Don't mention it (Daryl x Reader)

|~Brother~| (19)

Daryl Dixon

It had been around a couple hours since that, everyone else was awake now, we were all eating, me and Y/n were sat on the steps, everyone else on a table, no conversations happened though.

Y/n nudged me lightly and pointed with her head toward the door leading to the deeper areas of the prison, Rick was walking out of it.

"Everybody okay?" He asked which shocked almost all of us.

"Yeah, we are" Maggie said, looking at Rick.

"What about you?" hershel said concerned, he looked Rick up and down.

"Clearing out the boiler block" He told us, I saw Y/n perk up at this, I knew she wanted to get back in the catacombs to look for Carol.

"How many were there?" I asked, I hadn't let Y/n go down there because I was worried she's find a body and get overwhelmed with the walkers, or, she'd find a walker and not be able to kill her. 

"I don't know, dozen, two dozen?" rick made a guess "I have to get back, just wanted to check on Carl" he patted his son on the shoulder.

"Rick, we can handle taking out the bodies" Glenn stood up "You don't have to-" 

"Yeah I do" Rick interrupted "Everyone have a gun and a knife?" he walked up to me, I nodded 

"Yeah, we're runnin' low on ammo though" I told him.

"Maggie and me were planning on making a run this afternoon" Glenn informed Rick "We thought we could find some more bottles and formula as well" 

"Cleared out the generator room, Axel's there tryna fix it" I started telling Rick about the progress we were making "In case of emergency, we're gonna sweep the lower levels as well" Rick nodded at this.

"Good, good" And with that he started off, going back into the catacombs 

"Rick" Hershel tried to yell after him, but to no avail, Rick just continued his journey 

Y/n Y/l/n

I don't think Rick was okay, like, obviously, but something wasn't right, he looked like he could snap at any minute

It had been an hour, maybe two, it was hard to keep count, Daryl had gone down with Oscar and Carl to sweep the halls, check for any weak points, but I knew Daryl also wanted to go down there for another reason.

I was playing with lil ass kicker, I loved Daryl's name for her, it was adorable.

I had given her the bear, she loved it, it put a smile to my face.

I saw Glenn and Maggie about to leave, handing Beth the baby, I went up to them.

"Mind if I tag along? I got my stuff" I pointed to the backpack I had prepared earlier, Maggie smiled at me and Glenn nodded.

I said a quick goodby to Beth and Hershel before leaving with the two.

After a very long car ride and a couple stops, we reached some weird building, we all clambered out of the car, getting knifes ready, we didn't need guns yet.

Me and Maggie did a quick scan as Glenn grabbed some stuff from the car.

"Clear" I yelled from quite far away, Maggie then conveyed the message to Glenn.

I started checking the boots of cars along with the glove boxes as they had a lil private conversation. 

I found a cool looking lighter, deciding it could be useful, I shoved it in my back pocket.

I walked back over to the two as Glenn grabbed some bolt cutters and a torch, cutting a sliding door open.

"Oooh Glenn, get the duck" I said excitedly

"Yeah, grab the duck" Maggie laughed with me, it was a pretty fine lookin' duck

"You serious?" He asked thinking we were joking, I don't know if Maggie was, but I was downright serious.

Around 20-30 minutes later, Maggie and Glenn came out with a really good stash, I had stayed outside just in case of trouble

Glenn started telling me everything they had found, and I also noticed the ducky.

The kid would love it

"It's a straight shot back to the prison from here, we'll make it back in time for dinner" Glenn said after looking at the sun to guess the time, I didn't know how he understood that, it was something to do with shadows.

I was half in the car, making sure everything was secure, Maggie was talking to Glenn but them stopped, I heard a gun click before a scratchy voice came.

"And were is it yall good people call home?" The mad had a similar accent and way of speaking to Daryl, I slowly got out of the car, raising my gun, Maggie and Glenn had done the same, the man had short gray hair and stubble around his chin, he seemed to be missing a hand as well, he had replaced it with a knife though.

"Merle?" Glenn spoke as if he knew this man, I gave him a quick glance.

"You know him?" I whispered, he nodded. 

The man opened his arms wide, laughing as he did so, he dropped his gun to the floor

"Wow" he said as he began walking closer.

"Hey back the hell up" I yelled, unclicking the safety of the gun, preparing myself to shoot.

"Woah woah woah, okay okay honey, jesus" He spoke as if my reaction was too much, but knowing people, it was justified

"You made it" Glenn said half surprised, half disappointed.

"Can you tell me, is my brother alive?" He asked, he seemed intrigued by the answer.

"Yeah" He seemed pleased with Glenn's answer.

Wait, was this? Daryl's brother? I never heard him talk much about him, but I knew he had one, but this is him?

"Can you, urh, take me to him, and I'll call it even on everything that happened up there in Atlanta" Merle seemed desperate now, he had his hands, well, hand raised. "No hard feelings" He finished 

Glenn stared in thought for a minute, this just made Merle laugh, he noticed Glenn was looking at his metal contraption on his arm.

"Huh, just like that, yeah, well, uh, I found myself a, uh medical supply warehouse, fixed it up myself" He seemed a bit to confident in himself, I didn't believe him, plus, his clothes looked somewhat clean, he had to be from a community or something.

"Pretty cool huh?" He joked 

"How about, we'll tell Daryl your here, and he'll come out to meet you?" I countered, I wasn't bringing this man into the place the baby slept, or Carl,or any of us for that matter, I didn't trust him

"Hey hold on just hold up" Merle now sounded desperate "the fact that we found each other is a miracle, come on now, you can trust me" He continued with the desperate act.

"You trust us" Glenn hissed at him "You stay here" Glenn backed me up, I gave an unwilling small smile at this, but Merle just seemed aggravated by his answer.

Suddenly, Merle lunged forward, grabbing a gun from the back of his jeans, shooting the glass above my head, managing to duck in the nick of time, I scrambled behind the car, Glenn and Maggie doing the same, I could feel a small cut on my eyebrow.

Suddenly, Glenn and Maggie came round to where i was but at the same time, I felt something cold press into the side of my head

"Hold up buddy" Merle's raspy voice spoke to them both...

Here you go, My laptop's about to die so I speed ran this, I'm proofing it, but please don't expect this chapter to be perfect c: