Save Me, Save You
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summary: twenty-nine year old Kathryn Smith and her daughter three year old Jasmine have been on their own until they meet the Atlanta group on the highway. both mother and daughter carry with them a scared and frightening past but Kathryn is also carrying with her something more. Enter Daryl Dixon Hunter, tracker, and all around bad ass as well carries a dark past can they both save each other or will someone or something tear them apart?
Theme song: Need You Now by: Lady Antebellum
Chapter 13 part 2: Survivors and Threat from Within
Kathryn paced back and forth near the door. She had just fed the twins and put them down for a proper nap.
It had been hours since the men had left; Carol sighs and puts a hand on her daughter's shoulder.
"It'll be ok, their coming back I promise." She assured.
Kathryn nods biting her lower lip. "I know, still can't help but worry."
Carol gives her a sad smile.
Not ten minutes after her mother walks away she hears clanging.
Rick yells for Carl to open the door, Kathryn yells for Carl as she moves out of the way.
Kathryn bites down her fear, hoping Daryl was ok.
Her eyes widen at the site of her bloody father. "Oh God." She whispers as Beth yells.
Looking around she sees that Daryl isn't with them.
She follows T-dog as she closes the door behind her.
Kathryn heard a man talking back to Daryl as she and T walk around the corner. "Ya ain't comin in neither!" T-dog yells pulling out his gun.
Daryl looks over to the man then at his wife; she looks to him. "I had to know if you were ok." She says as she walks over to Daryl.
A man with tattoos whistles her way. "Well hello mamacita." He says out loud.
Daryl growls/ "Don't talk ta her! Kat get behind me!" Kathryn nods as she pulls out her gun.
There was no way she was becoming a victim again.
"This is my house, my rules I can go anywhere I damn near please!" Tattoo man yells.
The shouting gets louder and Kathryn gets anxious, as Daryl tries to keep her out of site of the Mexican convict.
Rick finally comes out saying there was no need for the fighting.
The Mexican looks at Rick. "How many of you in there?" He asks.
"Too many for you to count." He counters back.
The Mexican asks why they couldn't go to a hospital.
Rick looks at Daryl and T.
"Daryl take Kat back to the cell block." Rick finally tells him.
Daryl nods. "Come on." He tells her, grabbing her elbow.
Kathryn knew she was in trouble with her husband. "Look Daryl, I'm sorry I didn't know. I just wanted to make sure you were ok."
Daryl stops at the gate banging on it. "S'ok, just wait for me in there." Kat sighs and nods.
"OK, I love you." He leans in as Carl unlocks the cell. "Love you too, stay inside!"
She nods walking back into the cell, Carl locks it behind her.
She walks up to Beth. "How's dad doing?" She whispers.
Beth turns and hugs her crying into her chest.
Carol looks up at Kathryn. "We won't know yet until the bleeding stops."
She leads Beth and Jasmine upstairs to the babies; all three of them play with the infants.
She heard the doors open and Kathryn peers out, she hears Carl ask what they have.
"Can corn, can beans, can can. There's more food coming."
Kathryn smiles "Is Daryl ok?"
T looks up and smiles. "Don't worry your prudy little head there, your man is fine!" He hollers back to her.
Kathryn smiles as she nurses Chrissi, Joe was sleeping on the bed.
She looks at the male infant; she couldn't help but notice how much he looked like HIM.
Kathryn shakes her head, she couldn't think like that. The babies are her's and Daryl's.
It's not like she was going to bump into him again, she prayed.
WD~WD~WD~WD
Kathryn ran down the steps when she heard the men return.
Daryl looks up and opens his arms out, she jumps into him as they hug each other.
That's when Hershel wakes up, Beth, Maggie, and Jasmine cheer.
Kathryn smiles as she hugs Daryl to her.
WD~WD~WD~WD
Kathryn smiles as she wakes up, Daryl had left early with her mother, Rick,and T-dog.
She hears the twins cooing down stairs, both Beth and Jasmine giggling.
Getting dressed she walks down the stairs. "Hey you two, how are the babies?"
Beth and Jass look up and smile. "Good, we're trying to teach them how to talk."
Kathryn smiles at Jass "Well they won't be doing that until they're a year old."
Jasmine pouts as her mother giggles. "But you can keep trying."
Kathryn took Joe when Lori and Beth went to look for crutches.
Once they came back, the three of them including Carl helped Hershel.
Once he made it outside is cell, Lori asked if he wanted to stop to which he answered "Let's take a little stroll."
WD~WD~WD~WD
Kathryn smiled as the babies coos grew louder as they walked the halls.
Lori opened the door; she got in front of her father, Beth in back.
They smiled as Hershel hops along.
Carl looks at the older man. "Ready to race Hershel?"
Hershel smiles at Carl. "Give me another day, I'll take ya on."
Kathryn turns the corner and sees Daryl on the other side of the fence.
She turns Joe around so he is sitting on her arm.
She points across the way. "Look there's daddy, wave to daddy Joe."
Joe coos happily as Kathryn takes his little chubby arm and waves it.
Silence, except the babies cooing seems to come around the prison, until Carl turns and holds his gun up pushing Jasmine behind him.
"Hershel!" He yells.
Kathryn turns but doesn't screams and grabs Beth's arm as she holds onto her baby boy. Both Rick and Daryl yell at their significant others.
Kathryn runs to Hershel and Beth, her father grabs her arm hauling her up.
She turns to help him when Beth yells that there are walkers behind him.
Kathryn yells for Beth to take Joe, she pulls her pistol out of the waist of her pants.
Hershel takes his crutches and pushes the walkers back down the stairs.
Kathryn turns to look out when she sees Carl take a hold on Jasmine and Jasmine holding Chrissi.
She watches as they run with Lori and Maggie, Kathryn sighs in relief knowing her babies were safe with them.
Hershel lays a gentle hand on Kathryn's shoulder. "They'll be ok, just worry about Joe."
Kathryn nods and smiles at her father and nods as she watches Daryl take down a walker.
Ricks asks were Lori and Carl had gone. Hershel told him they were with Jasmine and Chrissi, Beth put in that T was bit but didn't know where he or Carol went.
Kathryn stood frozen, her mother was missing?
Daryl looks up at her pointing at her. "Stay there and take care of Joe, I'll find Jasmine and Chrissi."
Kathryn nods. "Be safe!"
Daryl looks back nodding, before alarms went off and Joe started to cry.
Kathryn looks around holding her gun. She turns. "Beth swap, take my gun and I'll take Joe."
Beth nods doing so.
Kathryn holds her crying infant, rocking him trying to calm him.
WD~WD~WD~WD
Kathryn bites her lip wondering where everyone was at.
She holds Joe close and feels she couldn't cry, but not until she knew her babies were safe.
Kathryn walks back and forth rocking her child who was already asleep.
They had to be back by now. "Daddy where are they?"
Her father looks at her. "They'll be back, it'll be ok sweetheart."
Kathryn sighs when she sees the men run out.
Daryl runs to her, hugging both his wife and child.
"Darlin where's Jasmine and Chrissi?" Kathryn blinks
"I don't know...I don't know where she is. They're supposed to be with Carl, Maggie, and Lori." She panics.
Until they hear two babies cooing, both adults look up to see Carl, Maggie, Jasmine and two babies, one Chrissi and the other...
"Oh God...Lori..." She whispers, one of Kathryn's hands goes to her mouth as Jasmine runs to her parents.
Daryl holds the four year old and his wife close as she cries into his shoulder.