Summary: When Rick and Daryl along with the group arrive at the Greene farm, they aren't expecting to bump into two familiar young who have pasts with them. Daryl and Bailey Greene find that their feelings have changed for each other but with Bailey carrying a painful secret, can Daryl mend her heart. Rick reunites with his old friend Anna who changes his and Carl's world for the better. Rick/OC, Daryl/OC, Merle/Beth, Glenn/Maggie, Carl/Sophia. Co- Written With NadWri.
Somebody To Die For
Chapter 3
"What the hell?" Rick muttered as he picked them up and looked at them. There was a positive pregnancy test, along with morning after pills and vitamins. He felt anger inside him, as he rushed back outside and looked around for Lori. She was over with Carl at the shooting range, and Rick hurried over, looking at Lori as she saw him, her face worried. "We need to talk," he said flatly.
Lori knew that Rick had found the pregnancy test along with the morning after pills; she silently followed him into the house as the others watched them go.
"Reckon he knows about Shane and Lori?" Bailey asked Daryl as they had a break and Andrea sat beside them.
"What about Shane and Lori?" Andrea asked quietly, as she opened an energy bar and bit into it.
"You didn't know?" Bailey asked quietly, wondering how Andrea hadn't heard the news that was going around camp. The gossip spread worse here than in High School. "They're having an affair," she told her, and she seen Andrea's face fall. "Are you alright?"
Andrea sighed and shook her head. "Yeah, I'm fine... I just thought Shane and I had something," she admitted quietly, looking down at the ground.
Bailey gave her arm a gentle rub. "So did Anna when they were dating. He cheated on her with Lori too. Don't blame yourself; it's not your fault. It's Shane's, can't keep the damn thing in his pants it seems."
"I know I just feel bad for Rick and Carl." Andrea said pained for their leader as they finished eating.
"Stick bitch is pregnant." Merle added.
Andrea choked on her bottle of water, "What?" She asked shocked.
"Yeah, that's what the two of them are arguin' about in there, Hershel is tryin' to calm them down," he said bored as he sat down next to them.
Bailey raised her eyebrows as she looked at Daryl. "I'm guessing the test came back positive then," she said quietly, looking out to the grave where her own daughter lay. "Alright for some."
Daryl squeezed her hand tightly and she smiled at him softly, she was glad that she had Daryl with her.
"Shall we continue with the gun training?" Andrea asked and they all nodded.
Everyone got up and started shooting again at the various targets. It was probably going to be a lot harder when they had actual walkers to deal with, but right now everyone seemed pretty good.
"Ya look like some kinda gangster," Daryl smirked as Bailey flipped her gun in her hand and grinned at him.
"You look like a biker." She answered laughing at him as she saw Beth going to the barn and followed after her.
"Beth, I'll do it." She told her cousin.
Beth nodded and looked down. She knew what they were doing was wrong, but it was what her father wanted. "The chickens are in a bucket around the back," she told her, referring to the food they used to feed the walkers. Bailey nodded and headed towards the barn, before Beth went back to the others. Bailey picked up the chickens and went inside the barn, overpowered by the smell of death, as she threw the chickens into the barn for the walkers to eat. Her Uncle Hershel insisted they were fed, so they were healthy when the cure was found.
She sighed and left the building, pausing at the barn door when she heard the moans and groans and thought of her mom and dad in there. Suddenly, she felt something grab her arm, and dropped the bucket to the ground, trying to reach for her knife.
She tried to reach for her knife but it was too far away, the walker started to pull her against the door as she tried to free herself.
"Oh shit." She said kicking her foot at the walker.
She felt a piece of the wood from the barn door dig into her back and before she could stop herself, she let out a yelp of pain. She cursed, someone had surely heard that. She reached out with her foot to try and drag her knife back into her, as she felt the grip on her arm tighten and gasped in fear, waiting on a pair of teeth to just sink into her any second now.
Daryl, Rick and Anna had been talking when they heard Bailey cry out in pain where the barn was and ran towards her when they saw a walker grabbing onto her right arm.
"Shit, Bailey!" Daryl yelled running towards her as he pulled out his knife.
"Oh fuck," Anna mumbled, knowing their secret had been exposed now. They ran as fast as they could behind Daryl to try and catch up with him, hoping it wasn't too late already.
Daryl reached Bailey and slammed his knife into the walkers head, killing it as it released Bailey who crumpled into him.
"Why the fuck do ya have walkers in there?" He asked calmly.
Bailey was breathing heavily as she leaned against him and looked at him and Rick with sad eyes. "They're family... please don't kill them."
"That family almost killed you!" Daryl replied as he exchanged a look with Rick and Anna.
"Bailey, Anna they're not yer family anymore. They're dead and they don't recognise you." Daryl said gently and Bailey broke down knowing he was right.
"Oh god, so they're really gone?" She asked pained.
"They're really gone, sweetheart," Daryl said softly as he pulled her into a tight hug and away from the barn, as they all sat down on a log not far away. Rick and Anna exchanged a look, and Anna knew that it meant they had to get the walkers out of there. She wondered how they were going to convince Hershel, though.
Bailey buried her face into Daryl's shirt. "I just thought they'd come back... I want my family back," she said sadly.
"Ya got yer Uncle and yer cousins," he told her, as he stroked her hair gently. He was a little uncomfortable with Rick and Anna here, but he needed to make his best friend feel better. "Ya got yer friends... and ya got me."
She looked up at him and rested her forehead against his for a moment before she gave him a weak smile.
"Thank you I know I have you." She said touching his cheek softly before they got up and headed back to the others.
Rick looked at Anna who was looking upset, "Your parents and brother are in there. Aren't they?" He asked gently.
Anna nodded. "Yeah, they are. Hershel offered to keep them when we got here, but... now I know that isn't them... they're not coming back."
He pulled her into him and simply held her as she cried into his shirt.
"I was a fucking idiot, Rick."
"No... You weren't," he assured her, as he rubbed her back gently. "I thought they could be saved at first too, the first walker I killed I felt awful, because I thought she was still human. I get it."
"Are you going to kill them?" she asked quietly.
"We'll do it right, I'm not gonna have them killed like they're animals." He assured her and they headed to where the others were.
"So you're sleeping with Anna, Rick?" Lori asked angry.
"Oh for god's sake Lori, get over yourself!" Anna spat, standing up. "I'm not the one sleeping around here, no, I'm not having sex with Rick, but you shouldn't care if I was, because you're too busy fucking his best friend!" she fumed, before heading up to her bedroom.
"I told you to stay away from me from now on," Rick said as he glared at his wife or soon to be ex wife if he could help it. "We're done."
"Dad can I stay with you?" Carl asked moving away from Lori.
"Of course you can, son." He said taking Carl into the house as Bailey went to talk to Maggie and Beth.
"Rick, Daryl, Carol, Sophia and Carl know about the walkers in the barn." She said fearing their reactions.
"It's alright B Glenn and Dale knows too." Maggie assured her.
"Does Uncle Hershel know they know?" she asked quietly, knowing that Hershel wasn't going to let their families be killed so easily.
"Not yet but Rick and Dale are going to talk to him the morning." Maggie said upset.
"They're really gone, aren't they?" Beth asked upset.
Bailey nodded. "Yeah, they are," she said sadly as she pulled Beth into a hug. "But we still have each other," she added.
Beth nodded and hugged Bailey tightly as they finished preparing dinner for everyone.
"So have you told Daryl that you love him?" Maggie asked as they went into the living room where they saw Carol give them a sad smile of understanding.
"I'm so sorry for the trouble we've caused." She said ashamed.
Bailey shook her head. "You haven't caused trouble," she assured her. "We've just been holding onto false hope, waiting for a miracle, I guess."
Carol hugged them all tightly, "You just wanted your family back." She said softly as she helped them set the table.
"And to answer your question about me telling Daryl that I love him, I haven't and I'm scared about telling him." Bailey added looking at Maggie.
"Why?" Maggie asked with her eyebrows raised. "It's clear he feels the same way."
Bailey sighed. "Mags, it's been five years since we last spoke properly, I don't think things are the same now."
"You'll see that Daryl loves you." Maggie said giving her a warm smile as they called the others for dinner and they all came in.
They all sat down to the squirrel that Daryl had caught, which Patricia and Maggie had flavoured, and added some vegetables to. Dinner was quiet after the events today; Carl and Rick were staying away from Lori, while Anna and Andrea were glaring at Shane. Glenn tried to break the silence. "Does anyone play guitar? I found one on the highway."
"Otis used to play," Patricia said quietly, and everyone went back into the awkward silence again.
Everyone was quiet after eating dinner and went wash up the plates and cutlery while Shane went on watch with Lori going towards Carl.
"Honey, please don't let your dad poison you against me." She said reaching for him.
"Don't touch me, Lori," he spat back, not even bothering to call her mom. "You hurt dad, I don't even want to hear you trying to explain it. I'm not a kid anymore Lori, you can't expect me to not understand things like this. I know what you're doing with Shane, so why don't you go and continue it?" he snapped, before storming off to play with Sophia, leaving Lori watching after him open mouthed.
She rounded on Anna who was taking a sip of water and slapped her hard across the face making her stumble to the floor.
"YOU RUINED MY FAMILY YOU WHORE!"
"LORI!" Rick roared as he helped Anna to her feet, and pulled her out of the way of Lori. Lucky Hershel wasn't here to see this or they would be out on their asses by now. Poor Anna didn't have anything to do with this, apart from having shown Rick how horrible and what a liar his wife was. "She didn't ruin your family, you ruined your family!" he spat as he looked at her with cold eyes. "Get the hell outta here before I put you out," he said as he watched Lori storm out of the room, and turned to look at Anna, pressing his fingers to her bleeding lip. "Are you OK?" he asked softly.
"I'm fine don't worry." She assured him as he helped her sit down on the sofa and Carl got her a flannel for her lip.
"Is the baby Shane's then, dad?" He asked his father.
Rick nodded. "Yeah, probably," he said with disgust in his voice. "I'm sorry son, you shouldn't have had to find out like that," he said sadly.
"It's not your fault dad; you tried to be a good husband." Carl said leaning against his father and Anna.
"Was he sleeping with Lori, when you found out he was cheating on you?" Rick asked Anna gently.
"He told me yesterday." She said depressed and angry.
"God, it's been going on for so long," Rick said as he clenched his fists and lowered his head. "I should have worked it out sooner, I... fuck," he said quietly, as he buried his face into his hands.
Anna shook her head. "It's not your fault," she said softly. "Why don't you go and get some rest while that... thing... is out on watch?" she suggested softly. It had been a long day; a lie down would do them both good.
He nodded at her and went upstairs with Carl into their room as Anna watched and she buried her face into her hands.
"I am so screwed."
"No, you're not, sweetheart," Carol said softly, as she sat down beside her and handed her a cup of tea. "You just need to give it time, it will all blow over. Its clear Lori wants Shane anyway, and not Rick. You don't have anything to worry about," she assured her.
"Thanks Carol." Anna said moved and sipped the tea and relaxed easily as Daryl and Bailey came in looking annoyed.
"Olive Olyl's havin sex with Robo cop."
"Course she is," Anna mumbled looking disgusted. "It seems to be the only thing she's good at," she spat, her eyes filled with hatred. "I'm going to bed," she said tiredly, knowing tomorrow was going to be another long day, especially if Hershel gave in and allowed the walkers to be released from the barn.
"I think we all should." Dale said quietly and they all headed upstairs to bed with Daryl getting in with Bailey.
"I feel so bad for Rick." Daryl said as they under the quilt.
Bailey nodded in understanding. "It's not his fault his wife is such a whore, especially with his own best friend," she said sadly. "Poor Carl too," she added, not being able to imagine how he must be feeling right now.
"Gotta suck." He said holding her close as they both drifted off to a peaceful sleep.
"Guys... wake up!" Anna hissed as she tried to shake Bailey and Daryl awake. "WAKE UP!" she called much louder this time, and eventually, both of them stirred and looked up at her with worried eyes. She was breathing heavily and her cheeks were flushed from running. "You've gotta come now! Rick and Hershel were discussing the barn this morning and Shane overheard them! He's going crazy, he's going to do something stupid!" she said urgently.
"Shit." Daryl said as they both hurried to get dressed and ran after Anna as they hurried out of the house and saw Shane yelling at Rick and Glenn.
"WE'RE ALL LEAVING!" He yelled enraged.
"You don't tell us what to do!" Rick snapped back, sick of being pushed around by Shane. "You lost the right to do that when you went sneaking around behind my back and slept with my wife. Those walkers have been here a lot longer than we have, and I'm sure as hell not going to let you go in there like some sort of psycho and kill them, you understand me?!" Rick growled.
"No Rick I aint gonna listen to ya anymore, I have Lori and the baby to think about." Shane said and he raised his gun at the barn only to have Bailey trying to pull the gun away.
"STOP, NO!" She yelled at him.
"That's my family in there!" Bailey growled at him as she tried to get the gun out of his hands. She thought about her mother, even although they hadn't gotten on well at times, and her father, she wasn't going to let Shane kill them like they were some kind of wild animals. "Let go!"
"That ain't your family, stupid bitch," Shane spat, as he pulled the gun from her grip, and hit her across the face with it, as everyone else gasped in shock.
Bailey stumbled onto the ground in shock as Carol and Maggie hurried to her, Daryl stormed over to Shane and began to viciously beat the shit outta of him.
"DON'T YA DARE FUCKIN TOUCH HER, YOU SON OF A BITCH!" He snarled at him and punched him across the face.
Merle hurried over to where Daryl was, knowing his brother was about to kill Shane. "Leave it, baby brother, he ain't worth it," he said quietly.
Daryl was breathing heavily as he pulled away from Shane and spat on him as he went to where Bailey was her face was bruised and her lip was bleeding rather badly.
"C'mere." He said softly and pulled her into him as he realised this may have brought back memories of Dave and how he'd beat her up.
"Let's get ya inside," he said, as he held her tightly. He shot Shane one last murderous look as he lifted Bailey's arm around his neck and took her inside, with Anna and Maggie following close behind. Luckily Hershel hadn't seen anything, and they were going to have to try and keep Bailey out of his sight for the time being.
"Here keep this on it." He said placing a cold flannel on her cut lip and she did so as they all sat in the living room.
"Bailey I am so sorry." Rick said feeling angry with Shane.
Bailey gave him a weak smile as Patricia handed her some painkillers she had found in one of the cupboards. "Don't be, Rick, you didn't do anything," she said softly as she stayed close to Daryl. "
"Shane's an ass; you don't need to apologize for him."
"I'll fuckin say." Daryl said as he held her tightly to him and they all simply sat down on the sofas and armchairs when they saw Lori come in looking at Carl.
"Carl give me your gun." She ordered.
"No Lori, I'm not." Carl said pulling his cowboy hat on his head as he glared at her.
Lori looked at Rick, hoping he would back her up, but Rick did nothing more than shake his head at her. "He's old enough now, you can't tell him what to do," he said calmly. "If Carl wants the gun, then Carl can have the gun, simple as that."
Shane came into the sitting room, sporting a black eye, and looked at where Bailey was sitting. "Look, Bailey... what happened... I, I'm sorry. I was just a little worked up, that's all."
"A little worked huh?" She asked sarcastically as she remembered how Dave would apologise for hitting her, slapping her and...
Raping her.
"I need to get out of here." She said hurrying out of the house.
Everyone watched confused as Bailey ran out of the house. Daryl looked at Anna and Maggie, but they both just shook their heads. "Let her go, Daryl," Anna said softly, knowing the memories that would have resurfaced for her. "Just give her some space."
Rick glared at Shane, appalled by his old best friend's behaviour. "Next time you pull a stunt like you did today, you're out of this group."
Shane didn't say anything he just nodded and headed outside to keep guard on the barn as Lori watched him go.
"Bailey brought it on herself losing her baby, by staying with that husband of hers." Lori said disapproving.
"You don't what your talking about, you two faced bitch." Beth snapped.
"Please, what age are you, ten?" Lori asked harshly as she looked at the younger girl. "You don't know anything about men or life," she snapped.
"And you do by sleeping with your husband's best friend before he was shot and then continued it after he came back? You're a selfish woman." Anna said disgusted and headed outside.
Daryl headed outside to go look for Bailey when Anna called out to him.
"She's at the local cemetery." She told him and he nodded in thanks as he went to the graveyard.
Daryl stopped outside the cemetery when he saw Bailey sitting in front of a cross. He paused for a minute, hesitating whether to go in or not, before he slowly walked over to her. He stopped just behind her and looked down at the grave. 'Celia Katherine Greene'. He didn't recognize the name. He looked closer and seen the dates written on it. 'Born Tenth of June, 2012 - Died Tenth of June, 2012," and his heart missed a beat when realization hit him.
Bailey had sensed a presence behind her and knew it was Daryl. She didn't turn around. "Daryl, this is my daughter," she said quietly, without taking her eyes off the grave.
"Bailey I'm so fuckin sorry." He said kneeling down beside her as they both looked at Celia's grave that had wildflowers on it.
"I was going to leave him when I found out I was pregnant with her, but my mother found out and she told him." Bailey said wiping her eyes.
"Bailey, this wasn't ya fault." Daryl said pulling her into him tightly.
"I should have gone, Daryl," she said quietly as she stroked her daughters cross. "I should have packed my bags and gone. I tried, I really did try."
"I know ya did, everyone knows ya tried to leave don't blame yerself for something that wasn't yer fault. Celia wouldn't have wanted ya to blame yerself." He said holding her close.
"She'd want me to be happy." Bailey said knowing in her heart that her daughter would want her to be strong and happy.
She would be strong and she would miss her daughter but she wouldn't wallow in pity.
Daryl made a silent vow to himself that he would make her happy, as she stood up from the grave. She brushed off her jeans, and gave him a small smile. "Shall we go back inside?"
He nodded at her and they walked hand in hand back to the house where the others were and headed inside the house as they saw Lori dragging Carl towards a truck.
"YOU'RE COMING WITH ME!" She screamed at him.
"No I'm not mom." Carl snapped at her as she suddenly slapped him across the face.
"What the hell is going on?" Bailey asked outraged, as she seen Anna running towards Carl and taking him away from Lori, who looked furious. "What was that all about?"
"Bitch and her man want to leave the group," Merle said, looking bored. "Kid doesn't want to go with them."
"Oh god is Carl alright?" She asked looking worried.
"He's pissed off but he's alright." Anna said as she took Carl inside.
"Poor kid," Daryl said quietly as they sat down on a sofa. "It'll be good for him to get rid of them two."
"I feel so bad for him and Carl." Bailey said sadly as they simply sat down next to each other and held hands when they saw Andrea hurry in.
"Has anyone seen Rick?" She asked worried.
"He went out with Hershel and Jimmy to do something, why?" Carol asked worriedly as she stood up from the armchair and held onto Sophia tightly.
Andrea looked alarmed. "It's Shane," she said quickly. And everyone groaned in annoyance. "No, you all need to come quick. He's outside by the barn, he has a crowbar in his hands, and he says he's going to leave us all a going away present. Someone needs to stop him; he's going to open the damn barn!"
"FUCK!" Daryl yelled and they all hurried outside where they saw Shane yelling at Maggie and Glenn as he grabbed the bag of guns and started to toss out guns.
"THESE WALKERS AINT PEOPLE, THEY'RE MONSTERS THEY KILLED AMY, JIM, JACQUI AND THE PEOPLE WE CARE ABOUT!" He yelled enraged.
Everyone looked around desperate to see Rick, to hopefully try and stop Shane. Finally, the former sheriff seemed to come out of nowhere from the trees in the distance. Bailey sighed in relief, but narrowed her eyes when she'd seen what Rick was holding onto. Was that a walker?! What on earth was he doing with a walker? Hershel and Jimmy were there too, both of them with walkers behind them.
Shane was the first person to take action and ran over to the three men, with gun raised and ready to fire. Hershel looked alarmed when he noticed the gun.
"What the hell are you doing?!" Shane yelled, outraged. If it wasn't bad enough Hershel was stupid enough to hang on to these walkers, now he had dragged Rick into it too?
"Shane just back off." Rick yelled at his best friend warningly.
"Why do your people have guns?" Hershel asked annoyed.
"Are you kidding me?" Shane circled around Hershel and Rick pointing at the walkers as if trying to make some sort of point. "You see what they're holding on to?"
"I see who I'm holding onto." Hershel said calmly.
"No man you don't." Shane said with a crazed look in his eyes.
"Shane just let it go." Rick said again trying to calm down his ex best friend. "Let us do this and then we can talk."
"What do you want to talk about Rick?" Shane asked. "These things ain't sick, they're not people, and they're dead. You ain't gotta feel nothin' for them because all they do is kill. These things right here they're the things who killed Amy, they killed Otis and they killed Jim. They're gonna kill all of us if we don't do somethin' about it."
"Shane, stop!" Rick yelled angrily.
"Hey Hershel man let me ask you somethin'." He stopped and pulled his side arm out and aimed it at the walker Hershel had on lead.
"Could a living breathing person walk away from this?" he asked shooting her three times in the chest. "That's three rounds to the chest, someone who's alive could they just take that? Why is it still comin'?" He aimed and shot the walker again twice more. "That's its heart it's lungs, why is it still comin'?" He asked shooting again.
"Enough!" Rick yelled back, pushing his walker away to the side a bit the noise was only agitating them further and making them all the more difficult to control.
"You're right Rick. That is enough!" Shane put one final bullet in the walker, this time making sure that it went straight to the brain, and killed the thing completely. Hershel watched horrified as the walker fell to the ground in front of him, the pole slipping out of his hands. Shane wasn't finished however, and turned his attention onto the banging coming from the barn.
Shane began to hit his fists against the barn door, alerting every walker inside that they were there, their groans and snarling getting louder.
Shane had a wild, insane look in his eyes as he started to open the door.
Shane began walking towards the barn Bailey could hear the devastated sigh coming from Hershel but couldn't bring herself to look away from the spectacle before her, "Enough livin' next to a barn full of things tryin' to kill us! Enough! Rick it ain't like it was before." He pleaded to his best friend. "Now if you all want to live if you want to survive you have to fight for it! I'm talkin' about fightin' right here right now!" Before anyone could stop him he ran towards the barn and started breaking down the barricades.
Rick tried to get someone to take the lead he was holding, "No Shane don't do this! Don't do this brother!" Nobody tried to stop Shane, maybe he was doing what needed to be done but nobody knew how far gone he was. Hershel had completely broken down, was on his knees watching in horror Maggie ran to her father and wrapped her arms around him.
Anna watched horrified as Shane broke down the door releasing the walkers as they swarmed out of the barn like ants.
The walkers flooded out into the field they were all standing in and snarled at them, as T-Dog, Glenn and Daryl began firing at them to try and take them down. They knew Hershel and they girls weren't going to be happy, but if they didn't do something, they were all going to fucking die. One by one, the walkers started to fall to the ground, but there was more coming out than they could shoot at, and they were having trouble keeping up. The girls didn't move, they couldn't, as they saw their family coming towards them.
Anna stood still as she seen her brother and her parents come towards her, her hand was on her gun, but she didn't bother raising it. Bailey froze as her father closed in on her, his teeth snapping, but she couldn't move, as he lunged at her and knocked her to the ground. And Maggie saw her step mother and step brother coming out. She stood up and ran to protect Beth, but when it came to killing them, she couldn't bring herself to doing it. Glenn seemed to notice and whispered an apology to her, before he shot them both in the head.
"BAILEY!" Daryl yelled seeing her go down and he ran towards her as he saw her trying to stop her dad from biting her.
"Daddy, please." She sobbed trying to shove him away from her as he tried to bite at her neck when Daryl reached them.
"Sorry brother." He said pained before shooting him in the back of the head.
Rick had noticed Anna's family closing in on her, and ran to her side, as he stood beside her and pulled her into his arms. "Don't look," he said softly, and she buried her head into his shoulder, as she heard three gunshots going off, before her family fell to the ground in front of them. "I'm so sorry, Anna," he said as she collapsed in his arms. "I'm so, so sorry."
"I'm all alone now, Connor's probably gone too." She sobbed into his shoulder as Carl crouched down beside them and hugged her as well as they saw the aftermath of Shane's actions.
Daryl held Bailey tightly to him as she sobbed into him, Merle was comforting Beth gently and looked upset when they heard growling coming from the barn.
They all looked up, thinking they had killed the last of the walkers, when they saw two more figures stumbling out of the barn.
They heard a small cry escape Andrea which started to turn into a pained sobbing. Did she know these people?
"Mom, dad!" Andrea cried as she started running towards the walkers falling over the pile of bodies that had accumulated. She ran straight into Daryl's path and he managed to let go of Bailey and reach out and grab her, just before she got to her parents, who would no doubt kill her if they had the chance. She broke down crying into him, as the walkers stumbled closer. Rick sighed sadly as he picked up his gun and walked over to them.
"I'm so sorry," he said, before he fired a shot into the head of them both.
They hit the ground with two loud thumps as Bailey moved to where Andrea and Daryl were and held onto them as everyone tried to come to terms with what Shane had done.
He had become a monster.
Andrea got up then she was shaking with barely controlled rage as she stormed to where Shane was and punched him hard across the face.
"YOU BASTARD!"
Hershel seemed to regain life from where he was crouched on the grass, when he noticed his daughters in tears, and got up to his feet. He glared at every one of the group in turn, before turning around and starting towards his house. He dragged Maggie, Patricia, Bailey and Beth along with him. Rick, Daryl, Glenn and Shane began to follow, making an attempt to fix what had just happened. When they reached the porch, Hershel turned to Shane and pushed the man away from him. "Get him off my land!"
Shane was just about to argue what he had done, when Maggie stepped forward and slapped him across the cheek. "Don't touch him! Haven't you done enough?"
"I mean it." Hershel gave them one last look before disappearing into the house. "Off my land." He pulled the girls, his only family left, into the house and closed the door, as they all went their separate ways inside. Bailey looked at her tired Uncle, who sighed quietly. "I need a drink," he muttered, looking for his car keys.
"Then I'm coming with you," Bailey told him. She needed to look after Hershel, not to mention a whisky or five wouldn't be so bad right now.
He nodded at her and they headed off before Bailey saw Daryl and wordlessly hugged him tightly to her.
"Thank you." She said softly touching his cheek before getting into the car with her uncle and they drove off.
"Where are we going?" Bailey asked quietly as she looked out the window of the car, watching all the walkers pass by in the fields.
"We're just going to go into town," Hershel answered, as he glanced at her out of the corner of his eye. "There's a bar there, I'm sure they'll still have plenty of alcohol left. I haven't touched a drop since I recovered, until now," he admitted quietly, ashamed of his alcoholic past.
Bailey shook her head and gave him a sad smile. "It's OK, Uncle Hershel, I don't blame you. We won't talk about this again."
He nodded at her, "I let you, Anna, Beth and Maggie down." He said pained as they pulled up outside the bar and got out.
"You thought there was a cure Uncle Hershel, that wasn't your fault." She assured him as they headed inside the bar.