The next day Daryl found himself lying in a baby room trying to take down a cot to move it into the flat they had organised for Carol in town. Shane was throwing stuffed toy's into a box, and unhooking birth pictures of Carol with a brand new baby at her chest. He had already packed up the drawers of clothes of both Carol and the babies which didn't amount to much. Daryl had to admit Shane's job looked easier than his at getting this bloody thing down.
They were both off duty and dressed normally in jean's and a tee shirt they made a handsome pair, Carol watched them move about with confidence clearing her stuff out of the house she had shared with Ed. Daryl certainly had something about him, extremely good looking in the day light, while Shane held boyish charm that Carol was sure could charm the pants right off a lady should he try and put the moves on.
Daryl looked around the room, he didn't normally like to get too involved in domestic abuse cases unless he was the officer called to a dispute of sorts. He was stuck right in the middle of this one with little choice to get out of it because he invited Carol into his home with her baby. He had got up with her during the night to help her with the baby. Mainly because he was sleeping on the couch and Carol had come wandering out to try and settle her by walking around with her.
Carol was too sore to walk for long, in the end it was Daryl who paced the house with the infant at his chest. Walking around in the dark only in his pj pants that he had pulled on because of a stranger in the house. He had quickly got the infant to sleep on his chest for Carol, who was still upset he could tell by her shaking hands. Her way of thanking him over and over for helping her as her hands fumbled trying to change the baby at another stage around 4am. Daryl didn't realize how often babies woke. Carol told him she normally brought the baby into bed with her but she felt to shaky to have her in bed incase she rolled on her or something.
They had asked Carol if she wanted to return to her house that she lived with Ed, she had told them she would rather live on a park bench. Daryl and his friends quickly assembled to get her moved quickly and painlessly as possible. Most of what she owned fitted into cardboard boxes and the baby stuff fitted into the back of Daryl's truck. Rick had broken into Ed's car last night to get the baby car seat so Daryl now had it in the back of his truck.
While they were mucking around in the room they heard a car driving up the drive. Daryl did a mental thought of who it could be. He knew for a fact that Ed was still locked up in Jail because he had checked himself on the way out to the house. He couldn't think of who it could be and Carol said she had no friends.
He did a mental check list of who would know they were here clearing Carol's stuff out of Ed's house. They had already seen Jo Greene who was organizing a flat for them to move into today. Actually its was Andrea's flat but Jo was there giving it a clean and sorting out a phone and power to be on by the time they got there when they left the house. They were not taking anything that wasn't Carol's or the babies.
Basically they were walking out with baby gear and a few clothes that Carol seemed to own. By the looks of things she had been sleeping on the floor on a mattress in the babies room in the corner. Which confirmed for Daryl that she wasn't actually with Ed rather than stuck with Ed because she didn't know how to get out.
He had gone outside to ring Merle to organise a new bed be taken to the flat for the women to sleep in. He was pulling out favours left right and center to get the flat set up while they had Carol with them. Merle confirmed that the bed had been donated by Dixon garage and was getting made up with brand new washed sheets. Andrea had told Daryl they didn't want to give any excuses for her not accepting help if everything she needed was already at the flat.
He had also mentioned to Andrea that neither Carol or the baby seemed to have many clothes and Andrea took that to mean she should go shopping to buy baby clothes and diapers. She also brought some clothes for Carol.
Daryl did worry how she was going to go for money, but if they stocked her up enough and she didn't get a bill for power and phone for a while she could get back on her feet. He actually hadn't asked her if she ever had a job or what she could do. He knew there were many odd part time jobs around town she could do and Jo Greene had already said to her this morning she would be happy to mind the baby while Carol worked a job if she had no one else.
Carol had nodded thanking the women for her kindness and said she may have no other option but to accept her offers for help with baby sitting. She didn't mention anything. Daryl could tell she was not really sure of anything at the moment and things were happening at a fast speed around her. Daryl didn't know how long Ed would be in jail, he knew that he had rung his parents to foot the bail fee, if they paid it he could be out as early as late this afternoon. They were going to ring him to let him know if he was released from jail.
Daryl had a restraining order put in place this morning with the judge to try and prevent Ed trying to access them. But restraining orders in his experience were only good if they scared the man enough not to attempt to come near her.
Carol was sitting on the floor of the baby room looking at him with big eyes feeding Sophia again. She looked worried sick to who could be coming, they could hear people walking up to the steps and knocking on the door.
'Its not him? Is it?' Carol whispered pressing herself into the wall, Daryl and Shane both shook their heads. If it was peoples heads were going to roll for not giving them time to get out of the man's house.
He rolled over putting the bolts into a plastic bag so he could find them again to put the bloody thing up again. Going to his knees he stood up looked at Carol and the baby telling them both to shhh by putting his fingers to his lips.
'I'm gona check it out ok, Stay here!.'He walked out of the room with Shane following him, carrying his box of baby toys and clothes. Shane opened the door to a older couple and asked if he could help them.
They quickly identified themselves and Ed's parents and had come to bail him out of jail for some misunderstanding between him and Carol. Daryl walked up behind Shane to listen.
'Do you know where Carol is, we want to talk some sense into her.' The man stated.
'Sir with all due respect we are not going to tell you where she is or disclose any information about what happened!' Shane stated.
'Where's our granddaughter?' The women asked.
'What are you doing in our son's house? What are you taking?' The man asked.
'We are taking a baby cot, bassinet, baby clothes, Carol's clothes and anything else that belongs to Carol!' Daryl stated from behind Shane.
'You can't do that, you can't just come into a man's home and take stuff.' The man stated.
'Watch me!' Growled Shane, pushing past them to go put a box in his car.
'We will call the police, report you for stealing.' The man stated.
'We are the police!" Daryl reached into his back pocket and flipped out his badge. 'We also would ask you to leave until we have Carol's and Sophia's stuff out of the house, if you want you can go bail your son out of jail and talk to him about what happened here last night. But ya are not coming near Carol or Sophia till after Ed goes to court." Daryl pointed out to the road, Shane walked up flashing his badge also and they older couple quickly left.
Shane called ahead to let them know that they were on the way to bail out Ed, to stall long enough so Daryl and Shane could clear the house.