Disclaimer: I do not own anything that you recognize. Although I would love to have my own personal Daryl Dixon. Short and sweet.

AN: So I realized when checking over my work on Fanfiction that the story seemed a little off, that I would have 14 chapters on my laptop but only 13 on Fanfiction. I have now realized that I never updated chapter 13. So chapter 13 is the new chapter but chapter 14 is probably the chapter that you have already read.

Chapter 13

After the group made it back to the highway the group convened to decide about who would stay and collect supplies for Sophia and who would go to the farm. "You gotta get T-Dog to that farm. His wound has went to long without treatment. He has one hell of an infection." Dale told Glenn who wasn't really happy about being made to go.

"And besides, I'm goin' too." Kale said to Glenn. "No, not you Kale. I don't want you ridin' that bike in the dark. Especially out here in unfamiliar territory." Daryl told Kale. "Whoa! No way man. Adrian told me for my ass to be at that farm tonight and I plan on being there." Kale retorted quickly.

"Do you even know how to ride that damn thing?" Daryl asked taking a step towards the teen. "Not good but well enough." Kale said taking a step back. "Alright then. I said you ain't goin', so you ain't fuckin' goin'." Daryl demanded.

"She told me to be there, dammit! And I'm more afraid of her than I am of you!
I've seen her angry before and I don't wanna be on the other end it." Kale yelled at Daryl.

"Yeah, we've all seen her angry." Andrea threw at Kale. Kale gave a humorless laugh at Andrea's comment.

"What? This morning? You think that was her angry?" Kale asked pointing towards the RV.

"That wasn't her angry. That was just for shits and giggles. That was her slightly annoyed because you wouldn't shut up." Kale told her. Daryl walked up to Kale, invading his personal space, and pointed a dirty finger in the kids' face. "I said you ain't going, and damn it, I mean it." Daryl growled.

"If you get bit tryin' to get out there, then that's on me. And if you get bit then she gets angry and I don't wanna arrow in the ass or a knife in the eye. So you're stayin' here." Daryl said grabbing a handful of Kale's t-shirt. "Got it?" he asked through gritted teeth.

"Got it." Kale growled knocking Daryl's arm away.

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It was after dark and Shane and Otis still weren't back from their run to get the necessary equipment Hershal would need to operate on Carl. Rick was sitting in one of the chairs by the bed, Lori was kneeling by the bed holding Carl's hand, and Adrian was leaning her back into a corner by the door.

Hershal came into the room to check on Carl when the boy surprised everyone and opened his eyes. "Mom. You should have seen it. The deer. It was so pretty." Carl told Lori. Carl continued to talk to his mother quietly for another minute when he suddenly stopped talking and went still.

Carl then started to violently convulse. Lori and Rick started to panic and throw questions at Hershal. "Don't hold him down, you could make him worse." Hershal told the shaken couple. "Can't you do something?!" Lori demanded. "No. It has to run it's course." Hershal told her.

Carl finally stopped convulsing and Hershal did a quick examination. "His brain isn't getting enough blood. He needs another transfusion." Hershal told them. "Here." Rick said to Hershal sticking out his arm to the man.

"Rick, you can't. You've already given two units. I take any more blood and your body could shut down." Hershal told Rick seriously. "What's his blood type?" Adrian asked at the foot of the bed. "A positive." Rick said to her. "It's your lucky day, Carl." Adrian said walking towards Hershal.

"Here, Doc." Adrian said sticking her arm out. "O positive. Now you got another body to tap for blood." she said as she sat in a chair she pulled up while Hershal tapped her arm looking for a viable vein.

Hershal stood back after hooking Adrian up for the transfusion. "He's going to need more blood after the surgery as well. I'll have to take it from you. Rick has given too much already." Hershal told her. "Do what you gotta do, Doc." she said as she leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes.

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Adrian was leaning against the porch railing munching on a sandwich that Maggie had fixed her and sipping on a glass of orange juice, which she hated, when she seen a pair of headlights pull up to the house.

Glenn and T-Dog, who looked worse than he had the last time she had seen him, walk up to the house. They were discussing on how to enter the house when Maggie spoke up from a semi-dark corner. "Um, we have some antibiotics and some pain killers for Carl if you need them." Glenn stammered holding to fairly large orange bottles.

"Who was hoarding those?" Adrian asked from her dark spot behind T-Dog and Glenn. T-Dog jumped and turned to look at her but it was Glenn's reaction that caused her to laugh. His entire body jumped as if someone had just stuck a live wire up his ass. He turned towards her and looked a little pale from the scare and she would bet Kale's favorite shotgun that his heart was racing like a motherfucker as well.

"Daryl. He had Merle's bag of pills in his one of his saddle bags on his bike." Glenn said a little breathlessly. Adrian looked back out into the dark. "Kale ain't comin'." she heard T-Dog say. She looked at him with a curious expression but didn't say anything.

"Daryl told him that he wasn't allowed to come. Didn't want him riding that motorcycle in the dark in unfamiliar territory when Kale didn't really know how to drive it. Kale seemed pretty upset. Said that he was more scared of you than Daryl." Glenn told her.

"Ah." Adrian said taking a sip of her orange juice. "I bet he was upset. Don't take much to get that kids panties in a twist. I'll straighten it out with him when they get here tomorrow." she told them. "Alright, lets get you two inside. T-Dog, I'm not much for others pain but I'm bored so your pain will just have to amuse me." Adrian said jokingly to the black man as they walked into the house.

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Adrian never got to enjoy T-Dog' pain because shortly after their arrival, Shane showed up, limping, with the equipment that Hershal needed to operate on Carl. Hershal asked about Otis since the man appeared to be missing and Shane told them that he didn't make it.

Hershal ordered everyone out of the room except for Adrian since he would need her for another transfusion. She became extremely uncomfortable being in the room while they were operating on Carl, so she stood by the window and looked outside.

Patricia hooked her up to Carl and she and Hershal left the room. A few minutes later she heard crying from inside the house and assumed that Patricia had finally been told about Otis. Adrian didn't know the man but he seemed a decent, likable sort of man.

After a while Adrian started to feel a little light headed so she got as comfy as she could in the hard back chair and closed her eyes. After a few minutes she fell into a blissfully dreamless sleep.

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When Adrian woke up is was bright and sunny outside and sunshine was streaming in through the window. Adrian knew that her body wasn't right but she couldn't really remember why. Then she took note of Carl laying on the bed.

She remembered running all the way to the farm house they were currently at and then telling Hershal to take as much of her blood as Carl needed. 'Must've taken too much.' she thought as she finally noticed how light headed she felt and how dry her mouth was.

'Cotton mouth is always a bitch.' she thought trying to somehow magically conjure up moisture into her mouth. Adrian sat up, to what her mind thought was slowly, but her body told her that it was too quickly by placing white spots behind her eyes.

She sat still until the spots went away and then, super slowly, she stood up and was slightly alarmed that her legs her shaking under her weight, which wasn't much since this whole thing started. She reached out and put her hand on the nightstand to help steady her as she walked up to the head of the bed to check on Carl.

She then looked over at the window and slowly made her way towards it. When she finally got there she looked outside to see that it looked as if the world had never changed. The fields were were full of nothing but overgrown grass, the stables had healthy horses, and even the trees were baring fruit.

She didn't know how Hershal and his family had gotten so lucky as to have lived in a place that was still untouched by the horror movie that was now their daily lives. It had been months since the outbreak but this farm house and surrounding land was as close to heaven as people could get these days.

Adrian heard the very faint sound of Daryl's motorcycle before she seen the small caravan making its way up the dirt path. "Well now, lets go see what the rest of the crew is up to, shall we?" Adrian asked as she slowly made her way towards the bedroom door to go outside and greet the rest of the group.