Lab Angel: I'm going to forgo my snippet of the dream sequence this chapter and jump straight into Rick having been discharged from the hospital. Also I'm going to jump around a little bit for Daryl's dream of the TWD universe.
Disclaimer: I don't own The Walking Dead, I just borrow the characters for my own nefarious purposes.
Rick's thoughts.
Daryl's thoughts.
Flashback to the TWD Universe including my snippet in the beginning of the story.
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Divorce papers, never thought they would give me this much of a headache. I stare down at the packet that was sitting on the desk in front of me. Of course never thought I would be getting a divorce or sitting at the station behind a desk.
"What's wrong?" Shane asks throwing himself into the chair next to my desk.
"These divorce papers giving me a headache. Look Shane, I know about you and Lori, she told me." Rick closed the packet and looked at the other officer.
"In my defense we weren't sure you were going to wake up." Shane hung his head, I had to shake my head.
"I understand, I don't have a doubt in my mind that it would have happened eventually." I sigh seeing him shake his head.
"I wouldn't do that to you, you've been a friend since the academy, I wouldn't."
"Like I said Shane, I understand." I turn back to all the forms in front of me. Not only the divorce papers, there was a leave of absence form as well as a transfer form. "Lori will keep Carl, I'll get him on the weekends." The radio on Shane's shoulder squawked to life, orders coming out over it, half the station took off out to the cars. I went back to the forms on my desk, still on doctor's orders to be on a desk job.
The end of my shift came a lot sooner than I would have thought, I signed my leave and transfer forms and left them in the Sheriff's box, expecting to hear about them tomorrow. If the leave is granted I'm going to head out to the Greene farm, try and get on Hershel's good side, stay out in the town. Was it just a dream that I saw or was I dreaming about something yet to come?I hope that isn't the case. The drive back to the house was calming, I wouldn't have thought so but it was.
"I'm back," I say to no one in particular.
"Dad?" I turn towards the living room where I hear the TV going. "Are you and mom really getting a divorce?"
"Now who told you that? We weren't gonna tell you until we had something worked out."
"Mom said that I'd live with her," He turned his eyes down towards the floor.
"Yea, it's going to be a little chaotic with me moving out, you're mom is keeping the house and it'll be easier for you to stay with her. Least 'til I can get settled somewhere."
"You aren't leaving town are you?"
"I was thinking about going to Atlanta." I admit honestly. "This ain't easy for anyone, least of all us, but it's better that your parents are happily separated rather than unhappy together. Now you got your homework all done?"
"No."
"Then you better get to it." I ruffle his hair and give him a push back to where I see his books laying on the coffee table, then turn towards the kitchen. "I thought we weren't going to tell him yet."
"I'm sorry, he heard me talking to myself and didn't we always say we'd be honest to him?" I nod, before moving further into the kitchen.
"You need any help?" Lori shakes her head no before sighing, I turn and leave the kitchen heading upstairs to the guest room where we'd moved my things after I got back from the hospital.
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Gotta head back down the mountain, hunting season's done and not a damn thing to show for it. No deer, rabbit, not even any squirrel.
"Don't look so down in the dumps Darylina, not like you was gonna catch anythin' anyways." Merle punched my arm before laughing in the driver's seat.
"Shut up." I mutter, arms crossed, my vest a comforting pressure on my shoulders. I hate going back into town, Merle's gonna get high and drunk again, then get violent. I can handle him, just don't like to.
"C'mon baby brother don't be like that. We're gonna be on the road another six hours, start talkin', not like you got anythin' better do. Tell me 'bout them dreams you been havin'."
"What dreams?" How the hell does he know about them?
"You talk in your sleep brother, first heard you say somethin' like 'toughest asshole I ever met, my brother.' What was that about?"
"Just dreams." I mutter looking out the window and ignoring anymore questions Merle sent my way.
"You go looking for aspirin, do what you need to do. Someone needs to have some balls and take care of this damn problem!" I hear the cocking of a gun and turn to face it.
"We don't kill the living." The officer stared me down from the other end of the gun.
"That's funny coming from a man who just put a gun to my head."
"We may disagree on some things, not on this, you put it down."
I jerked awake, looking around a little confused to see that we were stopped at a truck stop. "Thanks for waking me up asshole." I mutter opening my door and getting out to stretch.
Lab Angel: So I figured I'd try and end my chapters with a scene from the series. Now I need an opinion, when should I have Rick and Daryl meet? Should it be next chapter or should I wait a bit longer? I have a general idea of how I want it to happen but I'm not sure when it should happen.
I'd also like to know which scenes you'd like to see from the series, because I have the hardest time picking out a scene to flashback to. Not for lack of favorite scenes, but because I love them all. It can be a Rickyl scene or a Dixon brothers scene, a scene between Shane and Rick, just anything so long as it focuses on our main pairing. Anyways, reviews are nice, thank you for sticking with me this far! See ya next chapter.