4.Liar , liar this asshole is on fire...

*Daryl point of view*

I was trying to get some rest but there are too much noise. Carol crying and Andrea messing around with her gun.

Fuck.

I hope Melody made it safely to the farm. I don't know why I'm attracted to her but there is something about her that pulls me to her.

She is just like me trying to push people away but I like her.

Shit.

"I need my clip now. I'm gonna walk the road, look for the girl."I say to Andrea looking at Carol that stop crying for a second when she hears me.

"I'm coming too," Andrea says walking out of the RV

"I'm going for a walk. Shine some light in the forest. If she's out there, give her something to look at."

" You think that's a good idea right now?" Dale asks worriedly.

"Dale."Andrea stops Dale from talking getting annoyed by the old man.

We start to walk into the forest.

× Melody point of view ×

We drive through the farm's gate and climb out.

T-Dog shiver next to me.

"You alright?"I ask worriedly. I'm so mad that Dale didn't look after T-Dog like I ask him to.

"I'm okay just tired."

"So do we ring the bell? I mean it looks like people live here."Glenn ask.

"We're past this kind of stuff, aren't we? Having to be considerate."I answer Glenn helping T-Dog to walk up to the porch.

"Did you close the gate up the road when you drove in?"The Horse girl asks sitting in the dark looking at us.

"Uh, hi," Glenn says shock

"Yes, we closed it. Did the latch and everything."I answer her.

"Hello. Nice to see you again."Glenn says snapping out his thoughts all shy.

Awww.Glenn has a crush.

"We met before briefly."He says looking at her.

She stands up and walks up to us.

"Look, we came to help. Is there anything we can do? Rick did give you a message to tell me to come here. I'm Melody."I say to her.

She nods her head the change her attention to T-Dog wound with fear in her eyes

"It's not a bite. I cut myself pretty bad though."T-Dog says to her in pain.

"I have to look at it again T."I look at T-dog, he looks so pale.

"I'll tell them you're here." She says walking past Glenn.

"We have some painkillers and antibiotics. I already gave him some. If Carl needs any."Glenn says to her.

"Come on inside. I'll make you something to eat."

I walk inside. It feels so warm inside and homey.

"Where are they?" I ask her.

"Upstairs, I'll show you."

I follow her.

She stops Infront of a door that was open.

"Thanks"

She nods her head and walks back to the kitchen.

I walk in and see a poor Carl in the bed with an old man sitting on the bed with Carl.

"Hey," Lori said to me.

"Hey. we're here, is everything okay?" I ask them walking more into the room.

"Thank you." Lori smiled gratefully at me

"Whatever you need."

"They don't get back soon, we're gonna have a decision to make."The old man says to them.

"And that is? I'm not trying to be rude sir." I ask him. My parents raise me to have respect for older people.

"I'm Melody, Sir. I study medicine and did well in it. If I didn't go to the army I would've become a doctor." I say standing in front of the bed behind him.

"Thank you for your service Melody. I'm Hershel Greene. It's nice to meet you, young lady."He says offering his hand to shake with a kind smile.

I shake his hand with a small smile.

"Nice to meet you too Sir."

"Whether to operate on the boy without the respirator." He answers remember my question.

"You said that wouldn't work," Rick says to Hershel.

"I know. It's extremely unlikely. But we can't wait much longer and we have an extra helping hand." He says to Rick and then looks at me.

*Daryl point of view*

"You really think we're gonna find Sophia?'

"You got that look on your face same as everybody else except Melody. What the hell's wrong with you people? We just started looking." I'm starting to get annoyed with her.

"Well, do you? and what's going on between you and Melody."

"It ain't none of anyone's business and this ain't the mountains of Tibet. It's Georgia. She could be holed up in a farmhouse somewhere. People get lost and they survive. It happens all the time."I answer her

"She's only 12."

"Hell, I was younger than her and I got lost. Nine days in the woods eating berries, wiping my ass with poison oak."I say to her looking around.

I wish Melody was here instead of Andrea.

"They found you?"Andrea asks snapping out my thoughts.

"My old man was off on a bender with some waitress. Merle was doing another stint in juvie. Didn't even know I was gone. I made my way back though. Went straight into the kitchen and made myself a sandwich. No worse for wear. Except my ass itched something awful."

She laughs at my stories.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry, that is a terrible story."

We both start laughing.

"Only difference is Sophia's got people looking for her. I call that an advantage." I say to her.

× Melody point of view ×

I sit next to Carl. Lori and Rick left the room.

The poor kid.

Carl starts to cough

"Where are we?" He ask weakly.

"Hey, little man. That's Hershel. We're in his house. You had an accident." I answer him softly.

Lori and Rick run into the room straight to Carl. I stand up and give them space to be next to him.

"All right? "Lori ask worried

"It hurts, a lot."He says in pain

"Oh baby, I know. I know." Lori comfort him.

"You should have seen it, "Carl says happy forgetting about the pain.

"What?" Lori asks confused.

"The deer. It was so pretty, mom. It was so close. I've never been..."

"Carl? What is happening?" Rick asks ready to help Carl but I stop him.

( Grunting )

"Don't. It's a seizure. If you hold him down, you could hurt him. You can't stop it? He has to just go through it."I explain to him.

The poor kid is in lot of pain and I don't have the right equipment to help him.

Lori sobbing in Rick's arms.

"His brain isn't getting enough blood. His pressure is bottoming. He needs another transfusion."Hershel says after Carl calms down.

" Okay, I'm ready."Rick offer more blood

"If I take any more out of you your body could shut down. You could go into a coma."I explain to him.

"Or cardiac arrest," Hershel says.

"You're wasting time," Rick says offering his arm to Hershel.

*Daryl point of view*

I was in my own thoughts. Think about Melody's lips against mine. It's so soft and fits so perfectly against mine.

Rustling snap me out my thoughts

"What the hell?"

We walk to the sound, we see a walker hanging in a tree.

Andrea start to gag not so far away from me.

I walk to the walker,

Stupid.

"Got bit. Fever hit. The world went to shit. Might as well quit." I read the message that by the walker.

"Dumbass didn't know enough to shoot himself in the head. Turned himself into a big swinging piece of bait. And a mess".I say shaking my head.

Andrea groans.

"You all right?"I ask her.

"Trying not to puke."

"Go ahead if you gotta."

"No, I'm fine."

"Let's just talk about something else for a minute. How'd you learn to shoot?"

"Gotta eat. That's one thing these walkers and us have in common. I guess it's the closest he's been to food since he turned. Hanging up there like a big pinata. The other geeks came and ate all the flesh off his legs."

Andrea start to vomit.

"I thought we were changing the subject."

"Call that payback for laughing about my itchy ass. There wasn't a lot that came up."

"Let's head back," I say to her.

"Aren't you gonna..."

"No. He ain't hurting nobody. Ain't gonna waste an arrow either. He made his choice. Opted out. Let him hang. You want to live now or not? It's just a question."

"An answer for an arrow. Fair? I don't know if I want to live or if I have to or if it's just a habit."

I shoot the walker wasting a arrow.

"Not much of an answer. Waste of an arrow." I say annoyed.

× Melody point of view ×

I help Hershel check Carl's wound. This looks bad we need to do something or else he won't survive.

Rick begins to tell Lori about the dear. He looks so pale.

"Before it happened we were standing there in the woods and this deer just crossed right in front of us. I swear it just planted itself there and looked Carl right in the eye. And I looked at Carl looking at that deer, and that deer looking right back at Carl. And that moment just..."

( Sighs )

"Slipped away. It slipped away. That's what he was talking about when he woke up, not about getting shot or what happened at the church. He talked about something beautiful, something living. There's still a life for us, a place maybe like this. It isn't all dying out there. It can't be. We just have to be strong enough after everything we've seen to still believe that. Why is it better for Carl to live even in this world? He talked about the deer, Lori. He talked about the deer."

Blood start to go out of Carl's wound. A lot of it.

Shit.

"He's still losing blood faster than we can replace it. And with the swelling in his abdomen, we can't wait any longer or he's just going to slip away."I say to them with sadness.

I always have a soft spot for children.

"Now I need to know right now if you want me to do this because I think your boy is out of time. You have to make a choice." Hershel asks them.

"A choice?" Rick ask weakly.

"A choice. You have to tell me what it is. You have to tell me what it is." Hershel explains to him.

"We do it."He says getting permission from Lori.

"Okay, get the corner of that bed. Let's get the sheets down. Get the I.V. bag on the sheet."Hershel giving orders around.

"Okay, on three. One, two, three."I help him to lift Carl up on the table.

" Rick, Lori, you may want to step out," I say to them.

We hear truck approaching.

"Oh, God," Rick say happy.

"You stay here with him."He order the woman who was helping us.

We run outside and see Shane looking like shit.

"Carl?" He asks worriedly.

"There's still a chance," I answer him blankly.

Something isn't right with him. I can some of his hair is missing on his head.

"Otis?" Hershel ask.

"No."

"We say nothing to Patricia. Not till after. I need her." Hershel turns a round leaving me,Lori, Rick and horse girl.

I have to get her name.

"Are you coming, dear?" Hershel ask me by the door.

"Yes Hershel just give me a sec.You can go ahead."

I turn my attention back to Shane.

"They kept blocking us at every turn. We had nothing left. We were down to 10 rounds. Then he said... he said he'd cover me and that I should keep going. So that's what I did. I just... I kept going. But I... I looked back and he... I tried. He wanted to make it right." He explaining what happened to them.

This motherfucker is lying.

The girl starts to cry.

I don't know what to do. So I went back to Hershel to help them.

We did it.

Me and Hershel walk outside to tell them the news.

"He seems to have stabilized."Hershel says.

"Oh, God. I don't have words."Lori says relief.

"I don't either. Wish I did. How do I tell Patricia about Otis?"

"You go to Carl. I'll go with Hershel."Rick says to Lori.

They walk inside. I glare at Shane. He look at me uncomfortably.

Yeah, that's a right asshole I know your lying.

I walk to my truck to smoke a joint. This day was so fucking long.

I was in my own thoughts thinking about Daryl's lips against mine. It felt so right.

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