TROUBLE [twd]

trigger happy

A knock on the door cuts the conversation short. Carefully, the door is pulled open to reveal Carol and Sophia.

"Hey," Carol greets, "We didn't see you at dinner. Thought we'd bring you your plates."

Sophia walks around the bed Daryl and Sakiko were occupying, Sakiko sat against the headboard as Daryl rests on the pillow below her. She hands Nanami one of the plates, giving him a soft smile before setting the other on the nightstand beside Sakiko.

Carol follows her daughter, bending down to kiss Nanami on the cheek before stepping to Sakiko. Sakiko eyes her wearily and Carol delicately smiles, placing a gentle hand on her leg.

"We're glad to have you back," Carol tells Sakiko.

Sakiko doesn't answer, instead looking to her hands in her lap.

"Have a good night," Carol smiles, setting the third plate by Sakiko's for Daryl, "Rest up."

"You, too," Nanami smiles.

Carol holds Sophia by the shoulders, leading her daughter out of the room, closing the door carefully behind them.

There's a few seconds of silence before Nanami speaks up.

"See? It's good we're here. We don't need to leave." 

Sakiko shakes her head, knowing their conversation before the interruption was more so an argument on if they should leave or not.

"It was always the plan to go," Sakiko reminds.

"We're safer in a group. If there's more people like those guys out there-"

"Then, it's best we stay with numbers we can get along with," Daryl finishes.

"Who says we can get along with the people out there?" Sakiko asks.

"Carol and Sophia just brought us dinner because we weren't sitting with the rest," Nanami says, holding his plate up to further his case, "Glenn, Ryan, T- they were helping look for you."

"And Shane already side eyes everything I do, Lori is selfish, we don't know these people at this farm, and Andrea shot Daryl," Sakiko runs down.

"Shane was a mistake, Lori is just trying to help Carl, 'these people' at the farm helped patch Daryl and Carl up and are letting us stay here, and Andrea thought she was protecting us," Nanami counters.

"That doesn't make things better. That mistake changed the way he looks at us, we'll always come last compared to others here, these people could flip a switch at any second, and that means Andrea is too trigger happy."

"Y'all settle down," Daryl groans, bringing a hand to his head that was pounding in pain.

"Sorry," Nanami mutters, stuffing his mouth with mashed potatoes to avoid a fiery comeback to his sister.

"But, it doesn't matter what we feel to the group. Going off on our own was the plan since before Atlanta," Sakiko continues, regardless.

"Kiko," Daryl grunts, "Tone it down."

Sakiko looks down to him, pursing her lips and slumping further in her spot, "Sorry."

"We'll figure it all out. But, till I'm able to get around better, we stay here. I need to be able to protect you both out there and I ain't in the shape to do much of nothin' right now."

Silently, the twins nod in compliance.

"But, hey.. Group's doing some gun practice tomorrow. I want y'all to go."

"Gun practice?" Sakiko asks, finally relenting and grabbing the plate full of food- she'd been living on snacks and the steak smelled too enticing.