Noah and Alexis sat on the back of a truck sitting across from Daryl, while Glenn drove the truck to the city. Rick had given the girls their belongings back including their knives and Noah's gun. The ride was quiet until Daryl spoke to T-Dog.
"He'd better be okay." The look on his face full of threat.
"The geeks can't get at him." T-Dog insisted.
Noah looked up to Daryl with big brown eyes full of hope and told him "Everything will be okay. You see your brother will be there and everything will be fine." She offered him a warm smile but Daryl just looked away.
The truck stopped in a halt and everyone made their way out of the truck Noah being the very last. She took a good look at her surroundings but there wasn't much to see. She then realized there would be a lot of walking involved and pouted but followed the rest of the group into the city.
"Noah come on don't fall behind." Alexis motioned for Noah to hurry up.
Noah picked up the pace until she was walking side by side with Glenn.
"Hello my name in Noah." Her signature friendly smile adorning her face.
"I'm Glenn. You have a really cheery and positive attitude for someone living through the end of the world. I like you already."
"Sorry I can't help it." She giggled.
They had decided to go look for Merle first then the guns. To which Alexis questioned Rick.
"What guns?" She looked at him hard and serious?
"I was here before and I dropped a bag of guns in the city. It should still be there and you agreed to help us in return for your freedom."
She nodded and the group continued walking until they reached a building. Everyone proceeded cautiously inside but when Noah walked in and took a good look at all the things inside she could not keep her voice down.
"Alexis look at all these clothes and supplies we could use so much of these things!" A lonesome walker was heard making their way to the group snarling and gnawing at them. Daryl took it down in the split of a second with his crossbow.
"Ye really don't know how to keep yer mouth shut do ya girl?" He shook his head and kept walking while Noah looked down away from everyone's looks of disapproval towards her.
"I'm sorry." She said but not loud enough for anyone to hear. Alexis helped lead her towards the rest of the group. They made their way through a long flight of stairs that led to the roof. When they reached the top door, Noah felt herself praying the man's brother would be there. She would not wish anyone suffer through the loss of a loved one even if it was someone she barely knew.
Rick busted the door open with a set of big plyers and Daryl was the first one through the door looking for his brother.
"Merle, Merle!"
When they all walked through the door they saw it. Merle had sewed off his hand to escape. There was blood. Lots of it from the looks.
"No! No!." Daryl cried out in pain for the loss of his brother. No one dared approach him besides Noah whose empathy got the best of her and she herself had tears streaming down her eyes. She slowly reached out to put a hand on his back for reassurance.
"Hey it's okay he is alive. He is going to be fine." Her calm reassuring voice got through Daryl's tough exterior and this time he did not slap her hand away from him.
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