Two of a kind
Themesong: Heart-Shaped Box by: Nirvana
Eva's and Daryl's themesong: Just Give Me a Reason ( Ruess) by: P!nk
Rick and Eva's themesong: Try by: P!nk
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Chapter 12: Burying The Dead, C.D.C Here We Come
Eva woke earyl Daryl was asleep on his side of the tent.
She noticed Arizona hadn't come to them last night, she was scared what if he was dead?
Slowly she crepts out of their tent, looking around she begins to walk towored what was the "Battle" feild.
"Arizona?" She whispers "Boy? Come out I'd understand if you were scared."
Rick walks back from talking get a hold of Morgan, he see Eva looking around.
"Come here boy, Arizona come on I've got treats you want treats?"
Rick walks up to her "Hey who are you looking for?"
Eva gasps seeing her dog "No...no Arizona?" Rick looks where she looks seeing the Malamute unmoving.
Before Rick could stop her she was running and screaming "Arizona!"
Falling to her knees she moves her hands around her companion's fur.
"No...no...no!" She sees her dog was shot a big bullet wound on it's side.
Sobs wrecked her boy as she hugs him, Rick slowly walks over assessing the damage.
He gently puts a hand on the young woman's shoulder "Let's get you back to Daryl." He whispers.
Eva shakes her head hugging her friend's neck "No...no I don't want to leave him please. Please don't make me leave him."
Shane walks over "The hell is going on?"
Rick shakes his head telling Shane now wasn't a good time.
"Come one Eva, you need to calm down for the baby." Rick whispers in her ear.
He takes her arms and gently lifts her up, Eva clings to Rick.
"He's gone, he's gone someone killed him." She sobs, Daryl bursts out of the tent.
"The hell? What ya do to her?" Daryl demands as he takes her from Rick.
"I didn't I saw her looking for her dog." Rick tells him as he shoves his hands in his pockets.
Daryl closes his eyes "I didn't want ya findin out like this." Eva nods gasping for breath as she sobs.
"He's gone Daryl...someone killed him. It wasn't a walker." She whispers as she clings her fiance's shirt.
Daryl nods "Don't worry won't let nothin' happen to ya promise."
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After calming down Eva walks back over with Daryl.
"We need to bury him...I won't let him become walker food." He nods.
"Ya, I'll get a shovel stay here." He mummbles.
Rick walks over putting his hand on her should Eva looks up, her breath hitched looking into his blue eyes.
She never noticed before, yes Daryl's was beautifule but Rick's.
Eva shook it off she couldn't think like that, she loves Daryl.
"You ok?" Rick asks softly.
"Yeah better...I'm going to be burying him, Daryl's going to help..." She sniffles and wipes her eyes.
Rick nods feeling guilty, Sophia and Carol walk up hugging her.
"Thank you, your dog saved us." Eva nods hugging back.
After burying Arizona, Daryl had went to work taking a pick axe to walker heads.
Eva wanted to help take her anger out on them, Daryl walks over with a knife.
"Go one get to killin'." Eva smirks knowing what Daryl meant she starts stabing.
Both Rick and Daryl watch her for a bit before turning to another problem.
Shane had said they needed to deal with it like every thing else.
Rick nods "I'll tell her how it is."
Carol walks over to Eva "Here I thought you might be thristy."
Looking up Eva smiling "I should stop, heat's getting to me."
The older woman smiles as she hands a glass of water over, Eva drinks it down sighing.
Kneeling down she puts the knife Daryl gave her into her boot.
Looking up she see's Rick backing away from a grieveing Andrea.
Eva shakes her head thinking "Hey if she want's to get bit its going to be no one's fault but her's."
She looks over at Daryl who had stopped slaughtering heads.
"Ya'll can't be seriouse, let that gil hamstring us?" Eva stands beside him "The dead girls a time bomb."
Eva nods rubing her abdoman "What do you suggest?" Rick asks.
Daryl steps up to Rick "Take the shot. Clean, in the brain from here. Hell, I can hit a turky between the eyes from this distance."
"No for God's sake let her be." Lori disagrees.
Eva starts laughing they all look at her "Your kidding right? Let her be!? What happens if blondie can't controll it!? It's going to come back!"
She goes to move forward "If no one has the balls to do it, I will!"
Rick stops her shaking his head, Eva glares at him and walks away.
She walks to her tent and sits, Carl slowly walks up to her.
"Eva?" Looking up she smiles wiping her eyes.
"Hey kiddo, what brings you here?" Carl sits beside her.
He looks down sad "I miss Arizona." Eva nods.
"Yeah, yeah me to buddy."
"It was Shane...I try'd stopping him. He said Zona was going to hurt Carol and Sophia." The boy starts crying.
Sighing she pulls Carl on to her lap and rocks him.
"Shhh, its ok. He's in a better place, he'll watch out for us both from where he's at. Promise."
Tears seam to be the only thing she was good for, both of them cry untill Lori comes a long and takes Carl away saying he doesn't need to be around her.
Eva lowers her head hugging stomach when he heared Daryl yell.
"Ya'll left my brother for dead! You had this comeing!"
That's when Jaci yells "A walker got him! A walker bit Jim!"
Eva stands and walks over slowly Daryl yells at her to stay back.
Daryl demands to Jim that he show it, but Jim only repeats that he was ok.
That's when the Machanic grabs a shovel, Eva goes to pull her pistol out but Rick stops her as he walks past.
T-dog grabs Jim from behind and Daryl pulls his shirt showing Jim's bite.
Eva gasps shaking her head, two more of them...no no they need to die need to be put down!
Her hand's stay planted protectively over her stomach.
They all gather around as Jim sits by the RV.
"I say we put a pickaxe in his head and the dead girl's and be done with it." Eva nods standing close to Daryl.
"He's right their time bombs, one's dead the other is going to be...their going to come back..." She bites her lip squeezing her shirt "They need to go now!"
Daryl looks at her and nods, he wasn't going to let anything happen to her; he's already lost Merle.
"Is that what you both want if it were you?" Shane asks.
"Yeah, and Id thank you while you did it." Daryl replays.
Eva stiffens turning her head away from him, she didn't need that image.
"I don't know Shane, you never asked my dog. you just killed him." She looks up angrly.
"That dog was going to hurt Carol and her daughter! I did what I had to!" He yells.
"No! I sent Zona to help them! to kill the walker before it got to them! you killed my dog!" Daryl holds her back.
Dale sighs "I hate to say it, I never thought I would but maybe Daryl and Eva are right."
Rick shakes his head "Jim's not a monster, Dale, or some rabid dog."
Eva looks over at Rick when he says that Jim is sick.
"Are you stupid or that dumb in the head?! He's not sick! He's a deadman walking! He's going to come back and kill us all!" Eva screams hestericly.
Daryl nods "Line's pretty clear. Zero tolerance for walkers, or them to be."
"What if we can get him help?" Rick suggests.
"From where?" Eva asks.
Rick mentioned the C.D.C which made Eva snorts "Yeah ok while your at it I'll go contact W.H.O as well."
Both Daryl and Eva were getting irritated, but then Shane say Fort Benning was their best bet.
"I don't care where we go as long as this doesn't put me or my unborn in danger." Eva grumbles.
Daryl looks at Eva then Jim and back, he was getting antsy he needed to protect her at all costs.
"You go looking for aspirin, Do what you need to do. I'm going to protect my own! Someone needs to have some balls to take care of this damn problem!" Daryl yells charging at Jim with the axe.
Rick goes up behind pointing his Python at Daryl's head, Eva screams grabing her pistol and points it at Rick's head.
"Hey, hey! We don't kill the living." Rick says sternly, Eva pulls the hammer back on her pistol Rick looks at her in surpise.
"Then lower your gun!" Eva yells, malice in her eyes.
"Already lost two family members I'm not loosing my fiance! He's doing what need's to be done! If you or Deputy Ass wipe can't get shit done!" Rick looks at her, he could see the pain in her eyes he wonders how someone can hold in that much.
Shane steps in front of Daryl "We may dissagree on somethings, not on this, you put it down. Go on."
Daryl throws the axe to the growned, both Rick and Eva lower their guns.
Lori walks up to Eva and slaps her "Don't you ever point a gun at my husband again!"
Eva slaps her back twice as hard making the woman fall "You husband pointed his gun first, I'm protecting my family unlike you."
Eva walks away her body shaking emotions boiling over, she walks to the lake and sits on a rock.
Eva hugs her body feeling alone, "I'm sorry baby...I'm sorry. I'm trying I really am."
She holds her tears in, she can't cry anymore not now not ever she needed to be strong.
Daryl let Carol off her husband Daryl went looking for Eva, he hadn't seen her around camp.
"What ya doin' girl?" He asks once he found her at the lake.
"Thinking...wishing." She doesn't tear her eyes from the water.
Daryl feeling uncomfertable looks around shuffling his feet, he hadn't been around her much since the perposal.
He knew he pushed her away, he wanted to make it up to her but didn't know how.
"Was...was worried ya left." He murmured.
Eva looks up at him "And never left you see our unborn? Naw wouldn't do that."
He nods looking at her from under his eyelashes, he bits his thumb.
Eva smiles and stands walking over to him she takes his hand in hers.
"You know that always turns me on." Daryl smirks.
"Why ya think I did it?" She bites her lower lip.
Daryl couldn't take it he pulls her into him and kisses her softly, Eva moans wraping her arms around his neck.
Their kiss slowly becomes heated Daryl's hand on her neck pulls her in closer.
She moans grabing his hair, god she needed this. She missed it more then she's missed anything.
A shot rings out bring Daryl and Eva back to reality, she looks in his eyes.
Daryl blinks, what was he doing? letting himself get close again!
Yes she's his baby's mama but that was all she was, no that was Merle's thinking.
He pulls away and turns his back, Eva closes her eyes.
"Daryl...please...don't, don't turn your back! Don't leave us again!" She pleads with him, he turns to look at her then walks away.
Sighing she slowly walks back as well, how could she hope for anything more.
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Eva stay'd in the back as they had their "funerals" she was tired, pissed, and well even more pissed.
Rick looks over at Eva, seeing Daryl wasn't standing beside her wondering what happened.
He couldn't talk to her not right away but when he got the chance he was.
Something about this woman was pulling at his heart, attaction maybe?
No probably brother/sister love, he has a wife and son he would dare cheat on his wife.
Her brown curls blew past her face as she bows her head, she then turns and walks away.
Daryl looks at her, watch her go to his Dodge she climbs in the passanger side.
She lays down on the bench and curls up, sigh escapes her lips as she falls half asleep when she hears Rick talk to Carl.
"Are we safe now, dad? Now that we're together?" Carl asks.
"I won't leave you again. I promise you that. Not for anything. Now give me a chance to discuss some things with your mom okay?"
Eva couldn't help but over hear Rick ask Lori if she blamed him for not being in camp.
She heared Lori tell him that neither Rick or Shane were entirely wrong.
"Figures sense she wants to agree with her lover but wants to make her husband happy." She thinks as she curls up in a ball.
Daryl climbs into the truck "We need to talk." He mumbles.
Eva sits up "Yes we do."
"Look, back at the lake...I'm..." He bites his lip his head lowered "I'm sorry, I know you need me...just ain't you know I ain't good with this."
Eva nods slowly taking his hand, he jumps a little but looks at her.
"I know Daryl, I know we'll take it slowl like we did when we started off as friends. This isn't going to be easy, but I want you to know I love you damn it! I won't leave or run away from you EVER." She leans in and kisses his cheek softly.
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Getting back to camp both Daryl and Eva start packing up, though Daryl lets her back the clothes but not the tent or the bike.
She smiles at him sofly while his back is turned.
But she could sense another pair of eyes on him, she looks up to see Carol stairing.
Eva glares at the woman, she stands and walks up to Daryl "Hey I'm thirsty I'm gunna see if Morelas have any water."
Daryl stands shakeing his head "Naw don't got to, got a canteen come here."
Taking her hand he walks her to the truck and grabs the can.
Smiling Eva looks around then kisses his cheek "Thanks."
Siping she gasps spitting the water out she looks at her stomach.
"What? Whats wrong?" Daryl asks alarmed.
"I...I think I felt the baby." She drops the can and puts her hand to her stomach.
Her eyes widen as she feels him or her kick, grabing Daryl's hand She looks at him.
His eyes widen "That's...that's the baby?" Eva giggles and smiles.
"Yes, yes it is! The baby!" Daryl gives a small smile and kneels infront of her.
"Hey rugrat, what ya doin kickin ya ma for?" He whispers to her stomach.
Eva smiling a tear falls down her cheek as he gently rubs her abdoman.
Daryl looks up "That's my boy or girl?" She nods wiping her tears.
"Their going to be a hunter like their father." She whispers "I can feel it."
Daryl nods and smirks "Damn right they are."
Eva giggles as Daryl grabs the canteen wiping the drit off "I'll go refill it relax a bit while I'm gone."
Eva nods as she watches him walk away, Eva tilts her head looking at his ass.
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Rick, Shane, and Dale decided to do a sweep the area.
Shane had made an argument that no one is going to want to go to the C.D.C.
Rick had a feeling his wife had been cheating on him, but Lori hadn't said anything.
"I got to do what's best for my family." Rick tells him as he turns.
"Best for your family? What's that? Exposing them to all kinds of risks?" Shane asks
"As opposed to what? Crossing a hundred miles of hostile territory?" Rick agrues back "If we're looking for a lifeline, I say swim toward the closest ship, not further out to sea."
Rick sighs as he walks toword Shane "Why can't you back me up?"
"Look, I want to. It's just...I don't see it." Shane lags behind.
"If it was your family, you'd feel differently. Besides Eva is pregnant, her and Daryl need a place where they can have the baby." Rick tell him.
"What did you say to me?" Shane walks up to Rick "Man fuck those hicks!"
"Besides I Kept'em safe, man. I looked after them like they were my own. That's what I did." Shane said diffending himself.
"I didn't mean it that way." Rick tells him trying defuse the situation.
"Well, how'd you mean it? Go on, man. How'd you mean it?"
Rick knew he led Shane into a small trap, him and Lori had done something and neither were talking.
"You're misintreting me. You're just hearing it wrong." He decided to push Shane a little, try and bait him.
"Look, you know...you know I can never repay that debt, okay?" There was a branch snap and that ended the talking.
Both men looking different ways, they split up.
Eva walks through the woods her pistol out, Lori wanted her look for Rick.
Sense the bitch didn't want to look for herself she had to send her.
She stopped when Rick's shot gun pointed right at her.
"Eva? Eva what...what are you doing out here? Here's Daryl?" She blinks a bit then looks at her boots.
"Lori wanted someone to look for you, Dale, and Shane. Daryl went to get water when she asked me." She mummbles feeling embarressed.
Rick shook his head and gives the tiny woman a smile "You know he's going to be mad Darlin'."
Eva nods as she looks up into his eyes, she blushes and looks back down once more.
"I know...It was stupid of me, I should have told her to shove offence" Rick chucckles as he walks closer.
"None taken, I heared your baby kicked for the first time."
Eva looks up and smiles "Yeah, should have seen Daryl's face I've never seen it light up he did."
Rick nods looking down at the frail woman "He's not...he has a hard time showing his feelings. But I've been trying to get him to open up."
He nods "That's good, that means your strong; or at least trying to be. Is that why you looked sad back at the funeral?"
Eva nods "We...we made out. Guess the gun shot from Andrea pulled us back."
Looking down she felt uncomfertable, she never had anyone to talk to.
Rick places a gentel hand on her shoulder "If you ever, need someone to talk to. You can come to me."
Eva looks up and smiles "Thanks Rick, I'd like that."
They both heared Shane hollar for them to come on.
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As Eva walked out of the woods beside Rick, Daryl some over.
"They hell ya been? Go to get water and find ya gone!" He says grabing her arm lightly but to other's it looked like he was gripping her hard.
Eva turns her head nods to Lori "She wanted someone to get Rick, I told her I wasn't doing it...but she made me anyway." She whispers turning her head back to him.
Daryl glares "and ya listened? You're pregnant! I don't need ya goin after someone else's man, or to do whatever the hell they want!"
Eva nods and gives him a small smile, she knew he was just worried.
"I'm sorry babe it wont happen again." She rubs his other arm.
"Damn straight it wont, he Olive Oil ya want ya husband go after him yurself. my girl don't need to be running around. She need rest!" He tells her off.
Lori looked from Daryl to Eva and back, Rick nods walking up to her.
"Daryl's right Eva's pregnant she don't need to be walking these woods." Lori glares at her husband and walks off.
Daryl looks at Rick nods his thanks, he stears Eva to a picknic chair and has her sit.
Shane walks up to the campfire and starts in saying Rick may or may not be right.
That they all should stick together, Eva kind of drowned him her eyes droop.
Daryl looks down putting on hand on her shoulder he begins to rub it slowly enough to lawl her to sleep.
Rick couldn't help watch what Daryl was doing, for some reason it was turning him on.
He adjusts himself descreatly, he didn't want to think about Eva in that way. Now Daryl was in the picture?
Something about this the way he felt wasn't right, he needs to focus on his family.
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The next morning everyone had brocken camp down, Daryl had put Eva in the Dodge.
Eva watched out the window, Merelas was leaving and Daryl looked pissed.
She saw Rick and Shane hand the father a .357 and one box of ammo.
Well it didn't surpirse her that would be the reason Daryl was pissed.
He was only thinking of them and the group, he;s a good man like that weather anyone saw it or not.
Daryl cimbs in and starts the truck, Eva looks at him and he looks back.
She slowly grabs his hand "Things will be alright. I have faith that you'll get us through. I love you Daryl so much."
He looks at her and nods squeezing her hand as he starts fallowing the rest of the group.
Eva was in and out of sleep, she was uncomfertable and it didn't help that the baby was kicking alot.
Daryl looks over at her "What's the matter?"
She shakes her head "Baby is ressless. I think that's supposed to happen. I don't know I wish I had a pregnancy book."
Daryl nods "When we get to this place lets hope they got some."
Eva agrees as she finnaly falls asleep.
Daryl looks at her, he gently pulls her head to his lap.
She sighs and curls up, he gives a small smile as he plays with her hair.
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Waking from her nap she finds they had stopped on the side of the road.
She streatches and climbs out, Daryl and Rick look up before looking back at the smoking RV.
Eva walks up to them "What's going on?"
Dale looks at her "The gas pip blew."
Eva nods and look at Daryl "You think you can help it?"
He should his head "Naw not without a new one."
Rick sighs putting his hat back on "Can you jury-rig it?"
"That's all it's been so far. It's more duct tape then hose. and I'm out of duck tape."
Shane points out a gas station when Jaci comes out panicked.
She says Jim is bad, Eva looks at Daryl who signals her to come to him.
Eva fallows and stands beside him.
Rick comes back out telling them that Jim wants to be left behind.
"and he's lucid?" Carol asks.
Rick nods "He seems to be. I would say yes."
"Back at camp when I said Daryl and Eva might be right and you shut me down, you misunderstood. I would never go along with callously killing a man. I was just going to suggest that we ask Jim what he wants. and I think we have an answer." Dale says speaking for the sick man.
Eva moved from one foot to the other, she stood between Daryl and Rick her head down.
Shane shakes his head "We just leave him here? Take off? Man I'm not sure I can live with that."
Finnaly speaking some truth Lori puts in that it was none of their calls that it was Jim's.
Rick and Shane took Jim from the RV and walked up a hill.
Her and Daryl stood behind as everyone said their good byes.
Daryl took Eva's hand and squeezed, once people passed by both couples look up.
"Protect her, look after her and you're little one Daryl." Daryl nods to him.
Eva wipes her eyes "God speed Jim." She whispers before turning and walking away before Daryl.
Daryl helps Eva in the car he looks around before kissing her softly on the cheek.
She smiles at him as he closes his door and comes around.
Starting up the truck they fallow the caravan once more.
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The caravan finnaly stoped outside the C.D.C.
Daryl looks at Eva "Stay beside me, this doesn't look right.
Eva nods as they climb out Daryl jogs around slowly grabing her hand.
He holds his cross bow up, the place seemed dead and not the walking around dead type, just dead.
Eva tried not to throw up the smell of rotting corpes was killing her.
Daryl pulls out his bandana and gives it to her "Cover you're mouth Lil' mama don't need ya getting sick."
Eva nods covering her nose she breaths out her mouth.
It was getting better the farther they went towored the building.
Eva clung to Daryl's shirt whimmpering, Daryl quietly shusshed her as he looked around making sure none of the dead were going to get up and walk.
Panic filled them seeing the shutters down, Daryl yells walker's to get everyone's attention.
Eva grabs her pistol, fear seeped through every poor of her body.
She looks at Daryl who pulls her beside him.
He walks up to one that was getting close and shoots it.
Carol was freaking out and making more noise.
"Carol hush your gunna cause more to come near." Eva hisses.
"She's just scared." Lori whispers harshly back.
"Yeah so is the rest of the group." Eva glares.
Daryl turns back around and stomps towored Rick "You led us into a grave yard!"
"He made a call." Shane yells at him.
"It's the wrong damn call! My wife is gonna die if we don't make it out!" Daryl yells.
"Shut up. You hear me? Shut up, shut up!" Shane pushes Daryl but Eva gets in the way and pushes Shane back.
"Get you hands off my husband, you bastard!"
Shane gets in her face before turning to Rick "Rick this is a dead end you hear me? No blame."
Carol sobs asking where they were going to go, that woman was pissing Eva off.
Shane suggests Fort Benning, Eva walks over to Daryl "The forest, Daryl. We promised Merle, we can still go back."
He looks at her Daryl was half tempted, if these people couldn't keep his family safe.
Daryl was the only one who could, and he knew the woods better then these pricks.
Daryl grabs Eva ready to head back to the truck, he decided to stay with them safety in numbers.
Rick could see the camera move and everyone stopped, Eva looked at him as if he was crazy.
Rick started yelling pleading to the camera banging on the shutter.
Eva looks at Daryl, fright was in her eyes Daryl nods holding her close his eyes on the dead before him.
Just as they were about to leave Eva heared the shutters move up, she turns stopping Daryl in his tracks.