A:N I'm back again with another update! I'm really excited for this chapter and the next one but since i'm off break I don't really know what my update schedule will be so bare with me :D and I already am working on the next story i'll put out when this one is done which I think you guys will love. It's a little different from the other stories about daronne or not.. IDK. Anyway Here we go ( in a super mario voice.)
Lyrical Inspiration-
It seems I've brought a Knife to a gunfight, And you've got an army beside you, I brought a knife to a gunfight again, And I don't stand a chance ~ Hotspur (Gunfight)
Warning Spelling and grammar mistakes may occur..
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Herschel crutched back into the prison. Michonne was sitting at the makeshift table with beth across from her. She was swishing her mouth out with a bottle of water.
"God do I miss running water." She said throwing the disposable toothbrush in the bin they were using for garbage.
"I'ma go back and help carol with the watch." Beth said walking back outside with her gun in hand.
"How are you feelin'" Herschel said sitting down at the table.
"Better now. I should probably get back out there. Rick left the watch up to me." Michonne said grabbing another water and standing up.
"Michonne..can I talk to you for a second? Its kinda personal." Herschel said trying to figure out the best way to tell her this. Michonne was still a mystery to him. She must have done things. Seen things in order to live all alone like she did and even though she opened up to daryl that was about the only person she did open up to. She wasn't as secluded from the group as she was when she first came but she wasn't exactly open with them either.
"What is it?" Michonne said sitting down. Her mind trying to process and come up with what herschel wanted to talk about. The bout of sickness left her she was feeling fine now. Everything from the accident besides a couple cuts was healed. She was back to her normal, efficient, killing machine self.
"You getting sick has it been happening often?" Herschel said easing into the conversation.
"Besides feeling a bit queasy no not really. Why? Do you think it could be related to the accident?" Michonne said a bit of worry in her voice.
"It could be you got scraped up on that rusty metal pretty bad but if it's coming and going like this...mixed with your recent moody attitude.." herschel said trailing off. He hoped she picked up on the clues.
Michonne's eyes got wide for a second. "What are you trying to say?" Michonne said. Not believing what was laid out before her.
Herschel opened his mouth to speak but carols shouts interrupted him.
"They're back! They're back!"
Michonne grabbed up her sword leaving the room quickly. She needed to get out of there. She moved down the halls hurrying to help cover and open the gate.
This couldn't be happening? How didn't she realize or know? She'd always gotten her period irregularly before everything happened. It made her hard to get pregnant in her marriage but she did and carried two girls each to term. that was a miracle. This...this was feeling like a curse.
She couldn't be pregnant. Not now. Not when everything was so dangerous. The walkers were scrambling at the gate more and more trying to push through everyday. The tombs still weren't completely safe. They had the fucking governor trying to pick them off every chance he got.
She didn't know if she was ready for this. She didn't know if daryl or anybody at the prison was ready for this. She was a damn good fighter in the group people depended on her. She couldn't very well go on run's and help clear out the tombs if she was swollen with child.
She walked across the yard running to help maggie open the gate. She locked eyes with daryl who was sitting in front on his bike pegging off walkers. He winked at her. She couldn't help the feeling of nerves taking her over.
What would he think.
How could she tell him.
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"You guys really cleaned house." carol said going through all the stuff.
"Yeah and that's not even the rest of it we gotta make a second trip tomorrow." Rick said.
"You're going back tomorrow?" Beth said excitedly. "This is great."
"I was thinking of leaving glenn and here and taking michonne. She can get all the lady things..that umm..we don't really know what we're doing." rick said awkwardly.
"it's the end of the world and men still don't know what to do." Maggie said hugging glenn.
"Hey we can kill the walkers...that's about all we're good for." Glenn said giving her a kiss on the cheek.
"You're good for other stuff to glenny..Your bag is proof of that." Merle said with a laugh.
Glenn narrowed his eyes. "Shut up." He said bringing his bag back to his cell.
"So anything happen while we were gone." Rick said sifting through his own bag.
"Oh, michonne got sick." beth said quickly. "But I think she's better now."
"Michonne what?" Daryl said lifting his head up from the supplies.
"She got sick but we took care of it." herschel said giving beth a warning look.
"Well where is she. I haven't seen her since earlier at the gate." Daryl said putting his stuff down.
"I think she went back into the tombs. That's the last place I saw her headin'" Maggie said brushing her hair behind her ear.
"In the tombs alone?" Daryl said grabbing his crossbow.
"She does that sometimes to blow off steam but I don't think that's the best thing for her to do right now." Carol said softly looking at herschel
"Carol's right. She shouldn't be in them tombs." Herschel said looking at daryl.
"Yeah I know. I'ma handle it right now." Daryl said going down the hall.
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Michonne hacked another one diagonally this time. FLicking her blade off. That was her 8th walker. Now see this was something she was good at. killing walkers.
It was something she had gotten good at after all this shit happened to the world. It was something she was sure of. Something that was stable in her life. People could depend on her to get the job done. Difficult or not. But being pregnant. Being pregnant made her vulnerable. It made her emotionally unstable and physically weak.
Not only that but the last child that was born here the mother didn't exactly come on good on the other side. Then again that was a decision she made on her own. Michonne didn't know if she was strong enough to make that decision.
Ever since she had to put down her own girls..
It was like she lost all a bit of her self. The part of her that opened up, that trusted, that cared about something and wanted to take care of it. What if she couldn't care for it right? What if something went wrong and she couldn't protect it.
She wanted to be so strong and she was to the outside world but on the inside she felt no different than the women who let her husband cheat on her, steal from her and lie to her.
Weak.
"'Chonne you down here?" She heard daryl's voice echo down the corridor.
"Yeah." She said flatly. Laying out another zombie that rambled her way.
She heard his footsteps ebbing closer.
She was scared she was actually scared. Everything was still somewhat new between them. She didn't want to ruin it, push it to fast.
"What are you doing down here alone?" Daryl said. He sounded a bit worried.
"Nothin' blowing off steam." she said putting her stone mask back on.
"Yeah I heard you do this a lot. I thought we um, I thought we talked about you comin' down here alone.." Daryl said putting a hand on her shoulder. She was acting weird.
"That we did." She said flicking off her sword.
"Then what are you doin' down here?" Daryl said becoming a little impatient.
"Blowin' off steam." michonne repeated like a robot. She was too stuck in her head. Her mind was one place but her body and outer actions were another like running on autopilot.
"I Know that I mean why would you come down here alone if you said you wouldn't?" daryl said trying to look her in the eye.
" I- I just.." Michonne said turning toward him. Snapping out of her trance.
"I just need to get away. I had sort of a crazy day." She said with a sigh.
"Yeah I know what you mean. I was avoiding them picking apart our relationship all day. So what's this I hear about you gettin' sick?" Daryl said walking back down the corridor with her.
"It was nothing probably just some food poisoning or something." Michonne lied.
"Oh, well then..good thing about today is we don't have to worry about you getting pregnant anymore. Glenn got enough condoms to last the rest of the year." Daryl said with a playful nudge.
Michonne fake chuckled feeling her heart drop.
"Great."
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(Time Jump.)
Michonne packed up some more gear. Getting ready to leave.
"Have you told him yet?" Herschel said leaning against the door frame.
"No not yet." Michonne said nonchalantly. Slinging her bag over her shoulder.
"and you're going on another run?" Herschel said raising an eyebrow.
"It's none of your business." Michonne said with a angered sigh grabbing up her sword and walking to the doorway.
"It's been 2 weeks." Herschel said not moving out the way.
"I know that. Don't you think I know that?" Michonne said her arms crossed in front of her.
"You're gonna start showing soon." herschel said in a warning voice.
"Keep your voice down." Michonne said with a hiss. "and move out the way The others are waiting for me."
"You need to tell him." Herschel said moving and grabbing up his crutches so he could follow.
"you're telling me things I already know." Michonne said sounding annoyed. Herschel had been keeping tabs on her in the past couple of weeks. Making her eat more, drink more water trying to get her to do less work. All of that besides hiding her morning sickness was starting to take a toll on her nerves.
"You're a smart girl. I know you know these things. Why aren't you acting on them?" Herschel said trying to keep up.
"I can't. We can't. We have to focus on the governor. Rick is meeting with him next week. We have to get our shit together."
". You can't keep putting your life and your babies life in danger. You're out there in the world like you're invincible and i'm not just saying that because of your situation. I thought that before we found out you were pregnant. When you decided to separate from the group and try to take all those walkers on. You can't keep fighting like you're on your own. You have to open up."
"I do open up." Michonne said storming past.
"You open up to daryl because on some level you two connect. I get it. But the rest of us. we feel like we're in the dark. You sacrificing yourself for what you think is the good of the team isn't cutting it. You can't keep making decisions on your own. We're a group. A family. We make decisions together." Herschel said walking with her to the door.
"I get that I really do and I know you're trying to look out for me but right now it can't be about me." Michonne said opening the door.
"What are you scared of..." Herschel shouted at her before she left.
Michonne thought for a second. Stayed silent as a million things ran through her mind.
"Nothing." She answered before flinging the door open.
Herschel put his head down. Shaking it slowly.
"That's what I'm afraid of." he said crutching back down the hall.
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"everything okay?" Daryl said. Michonne walking to get on the back of his bike.
"yeah." Beth just asked me if I could pick her up some specific things. Michone lied. Sitting down and putting her arms aorund him.
"okay then." Daryl said puling off while the other cars followed.
Maggie and Carol pulled back the gate letting them out.
Michonne put her head against daryl's back. The feel of the rumbling from the motorcycle and the body heat from daryl in the fall air. It felt nice. Calming. Like if she closed her eyes she could forget everything that's wrong with the world. Live in this one moment.
Daryl smiled. The feel of her head against his back and her arms wrapped around him. This is where he wanted to be.
She'd been acting weird lately. Distant. He was afraid that he scared her off with the whole
'I love you' thing.
He said it before he left on a run. He said it when he got back. It was the last thing he uttered before he went to sleep and it was the first thing he whispered in the morning. Whether she was awake yet or not.
He didn't want to take a chance. Things were too risky. Living another day is never promised. There was a million things that could kill you before the apocalypse and a billion that could after.
He'd been trying to reign back. Give her space. He hadn't had a chance to talk about it with anyone.
They'd been too busy going on weapon runs for rick's meeting with the governor. Something he was solely against. Rick said he was just going to talk. To work things out. Daryl just wanted to kill the fucker. It was obvious who he had a problem with. It wasn't glenn and maggie they did nothing to him. It possibly could be merle I mean he did get this whole war started basically but michonne killed his walker daughter.
Killed his sick obsession.
and there was no way in hell he was just gonna let that go. Michonne was going ot be the last person he killed and possibly tortured if he got his hands on her.
He'd be damned if he let that happen.
Daryl turned on the street. They'd been riding for awhile in silence. It'd be hard to talk over the sound of the bike anyway but usually they tried. This time they were both equally quiet. It wasn't an awkward silence however. It more of a content silence.
Daryl pulled in front of the familiar looking drugstore followed up by rick and carl and then glenn.
He turned off the bike both of them getting off the bike. Rick and the rest came out of the cars.
"Don't look like many walkers today. I barely saw one coming in." Rick said looking around.
"That's odd." Michonne said skeptically.
"Yeah but good for us. Now we can get in and get out." Daryl said grabbing his bag and tossing one to her.
"Yeah." Carl said grabbing the gear out the car. "I don't like being away from judith with that maniac in our backyard."
Rick nodded.
"Let's just get this over with." glenn said.
"Alright. Me, Carl and glenn will sweep the left row of shops. Michonne and daryl the right. If anyone gets in trouble just yell we should be able to hear you." Rick said cocking his gun.
"Let's get to work."
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Michonne slowly stepped into the store after daryl. Being careful not to crunch on any glass. Dayrl moved his crossbow left and right before deeming the room clear.
"Don't you think it's weird? There being no walkers?" Michonne said still ponderign it over.
"Nah not really..sometimes they get caught up in towns and other times they just sweep through in herds." Daryl said going from shelf to shelf.
Michonne nodded. Taking a different area of the store. Her sword drawn.
She walked down the isle looking at the different things. Her stride was slow and steady.
She slid a little. Looking down she seen a puddle of what looked like blood.
She could tell it wasn't walker blood. Michonne leaned down quick touching it a with her finger tips.
It was warm.
"daryl." she whispered. Grabbing his attention.
"What is it?" He said coming over with his cross bow up.
"Blood." She said bringing her sword up looking around.
"What kind?" Daryl said making his way over to her quicker.
"The fresh kind."
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"Dad!" Carl said running over to him.
"what is it?" Rick said grabbing food off shelves.
"A walker but he's already been shot." Carl said eying glenn as he approached.
"What do you mean already shot?" Glenn said coming with an almost full bag.
"I mean I found him leaned against that wall shells all around him. He was shot up by an automatic seems like."
"we don't use automatics on runs." Glenn said looking to rick.
"Yeah I know. We gotta get outta here and get Daryl and Michonne." Rick said grabbing his bag.
"Glenn bring the car around and take carl with you. You two load the stuff up. If anything get's out of hand Glenn you take carl back to the prison." Rick said as they walked to the door.
"But dad!" Carl said.
"No! you need to listen to me this time. I already lost your mother. I can't lose you too. Just this once do what i say." Rick said.
Carl nodded following glenn.
"Daryl!" Rick yelled out. Shooting a walker that rounded the corner in front of him.
"Michonne!" Rick yelled looking around. Taking cover behind a pillar.
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"Daryl!"
Michonne turned her head.
"Did you hear that?" She said looking at daryl.
"The sign for let's get the fuck outta here." Daryl said grabbing his bag and her hand running toward the door.
"Michonne!" They heard rick yell close by.
"Yeah!" Daryl said taking cover against the dollar store wall.
"We gotta go." Rick said his gun up.
"Got it." Daryl said. Looking around the wall. He didn't see anyone. bUt the close together building tops made for easy snipper access.
"Michonne you go first run over behind the car." Daryl said looking at her.
Michonne could feel her heart speeding up but she couldn't focus on that. Obviously something or rather someone else was here with them. She just needed to focus on getting out of here. Her hands instinctively went to her stomach.
"1...2.." Daryl said using his fingers. But he didn't speak on three just held three fingers up and michonne took off.
All hell breaking loose.
Bullets went everywhere. Michonne kept her head down booking it to the car.
Rick came out shooting down the man on the top of the dollar store building and then aiming for the man on the rooftop in the distance.
"Daryl Get over here!" Rick yelled reloading.
Daryl shot another man who sprang up on a rooftop. Watching him go down.
"I'm tryin'" Daryl said loading another arrow.
Michonne went inside the car grabbing the handgun out the glove compartment.
She posted behind the car.
Taking out the man rick was trying to get from behind the pillar. She could hear the moan of walkers. The gunfire alerting them of their position.
"Rick we got walkers coming." Michonne said.
"Daryl we gotta go." Rick said coming out from behind the pillar shooting another man down. He waved daryl over.
Daryl lowered his crossbow. Leaning out to see the area. He heard a shot go off and he brought his back just in time to miss it. The bullet hitting the corner of the building. His heart was beating a mile a minute. He was pinned up.
He looked over. The hill in the distance seemed to be moving but it wasn't. It was walkers...a herd.
"Fucking great." he mumbled.
He heard rick firing off shots trying to give him cover.
Daryl pushed off the wall taking a deep breath before running out.
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It was like the scene in front of her was going in slow motion. Rick moved to give daryl cover. Daryl ran out and like a bad horror movie.
'bang.' she saw daryl quench in pain but keep going.
"DARYL!" she screamed out grabbing ricks attention.
'bang' she saw the material from his sleeve fly off.
She flew from her spot in the middle of the path going to help him. Rick looked shocked as hell running to get the car started.
Michonne helped him. He was bleeding but she couldn't tell where from.
"Come on we gotta make it to the car.." she said not trying to break down.
Shots flew by her head making her move quicker. She finally got him to the car. Waiting a second to fire back at them before loading him into the car and getting in beside him.
"Go, Go , Go" She yelled rick screeching out. Bullets hitting the back glass making everyone duck.
"Fuck. Fuck. Fuck." Rick said driving faster.
Michonne ripped daryl's shirt open. Blood coating the denim material.
his right arm and his left side.
"oh fuck." She said ripping up the material trying to apply pressure to both sides.
"Is it bad." Daryl uttered his eyes half open half closed. His breathing frantic.
"Nothing herschel can't fix" Michonne said with a weak smile. Tears coming to her eyes.
"Well I hope we get there in time...I'm feeling awfully sleepy." Daryl said trying to force a smile.
Michonne's eyes got wide.
"No you can't go to sleep..just umm.;..stay with me talk to me." Michonne said grabbing his hand.
"I don't know.." Daryl mumbled. He was in siring pain but the adrenaline was helping now he just felt woozy and faint.
"Daryl...you can't go to sleep.." Michonne repeated. Her heart breaking.
"Can't you drive any faster!" She said to rick who was panicking in the front.
"I'm tryin'" He said back. Pressing his foot on the gas.
Michonne turned back to daryl.
"I have to tell you something." Michonne said finally letting the tears flow down her face.
"aww..don't cry i'm gonna be fine.." Daryl said lifting his hand to wipe her face. She pressed her cheek into his hand before leaning back and taking a breath.
"I Have to tell you this.." Michonne said looking at him.
"What is it darlin'?" Daryl said looking at her through lidded eyes. He was going to be fine. He'd came back from worse them just a couple of flesh wounds.
"I'm..I'm..." Michonne said closing her eyes.
"I'm pregnant." She said looking up at him.
He had fallen over with his eyes closed.
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A:N SO how did you like that? A little cliffy action? I'll try and get the next chapter out. tell me what's up in your reviews. Eat and be merry until I update again and yes I will be writing pregnant michonne. so get excited for that..I'll have to do a lot of thinking to to write her character pregnant it might get a little oc...IDK
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