I laid my head on the head rest in Daryl's truck, still a little out of breath. I looked out the rear view mirror and saw the building burning behind us. I ran my hands over my face, I felt like I was going to have another meltdown, but I couldn't not by Daryl. I can't let him see me so weak.

Remembering that I was sitting next to Daryl, who I was still so pissed off at. He was confusing me too, which was making me so much madder. He told me he didn't care, but then came back for me and protected me.

I looked down and noticed I was bleeding through the bandage Rick had put on my leg. "Fuck." I mumbled, getting Daryl's attention. "Ya okay?"

"What do you care?" I snapped back at him a little too harshly for someone who just saved my life.

"Your right, I don't."

I just snorted at him, he was just being a dick. "Okay." I said sarcastically.

"Ya know a thank you would be nice. Ya almost got us both killed, stupid bitch."

He obviously didn't know how close i was to freaking out, or he did and just enjoyed pushing it. "You didn't have to come back for me Daryl!"

"I wasn't gona letcha stay in there and get fuckin blown up!"

"Oh, so you do care?" I said in my harsh sarcastic tone.

"I just didn't want to here ya sister cryin for the next month. I was just doin her dirty work."

I was a little taken aback by that, did he only save me for Syd? I stayed silent for a while, and only managed to spit out, "thanks."

He kept lookin over at me and softened his voice, "why did ya hesitate? Why didn't ya run with the rest of us?"

"I had second thoughts, but I knew I couldn't. I was about to come after ya when ya grabbed me."

"Why couldn't ya?"

"I made a promise, and I couldn't leave Syd like Jackie left the ones she loved."

He nodded his head in understanding.

We pulled over to a deserted building that looked walker free to get supplies for the road, we were headed to Fort Benning.. Only a few of us went in to the store, while the others cleaned out some of their cars and siphoned the fuel from them.

Rick told me he was gona go up to the roof for a minute, I wasn't sure what for, but I didn't question him.

There wasn't much in the building, I was only able to grab a few water bottles, some canned food, bags of chips, and candy bars. I don't think anyone else got anything much better, so we decided we were good and i ran up to the roof to get Rick.

He was sitting down talking to someone, or no one on a radio. He was talking about how Jenner told something to him, but then he couldn't even bring him self to repeat it. I walked over to him and squatted down next to him as he finished talking to the radio about our journey. Journey. Thats something I wouldn't have thought to call it, but it works.

He moved the radio away from his face and looked at me when he was done. I just looked at all the skyscrapers around us, "nice view from up here." Rick just nodded at me.

"I saw Jenner whisper something to you before we all ran out of there. I also saw the look on your face when he told you."

Rick just pinched the bridge of his nose. "I'm not gona start interrogating you about it, but think about the group. If it's as crazy as it seems, then think if it would be best if the group knew, or doesn't know. False hope, remember?"

Rick just nodded and looked ahead. I stood up and reached out my hand to help him up, "come on, we got all we could get out of this building, so its time to start our journey."

I helped him up and then we went back down to the others. Everyone was loading up the cars and getting ready for our drive ahead. I saw Shane staring at Rick as his gave Lori a kiss, way to be obvious.

We only had the RV, Carol's Cherokee, and Daryl's bike left. It was actually Merle's bike now that i think about it. Daryl drove up next to me,"ya gona ride with me?" He said with a smirk, knowing that I wasn't a big fan of that bike and there was no were else for me to ride. I sighed ignoring how i was still pissed off with him, "fine, but when my ass starts to get numb, I will sit on the ground in the RV. He just grunted at me and i hopped on behind him. I debated putting my arms around his waist, but ending up doing it anyways with a sigh because it was the most comfortable position. I saw Daryl smirk at my sigh out of the corner of my eye.

Rick looked around at everyone, and nodded at me, then got into the Cherokee. Daryl looked back and forth between Rick and I, seeing his nod at me, but ignored it and led the caravan away.

I looked to the road next to me and saw all the cars coming out of Atlanta were crammed all over the place, some flipped over, others ruined and filled with dead people. They never made it out.

After a couple of hours everybody pulled over to stretch and look at the map. I lifted my hands above my head trying to stretch out a bit, I felt Dayl's eyes on me from behind. I blushed remembering I was still wearing my short shorts and he was probably looking at my ass. I started to walk away, but I saw Shane's eyes on me too, great. I wish i had my other pair of shorts on.

Carol ended up moving Sophia to the RV because she fell asleep, leaving Rick to offer me an open spot in his car. I accepted graciously because I couldn't take another second on Daryl's bike.

I walked over to Daryl and told him I'd be riding with Rick. All he said was, "whatever."

Lori ended up going in the back with Carl, so I got to sit in the front seat. "How much longer do we got?" I asked Rick as we drove away.

"We are about halfway through, but we are coming up to some more main roads, so I don't know how blocked off they will be."

I nodded my head a slouched back in my seat. I saw that Lori and Carl were in the back already asleep. My body felt tired and stiff, but my mind wasn't allowing myself to fall asleep as I watched all the trees and a few walkers as we drove by.

"So, how did you know Daryl before all this?" Rick asked, trying to start a conversation.

"His dad and my dad were friends and neighbors. Daryl and I just kinda became friends over time."

"Where you guys close?"

I shrugged, "I mean we both had shitty dads, so we had our moments, but we never went out of the way to talk to each other that much."

Rick just nodded. "John, your dad. Do you know if he's alive?"

"I don't know, probably not. He was headed down to Atlanta with my mom."

"I'm sorry." Was all Rick said as he looked at me. He truly was sorry, I could see it in his eyes.

"I'm not sorry. At least, not for my dad."

Rick nodded in understanding and we both went back to silence, until the caravan slowed.

I looked at the road around us, there were cars and dead people everywhere. It was a mess. There was a slim chance we could fit through it.

I heard Daryl's loud motorcycle engine come up and he stopped next to our car to tell us he saw a path through. He circled around and we slowly drove around the cars filled with dead people, it was very eerie. I looked up at Daryl ahead of us to see if anything was going to pop out at him. Even though i hated riding on that motorcycle, he still looked hot as hell riding it.

We squeezed past cars and rolled over trucks, only giving us a better view of the people and families that lied dead and rotting. Everybody was quiet until we heard the all too familiar sound of the RV breaking down.

Rick and i looked at each other, but then got out of the car and joined the rest of the group by the RV. I looked around, it was a grave yard, but it had a ton of supplies that we can use all over.

"If ya can't find a radiator hose here.." Shane said.

"There's a whole bunch of stuff we can fine." Daryl said as he dug through a car.

"Siphon some fuel from these cars, maybe some water, food?"

"This is a grave yard. I don't know how I feel about this." Oh here we go again with Lori and her little comments. If we don't get some supplies, then we'll be dead too, so she better get over it.

"It doesn't matter how you feel, we need supplies. I'm sure the dead won't mind, were just tryin to survive and it's not like their gona need this stuff anymore." I said to her as i started looking through a car near by. Everyone else followed my lead and started searchin through some cars, too.

That's all we did for a while, and I got some good stuff. Lots of food, water, feminine products, and some clothes. Thank god. I was walking along, trying to avoid cars with dead people rotting in side them when i heard a faint, "oh my god."

I looked ahead of me to see Syd frozen, staring at a car. I ran over to her and saw the familiar, license plate. It was out parents. "No. NO, MOM!" Syd yelled as she tried to run to open the doors. I ran in front of her and grabbed her, she didn't need to see it. She fought me and screamed, but collapsed in my arms and I went down to the ground with her.

All I did was stare at the car while Syd sobbed into my arms. My Dad, finally got what I believed he deserved, but my mom. My mom tried her best to keep me away from my father, she took multiple beatings from him for things she did for us. Even though the last few years she was battling her drug addictions, she was still my mom.

Sydney felt the same, she even cried a little for my dad. But me, I just was frozen. I looked away and hugged Syd tighter. I saw everyone looking at us, they must have heard Syd's screams and ran over to investigate. Lori and Carol had their hands over their mouths while they held onto their children, everyone else just had pity in their eyes.

I felt Syd shift in my arms, she looked me in the eyes, "yo-you were so worried about yourself." She choked out of her tears and backed away from me a little. "YOU SHOULD HAVE SAVED HER!" She yelled and then pushed me away, stood up, and ran into the RV, Glenn going in after her.

I felt as if a large crack just tore through my chest, my heart. I put my shaking hand over my mouth, Syd was right. But, then I heard something move inside the car.

My breathing stopped as I grabbed my knife from its holster, stood up, and walked over to opened the drivers door. My dad fell out of the car and I backed up, with my knife ready. He started to crawl towards my feet, but I kicked him in the face, causing him to roll over onto his back. I crouched down and hovered over him, looking him straight in his gray lifeless eyes as I shoved my knife between his eyes.

I continued to stab him multiple times, taking all my built up anger out on his head. All the anger for hitting me, hitting my mom, raping my mom, touching me, and for laying his hands on my sister the few times he did.

I couldn't cry, I just couldn't. Not for my dad. I walked around to the passenger side and opened the door, my mom fell out on me, I shoved her off, but I still managed to fall on my ass and crawl backwards. She didn't move though, she was really dead. I saw out of the corner of my eye that Rick and Daryl had stepped closer, thinking my mom was going to try and take a chunk out of me.

I was wheezing hard now, I couldn't catch my breath. Everyone was still staring at me in shock, but I didn't care. I could have saved my mom from my dad before and I could have saved her now, but I didn't, I couldn't. I felt like I was going to be sick.

I caught my breath and stood up. I walked over to where my mom laid and picked my knife off the ground that I dropped. While i was crouched down I rolled her over so she was on her back and laid her hands on the top of her stomach, then stood up and walked away.

I felt every ones gaze on my back as I walked past them, but luckily no one tried to follow. Once I was alone I let out a long breath that I must have been holding. I started to rummage through a car near me, looking for something to ease the guilt and pain. Finding a pack of cigarettes and a lighter, I jumped up on the hood of the car and lit one.

I have never been much of a smoker, but right now, I couldn't get enough of it. I looked out into the forest that I had been running around almost a week ago, now look at where I am.

Foot steps approaching me made me snap out of my thoughts and look to my right, it was Daryl.

He put his crossbow on the top of the car and looked at me. I handed him a cigarette and the lighter, which he graciously accepted. Normally I wouldn't be able to control my thoughts about how hot he looked while smoking, but my mind was in other places right now.

"Fi-" He started.

"No, Daryl. You didn't want my pity and I don't want yours. Also, I thought we established earlier that you don't care." I said as I hoped down off the car and threw my smoke onto the ground, putting it out with my boot.

"Fi." He said as I started to walk away. "Dammit, Fiona!" he grabbed my arm and spun me around. He was so close to my face I was forced to look in his eyes. I thought I was going crazy, but out of the corner of my eye I saw a fucking horde of walkers slowly making their way down the road. Everyone was smart and hid under cars, but T-Dog was running towards us with his had on his bleeding arm. Daryl followed my eyes and then saw what I was seeing, "shit." He pushed me down and I crawled under the car, but he didn't come under, instead he ran over to T-Dog who had slid onto the ground, weak from blood loss.

He put a dead walker body on top of T-Dog and then pulled one from a car to put on top of himself. Once he was completely masked and hidden, he looked around and locked eyes with mine. The walkers started to slowly stumble by, but I didn't move my eyes from Daryl who put his finger to his lips to shh me and looked right back at me.

His eyes comforted me and took my mind of the walkers passing by, but I was more afraid for Daryl, who was out in the open, then I was for myself. The walkers started to die down after a little while, and only a few were walking by now, but all of the sudden a walker tripped over a dead body on the ground, fell, and spotted me.

It started to moan and crawl towards me, I searched around me for my knife, but remembered that I left it in the seat of the car that I was searching through. The moans from the walker got the attention of one next to me on the other side of the car, causing it to bend down and come after me. Shit. I looked up at Daryl, who's eyes were wide watching me and I could tell he wanted to come over and help, but there were to many walkers by him. I heard a scream in the distance, but didn't have much time to think about it.

I took my foot and kicked the walker who had just noticed me in the face, causing him to stumble back. I was going to go get out from under the car, but the walker that was crawling towards me grabbed my hair, allowing the walker I just kicked to come back at me.

I frantically kicked at the walkers face and hands that was trying to grab my feet. I got it far enough away from me, so that I could make a move.

I counted to three in my head and yanked my head back as hard as I could, freeing me from the walkers grasp on my hair. I let out a little whimper in pain and started stomping the walkers head in at my feet with the heal of my boot, making a disgusting sound.

Once its skull was smashed in, and it's brain was everywhere, I rolled out from that side of the car, grabbed the knife and ran to the other side. I stabbed the walker in the back of the head multiple times, getting blood all over me. I then dropped down to my hands and knees, trying to catch my breath. I couldn't see Daryl because I was on the opposite side of the car, so I didn't know if he was okay. I didn't know if anyone was okay.

I felt adrenaline and fear pump through my veins as I thought about what just went down. I didn't know who I heard screaming. I didn't know if Daryl, Syd, Rick, T-dog, or anybody else was okay, either.

I heard footsteps come at me and I sat up with my knife ready, looking all around me. I almost attacked Daryl when he appeared, thinking he was a walker.

"Jesus, it's just me."

I sunk back down on my knees, still breathing heavy. Daryl knelt down in front of me, "ya alright?"

I looked up at him, I don't know if it was the adrenaline, the fact that I thought I was gona lose him, or if it was just the heat of the moment that made me do it, but I leaned forward and connected my lips with his, forgetting about that he probably didn't feel the way I did.

He hesitated, but grabbed the side of my head and started kissing me back. It was our first non-drunk kiss and it sent sparks all throughout my body. Our lips fit perfectly together and I completely forgot about the heard that just went by. His lips were rough, but soft as he kissed me. But, before I knew it, Daryl pulled away, too soon for my liking.

He stood up, put his crossbow on his back, and helped me get up. I avoided looking at him as we made our way over to T-Dog, but every now and then I felt his gaze on me.

We both put one of T-dogs arms over our shoulders and carried him to the RV without saying a word.

Everyone was over by the railing, looking out into the woods. "Guys a little help over here!" I said to them as we made out way over. Shane and Dale came running over, "was he bit?"

"Na, he just cut his arm pretty bad on a car window." Daryl told them as they took T-Dog from us and helped him into the RV. I looked around to see that Rick and Sophia were missing.

"Oh my god, Fiona." I heard Sydney cry as she saw me. I realized I must have looked pretty bad, covered in walker blood and guts. I started fast walk over to her and she ran up and hugged me.

"I'm so sorry, Fi. I thought I lost you." She cried into me.

"Its okay. It's okay." I reassured her and hugged her tighter.

After a little bit we broke apart and I wiped the tears from her face. "What happened? Where is Rick and Sophia?" I asked her.

"Sophia, she um, two walkers found her and chased her into the woods. Rick ran after her and neither of them have came back yet."

I nodded at her. So it was sophia screaming. Worry started to over my mind, they better be okay.

"What happened to you?" Syd asked me.

"I just had to kill a few walkers that lingered too long." I didn't tell her the truth because I didn't feel like I needed to upset her anymore, it's been a long day.

Action packed chapter for ya here! When do you think Fiona will hit her breaking point and what do you think will cause her too? Some more Daryl and Fi scenes:) Also, some more friendship building with her and Rick.:) I'm not 100% sure on if I want to keep the Sophia think the same or not, but hopefully I will figure it out. I hope you enjoyed:)