I groaned in pain as my head continued to pound as I opened my eyes. I looked around and noticed that I was back in Hershel's house and that I was alive.
' Daryl did it. He saved me again.' I thought as I saw movement to my left and I looked over to see Daryl sitting right next to me and he was sleeping.
I heard a door open and I turned my head to look to see Carol walking in and then she turned to look towards me and she had a smile on her face as she came over to me, " Well, look who is awake." Carol said as she walked over to me and she sat down on the bed and then she grabbed a hold of my hand and held it tight.
" What happened while I was out?" I asked Carol as I looked at her, she sighed and then she looked over at Daryl and then back at me.
" Well, once Daryl got back with you that was when Rick and Glenn got back with Hershel and Hershel went straight to work on your wounds while Daryl went straight towards Shane and punched him right in the face. Rick stopped him before it got any worse between them." Carol said as my eyes went wide and I looked back and forth between Carol and Daryl.
" Daryl did all that for me?" I asked as I looked at him and then I looked back at Carol who nodded her head to me.
" Yes, but then something happened between Daryl and Rick, I think he said something to him which pissed off Rick and he punched Daryl in the face, but after a while he went back to Daryl and told him that he was sorry for punching him. Now things are okay between them and now they are trying to figure out what to do with the guy they brought with them." Carol said as she looked at me. She leaned closer to me and placed her hand on my cheek and rubbed it.
" I'm so glad that you're okay." Carol said as I saw tears starting to go down her face.
" I thought you would still blame me for what happened." I said as I looked away from her but then her hand that was on my cheek moved my face to look back at her.
" I was at first, but when I heard that Shane had just left you for dead. My heart just broke in half. I thought that I lost another daughter." Carol said to me which made me freeze in place.
" Wh….What did you just say to me?" I asked her as I looked at her in shock.
" I said I thought I lost another daughter. I see you like a daughter to me. I loved how close you and Sophia were, and now that she is gone, you're the only thing that I have left in my life. When Shane left you, I thought I lost you and I don't want that to happen again.
" Carol." Was all I could say as I looked at her.
" Well, I gotta go. I have to make sure that Lori needs any help with anything. I'll check on you later, ok." Carol said as she let's go of my hand and removed her hand from my cheek and gets up to leave the room, but I stopped her by grabbing her hand which made her look towards me.
" Thank you Carol, that means a lot to me. I do see you as a mom to me as well." I said as I gave her a smile and she gave me one back and that was when I let go of her hand and then she left out of the room.
As the door was closing I noticed movement to my right and I looked over to see Daryl waking up and looking right at me, " Hey, there." I said as I was looking at him. Daryl got up from the chair and then he came over to me and sat down right beside me.
" Daryl look, I'm so sorr.." I started to say to him but Daryl stopped me.
" No, stop. I wanted to say that I was sorry. Sorry for hitting you, sorry for yelling, sorry for everything." Daryl said as he grabbed my hand and squeezed it tightly.
" It's okay. Things happen, we got into a fight, which I should have known better with you. Also I wanted to say sorry for worrying you. I should have listened to Lori when she told me to let you know where I was going." I said as I let go of his hand and I slowly started to sit up and Daryl noticed that he helped me the rest of the way and started to fix the pillows right behind me and then laid me back down on the pillows.
" You shouldn't have left at all." Daryl said as he sat back down in his spot back on the bed.
" If I hadn't, Lori would've been here instead of me and Rick already has enough to worry about." I said as I looked at him. I leaned my head against a pillow looking up at the ceiling.
" I'm very glad that you came for me Daryl. I mean I would have fought those men if I had the strength and also if I wasn't injured again." I said as I turned my head to look at him.
" If I hadn't made it there in time. You would've been dead or worse." Daryl said as he got up and crossed his arms as he stood by the window.
" But nothing happened to me. You saved me, Daryl. And I'm grateful for that. That's why I love you." I said as he turned his head to me and I gave him a small smile.
" Lori is okay though, right?" I asked Daryl.
" Yeah, she's fine. Wouldn't say the same to Shane." Daryl smirked as he walked back over to me.
" Yeah Carol told me. If you hadn't hit him. I would've done it myself." I said to him as I smirked back at him.
" I bet you would've." Daryl said as he grabbed my hand and held it very tight til we heard a knock on the door and Daryl let go of my hand.
" Come in." I said as the door opened and Rick came inside and gave me a smile and then he looked over at Daryl and nodded his head to him and Daryl nodded his head back to him and then he started to head out the room but stopped to look back at me and he gave me a small smile and walked out the room and closed the door, leaving me and Rick alone.
" I'm so glad that you are okay. When I heard what happened from Lori, I got really worried." Rick said as he walked over to the bed and took my hand into his hand.
" yeah, I'm very lucky. At least you're going to be a dad." I said as Rick looked at me in shock.
" H….How did you know?" Rick asked me.
" I figured it out when Maggie came back pissed off at Lori and that was when everything clicked in my head and I already know that you are going to be a great father. And if Shane has anything to say about wanting to get near Lori or the baby, he's not going to. Over my dead body." I said as I tried to adjust myself on my pillows and Rick got up and helped me.
" I know you would do anything for us. But there is one thing I would like you to do is for you to get some rest. Can you do that for me?" Rick asked me as he fixed the cover and looked at me.
" Yes sir. I can do that." I said with a smile on my face.
" Good, check on you later on k." Rick said as he leaned in towards me and kissed me on forehead and then he got up and left out of the room.
I leaned my head back down on the pillows and shut my eyes for a while till I heard yelling downstairs. Curiosity got the best of me and I slowly got out of bed, but ended up falling to the floor. I layed there for a while til I grabbed ahold of something and slowly pulled myself up off the floor and towards the door. Once I got to the door, I opened it quietly and slowly made my way out of the room and towards the stairs. I leaned against the wall hoping not to fall on the ground again. I got closer to the stairs to see what was going on.
" Why's he here? He's a liability." I heard Shane say as I got over to the railing of the stairs.
' Who is he talking about?' I thought as I looked down at the others wondering what was going on.
" He would've bled out if we left him behind." Rick said as he looked over at Shane.
" It's gotten bad in town." Glenn explained as he stood close to Maggie. Rick was about to say something til I saw Hershel walking towards them while wiping his hands with a rag.
" I repaired his calf muscle as best I can but he'll probably have nerve damage. He won't be on his feet for at least a week." Hershel said as he looked at then looked over at Rick.
" When he is, we give him a canteen, take him out to the main road and send him on his way." Rick said.
" You're just going to let him go? He knows where we are." Shane said with a little bit of irritation in his voice.
" He was blindfolded the whole way here, he's not a threat." Rick explained to Shane.
" Not a threat? How many of them were there? You killed three of their man, you took one of them hostage, but they just ain't gonna come lookin?" Shane asked Rick. At this point I was getting tired of hearing Shane's voice and I started to slowly make my way down the stairs.
" Sounds like they left him for dead Shane. I don't think anyone is coming to the guy you're talking about." I said as everyone turned their eyes towards me.
" What are you doing out of bed?" Rick asked me as he looked at me.
" Well, it's hard to rest when that asshole is yelling." I said as I glared at Shane. Daryl walked over towards me and took my arm in case my body decided to fall to the ground.
" Sorry about that Sam." Maggie said as she smiled at me. Then Daryl started to take me back to the room and heard Shane yelling his option about the whole thing and then he stormed towards the door and slammed the door behind him.
As Daryl got us close to the room, he opened the door and got me back over to the bed. Then placed me back down on the bed and as he was about to leave the room, I grabbed his hand and he turned to look at me and I gave him a little smile and he gave me one back, " Get some sleep. I'll see you tomorrow." Daryl said as he moved a piece of my hair from my face.
" Alright." I said as I settled down in the bed as he closed the door, while he also turned off the light. I closed my eyes and then not long after that, I fell asleep.
A week has passed since the incident and I was healed up very well and I got to meet Randale when I saw Carl going over to the barn and I followed after him to try and stop him. And Carl kept asking him questions and Randale would answer him and I could tell that he was close in asking him to try to let him go and that Rick was an honest man. But before Carl could ask him anything else, Shane busted in which scared the living crap out of me and he dragged both me and Carl out of there but I yanked my arm away from him and I grabbed Carl away from him and walked away from him.
But I could feel him looking at me when I was around anyone and by myself or when I wasn't looking at him. At that point I stayed near Daryl just in case Shane tried to do something. I knew I could fight him off, it was just that I knew that Daryl would beat his ass if he tried anything and not stop till he was dead.
Me and Daryl started to get closer and I also noticed that he really did care for me cause when I told him that I was going with Rick and Shane to let Randall lose. At first he didn't want me to go and we argued about it for about 30 minutes till he gave up and just told me to be careful.
I walked over to the car. I opened the door and placed my crossbow in the backseat and I was about to shut the door till I heard a pair of footsteps behind me and I turned around to see Daryl right behind me, " Are you sure you want to go with them?" Daryl asked me and I nodded my head to him.
" Yes Daryl, If I don't go. I have a feeling that Shane will start a fight. Have you noticed that either of them have agreed with anything the other suggested?" I asked him as I looked at him while he looked over at Rick and then he looked over at Shane who was walking towards us with Randall towards the car.
" Just be careful and make sure that both of them don't kill each other along with yourself." Daryl said to me as he pulled me into a hug and then let's go of me as Rick and Shane got closer to us.
" I'll come back along with them." I said as I looked at him as Rick took Randall from Shane and then he placed him in the trunk and then they both got in the car with me following right behind them. Rick started to car and we started to head out and I turned my head to look out the back window to look at Daryl as he disappeared from my view.
It was an hour in the drive and Rick had to stop the car and both him and Shane got out of the car. It looked like they both were starting to argue and it looked like they were about to fight. I was about to get out of the car to stop them, but something told me to stay in the car, so I did.
After a little while of both Rick and Shane " talking" they both got back in the car, " We've gotta start using our knives more, if there's just one walker, we use a knife, We keep this quiet, save the ammunition. We also need dry goods ahead of the winter. Warm clothes. Fuel. Hell, maybe we get a break. You gotta think the cold affects the walkers." Rick said as he cleared his voice and started the car again as he looked at Shane.
" It might not kill them, but it will definitely slow them down. By then we should be able to hunt and search for things safer." I said as I looked over at Rick and saw him nod his head to me.
" It's past 18 miles." Shane said as he looked at Rick as he was pointing at a walker that was by itself.
" Yeah I know. I'm lookin' for a place. Just give him a fair chance, I think I see somethin' up ahead." Rick said as I looked over at what was in front of us. There was a small building that was surrounded by a fence. It looked weak, but it will hold for a while.
Rick made a sharp turn at the front of the fence and we all got out to take a look at the area, " This will do. We'll leave the boy here and scavenge some supplies." Rick said as he got out of the car with the rest of us following right behind him. I heard a growl and I turned my head to see two walkers and Shane pointed his gun towards them and was about to take a shot at them, but Rick walked over to him and placed his hand on his shoulder and stopped him.
" Wait, like I said. Gun's quick and easy but there are other ways to do this." Rick said as he pulled his hand away from Shane's shoulder and he grabbed his knife and then went towards the walkers and stabbed one of them while I followed right behind him and took out the other one with my arrows from my crossbow. Rick walked over to the walker that I took out and pulled out my arrow from its head and walked over to me and handed it back to me.
Then both Shane and Rick went back to the car while I opened the gate and I looked back over to see both Rick and Shane having Randall inside with me following right behind them. I looked around to see how deserted it was and several feet away from me was a burning pile of walkers in the distance, " At least he'll have a fighting chance." I said as I looked over at Rick and he nodded his head to me to agree.
Shane then threw Randall to the ground but still kept him tied up. I grabbed one of my spar knives and placed it right in front of him on the ground. Randall looked around confused, " The hell is this?" Randall asked as we started to walk away.
" Oh, C'mon don't be stupid! I owe you guys. I can help protect what you got. Why would you save my life just to kill me by leaving me here?! I can't make it alone! Don't be stupid! I'm just some guy! I used to watch football and screw around on the internet. I lived with my mom! I went to school with Maggie for God's sake!" Randall yelled which made us just freeze in place.
" You went to school with Maggie?" Rick asked as we all turned to look at him.
" She didn't know me. I mean, I knew her. I knew who her dad was. There is no way I would ever do anythin' to hurt Maggie or her family or you and your people!" Randall pleaded to us.
" He knows where the farm is, Rick. He knows where we are. Say he finds his way back to his people." Shane says to Rick as he pulls his gun from his waist and starts to walk over to Randall.
I noticed what Shane was about to do and I walked in front of him to stop him but all he did was point his gun at me hoping that I would move so he could get to Randall. Rick moved quickly over to me and shoved Shane to the ground leaving me unharmed in any way with Randall. I watched as both of them were wrestling on the ground, as Rick tried to take Shane's gun, " Not now!" Rick yelled at Shane as he got Shane's gun.
" Well, when Rick? When?" Shane questioned Rick as he got off Shane and walked over to me and handed me the gun.
" Please don't kill me!" Randall begged for his life.
" Will you? Shut the fuck up," I yelled at him and then I turned to look back at Rick, " What are we going to do dad?" I asked Rick, hoping that he would have an answer.
" We're going back. It's a man's life here. I need another night to think things through." Rick said, which I nodded my head to agree with him, but I could tell that Shane was not really happy, as he got off the ground and walked over to Rick.
" Rick, it's been a whole damn week! You're gonna bring this piece of garbage back? He goin' to bring him back to where Lori sleeps? Where does Carl sleep?" Shane yelled as he got right in Rick's face.
" He'll be locked up in the barn. Unless you break this one open too. I need to think about this, Shane." Rick argued back at Shane.
" Yeah, you think about it, Rick. Keep on struggling with it. It ain't hard, man. The right choice is the one that keeps us alive! Sam come on, you have to agree with me on this?" Shane asked me as he looked at me.
" No, I don't agree, Shane. Rick's making the decisions here and after everything you've done lately. You just need to shut the fuck up, Shane!" I yelled at him as I walked over to him and I pushed him away from Rick.
" Stop actin' like you know the way ahead! Like you know the rules! There are no rules anymore. We're lost." Rick said to Shane. I can tell that Rick was hoping that Shane would listen to him.
" I know exactly where I am, I don't think you can do it, Rick. I don't think you can keep your family safe." Shane said.
Everything happened so fast. I looked at Rick and the next thing I know, Rick threw a punch at Shane but Shane was quick to block it and he headbutted Rick in the face, which sent Rick to the ground. Shane walked over to me and tried to grab the gun from me but I was fighting him the whole time till he kicked my legs under me and I fell down on my back and the gun got ripped out of my hands. I looked over to see Shane walk over towards Rick and he pointed the gun at Rick's head.
I got up very quickly and I ran towards Shane and I grabbed his arm and started wrestling with him again to get the gun out of his hand, " No Shane! You need to stop!" I yelled as I started to dig my fingernails into his arm.
Shane started screaming in pain and then he backhanded me with him other hand, which made me let go of Shane's arm and I fell back down on the ground but Rick was able to get back up quickly and catch me in his arms before I landed on the ground and helped me down and then Rick shoved Shane against a car which made Shane drop the gun to the ground and repeatedly punched him in the face. Then they both flipped over the car and I got back up on my feet and I ran over to them and tried to pull them off each other.
Shane then shoved me away from them and I slammed against another car that was across from them. Then Shane gained the upper hand and pushed Rick down to the ground and then he shoved a motorcycle on top of Rick. Rick groaned in pain as Shane turned to look right at me as I got back on my feet and I was looking right back at him.
I knew I wasn't going to be able to fight him long like Rick, but I needed to distract him long enough for Rick to get back onto his feet. Shane then came at me and I got into a fighting stance and once he got close enough I punched Shane right in the nose. I felt the crunch under my fist as he stumbled back a little bit as he held his nose and as blood started to rush down his face, he moved his hand away from his face and looked at the blood that was on his hand till he threw a punch towards me. I quickly blocked his punch and I brought my knee into his gut. It made him double over, but he quickly recovered and then he grabbed me by my throat and slammed me down to the ground and held me there as he grabbed Rick's gun and then he picked me up and tossed me over to Rick as Shane took off towards Randall.
I moved over to Rick and I grabbed the motorcycle handles and I started to lift it off of Rick. I lifted it up to the point that Rick was able to crawl from underneath the bike. I dropped it back down on the ground as Rick got back on his feet and ran after Shane with me following right behind him.
As I got around the corner, I saw Rick shove Shane to the ground which made him miss his shot against Randall, who was still on the ground still trying to crawl away from him, " Get the hell off of me!" Shane yelled as I made way to them and Rick kept punching Shane in the face till I walked over to Rick and gently pulled Rick off of him. I looked up at Rick and he had blood dripping from the side of his face and I looked back over at Shane and blood poured from his nose.
" You okay, dad?" I asked Rick as I looked back at him with a worried look on my face.
" Yeah, I'm fine. What abo- Look out!" Rick yelled as he grabbed me and pulled me out of the way as we both landed on the ground as something landed on the ground where I was standing and glass fell down on us from a window.
I looked up to see Shane at the window after he threw a wrench at us and then he took off towards the window that he broke and vanished from my vision. I got back up on my feet as I looked towards the area where Shane vanished, till I heard growls from where the window was at and I looked up to the window and I saw a walker coming towards us along with several others following right behind it.
' Oh fuck.' Was all I thought as things started to get really bad very quickly.
End Of Chapter
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