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Worth Living For	By : KarilovesDixon Category: S through Z > The Walking Dead Views: 2993 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: Firstly i want to say that no money or profit is being made and I do not own any of the The Walking Dead characters,locations, and show dialogue, all credit goes to AMC. I do however, own all rights to the OC's.

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For a few days, things went well between Daryl and Melanie. He began to open up about his past and she told him bits and pieces from her life story.
She had been away at college when everything started happening. More and more news reports began talking about unprovoked, vicious human attacks. There were no explanations, no cause, just total violence spreading like a disease from city to city.
One night, after having seen one to many newscasts, she threw everything she had into two backpacks and left for home. She tried her mother on her cell and got no answer. The same thing happened when she called her dad and her sister. No answer. She figured it was just a coincidence and maybe cell reception was down where they lived. They were fine, she thought. She kept repeating this to herself the whole drive from LSU down to Tampa, Florida.
The streets near her house were deserted, no signs of life. It was almost like a scene in a movie when everyone picks up their stuff and leaves in a matter of seconds. As she drove down 2300 Mullane Ave, she saw a kids bike just lying on the side walk. She saw clothing littered across lawns, and cars with their doors opened with no one in them. So strange, she thought.
She pulled into her parents’ driveway and saw that her parents vehicles were still there, and the front door was wide open. She got out of her car and walked up the ten steps to the front door and quietly made her way inside. No sign of her family. She went from room to room, whispering their names and searching. She was about to give up the search, but then she heard it. A groaning noise coming from her sisters’ upstairs bedroom. Slowly, but surely she crept up the stairs and pushed the door open slightly. There kneeling in the middle of her room, was her mother Diane and her father Warren and they were kneeling over the body of her sister Roxy. Roxy was partly devoured and as her parents (or what was left of them) stood and turned towards her, hunks of flesh fell from their mouths. They lunged for her and would have gotten a hold of her if she hadn’t fallen backwards and down the stairs. She landed with a thud and kicked herself backwards on the floor of the living room as her parents came after her. She tried to stand, but knocked over a table and a vase that her mother had bought on a trip to China.
Melanie quickly realized that her father was no longer chasing her, it was just her mother. Melanie rounded the hallway and entered the kitchen and she bumped right into her father. He snapped his jaws at her and pawed at her clothing. He was going to bite her. Melanie saw what happened on the news to people that were bit. She refused to let that happen to her. For her to have a chance to get out of here alive, she would have to do the inevitable. She picked up a nearby lamp and smashed it into the head of her dad. Blood went everywhere. He dropped to the floor and lay lifeless before her.
Her mother shuffled into the room and as she saw Melanie she walked towards her growling and snarling with hands outstretched. Melanie broke a leg off of a nearby chair and as her mother got closer she struck her in the head. The first blow only knocked her back, and then she came at Melanie again. This time with much more ferocity than before. So, Melanie gathered her strength and shoved the chair leg through her mother’s head and she sank to the floor.
She ran out the door never to return.

Daryl’s experience was much different, but he didn’t dare to tell Melanie EXACTLY what he had been doing when the world ended. All he seemed to be comfortable with telling her was that he and his brother had been out on a hunting trip and when they returned shit was getting crazy and they figured they would be better off roughing it on their own than sitting at home waiting to be eaten alive.
He knew that if he told her the truth about who he was, and what he was doing before all this happened, she probably wouldn’t want anything to do with him. Most people didn’t.
He never fully felt like a contributing member of the group. Rick had Shane. That was his #2 guy. Daryl was just who they turned to to do the grunt work. Got a little girl lost in the woods, send Daryl. Need to track an animal, send Daryl. He felt like a pawn in some sick little game, except that game was now real life.
That morning would change everything.
It became news to the group that there were walkers in the barn. Melanie knew this. Hershel had told her himself. He thought they were people, sick people. And he refused to see them as dangerous. He just thought they needed help. Otis had put them there. He would find them wandering through the woods or stuck in the clay creek behind the property and he would lead them back and put them in the barn.
Shane had had enough. He got everyone in camp all riled up and decided that today was the day to do something about it. People shouldn’t have to sleep and eat with walkers living in a barn only feet away from camp.
“Today, this shit changes,” he said. “Who’s with me?”
He began handing guns out like candy. First glenn, then Andrea,T-Dog, and finally he came to Daryl.
“Are you gonna handle it and protect your own?”
Daryl hesitated. “Hell yea,” he said.
Daryl looked at Melanie and pulled her close. They walked in unison down the field towards the barn.
“Aint gonna let nothin happen to ya Mel. Its gotta be done.”
“I know, but what will Hershel say? He is not gonna let anyone stay here after this, and Lori really needs a good place to be when it comes time to have the baby.”
“Doesn’t matter right now. We’ll figure it out. Always do.”
They neared the barn and Shane took the bars off the doors.
Walkers began pouring out and one by one they got taken down.
Rick was shouting for everyone to stop and Hershel crumbled to the ground as he saw the faces of loved ones and relatives being shot. Maggie and Beth and Patricia wrapped their arms around him, comforting him as he became overtaken by grief and shock.
Just when they thought it was over, one more walker stepped out of the barn. Everyone turned to see who it was and were stunned to see that it was Sophia. The little girl that they had been searching for all this time.
Carol ran towards her daughter, but as she ran she was swooped up by Daryl and sat on the ground sobbing. Rick walked towards Sophia and shot her. She had been dead this whole time.
People immediately began moving the bodies and took them to a nearby field to be buried.
Carol was holed up inside the RV, not wanting to talk to or see anyone just yet.
Melanie was sitting in a chair outside their tent, when Daryl came out of the woods nearby and took a seat besides her.
“I’ve been thinking about the other day. At the barn.”
“Yea, what bout it?” Daryl asked.
“I cant help sympathizing with Hershel. I mean, he had people he loved in that barn. Friends, neighbors. Those feelings don’t just go away when someone becomes a walker. I can see how he would feel like he couldn’t let go. Those two months on the road with the military and then being by myself, I shamed myself for killing my parents. I knew deep down that they weren’t my parents anymore, but some hideous monster that took over, but it was still physically them. And I hated myself for it. “
“Cant blame yaself. Ya did what ya had to do. Protected yourself. If ya hadn’t, ya wouldn’t be here with me now.”
“I know. I think about it now that way too. Meeting you was the best thing that’s ever happened to me and I thank God every day for bringing me to you.”
“Wasn’t God that brought ya to me, sweetheart. Was your bad sense of direction.” And with that he smiled and leaned over and gave Melanie a big, loud, wet kiss.
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