Endure and Survive (Sequel to How We Live Now)

Chapter 12

The ride to King's county was a quiet one. I didn't mind it though. We all knew what we had coming up and we needed to stay focused. With the silence going on, I couldn't help but picture how I'd kill the son of a bitch. Decapitation would be too easy. He deserved to die nice and slow. As I thought about it some more, I felt that going over with Michonne and Andrea was the best way to go. We could get in and get out without anyone noticing. But then I started to think wha his minions would do? What would they say? Would total chaos ensue because their leader mysteriously wound up dead? The innocent people would be caught in the middle of it all and more than likely, it wouldn't end well for them. There was then a slight tap on my hand that brought me back but also made me jump.

"What?" I turned around to see Daryl next to me.

"You here?" he asked.

"Of course I am. Where else would I be?" I asked.

"You spaced out didn't ya?" he asked.

"No," I said.

He just crossed his arms and looked at me. I rolled my eyes then looked out the window.

"How much further, Rick?" I asked.

"About 45 more minutes," he said.

I rested my head back and kept looking outside.

"Kari?" Carl suddenly asked.

I picked up my head and looked in front of me.

"Yeah?" I said.

"What...that word that you said back in the prison...raped? What does that mean?" he asked turning to look at me.

I looked over at Rick.

"I, uh...I'm sorry you heard that, Carl...but I...I um," I started.

There was no easy way for me to answer that. Carl was too young to know what that word meant. I was stupid and angry. I shouldn't have said it so loud.

"She got hurt, man. That's all you gotta know. The Governor hurt her. That's why she wants him dead," Daryl said.

I looked over at him.

"Oh. I'm sorry he hurt you. I hope you do get the chance to get back at him," he said.

He then turned back around and looked out in front of him. I hadn't taken my eyes off of Daryl.

"What?" he asked turning to look at me.

"Nothing...nothing," I said.

I crossed my arms and looked back out the window again. I couldn't help but feel grateful toward him. It was easy for him to see that talking about that would be hard for me and he went and let Carl know what he needed to know without getting too much into detail. I shook my head and kept looking outside. It was stupid of me to be thinking this way. Daryl would never see me as more than a friend. I wasn't even sure we were friends. Either way, there was never gonna be anything more between us and I needed to accept that and move on. There was more important things that I needed to focus on.

The time came and went for us. Before I knew it, we were in King's County and getting out of the car. We took out our backpacks and went to the front of the car.

"This was where you were sheriff?" I asked Rick.

We had parked in the parking lot of a police station.

"Yeah. I'm pretty sure that the weapons we stored in here haven't been touched," he said.

"Well let's go and find that out," Daryl said.