Authors Note - This chapter is a but rushed, but I hope you enjoy it.

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Chapter 15

There was an unusual blank expression over her face and then Daryl saw it, the blood starting to pour uncontrollably out of her stomach. He peered quickly behind Sam, seeing Dave standing with his hand over his injured leg – he had pulled out the arrow Daryl had used on him and stabbed Sam with it. Sam's body gave way, and Daryl caught her before she hit the ground. She was staring up at him, her eyebrows squinted together and her face turning pale.
"Noooo" Daryl spoke aloud. He didn't believe what was unfolding in front of his eyes. Dave said something down to him, but he wasn't listening as the girl he loved was slowly dying and he had no idea what to do. There was a ringing noise suddenly and Daryl looked up to see Dave lying motionless on the grass with gunfire in the air. He turned and saw Shane holding his gun with some unusual look on his face. Daryl couldn't make out what it was, but right now he didn't really care as he picked Sam up in his arms and yelled for Hershel.
As he ran across the paddock past the barn with Shane following close behind him, everything else in his line of view was blurry. Rick came sprinting over to him, but Daryl didn't stop, he kept running until he was holding her bloodied body on the top stairs on the farm house, his eyes scanning the area for Hershel as Sams body became limb, he could feel the life leaving her...

Daryl woke up suddenly, jumping when he had heard voices next to him. Rick and Carol were whispering to themselves in the hallway of the farm house, right outside the room where Sam was being worked on. He stood up from the chair he had been impatiently waiting on all night and walked over to them.
"Hershel's awake now, and has been inside looking after Sam" Rick told Daryl before he had to ask anything.

In the nights events, Hershel had been knocked out so Maggie and Beth had looked after Sam while Rick made Daryl get out of their way. Rick had not left Daryls side the whole night because he knew exactly what he was feeling. It wasn't that long ago that Rick had been in the exact same position as Daryl, sitting on those same chairs, looking at the same door, waiting to find out if the one you loved was going to make it. De ja vu hit Rick like a tidal wave when he saw Daryl carrying Sam as he ran towards the farm house, covered in blood.

Daryl sat back down again as Carol left the two men by themselves, deciding she would go check on the children who were upstairs with Lori.
"We've managed to stop the bleeding" Hershel appeared "It's lucky that Maggie and Beth knew what they were doing, they saved her life. But we'll have to keep an eye on her to make sure she's in the clear. I stitched her up but she won't be able to leave bed for a couple of days".
"What about the baby?" Daryl abruptly asked. Hershel pursed his lips together "At the moment the fetus seems to be fine, the arrow just missed but if she bleeds out more..."
Daryl took the hint and stood up "I need to see her."

Rick slowly opened the door and it creaked, Daryl peered at Sam tucked into bed looking quite peaceful. He and Rick exchanged nods and Rick moved from the door way. Daryl hovered for a second, not knowing what to do now that he could see her. He shifted on his feet awkwardly and Sam opened her eyes, smiling ever so slightly.
"Hey" she croaked through her voice, still very weak. He glided over to the side of the bed, pulling a chair and sat down beside her. Sam eyed him suspiciously, Daryl looked the most vulnerable she had ever seen him, he looked like he was going to break. Sam pationately waited, she knew Daryl wanted to say something, he had that look on his face but he was stubburn, so she spoke first.
"How is everyone?"

Daryl chucked lightly, making Sam scrunch her eyebrows together in confusion "What's so funny?" she asked.
"Your the one who got stabbed in the stomach, nearly dyin' and the first thing ya ask is how everyone else is goin? " he replied rhetorically.
Sam placed her hand on her stomach, inches away where the fresh stitches were but she hesitated before speaking again.
"How's the baby?" Sam asked Daryl, without meeting his eye.
Before he could respond, Hershall had appeared in the door way "It's a miracle, thats what it is. You need to keep rested, you can't go running around. We need to keep you and the baby monitored...You're about 5 weeks along by the way." He said with a smile, leaving the room on a high note.

Daryl's jaw tightened as he saw Sam scrunch up the blanket she was holding in her hand closest to him, but he looked up as he heard sniffling. Sam was staring at the doorway where Hershel had been, and Daryl could see her chest moving fast as her cries deepened.
"Does it make me a horrible person that I wanted to lose the baby?" Sam asked.
Daryl shook his head, even though she wasn't looking at him.
"What kind of person wishes that their unborn baby would die?" She said turning to him for answers "But I guess Hershel is right. It's a miracle. When I found out Lori was pregnant, I thought how on earth could she keep it? And raise it in this world? And to think its not even Ricks baby, how could she expect him to love and care for it?"
Sam shakily wiped the tears streaming down her face and then placed both hands on either side of her stomach, avoiding the stitches "I understand if you don't want to be a part of this... I can't ask you to when after all its not even yours..."
Daryl shook his head more violently this time, making Sam stop mid sentence
"The whole night I spent waitin' to see if ya would get through this and ya know what I kept thinkin' bout? That stupid fight we had before all this happened. It was wrong for me to go off at ya Sam. I want ya to know that I don't care that its not mine and I will be there for ya and the kid because I love ya so much. I nearly lost ya once and I ain't lettin' that happen again. I will love that kid as if it were my own"
Sam pursed her lips together, trying to stop herself from crying, this time with tears of joy. Daryl put his hand on top of hers which was on her stomach and held it.

Half an hour later, Sam had fallen back to sleep after Hershel have her some more medication after checking on her. Daryl had stayed by her side, watching her when all of a sudden little Claire came running into the room
"SAMMY!" she squealed jumping up onto the bed, making Sam wake up in a freight. Daryl was on his feet within a few seconds, yelling at the little girl
"Watch it kid!"
Sam had one arm the little girl who was hugging her, while the other hand held onto her stomach. Sam gave him a weary look when Claire clutched onto her more, she was scared of Daryls yelling.
"It's okay" Sam said down to Claire then looked back up at Daryl who was eyeing her injury "I can't play at the moment Claire bear, I have been hurt and need to sleep for a bit"
Claire started asking a million questions when Tom and Carl came into the room, out of breath "Don't run off like that!" Tom scowled to his younger sister "I told you to stay with us".
Daryl grunted, about to say something when he heard shouting in the lounge room "You kids go play somewhere else" he ordered Carl, Tom and Claire "Sam's gotta get some sleep, now go"
Claire sulked but obeyed, following her older brother and Carl out of the room as the yelling continued to get louder.
"You were a bit harsh, don't ya think?" Sam said, leaning herself up higher in the bed. Daryl didn't care if she thought he was, those kids needed to be considerate and so did the others who were fighting outside.

He stormed off out of the room, eager to see where all the noise was about. He turned the corner into the lounge room
"What the hell is goin' on... ya'll know Sam needs her rest!"
He said but stopped immediately when he saw Angela in the middle of Rick and Shane with Glenn, Maggie, Hershel, Lori and Carol on the outskirts of the fight.
"I don't see what ya problem is Rick, I did what I had to do to keep this group safe!"
Rick shook his head, disagreeing and Shane continued "Ya'll know what they came here to do Rick. That kid had Beth by the hair and was draggin' her away... ya know what would have happened if i hadn't had killed him."
Both Hershel and Maggie looked at each other, imaging what could have played out for Beth, who was lying down in her room upstairs.

"He has a point Rick" Angela said, stepping in "They came here to either kill us or worst. Shane did the right thing " She stated and turned around to Maggie "Look what you did. You shot that guy Tony when he was going after you. Self defence I would say".
Maggie rolled her eyes and folded her arms defensively. "That doesn't mean I condone anything that happened...".

"Just because ya'll don't condone it, doesn't mean shit. I saved Beth's life and I sure as hell saved Sam's life"
Shanes eyes fell on Daryl and his jaw tensed as he paused "Ya'll need to show some gratitude and stop livin' in the past. We all gotta do, what we have to do, to survive."
Shane had enough and went to walk past Daryl to see Sam "What do ya thin your doin?" Daryl moved in his way. Shane and Daryl stared at each other, both ready to rip each other's throats out.
"I'm goin' to see Sam" Shane hissed through his teeth as the others watched on cautiously "I can't let ya do that" Daryl replied.
Shane took one step closer
"I saved her life" He said bluntly, then paused "...You're not the only one who cares bout her"
This time as Shane moved, Daryl didn't. He let him walk past and into her room.

Outside as T – Dog kept watch, Carl, Tom and Claire were sitting out on the steps outside the farm house playing with twigs as the grownups began talking about Shane.
"I don't know how many time's I have ya to not be in my sight" Tom said angrily to his younger sister. Claire knew she had done the wrong thing and began to cry, and ran off towards the campsite. Tom told Carl he would go after his sister and he did, running to catch up to her. Claire was huddled in the tent they the two siblings shared with Carol, lying down on the bed. Tom sighed, sitting down on the edge of the bed as his baby sister sobbed
"I'm sorry for yelling at you, but I promised Mum and Dad that I would look after you" Claire looked up at him with puffy eyes and nodded sadly, thinking about their parents.
"They wanted us to stay together and I promised them I would never let anything happen to you". Claire sat up fully and leant her head on her big brothers shoulder
"I miss Mummy and Daddy" she said, wiping her nose lazily. Tom put his arm around her and nodded "Me too Claire, me too."

Meanwhile, Sam was silent as Shane came into her room "What's going on out there?" She decided to ask once Shane had taken a seat by the end of the bed. Shane clapped his hands together and shrugged
"They think what I did was wrong, killin those men" he said the last word with such disgust "They think we should have just le them go, even though they tried to kill us all." He stood up abruptly, walking over to the side of the bed.
"they just don't seem to understand that I saved their lives" he paused, looking down at Sam seriously and pulled some hair away from her face "I saved your life".
Sam swatted his hand away and stared at him "You may have shot Dave, but Daryl saved me. Not you"
There were squeals and screams coming from outside suddenly, and there attention was on that. Shane moved to the window, peering out at it.
"Oh shit"
Sam tried to move to get a better angel but she winced in pain "What's going on out there?" Shane rushed over to the side, deciding to not tell Sam he had seen the two siblings running from the tent away from a huge herd coming right for the farm house.
"Shane!" Sam screamed in panic as he began to pull the sheets down, trying to pick her up in his arms "LET GO OF ME!".
Daryl ran through the door, pushing Shane away from Sam "We gotta get out of ere" Daryl said helping Sam from the bed "Theres a herd comin' they mustve heard all the guns from last night. There aint no point tryin' to defend this place, there is to many of them".

Both men had an arm around Sam finally getting to the front of the house. Sam could not believe what she was seeing. Walkers were everywhere, the barn was on fire and cars were zooming around running over any walker they could get. The farm was lost.
Daryl let go of Sam and Shane held her up right "What are ya doin?" Shane yelled at Daryl "I gotta get my bike and go do a sweep up in that area on the hill. We're surrounded and need a way to get out of here"
Sam began to shake her head "No, I'm coming with you!" She pleaded "Shane will look after ya and I'll meet ya on the highway. You can't get on the back of my bike with your injury, go in Shane's truck"
Daryl and Shane nodded at each other, Daryl knew Shane would take care of her. Sam clutched the side of her stomach, watching Daryl run for his bike over at the camp site, quickly shooting down any Walkers in his path with his cross bow.

Shane pulled Sam behind him but she couldn't run. As Shane picked her up in his arms, Sam saw the rest of their group pile into different cars, while others still fought to save the farm. Shane slammed the door shut of his truck, while Sam laid on the back seats, crying out in pain.
"It's gonna be okay Sam" Shane said in a reassuring manner "We'll all go back to the highway where this all started...it will be okay..."

Sam peered up at Shane, trying to believe his words. But would it all be okay? Would everyone make it back to the highway? She had heard about this highway – where it all began. If that little girl Sophia had never gotten lost, the Atlanta group would have never came across the farm and they would have never ventured into the town shops and saved Sam from a horrible death. But most importantly, Sam would have never have found Daryl. All she cared about right now was getting to that highway and being in his arms again. She just didn't know if that was going to happen.

Next time

Will everyone make it back to the highway?
Where will they go from here?

What if Sam is stuck with Shane? will she begin to fall for him again?

Authors Note - So I've changed it a bit from what happened on the show. Shanes still alive and I have a bit of other stuff planned that's different to the show...
Are you guys happy Sam didn't lose the baby?

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