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It was early evening when they got back the house. Neither Jillian or Daryl told Rick or Shane about what had happen in the store. Jillian rode back with the cops, both vehicles filled with things like clothes, shoes, soaps, bottle water and canned goods. Shane and Rick noticed the tension between them but figured they had had another fight. Jillian was sitting in the back seat of the car, not talking or looking at anyone.

Once they reached the house, everyone rushed them. Lori jumped on Rick and they kissed hard. Andrea almost ran to Jillian. The girls wrapped their arms around each other and Jillian felt a few tears slip from her eyes. Daryl watched the scene with slightly narrowed eyes as Dale joined the girls. He took his turn to hug Jillian tightly.

Clothes were passed out to everyone and the supplies were put away. They ate a quick dinner then everyone went to bed. The stress of the day had been hard on everyone. Daryl had just gotten into his room and slipped off his shirt when a knock came to his door. He sighed and prayed it wasn't her. He wasn't ready to face her and didn't want to talk about anything. He walked slowly to the door and opened it.

" I have something for you." Rick said.

" What's that?" Daryl asked.

" Can I come in?" Rick asked. Daryl sighed but moved out of the way. He closed the door behind Rick. Rick went to the dresser and leaned against it. Daryl walked over to the bed and sat down. " So a few years ago the town I lived in had a reporting of a rape." Rick had lived one town away from Daryl and Jillian. " Now most rape cases don't get solved but a few weeks after our report came in, we found out there was another rape in the town next to us, your town."

" I don't want to hear this." Daryl said.

" You need to." Rick said. " Now I never meant the other victims but cops talk, we share information. A young woman came in to the police station saying she was kidnapped and raped behind a drug store plaza. She was taken to the hospital and giving a rape kit."

" Let me guess, it came up negative?" Daryl snapped as he crossed his arms over his chest.

" It came up positive. The thing about that rape case, the description of the man and how the rape happen matched what the victim said from my town claimed. An APB was sent out and the man was found pretty quickly. He confessed to the rape of around 20 women. Both victims picked him out in a line up." Rick said.

" Why you telling me this?" Daryl asked. Rick took a file out from behind his back.

" See I never learned the other vics name and hadn't thought about the case since it was solved. Then one day, Jillian tells Andrea and Lori about something that happen to her. Then Lori tells me what happen to Jillian and says that's why you two broke up." Rick said.

" Merle saw her fucking some guy, that's why we broke up." Daryl snapped.

" When we went to the station today, I searched the old case files." Rick pushed away from the dresser and walked over to the bed. He tossed the file beside Daryl. " You might want to look that over." Rick said before he walked out, closing the door behind him.

Daryl frowned and refused to look at it. He got up and finished undressing. He grabbed the file and his flashlight then got into bed. He sat with it on his lap for a while before he opened it up. He figured Rick had gone through the trouble of finding it, he might as well read it, if nothing else, he could prove everyone who believed her story, wrong. Daryl settled into his bed and started reading.

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Vic one's, named Jillian Winters, statement:

" I had just come out the mall and was walking to my car when a car whipped up beside me. He rolled down his window and pointed a gun at me. He said he would shot me in the head if I didn't get into the car or if I yelled so I did what he asked. He drove us to the Drug Mart plaza and went around behind it. He held to gun down so if anyone was around they'd see us. He said people won't question it, they'd think we were a couple. He made me take my pants off. I kept asking him not to do it, that I won't tell anyone but he pushed the gun into my side and I got scared. I started to cry but he started yelling at me. He made me climb on top of him..."

Daryl snapped the file shut and covered his face with his hands as he tilted his head back. He wasn't sure he could keep reading. He felt a range of emotions going through him. He didn't want to believe what he was reading because if it was true, he was the worst man in the world. If it was true, he had screamed in his woman's face after she had just been raped and he left her to deal with the aftermath alone as well as breaking her heart. He dropped his hands and stared at the ceiling.

After a few minutes, he sighed and looked back at the file. He flipped to the next victims statement and quickly read through what she said. Her statement almost mirrored Jillian's. She had been picked up at the mall, had a gun pointed at her and made to get into the car. She was driven to the back of a plaza and made to climb on top of the man as well.

Daryl skimmed through other women's counts and found they all matched each other even though the women didn't know each other. His stomach was jumping and he felt sick. He skimmed through the file and found where the police take a statement from the rapist. He confessed to raping the women. He had been shown pictures of different women and picked out everyone he raped, Jillian was on the list of woman he ID.

' Suspect's statement:

" I would wait outside malls and find girls that were alone. I had to wait until the parking lot was empty then I'd drive to the girls. I'd make them get into my car by pointing a gun at them and threaten to kill them. I'd take them to back parking lots and make them get on top of me. I wanted to humiliate them. Women has been making fun of me my whole life, saying I'm not hot enough or tall enough or I'm too fat, I wanted to make these women pay! I made them ride me until I got off. It seemed worst for them than just making them lay down while I raped them, seemed like a double rape..."

Daryl chucked the file across the room. He bent his legs to rest his elbows on them and his head in his hands. She hadn't lied to him. She had been trying to tell him what happen and he was to stupid to listen to her. Merle was right there and he could have stopped it before anything had happen. Daryl had left her after she had just been humiliated and raped. He was supposed to protect her, he had promised to protect her and he had failed.

" Mother fucker!" He yelled as he stood up. He started pacing in his room again. " Stupid ass, mother fucker!" He cursed himself. She hadn't cheated on him at all. The last four years he had been thinking about what a bitch she was and he had been the asshole. He questioned himself over and over about how she could have treated him like that and he was the only who fucked up. He grabbed his flashlight and left his room.

When he got down to the lake he stopped in his tracks. Jillian was sitting on the bank, her hands covering her face and her shoulders shaking. Daryl knew she was crying. He didn't move, didn't speak, he just watched her. He didn't know what to say. He was the biggest piece of shit known to mankind. He wanted to swept her up over his shoulder and carry her to his room. He wanted to put her in his bed and hold her close to him. He wanted to wrap her in his arms but he stayed rooted to his spot.

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The day washed over Jillian at once as she sat by the small lake. She had come so close to be bitten and Daryl had saved her. When the walker attacked her, she was sure she was dead. She was sure it would bite her before Daryl got to her. But he saved her and then he kissed her, hard. Her emotions about their break up were flowing over her uncontrollably. The hurt, the pain, and the heartbreak of it all were crashing into her and she couldn't stop them. She sobbed as she tried to take a deep breath. She felt someone crouch behind her a second before a hand was placed on her shoulder.

" Jill." Daryl's voice was soft and low. Jillian jumped and pushed away from him. She stood up quickly and wiped her cheeks.

" Look, I know what you said about not being out here without a weapon, I get it." She said quickly as she faced him. She was looking at the ground, hoping he didn't know she had been crying. " I was just going in." Daryl stood up and put one hand behind his neck. He wanted to say something to her, anything, he just didn't know where to start. Jillian started past him when Daryl reached out and took a hold of her arm.

" Wait, Jill...' He started as they stared at each other.

" Do me a favor, please?" She asked as she gently took her arm away from him. " Don't call me Jill anymore. My name is Jillian." He frowned slightly.

" I always called you Jill." He said. She nodded.

" You did and I always called you Double D. Good night, Daryl."

He didn't say anything as she walked away from him. He didn't stop her and tell her he's sorry for everything. He didn't say he still wanted her, needed her. He just let her walk away from him.