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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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Chapter 6
Sorry brother.
Carol had been watching the children play when she saw Daryl moving across the camp just returning from his hunt. He had a string of rabbits and squirrels hanging from his belt. He moved over towards her smiling shyly and handing her his kills. She could feel her cheeks burn red at the thought of the kiss they had shared just hours before.
“I can clean them if you like,” he offered.
“It’s alright I can handle it,” she smiled. “Rick wants to talk to you anyway,” she informed him and he nodded walking over to the house where he saw Rick and Shane talking.
“Hey, any problems out there?” Rick asked as Daryl came to stand beside him.
“Few walkers, nothing to write home about,” Rick nodded.
“We’re about to call a group meeting about what to do with Randall.”
“Alright I’ll clean up and be right there,” Daryl told him heading to the RV to get cleaned up.
They had been talking or more accurately arguing about what to do with Randall for a few minutes now and Carol could see they were never going to agree. Dale wanted to spare him but Shane and Rick wanted him dead, felt he was too dangerous to keep alive. Sighing, she decided it was time to say something.
“So let’s work on it,” she heard Dale say before she spoke up.
“Stop it, just stop it… I’m so sick of everyone always arguing and fighting, I didn’t ask for this and you can’t ask us to decide something like this…,” she sighed, not knowing what else to say.
“Doing nothing and killing him yourself…. There’s no difference.”
“Alright that’s enough,” Daryl snapped stepping closer to Carol.
“You once said we don’t kill the living,” Dale said talking to Rick.
“That was before the living tried to kill us,” he replied.
“Isn’t anyone going to stand with me?” he sighed eyes glassing over; Carol felt her heart break for the man.
“He’s right, we should try and find another way,” Andrea spoke up, Carol nodded.
“I agree,” she said stepping forward.
“You’re being foolish, woman” Daryl said moving to stand in front of her.
“Foolish is what she does best,” Ed finally spoke up.
“Shut up, no one asked you,” Daryl hissed at him before turning back to face Carol.
“He’s a human being Daryl, we should at least try and do the right thing, otherwise Dale is right we’re no better than the things we are afraid of,” she reasoned.
“If you knew the things him and his group have done you would be happy to pull the trigger yourself.”
“Then tell us, you all expect us to make this choice but we have little information, just that he comes from a bad group.” Daryl looked at Rick who nodded.
“Him and his group came across a camp… a father and his two teenage daughters, they tied up the father and made him watch as they… I think you can figure it out,” he spoke unable to finish the gruesome story.
“Oh my god,” Carol gasped in shock. “Those poor girls and their father.”
“But you said the boy said he didn’t do anything,” Dale argued.
“So he says, come on Dale, the guy runs with rapists, he tried to kill Rick, Glenn and Hershel that night in town… we keep him here and he gets loose then what? Say he hurts one of the women or young Sophia, you going to beg us to spare him then?” Daryl turned, looking at him.
“So what we’re going to punish him for a crime he might commit?”
“If he did, if he hurt someone here or raped one of the women, you would never forgive yourself, can you live with that if we agree with you and he does do something?” Daryl knew he had him then; all the older man could do was look down, shaking his head Dale walked outside refusing to talk with them any longer.
“It’s settled then, we do this tonight,” Rick announced before they all broke apart and headed off to the rest of their day as best they could.
That night Carol sat in the RV, it was so quiet. T-Dog sat on top keeping watch; she could hear him moving around every now and again. Sophia was camping in the Greene’s lounge room with Carl, Beth and Jimmy. Daryl was with Rick and Shane in the barn dealing with Randall. While she was trying her hardest not to think about it, she knew Daryl was right.
After he had told her what Randall’s group had done to the father and his two daughters, she knew that she would never feel alright about him being part of the group. She would do whatever she had to, to keep Sophia safe.
When she heard the RV door jerk open, her head shot up fearfully but she relaxed when she saw Daryl walk in closing the door behind him and tossing his bow on the table; she could tell he was upset about something.
“Are you alright?” She spoke softly standing from the bed and walking over to him. She knew he had supported Rick’s decision to kill Randall, hell he had fought for it but something had clearly upset him.
“We didn’t do it,” he spoke gruffly not looking at her.
“Oh… well I mean taking a life shouldn’t be easy, it’s not a shock that you guys…,” she started but he cut her off.
“Oh no, make no mistake we wanted to but Carl showed up just as Rick was about to pull the trigger,” he informed her looking up at her.
“What?”
“He wanted to watch.”
“Oh my god!,” she gasped in shock. “Wait, Sophia?,” it suddenly hit her.
“No she’s fine, checked on her myself; she was sound asleep in the Greene’s lounge room with Beth.” She breathed a sigh of relief. “At least your first thought was your child, can’t say the same for Lori,” he spoke storming past her, pacing the small walkway from the kitchen to the bedroom.
“What do you mean?” she asked turning to face him as he paced.
“Rick told Lori to stay in the house with Carl, to keep an eye on them… she didn’t even realise he was gone, swear to god she is going to get that kid killed one day,” he spat anger and annoyance burning through him.
Carol wanted to defend Lori, stand up for her, make an excuse but she knew there wasn’t one. The world was a dangerous place, walkers being a huge threat but now there was the threat of Randall’s men and still Lori did very little to keep Carl close.
“So what is Rick going to do now?”
“I don’t know, for now we’re keeping him tied up. He is tomorrow’s problem… Andrea has gone to find Dale to let him know.” She sighed, nodded her head unsure if she was angry or relived but she decided he was right that could be tomorrow’s problem.
Daryl had finally stopped pacing, clearly calming down a little. He sighed loudly trying to think what to say, what to do. He knew they needed to talk about what had happened between them earlier today but he just didn’t know how to bring it up. In situations like this, Daryl never knew what to do with his hands, so he settled for stepping forward and grasping her hands in his.
“Carol about today… about the…,” he stammered but she cut him off.
“The kiss?”
“Yeah that.” She looked down shyly.
“Do you… I mean, do you regret it?” she asked her voice shaky and scared but needing to know that answer.
“What? No… I have wanted to do that for a long time, longer than I care to admit.”
“Really?” she asked unable to wipe the smile from her face
“Really,” he whispered huskily moving closer to cup her left cheek.
She could feel his hot breath on her face, her stomach was going crazy with butterflies and her heart was thumping loudly in her ears but the moment his lips touched hers it was like everything else disappeared. She wrapped her arms around his neck, moving to deepen the kiss between them when a gunshot ran out.
“Stay here,” he ordered grabbing his bow and running out into the night but before she knew what she was doing she was running to the door; seeing Lori running towards her and heading for the open field, she stepped out of the RV.
“Stay with the kids,” she yelled out to Beth who was now standing on the front porch with Jimmy.
She ran to where everyone was crowding around to see a dead walker and Dale, stomach torn open and insides on the out. Dale gasped and hissed in pain as Rick ordered for Glenn to get Hershel’s medical supplies but when she saw Hershel shake his head, she couldn’t stop the tears that slid down her face.
“He’s suffering,” she heard Andrea sob. “Do something!,” Andrea all but yelled. Carol watched as Rick pulled out his gun pointing it at Dale’s head.
“Oh god,” Andrea sobbed turning away, unable to watch but it became clear after a few moments that Rick couldn’t bring himself to pull the trigger. That’s when she saw Daryl step forward taking the gun from him.
“Daryl,” she couldn’t stop the strangled cry that came out, he looked at her sadly and she knew he was doing the right thing.
“Don’t look,” he told her as he turned to kneel down next to Dale putting the gun to his head. She sobbed turning to Lori, holding each other as they cried, eyes squeezed tightly shut.
“Sorry brother,” she heard him whisper just before the shot ran out and everything went quiet.
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A woman's worth.