Chapter Three:

Two weeks passed since Daryl found violet in the woods, she had become good friends with Amy and Sam, Daryl wasn't too happy with her and Sam being that close. The first week went pretty fast, halfway through the second week Daryl and violet started to become closer friends. When he came back from hunting they would both sit there and skin what he caught, in the evenings they would sit by the fire, away from everybody else and just talk. He found out she knew about cars, weapons, drugs and other things he didn't think girls knew. He asked her how she knew so much about drugs and weapons but she always managed to change the subject. When they spent time together Daryl realized how much he liked her laugh, he found himself laughing and joking around her, just to see her smile, he was surprised at how much he enjoyed being with her. He thought she was funny, she always joked about the people in camp, she always said the things he thought of them.

At the end of the two weeks violet was sitting by the fire pit sharpening her knife. The day before that she and Daryl had went off hunting together, the camp was surprised at how Daryl spent so much time with her. They actually saw him smile and laugh for once, before she came in to camp Daryl would spend days off hunting and him and his brother would just spend time in to woods or their tents. They hadn't seen merle in two weeks and were concerned but Daryl didn't seem to care.

"Hey you" Violet said a she walked up to Daryl, who was sitting beside his tent. Daryl looked up at her then back at his arrows.

"Hey, you ready?" he asked as he squinted up to her. They were planning on going hunting today, Daryl hardly took anyone hunting, but he enjoyed his time with violet. She nodded and Daryl got up and wiped the dust off his trousers.

They spent the whole day in the woods and they decided to head back when it began to get dark. They were silent mostly throughout the day until violet was about to say something, when a movement caught her eye. Her eyes widened as she saw a herd of about 40 walkers moving through the woods directly to them. Daryl must have seen them as well, when he raised his crossbow and brought his finger to his mouth, to motion to be quiet.

Violet started backing up to large tall tree they passed, Daryl was unsure of what she was doing. Until he realised he was signally for them to climb up it. Daryl nodded and violet climbed up the tree, like it was no problem at all, she got up as high as she could and waved her hand for Daryl to come up. He climbed up and joined her in a large sturdy branch. They were both still and silent, listening to the shuffling and moaning of rotting corpse, as the herd of walkers passed underneath them, going unnoticed. It seemed like hours they both were sitting there but finally the last few walkers shuffled out of their sights. When there were no more walkers it was then Daryl realized how close they were to each other.

"Don't look like we're going to be making it back to camp tonight" violet said, as she looked up in to the sky as she could see the sun setting. In a weird way this was kind of romantic. She noticed how close she and Daryl were. She could hear him breathing and smell that unmistakeable smell he has to him, Tobacco, leather and the woods. It comforted her, she could feel the heat coming of him.

"Er yeah" he said, bring her out of her thoughts, he was staring at her. She looked at him then down to her feet as she started to blush. "You look tired, you can sleep and I'll keep an eye out" he said.

"Well no walkers can climb unless you've seen one? So we can both sleep here, I mean we will hear any groaning or shuffling anyway" she said. All he did was nod in response. Violet backed up into the curve of the middle of the tree. She lay down with her knees bent and her head against the tree. Daryl looked at her then copied her body language and laid next to her. They both looked up into the stars both deep in thought.

'she's right next to ya, make a move' Daryl could her a voice inside his head telling her to make a move, but another voice was saying 'look at how perfect she is, she wasn't made for you, you don't deserve that, I bet if you tried to touch her, she'd jump out the tree and run for her life' however he knew she was different, she wouldn't run if he made a move, would she? Maybe she's just being nice' he shook his head trying to clear his thoughts, he didn't need to make things difficult with her, yeah she was hot as hell and he had a massive crush on her, but they had become good friends, and he had never really had a friends before so he didn't want to ruin it. She liked the same things as him, she made him laugh which hardly anyone has ever been able to do and she got along with merle okay, now that was impressive, a smart hot girl who could take on merle and answer him back. Yeah she was way too good for a stupid white trash redneck like him.

Violet looked up and looked at his face, he was squinting and frowning, she noticed his face was like that a lot, but only around camp and when he was thinking. But when he was around her he would loosen up. Violet nudged his elbow, "hey, you alright?" she asked, bringing him out of his thoughts.

"Yeah, better get some sleep, head out first light" he said, he voice was a bit deeper than usually and that's partly because he could feel himself growing inside his pants from being close to her. He leaned on his hands at the back of his head and tried to think of something sad.

He let his mind wonder to her past, he respected that she didn't go round telling her life story but now he thought of it she never said anything about her past. And she doesn't like talking around camp, him, Amy and Sam is the only people she really talks to. He knows she knows how to live in the woods and fight, she's very smart and he could tell by the way she spoke that she was educated. Her voice was soothing and clear, she pronounced everything properly and sometimes used words that Daryl had never heard of. But he would nod so he shows he's not stupid in front of her.

After about an hour they both fell asleep, they were both tired from the long day and needed to rest.

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