AN: hey guys, working a lot of hours this weekend and feeling a little sick:( my updates could be spotty. I will update in the end soon if you are reading that- next chapter is almost done and I intend to update the outdoor cat by the end of the weekend. I have all of next week off! Let me know what you think :)

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Chapter 3

In the dark of the night

Those small hours

Uncertain and anxious

I need to call you

INXS~ By my side

Daryl pressed Carol's back into the wall, running his hands up her sides as he buried his face in her neck, nipping and kissing his way up to her earlobe. His hands slid up her bare legs, sliding underneath the hem of her silky white night gown. Every inch his hands raised as they made their journey upward he bunched the silky cloth in his hands exposing more and more of her beautiful soft legs. His lips reached her mouth and he kissed her, his tongue probing in her mouth, tangling with hers. Panting he broke apart from her briefly, bitting down lightly on her bottom lip. Making his way back down her neck, he pushed the bright white straps of her nightgown down her shoulders watching transfixed as it slid down her body and landed around her feet, like a pool of bright white snow in the inky black darkness of room. He sighed sadly pressing his forehead to hers, pecking her briefly on the lips before placing his head on her naked shoulder, banding his arms around her middle and holding her so tightly, he was pulling her up onto her tiptoes.

"You okay?" She asked softly running her fingers threw his hair.

"Yeah, ...just, just want to hold you for as long as I can, until I wake up"

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

No sooner had he spoken those words, then his eyes opened. He lay on his bunk, most definitely alone. A different dream about Carol, but no less real.

Staring up at the ceiling. Getting up he paced around his room, hands firmly planted in his armpits. He sighed, deciding to go and get a drink and use the can seeing as he was up anyway. Taking his small knife and placing it in his pocket. ( never can be too careful) he headed down to the kitchen in search of a bottle of water, barefoot so as not to make noise with his boots on the stairs.

Daryl made a quick detour into the bathroom before finding some water. Fuck no way he was sleeping now. Heading over to the one low window in the common area, he propped one hand on the window frame staring out into the night. These dreams about Carol were killing him, he'd been having them for weeks. It had gotten to the point were he could barely be around her anymore without some flashback of a dream hitting him, then he had a hard time just keeping his hands to himself. He needed to say something to her, soon. For all intents and purposes he'd been walking around in a lust filled haze for weeks and she was clueless about it. He needed to know, how she felt. Rick and Glenn seemed pretty convinced that she had feelings for him too, but what the fuck did they know? Every time he felt like he would just fucking do it, just tell her how he felt and fuck the consequences, something would happen to make his tongue twist in knots. It was embarrassing he wasn't some eighteen year old kid. He just wanted Carol so bad, he wanted her more than he'd ever wanted a woman before in his life. She wasn't like the women he'd been with in the past, hell he'd never really had a serious relationship before and that's exactly what he wanted from Carol. He wanted what he had in his dreams. The ease,the familiarity, the confidence, and ...the sex, oh god did he want the sex. He shivered slightly thinking of his latest dream, of his hands on her waist, ...

"Boo"

Daryl jumped as he felt two small hands touching his waist. Reacting on instinct he spun around sweeping the leg out from underneath his would be attacker taking them down to the floor. A little to late, he realized the small hands had belonged to Carol. Reaching out to grab her and stop her fall, set him off balance as well and they both ended up on the floor. He managed to use his hands to cradle her head and stop it from banging on the hard floor. Daryl was fully on top of her, in between her legs, every part of his body pressing intimately into hers. Very intimately he was coming to realize quickly. His fantasizing a few minutes earlier had not helped things in that department either.

"Ya alright?" He asked hoarsely

She nodded with a grin"Sorry, I shouldn't have scared you" she shifted slightly below him and the position was even better than the one before. He couldn't hold himself back, he groaned slightly and tilted his pelvis minimally, effectively grinding himself into her.

She looked at him in surprise and her breathing seemed to be coming in gasps. Staring down at her he thought this is it, finally the right time as his head gradually lowered until his lips were so close to her he could feel her exhaling breath on his face...

"Oh my god!..."

They both looked up at the shocked faces of Rick, Glenn, Maggie and Carl in the doorway all brandishing a weapon. The looks of shock were quickly turning into amusement and Daryl could tell they were struggling not to laugh especially Glenn. He jumped up off of Carol quickly who followed suit positioning herself in front of him, hiding the evidence of his obvious excitement.

"Sorry guys, we heard a crash, we umm didn't realize ...we were interrupting" Rick said on a snort as Glenn was giving them a thumbs up, Daryl lifted his hand and flipped him off, causing Glenn to snort with laughter and Carol to turn and glance at him curiously before speaking up

"It's nothing, I snuck up on Daryl to scare him" she grinned "long story short, big mistake and we fell." The others laughed nodding their heads and then turned to go. He noticed Maggie winking at Carol out of the corner of his eye.

When they were alone she turned to him "Sorry again, I better go try to get some sleep, I've been having the worst insomnia lately" she cocked her head slightly bitting her lip " I wonder if Glenn is right, maybe someone has been dreaming of me, I wonder who it is?" She said with a mischievous grin before disappearing down the hall.