I slept with the animals that night and Daryl stayed and watched over us. A few times I would wake up and see him sitting on top of the RV. He was not only watching the tree line but also sneaking quick peeks at me. I smirked and rested soundly in the embrace of my animals.
A few hours later I felt something crawl next to me. I jumped and I was about to turn and beat it when I heard…
"It's alright darlin. Go back to sleep." Daryl said and got comfy next to me. I smiled and snuggled in to the Goliath's stomach and went to sleep.
Morning finally came and we rose to start clearing out the dead. Daryl and I was moving bodies to the burn pile that we started. While no one was looking I grabbed some clothes off the dead walkers. I put them in the dirty pile and went back to work. Daryl saw me do this a few times and I knew he was gonna ask me about it.
We were just gonna drop some corpse into a pile when Glen rushed to us.
"This is meant for our group. We burry ours burn the others." Glen stated a little shaky.
"No difference. A death is a death. Burn all those who have past to give them a proper burial." I stated and was about to keep goin when Glen grabbed me and stared me down.
I saw the hurt in his eyes, the pain he felt from the lost. I sighed and nodded to Daryl and moved the body to please him. We kept going until someone asked about Amy. I rolled my eyes figuring this was going to start a fight. I wanted to put her out of her misery now but I knew no one would be on my side on this.
I stopped what I was doing and started to get the rest of my things together figuring we wouldn't stay here in the quarry anymore. I wasn't listening to what was going on until I heard the cocking of a gun. I grabbed a dagger and looked towards the sound. There was Rick pointing a gun at Daryl…again.
I slowly walked up behind him making sure no one knew I was behind him. I got close enough so that no one would dare stop me. I smirked at Daryl as he relaxed and made Rick look behind him.
"You keep pointin that gun at his face and I will start cuttin fingers off. " I growled at him and pointed the blade at his face.
"He doesn't get to say the things he does and get away with it!" Lori gripped and glared at me.
"Like you are gonna get good person of the year award any time soon thunder cunt? You lost your kid just the other day because you couldn't think beyond yourself." I snapped at her but kept my focus straight on Rick.
"Look I am not saying Daryl is right but he has a point. He just could have presented it in a better light." Dale stated trying to prevent us from killing each other.
I rolled my eyes at them all.
"Sugar coating shit doesn't make it better. It's still shit no matter what you do to it." I said and walked back to the horses. I finished tacking up Eve and Goliath when I heard some noise about Jim. Good lord this group was going to give me a headache.
They finally pulled their big kid panties up and got together and wanted to decide the next course of action. Rick said that we should go to the CDC. I understood his logic but something just told me that this was going to be a bad plan.
I pushed down my instinct and continued to listen to the others. Daryl and my uncle walked up to me. I knew that we were going to have a little pow wow so I hunkered down for it.
"What do you think we should do Courtney?" My Uncle Big Al asked me.
"Following them would be a lot of drama but I don't want their deaths on my hand because they can't just figure it out for themselves." I stated and saw that they both nodded in agreement.
"Yeah bunch of city pansies." Daryl said, I smirked at his comment and giggled lightly.
"So to the CDC?" Uncle Big Al asked.
I nodded as did Daryl. Big Al and I mounted our horses and followed the others. Yeah we were a few miles back but we were able to keep up in a sense. We were able to catch up a lot when they let Jim go. Big Al waved at Jim as we passed and I nodded my head. It was sad to see him pass but life was never certain now a days.
We finally made it to the CDC when we saw that they were surrounded by walkers. Big Al nodded to me as we got out our weapons and charged. We started to cut down one after the other when a door opened up and light blinded us.
"God complex much?" I asked no one but heard Carol laugh a little.
I finally noticed that the cat was on Daryl's shoulders and the dog was by Carl. I blinked a few times and looked inside the pack on Goliath and saw that the turtle was in there just resting away.
I have got to keep better track of them, oh wait things are happening.
We made a dash inside and we saw that the building was littered with dead bodies. Then there stood a meek looking man with an assault rifle. I turned my head in question and waited for him to address us.
"What do you want?" He asked.
"A chance." Rick replied. So bloody original.
"That is asking for a lot now a days." The dude said. I was so not going to listen to this bs banter. I turned back to the doors and poked the glass. It felt different than the glass that was meant for car windows and regular building windows.
"Courtney come on girl." Daryl said and pulled me away from the glass. We all walked to the elevator but stopped when we noticed that the horses were not getting in there.
"Don't worry They can stay up here and relax by themselves for a while." Big Al stated and patted their noses.
We all got in and I just breathed and tried to ignore the fact that everybody was right on top of me basically. Daryl noticed my discomfort and rubbed the small of my back. I put my head against his shoulder and breathed. We stopped and got out and the man who called himself Jenner said that he needed our blood.
I sighed and let him take mine so we can get on with this. Once he got what he needed from me I got up before he could put a band aide on it. I just walked out of the room and wondered around a little.
I had completely lost myself in poking around. I always needed to know all the exits. The movie Zombie land ran through my mind for a second.
Rule number #2: Double Tap
Rule number #18 Limber up
Rule number #22 Know your way out.
I laughed at myself cause I was hearing this in that kid's voice. I walked towards the others seeing that they were just sitting down to dinner. I didn't know where to sit but quickly Daryl made that easy when he got up and pulled me to a seat next to him.
I smiled at him and started to eat. We chatted until Dale opened his damn mouth.
"I have wanted to ask what you and your niece do Al." Dale asked and took a bite to eat.
"Well I owned a venom farm. Courtney worked there and also worked for a circus…well whatever circus came to town." He replied not seeing that I wanted him to keep quiet about that.
"You worked for the circus?" Asked Sophia.
"The hell is a venom farm?" Shane asked with a weird look in his eye.
"Yes I worked for a circus and a venom farm keeps poisonous animals there and all we did was milk them for the venom and send it to whoever needed it to make the anti-venom." I replied trying to get them to not ask about the circus.
"What did you do in the circus?" T-dog asked.
"Wasn't it dangerous to work with those leather creatures?" Asked Glenn.
"You guys don't seem to get it. Animals are drawn to her. They would never hurt her. Never has and never will. That is why the farm was such a success. She could get a lion to play with her as if it was a puppy. She was an animal trainer and singer." Uncle Big Al's mouth was gonna get him killed. I slammed my head on the table trying to get the others to not stare at me.
"Her sing? I'd pay to see that." Andrea said with a smug look on her face.
I glared at her and ran to grab my pack. I found my gloves, blades and different shoes and ran back to them. I took a calming breath and stared at Daryl.
You're so hypnotizing
Could you be the devil?
Could you be an angel?
Your touch magnetizing
Feels like I am floating
Leaves my body glowing
They say, be afraid
You're not like the others
Futuristic lover
Different DNA
They don't understand you
You're from a whole 'nother world
A different dimension
You open my eyes
And I'm ready to go
Lead me into the light
Kiss me, kiss me
Infect me with your love and
Fill me with your poison
Take me, take me
Wanna be a victim
Ready for abduction
Boy, you're an alien
Your touch so foreign
It's supernatural
Extraterrestrial
While I sang I danced with my blades. I grabbed Daryl and danced around him. He moved with me feeling the rhythm of the music I was singing flow through him. You could tell that he wasn't truly paying attention to the others staring.
You're so supersonic
Wanna feel your powers
Stun me with your lasers
Your kiss is cosmic
Every move is magic
You're from a whole 'nother world
A different dimension
You open my eyes
And I'm ready to go
Lead me into the light
Kiss me, kiss me
Infect me with your love and
Fill me with your poison
Take me, ta-ta-take me
Wanna be a victim
Ready for abduction
Boy, you're an alien
Your touch so foreign
It's supernatural
Extraterrestrial
Daryl grinded with me. Dipped when I did, moved as if we were making love while standing. We moved one way and the other, never taking our eyes off each other.
This is transcendental
On another level
Boy, you're my lucky star
I wanna walk on your wave length
And be there when you vibrate
For you I'll risk it all
All
Kiss me, kiss me
Infect me with your love and
Fill me with your poison
Take me, ta-ta-take me
Wanna be a victim
Ready for abduction
Boy, you're an alien
Your touch so foreign
It's supernatural
Extraterrestrial
Extraterrestrial
Extraterrestrial
Boy, you're an alien
Your touch so foreign
It's supernatural
Extraterrestrial
At this point Daryl had dipped me so my profile was very well seen. He realized what had happened and stood up quickly. He grabbed my arm and made me follow him to the room he was staying in.
He slammed the door shut, pushed me against the now closed door and kissed me. This kiss was full of power and demanded my attention. As if he was telling me that he understood what I was saying in the song and was replying in his own way.
He grabbed my hip with one hand, slowly moving his hand in a way that made my leg follow his train of thought. My leg lifted and wrapped around his hip. His other hand grabbed my wrists and pinned them above me.
He pulled back and placed his head against mine. We were breathing deeply for a few then he finally opened his mouth.
"I like how you sing. It's beautiful." He stated
I stared at him then laughed. That was not what I thought he was going to say.
Announcement:
Yes I Jade1377 know that Daryl wouldn't normally do something like that but that is the point. He was pulled to her to do something he would normally not do. I do not want to hear a lot of bull bout it cause I have done it to people before so yes it can be done. It's called seducing your prey. Get used to it cause she will keep doing it to him and he will like it .