Not long after Daryl had been threatened by the two blonds, someone came out of the house again and gently grasped the girl's wrist and then slowly led her away from him and back to what he assumed, they believed, was safety. Psh. If any of them bothered to get to know him any, they would know that if he really wanted at the girl- there wasn't anything short of killing him that would stop him.

He could sneak into the house. Hell he could even steal her from her bed at night if he was of a mind to.

He was silent, quick, sure footed- and he could carry her dead weight easily and move a great distance before his endurance finally gave out.

But then again, that was only if he really wanted at her.

So all he could really say as he sat himself down some odd feet away from the house, underneath a tree, was that it was a fucking good thing that he wasn't into little girls. Though he didn't doubt in the least that in the next few months or more, he'd find himself interested in her.

It'd been a long time since he'd had himself a woman. And she was a right pretty little thing so it was easy for him to see why her friends tended to worry about her being alone with strange men.

Absently reaching into one of his pockets for his cigarettes, he started to pull one out and put it to his lips as he thought to himself. Yes sir. If he were the wrong sort of fella, he would have had her in the woods somewhere, pinned underneath him and screaming.

Feeling his stomach knot painfully at the disturbing thought, he sighed softly and then took the smoke from his mouth and shoved it back in it's packet and re pocketed them and then resigned himself to waiting for Rick and the others. In the meantime, he simply sat there and observed the interactions of the strangers whenever he saw them.

For the most part, the group was comprised of a few adults and the rest were teens. The youngest of which was Ali. There were also more girls there too, all of them were hands down drop dead gorgeous however none of them caught his fancy like Ali had.

Not only that but each one of them with the exception of Ali, seemed to be in a relationship of some kind with one or more of the men around here.

And while that wasn't exactly strange with the world as it was now, he couldn't help but wonder how Rick and the others would react. He doubted that the women would take kindly to such things. They tended to have a little bit better morals when it came to relationships.

Well...mostly anyways. There was always an exception to the rule.

Like there was with Lori.

True the woman had thought that her husband was dead and gone, and she'd at that time had a right to sleep with whoever she wanted, but he couldn't help but wonder about the suddenness of hers and Shane's 'relationship'. True, since Rick had come back, they had ended things and decided to stay friends. but Rick didn't know about his wife and friend.

Daryl couldn't help but wonder if the man was just a little bit stupid or blind when it came to those close to him. Possibly more than a little bit of both, he thought to himself when he heard the RV, Rick's and Glen's car's. Making a small sound in the back of his throat as everyone pulled up to the house as much as they dared, and then shut off their vehicles- he waited for them all to climb out before realizing that the giant that had gone with Rick and Shane was oddly MIA at that moment.

"Daryl, how is it going?" Glen asked almost warily as he eyed the house. Or more specifically the people that slowly began to step out of the door, single file.

"Could be better, could be worse." The hunter said as he slowly got up off of the ground and brushed himself off as Sophia came out of the house with one of the other people and practically made all of their ears bleed when she saw her momma.

Everyone stood silently as the little girl hugged her mom and got her little face showered in kisses. And once Carol was done greeting her daughter and checking her over, Carl ran over and the two practically ran circles around each other before taking off around the house, laughing and squealing the whole way.

Leaving the two groups alone together as everyone seemed to size everyone else up for a few moments before one of the men turned and suggested, "Ladies, why don't all of you go inside and finish up with dinner while we get to know a little bit about our new friends."

The women nodded and began to go back inside with the exception of the girl, Ali whom merely stood there between the bodies of the two men that had greeted them upon their arrival earlier- the red head and the dark haired man- with her hands stuffed in her pant pocket's and her eyes studying the lot of them.

"We never gave our names before," Sinbad started before deciding to continue, "A grievous oversight on our part. So let us fix that now. My name is Sin, the girl next to me is Ali, on the other side of her is Ren, and his brother Komui. The blond teen is Alex, next to him are my friends Jareth, Sharrkan, Masrur- You already met Hina...speaking of, where is he? Wasn't he with you?"

Rick nodded his head and quickly replied, "Once we reached our people he kind of split off from us. We thought that he'd come back on his own."

"Makes sense." Sin said before asking him to introduce everyone.

"You've already met Daryl and Shane, so let's start with...Lori, my wife. And Carl, my son, is the little boy that ran off with Sophia. The woman with the short greying hair is Carol, Sophia's mother. The Asian looking guy is Glen-"

"I'm Korean." Glen corrected as he sent a small glare towards Rick.

"The blond woman is Andrea, and with her is Dale and T-dog. And...I-I think that's everyone."

"Good. We haven't introduced everyone in our group quite yet, but you will meet everyone eventually. Dinner should be ready if all of you would like to come in out of the heat."

"That's very kind of you but we need to speak to whoever is in charge about maybe staying for a spell." Rick said awkwardly.

"Ah well, go ahead and speak. Ali will listen."

"Ali?" Rick said as his eyes automatically went to the girl. "S-She's the leader of your group?"

"Yes."

Rick looked like he wanted to say or ask something, but one of the others beat him to it as said in an outraged tone, "But she's a kid. How could you take orders from her?"

"Because this kid has kept all of us alive for the past two years, single handedly. She's sacrificed things that no one should sacrifice, and she's lost more than you could imagine. We respect her strength and courage. If you want to stay, you will at least have to listen to her when she says to do, or in many cases, not do something. Unless you are dangerously close to overstepping, for the most part she will let one of your own take care of you. But if she feels that you are becoming a threat to us, and to your own- we will force you to leave. Now if your done complaining about our leader- come inside and eat something. You're all too thin."