Two of A Kind
Themesong: Landslide by: Dixie Chicks
Author's note: The last story I wrote about Joe Peltier I felt wasn't going where I wanted it. I promise I may take it up again.
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Chapter 2: Quite Days and Loud Nights
It had been a week, Eva and Daryl and become friends to Merle's dislike.
Every night Merle tried to keep her up by having parties that she became a night owl.
Daryl felt bad and tried to tell Merle to knock it off but his brother refused.
Then came one Saturday night where Merle invited her to one of his parties.
He had told her Daryl would be there so she agreed, not thinking anything of it.
She dressed in a white loose long sleeved shirt, Jeans and dress shoes.
Eva looked at Arizona who was a sleep on the couch. "Come on boy, let's go make nice."
Huffing, the canine followed her outside where music boomed from the trailer next door.
"Maybe this is a bad idea...what do you think?" She whispers to her companion.
Arizona gave her a duh look as they walked up the steps, several men stood outside smoking.
One of them whistled. "Hey good lookin! Come on over here and show us the goods!"
Eva bowed her head, her curls hid her face, maybe this was a bad idea.
Nudging his mistress back to their trailer, the dog whimpers.
That's when the door banged open and Merle steps out."Well, well,well look who shows up."
She bits her lip and looks up. "Hi Merle." She whispers, seeing smoke sweep out into the fresh night air.
"Ya boys met our entertainment for the night? My baby brother's new it girl." He asks.
Eva heard chuckles from behind her. "Is that so boss?" She stiffens as Arizona growls behind her.
"Maybe this was a mistake...I'll…umm…see our way back." She says as Merle walks up to her.
"Now where's the hurry?" He wraps an arm around her shoulder and she stiffens.
"I...I have work in the morning I should go and sleep." Her voice lowers and softens
Merle shakes his head as the other men start walking up to her, Arizona gives off a loud bark.
Eva looks and sees her fury friend with its fur standing up, on his hunches, his ears pulled back, and showing off is teeth like he was a big wolf to which he probably was half wolf.
The men behind her seem unsure of what to do. "Umm...boss what now?" Merle growls and glares at her.
"Call the mutt off." Eva shakes her head no as Merle yells at her again.
By this time a blue Chevy pickup comes pulling up, Daryl steps out.
"The hell is going on?" Eva looks at the man. "Merle what's goin on? Why's Eva here?"
Eva looks at Merle. "You said he was here." She voiced as loud as she could.
Merle chuckles. "I lied, wanted to see what was so great about ya that my lil' brothers gotta ignore me."
Merle gave an exasperated sigh and pushes her away causing the young woman to stumble.
Arizona bit down on Merle's pant leg and tugged him to the floor, Merle screaming.
"Kill it! Kill this mutt! Someone get it!" Eva looks up to see one of the men take out a pistol.
"No! Stop!" She goes to run to him but the shot was already made.
Eva stops and looks at the slumped over dog, her knees give out she falls to the ground.
"Ari... Arizona ? No...no...oh god no." She starts shaking her head as she crawls to him.
Eva's sobs broke out as she laid his head on her lap "No!" She screams "No!"
Burying her face in his white and black fur she sobs. "Come back please, come back."
In the background she could hear Daryl's muffled yells; she was rocking Arizona when she felt him paw her leg.
Gasping, she looks down to see her friend looking up at her, the dog whimpers.
"Oh... Arizona , oh god. We got to get you to a vet." She looks around seeing red and blue lights coming into the trailer park.
Officers had pulled up as Daryl walked over to her with his head down.
"I'm...sorry, I understand if ya don't want ta talk ta me again." He mumbles.
Eva looked down at her whimpering dog; she knew it took them awhile to trust each other.
Eva shook her head. "No...it's not your fault Daryl. Merle told me you were going to be here, he's the one that screwed up. It's his fault."
The man nods as a police officer walks up them, Daryl explains everything to him.
The officer lets them take Arizona to the vet while they dealt with Merle and his gang.
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It had been an hour since they brought the poor dog in.
It seemed all the doctors and nurses were working as best they could.
They even brought in a man named Hershel to do the operation.
By this time Eva was pacing a hole in the floor, Daryl watching her until he got annoyed.
"Come sit, ain't doin ya any good with that pacin." Sighing, she agrees as she sits beside him.
Eva looks at her hands, worry still evident has her knee started bouncing.
"Have a feelin that Merle and his gang are goin to jail." He said.
Daryl thought striking up a conversation with her would ease her mind.
"I ain't bailin him out this time...he hurt ya dog, I will say... I'm sorry." Eva looks at him; Daryl has his head down his hands folded in his lap.
Sighing she takes her hand in his. "Thank you, but you don't have to be sorry for him. He chose to do what he wanted, that's not on you."
Daryl looks at her and nods, she smiles and bumps his shoulder.
He chuckles, Daryl had never felt as comfortable as he did with her and he couldn't explain it.
Merle said something along the lines of, "havin' him by the balls", though Daryl brushed it off.
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Around 12 at night the two vets walked out with blood on their scrubs.
Eva stood up, anxious to hear about her dog. "Are you Eva Brown?", the elderly looking one of the two asked.
"Yes, please tell me is he ok?" She pleads, Daryl stood back he felt like she didn't need him.
The older looking man of the two laid a gentle hand on her shoulder. "Your dog pulled through with no complications, he's lucky that bullet missed everything."
Eva let out a sigh; they sent her off saying that Arizona needed time to heel.