A/N: Thanks again to wildcow258 and Prettyprincess45 for reviewing, and to Terp4life and hellsheep (love your pen name, btw). I hope you enjoy these all the way to the last chapter, which will end at season 5's mid-finale :)

Reading time: 2 mins.

Disclaimer: I do not own The Walking Dead.

Chapter three: Quiet~

The day that Ed Peletier finally croaked was like silent music to his ears.

A newcomer, a cop that knew Shane and the woman with the annoying kid, had recently joined their camp. He automatically disliked him from the moment he realized he had left his brother to die on a rooftop, but eventually begrudgingly came to admit to himself that after he had arrived, things started to go more smoothly with supplies and group morale. But that was before the camp was attacked.

It was nothing short of a massacre.

A lot of people died (not that he would miss any of them) and one of those people happened to be Carol's husband. He had already been pretty worse for wear - Shane had beat the shit out of him when he saw him hit Carol. And to be honest, if the ex-cop hadn't, he probably would have done it himself eventually. He was sure of it.

Daryl watched as Carol took the shovel he had handed to her and brought it down on Ed's skull.

At first he wasn't surprised, considering the 'undying love' and 'loyalty' the woman held for the man - why would she want to see her husband come back from the dead as one of those things? - but then she raised the shovel to hit him again. And again. And again.

He watched as she cried and sobbed and bashed her former husband's brains in, and in that moment he decided that she wasn't quite so pathetic anymore, so annoying for taking all that shit from Ed all those weeks he'd known her.

She handed him the shovel when she was done and walked away, trembling, to rejoin the rest of the group.

In the many hours that followed, she didn't say a word.

And it was then that she became something else to him, something he always assumed he would prefer but found he didn't.

She was quiet.

A/N: Up next: Weak.

See you tomorrow!