This started out as a role play between myself (gunslingerdixon) and my Carol rp partner untapdtreasure (nolongeraxburden), and it was mutually decided upon to share with the rest of FF as a fanfiction. So here it is! Enjoy!

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Daryl:

Daryl didn't pay much attention to what Carol did to ready herself for sleep. Needed a vertical first and foremost. He wanted to scan the area if he could. Gauge what they were dealing with. Climbed up on the sink closest to the wall where the slivers of light leaked through. Fragments dancing along his face as it allowed him means of surveying outside from within. Perfect.

The sink was sturdy. Strong. He'd installed several of these in his younger years when he was a contract construction worker. The caulking was top notch and the sinks themselves able to withstand his 160 something odd pounds of weight applied to it. No groans in protest came from the sink as he folded his arms across his chest, propping himself up against the wall. Sharp eyes dancing along the lonesome figures that shambled under the moonlight.

Daryl wasn't afraid of the sink buckling. It would withstand for the time being.

He heard her move about in the background trying to get comfortable. Time had been lost to him standing and staring out the vent. Eyes flicked over once to try and make out her shadow, but saw just a mass of blur and the soft glean of silver wisp. Her short cropped hair likely.

Restless. Is what it came down to. He would be too when he tried to bed down when it came time for her to take watch. Couldn't relax with the biters outside. Never could. Their scratching and clawing at their door had died down some, but that didn't alleviate the anxiety he felt being trapped like a couple of rats.

It reminded him of the storage units they'd taken refuge in during the winter months. Cramped and unpleasant. But warm and safe from the biting chill. Even if there was no room to stretch it was all they could scrounge up from the cold.

A heavy sigh fell from his lips growing increasingly bored. The joints in his body ached. That wouldn't change. There was hardly any down time for him to just relax and let the wear and tear of the day pass by. Everyone was always calling on him for something. It seemed he was the most knowledgable with such things, he reckoned or simply that he would get things done once asked.

Feeling his eyelids begin to shut and the jerk of his body to pull him out of sleep, Daryl hopped down from the sink. Pacing would make this better. The soft thumps of his boots may as well have made tracks in the ground from how many times he had paced that small strip of floor. And each time he went past, Daryl's eyes fell on Carol's sleeping form.

It was like he was mentally checking that she was still there. That everything that had happened before really did happen and he wasn't hallucinating. She was. He could hear the her short puffs of breath, but just barely.

When Daryl could begin to hear the soft hoot of an owl in the distance, he took that as sign it was his turn to rest. Bending down, Daryl gently nudged Carol's arm. "'Ey, yer turn fer watch."

Carol:

Carol felt herself being shaken awake. And she couldn't help but feel like it wasn't a moment too soon. Her dreams had been more vivid tonight than all other nights before. She kept seeing Daryl's face. She felt his lips on hers, and now looking up into his face, she felt her own cheeks heat up. She sat up, losing her balance a bit and having to use his arm to steady herself.

She gave a soft sigh and a nod. "I'm awake. Just let me relieve myself, and I'm good to go." She was suddenly second guessing the Gatorade as she stood up and gave a little stretch. They might have been in a bathroom, but she had never had to use the bathroom in his presence, and there was no way in hell she could hold it until he fell asleep.

She chewed at her cheek and gave a shrug. "Just get settled for bed. Don't listen," she said with a whispered hiss. She was pretty sure with the sound of her voice how evident it was that she was in fact embarrassed. She gave a soft snort and hurried into a stall. She didn't want to shut the door because it would make the already closed in space feel smaller and with how dark it was, he wouldn't be able to see her. Right? Right.

She quickly pulled her pants down and held herself up off the seat not knowing what else had been there before her. She waited, nothing happened. She called out, "Could you maybe hum or whistle low or something?" Her voice was trembling a little as she made her request.

This was the single most embarrassed she had been around him since she'd met him. "It's just that, uh, I can't…" She grunted softly. "Just do it okay?" She rolled her eyes at herself. Quit being a sissy, and do your business, Carol! And it was oddly enough heard inside her head in his voice. This just made her smile and forget her nerves all together.

It wasn't a few seconds later that she was pulling up her jeans and doing up the zipper. "Thanks. Get some sleep. I got this." She patted her knife at her side and her pistol was held loosely in her hand from being removed from her waistband as she had to in order to pee.

"Wake you at first light?" She kept her distance. The dream and their talk before she had slept were all too much for her in that moment. She needed space to process what it was they were doing and where they were headed. She didn't want to go back to the way it was before they'd kissed one another, but she was in no hurry to speed into anything else awkward as it may be. She wasn't ready. Or was she?

She swallowed the lump in her throat as her own words echoed back to her. We don't know if we get a tomorrow. She gripped the gun a bit tighter. "Tomorrow can't get here fast enough," she muttered.

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*Note: This is also not 100% written by myself. I owe a lot of credit to my wonderful partner as she is Carol and does a phenomenal job. Send her some love too at untapdtreasure here at FF!