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A woman's worth.	By : SpikesSlayer08 Category: S through Z > The Walking Dead Views: 4517 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Brand new chapter up and ready, hope you all enjoy. Big thank you to Jaded79 for going over this for me. Let me know your thoughts.
Chapter 20
Stow away.
He noticed her hands were ice cold and wet. Grasping her wrists, he jerked back seeing her cut open and blood soaked arms. He went pale with shock as he looked up at her.
“I’m sorry,” she whispered as her eyes rolled back into her skull and she collapsed into his arms.
“Carol, Carol sweetheart please wake up,” he begged shaking her. “HELP ME, SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME!,” he screamed at the top of his lungs as he tried to stop the bleeding; he heard footsteps running down the hall and prayed it wasn’t too late.

Daryl sat on the chair besides her looking at the drip that joined them, his blood, his life force flowing from his veins and into hers. She was still unconscious but Hershel said physically she would be fine. After stitching up her wrists, he had sat down and told Daryl he did want her to start a course of anti-depressants if the guys could find a supply of them on their next trip.
He looked at the note which was written in her delicate hand writing, he had read it so many times he had just about memorized it. He felt like such a jerk for losing his temper earlier that day. He had said things in the heat of the moment, things he didn’t mean and things she had taken the wrong way. He looked up as Hershel returned. Removing the needle from Daryl’s arm, he started the clear away the tubes and needles.
“Are you sure she got enough?” Daryl asked sounding concerned; his voice was hoarse and his body felt weak. He hated this feeling but he decided he would feel like this for a life time as long as she lived.
“She will be fine and we can’t take much more from you otherwise we risk losing you too,” he explained.
“But you’re sure she will be fine?”
“Yes son she will be fine,” he smiled understanding the young man’s concerns. “Now drink this and eat, you need your strength.” Daryl nodded, taking the glass of orange juice and plate of food. After eating he set the plate and glass aside; staring at Carol she still looked pale and he was more than worried that she hadn’t woken up yet. He was just about to call Hershel in when he heard Merle and Beth enter the clinic.
“Hey, how is she?” Merle asked, Daryl sighed shaking his head.
“Hershel says fine but I really don’t know,” he replied looking back at Carol.
“Is daddy here?” He looked up at Beth nodding.
“Yeah think he is in his office,” he said pointing towards the man’s small office that was connected to the clinic. Daryl watched as she nodded and grasped Merle’s hand giving it a supportive squeeze. Daryl noted how they smiled at each other almost lovingly and wondered if they realized how they felt for each other yet. Smiling softly he looked back at Carol again.
“How are you?” Merle asked taking a seat beside Daryl as Beth moved out of the room and towards Hershel’s office leaving the two brothers alone to talk.
“Kicking myself,” he replied gruffly.
“This isn’t your fault little brother,” Merle replied.
“That’s where you’re wrong, Carol and I got into a fight earlier today and I let my mouth get away from me,” he sighed feeling guilt burn through him.
“What do you mean?” Merle asked looking at him both confused and concerned. Daryl handed him the letter Carol had written him before attempting to take her own life, looking down Merle started to read.
Dearest Daryl,
I’m so sorry to have to do this, this way, if there was a way for me to say goodbye in person I would. I have made such a mess of things, so much trouble, so much pain and all because I had to come on that trip into town for a few pairs of stupid dance shoes. I should have listened to you that day when you asked me to stay here at the prison but no I had to have things my way and look what happened.
You’re right it was my own fault, I brought it on myself, if I had done what you asked those monsters never would have found me. I’m sorry about today, about yelling at you, I was being stubborn and hot headed… a trait we share…. And now you no longer want me and I can understand why you’re through with me, I honestly don’t know how you could stand to look at me for as long as you did.
I know I have no right but all I ask is that you look after Sophia, she is so young and carefree and she loves you so much. Please keep her safe, this world can be so cold and cruel she needs a father like you and make sure she knows I love her so much but that she and you are both better off without me, all I bring is death and pain to those I love.
I’m sorry for not being strong enough to stay, I wish I could because I love you so much. I never thought I could love anyone how much I love you but I do. But they hurt me so badly and every time I close my eyes I see them, I see what they did to me, what they made of me and as much as I try to control it there is this rage and fear that burns inside me.
I will miss you, both you and Sophia so much. I will miss your laugh. Your smile, the feel of your lips on mine and the way my heart pounds in my ears when you touch me but I know you will move on, I want you to, to meet someone and fall in love again. I’ll be watching over you both and I’ll see you on the other side but not for a long time.
Please keep safe and know I never stopped loving you.
Love always
Carol xxoo
“You told her it was her fault she was taken and that you guys were through?” Merle asked sounding stunned as he looked up from the letter.
“We got into an argument cause she wanted to go on the next town trip and I told her she couldn’t come, that I wasn’t going to let something bad happen to her again over shoes or some crap like that again… I don’t blame her, I never have… I blame myself,” he shook his head.
“Daryl…” Merle started wanting to comfort his brother but Daryl cut him off.
“I promised to protect her, to keep her safe and I failed… now look at her…. And when I told her I was through I meant through fighting with her not through with her… I love her, could never break it off with her,” he sighed feeling tears burning his eyes but fighting them down. He hated crying especially in front of Merle but lately he felt it was all he wanted to do.
“Did you tell her that?”
“No, I was too pissed,” he replied feeling like a total jerk.
“Well maybe you can tell her now,” Merle said tilting his head towards Carol. Daryl turned to look at her seeing her eyes starting to flutter open. “I’ll leave you to it,” he nodded moving out the back to find Beth.
“Hey,” he smiled down at her but she refused to look at him.
“What are you doing here?” she snapped turning her head away from him.
“I know you’re angry but please listen to me, our fight earlier today you took it all the wrong way,” he tried to explain.
“It doesn’t matter.”
“Carol please,” his voice begging her. She turned her head to look at him, her face tired and drawn out.
“Daryl I can’t do this with you right now, I need time and space,” she sighed. “I think you should move your stuff out of my room, at least for awhile.” He felt his heart break at her request.
“Are you breaking up with me?” his voice sounding hurt and he hated it, he hated being this open and vulnerable.
“I think it’s for the best,” she replied looking at the floor unable to look at him.
“If you’re going to break it off with me at least have the guts to look me in the eye as you do it,” he snapped causing her head to jerk up. Her eyes looked vacant and hollow, the once loving and kind eyes gone, snuffed out by what they put her through. “So I guess this was all rubbish then,” he snapped standing and dropping her letter on her chest. She said nothing just looked down again.
“Fine you want me gone you got it but if you think I’m just going to let you kill yourself and that poor little girl along the way with your selfishness you’re sorely mistaken. I’ll be keeping a close eye on you,” he informed her before storming out and leaving her alone.
She hated herself, she hated that she had hurt him so much, that she had lied to him but she knew he was better off without her and breaking off their relationship was the best thing for him. He would realize that soon. Letting silent tears fall from her eyes she prayed for the darkness to take her so she no longer had to feel this pain anymore.
He stormed into their room grateful that Sophia had woken up during the noise with Carol and was now in Lori and Rick’s room for the night. He moved around the room and started stuffing his stuff into his bag. He couldn’t believe this was happening; he couldn’t believe Carol had just broken up with him. How had everything gone so wrong? Everything had been going so well, they were in love and he was going to propose and then everything had gone straight to hell.
Jerking one of his drawers open, he started stuffing his shirts in his bag when his eyes settled on the small blue ring box in the bottom of the drawer. Picking it up and opening it, he looked at the simple diamond and gold engagement ring he had picked up in town on that fateful day when everything had gone so wrong. Snapping the lid shut he tossed the box into the small trash can and continued packing.
“What are you doing?” he heard Andrea ask from the door way.
“None of your bloody business,” he sneered at her as he tried to focus on the task at hand. He heard her walk into the room and readied himself for an argument.
“Don’t do this, don’t give up on her,” her voice begged him.
“She broke up with me, she wants me out of here, and what do you want me to do?,” he all but yelled at her. She sighed standing next to him as he looked up at her.
“Don’t give her what she wants. Let me guess, she said she needed time and space?” He nodded at her question.
“She’s scared and angry and she is taking it out on you cause she loves you and she doesn’t know how to deal with that right now… if she wants space then you take Sophia’s bed and Sophia can bunk with her mum.”
“She told me she wants me out of the room,” he sighed his voice softer now.
“Tough, she tried to opt out tonight, what happens when Sophia is asleep and you’re not here? Sophia wakes up to a gunshot and finds her mother dead, cause that is what she wants, a chance to finish what she started tonight,” she explained. “When I was raped I was engaged to my high school sweetheart Garry, but I pushed and pushed and pushed him until I pushed him right out the door… two weeks later I tried to kill myself and it was only cause my roommate came home from work early because she was sick that I’m still here today,” she sighed tears burning her eyes.
“After that my father came and got me, I took a year off school and went home, my parents and Amy saved me… Carol may not know it but she needs you right now, don’t give up on her.” Daryl sighed nodding and he decided she was right, Carol would just have to deal with him being in the room.
Two days later Carol had just been released from the hospital. She had told Daryl she still wanted him out of the room but he refused, saying she could have space and time but he was staying in the room and when Sophia had stood beside him and taken his side she had caved.
Now Daryl was getting ready for the trip into town. After everyone said good bye they started preparing the cars and getting everyone in order. No one noticed as Carol slipped past them and out to the cars, slipping in the back and covering herself with the tarp that was tied to the back of the Ute. She was determined to go into town and to find Ed one way or another.
Sophia watched as her mother slipped into the back of the Ute. The others may not have seen but ever since Carol tried to take her own life, Sophia always had her eyes on her mum. Grabbing her bow, knife and gun that Daryl had given her, she moved fast and quiet, slipping into the back of the other Ute and covering herself. She knew what her mum was doing, she was going to find Ed but Sophia was going to make sure she found him first.
She was going to make him pay.
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A woman's worth.