'Dat Fuck!' Daryl sat up quickly in the bed. He bore the full impact of his son landing on his chest jumping up and down on him, bounce bounce plop as he dropped to his bum, bounce bounce plop, bounce bounce plop. Daryl struggled to get his eyes open and stop him before he landed on his nuts. He managed to get his hands out of the blankets and stop him mid bounce, he was leading with his knees and Daryl knew it wouldn't end well for him.

'Joey, what are you doing,' He groaned as one of his knees connected with them. Daryl was smarting raised his legs and half rolled onto his side to recover.

'Jumping!' Joey announced and then started bouncing around the bed, bouncing up and down. Laughing and giggling about what he was doing to them. Carol was just watching like this happened every day. Does this happen everyday, Daryl was going to have to invest in a cup for his nuts.

'Don't jump on Daryl Joey,' Carol scolded rolling out of the bed, pulling her jean's on, holding her hands out to catch Joey.

'Jumping! Jumping up and down, jumping jumping up and down!' Joey ducked out of Carols reach and landed on Daryl again. Daryl groaned as Joey took the wind out of him landing on his chest.

'Whats going on? What you do to him?' Daryl asked Carol looking towards Joey.

'Nothing, why?' Carol looked at Joey, he looked heaps better to her.

'He's like a freaken ball or something, at the hospital jumping and now jumping,' Daryl asked rolling out of bed bhis pants on as he stood up.

'That's what he does every day, that's Joey,' Carol said. 'What are you doing in the B-E-D anyway,'

'I don't know you both went to sleep, I was sleepy,' Daryl muttered.

'We don't like him to see anyone sleeping in my bed because of pre school.'

'Whats he going to say, my D-A-D was in B-E-D with my M-A?' Daryl looked at her.

'Probably! You can deal with R-I-C-K when he finds out,' Carol told him.

'What? N-O-T-H-I-N-G Happened,' Daryl groaned. 'Do I have to go to B-O-Y-F-R-I-E-N-D Boot camp?'

'Have you met Rick, he likes rules and guidelines and stuff and things all to be in a line,' Carol told him following Joey down to the lounge. Ugh she looked at the clock noting that the others will be home soon.

'When will he be able to spell?' Asked Daryl yawning walking down the hall, truth be told he hadn't had a lot of sleep since he arrived, it had arrived. He was tired, he wondered what else did he have to learn. He had no idea about kids at all, maybe he would ask Merle.

'So this calender, is Joey with you tonight or can I look to see if your free?' Daryl asked following her down the hall.

'Maybe, maybe not, I am going to see how he goes with dinner and things, he defiantly better. He may sleep in his own bed,' Carol told him.

'Show me the calender again!' Daryl growled behind her, he stopped near the door watching her pull out some toys for Joey to play with. Carol got up and indicated him to follow her into the kitchen pulling out the calender for him to actually study. He hadn't really played much attention the other night about how it really worked. So far only Rick had written dates he was working and not working on it. He had blocked out some times and dates. Daryl marked off that night, no one had booked it so far, this was so weird for him booking in time to be with her.

'How does this work if I wanted to take you and him away for a few days?' Daryl asked her. He had been thinking about it. He wanted to spend time with Joey without the other men there. He didn't know if this shit would fly with Merle or Rick though, but he was going to ask.

'You want to do something like that?' Carol asked him surprised by his request.

'I want to know Joey, if you come too it will be a bonus,' Daryl looked at her, she looked at him, realizing that he wanted it all, he wanted Joey just as much as he wanted her.

'Mark it on the calender, my days off are there already, we can go whenever its not like Joey's in school or anything,'

'If I mark off 3 days next week are they going to get pissy?' Daryl asked.

'No, its not up to them to make the rules we all make the rules, you want to spend time with Joey you can, if they want to spend time with Joey they can,' Carol told him.

'Ok you decide where to go, if you wana, something he will like? I don't know what he would like to do?' Daryl asked her. 'Is that alright or you want me to prove myself and organize something?'

'No I will, we need to go far away from here so we don't run into anyone we don't want to,' Carol told him. They were standing there smiling when Rick come in through the door.

'Hey babe, hows Joey?' Rick gave her a hug, nodded at Daryl, and went into the lounge where Carol indicated he was. Joey squealed when he saw Rick, Rick come wandering back into the kitchen looking for food with Joey on his hip. 'He's looking better!'

'He is!' Carol said. 'Bouncy according to Daryl, I tried to tell him thats normal,'

'What ya got going on the calender?' Rick looked over Daryl's shoulder seeing he had booked off 3 of her off days. Rick didn't look happy about it too much.

'I wana spend some time with Joey, we going away for 2 nights ok,' Daryl looked at Rick, Rick tilted his head looking at Daryl and run his hand through his hair.

'Two nights huh? Does Merle know?' Rick asked, his body language showed he was not ok about it all.

'No we just talking about it. You ok about this Rick?' Carol asked him, Rick moved away getting Joey a snack that he was pointing to. Rick made him use his words for it rather than pointing. Carol could tell Rick was annoyed or frustrated. Daryl just stood there, looking at the calender seeing Rick had already booked himself in weeks ahead of time and it wasn't his nights they were going on. It wasn't about Carol it was about Joey.

'Not talking about it in front of Joey, but no, I'm not!' Rick handed Carol Joey and walked out of the room undoing his police shirt to go shower and change. Daryl looked at Carol shrugged.

'I will go!' Daryl muttered, he followed him down the hall and knocked on his bedroom door, Rick called him in and was standing there with his shirt off only in his pants looking surprised that it was Daryl not Carol who come to sort things out. Usually Carol kept the peace between Merle and him.

'I just wana spend time with my son. I can't do that if Carol don't come. If you don't want me to take them I won't,' Daryl run his hand through his goatee, knowing he was issuing a challenge towards Rick that Rick would say yes when it come to Joey. Rick walked up close to Daryl and stared him in the eye.

'If anything happens to them, one scratch, you will have me to answer too right! Don't fuck with me Daryl, you weren't here, they're my family, all of them including Merle don't fuck this up,' Rick said.

'Bit rich coming from the man who indicated a threesome the other night,' Daryl told him starring him right back in the eye. Rick starred him right back. Rick was fuming mad, Daryl was pinging off him wanting to smack the man one. He knew for Carol's sake he had to behave. Both men stood still at a stand off knowing that the other wanted to try it again both of them on Carol, and didn't want to cause a huge rift between them and Carol by brawling in the bedroom. Which could happen if one of them didn't back down. It wasn't going to be Daryl.

'Shut the fuck up. Other wise next time you won't be invited I'll invite Merle,' Rick growled at him issuing his own challenge..

'Like fuck,' Daryl growled back.

'Next fucken time its going to be in a fucken bed, an't doing that shit standing up again,' Rick stated.

'As long as we are clear here! I'm taking my kid for a few days. Get back to me on the other thing,' Daryl growled at Rick turning and leaving the room. Rick stood there scratching his head thinking about the threesome and thinking about watching him put his mouth on Carol, wondering at the same time he basically backed down from him taking them away for a few days. Fuck! Well he was just going to wait to see what Merle thought.