Two of a kind
Themesong: Radioactive by: Imagine Dragons
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Chapter 10: Facing the Firing Squad
That night Eva stay'd by the tent, she couldn't look at those people not even talk to them.
She rubs her baby bump which had grown a bit, Rick was telling them what all he faced before meeting the group.
Hearing a log hit a fire Eva looks up to see Ed throw one in.
Ed now there was another ass whole, beating his wife possibly his child.
He once spied on Eva when she was washing in the lake, but Merle put an end to it.
That was the only one time where Eva felt greatfule to him.
"Hey, Ed, you want to re-think that log?" Deputy Dipshit asked.
Eva knew this wasn't going to go well as she turns her back.
"It's cold man."
Shane started in on him, the rules where just embers or close to.
Getting up Eva crawls in her tent, looking over at Daryl's cot she lowers her head.
Tomarrow wasn't going to be good for them, not even her.
That's when she heared Dale ask "Have you given any thought about Daryl? His wife is right, he wont be happy to hear his brother was left behind."
Eva lays down trying to shut them out, closing her eyes she whimpers.
T-dog and Rick seam to say that one of them was going to tell.
"Guys, it's not a compettion. I Don't mean to bring race into this, but I think it would sound better coming from a white guy. Though Eva isn't vary rasist herself but the Dixon's are." Glenn tells them.
Eva seem to grit her teeth, she wanted so badly to yell at them.
But then blondie had to put her two cents in, Eva bursts out of the tent.
Arizona by her heels, everyone looks up "Listen I know Merle's an ass and hard to get along with, but damn it he's my fiance's family! Now I don't care who tells but someone better!"
Turning she walks back into her tent and barring her face in her Malimute's fur.
Once everyone was in bed, Eva grabs one of Daryl's blankets puting her nose to it.
It smelled just like him cigeretts, outdoors, and another smell she couldn't pick up.
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The Next morning Eva was up before everyone, making sure no one was going to fallow.
Her and Arizona walk to the pond her clothes in hand she takes a bath.
Coming back to camp people had started moving around.
T-dog walks up to her his head bent "Look, umm I want to apologize to you before Daryl, about Merle."
Eva's shoulder's slack a bit "Thank you T I'm sorry for yelling."
Looking down at the ground holding her dirty clothes "Starting out, I didn't have much family to begin with. My dad was an ass whole who...well he disowned me kicked me out of the house."
Sighing she tells him how she met Daryl, how he wasn't always the way he was.
"Merle...and Daryl both had it rough to, its not my place to tell you what happened to them. But know they became my family, yes sadly Merle is part of the package but he can be fericly loyal when need be." T nods giving her a smile.
"Look I got to get more wood we can talk more later if ya want." Eva giggles for the first time.
"I'd like that." Nodding he walks off.
Carol was doing laundry, the kids were playing and once again no one pay'd attention to them.
"Bunch of dumbasses." She thought, as she put her pistol in the back of her pants.
She fallows the laughter and smiles when she sees them playing.
Sitting down she watches them "They should stick more close to camp." she thought again.
That's when the kids gasped, looking up Eva jogs over.
"Go now don't scream." But it was to late they ran off screaming.
Grabing a branch she wished she grabed one of Merle's knives, the damn thing was nawing on a deer.
That's when the men joined her "Get back Eva we don't want you bit." Rick whispers.
He pushed her behind him as he did the men started beating on it.
Rolling her eyes she let them do their stupid riot crap.
Finally Dale cut off it's head with his axe, looking at the deer's backside she saw two arrows.
"Daryl." She couldn't help thinking as she looks around for him.
"That's the first one we've had up here. They never come this far up the mountain." Dale says as he pants.
Eva tuned their men's voices out as she looked around.
"Daryl where are you?" She had droped the stick, her hand now on her swollen abdoman.
That's when branches and twigs snapped, everyone held their weapons up thinking it was another geek.
Sighing, Eva smiles as Daryl appears jumping down off a bolder.
"Son of a bitch. That's my deer!" He yells, Eva knew this was going to be bad " Look at it all gnawed on by this...filthy, disease-bearing, motherless poxy bastard."
All this time he was yelling he was also take his anger out on it, by kicking it.
Eva had seen him do it once before all this, he and Merle had gotten in a fight.
Daryl had come to her place and ended up taking his anger out on her couch.
Needless to say she had to buy a new one, and Daryl had to appologize to her because he also took his anger out on her when she tried calming him down.
"Calm down, son. That's not helping." Groaning, Eva shook her head bad idea on Dale's part.
"What do you know about it, old man? Why don't you take that stupid hat and go back to "On gold pond"? I've been tracking this deer for miles. Gonna drag it back to camp, cook us up some venison. What do you think? Do you think we can cut around this chewed up part right here?"
"I would not risk that." Shane replies.
"Damn Shame, and you the hell you doin' down here?" He looks at Eva.
"I was watching the kids when it came along." She mummbles.
"The hell people!? Ya let my girl on her own with ya kids? And it's got ta be the brain don't ya'll know nothin'?" Daryl shoots the head of the geek.
He then walks up to her, Eva's head was bowed "Stay by camp, don't want ya or the baby hurt."
"Sorry." She tells him before he stomps off.
"Gots us some squirrel, about a dozen or so. That'll have to do."
Eva smiles "I'll get started skinning and cleaning them."
Daryl nods as he yells for Merle, Eva stops walking a bit.
"Merle! get your ugly ass out here! Help Eva we got squirrle let's stew'em up!" Eva looks at Rick and Shane pointing to Daryl.
"Daryl, slow up a bit we gotta talk to ya." Shane sighs as he puts his shot gun back in his jeep.
Daryl stops and terns "About what?" he looks at Eva who wouldn't meet his gaze.
"About Merle." She walks up to Daryl knowing he was going to need some support.
"There was a...There was a problem in Atlanta." Shane walks past them.
People seamed to stop and watch like it was a fucked up show.
Daryl looked around he was becomeing nervouse, she could tell as he starts pacing.
It was as if people were serounding him "He dead?" He looks at Eva.
"We're not sure." Shane whispers.
This was pissing her off "Just tell him!" She yells making Daryl stop.
"No easy way to say this, so I'll just say it." Rick steps up.
"Who are you?" Daryl glares as Rick stands next to Eva.
"Rick Grimes."
"Rick Grimes," Daryl mocks "You got somethin' you want to tell me? Seams my girl knows."
Eva winces "Your brother was a danger to us all, so I handcuffed him on a roof, hooked him to a piece of metal. He's still there."
"Hold on. Let me process this." Daryl wipes his eyes descretly as if he was sweeting "You're saying you handcuffed my brother on a roof and you left him there?! On top of that you knew?!" He points to Eva as his temper rose.
"I wanted them to tell you themselves, I'm just as pissed as you. Our unborn child's unckle is out there!" Eva yells back.
Rick steps in front of her "She's right, that's what she wanted me to do. It's the truth."
Eva glares and steps around Rick she slowly walks up to Daryl, she raises her hand to him.
Daryl pushes her behind him and throws the string of squirrles at Rick.
"Daryl! Stop!" She yells as she trys to grab his arm, but Shane slams into him.
Eva screams "No! Stop!" Arizona was now barking and growling at Shane.
It was escalating and she coulding stop it as Daryl pulls out his hunting knife.
"Watch the knife!" T-dog yells as he grabs Eva.
"No get off me! Daryl stop! Please!" She throws T off her as Daryl attacks Rick.
Tears streamed down her cheeks, this was the first she seen Daryl in such a rage.
Before Eva knew it Daryl was in a choke hold, her own rage built and she takes out her pistol pointing it at Shanes head.
Both men stop and look up "Let him go now!" Everyone seem to stop and watch her.
Rick has his hands up, Dale has a hold of Arizona's collar.
"Ok ma'am just put the gun down, we don't want others to get hurt." Eva glares at him.
"Then tell your buddy to let my fiance go...now! Or I swear to fucking god I'll shoot him where he stands!" Rick looks at Shane and nods to let Daryl go.
Shane throws Daryl down and rises his hands in the air, as she walks up to Daryl who was kneeling on the growned.
Eva slowly put her gun away as Rick slowly walked up to them "I'd like to have a calm discussion on this topic. Do you think you and your wife can manage that?" Rick asks.
Both couples look up and slowly nod as Eva looks back down at Daryl.
"What I did was not on a whim. Your brother does not work and play well with others." Eva glares at Rick her hand on Daryl's back.
"It's not Rick's fault. I had the key. I dropeped it." T-dog steps up, both Eva and Daryl glare at the man.
"You couldn't pick it up?" Daryl asks.
"Well, I dropped it in a drain." Grunting Daryl stands he helps Eva up.
She looks at him making sure he was calm "If it's supposed to make me feel better, it don't."
Eva glares at T as she rushes to cetch up with him.
"Maybe this will. Look I chained the door to the roof...so the geeks couldn't get him, with a padlock."
"It's gotta count for something." Rick says from behind her.
Daryl looks down at Eva's tear streeked face, he looks back up to Rick pissed.
He rubs his eyes knowing he needs to be strong and the fact that crying would make him look less of a man.
"Hell with all y'all! Just tell me where he is so I can go get him!" He yells.
Eva looks up at him, she was going to go with he wasn't going alone.
"He'll show you." Lori says clamly by the RV "Isn't that right?"
Rick nodds after looking at his wife "I'm going back."
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"I'm going with you." Eva declares once in their tent.
Daryl looks up startled "The hell ya are, just stay here and wait for us to come back."
Eva glares "You better let me go with you! I'm not loosing you!" she sniffles looking down.
Daryl looks uncomfertable, he hated it when she cry'd and didn't know how to deal with it.
"I don't...I don't want ya to go. What if ya loose the baby? Naw you stay." Eva hugs herself.
"Then you best come back to us, if I found out you left with Merle after getting him...you can consider us..." She shakes her head turns to walk out.
Daryl grabs her wrist and pulls her back inside "I ain't leavin' ya behind! we're comin' back, besides its not like Merle's going to leave the bike behind."
Eva snorts and smiles "Guess your right, just...I'm scared."
Daryl nods pulling into a hug, she missed this, missed being in his arms.
Closeing her eyes she lets out a content sigh "Stay in camp, if ya need to go to the lake don't go alone." Eva nods gripping his shirt tightly.
"I...I love you Daryl, I know you don't think I don't, but I do and so does this baby. Please come home safe, with or without Merle but just please come back."
Daryl nods kissing the top of her head "Don't worry about me Lil' Mama, Dixon's are tough I'll make it back."
Giggling both couples split apart and walk out, Eva knew PDOA wasn't Daryl's strong suit.
Daryl sits down getting things around, Eva started washing the dirt off the squirrls.
Arizona had long sense calmed down and was laying at Daryl's feet.
"Best watch your mama while I'm gone ya hear mutt?" The Malamute looks up at snorts and lays his head back down.
Eva giggles "Think that was a duh snort."
That's when she heared Shane hollering at Rick, looking up she sees them walk towored their camp.
"Could you just tell me why? Why would you risk your life for a douche bag, like Merle Dixon?" Eva stands getting pissed.
"Hey, choose your words more carefully." Daryl advised.
"No, I did douche bag is what I meant." Shane say's, glareing at Daryl.
Eva steps into Shane's face "Well sense we're all in the buissness of name calling, then I here bye name you personally Deputy Ass Whole, see it was Deputy Dipshit but you just up it to a whole knew level."
Shane goes to slap her but Arizona barks and growns low in his throat.
"Ya best not do that! I'll sick Zona on you're ass then I'd kill ya." Daryl threatens.
"Ok everyone calm down!" Rick yells, "I'm not going to let a man die on a roof."
"So you and Daryl, that's your big plan?" Lori asks as Eva sits back beside Daryl.
Rick turns to look at Glenn who looks nervous "Oh, come on."
Eva rolls her eyes as she starts skinning the squirls, as she lets them talk.
Daryl looks over at her, inside he was smirking seeing her do something like that always seem to turn him on.
"That's just great now your gunna risk three men huh?" Shane puts in.
"Four." T speaks up, Daryl huffs "My day just gets better and better, don't it?" he says as he cleans his arrows.
"You seeing anybody else here stepping up to save your brother's cracker ass. Besides I'm doing it for her." T-dog nods to Eva "She's been upset about it sense we go back."
Eva looks at Daryl and gives him a small smiles.
Shane on the other hand looked more pissed and aggitated.
"That's four." Dale points out the obviouse
"That's not just four. Your putting everyone of us at risk. Just know that, Rick. Come on you saw that walker. It was here. It was in camp. they're moving out of the cities. They come back, we need every able body we got." Shane pleads, sounding desperet.
Eva throws the squirrl she was holding into the pot below her, she was going to stand but Daryl stops her leaning into her he whispers.
"Calm, think of the baby." Closing her eyes she nods, laying her hand on her bump.
"It seems to me what you really need most here are more guns." Rick says, making Eva and Daryl look up.
"Wait, what guns?"
"Six shotguns, two high-powered rifles, over a dozen handguns. I cleaned out the cage back at the station before I left." Rick informed them.
"Well at least he's good for something." Eva thought as she took out the innards of another squirrl.
"You went through hell to find us, you just got here and your gonna turn aroud and leave?" Lori asks, which pisses Eva off but her heart stops hearing Carl say he didn't want his father to go.
"Shane is right Merle Dixon? He's not worth one of your lives, even the guns thrown in."
Throwing the squirl down she gets up, Daryl looks up as she walks away hugging herself.
Daryl cursed inwardly as he gets up to fallow, he turns her around.
"Don't listen to that bitch, ya here? Your anxiotys gunna go up, it'll hurt the baby. Now I need ya to calm down understand?" Eva sighs, and nods looking at the ground.
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Sighing both her and Daryl end up throwing half the squrrils away, the innards and meet were given to Arizona.
Eva now stood next to Daryl as the bread truck backed up into camp.
Daryl climbs into the truck, putting his crossbow on a bench.
This was killing her, but knew Merle needed to come back.
Putting her hand on her bump she looks up "Ya best come back." She tells him in her best southern twang.
But Daryl wasn't listening or paying attention to her anymore.
Daryl becomes impaitent as he honks the horn with his foot "Come on let's go!"
Eva walks up and stops Rick grabing his arm "You best come back with Daryl and Merle, or Daryl. couse if you don't...don't be coming back at all you hear me?"
Rick looks at her and nods somthing in Rick stirred his feeling towored her but he shook it off.
"Yeah ok don't worry I'll bring them back safe." Eva nods letting Rick's arm go.
Daryl looks at Eva and she back at him untill he pulls the hatch down, she watches as the truck pulls away.
She walks away tears seem to fall lately and not the happy kind, she had never felt more alone.
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Author's note: I had been thinking of making it a three way Daryl, OC, Rick threesome both men in love with the same woman, tell me what you think. yes or no?