Sam's P.O.V
A couple of days have passed since I killed my step father. I haven't left the cell, I couldn't sleep, I wouldn't even eat. My mind kept going to a dark place to where I wanted to hurt myself but somehow Carl would come in to see how I was doing and he would confront me and make me feel better.
I did wonder if Daryl was avoiding me because of what I did but Carl told me every time that Daryl was just giving me space after what happened. But today was going to be different, I got out of bed and I walked out of the cell room and I walked down the stairs and noticed that everyone wasn't anywhere to be seen, Where is everyone? Are they outside?' I thought as I went towards the door and once I opened it I was hit with Georgia heat.
I took a deep breath and it felt good to finally breathe some fresh air in a long while. I had to squint my eyes for them to adjust since I was inside for a while, ' Well that's what happens when you don't leave your bed for a couple of days.' I thought as my eyes finally adjusted and noticed everyone was down by the gate of the prison. I smiled as I made my way over to them.
The first one to notice me was T-Dog and he had a huge smile on his face as he ran over to me and picked me up and gave me a very big hug.
" Look at who finally came out of her cell." T-Dog said as he put me down on the ground and turned to the others. I shook my head with a smile on my face as I looked over at Dad and then Daryl. Dad had a smile of relief on his face as he placed his hands on his hips and Daryl had a soft look in his eyes as he was looking at me and I let go off T-Dog and I walked over to them and I hugged Dad as he wrapped his arms tightly around me, " You good now Sam?" Dad asked me as I nodded my head to him and then he pulled back and then kissed my forehead, and then embraced me again tightly. Once again he let me go, everyone turned to look at Daryl as I walked over towards him. He was looking down at the ground and once I was in front of him, he looked up at me as the others backed up a little bit to give us some space.
" You good, Sam?" Daryl asked me as he placed his hands on my hands.
" Yea, I'm good now." I said as I looked up at him with a smile on my face. He nodded his head and he tried to walk away from me but I held onto his hand to keep him from leaving. He turned to look at me confused as I came closer to him and I wrapped my arms around his neck and I leaned in and kissed him. He froze for a moment and then he kissed me back. ( The reason why Daryl is acting the way he is in this part was because both Sam and Daryl were hiding it from the others but Sam wasn't hiding anymore. If that makes any sense.) After a while I heard someone clearing their throats and we stopped kissing and we looked at others to see Carol smiling at us, Dad trying to look away from us and T-Dog with a smug look on his face. My face went a little red and I hid my face in Daryl's chest as he chuckled a little bit under his breath.
" Alright, let's get the cars in. we'll park 'em in the west entry of the yard." Daryl snapped at the others as I removed my face from his chest and I elbowed him in the side.
" After that, we need to load up these corpses, so we can burn them." Dad said as everyone nodded their heads in agreement.
" This is going to be a long day." T sighed as he whipped sweat from his forehead.
" Where's Glenn and Maggie? We could use some help?" Carol asked as I started to look around to notice that they were nowhere to be seen.
" Up in the guard tower." Daryl said as he pointed at the tower that was right in front of us.
" Guard tower? They were just up there last night." Dad said as we all looked up towards the tower.
Glenn! Maggie!" Daryl said as he smirked as he squeezed my hand. Then both Maggie and Glenn came out and Glenn was shirtless and fumbling with his belt.
" Hey! What's up guys?" Glenn asked as he looked at us.
Carol came over to my side and leaned on my shoulder laughing as Daryl looked towards us with a smug look on his face and then he looked back at Glenn, " You comin'?" Daryl asked as he placed his hands on his hips.
" What?" Glenn asked, confused even more.
" You comin'? Come on, we could use a hand!" Daryl said as he chuckled before turning back to us.
" Yeah, we'll be right down!" Glenn yelled.
Daryl was still smirking as he wrapped his arm around my shoulder once Carol got off my shoulder.
" You're so mean, Daryl?" I said as I pushed him a little bit.
" Gotta have some fun somewhere." Daryl said as he shrugged his shoulders.
" So are you going to be helping us out?" Carol said with a smile.
" Ah, yes." I said back with a smile on my face.
" Sam! " I heard someone call my name and I looked over to see Beth coming towards us. Daryl's arm immediately dropped as she reached the small group.
" Daddy's awake….he's asking for you." Beth said to me and I looked towards the others and they nodded their heads towards feeling uncomfortable when I kept looking at his missing leg.
Once we got to the cell, my heart was starting to pound as we entered his cell and Beth smiled at her father who was sitting up on his cot. I just stood there in the doorway feeling uncomfortable when I kept looking at his missing leg.
" I wanted to thank you, Sam. You saved my life." Hershel said as I looked back up at him and then back down at his now missing leg.
" Still feels like it's there ya know?" Hershel chuckled as he placed his hand on his leg and it made me look back down on the ground.
" Dad saved your life, I just jumped in when he wasn't around." I said as I shook my head.
" I know what you did for me, so you can say whatever you want, I'm still thanking you." Hershel said as he gave me a smile and I smiled back and nodded my head to him. Then Carl, Lori walked in and I walked over to both of them and hugged them close to me. I let them go as Lori grabbed a pair of crutches in her hands.
I looked over at Hershel and noticed her eyes widened before he took them eagerly and put them under his arms.
" Just take your time." Lori says to him.
" Daddy, don't push yourself." Beth added.
" What else am I going to do?" He said as he pushed up from the back and I could tell that he was a little unsteady.
" I can't stand looking at the bottom of the bunk." Hershel said as he got steady and he looked at us.
" You know? I can go pretty steady." Hershel said as he got steady and he looked over at us.
" That's a good start. Want to take a rest?" Lori asked as he moved around a little bit.
" Rest? Let's go for a little stroll." Hershel said as he looked at her like she was crazy and we continued on our way to the others.
End of Chapter.
Hope you guys enjoy the chapter and I'm also sorry for this chapter being short and don't worry. The next chapter will be longer and I hope you guys are having a great new year and I'll have the next one up soon.
