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Chapter 3: Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

Carter's P.O.V

It feels like we've been walking forever and we haven't seen anything until now. Theres a pile of cars. I smile.

"Wait here." I say and run off.

"Carter!" Daryl call after me as I run into the mess of cars. "Katie Elizabeth Carter!" Daryl yells. I poke my head from between a truck and minivan.

"I hate when you use my full name." I call back before disappearing again this time in the truck. I pull out a mess of wires and start hot-wiring it.. "Got it!" I jump out and see Daryl. His face changes.

"Katie! Get down." Daryl screams. I turn around and there's two walkers heading right for me. I pull out my knife and start swinging. I push one walker hard enough to knock them down and face the other one. Throwing the knife aiming for the brain. The walker falls and I turn back to the one I pushed. I hold my knife in front of me ready to fight. The walker gargles and comes at me at a slow speed. It gets a hold of my arm and I bring my knee up and push it to the ground. The knife dives deep into the brain as I stab it. The grip on my arm releases and I get up and wipe a blood splatter from my cheek. Daryl just stares still pointing his crossbow in my direction.

"Are we going or not?" I ask as I turn back to the truck I started. I claim the driver seat of the single cab truck. Only the middle and passenger seat available, unless someone sits in the back. The door opens and I look the two boys look at each other and silently debate who gets middle. "God! Daryl would you just get in?" I practically yell. He doesn't argue and gets in. I continue to drive down the road we we're heading down.

"When did you learn to hot-wire a car?" Daryl asks.

"I had a day free when I had enough food and water and a garage with a car." I boys look to each other and I reach over and push the eject button to see if there's a CD in there. I pull it out and see Three Days Grace album One-X.

"Yes." I whisper and pop it back in.

"Don't tell me it's that pop crap you listen to." Daryl sighs.

"No I stopped listening to that long time ago." I said. "The last time you came to visit was like a year before everything went to shit."

"Since when do you swear?" He asks surprised.

"Since the world went to shit." I repeat as the song It's All Over starts to play.

"What happened to you?" Daryl says looking at me.

"Well, you only got to visit every so often because I lived so far away. So while I was away I changed. Then the world went to shit and I had to learn to survive. There's a lot you don't know about me." I mention.

"I guess we gotta catch up." He says. I nod.

"It's all over for you. For you. When you're on the edge and falling off.." I sing along with the song.

"Turn right here." Daryl points out and I turn, we come up to an abandoned town. I park outside of a convince store.

"Grab what you can and get out. I say as I disconnect the wires and the truck shuts off and I get out.

"Who made her boss?" I hear Daryl ask. I go beside one door with the handle in one hand and my knife in the other. Daryl raises his crossbow ready to shoot and nods at me. I nod back just before opening the door. One walker comes out and walks into his arrow effectively killing it. I slowly go in and we all spread out. I stay on alert and open my bag throwing a bunch of food and supplies in it. I don't pay attention to what I'm throwing in.

"Ready to go?" Daryl asks. "My bag's full." I throw a couple more handfuls of things in my bag and close it up.

"Ready." I say going back to see Daryl at the entrance.

"Why don't you take that sweater off? It's pretty hot?" Daryl asks. I just shrug and hope he doesn't ask again. Aaron joins us shortly after. I open the door slightly and the street is clear.

"You know if I back the truck up we can grab almost everything out of here." I suggest.

"Let's do it." Aaron says.

"Alright, I'll grab some things. Aaron you find something to hold the door open." Daryl says taking charge. I nod and run to the truck touching the wires together again. I back up and Aaron has the doors open.

"We need to speed it up. Theres a couple walkers down the street. Only a matter of time until they notice us." I say as we all start loading up. The truck is almost full, we just start throwing everything in and climb back into the truck. The ride is shorter than the walk back. We celebrate as I drive us back home. Once I see it in the distance I speed up. Aaron pulls out a walkie.

"Aaron to Alexandria come in." He says.

"This is Alexandria go ahead." a voice says out of the radio.

"We're coming back in a red truck. Open the gates." He says as he waves with the other hand out the window waving. The door begins opening and I drive right in. We get stares as I drive through the roads and where Daryl guides me to where we keep the food and supplies. Rick comes running over as we're getting out of the truck. He looks in the back and all the things we got.

"How?" He asks.

"I hot-wired a truck backed it in and cleared it out. We won't need to make a run for a while now." I smile. He chuckles and picks up a box that says XXL condoms on it.

"No we won't"

"I didn't know what we grabbed, we just grabbed everything and ran." I laughed.

Everyone pitched in and helped pack everything in while some others helped stock up. After everything Daryl and I walked back to the house.

"Hey, you never mentioned Merle." I blurt out. "I don't imagine he likes suburbia did he leave?" I ask.

"No..he uh…he died." He choked out.

"What?" I ask in shock trying to hold back tears.

"Yeah, he was missing so I went to find him. By the time I found him he turned. I had to.." He trails off but I know what he did. Merle and I weren't close but he knew Daryl took care of me a lot. I hung out with him a few times but we had a difference of opinion and argues almost every time we saw each other.

"Oh, Daryl I'm sorry." I let out a sigh putting my hand up on his shoulder.

"S'nothing." He shakes it off and speeds up his walk. I stop when I hear two men arguing. I look in between the two houses on my left and see Aaron and I'm guessing the other guy is Eric.

"No there's nothing more to discuss." Aaron practically yells in Eric's face before walking towards the road I'm at. He looks up and sees me. I jump, I shouldn't be here, and I'm ready to start running to catch up to Daryl when Aaron talks.

"Hey, how you doing?"

"I'm fine…are you okay?" I ask awkwardly.

"Yeah, I could be better but I'll live."

"Do you wanna come over tonight? I'll cook dinner for you, Daryl, and I?" I offer.

"Yeah that'll be great." He smiles.

"Great, I'll get everything ready by sunset." I say.

"Sounds good. See you then." Aaron smiles and walks away. I walk in and see Daryl sitting in an empty room.

"What do you do for fun? I hear some of these kids have video games. Bet I can still beat your ass." I joke.

"Nah, don't feel like it." Daryl objects.

"So you just sit in here alone?" I ask.

"Yeah, I guess. Well I went to dinner once." Daryl said.

"Yeah? With who?" I ask intrigued and sit directly across from him.

"Eric and Aaron, at least when they were together. We had spaghetti." He says with a small smile sneaking out.

"You like Aaron don't you?" I ask.

"What? NO!" He answers but I can tell he's lying. I nudge him and he smiles. "How did you know?"

"I'm your sister I've known you since I was 5 years old. I know you. I also suspected for a while now. I just wanted to give you the space to come out yourself." I explained.

"I don't know if I am. I don't know if I'm not." Daryl confesses.

"Listen your my brother, whether or not you get me a sister in law or brother in law. I love you unconditionally. Now your 'dad' he's a different story but he's gone now. It's just you and me and who cares what the rest of these people think. If Aaron starts dating you and those friends you have don't accept that then we leave. We can survive on our own. But I'll always have your back." I say giving him a little speech.

"Thank you." Daryl says.

"So your good if anything happens with you and Aaron?"

"Well, yeah I guess." He admits to me.

"Good because I invited him to dinner tonight." His head immediately meets mine.

"Katie tell me you didn't." He begs.

"I gotta start cooking. What you got in this kitchen?" I jump up and start going through the food.

"Katie why'd you do that?"

"I caught him at the end of his fight with Eric. I felt bad for him and remembered you liked him so I invited him over." I explain as I start mixing together some stuff for a quick vegetable soup.

"Are they…?" Daryl began to ask.

"No, I highly doubt it. Aaron seemed pretty sure that he didn't want to talk." I answered him as he picked up a couple pieces of celery and carrots to chew on.

"Do you even have a table here?" I asked looking around.

"It's in the garage." He nods to the door across from the kitchen.

"Well would you make yourself useful? Bring it in?" I motioned to the dinner I was making.

"Alright." He says putting his hands up in surrender. From what I've seen he doesn't show this side to anyone. Everyone always looks at him like he's so tough and scary.

I finish the soup and look for bowls. I find about 5 or 6 in a cupboard as Daryl carries the small table in to the small dinning area between the living room and kitchen. It was a small table maybe 5 or 6 people would fit if they felt like squishing together. I wet a towel and go to wipe the table down when there's a knock on the door.

"Would you get that?" I ask.

"Why don't you?" He asked.

"Fine you can clean the table" I say as I throw the cloth to him before going to answer the door. Aaron is standing there with a plate of cookies.

"Dessert." He smiles.

"That's so thoughtful of you." I smile and take the plate. "Come on in." I say opening the door some more. I walk back and Daryl sees the cookies. He tries to grab one as I walk by but I smack his hand.

"Hey." He says with a stern tone.

"They're for after dinner." I say, have a seat anywhere you'd like I say to Aaron and look back to Daryl who's eating a cookie. I just sigh and walk back into the kitchen to dish some soup out for everyone. When I come back to the table Aaron and Daryl are talking and laughing. I smile and set the bowls in front of them before I go back to grab my bowl. It doesn't taste so great, but it's better than cooking it on a stove.

"So how'd you two meet?" I asked.

"Oh I found Daryl and his group. I recruited them the same way I recruited you. I brought them back here and Rick ended up becoming our leader." Aaron explained.

"Oh, did everyone in your group come in like that?" I asked.

"Not everyone, they all have their own stories." Daryl answered. Eventually everyone finished eating and I cleared the bowls before grabbing the plate of cookies. It may not have been a glamorous dinner but considering the circumstances I say it was pretty good.

Daryl's P.O.V

Carter came back with the plate of cookies. I couldn't help but feel nervous about what she was doing here. I wanted everything to go back to normal but that's not going to happen now. Carter placed the plate of cookies on the table and picked up a few.

"You know I'm kind of tired so I'm taking these to bed and I'll see you guys tomorrow." She said as she finished a cookie. Aaron was grabbing a cookie when I was mouthing to her 'No don't do this to me.' Aaron looked back to me and I pretended to stretch.

"Good night." Aaron smiled at her.

"Nite." I said not very happy with her.

"Night boys." She says as she finishes her last cookie before going to lay down on the makeshift bed I had set up on the other side of the room in the living room area.

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