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Daryl had gotten back to camp as soon as the sun started to rise, he'd went out looking for Sophia again, taking out all the Walkers that were near the farm in the process. He leaned against the counter in the kitchen, eating an apple Glenn had handed to him as Lori and Andrea cooked breakfast for everyone. He kept his mouth shut as the two girls chatted, his eyes moving to the door way as Rose walked in, Jamie following in her footsteps rubbing her eyes sleepily.

"Hey," Lori greeted Rose first smiling down at Jamie as Rose helped her up onto the counter, Glenn handing her an apple. "How'd you two sleep last night?" Lori asked, chopping up some potatoes and Rose shrugged, running her hand through Jamie's hair as she bit into the apple.

"Jamie slept like a baby in my cot, while I stayed up most of the night." She says, making a face at the little girl, making her giggle which brought a smile to everyone's face, even Daryl's.

"Sounds a bit like how Carl was before we got here." Lori says and Rose nods, smiling a little before pressing her lips to Jamie's forehead, "Why don't you go play with Carl baby, I think I saw him on the porch with Rick." She says and helps Jamie down, ruffling her hair before the little girl ran out the room and Daryl turned his attention to the apple in his hands to keep from looking at Rose.

Rose sighed and leaned against the counter, the exhaustion finally settling in, "So Rose." She looked up at the sound of Andrea's voice, who left Lori to finish off the food and walked over to her, leaning against the counter beside her.

"Where were you before all this happened?" She asked curious, and Daryl looked up from his apple now, waiting for her to answer.

"Louisiana," Rose said with a smile, which made since to the rest of them because of her the strange accent she carried. "New Orleans actually, my home town." When Rose spoke she pronounced New Orleans as 'Nawlins' and that brought a smile to Daryl's face for some reason, watching as she proudly talked about her home, and how she missed it.

"Jamie loved it there, she loved Mardi Gras." Rose smiles a little before it dawns on that it was all gone, and she fights back the sadness, doing her best to keep a smile on her face. "Is there anything I can help with?" She asks now, needing to change the subject and Lori shook her head.

"Don't think so, breakfast will be done in a couple minutes." She says her smile brightening when Rick walked into the room and Rose turns her head at the sound of Jamie's giggles, seeing her walk in, Carl's hat on her head, hanging over her eyes and she laughs.

"Now where's a camera when I need one." She muses to herself, only Daryl catching her words before she leans down to pick up Jamie, tilting the hat back some to press a kiss to her nose.

"Carl let me borrow his hat." Jamie said happily, her little hands reaching back to keep the hat in place once her mother titled it back, "He says I can be a sheriff like him and his daddy." She says, and Rose smiles, glancing over at Carl as he winked at Jamie.

"Well that sure is nice of him, you promise not to arrest me?" She asks and Jamie nods once, the hat covering her eyes again.

"Good, Jamie honey mommy is going to go get the car after breakfast." She says and Jamie moves the hat, her eyes going wide.

"Can I come too?" She asks and Rose shakes her head glancing over at Lori as she gave her a small smile.

"No baby, you have to stay here with Lori. I promise I will be right back though, I just need to get the rest of our things. Your toys are still in the car." She says poking her belly when she pouted, trying to get her to smile again.

"You pinky promise?" Jamie sticks her pinky out, something they had done since Jamie was old enough to talk and Rose takes her daughters tiny pinky in hers, giving her nod.

"Pinky Promise."

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Rose had sat at the dinner table, eating breakfast with the rest of the group and found that she actually seemed to like everyone. The only one she was iffy about still was Shane, but that was only because he didn't seem very happy with her and her daughter being there still, and sent glares her way. But now all the fun was over and Rose was packing a bag, Jamie latched onto her leg begging and crying to her not to go without her even though she had pinky promised. She pulled her bag onto her back, pulling her hair up into a messy bun.

"Jamie honey let go of my leg." She says glancing over at Daryl who had an amused look on his face, the Grimes standing to his right.

Jamie shook her head, "No. I don't want you to go." She says burying her face into her leg and Rose sighed watching as Daryl reached down and pulled her daughter from her leg, and set Jamie down in front of him as he crouched down so he was eye level with her.

"How about I make you a promise." He says, a firm hand on her shoulder as Jamie stared at him, her eyes puffy and a thumb in her mouth. She nodded slowly and Daryl smiles, "I promise I'll bring your momma back safe and sound, if you stay here and guard all out stuff." He says and Jamie pulls her thumb from her mouth, holding her pinky out.

"You have to pinky promise, because it's unbreakable." She says and Rose smiles, glancing over at Rick and Lori as they laughed. Daryl looks at the little blonde girl in front of him and sighs. With a roll of his eyes he takes the girl's pinky with his.

"I pinky promise." He says and Jamie catches Daryl of guard by hugging him tight. Jamie pulls back and Daryl stands back up as the little girl turns her back to him and wraps her arms around her mom's legs, and Rose leans down to pick her up, hugging her tightly and presses her lips to her cheek.

"I'll be back soon Jamie." She says smiling pulling back some to kiss her nose, then handed her over to Lori.

Daryl and Rose left then, Rose already growing anxious being away from Jamie and she kept her pace quick, glad Daryl seemed to be able to keep up with her. She was humming 'Something' by The Beatles to herself as they walked, something she always did when she was silent, and she could feel Daryl's eyes on her every now and again.

"How'd you learn to do all that? Hunt and shoot." He says when Rose gives him a confused look. "I mean no offense but you don't seem like the type a girl who gets along well out here in the wild." He says with a shrug and Rose can't help but chuckle.

"Judging a book by its cover huh?" She asks earning another shrug from him then sighed, reaching in her bag and grabbed the water bottle, taking a sip from it then put it back. "My daddy taught me." She says glancing over at him as he nods. "We lived out in the woods, he went out camping every weekend, didn't have any sons so he dragged me along with him, taught me how to survive." She says smiling a little as she thought of her father. "Momma always got made at him when I'd come home all dirty and cut up."

"Makes sense, you seem like a daddy's girl." He teases and she rolls her eyes at him walking alongside him, their arms brushing whenever she stumbles. She was light on her feet, and was good at keeping silent but whenever she was tired she tended to turn into a clutz.

"You're just mad since I had you scared shitless the night you found me." She said teasingly, glaring as he let out a snort.

"Yeah, scared you'd shoot at me and draw all the walkers towards us." He says looking down at her as she stumbled over her feet again and he gripped her forearm to keep her up right, "Did you sleep at all last night?" He asks and Rose shakes her head.

"Jamie kept me up all night, and I don't sleep very often." She says pulling her arm away from his grasp now, and walks ahead of him. "Daryl we should speed up, I need to get back to Jamie." She murmurs and hears him grumble.

"You're the one walking like a fuckin' turtle, you're tripping over your own damn feet." He says and moves to walk in front of her, "I'll lead, and you follow. Don't pass out back there." He says and gains at least a few feet on her and she glares at the back of his head, trying to catch up to him

"You never answered my question." Rose says, taking big steps to catch up with him again he looked over his shoulder, a cigarette in his mouth that she hadn't even seen him light.

"I don't know what you're talking about." He grumbles, his words drawn out, his accent thick, something Rose had always liked.

"Last night, I asked about your life, you wouldn't tell me." She says and was beside him now, and snatched the cigarette from his lips, and brought it to her own, relishing in the feel of the smoke that hit the back of her throat, the small high coursing through her making her feel at ease and she handed it back, blowing the smoke out as he gave her glare.

"You don't need to know it; I don't go around telling damn strangers about my life." Daryl says taking his cigarette back from her, surprised she was a smoker. Rose sighed and shrugged, her temper flaring up at the way he spoke to her.

"No need to get touchy." She says and picks her pace up, wanting to get to her SUV and back to Jamie as soon as possible. She raised her gun at the sound of a moan and she glanced to her right, where her SUV had been stashed behind the trees to see three walkers heading towards them and she sighed. "Great." She grumbled raising her shotgun but Daryl gripped the barrel of it, pushing it back down.

"Gun shots will get more coming I'll handle it." He says looking over at her and she watches as he raises his cross bow, and shoots an arrow into the walker's head, loading up another arrow, and did the same for the third, all three walkers down on the ground and Daryl walked over to them, pulling his arrows out. Rose walked over to him, scrunching her nose up as the smell of the rotten flesh hit her, making bile rise to her throat that she fought back, and turned her attention to Daryl as he cleaned off an arrow, loading it up in the crossbow.

"I need to get one of those." She mutters making Daryl chuck before turning and she follows him into the clearing where her car was parked, her eyes widening a little as they saw at least a dozen walkers surrounding the car and Daryl gripped her hand, pulling her to him and behind a tree putting a finger to his lips. She nods slowly, his body pressed up against hers as he peaks around the tree to see, planning the best way to take out the fuckers without drawing more to them or to the farm. The sound of thunder roared over their heads, and both survivors' looked up at the sky as it started to pour down rain for the first time in weeks and Rose let out a whimper, afraid. She needed to get back to Jamie, the walkers were surrounding the car, only a few feet away and she was sure the rain was going to mess up her balance once the mud started forming.

"Daryl," Rose whispered his name now which made Daryl look down at her, "What are we going to do? There are too many of them." She says trying to keep her voice low and emotionless but her voice cracked some, giving away her fear and Daryl swallowed hard looking away from her and back to the walkers, one of them coming near them.

"I want you to run for the car." He says a plan forming in his head that could get himself killed, but he had promised that little girl he'd make sure her momma stayed safe. "I'll cover you, and kill as many as possible, then I'll catch up with you." He says and Rose shakes her head, not liking the idea, not wanting him to get killed because of her.

"Daryl," She says and he takes her face in his hands shutting her up when the walker got closer.

"Just listen to me, I'll ain't gonna get hurt, I promise." He says, and Rose swallows down the lump in her throat, his touch doing things to her she didn't want to like. She gripped his wrists, and took his pinky in hers which made him smile.

"Don't break it." She says and takes a breath before he pulls back, and fires an arrow at the walker that was closet to them, and Rose ran for it.