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Chapter XI: Pretty Much Dead Already

I was bleeding, the red liquid poured from my stomach and down the side of my body. I felt my legs give way and Rick caught me. Pain shot through my body and someone was screaming, and then realized it was me.

"Lillie, are you ok," Rick asked me. He looked down to my stomach and I saw the sheer look of pain and fear form on his handsome face. A man walked out from the bushes.

"Oh my God I'm sorry," he said. Rick grabbed him by the collar and hit him in the face.

"Rick, we have to get her to Hershel," Glenn said as he picked me up bride style. Rick pushed the guy, Otis his name on the ground and took me from Glenn. It was here that I slowly began to fade in and out.

I remember myself in Rick's arms as he ran towards the house. Him calling out for Hershel and tears streaming down his face.

"Rick what happened," Lori screamed to him and the cried out when she saw me. "Lillie...Lillie," Jacob cried. I heard others crying out as the came closer. Carol, T-Dog, Maggie, and then something unexpected, Merle.

"What the hell did yah do to her," he cried out. Then he took me in his arms the same way Rick had done and ran towards the Greene house and Hershel.

"Hold on, doll face, hold on," he said. As he talked his words slowly faded into the background and the great darkness came over me.

When I woke I was in hell or at least it felt like it. A pain so unimaginable that I screamed out but no one could hear me because it hasn't escaped my lips. Sheer agony as something tore my skin.

"I can't get it's too deep," Hershel said as he desperately tried to pry the bullet from my abdomen.

"Why yah mean yah can't get it," and angry voice cried out. Daryl's angry voice laced with tears. I was dying and I knew it.

"The bullet is in fragments and I don't have the right tools to get them all out without an operation and the sheer pain will cause her heart to stop. I won't be able to do it without a respirator," he said.

Daryl cried out in agony and I heard him hit the wall in anger. Someone grabbed my hand and cried into it. Lori I suspected. I desperately wanted to hold them to tell them it was all right. To know that I was ok with this.

I didn't fear death it was a natural thing, we all die someday. But I thought of Jacob, and my new found relationship with the Dixon brothers how Merle had carried me, how I'd fallen in love with Daryl. Lori and Carol my best friends, sisters almost, and all the rest who had become my family.

The thought of leaving them saddened me and as I fell into the blackness of death I cried out for God in my mind. Beginning for their heeling as I went home to be with him.

"I think she's waking," Rick said and someone grabbed my hand, Daryl.

"Lillie can you hear us," Glenn asked from across the room.

I slowly lifted my eyes, to see the brightness of the day and my family around me.

"What's going on," I asked.

"You were shot," Daryl said looking into my eyes.

"We almost lost you," Lori said. "The bullet fragmented and Hershel had to give you an operation."

"I remember, but I thought he didn't have the right tools."

"Merle and the guy who shot you went to the local high school, where they had set up a hospital and got them, Otis died," Andrea said everyone looked down at this.

"Come on, we don't need her getting too tired," Hershel said to the large group. Everyone began filing out of the room except for Daryl who held my hand and rubbed my forehead and Merle who was leaning against the wall on the far side of the roof.

"Thank you Merle," a said to him.

"Anything for you baby doll," he said and exited the room.

"Daryl," I began and put my hand on his cheek rubbing his facial hair. He looked into my eyes, and grey met lightning blue. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you I was nineteen."

"Don't matter no more," he said. "That was a month ago."

"WHAT," I asked?

"Yeah after the operation you slipped into a coma that was a month ago."

I opened my mouth and then shut it again unsure of what to say.

"I love you," I finally said, and he nodded and leaned in. As our lips meet a shiver ran up my spine and I kissed the man I loved.

As the days grew colder and the nights grew longer, I was slowly recovering. Everyone had moved into the house because of winter slowly approaching.

It had been weeks since a walker had been spotted and all was well. Everyone had slowly but surely grown use to Merle and Jacob had taken a special liking to him.

Merle and Daryl would often take him hunting and showed him what they were good at being, men.

Daryl and I had become best friends, we had not shared a kiss since that day I woke up but I was fine with our pace I wasn't ready to have a big relationship.

Maggie mocked on my door, and she brought me a bowl of soup. Maggie was my age and we found that we had almost everything in common and we would often spend many nights having "sleepovers," and talking about things as though the world had never ended, but doubt about our safety was always there and I never let it slip from my mind.

Maggie sat down next to me in the bed and sighed. I took a spoonful of my chicken soup and looked at her. "What's wrong," I asked her.

"I had sex with Glenn," She replied and I nearly coughed up my soup.

"What," I asked flashing her a big smile?

"I know I know weird right," she asked.

"No Glenn is a great guy," I said sipping my soup again.

"It's just that everybody's getting some," she said.

"Who's getting what," I asked?

"Tyrees and Carol," she said.

"No way, when did that happen," I asked excitedly. Good for Carol!

"About a week after you slips into the coma."

"Wow, we'll good for her," I said," Who else."

"We'll of course Lori and Rick, Donna and Allen, Chris and Julie, and Andrea and Dale."

"ANDREA AND DALE," I said almost laughing.

"Yeah it's weird isn't it I mean he's like my dads age," she laughed.

"Love is blind," I said, "Everyone needs someone these days."

"Speaking of needing someone," she replied, "what about you and Daryl."

"Oh no you're not gonna change the subject about you and Glenn," I said patting her leg with my spoon. "Besides nothing's going on."

"Is it purely physical," she asked confused.

"We've only kissed once," I replied.

"But Merle says your sleeping together," she said.

"He said what."

"The other day he said, and I quote, why Merle can't get some good ole fashion love even by baby brother and bullet girl are bumpin uglies."

I was gone kill him, and this time I meant it.

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