*Here's the new chapter everyone! I hope you all enjoy it! DID YOU GUYS WATCH LAST NIGHT'S EPISPODE? IT WAS SO AMAZING AND I'VE ALREADY WRITTEN OUT PARTS FOR THE CHAPTER! Don't forget to review and thank you for reading! I love you all!
Rose hadn't slept so soundly in a very long time. When she woke up the next morning she could hear Jamie reading to someone in the bed next to her, and she opened her eyes slowly seeing Jamie sitting on her bed, that book of fairytales in her lap with Daryl next to her, flipping the pages for her and listening to her read. Rose couldn't help but smile at the site, it was something rare, something adorable and she wished she had a camera to take a picture of the moment. Rose lets out a yawn the two turning to look at her as she rolled onto her stomach, stretching out like a cat until her ankle is stretched to far and she lets out a whimper sitting up to look at her bandages and sighs.
"Great," She mutters to herself peeling her covers away from her leg to see her bloodied bandages, Daryl standing up now to take a look at them.
"Looks like they need changed," He says Rose looking up at him with the 'no duh' face before she swings her feet over the side. "Hershel's back, but I can do it; he's a bit busy with his girl." Daryl says now scratching the back of his neck as Rose looks up at him.
"Is everyone back okay?" She asks watching as he sat beside her on the cot, Jamie walking over to him with the first aid kit Rose kept in the tent, Daryl taking it from her as he adjusts Rose's leg so he can get the bandages off.
"Yeah, they brought a kid with them." Daryl says glancing up at her as she let out a whimper when he touched a sore spot on her ankle, "Sorry."
Rose sits up a little, resting against her hands as she watches Daryl carefully unwrap her bandages, taking his time to inspect her wound, "Looks like it's better." She smiles a little when he says it, and then goes to cleaning it, which stung a little but his touch was gentle, and really all she could focus on was the warmth of his hands. Wait, she was mad at him, she had forgotten that.
"I still think you're a prick." She said turning to look at Jamie as she let out a groan. "What?" She asks her daughter and Jamie only rolled her eyes at her mom before closing her book.
"You need to get rid of your bitchy bug mommy." She says Rose's jaw dropping as Daryl tries to hold back his laughs, wrapping her ankle up a little faster now.
"Jamie Marie Waters what did you just say?" Rose shouts, Jamie only shrugging. "Don't let me ever hear you using such language ever again do you understand me?" Rose asks and Jamie nods hopping off her bed.
"Mr. Daryl said it last night." She mutters before walking out of the tent, Rose turning to Daryl now as he finishes her bandages.
"Great, teaching my daughter profanity how kind of you." She snaps pulling her leg back now and Daryl only shakes his head standing back up.
"Says the woman who cusses up a storm." He mutters earning a glare from Rose as she huffs, reaching towards the suitcase on her floor and pulls out some clothes, changing into them while his back is to her.
"Who's the kid they brought?" Rose asks now, Daryl turning around just in time to get sight of another tattoo, this one on Rose's hip. He cleared his throat passing her crutches to her when she searched for them, and gave her a hand with standing.
"Kid's name is Randal, his group abandoned him for the walkers, he got his legged fucked pretty bad so they brought him back here to fix'im up." Daryl says heading out her tent now, holding the flap open for her.
"I swear Rick's too good of a man sometimes." Rose says shaking her head, testing out the weight on her foot, sighing when it was still too sore to walk on. "Where are they keeping him?" She asks looking over at Daryl and he points towards the shed.
"He's locked in there, knocked out from some leg wound he got." He says walking alongside her as she headed towards the farm house where Jamie sat on the porch steps. Jamie looked up at her mother and Daryl as they passed her Daryl leaning down to ruffle her hair before following Rose inside where the group was holding a meeting. Rose stood beside Daryl near the door, Jamie walking in and running over to her side, burying her face into her mother's leg as they listened to them discuss what they were going to do with the boy. Shane of course wanting to kill him, while Rick wanted to drive him out far from camp once his leg was healed enough for him to walk on it so he could just make it back to his group. Rose bite her tongue when Shane started going off again, using sarcasm to just piss everyone off until Hershel finally snapped at him about happened in his barn, and that the only reason he was still on his farm was because Rick had convinced him to Shane stay. Rose rolled her eyes at Shane's childish behaviors as he stormed out, leaving the front door to swing shut itself, everyone else filing out once Rick tells them they weren't going to do anything about it that day.
"C'mon babe," Rose says leading Jamie out of the farm, Daryl following in toe. "You going to follow us around like a lost puppy dog all day Dixon?" Rose asks glancing back at him as she headed towards the camp and Daryl shrugged.
"Maybe," He said looking over at her as he walked beside her now, "Someone's got to make sure you don't go running off into the woods again like a idiot." He says and Rose rolls her eyes at him.
"Again, I would have been perfectly fine if that walker hadn't snuck up on me." She states walking over to the camp fire where Lori was, letting Jamie run off to talk to her.
"How exactly does a walker sneak up on you, I mean unless you're deaf or somethin' you should have heard it. It's not like they're quiet or anything." Daryl says with a shrug of his shoulders Rose glaring at him.
"Well this one was quiet, and it pushed me off a cliff, hence the broken ankle." She says holding her leg out Daryl smiling a little and shook his head.
"You're stubborn, and really annoying." He says sitting down in a lawn chair in front of her and she lets out a huff.
"And you're insufferable and a prick." She said with a fake smile before turning away from him and heading towards Lori, who had been watching the whole scene with interest.
Lori smirked a little as Rose sat down beside her muttering things under her breath as she pulled Jamie to her, absent mindedly braiding her daughter's hair.
"So Rose," Lori started catching the greened eyed girl's attention, "Something happened between you and Daryl?" She asks raising an eyebrow smiling a little when Rose's face flushed and she shook her head, Jamie furrowing her eyebrows as she turned her head to look at her mom.
"I have no idea what you are talking about." Rose says quickly shaking her head, making Jamie look back towards Daryl as she continued to braid her hair.
"Mhm, if you say so but those looks he's sending your way and your strange behavior state otherwise." Lori says making Rose groan shaking her head.
"I cannot stand Daryl and you are out of your mind for thinking something is going on between us. He's absolutely unbearable." Rose says with a nod, glancing over at him, to see him staring and she turned her eyes back down to Jamie's blonde curls.
"I like Daryl," Jamie quirked looking over at Lori as she smiled, "He's funny, and he teaches me about the woods." She says and pulls away once her mother has done braiding her hair. "He said mommy had a bit-"She trialed off when her mother sent her a look, covering her mouth with her hands as she giggled.
"Go play with Carl Jamie." Rose sighed pointing over to where Carl was, and Jamie nodded pressing a kiss to her mom's cheek and skipped off. Rose sighs and leans back stretching her legs out in front of her as she looked up at the sky, shivering a little.
"It's starting to get cold," She murmurs turning to look at Lori as she nods. "What do you guys plan on doing when it's winter?" She asks raising an eyebrow and Lori bit her lip shaking her head slowly.
"Rick's going to talk to Hershel about moving into the barn or maybe the house…But he doesn't want to impose any more than we already have." She says and Rose nods picking at the lose strings on her shirt.
"I think maybe we should find a new place." She says catching Daryl's attention, "Some place more secure, with more supplies, maybe like a mall or something big like that." She says and Lori chuckles shaking her head.
"This isn't a movie Rose," She says making Rose sigh, "Imagine all the walkers that would be at a mall, or any place out in the public like that. Your heart is in the right place but it's just not plausible." Lori says putting a hand on Rose's shoulder and she shrugs.
"Yeah I guess you're right." Rose mutters looking over to Jamie when she hears her cough and frowns, "She doesn't have a fever anymore but that cough just won't go away." Rose shakes her sighing a little as Lori gives her shoulder a reassuring squeeze, the two women watching as Daryl stood and made his way towards Jamie, pulling something out of his pocket and knelt down in front of her, handing it to her.
"What are you giving my daughter?" Rose asks going to stand Lori standing to help her, as Daryl rolls his eyes muttering something to Jamie that made her giggle.
"It's just a cough drop Rosie." He says standing back up once Jamie popped it into her mouth walking over to her to hand Rose the wrapper so she'd calm down, "See?" He says handing her the wrapper and Rose sighs.
"Right, sorry." She says looking up at him, "I told you not to call me that." She says and Daryl smirks giving her a shrug.
"Right, forgot about that Rosie." He says and Rose narrows her eyes, and pushes past him. "I'm going to go talk to Daryl about these stupid crutches." She grumbles, heading towards the farmhouse Jamie following after her when she waved for her to follow.
"I think he wanted to kiss you," Jamie says happily looking up at her mom as Rose chuckled shaking her head.
"That's not going to happen Jamie." She says resting her hand on top of Jamie's head as she pouted, "I don't kiss boys anyways, they're icky." She throws in trying to get the smile back on her daughter's face, but Jamie only sighs and runs ahead of her into the house, Rose frowning as she followed after her.
A week had passed and the kid Randal had woken up, disoriented, confused, and scared shitless. Rick kept him chained up in the shed, and had guards posted outside of it that would switch off every hour. It was now around midnight and Rose was on guard, crutch less. She'd been able to walk on her ankle for a few days now but just not at the speed she was used to and with a slight limp. She leaned against the door, shotgun in hand, listening to Randal beg her to let him out from inside, Luckily for her she was good at tuning things out from being a mother of a six going on seven year old daughter.
"Lady please, I promise I won't tell the group where this farm is. Just let me go please, please." He begged, cried actually and Rose only peeked at him through the crack of the shed, hardly able to see him since it was so dark out.
"Go to sleep kid, this begging isn't going to get you anywhere." She says before leaning back against the shed, taking a sip from her water as she looked around. There hadn't been many walkers in the area lately, something she was thankful for, but she couldn't help but be tensed up being back on her feet, not wanting something like last time to happen again. Rose raises her shotgun at the sound of shuffling leaves and she relaxes when she sees it's just Daryl walking over with his crossbow.
"Scared?" He questions smiling a little and she rolls her eyes at him as he makes his way over to her.
"No, just on alert; Jamie asleep?" She asks and Daryl nods looking towards the shed as Randal starts to beg for them to let him go, "He never shuts up, he needs to be muzzled." She says shifting her wait to her good foot as Daryl nods.
"He'll be gone soon so it don't matter." Daryl says and nods towards the camp, "You're off duty, go catch some shut eye." He says pulling out a cigarette and Rose makes a face.
"You got another one of those?" Rose asks smiling when Daryl nods and pulls out a pack of cigarette, "Where are you getting these?" She asks taking the cigarette as he hands it to him, leaning towards him so he could light it before he pocketed the light.
"Glenn brings 'em back for me." He says the cigarette still in his mouth and she nods, taking a drag and leans against the shed, needing the fix.
"Gotta love Glenn." Rose laughs taking the cigarette from her mouth, blowing out a few smoke rings, turning her head to look at him, catching him staring and she blushes when he doesn't drop her gaze.
"You still pissed at me Rosie?" He asks turning to face her now and she rolls her eyes taking another drag from her cigarette.
"Yes, and your mixed signals are too much for me to handle, and I really don't think fooling around with you Daryl is the best thing." She says with a head shake blowing smoke towards him as cocked his jaw nodding once. Daryl drops his cigarette, putting it out with his foot.
"I have no idea what you're talking about," Daryl stated smiling down at her as she rolls her eyes taking another drag of her cigarette watching as he stepped in front of her.
"You're full of it Daryl," She says dropping her cigarette to the ground, "You're annoying, rude, and a complete ass." She says not moving as he took a step towards her looking down at her as she stares up at him.
"I'm sorry," He says quietly brushing some hair from her face, his other hand going to her waist and leaned down, pressing his lips to hers, kissing her slowly before he pulls back searching her face for some sign of emotion.
Daryl goes to say something, but before he can speak he's cut off by a sting in his cheek and a loud slapping noise that her hand made when she hit him.
"That's for calling me a bitch." She mutters then grips his face pulling his lips back down to hers, kissing him hungrily as he gripped her waist and pushed her against the shed wall. Rose let out a huff when he pushed her against the wall, her arms moving to wrap around his neck as she kissed him back with just as much force, tangling her fingers in his hair.
"Uhh, guys." Rose groaned leaning her head against the shed at the sound of Randal's voice, Daryl's lips trailing down her neck, murmuring to just ignore him against her skin, nipping gently making her shiver.
She shakes her head and pushes against his chest making him pull back, "I need to go be with Jamie." She murmurs and he tilts her chin up to look at him, his thumb brushing against her cheek, "Rain check?" She questions quirking an eyebrow as she smiles.
Daryl sighs and nods, "Yeah okay." He murmurs as Rose pulls him down for another kiss, this one more chaste than their previous kiss.
"I'll see you in the morning Dixon." Rose says smiling up at him before walking away, Daryl smiling to himself as she watched her walk, even with the limp she was still as sexy as when he first saw her, and he knew that he was getting himself into trouble by trying with her.