Daryl lay back on his bed wondering what the fuck was going on. He had a towel wrapped around his waist having just taken a shower. His head was spinning, he couldn't help it. This whole situation was crazy. Totally crazy. Insane! He had a kid, he almost had her but Merle and Rick had her, they got her first.

What the hell did he just do?

What the hell was he thinking. Did both of them really just take Carol like that, and she seemed to enjoy it. Daryl run his hands through his hair thinking about it. Did he really just have sex, standing up in the kitchen with her riding him and not only that she was riding Rick too. Then Rick told him that Carol was in charge and never to talk about sex with Merle.

He never talked about sex with Merle anyway!

He lay back thinking about he actually wasn't too bothered seeing Rick touching her while he was touching her. As long as he was touching her. He wasn't sure how all this was working. She let him in, Rick let him in, would Merle let him in?

Daryl looked around the room looking for something to do to keep his mind off things. There was nothing, wrapped in a towel he walked down the hall to the lounge looking on the book shelves picking up a stack of baby photo albums. He took them and wandered back to the room he was staying in. He could hear Merle and Rick snoring in their bedrooms, he thought Carol was sleeping with Rick in his room. He climbed into the bed. He noticed that Carol must have made his bed.

He pulled back the sheets and climbed into the bed. He opened the first album to reveal a picture of a heavily pregnant Carol. Daryl nipped at his thumb as he moved his gaze from photo to photo. Moving through till he saw a pic of a sweaty Carol having a baby. There was a picture of a tiny mucky baby cuddled up against Carols chest. He run his finger across some of the photos.

There was a knock at his door, he pulled his sheets up to cover himself, he was naked in the bed having dropped his towel on the floor, and was covered to his waist.

'Yeah?' Daryl called quietly. Carol pushed the door open, she stood there wearing a tee shirt and a pair of panties, she slipped in the door.

'Can I come in?' Carol asked.

'Always,' Daryl moved slightly making room for her on the bed, starting to put away what he had spread out.

'Don't, you can look through them,' She put her hand on his arm. 'I wanted to check you were ok with what happened tonight?'

'Your checking if I'm ok?' Daryl chuckled a little, then blushed bright red. 'Are you ok, we were ummmm a bit rough at the end.'

'I'm ok, I mean I haven't forgiven you,' Carol looked at him in the eye, then moved to the next photo page, 'He looked just like you, I looked at him and he was giving me the evil eye.'

'You haven't forgiven me. So you punished me by having amazing sex in the kitchen?' Daryl asked her.

'Hmmmmm Maybe,' Carol told him.

'Carol, if I could change things, I felt sick that night, I put a hole in the wall,' Daryl glanced at her.

'Daryl that night, I wasn't scared. I just stopped talking so you could work it all out. Shit Merle punched a hole in the wall at the work shop when he was mad about something, one day, I saw Rick beating the shit out of the punching bag in the garage till he couldn't lift his arms. We all get mad, and upset some times,' Carol told him.

Daryl looked at her watching her sitting cross legged on the bed flicking through the albums smiling at the pictures of a baby that Daryl never met.

'You weren't mad at me that night, even though I hit the wall?' He asked.

'No, I was gone because I had an exam, you knew that, I told you,' Carol told him

'If I had of stayed would you be doing all this with the others?' Daryl asked.

'No you were enough, I always only only wanted you. You left, some bad things happened, Merle and Rick, they stepped up. Helped me. I fell in love with them. Even though your here now, its too late,' Carol looked him in the eye.

'You don't think you ever going to stop being with both of them?' Daryl asked her.

'No, not unless they don't want to be in it anymore,' Carol told him.

'Do you love one more than the other?' Daryl asked.

'Depends, who's pissing me off the most. Or what time of the month it is,' Carol told him.

'Yeah I remember that, your a bitch,' Daryl smirked.

'I am not,'

'So how are we doing this? How are you planning on fitting me in?' Daryl asked.

'Don't know, I hadn't really thought about it. Maybe I will just use you for sex. Or helping clean out the car and stuff, I don't know how I'm going to fit you in.'

'Sounds awesome,' Daryl told her.

'Daryl just so you know, we don't usually do that,' Carol told him.

'Do what?'

'That, like me and both of them, I don't have sex with both of them at the same time, tonight was a first time for me,' Carol admitted.

'Me too,' Daryl looked at him.

Carol put the albums on the dresser and Daryl tugged her to his chest.

'I'm so sorry, sorry I didn't ring, or do anything, I'm so god damn sorry about everything,' Daryl said.

'I know, stop saying it, show me how sorry you are,' Carol said,

'Now?'

'Not sex Daryl, but put some effort in, with me and your son,' Carol said.

'He sat with me watched a movie,' Daryl told her,

'I saw,' He hugged her tighter bringing his lips to hers kissing and exploring her body, he made slow gentle love to her in the still of the still of the night. They cuddled and talked quietly after. Once Daryl fell asleep Carol left moving back to Rick's bed, knowing he would be pissed if she wasn't there when he woke up.