Disclaimer: Just thought I would say something before I start the story, if you see Sam calling Rick Dad it's cause he does think of her as his own daughter, but so it's not confusing I'll keep putting Rick but you will see her call him dad..
Rick's P.O.V
Sam survived the surgery and the rest of the night. When morning came around, Hershel checked up on Sam and said that she was doing better and that she would be awake soon. Daryl still hasn't returned from last night and he wasn't here when I woke this morning or when the rest of the group arrived. I decided to not worry about Daryl and look for Sophia. I called the group over for a meeting, because Hershel gave me a map. While Everyone was encircled around the car Hershel asked me, " How long has this girl been lost?"
" This'll be day three. County survey map, shows terrain and elevations. This is perfect, we can finally get this thing organized. We'll grid the whole area, and start searching in teams." I instructed but was stopped by Hershel.
" Not you. Not today. You gave three units of blood. You wouldn't be hiking five minutes in this heat before passing out. And your ankle...Push it now, you'll be laid up for a month, no good to anybody." Hershel scolded both me and Shane. Running a hand through my hair, Hershel was right but I didn't want to hold off on Sophia any longer than we already have.
" Guess it's just me." A voice I knew all too well said I turned my head to see Daryl standing there adjusting his crossbow and looking between me and the map.
" I'm gonna head back to the creek, work my way from there." Daryl said as he pointed at the map.
" I can still be useful. I'll drive up to the interstate, see if Sophia wanders back that way." Shane said.
" All right, tomorrow then. We'll start doing this right." I declared as I looked at everyone.
" That means we can't have our people out there with just knives. They need the gun training we've been promising them." Shane said as I nodded my head in agreement.
" I'd preferred you not carrying guns on my property. We've managed so far without turning this into an armed camp." Hershel said as he looked at Shane.
" All due respect, you get a crowd of those things wandering in here…." Shane said till I stopped him.
" Look, we're guests here. This is your property and we will respect that. First things first, set up camp, then find Sophia." I said as I took off my gun belt and placed it on top of the car. I could feel Shane glaring at me for going against his word, but all I cared about was that we were safe and he needed to understand that. I know there's something wrong with him, he wasn't the same guy as before and it was like he was hiding something. I noticed Daryl walking away towards the woods.
" Daryl!" I yelled for him, he stopped and turned to look at me.
" You okay on your own?" I asked him as I placed my hands on my hips.
" I'm better on my own. I'll be back before dark." Daryl said as he started to walk away.
" Hey, we got a base. We can get this search properly organized now." I said as he turned to look at me again.
" You got a point, are we just chatting?" Daryl asked as he looked at me.
" My point is that it let's you off the hook. You don't owe us anything." I said as I shook my head.
" My other plans fell through." Daryl said as he stormed off towards the woods.
" She's alive, you know!" I yelled towards Daryl, which made him stop and turned his head to look at me and continued on his way. It surprised me at first when he didn't say anything, but I knew he cared. I went back to Sam's room and sat down right next to her and once I realized, I fell asleep.
Daryl's P.O.V.
It was starting to get dark when I came upon a house. I started to search inside, but my thoughts kept going to what Rick told me about Sam. I was relieved to hear that she was going to be okay now. I shook my head, ' Focus Daryl, you need to find this little girl.' I thought as I started to check out the kitchen. I noticed a pantry door that was slightly opened and I walked over while aiming my crossbow and I opened the door and saw that there was nothing there except for a couple of blankets on the ground, like someone was hiding in there.
It had to be Sophia, cause a person her size could fit in that pantry. I ran to the back yard and yelled for Sophia for a while just in case she was close by. When she didn't respond back, I started to head back till my eyes landed on some Cherokee Roses to the right of me. I walked over to them and I knelt down to the ground and I gently touched one of the petals, remembering a story that I heard a long time ago. I looked at them for a little bit and then I pulled two of them out of the ground and I made my way back to the farm.
As I got back, I went straight to the RV first and gave one to Carol and I told her the story behind the flower. She thanked me and I nodded my head and left the RV and I looked down at the other flower that I had and then I looked towards the house. I made my way to the house and I opened the front door and noticed that everyone was asleep and I went towards the kitchen and I was happy that they left the kitchen light on and as quietly as possible and I grabbed a glass for a cabinet and I filled it up with water. Once I was done I placed the flower in the water and I grabbed it and I started to head towards the room where Sam was in.
As I made it to the door, I stood there for a moment ' What am I doing? I'm givin Sam a damn flower! This ain't me, this ain't a dixon!' I thought as I shook my head and I just grabbed the door knob and turned it and opened the door. I peeked inside the room, to see that Sam wasn't awake and I was about to take a step into the room till I saw Rick in a chair right next to her asleep. If he woke up he would never let me live this down. So I snuck over to Sam and I placed the floor on the end table next to her and I looked over at her. Sam's breathing was doing a lot better than before and the color of her skin was back to normal. As I was looking at her I reached out my hand and lightly touched her face, but then I pulled back my hand as left my anger starting to build up inside of me as I looked towards the wrap that was around her waist, the scares that she showed me back at the CDC till my eyes landed on her face and the anger somehow disappeared. Sam was alive, she wasn't fighting for her life anymore and I was going to keep it that way. I turned my head to look at Rick to see that he was still asleep, I looked back at Sam one last time and quietly walked out of the room and went back to my tent.
Sam's P.O.V
Every part of my body was aching and hurting. I forced my eyes open, and I blinked my eyes a few times til my vision was clear. I started to look again and noticed that I was in the same room as I was before. I looked down to see that I had a different shirt on and I pulled the shirt up and looked at the wrap that was on my abomond and I lowered the shirt back down. I grabbed the cover and I covered myself up, I looked over to the right to see R...I mean dad slept in a chair that was right next to my bed and then I felt a little movement on my left side and it felt like it was in the bed with me. I looked over to my left side to see Carl laying in the bed next to me. I smiled at him, knowing that he was okay and safe. Something else caught the corner of my eye and I looked over to see a white flower in a glass of water on the nightstand right beside my bed. I looked at it in wonder until I felt movement next to me again and I looked over to see Carl slowly opening his eyes and his eyes looked right at me.
" Sam?" Carl asked me with sleep in his voice as he blinked his eyes quickly as he looked at me.
" Hey there, kiddo." I said as I smiled at him as I placed my hand on top of his head.
" Sam!" Carl yelled as he wrapped his arms around my waist which caused me to yelp in pain and he removed himself off me.
" Sorry." Carl said as he looked at me with a sad look and worried look on his face.
" It's ok buddy. It's not your fault." I said as I placed my hand back on his head and rubbed it.
I heard movement on my right and I turned my head to see dad starting to wake up thanks to all the noise that was in the room. He rubbed his eyes, he started to stretch his body and once he was done he looked over at me and he froze for a bit. His eyes went wide when he noticed that I was awake, " S….Sam?" Rick asked as he straightened himself in the chair.
" Yeah, dad. It's me." I said as I looked at him with a smile on my face.
" Thank god, how are you feeling right now, Sam?" Rick asked me as he got up and knelt down and grabbed my hand.
" I'm in slight pain, but I'm ok." I said which made Rick smile.
" Did you find Sophia?" I asked Rick as I looked at him.
" No…...not yet. Daryl found a house where we think she stayed in for a while. It's not much, but it's the first lead we got so far." Rick said which gave me hope that we were close to finding her and getting her back to her mother again. I looked over at Carl and then noticed the sad look on his face.
" Hey, we're going to find her, Carl. I promise you ok." I said, giving him a reassuring smile which he gave back to me. Carl nodded his head to me and I looked over back at Rick and chuckled. I lifted my shirt and looked at my waist and then I looked back at Rick after I pulled my shirt back down.
" Well, looky there. I'm just like you now. We both were shot, ain't that weird?" I asked him as he looked at me.
" Yeah, let's keep that between us, ok?" Rick asked and I giggled and nodded my head to him.
" Since you're in the club now, you get to wear the hat. Didn't you know that?" Rick said as he took off his hat that was on his head and then placed it on my head.
I pulled the hat off my head and I looked at it and then I looked over at Carl and then back at the hat. I placed the hat on Carl's head, " I think it would look better on you then on me." I said as I looked at Carl.
Carl smiled as the hat kept falling over his eyes, " We'll pad the rim tomorrow, so it sits better on your head." Rick said as he looked at his son.
" Wouldn't you miss it dad and are you sure it was okay for me to have this hat Sam?" Carl asked the both of us.
" Maybe you'll let me and Sam borrow it from time to time. We can all share it." Rick said as both me and Carl nodded our heads. Then we all heard someone clearing their throat which made all of us turn to look to see who it was and it was Daryl. He was leaning on the doorframe awkwardly looking at us.
" Hey Carl, let's go get something to eat and will come back and we'll bring you something later Sam ok." Rick said as he got up off the ground and Carl nodded his head and got off the bed and followed his father out the room. Which left me and Daryl alone. It was silent for a while, we both waited for one of us to start talking first.
" You can come closer and sit down if you want, ya know." I told him and he nodded his head and made his way over to me and sat down in the chair where Rick was in and he looked down to the ground and didn't even make a sound. I just looked at him till I turned to look at the flower.
" Thanks for the Cherokee Rose by the way." I said as I looked back over at him with a smile on my face.
" How'd you know it was me?" Daryl asked as he looked back up at me really quickly.
" It was just a guess. I even know the meaning of the flower because of my aunt. She told me about the story and what they meant. Also she had them planted around her yard where she lived. I always took some to her, even though she kept telling me not to pull them out, but I didn't listen." I said as I looked at him and chuckled at the memory.
" I'm not fooled enough to think there's any flowers blooming for my brother. But I believe this one bloomed for Sophia." Daryl said as tears filled my eyes, but I blinked them away and I nodded my head to him.
" I'm gonna find er Sam, I promised." Daryl said as he looked at me.
" I know." I whispered as I gave him a small smile. Daryl slightly smiled at me and I could feel my cheeks burning up from blushing and I looked away and looked down at my hands. Then I heard a door knock and I looked up along with Daryl to see an older man entering the room with a young blonde hair woman following right behind him.
" Hello miss, my name is Hershel if you remember me and this is my daughter Beth." Hershel said to me and I nodded my head to them.
" Yea, I remember you and hello Beth and also thank you for saving my life, Hershel." I said to Hershel and to Beth.
" It was no trouble at all, miss. Now if you don't mind, I'd like to take a look at your wound." Hershel said as I nodded my head to him and noticed that Daryl got up and was about to leave the room.
" Daryl?" I called out to him and Daryl stopped and he turned to look at me.
" I just wanted to tell you to please be careful out there." I said as he looked at me.
" I'll make sure that I'm okay. I promise." Daryl said as he nodded his head and he left the room.
" Now please turn over to your side, if you don't mind please?" Hershel asked me and at first I hesitated to move when he asked me and I think he noticed it.
" Ma'am, I've already seen your scars and I won't ask any questions." Hershel said as he looked at me. I slowly nodded my head and I started to move but it was really hard to move so Beth came over to me and helped me turn over to my side.
" That boyfriend of yours is something else." Hershel chuckled under his breath as he was checking my stitches.
" W-What?" I asked while I was shocked and confused as I turned my head to look at him.
" I believe his name was Daryl? Was it?" Hershel asked with a little smile on his face.
" Yea that's him. But he's just a friend." I said as I looked at him and he stopped to look right back at me.
" Well that is hard to believe, with how protective he was of you when he got here. He tried so hard to leave to get the stuff that we needed to keep you alive." Hershel said as he looked back at my stitches.
" Really now?" I said as I looked at him and he nodded his head and then I laid my head back down and had a small smile on my face.
" They look good for now. I'm wanting you to take it easy for a while. I'll allow you to be out of bed as long as you're careful." Hershel said as he got up to his feet and I turned my head to look at him and I nodded my head to him.
Once he nodded his head to me and left the room, I started to slowly sit up in the bed and Beth helped me the rest of the way and then she left to go help her sister. I sat there for a little bit til I turned my body to put my feet on the ground and I got up on my feet and I headed towards the mirror. As I got to the mirror, my hair looked like a mess like a bird's nest. I also looked like I never got a wink of sleep within three or four days and I looked a little pale. I looked down on the table and then I looked over to the left and I saw a whole new pair of clothes in a chair and I reached for one of the shirts which had my favorite color on it, which was purple.
I slowly started to put the shirt on when I heard a door knock and I turned my head to see a woman with short brown hair coming in with a tray of food. She looks up to see me and places the tray down on the end table and she comes over to me and helps me with my new shirt, " Glad to see you're moving around a little bit. You had your group worried about you for a while there. Even that Redneck man was worried about you. I brought you some food." The girl said as she looked over at me once I got my head through the shirt hole.
" Thank you miss." I said as I looked at her with a smile on my face.
" Oh sorry, my name is Maggie. I'm one of Hershel's daughters." Maggie said as she looked at me.
" Nice to meet you, my name is Samantha but I prefer Sam." I said with a smile on my face.
Maggie nodded her head as she turned her head to look at the flower that Daryl got and she walked over to it and gently touched one of the pebbles and then she turned to look at me, " Did your boyfriend get this for you?" She asked me.
" Boyfriend?" I asked as I was confused on what Maggie meant.
" Yea…..Daryl?" Maggie asked me as she looked at me.
" Oh! No,no,no,no. Daryl's not my boyfriend. He's just a friend." I said quickly even though I had a blush on my cheeks.
" Oh…..So for assuming that." Maggie tried to say til I cut her off.
" No problem." Maggie said as she started to head towards the door.
" Hey Maggie?" I asked her, which made her stop walking towards the door and she turned towards me.
" Yea?" Maggie asked as she looked at me.
" You think you could probably help me get downstairs once I get done eating?" I asked Maggie.
" Of course, I'll help you. I'll give you a few moments and I'll come back later." Maggie said as she walked out the door to leave me to finish dressing and to eat.
Once I got my pants on, which was a little hard but I was able to get them on. I went over to the bed and I sat down and I started to eat my food when I heard the door open and I looked up to see who it was and it was Carl.
" Hey buddy. What's going on?" I asked as I took a bit of food.
" I just wanted to hang out with you, if that is okay?" Carl asked as he was messing with his new hat.
" Yeah, I don't mind. Come here." I said as I patted on the bed for him to sit down right next to me. Carl came over to me and sat down on the bed.
" I have a question for you sis?" Carl asked me as he looked up at me.
" Yeah, what's up?" I asked as I grabbed for the glass of water that was on the nightstand.
" Do you like Daryl?" Carl asked me, which made me choke on the water and I spit it out and I turned my head to look at him with a shocked look on my face.
" W…..What?!" I asked him, trying to make sure that I heard him correctly.
" Do you like Daryl?" Carl asked me again.
" I….I don't know." I said as I looked down at my lap till I thought about it and then I looked back at him.
" Can you keep a secret?" I asked him with a little smile on my face and Carl nodded his head yes to me.
" I don't know what it is about Daryl. But when I'm with him I feel safe around him. Even if we don't get along half the time. I get this feeling in the pit of my stomach like I have butterflies when I'm with him." I said and I looked back down to the ground after hearing what I told Carl. That was when I realized that I was falling for the tough redneck.
" Oh my god." I said as I covered my mouth.
" What?" Carl asked me as he had a confused look on his face.
" I think I'm falling for Daryl, I think I'm falling in love with Daryl." I said as I looked at Carl with a small smile on my face.
" I need you to keep this a secret Carl, ok?" I asked Carl which he nodded his head and then lifted his pinky finger.
" I promise." Carl said as both Carl's and my fingers connected for the pinky promise. Once we did that Maggie came walking into the room.
" You ready?" Maggie asked me.
" Oh, I've been ready to get out of this room." I said as I nodded my head and both me and Carl got up from the bed and Maggie led the way out of the room and both me and Carl followed right behind her.
I nervously made my way outside feeling the cool breeze blowing against my skin. I closed my eyes a little bit for them to adjust to the light outside and then I opened my eyes and looked over to Carl who was holding my hand and I gave him a smile and he smiled back at me.
Both Carl and Maggie helped me down the stairs of the porch and towards the others at the campsite. The other's stopped what they were doing to see me standing there in front of them.
Lori and Carol stood up and came over to me and hugged me gently with a smile on their faces, " I'm so glad that you're going to be okay now." Carol said as she whipped a tear from her eye.
I nodded my head to them and then I started to look around for Daryl and I noticed that I didn't see him anywhere, " Has Daryl returned yet?" I asked everyone as I looked at them.
" He hasn't returned yet." T-Dog said as he looked at me and he shook his head to me.
I nodded my head to him and I looked over at the RV to where Dale was right beside the RV and I made my way to him with Andrea on top of the RV with a rifle in her hands.
" Hey Dale." I smiled at him as I wrapped my arms around him and he hugged me back and he let me go.
" Sam! I'm so happy that you are alright." Dale said as he placed his hand on my shoulder.
" Well, look who is out and about." A voice said from behind me.
" Dad." Carl said as he turned and went over to him and hugged him as I turned to look at him. He let's go of Carl and he comes over to me and hugs and I flinched a little bit and I knew he felt me cause he released once he was done hugging me.
" What are you doing out of bed right now?" Rick asked me as he looked at me.
" Hershel told me that I could walk around as long as I'm very careful." I said as I had a small smile on my face and he smiled back at me.
" Walker, walker!" Andrea yelled as both me and Rick's smiles fell as we turned to see where she saw the walker.
" Just the one?" Rick asked Andrea as he looked towards the area.
" I bet I can nail it from here." Andrea said as she lay down on the roof of the RV and she aimed the gun towards it.
" No no, Andrea. Put the gun down." Rick said as he looked at her.
" You'd best let us handle this." Shane yelled as he took off running towards the walker.
" Shane, hold up. Hershel wants to deal with the walkers." Rick tried to tell him, which made Shane stop in his tracks to look towards Rick.
" What for, man? We got it covered." Shane said as he took off running towards the walker with T-Dog, Glenn following him. I noticed that Rick was very hesitant till he ran after them. I stood there watching them heading that way, but something told me to go so I took off after the others. I heard someone calling me but I didn't stop and I kept going.
I finally caught up to the others and bent over trying to catch my breath. I looked in front of me at the walker to hear Glenn ask, " Is that Daryl?"
I looked up towards the walker and it was Daryl covered in mud, blood and I looked down at his side and noticed that he was hurt. He even had ears around his neck. My heart started to pound out of my chest and I felt like I couldn't breath as I was looking at him.
" That's the third time you've pointed that thing at my head. You gonna pull the trigger or what?!" Daryl snapped at Rick.
I sighed with relief as I looked at him as a little laugh escaped my lips as I walked over to Rick and I placed my hand on his hand and lowered his gun as I started to make my way towards Daryl. As I was about to reach him, I heard a gunshot from behind us.
When Daryl dropped to the ground in the grass without a sound. I darted forward, dropping to my knees in the tall grass as my tears began to fall from my face. I shook his shoulders slightly while hearing Rick yelling no. I looked over Daryl's head and noticed that the bullet had just merely grazed his head and that he was still breathing, " He's alive!" I cried out in relief.
Shane came over and pulled me up to my feet and passed me over to Glenn before helping Rick pull Daryl up to his feet. Daryl gaspes, looking back and forth and then slumped against Rick, fighting to stay conscious, " I was kidding!" He grumbled.
Rick and Shane began pulling him towards the house and I followed right behind them but when I saw Andrea and Dale sprinting towards us, my blood started to boil when my eyes landed on Andrea, " Oh my god! Is he dead?!" Andrea cried as she looked at Daryl.
" You fucking bitch! Rick told you not to shoot! He told you to wait! What the hell is wrong with you!" I yelled at her as I made my way to her.
" Glenn! Grab Sam!" Rick yelled as he pointed at me.
It was too late to stop me as my hand was already clenched into a fist and I brought it up quickly across her face, knocking her to the ground. I was about to hit her again but a pair of arms wrapped tightly around my shoulders, pulling me away from her, " Sam calm down!" Glenn yelled as he was trying to hold me back.
" I'll kill you! You could have killed Daryl, you stupid bitch!" I yelled at Andrea as she looked at me in shock.
" I thought he was a walker. I didn't know! I thought I could handle it." Andrea defended, wiping away the blood that was dripping from her nose as she climbed back to her feet.
" Rick said he had it! You had no reason to shoot!" I yelled at her as I glared at her.
" Guys, isn't this Sophia's?" I heard T-Dog ask as we all turned our heads to look at him to see him holding a doll in his hand. As we got to the house, Daryl was put in the same room I was in, they didn't let me in the room while they were fixing him up, so I sat down in the hallway in front of the door while holding my stomach.
I knew that punching Andrea would cause me to strain myself, but I didn't care. All I was worried about was not me but Daryl, after what seemed like forever the door in front of me opens and Hershel and everyone else walks out of the room. Rick was the last one to come out of the room which made me get my feet quickly while fighting the pain I was feeling.
" How is he doing?" I asked him as I looked at Rick.
" He's doing just fine." Rick said as he gave me a little smile.
" Can I see him?" I asked as my breathing started to shorten.
" He's resting right now, but he was asking about you." Rick said as he looked at me.
I sighed with relief after hearing what Rick just told me, but then my vision started to blur as the pain started to increase very quickly. I placed my hand on my stomach and I pulled my hand away to see that there was blood covering my hand now.
" Sam?" Rick asked me as he saw the blood from my hand, as concern started to fill his eyes. Black spots started to fill my vision as I slowly looked down at my shirt to see blood seeping through it. I looked back up at Rick as he looked at me.
" Dad?" I asked weakly as my eyes started to lower.
" Oh my god." Rick whispered as I looked at him as my legs gave out underneath me and Rick ran towards me and caught me before touching the ground. Bringing me down to the floor carefully.
The last thing I heard was Rick yelling, " Hershel! Help! Sam stay with me!" Then I blacked out.
When I opened my eyes again, I noticed that I was back in my room again. As I tried to sit up in the bed while I was trying to remember what happened, ' Let's see. I remember Daryl getting shot, I punched Andrea in the face. Heh, she deserved it. Find out that Daryl was okay, then I started bleeding and Rick yelling for help. Wait a minute, ain't Dayl in this room too.' I thought as I looked to my left to see Daryl right beside me, looking right at me. I looked down at his side to see the bandages and also around his head. I also noticed that he was shirtless, my eyes stayed glued to him. Daryl was very fit and I started to feel butterflies in my stomach again as I was looking at him.
" Take a picture, it'll last longer." Daryl grunted as he still kept his eyes on me. Without even thinking I threw my arms around his neck and I hugged him. I felt him flinch at first but he didn't push me away as he slowly wrapped his arms around me.
" I got so worried about you." I said as I released him and looked at his blue eyes.
" I'm fine. I was more worried about ya, when I saw them bring you in here unconscious, bleeding." Daryl said.
" Sorry, she deserved it though." I said as I looked down at my hands.
" Why did you hit Andrea?" Daryl asked me as I looked back up at him.
" When Andrea shot you, I thought you were dead and it made my blood boil to the point that I snapped." I said as I looked away.
" So?" Daryl asked.
" So?! If you had died, Andrea would be so dead right now!" I yelled as I looked back at him. He just looked at me as silence filled the room.
" What happened out there?" I asked, breaking the silence and also finally able to calm down a bit.
" Took one of Hershel's horses to go look for Sophia, the damn horse got spooked and threw me off the cliff and when I got to the bottom, one of my arrows went through my side." Daryl said as he tried to get comfortable in the bed.
" Oh my gosh." I said as I laid down on my side and looked at him.
We laid there in the bed for a good while until he said, " I saw Merle."
" What?" I asked as I looked at him in shock.
" I know that I was just hallucinating, but as I was laying in that creek. Merle told me that y'all back here was laughin behind my back, that none of ya cared." Daryl said as he looked down at his hands.
" When was the last time Merle ever told you something truthful?" I asked him which made him look back at me.
Daryl didn't answer the question and looked back down again till I placed my hand on his face which made him look back up at me. I didn't realize what I was doing as I was looking at him till I noticed that I was leaning in towards him. His breath hit my face and my heart beat was going faster as I was just inches away from his lips, but then I heard a door open and I jumped away from Daryl and he did as well. I looked to see it was Carol with a tray of food, she walked over to us and she set the tray down on the nightstand and she smiled at us and then she left the room.
' Was Daryl really going to kiss me just now? But we haven't known each other that long. I wonder if it will ever happen again. No Samantha stop thinking like that. He doesn't have feelings for you.' I thought as I shook my head a little bit and I grabbed my plate along with Daryl's and started to eat. Once I was done eating, I laid back down in the bed with my back facing Daryl. And I felt his back against mine and I passed out.
The next morning I woke up to see Daryl was still asleep. I smiled as I was looking at him, he looked so peaceful and so at ease. I wanted to run my fingers through his hair but I didn't want to wake him up.
I heard a door open and I turned my head to see Shane standing there, I brought my finger to my lips, " Shhh." I whispered as I pointed at Daryl.
Shane nodded his head and slowly closed the door and made his way over to the bed. I grabbed the cover and pulled it closer to my body as I looked at him.
" How are you doing?" Shane asked as he looked at me.
" I'm doing a lot better now. Maybe Hershel will let me walk around today, if I'm careful." I said to Shane as I looked over at him.
" That's good, really good." Shane said as he sat down on the bed, right next to me.
I moved a little closer to Daryl because for some reason, when I looked at Shane, his eyes were different, they were darker, crazier, just like my step father's. My body started to shake in fear as Shane was looking at me for a moment and I could tell that he was looking at my body. I tried to pull the blanket closer to me but Shane grabbed it and forcefully pulled it down from my body. My body now was shaking even harder in fear as he shook his head no to me and he started to lean his head towards me. He moved a strand of my hair over my left shoulder which exposed my neck, " Shane, you better stop right now." I said as I tried to back away but remembered Daryl was right next to me and I didn't want to wake him up, so I looked back at Shane with a glare in my eyes.
" You sure have grown up now haven't you Sam." Shane whispered to me as he slowly started to move his hand down from my shoulder to the rest of my body. I was trying my hardest to stop my body from shaking but nothing was working.
" Shane, you better get your hand off of me right now or you're going to regret it." I said I continued to glare at him till I felt his hand on my thigh and he placed his finger against my lips.
" Shhhhh...everything is going to be fine and also this is a good thing for the both of us." Shane said as a smile started to appear on his lips as his hand started to travel again, but was stopped midway by another hand which made me jump a little bit and my eyes started to follow the hand that stopped Shane and it was Daryl.
" If you wanna keep that hand of yours, then I suggest you remove your hands off of Sam and back to your side." Daryl said as he kept his hand on Shane's hand as he glared at him. Relief started to wash over my whole body knowing that Daryl was awake now.
" She ain't yours, what say do you have here?" Shane questioned Daryl as both of his hands squeezed my thighs, which made me flinch.
" You wanna bet? And what I say is if you don't move both hands from her thighs and get out of this room right now. Yer gonna have no hands to worry about and also one less eye to see out of, so you better get lost." Daryl growled which made me flinch as I turned to look at him.
I started to get worried about what was going to happen next as I waited for Shane or Daryl to jump at each other's throats, but they didn't do anything except glare at each other. Daryl sat up from his side of the bed and grabbed one of Shane's hands from my thigh and yanked it away from me and along with his other hand. Shane started to growl at Daryl and I thought he was going to do something but all he did was get up from where he was and headed towards the door. Shane stopped as his hand was on the doorknob and he turned his head to look at me, " Daryl won't always be there to save you, Sam." Shane whispered as there was a small smile on his lips and my eyes went wide.
Then Shane walked out slamming the door right behind him. Once Shane was gone the tears started to go down my face and my breathing started to get heavier, I felt a hand on my hand and I flinched a little till I looked over at Daryl and then he placed his hand on my face, " Hey, Hey calm down. He's gone. You're safe now." Daryl said as he was looking at me with his blue eyes.
" You alright?" Daryl asked me as I leaned into his hand as more tears started to go down my face. At first I thought about lying to him and saying that I was fine, but with how I look right now, I would be lying big time.
" No, no I'm not Daryl. If you hadn't stopped him when you did, I don't know what I would've done. I know that I was looking brave on the outside but deep down I was terrified. What Shane was doing was bring back memories of what my step father would try to do to me and...and…" I couldn't even finish my sentence cause I was starting to cry even harder and I placed both my hands to my face and cried. I cried for a while till I felt Daryl's hands pull me down to him and wrapped his arms around me and held me close to him. I froze at first, but I started to relax in his grip as my tears stopped going down my face as he placed his head on top of my head.
" Shane won't ever get close or touch you, I swear it." Daryl said as my eyes started to get very heavy after all the crying that I did.
" T...thank you Daryl." I said as my eyes closed and drifted to sleep.
End Of Chapter
I hope you guys like this chapter. Very sorry for not posting for so long. Drama with family. My mom is in a lot of pain and she is not able to walk and also work. But I'm going to set a schedule for myself to do this story cause I also play Fortnite with my mom. So Wednesdays and Thursdays, those are the days that I don't play games. So I really hope that you like this chapter. Please let me know what you think. See you guys next time