"Thank you" Beth said into my shoulder when I got out of the car behind Maggie.
I just gave her a small smile and was getting ready to go back into the cell block but Rick stopped me when a soft call of my name.
I walked over to him and Hershel and Hershel gave me a hug.
"I'm sorry about Daryl" he said after pulling away.
"It was his choice" I said
"Losing someone in whatever way is hard" was all he said before turning to Rick.
"We have a problem." Hershel said addressing the both of us.
"What is it? The baby?" Rick asked concerned.
"No the baby's healthy eats like a horse and sleeps like a rock" Hershel said
"Then what is it?" I asked.
"Carl found a group of survivors wandering through the prison." He said.
"How many of them?" Rick asked
"Four. One women three men." Hershel said as he began leading us back into the cell block.
Walking in behind Rick with my hand on my gun I quickly looked over the survivors. There were a man and women who were both dark skinned and looked to be related and what looked to be a father and son. They all just looked at us and the tall dark skinned man nodded at me. I didn't nod back I just continued to walk with Rick to the cell block where Carl shut and locked the gate behind us.
I walked in behind Rick and smiled as Carol came over and hugged me.
"I think she has Loris eyes" Beth said as she handed the baby over to Rick.
"Her names Judith" Carol whispered to me as we watched Rick hold his daughter.
"Beautiful name" I said back as the baby started to cry.
. . .
I walked into my cell I took off my shirt and put it on the top bunk. I looked down and felt my heart ache as I saw Daryl's bag.
Suddenly anger shot through my body and my leg shot forward and I kicked his bag as it moved I heard glass clinking against something. Opening the bag I found a bottle of whisky. Daryl must have found it when we raided that liquor store a few weeks ago.
Sitting on my bottom bunk I opened the bottle and took a deep drink and ended up coughing from the burn. But still I drank till things got blurry and the pain in my chest finally went away. It didn't take long till I was out.
. . .
I woke up a few hours later and ended up throwing up what little I had left in my stomach. The whiskey tasted so much worse coming back up.
"Eva?" Beth said standing at my door.
"Go away, Beth" I said as more stuff came up.
"Here let me help" she said stepping closer.
"I said leave" I snapped "why can't you just listen and leave me the hell alone!" I said my voice starting to rise.
"Just go" I whispered as I felt my voice crack and tears fill my eyes.
A sob escaped me and I felt her gentle hand caress my face and soon I was in her arms crying. Daryl's leaving was finally hitting me. He was gone. He left. He didn't care about me or anyone here.
Beth slowly rocked me till the sobs stopped.
"Eva?" Said someone at the door.
I looked over and saw Glenn standing there.
"Yeah?" I said as I pulled away from Beth and whipped at my eyes.
"Rick needs you." He said before walking away.
"Thanks" I whispered to Beth as I whipped my eyes.
She just smiled before she got up.
"What's up Rick?" I asked as I walked up to him.
"You smell like booze" he said.
"Yeah well I needed to get out of my head." I said crossing my arms.
"How the hell am I supposed to depend on you if you go off getting drunk" he whispered harshly at me.
"How am I supposed to trust you to lead us when you decide to go off the deep end?" I whispered just as harshly back.
Rick took a step back anger filling his face.
I felt my face go into shock as I realized what I had just said.
"Oh god Rick I'm sorry I didn't mean it." I said
He just nodded and looked at the floor.
"Your right." He said rubbing his face.
"It was wrong of me to say it" I said putting a hand on his shoulder.
Rick leaned into my touch and soon he wrapped his arms around me. I could feel how tense his muscles were and felt bad for him. He had so much weight on his shoulders. The hug was short it wasn't long till he pulled away.
"What did you need me for?" I asked.
"Michonne. What do you think of her?" He asked.
"She seems like a good person" I said.
"We are going to cut her loose in a few days." Rick said.
"I think we should let her stay. She's loyal and from what happened at Woodbury you can bet the Governor is going to come after us." I said
"I don't trust her." He said
"Then get to know her. You can't base your judgment when you don't even know her." I said
"Your right. Come with me to talk to the survivors Carl found?" He asked.
"Of course. Now?" I asked
He nodded and together we walked toward the dining area.
. . .
"Hes gone off the deep end." I told Beth as we sat together with the baby in my arms.
"I know." She said looking down at the table.
"What are we going to do?" She asked
"Were gonna be fine." I said.
"He's our leader. How are we going to be fine?" She asked
"I don't know. But we will. He'll come back." I said
"How could you possibly know that?" She asked.
"Because Rick won't abandon us. He's too good of a man. We have to let him morn." I said rocking the baby.
"You yelled at him about leaving." She said.
"I know and it was wrong of me to do so. Hell I drank nearly a whole bottle of whisky because Daryl left. I would probably be worse had he died." I said.
"I don't understand why he left." She said putting her arms around her knees.
"He found his brother. I hate to admit it but I can understand why he left." I said.
"How can you defend him? He left you." Beth said sitting up.
"Because when you lose someone like a sibling it hurts. It hurts like hell. And when you go through what Merle and Daryl had gone through as kids you grow close. Closer than normal siblings. I can defend him because I went through it too." I said
"You have a sibling?" Beth asked.
"Had. His name was David." I said looking down at the now sleeping baby's face.
"What happened to him?" She asked.
"He died in the Atlanta bombings at the beginning of the outback." I said.
"David and I went through hell. We were beaten by our dad. It was torture. But we made it. Going through that with someone it's much more harder losing them." I said
"Oh" was all Beth said.
We sat like that for a little longer. Just enjoying the sun.
Rick had completely lost it on the survivors forcing them to leave. That was last night. It was a new day and it was calm.
It was the calm before the storm.
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AN: So just like matching set this story will only have 18 chapters. The closer we get to the end is when you guys can let me know if you want a sequel:)
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