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Her Angel, His Strength
16 18 Miles Out
It took a whole week for Randall to be deemed good enough for Rick and Shane to drop him somewhere far from them. From what she had been told, 18 miles out. In that week, Daryl had removed his stiches and was back to hunting for the group. Lily had gone a few times with him to make sure he wasn't extending himself, though she told him she wanted to look at the vegetation. She didn't think it was all necessary anymore, considering they were all living off Hershel's farm, but in the end, she had grabbed a few interesting plants she had found.
Considering she only had one lesson in gun training, Daryl started to take her far into the woods for practicing. Sometimes, a stray walker would wander towards them, attracted by the gunshots, so Lily got the chance to try the real thing. While she was not as good as the others, she was getting there, and it was all that mattered to her.
Even though Daryl was not the most patient teacher around, she liked him better than Shane, Rick, or T-Dog, though that must be because of the rewards he gave her when she would hit the target on her first try. These rewards consisted mostly on sweet kisses, a pat and, the ones she liked most, a smile and a quick massage on her shoulders at night to relieve the pain from the recoil of the gun.
Lily and Daryl were not displaying their affections openly; however, the whole camp came to the understanding that they were a couple now. Lily and Daryl had not talked about what they were, and while she wanted to know if he considered them boyfriend and girlfriend, she was happy with what they had.
Lily was going into the house after the practice of the day when she ran into an unhappy Andrea.
"Hey, you ok?"
"Yeah, just- are you going inside?"
"Yes, I want to take a shower."
"Listen, I don't know if now is a good time. Beth… She was considering suicide." Lily eyes widened.
"Oh, my God."
"She made her choice now." At Lily's panicked graze, she continued: "she chose to live! Lori said she didn't want me there with her because… Said I don't pull my weight around, that we, the women that is, should stick to laundry and cooking. Considering you're going out every day with Daryl to learn how to shoot, maybe you don't want to listen to the same bullshit I had to." With that, Andrea walked past her and left. Lily had never knew that the women were expected to do these kind of chores, she just thought that they did because they did not know, and had no interest in knowing, how to defend the camp.
Lily did laundry with Carol, but always made sure to be nowhere around when they were cooking, and she liked to spend the time with Maggie when she was tending to the livestock, so she didn't think she wouldn't be welcome in the house now. Besides, she and Maggie had become good friends, considering that when Lily was not doing anything, she was with Glenn, and Maggie tended to be around him a lot. It would seem the roles between them had exchanged.
Glenn blamed Maggie for his selfishness when they met Randall, having hidden himself instead of protecting Rick and Hershel, Maggie did not understand why he would act that way. Lily was the carrier pigeon between the two.
Entering the house, she saw Maggie sitting on the sofa, face wet with tears.
"Hey." She said, sitting by her side. "I ran into Andrea." At the blonde-haired woman's name, Maggie scoffed. "Maggie, I'm sorry. What happened? Is Beth ok now? Andrea said she chose to live."
"She cut her wrist open, that's what she did. Dad's inside now, patching her up." Lily nodded, hugging Maggie with one arm.
"She'll be ok, tough?" Maggie nodded. "So it seems to me that Beth is good now, she didn't go through with it, and won't try again; you can all put this in the past. I think you have nothing to worry anymore. She'll be just fine." Maggie sighed loudly but nodded. Squeezing her arm, Lily asked: "do you need something?"
"No, I'm good. You need to shower though, you stink." Lily gasped at her, smiling. Pushing Maggie, she stood.
"I think you are much better than I thought. Silly me, all worried. Let's see if that happens again." Walking away, she decided she would shower first and see Beth later.
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Mel.
