction of her cries.
When I started getting closer I could see an old rooted in tree, but one of those things we just saw caught my eye as it was trying violently to tear and break through the bottom of the small hole.
"Daisy?!" I screamed as I'm making my way towards it, her voice came directly from inside the hole from the tree.
Gripping at my knife I tackled at the thing from behind, it's body thrashed and tried to turn around to attack me but immediately I stuck the knife right into the side of it's face.
Not wanting to risk the chance of not killing it completely I retracted the knife and stabbed at it's head again and again, the adrenaline and rage I felt for having Daisy safety being at risk was making my head go crazy.
When what was left of it's face seemed gone I threw the lifeless body down to the ground, my breathing coming out ragged and short.
Looking over I could see Daisy's body coming out from the hole in the tree, quickly I began helping her out and into my arms.
"Oh my Daisy I'm so sorry. Baby are you hurt..did you get bit or scratched." I asked her in panic, she shook her head no and stared at me.
Her small body was trembling like a leaf and eyes swelling with tears, immediately I felt utter guilt and disappointment for having this happen.
"Oh Sweet pea I'm so sorry, come here" I said while hugging her small body , her arms wrapped around my shoulders and the front of my shirt began seep with her tears.
When another sound of something moving in the distance Daisy began to panic in hsyteria, her body clung onto me for dear life.
"Laura they're coming back..please don't let them hurt me please please!" She cried uncontrollably, pulling myself up with her clutching at my body I readied my knife to attack.
Fucking can't believe I lost my gun!
When the sounds started getting closer I was preparing myself for the inevitable, if something were to happen to Daisy I'll fight to my last breath for her to make it out alive.
It was closing in on us, soon as the thing came out in the open I was about to attack till the horse figure and person riding it make my heart nearly stop.
"Oh my God Simon!" I screamed in utter relief and joy, Daisy to was screaming in happiness to see it was him.
When Simon's eyes met with mine I instantly knew that he was fucking pissed beyond comprehension, literally his eyes were drilling holes into my head.
"Get on the God damn horse, right now!" He ordered angerly, not wasting no time following his order I rushed over and placed Daisy in front of him then made my way behind him.
Not wasting time Simon kicked his heel and directed Spirit out of there and onto the path where he came from, I held onto the back end of his shirt to hold myself close to him but I could feel the tension coming off him.
I knew I was going to hear a fucking ear full when we get back to the Sanctuary, hell there was no telling what Negan was gonna do to me.
I could get the damn iron for this shit!
"Simon... I'm really.." I tried speaking but the harsh tone I. His voice cut me off.
"Don't say shit to me till we get back, you're in deep shit Laura." He growled , I bit my tongue and tucked my head down against his back shamefully.
He's really fucking mad at me, but that's the least of my problem...good going Laura