They still had some sunlight left so Daryl had decided to head out and search for Sophia. He walked down to the creek like his plan early in the day and then made his way East. Daryl hadn't found anything but a old house which had a small closet that could fit a child her size. There were empty cans in the closet showing someone had hid out in there at one point. While making his way back he found a Cherokee rose, Looking at the rose made him think of Sophia and Carol. He picked the flower carrying it back with him to the camp planning on giving to Carol.
Maggie walked out of the house looking over to the camp seeing them gathered around eating dinner. She looked over to Daryl's camp and saw that it looked deserted. She decided to go over to the camp and see if he may be over there. Maggie walked over to the camp getting friendly hellos from the group. She noticed Daryl was no where to be found and figured he was out looking for the little girl. She saw Carol sitting in the RV table through the window staring down at something. Maggie felt bad for Carol how she had lost her daughter and how no idea if she was alive or walking around like the others. A thought quickly popped into her head of the young girl Otis had put in the barn a few days before. "Maybe that girl' Maggie shook the thought out of her head. There no way it could of been her.
"Maggie" She heard from her side she looked over to Glenn who had his hands in his pockets and looked incredibly nervous. She gave him a smile and followed him as he walked off a little away from the group.
"Hey Glen" Maggie said to him making his face blush a bit then he begun to talk to her.
Daryl was walking to the camp while his eyes caught what seemed to be Maggie and Glenn talking over by the trees. He could she her smiling at Glenn and see that it looked like he had finale grown the balls to talk to her. Daryl walked over to the RV ignoring everyone who gave him hellos. He walked into the RV and saw Carol sitting down at the table staring at her fingers. She lifted her eyes and looked at Daryl's before looking back down to her fingers. Daryl walked over to her and placed the flower down in front of her. Not very much was said between the two but Daryl felt a bit better after knowing he had made Carol a bit happier or gave her more hope.
Daryl walked out of RV and started to head back over to his camp. He looked over to Maggie and Glenn and noticed Maggie was looking right back at him. They both made eye contact for a brief second before Daryl looked away and took off.
Maggie watched as Daryl walked off after there brief eye contact. Glenn had just finished a joke that honestly was not that funny but Maggie laughed anyways so he didn't feel bad about himself.
"Hey Glenn I think I'm going to head in for the night, I'll see you later." Maggie said moving close to glen and giving him a kiss on the cheek. She saw Glenn's face turn red and his position got stiff. Maggie smiled at him and took off towards the house.
As she got to the door she looked over to see Daryl walking over to the horse stable. A smile formed on Maggie's lips as she ran up stairs to grab a bottle. She went into the box and grabbed both the beer bottles tucking them in a sweat shirt she threw on. Making her way down stairs she bumped into her father, Almost dropping the beer on the group.
"Maggie where are you going?" He asked stopping her from leaving.
"I'm just going to check on the horses quick before the sun completely sets." She replied, Hershel shook his head and proceeded to go up the stairs.
"Maggie." She turned to look at her dad. "Make sure your back in before dark and keep your guard up I don't trust these people." Maggie nodded her head and ran out the door making her way out to the stable.
Daryl was petting the horse on the nose trying to keep his mind off of Sophia, The horse was a good distraction. Daryl turned around when he heard the familiar footsteps behind him.
"Whatcha want?" He yelled out.
"I found something I think you may like." Daryl turned around and saw Maggie holding two beer bottles in her hands. She walked over to him and gave him one of the bottles. Daryl took the bottle and gave it a look before pushing the cap against the stall wall and popping the cap right off.
"You need a?" Maggie was going to ask him if he need a bottle opener but he had already took it off against the wall. He held the bottle up to her showing her he had already got the top off and took a sip.
"Fuckin' good." He said taking another sip.
Maggie smiled at him and took a sip herself walking over to Nellie and grabbing a sugar cube out of her pocket and feeding it to her. Daryl watched her as she reached back into her pocket and took out two more sugar cubes. He watched as she reached out her hand to give him the sugar cubes. Daryl took the cubed from Maggie. He fed one to the horse and ate the other.
"You know that was for the horse right?" Maggie asked him, Daryl shrugged his shoulders and took another sip of his drink.
"Yeah well don't look like she starvin' to much." Maggie walked over to a bench along the wall and took a seat watching while Daryl pet the horse. She could tell Daryl was comfortable with her around and she was debating weather or not she should go back to the house.
"Do you really think you guys are going to find that girl?" She asked him, Daryl eyes looked up to hers for a brief second then looked back at the horse.
"Yeah." He said in a quiet tone. "Where did ya get the beers?"
"My closet, I try to keep some around when I need to just let go." Daryl gave her nod and finished off the rest of his bottle. "My dad doesn't allow liquor in the house." Maggie added, Daryl gave a shrug with his shoulders and looked back at the horse.
"I'm goin' out tomorrow to look for Sophia, your horse could be handy to get round with."
"If your asking to use the horse tomorrow then yeah go ahead just be carful she gets nervous easy." Maggie said getting to her feet. "I'm going to head back, Night Daryl." Maggie said walking out of the stable.
Daryl watched as she headed out of the stable, he followed behind her and watched as she made her way over to the house. Daryl felt a smile spread on his lips as he watched her, he shook away his thoughts and made his way over to his tent to pass out and get ready to go out search for Sophia.
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Maggie was woken up by the bright sun beams shining through her window hitting her closed eyelids. Opening her eyes the brightness blurred everything making her once again shut them. She re opened her eyes and let her eyes ajust to the birght room. She threw the blanket off her strethching out all her limbs, turning her head to look outside the window to the blue sky with a few puffy white clouds. She smiled at the bright day and slowly got up from the bed and made her way to the bathroom.
Daryl was woken up from the loud noises up the group running around getting ready to go out and search for Sophia. Daryl made a loud grumble and grabbed his pillow putting it over his face trying to block out the loud noises. The pillow how ever was no help when Shane came up to his tent yelling at him to get his lazy ass up. Daryl slowly made him way out of the tent and was blinded by the sunlight.
"Fuckin sun." He mumbled under his breath as his eyes adjusted to the light. Daryl walked over to the side of his tent and grabbed his boots sliding them onto his feet. Looking over at the camp he saw everyone sitting around eating breakfast and talking about there plan for the day. Daryl looked over to see Shane standing next to a tree giving dagger eyes at Rick and Lori. Daryl rolled his eyes at Shane looking at the knife he was playing with in his hand. He gave a shake with his head noticing the knife being Otis's most likely because no one else had a knife like that and it was a hunting knife and looked nothing like his.
Daryl grabbed his bow throwing it over his shoulder and heading over to the group. Most of the people gave him hello and good morning and Daryl just gave them all a nod in return, he walked over to the table they had set up and grabbed a plate walking over and sitting down on a old stump eating the food listening while everyone talked amongst themselves.
Maggie changed into a tank top and some jeans walking down the stairs see saw her dad, Patricia, Beth and Jimmy sitting down at the table eating breakfast they all looked over to Maggie saying good morning and hello. Maggie returned there greetings walking over taking a seat down next to her father grabbing some eggs and ham to eat. The table was mostly quiet while everyone ate there food, all that was heard was the forks tapping at the plates and the loud chewing coming from Jimmy.
"So I've been putting a lot of thought into this recently and I think that we should have Rick and his group get going soon." Maggie stopped her chewing and turned her face to look at her father who was stabbing at the ham on his plate. Maggie was hesitant upon asking her father about why but decided against it.
"I think that's a good idea. I don't like these people hanging around very much." Patricia said making a disgusted face while talking about the group. Maggie wanted to roll her eyes at her, Patricia had always been like this never being nice to anyone who ever came around them. She wasn't much of a people person and that was something Maggie could not really stand about her. Maggie stopped thinking about her and went back to eating her eggs that were now becoming cold.
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Good Morning guys, Let's get going. Got a lot of ground to cover." Rick said, walking up to the car with Shane.
Daryl walked up to the hood of the car a long with everyone else getting ready to listen to to Rick's plan.
"Alight, Everyone's getting new search grids today. If she managed to find the farmhouse Daryl found then she might of gone further East than we've searched so far." Rick said, Jimmy came walking up from behind him catching Daryl's eye. He looked a bit nervous and squeamish.
"I'd like to help. I know the area pretty well and stuff." He said, Rick turned around looking at him in a questioning look.
"Hershel know about this?" He asked him, Daryl could tell be the kids posture and the way he looked that Hershel had no idea at all.
"Yeah Yeah umm, He said I should ask you." Jimmy replied, Daryl shook his head at him thinking of how much of an idiot this kid was.
"Alright then thanks." Rick replied, before he could say what the plan was next Shane jumped in.
"Nothing about what Daryl found screams Sophia to me. Anyone could of been held up in that farmhouse." Shane said, sitting in the front seat of the car. Daryl could see him through the window and wished he could shoot a arrow threw the window right into his head. He could not stand the guy, he had killed Otis and now was looking at Rick like he was his next target.
"Anybody includes her right?" Andrea asked.
"Well who ever slept in that closet was no bigger than yay high." Daryl replied, lifting his hand to about at his chest.
"Maybe we'll pick up her trail again." Rick added.
"No maybe about it, I'm going to barrow a horse and head up to this ridge right here." Daryl said pointing out the place on the map. "Get a birds eyes view of the hole grid. If she's up there I'll spot her." He said
"Good idea, maybe while your up there you'll spot your chupacabra to." Daryl looked over at T-Dog and wanted to punch him for bringing that up. Rick looked over at him like he was crazy and saw a smile spread across Andrea's face. Shaking away the thought Daryl turned off and heading towards the stable to go get his horse.
Maggie could hear the sound of a gutair coming from the front deck so she decided to go see who was making the noise. Stepping out onto the front deck she saw Glenn witha gutair in his hands as he looked out at the group. Glen looked over at her as the sound of the front door squeeking shut. She game him a small smile that he returned. "Nice guitar."
"Dale found it on the highway." Maggie nodded her head then looked out to see Daryl walking over to the stable. He had just turned his head and locked eyes with her. Maggie gave him a smile and he just turned his head away heading to get Nellie she assumed.
"You know I have to get back out to do another run for Lori. If you want you can join me." Glenn said, making Maggie look over to him.
"Yeah sure, why not. Let me just go get tell my father then I'll meet you out front." Maggie replied, walking back into the house leaving a smiling Glenn on the porch happy that she was going with him.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! My gift to you a new chapter! I'm watching the walking dead marathon on AMC and I got really pumped to write! I've been thinking about where I want to go with this story and I have it sort of planned up to the beginning of season three so far. I'm going to be changing some stuff around and may kill some characters off who didn't die then maybe keep so alive who did die. Thank all of you who followed, favorite and reviewed last chapter. can I ask for a little help from you guys can you maybe spread the word around about my story? I'm really excited for it and want as many people to read as possible. Also if you have not read Exodus yet you need to go and read it now it's my favorite story of fan fiction and it's a DAGGIE! Okay enough with my talking thank you all again and don't forget to follow, favorite and review!