'No,' Daryl told her, 'No, just no, not without me,' Daryl was walking slowly beside Carol, he was taking small walks getting stronger. A week had passed since they had been transferred back.

'I need to talk to him, what if I take Rick?' Carol suggested.

'No, not without me, no way,' Daryl told her again he was getting worked up. She'd decided she wanted to face him. Daryl was out of the woods and it had been playing on her mind why Ed did the things he did. Why he saved Sophia like he did.

'Daryl you really can't tell me I can't go,' Carol stopped walking beside him. She had Sophia in the pram and was getting cross with him. She didn't want to take him. The only reason she told him before she went was Rick said he wouldn't come if she didn't tell Daryl first. Now she told him all they did was wind up his blood pressure and make them argue.

'Fuck it Carol,' Daryl turned supporting his bad arm looking at her. 'We barely made it out of this alive with Sophia and you want to go play nice, I'm having a hard time with that.'

'I'm going this afternoon,' Carol told him.

'And I say no,' Daryl told her, he took the pram and rocked it a little looking at Sophia. 'I took a bullet for her, because of him,'

'I need to go, I need to clear my head, the whole things making me sick, I can barely eat,' Carol told him, 'Come on I'll help you back to your room,'

'Just go,' he growled at her, 'Just go,'

'Daryl... Let me help you back to your room,' She knew he was angry, upset, pissed off, he looked in the pram at Sophia and touched her head.

'Don't need no help, I told you to go,' Daryl turned and started shuffling back to the hospital, Carol watched until he made the front door. His body was stiff and proud. She knew he didn't want her to go without him, but she couldn't wait that long, she could barely sleep and eat, she was so stressed out. If she talked to him some of that would go away. She watched Daryl, she knew he just wanted to protect her to protect Sophia, he couldn't do it from his hospital bed.

She moved pushing Sophia to the carpark talking to her about her Daddy. 'He's going to come home soon, then we going to all live together again,'

Carol put her in the car seat and drove home to get herself ready to go face Ed. She didn't know if she was going to get the answers or what she needed but she might get some sort of closure. Hopefully.

What she didn't know was what Daryl was doing in the hospital.

'Discharge me,' he told Andrea, she shook her head at him.

'Discharge me,' still she shook her head, 'Ok I want to discharge myself, now, and I want the phone and a phone book,'

'Daryl don't be stupid you're not well enough to be discharged,' Andrea told him helping him into bed, he was panting, struggling are his walk trying to stay awake.

'Get me a fucken phone then,' he told her.

Andrea brought him what he needed and he made a call. 'This is Officer Daryl Dixon, badge number...'

Andrea listened shocked as Daryl put Carol Dixon on Ed Peletiers ban list due to ongoing investigations. Andrea could see he was going to extreme measures to keep her away from Ed until he could go with her. Andrea knew he'd stepped over the line, Carol was going to be mad. She could see Daryl's point of view, but between him self releasing or banning her, she would rather he banned her.

'Lie back let me check it?' she told him, she pulled on gloves and checked his wound, he wasn't recovering as fast as they hoped, he was stressed and wanted to go home. To be honest they all wanted him to go home. She thought maybe by the end of the week that they could get him home for the day and back to the hospital for the night. She handed him back the phone so he could ring Rick Grimes and he could tell Carol she was banned from going to the prison to see that prisoner.