Megan Grimes, thirty two years old and pregnant with her first child. It should be a happy time for her but instead she's fighting to survive with her sister in law and nephew. What happens when Daryl becomes overly protective of the mother to be?
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Daryl stared at be Beth with wide eyes, he couldn't believe it. He'd been gone just a few hours.
"W-who...?" He asked.
"Ended it?" She asked. "Daddy I think."
Daryl nodded before walking away and up to Megan's cell.
"You sure you want to see her?" Merle asked from behind him. Daryl ignored him and continued his journey to Megan's cell.
As he approached he heard voices.
"...well Daryl will be happy.." Hershel said.
"Happy? She's dead,how will that make me happy?" He thought angrily.
"Do you all think so lowly of me?" He shouted angrily as he entered the cell his eyes firmly fixed on Hershel. "Why would I be happy about this?"
"Daryl.." Maggie said with a disgusted look.
"How could you say that? Your the one that's been in her day in, day out waiting-" Hershel said.
"Waiting for her to wake up! Not die!" He snapped.
"I'm dead?" He heard a faint voice ask.
He looked behind Maggie and Hershel and saw Megan propped up slightly against some clothes.
"B-but Beth said she was a walker." Daryl said as he slowly made his way into the cell.
Maggie chuckled. "She made some walker like noises when she woke up. Freaked Beth out but as you can see she's perfectly fine."
Daryl looked down at Megan. Her eyes were open slightly staring back at him, her skin was still pale but looked like it was getting better as the time slowly passed.
Maggie and Hershel looked at each other awkwardly.
"We will just leave then."
Daryl waves them of not even looking back as he crouched down beside the bed.
"Meg?"
"Daryl-" She paused. "Where's my baby?" She asked.
"B-Beth has him. He's fine."
She nodded slowly. "What happened?" She asked.
"Ya got bit."
She smirked. "I got that..after?" She asked.
"Merle cut your arm off, T,Otis and Lori died, Carol went missing, Merle found her though.."
"Loris dead?" She asked. "What about the baby?" She asked.
"Fine. A little girl, Carl named her Judith."
"How's Rick?" She asked.
"Umm..."
"Tell me."
"Not with it if I'm honest. Gone a bit crazy.."
She nodded.
"I wanna see my baby, and Judith." She said.
"You need to rest."
She rolled her eyes the best she could. "Think I've had enough rest now bring me the babies before I go fetch them myself."
"Okay, okay." He said not wanting her to stand up and exert herself.
He headed out of the cell and found Carl with Judith.
"Megan wants to see Judith." Daryl said.
Carl looked up with puffy eyes obviously he had heard Beth's assumption too. "Okay." He said.
Daryl went to find Matthew. He was with Beth still.
"Daryl I'm so sorry. I though she was dead."
He shrugged. "It's fine. I've come to get Matthew."
She nodded and handed him over along with his bottle she had been feeding him with.
He nodded and headed out the cell and back to Megan's.
When he entered she was cradling Judith the best she could, Carl sat beside the bed smiling as he held Judith up.
"It'll take some getting use to." Megan smiled sadly.
Daryl approached and sat on the bed.
"What is that?" Megan snapped.
"Um..your kid..." Daryl a answered confused.
"I mean that!" She said nodding towards the bottle. "Why is he being bottle fed?" She asked annoyed.
"Your were out of it. You couldn't feed him. Plus you're going to be full of pain medication."
She rolled her eyes. "Could have still fed him, no wonder I ache." She sighed.
"No one would ever believe what you had just been through. You just whine about everything." Daryl snapped.
She grinned. "Sure do darling. Swap, I wanna see my baby." She said.
Carl took Judith and Daryl handed Megan Matthew.
"Megan..." Carl began.
"Yeah?" She asked.
"Judith has no one..." He said sadly.
"Don't he silly, she has me, you, Sophia, Beth, the others."
He smiled sadly. "I know you hated Mom but I wish she hadn't died. At least Judith would have one parent. Dad hasn't even looked at her and I know...I know Shane is Judith's dad." He sighed looking down at Judith.
"She'll never be alone Carl and she will always be loved." Megan said softly.
He smiled sadly just as Judith began crying.
"Best go feed her." He said.
Megan nodded. "Alright kid. Be careful."
Once Carl left Megan and Daryl sat in silence. He helped her hold Matthew until she was comfortable doing it on her own, although Daryl never left her side.
"Did you really stay with me the entire time?" She asked randomly.
"No, don't be stupid." He lied.
She chuckled. "I heard what Hershel said."
"Well someone had to make sure you didn't come back as a walker and eat me."
"Oh I see, just care about yourself?" She asked.
"Damn right." He smirked.
She shook her head chuckling but the movement made her hiss in pain.
"You alright?" He asked.
She nodded. "Can you take him." She asked.
He nodded and took Matthew. "I'll be back in a minute." He said before heading out of the cell.
When he came back after putting Matthew to sleep in Beth's cell he found Megan had laid back down and had her eyes closed.
He sat back on the bed awkwardly and held her hand. She opened her eyes and looked over at him.
"Tell me how you feel." She ordered.
"W-what?" He asked.
She smiled and shook her head. "Just kiss me Daryl." She ordered.
"W-why would I do that?" He asked nervously.
"Don't you want too?" She asked.
He sighed before leaning over awkwardly and kissing her on the cheek before pulling back quickly.
"Really? I could have died and all I get is a kiss on the cheek?" She asked sounding disappointed.
"Need to stop with those pain meds. Make you too confident for my liking."
She smirked. "Just kiss me Daryl." She whined.
He smirked. "You want me to kiss ya?" He asked.
She nodded while blushing all shades or red.
He smirked his own confidence coming through as he leant down and kissed her slightly chapped lips.
He moved his lips against hers as she curled her fingers in his hair, grabbing it roughly to bring him closer. He gasped and she forced her tongue into his mouth.
"Matthew isn't setting, do you-oh sorry, so sorry." Beth said as she turned her back to Megan and Daryl who had pulled away abruptly.
"Hey Beth, whats up?" Megan asked chuckling.
A few weeks passed and Megan was on her feet and strolling around the prison like nothing had happened.
She got back into the swing of things easily and had taken over Matthews care completely along with Judith's which had come naturally.
Rick was still acting odd but had gotten a little better, although his and Megan relationship was barely anything. He didn't speak to her and refused to even glance at Judith. If he heard her cry he would leave the prison.
The only thing he had done good for the group was allowinga few people to join them at the prison.
It was a small group led by a man names Tyreese. They were all eager and willing to help out where ever they could even after Rick had threatened to kill them all.
Megan and Daryl's kiss had become common knowledge and they were often teased by the group. Maggie and Glenn mainly.
Daryl and Megan hadn't admitted there feelings to one another though, they just went back to how they were before the accident, neither wanted to be the first to admit how they felt even though they were pretty sure they knew how the other felt.
"Hey Meg..." Daryl said awkwardly as he stood at her cell door as she fed Matthew.
"Hey, you alright?" She asked with a bright smile.
"Um, yeah, I was wondering...um..would you come on watch with me tonight?" He asked nervously.
She chuckled. "Scared of the dark Daryl?" She joked.
"No. I um...dammit. I told Merle this was a stupid idea." He muttered.
"Dragging me out in the dead of night to watch for walkers with just one arm, unable to shoot a gun? Yeah i'd say so." She chuckled.
"Well it was suppose to be romantic. Since when did Merle know anything about romance?" He blurted out. "Looking at stars and shit."
"Wait...was this suppose to be a date?" She asked grinning.
"Well..I..um...no!" He snapped.
She chuckled. "That's a shame because I would have loved to look at stars and shit." She said chuckling.
"You would?" He asked.
"Yeah, guess I'll have to wait for another guy to ask me..." She sighed dramatically.
"I don't think so!" He suddenly snapped making her laugh out loud.
"I'll see you tonight in the watch tower then." She smiled.
He smiled nervously before nodding and leaving, tripping over his feet as he went making her laugh out loud once again.
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Silly Beth.
Im pretty sure no one would wake up from such an experience, like that but I've got to the point where I was asking myself. "When the hell is she waking up?" So I suppose you could say it was kind of rushed.
I've used some of G13 suggestions for this chapter. So thank you for that!
I hope it's not too bad of a chapter and I'm forgiven for all the angst during the last few.
Thank you for reading.