Carol was sitting on the door step watch Joey ride his bike up and down the drive. She closed the gate so one of his Uncles didn't come driving up and run him over.

'I need a motor bike,' Joey shouted from underneath his bike helmet, 'Then I can go fast,'

Carol nodded hoping he didn't ask Daryl or Merle because they would get one, Daryl's fondness of bikes would be a concern if he got it into his head he wanted another and Joey would wonder why he couldn't. Carol was just going to have to say no.

'Your too little for a motor bike,' Carol told him.

'They got little ones,' he shouted from the end of the drive, he looked over his shoulder seeing Uncle Merle and Daryl there he got so excited he tried to get off the bike tumbling over on his knees because he tried to run to the gate and he was still on his bike. They come through the gate locking it behind them. He let out a high pitched squeal picking himself up ran into Merle full tit once he untangled himself. He rubbed Merle's head.

'I need a motor bike to go fast,' he told him nodding his head, Merle looked over towards Carol who was shaking her head.

'Ya to little for a motor bike,' He told him walking up the drive, Daryl bent over picking up the little bike, he never seen one so small, granted he never had a bike as a little kid so he wouldn't know how little they come.

'They make little ones, we seen them, member?' Joey asked him, he reached across to Daryl swapping seeing if he could try his luck there, he grabbed Daryl's face to make him look at him. 'I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed one,'

'What your Mama say?' Daryl asked as they got close to her.

'She said YES!' Joey stated, putting his head on Daryl's shoulder putting his finger in his mouth mumbling , 'Yes, yes, yes, she said yes,'

'Joey I did not,' Carol stood up following Merle into the house.

'No bike then?' Daryl asked, Merle looked at him.

'Don't buy him nothing big without checking,' He told Daryl.

'Whats big?' Daryl asked.

'Well little stuff like toy cars good, big stuff, no, check, he don't need hundreds of toys, he don't need no motor bike,' Merle looked at Carol trying to judge if he was still in her bad books he could tell he was, he grabbed a glass of water and left mumbling about a shower.

Daryl looked down at the little boy in his arms who seemed to be happier with him again after 3 days of pushing him away, in his own home with everyone about. Daryl stroked his head, Joey lifted his head taking his finger out of his mouth saying 'Motorbike,' Daryl shook his head heading up to his room to change out of his shoes, taking Joey with him, he dropped him on the bed while he changed from his work boots, took off his dirty pants pulling on clean ones, Joey was jumping about, climbing up onto the dresser.

Daryl told him to get down and he did a flying leap in Daryls direction landing on his back. Daryl felt the impact pulling him around so he was safe in a piggy back to go find something to eat for dinner. To find his Ma. He could hear some noises coming from Merle's room which had rock music coming from it. It sounded like Merle was swearing to himself. Merle had filled Daryl in that he was in the dog box, Daryl assumed he was taking his frustrations out on some object in his room.

He dropped Joey off onto the couch and he went looking to see what there was to eat. Carol was back sitting on the steps drinking a coffee just hanging out.

'Everything ok?' He asked her.

'Yeah, just tired, lets get dinner sorted and go to bed ok?' She asked him, he looked at her, and nodded moving about to set up for tea. Merle come through the house settling with Joey on the floor to play with his toy cars. Joey climbed all over him, Merle got him into a bath before dinner was ready then the three of them with Joey sat down for a quiet dinner.

Carol brushed Merle off for the rest of the night finally giving him some time to talk after Joey was asleep, Daryl was in the shower. There wasn't much else to say but they would just wait and see. Merle was seeing Andrea on Saturday night but at this stage Carol was still annoyed with him. She left him sitting there with his own thoughts and went to go shower with Daryl.

Daryl looked surprised to see her climbing into the shower with him, he wasn't complaining but they had 3 days away and he barely even touched her. He wasn't complaining at all when she leaned into kiss him. Cuddling up and washing themselves down before heading to Daryl's bedroom. Carol stopped to grab the baby monitor before she settled for the night in Daryl's bed.