TRYING, daryl dixon ✔️

045, after.

the day after the lineup happened, lily sat in her bed reminiscing on life. usually every morning jonah would come in and say hi or good morning, today he didn't. now lilys goal was to get daryl back. she was going to do that right. now. she grabbed her backpack, she made sure she had extra ammo, she wasn't planning on using it. she had a plan. she knew she couldn't get in trouble but she still left from the blind spot of the walls. she had no idea where the sanctuary was, but on her map she found it soon enough.

she got on her bike and rode to the sanctuary, every time she thought about anything she got cut off by negan smashing her friends heads in with a baseball bat.

she arrived at the sanctuary and a man grabbed her. "who are you?" he man asked her. "i think you know me, i'm the one who got stabbed yesterday." she shrugged. he nodded and brought her to negans room. she pulled her arm away, walking beside the man.

"come in!" negan yelled. lily walked in arms crossed. "oh hey there lily."

"where is my dad?" lily asked. "he is paying his price." he nodded.

"paying his price for punching you?" lily asked. "yeah i guess so, sit." she sat down on the chair in front of her.

"your a tough kid huh?" he asked. "i get that a lot." she shrugged. "why did your group attack us?" he asked.

"they wanted to start stuff, i swear i told them not too, negan is scary ass name to be honest. they said confrontation has never been a problem, but i got stabbed and many people were killed, so clearly it's been a damn problem." she rolled her eyes.

"so you tried to stop it?" negan asked. "yep, but i'm 8 so no one listens to me even though i'm the one who has my head screwed on straight, i end up making most decisions." she said.

"i see." he said amused. "i have a question." she nodded. "is daryl your... real dad?"

"no." lily replied leaning back more. "my dad died a year ago, my brother same day. then my mom tried to kill me so ya know, i killed her. daryl is my adoptive dad now."

"glenn? jonah?" negan asked. "don't you dare say their names." lily said getting pissed off by the second.

"what were they to you?" negan demanded. "where are you keeping my dad?" lily asked. "i can't tell you." he replied.

"then take me too." she got up and put her arms out. "your just a kid." negan said. "yet i have a larger vocabulary then you bring me to where he is right this fucking second." lily said. "and if i don't?" negan asked. "i'd recommend you go to any noose and hang yourself so you don't have any more painful of a death." she said. negan grabbed her, she didn't stop him. she was thrown in a cell. her backpack was with her, it was daryl's cell. she ran to daryl to make sure he was okay.

"dad." she said in a relieved tone. he didn't reply. "you okay?" she asked he nodded hugging her. "you?" he asked. "as good as i possibly could be." she replied. she grabbed her last two chocolate bars. "you more of a snickers or a milky way guy?" she asked. "snickers obviously." he said. she handed it to him.

"i love you." lily said. "love you too." he said looking at his shoes.
(by the way he had the jumpsuit with an 'A' on at this time.)

she saw light and got picked up quickly and thrown in a cell adjacent to it with her stuff. she sat in the lonely cell staring at the ground. she sat there, for 3. days. she only got food once, thank god she had food in her bag.

she saw light once more and a picture was thrown into the cell. it was a photo of... glenn and jonah. she saw it, she felt numb, but she wasn't. tears began spilling out of her eyes. she missed glenn so much, jonah, abraham, she missed them all so so much. negan had the nerve to take photos of them.