Save Me, Save You
Disclaimer: I do not own The Walking Dead or the characters except my own! The rest is all AMC!
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: F*kin Perfect by: P!nk
Chapter 17: An Old Friend or Traitor?
Daryl had talked to Jasmine after they woke up but she didn't want to talk to him.
"She'll come around; she's not talking to me either." Daryl looks up and nods.
He and Glenn had gotten in a fight over Merle staying again, Daryl walked away and Kathryn yelled in Glenn's face.
"You are not doing that to him, me, or my children! Not again, so you can take whatever stick is shoved up your ass and shove it higher!" She hisses and pushes past him.
Daryl looks at his wife seeing her pissed as Carol walks in. "Didn't get a chance to welcome you back."
Daryl looks at her. "To what? This? Should have taken Kathryn and the kids."
Carol sighs as she sits in a chair."This is our home."
Daryl looks at her pointing to the walls of the cell. "This is a tomb."
Carol nods saying T-dog called it that as well.
"Thought he was right till you found me." Daryl gives her a tiny smile, his eyes still on his seething wife. "He's your brother, but he's not good for you. You have a wife and children to protect now. You can't run away from that, after all look how far you've come."
Kathryn looks up at that a smile spreads across her face as Daryl agrees.
WD~WD~WD~WD
Kathryn decided that day she was going to have Jasmine talk to her father.
She also decided she was going to talk to Merle.
As she was making her way out of the cell block, she saw Jasmine standing in front of Merle.
"Your my uncle Merle aren't you?" The four year old asks.
Merle looks down at her "Who are you?"
Jasmine looks at him, studying him. "Jasmine Dixon, but daddy calls me Half pint."
Merle stairs at the small child. "Carl says you're a bad man, you don't look like a bad man."
Merle lets out a horse laugh "Well thank ya Lil' Flower but he's right."
Jasmine shook her head. "That's what they thought about daddy but he's not mean."
Merle stares, wishing she would just leave, he was getting uncomfortable.
Kathryn walks over. "Jasmine sweetie, go see your daddy, you two need to talk."
Jasmine turns to talk back but her mother shakes her head. "Now young lady."
The four year old huffs and stomps away.
Kathryn looks at Merle. "Look I want to say...thank you for bringing him back. I know coming here tough."
Merle scoffs. "He wanted to come back, it wasn't me sweet cheeks. Dunno what you did to him."
He stops talking and looked uncomfortable "Didn't do anything Merle just showed him love."
Snorting he stands. "Hate to break it to ya but no one shows us Dixon's any love."
She shakes her head. "Because you both hadn't felt it doesn't mean it's not there. Look, I want to say let's forgive and forget this shit between us, we're family."
Merle stares at her and nods. "Ok Sweet cheeks bygones."
Kathryn smiles. "Bygones." She shakes his hand as he walks out of his cell.
Carl comes running inside yelling for his father. "Andrea is outside!"
Kathryn's eyes wide what if He was with her? Daryl, Merle, Beth, and Michonne run past.
Daryl grabs a gun and yells Kathryn's name. She turns in time to grab the gun.
"No time to be scared Darlin." She nods at him and rushes out with them.
Kathryn stays behind Daryl as they go in formation.
Merle run's to the next car when Rick tells "clear!" He yells.
Rick yells at Andrea. "Are you alone?!"
"Open the gate!" She demands.
But Rick asks her the same question again.
He opens the gate yelling at her to put her hands above her head.
Kathryn kept her gun trained on the blond, her eyes going stone cold.
Rick pulls the blond to her knees searching her.
Andrea confirms she's alone as Rick helps her up.
Everyone lowers their gun and walks back into the cell block; Kathryn gives her gun to Daryl.
What the hell was this bitch doing here?
Her mother greets Andrea hugging her, Kathryn rolls her eyes and stands by her husband.
"After you saved me, we thought you were dead." Her mother told Andrea.
Daryl takes a seat on a table top putting Kathryn between his legs, he hugs her waist as she leans into him.
Andrea looks at Hershel. "My god. I can't believe all this. Where's Shane?"
Everyone looks away, Kathryn takes one of Daryl's hand in her own.
"And Lori?" She asks, Rick looks at the floor as her father answers.
"She had a girl, Lori didn't survive. Kathryn and Daryl had their fraternal twins on the road boy and girl."
"T-dog didn't make it." Maggie said from one side of the room.
"I'm so sorry, but congratulations you two." Kathryn doesn't look at her.
She tries to console Rick and Carl but they don't say anything.
"You all live here? Kathryn, Daryl you're together?" She asks.
"Here in this cell block." Glen says.
"Daryl and I are married." Kathryn mummers, Daryl squeezes her waist.
Andrea asks if she could go in, Daryl sits up straighter as Rick stops her.
"I'm not an enemy Rick." Kathryn snorts mumbling "Could have fooled us."
"We had that field, court yard, till your boyfriend tore down the fence and shot at us up." Rick told her.
"He said you fired first." Andrea tells him, Kathryn gets pissed and stood up.
"I was in those fields you stupid bitch! I was holding my babies! Their grandfather was with me!" Kathryn yells getting in her face "If I hadn't covered them at the last second we could have died!"
Daryl grabs Kathryn's waist, hauling her away from the blond "Calm down, easy, shh."
Daryl holds his wife as Rick nods. "He's lying."
"He killed an inmate who survived in here." Her father says and Daryl followed up with "and we liked him he was one of us."
Andrea looks at Daryl shaking her head. "I didn't know anything about that. As soon as I found out I came."
She turns to Glenn. "I didn't even know you were in Woodbury until after the shootout."
"That was days ago." Glenn told her. "I told you I came as soon as I could."
Kathryn rolls her eyes, pissed as Andrea turns to Michonne. "What have you told them?"
Michonne walks to Daryl and Kathryn. "Nothing." She tells her.
Andrea starts looking at them all. "I don't get it? I left Atlanta with you people except Kathryn and I'm the odd man out?"
Glenn tells her that he almost killed Michonne and would have killed them.
"With his help!" Andrea yells pointing to Merle.
"Yea, but it wasn't Merle, who raped and beat the hell out of me! Merle is family!" Kathryn yells, Daryl and Machonne hold her back.
"I'm sorry for what happened to you Kathryn, but I can't excuse or explained what Philip has done. But I'm here trying, to bring us together. We have to work this out." Andrea pleads.
"Oh that's bullshit! There's nothing to work out! The man almost killed me twice along with my babies!" Kathryn yells "He's a fucking pyscho!"
Daryl pulls her away. "Kat, Kat look at me, ignore her, ignore her."
Tears of rage seep through as Daryl pulls her against him her head lays on his chest.
Rick looks at the couple then back at Andrea. "We're gonna kill him, I don't know how, or when but we will."
Andrea shakes her head. "We can settle this; there is room at Woodbury for, for all of you."
"I am not going back to that hell and I'm not taking my kids!" Kathryn yells.
Merle scoffs. "You know better than that, I have to agree with my sister-in-law. I made a mistake, I ain't taken my family to that place. I die for them first."
Daryl and Kathryn look at Merle as he nods to them; Kathryn gives him a small teary smile.
"What makes you think this man wants to negotiate? Did he say that?" Her father asks.
Andrea shakes her head no as Rick asks why she came.
"Because he's gearing up for war, those people see you as killers." Andrea tells them "Their training to attack."
Daryl looks at Andrea as he keeps his hold on his wife "Tell you what. Next time you see Phillip, tell "I'll take his other eye" he hurt my wife and daughter. Asshole is going down hard."
Glenn nods. "We've taken too much shit for too long. He wants a war he's got one."
Kathryn nods. "I'm going to be right behind Daryl cutting his fucking balls off and shoving them up his ass."
Andrea glares at her then Rick. "Rick if you don't sit down and try to work this out. I don't know what's going to happen. He has a whole town." She looks at everyone. "Look at you, you've lost so much already. You can't stand alone anymore."
Kathryn snorts scoffing. "Right and who's going to save us? You're fucking rapist boyfriend?! I rather kiss a walker then ask him for help."
Rick steps up to her. "You wanna make this right? Then get us inside."
Andrea shakes her, head telling him that there are innocent people.
Rick walks away as Kathryn glares daggers "You're lucky I don't kill you."
Andrea's eyes widen in shock as Daryl buts in. "Yer lucky I don't let her go."
The blond walks away Michonne following after.
Kathryn sighs as Daryl lets her go. "Ya ok cool?" She nods as she wipes her eyes.
"She just doesn't get it Daryl...why?" Daryl hugs her again "Dunno Lil' mama Dunno."
Carol walks up to her daughter. "Why don't you go feed the babies, they need their mother."
Kathryn nods as she kisses Daryl softly before limping off to their cell.
WD~WD~WD~WD
Kathryn had put the babies down for a nap; she knew Andrea was still around.
She wasn't up to talking to the blond though her mother was being friendly.
She heard them talking on the perch "Lori died, C-section. Carl had to...T-dog saved me."
Andrea asks about Shane, man this woman was obsessed with crazy men!
"Rick killed him, the night we left the farm. The whole Randell thing was a lie, Shane tried to kill Rick." Her mother told the blond.
"Shane loved Rick." Her mother sighs. "Shane loved Lori."
"Rick's become cold unsteady, so has Kathryn."
"He has his reasons so does Kat. The Governor he...he was her old Master when this whole thing started. You need to do something." Her mother tells her.
She tells her mom she was, but her mother says. "Sleep with him, give him the time of his life. When he's asleep you could end this." Carol whispers. "Please Kathryn has nightmares...Daryl tries, but unless that man is dead..."
WD~WD~WD~WD
Soon after the conversation it was time for Andrea to go and Kathryn couldn't be happier.
Glenn pulls up in an old highway state patrol car, everyone stands outside guns in hand.
Andrea looks around at them all Daryl nods to her; Kathryn gives her a cold stare.
Rick gives Andrea a pocket knife and hand gun. "Waist of ammo." She mummers.
Everyone follows her to the gate, Merle runs along to open it.
Merle closes and locks it, kicking the gate. Kathryn smirks. "If you want to play kick the can let me know."
Merle chuckles putting his uncut arm around her shoulder.
That night no one could sleep; Daryl and Kathryn quietly made love in their cell.
For them the silence still didn't sit well them, they had gotten dressed over an hour ago.
Beth had started singing when the couple came out of their cell.
Daryl wraps his arm around her waist as they stood by her father; Rick comes down the steps with baby Judith.
"Some reunion, huh?" Kathryn silently scoffs at what her husband asks.
Rick looks at them. "She's in a jam."
"We all are Andreas persuasive. This fella is arm to the teeth destructive." Her father confirms.
Daryl stands up straighter. "So what do ya wanna do?" He asks Rick.
Rick tells them he's going on a run, that he wants Daryl and Kathryn to stay.
They agreed that night that Michonne and Carl would go with him.