TWD~ The day it happened ~ Merle

Chapter 5

Hey guys,

This chapter may not be too good. Like I said in the 4th chapter when I wrote Daryl, the Dixon brothers are pretty hard to write. You have to get just the right spot. Not too much emotion but enough so they don't seem so mean, like they would kill a baby or something. Because they wouldn't, unless it's a walker. Lol. So it is pretty hard to write them. I promise the other chapters will be better. So thanks for reading and please review.

Deanandjo4ever1 – Thank you for your review, it meant a lot because it was my first. Keep reviewing and tell me what else you think. Thanks!

Enjoy!

M

Merle's POV

I wake up exhausted with a giant head ache. Either I drank way to much last night or I am getting old. But I think I did drink more than usual at my favorite bar. Then this beautiful woman showed up and made me drink even more when she played hard to get. I roll over then accidentally hit something. Oh… yeah that's what happened last night. I think about the memory proudly, even old merle could get a lady. The beautiful woman from the bar had ended up here. He took a shower and got dressed after taking an aspirin. His headache numbed a little. When he came back out he looked at the time, noon, wow they slept late. The beauty was getting dressed. Kinda sad I suppose that I didn't even know her name.

"Hey, want some breakfast?" I ask her

"Nah. Gotta get home, my boyfriend is probably back in town today. He will be missing him some Cheryl." I understand that she had a boyfriend, with that kind of beauty who wouldn't?

"Ok then. He is one lucky fella Cheryl."

"Yep, he is" She giggles; she walks over hugs me and kisses my cheek.

"See ya around Merle." She struts out the door. Wow she is amazing, young too about 20 something. I grab something to eat then decide to watch some television. The news is one, I try to change the channel but it says national alert and wont change. The man speaker appears on the screen.

"There has been an outbreak of some strange virus, it has no cure at the moment and the scientists think it may be incurable. There are strange things happening. The dead are walking. If you get bit by one of those, things, zombies I guess you will die, get a fever and return as one. The only way to kill one is to puncture its brain. There will be a safety group in Atlanta." The lights and TV turn off suddenly. I decide to pack some food and water, weapons then head over to get Daryl. I grab all the stuff and some clothes then head to my truck. I drive down the street with my knife in hand. I turn onto the road about a block away from my old house, where Daryl lives. I see the beauty, Cheryl, walking into her house I guess. Not knowing about the whole outbreak because she had to walk home. I see a bloody handprint on the window but she doesn't. She opens the door as I yell her name

"Cheryl no, don't open it!" I yell, but the door opens before she heard me. She turns around looking at me. I see the young man behind her, it was a zombie, it had a bite in its cheek revealing tissue and it grabs Cheryl from behind and bites her in the shoulder. By that time I am beside her and stab the thing in its head. Cheryl lies on the ground, loosing blood.

"Jonathan?" She looks to the man beside her. She starts crying.

"Its ok, its ok." I hold her

"No its not! My boyfriend got bit by something and bit me and you killed him and know you have to kill me!"

"I didn't kill him sweetie, he was dead long before that, that was just his body not him. I don't think I have the guts to kill a pretty little thing like you."

"You have to; I don't want to come back like one of those things." She says in disgust

" I don't know. Maybe I will leave you a gun or a knife or something so you can do it yourself."

"Too afraid, Merle? Never killed a person before?"

"Oh, of course I have killed someone just not a pretty girl who had done no wrong to me. When Merle kills it's for a good reason."

"This is a good reason, I don't want to die and let my body be walking around like on of those things." She wraps her hands around mine which are holding the knife handle and after blowing me a kiss shoves it into her skull. I leave the knife there, having more in my truck. I kiss her forehead and move her inside and lock the door so none of those things can eat her beautiful body. I hop in the car and after wiping my hands off go to Daryl's house.

"Hey little brother"

"Hey"

"You leave the idiot behind?"

He nods his head, feeling ashamed, he still feels bad even though that man tortured us all these years.

We move the meat he shot, and the weapons and get into the car and once we pull out I say

"Well, baby brother, we are going to have a sh*t load of fun in this new world." I say sarcastically.

Then we drive off to Atlanta.

It wasn't as short as I thought it would be. Do you think I wrote Merle's character all right? I am not sure, leave me a review about what you think about the one shots and this specific one shot please. Thanks for reading,

M