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Chapter 22

"Daryl we have to find shelter, dispatch said a Tornado touched down nearby." Rick yelled against the wind as they made it to his house.

"I gotta find her, there's a cellar in the shop. You and Tyrese take cover there." He grunted as he took off running toward the field he had seen her in his vision. He could hear Rick calling to him behind him.

The wind was almost unbearable. A force pushing at him, nearly knocking him over despite the momentum he had to keep going. He had never had such a reason to keep going.

He could see her up ahead. Just as he had seen in his vision. She was fighting Ed now. Slashing at him with her knife. She was fighting for her life, but she was tiring.

He was running against the wind, as fast as he could when he saw Ed swing out with his foot, toppling her to the ground. He saw Ed, on top of her, Ed's face filled with evil as he raised his knife.

"No!" Daryl screamed. Then watched as Ed looked up a evil grin on his face, as the knife slashed down in an arc.

Ruby seemed to appear out of nowhere. Flying at Ed, a bleeding wound at her side. Tackling the man off of Carol. Snarling and tearing at the bigger man's throat.

Ed managed to get the upper hand, just as Daryl reached them. Throwing the dog off him. Daryl grimaced as he heard Ruby yelp.

"It's over" Daryl said

Ed grinned pulling out a gun from his back pocket, pointing it at an unconscious Carol still prone on the ground. "It won't ever be over. She's mine or she's no ones."

Daryl's mind raced. He would never be able to disarm Ed before the asshole could get a shot off. He watched in horror as Ed lifted his gun. A shot echoing in the next moment.

"No! " Daryl screamed then stopped in confusion as Carol was fine and Ed, dropped to his knees. A rapidly spreading stain of blood across his chest.

He turned to see Tyreese and Rick had followed him. Tyreese with his gun still pointed at Ed.

"We'll never make it back to the house" Rick yelled as Daryl picked Caryl up, he saw Tyrese go over to Ruby, picking the dog up in his arms.

"There's a drainage ditch and a culvert over the hill. We can crawl in." Daryl yelled running now with Carol in his arms.

The culvert was thankfully mostly dry. A few inches of water sloshed as they crawled inside. He crawled in as far as he could Rick helping him to pull Carol through as Tyreese pulled in Ruby then took off his coat, trying to stop the massive blood loss coming from the dog's side.

He couldn't seem to stop shivering. Carol was still out, but he had her burrowed into him as best she could. Rick took off his coat to wrap around Carol. Her lips were blue.

"She breathing?" Rick yelled above the horrendous noise of the wind now.

He saw her then, bathed in light. Walking along the path that he had shown her. She kept smiling over her shoulder at him. Laughing as she playfully kept herself out of his grasp.

Ruby ran along ahead of her, happily barking at a squirrel, tail wagging.

She turned and he saw, her belly swollen with a baby and a light shinning in her eyes that he'd seen before. He knew then.

"She'll be okay" he yelled as the tornado neared down on them. He'd seen the future.