Was this really happening? Was Trev really sitting here on a river bank with her? What are the odds that this would even happen? Fallon pushed the thoughts of the astronomical odds out of her mind and focused them on her friend.
He'd obviously changed physically, his hair was longer and grown out, the blonde only on the tips of his now brown hair. It was hard to see when his clothes on but there was no doubt he'd lost a lot of weight, his shirt almost looked like a bag on him...
"Are you still with Rick and them?" Trev asked ripping Fallon from her observations.
"No..." Fallon said quickly hoping that Jordan wasn't too close.
"How long?" Trev countered prying for more information, at least that didn't change.
"Um a guess it would be s few months... Not really sure..." Fallon answered as she tried to recount what she's been doing
"You?" Fallon asked changing the subject from her.
"We made it a while with everyone, ya know," Trev paused "But… you know not everyone can make it. Lori is gone… so Shane is going nuts, if he's even still alive I dont know at this point… the others you don't know,"
"Wow… I'm sorry," Fallon looked down feeling like she was intruding on a moment "Is… Jesse?"
Trev looked down his eyes closing tight "That's why we're here… he got bit… were getting some water…" Trev's voice cracked.
"Oh God…" Fallon whispered. She sat back and pulled her keens to her chest, the sting of tears hurting the back of her eyes, that pain that you could never get used to returning in the pit of her stomach. "Are you sure?"
Trev looked at her "Yeah, I wouldn't say it if I wasn't sure," he sounded a bit annoyed.
"Sorry… I just don't believe it," Fallon's voice cracked looking away from Trev.
"Why not? He was always reckless doing stupid shit just because he thought he could," Trev's answered his voice completely angry his fist clenched tight.
Fallon raised her hand and placed it on his shoulder, Trev bowed his head and began to shake from the tears. Fallon knew this feeling well, regret, loss, anger, and most of all emptiness that will never go away.
"Trev, you gotta keep it together for him! he doesn't need to see this now so you finish up with this and we are guna go back and see him, and he is never guna know this happened," Fallon stood up and held out her hand to help him up.
Trev looked at her and wiped his eyes, "You're right," he sighed "You always were though… I assume you want to come with," Trev accepted her outreached hand.
Fallon glanced over her shoulder at Jordan who was stalking the edge of the tree line her watchful eye on them and the guy Trev brought with him. Fallon couldn't leave without Jordan wanting to come but that was not happening.
"Yeah, I wanna come… I have to," Fallon looked back at Trev her voice confident.
"Okay, I'll give you a second… but only a second I don't think there is much time left," Trev told her as he headed back towards the tree line.
Fallon nodded and turned slowly around, and looked up at Jordan… well here goes nothing. She closed the distance between then quickly, her normally nimble feet kicking pebbles around the ground. Jordan had a pissed off look on her normally neutral face her arms crossed over her chest.
"What the fuck Fallon?" She snapped.
"Listen… I don't have time to explain, you just have to trust me, I gotta go with him," Fallon said quickly the words flying out of her mouth.
"Well I'm coming then," Jordan countered.
"No," Fallon barked her patients wearing thin as well as her time.
"Try and fucking stop me," Jordan answered with a scowl her brows raising.
"You know I can," Fallon lowered her voice her hand balling into a fist.
"What's Randy guna think when I come back without you, huh?" Jordan disputed a smirk on her face.
Fallon shut her eyes forgetting about that little detail "Just tell them I left I couldn't handle this or something, you're a good story teller make something up," flailed her arms "It's not so unbelievable that I would leave anyway," Fallon turned around and started for Trev.
"Fallon!" Jordan yelled her voice echoing off the rocks.
"Trev let's go now!" Fallon said as she stomped passed Trev and the other guy's who's name she didn't remember.
Without any hesitation Trev jetted off and took the lead, his long legs catching up to her quickly. "It's not far just a few minutes away,"
"Okay," Fallon nodded and pushed the thoughts of the group she just felt behind out of her mind. This wasn't the worst thing she's done but it sure wasn't going to do them any good.
"Who was the woman?" Trev asked.
"Jordan," Fallon answered "She's tough, we were close,"
"I could tell," Trev raised an eyebrow.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Fallon's voice cracked.
"Never thought you'd go lesbian on me," Trev almost chuckled, never thought she'd hear that again.
"I'm not!" Fallon's jaw dropped.
"I may have not seen you in forever but that doesn't mean my gaydar doesn't work," Trev said frankly still keeping his eyes ahead.
Fallon shook her head "No… Trev it's not like that… she's the only person I really trusted here, besides I have no room left in my heart for any of that shit," Fallon paused "It was one time and I was drinking,"
Trev laughed "Whatever you say," he stopped laughing "Didn't know you were drinking again, guess things have changed,"
"I'm not,"
"Ya know you're doing a lot of denying," Trev looked back at her.
"Since when am I under interrogation?" Fallon snapped back.
"Since I decided to bring you to my camp, since you just left your people without a care in the world, since I decided I shouldn't trust you," Trev snarled as he turned around to face her towering over her.
Daryl grabbed a bolt out of the bag he collected then in and loaded the crossbow, easily. Aiming the crossbow the squirrel came into view of the crosshairs. Deep breath in, hold, shoot, the bolt flew and hit the animal spot on, as it always did. He pushed it over his shoulder and started for the dead animal on the ground.
"Lucky I gotcha not them damn walkers," Daryl mumbled mostly to himself.
He looked up through the trees, the sky was starting to darken and it smelled like rain, storm must be on its way… he took a deep breath and headed back for the prison, home, a bad memory, or whatever it was. The crash if thunder made Daryl look up his blue eyes searching for the sound. He shook his head and picked up his gate so he could beat the rain, thunder… Fallon… He pushed the thought of the little woman away it was better that way she was gone.
As he came up to the gate the person on guard opened it, Daryl nodded at the guy and strolled up to the yard. Daryl dropped of the kill to the kitchen and pushed passed the growing number of people the inhabited the prison, thanks to him and Tyreese. All of them said hello to him as he walked by, mostly he wished they would just shut up and leave him be.
"You think there's something up with that?" Rick asked pointing his chin at Jalissa and some guy.
Daryl let out a breath "She wouldn't do that to ya," Daryl answered his friend.
"Yeah," Rick nodded "Maybe there should be… things have changed,"
Daryl glanced over at him "Yeah, they have… there is other things to worry about," Daryl tried to convince his friend.
"I know, it's just been so calm here since everything," Rick answered.
"It has," Knowing exactly what he was talking about "Something's going to change soon, I can just feel it,"
"Something big," Rick agreed.