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Hearts of the Past and Present

He's Back

I was toasty warm with my whole body under the covers, even my head was swallowed up by the white sheets. I yawned and stretched hard, releasing all the tension in my back before returning to my original position.

It was bright inside my little enclosure, I had definitely been allowed to sleep in today, shunning all my responsiblilites and tasks.

I heard hushed but urgent tones from people downstairs. Good Lord, what had happened now? I heard someone say my name in conversation. I pushed back the covers and the sun shining down from the high windows temporally blinded me. I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and looked down to level 1.

Carl, Maggie, Beth, Olly and Hayden were stood talking, all of which had very serious and anxious expressions painted on their faces.

"Hey, what's going on?" I asked as I sat up properly in bed.

"Good afternoon Lily," Hayden said, ignoring my question.

"What are you guys talking about?" I asked, hoping to get an actual answer from someone this time.

The five stayed quiet and looked at one another, Carl stepped forward and looked up at me on the hallway.

"It's Daryl," He said.

My eyes went from sleepy and ahrdly open to wide-eyed like and owl, 'It's Daryl,' could have meant anything to he's bit, he's dead, he's lost to he's returned. I liked to prepare myself for the worst.

Hayden saw my expression and quickly jumped in, "He's back."

"W-what? Where is he?" I threw back the covers to release my legs and jumped out of bed.

"He's outside with Rick, Pete, Glen and Michonne." He replied.

I had an inkling that Hayden wished he wasn't here.

I began to panic, they must be having a fight outside; Pete and Daryl. Surely Pete would have something to say to him.

I hurried down the stairs, no time for putting my boots on. I rushed past Hayden Olly, Carl, Maggie and Beth. Hayden went to grab my arms but I pulled away and managed to escape him.

"Lily, wait, they're talking, it's serious." Maggie called as she ran after me, as did Carl, Beth, Hayden and Olly.

I didn't care what was going on or how serious it was, I needed to see Daryl.

I pushed open the door that led to the courtyard. Rick, Pete, Glen, Michonne and Daryl were stood closely, talking deeply. I was shocked to see that there wasn't a fully blown fight happening.

My heart pounded when I saw the back of Daryl, it brought relief to see that damn crossbow strapped to him. My heart was pumping love, anger adrenaline around my body. God knows what I was going to do or say to him, I'd only know when the opportunity arose.

Glen was the first to spot me making my way hastily over to the group, his eyes widened. Rick looked up, he said something un-audible to the others and they all looked over. Daryl glanced over his shoulder then fully turned around.

He looked exhausted. His eyes were shadowed underneath by a purple shade, his hair had grown out but now it was messy, strands sticking out crazily all over the place, his shoes and legs up to the knee where coated in thick clumps of mud. Overall he was pretty dirty, browns with the occasional green grass stain. It was safe to say that he looked like he has had it rough while out there.

Daryl mumbled something to Rick, Pete, Glen and Michonne, the four of them back away as I made my way over. I was very surprised by Pete's calm behaviour.

Reaction time.

"Where the fuck have you been?!" I shouted as I smashed both hands onto his chest.

Daryl flinched and stumbled backwards.

"Lily I'm sorry." He stepped forwards, right up close to my face. "I am so so sorry Lil, I-"

I interrupted him in the middle of his apology by slamming my lips onto his. The emotions and relief of seeing Daryl alive, okay and back within the prison gates had over taken me, Daryl always had something to do with my weakness. I held the back of his neck, locking him in place. After recovering from being stunned by my unpredictable action, Daryl began to respond passionately, kissing me back.

I abruptly ended the kiss when he began to do so. I dropped my hands from around his neck and brought them back down to my sides, apart from on. With my palm flat out, I lifted it to the side and slapped Daryl across the cheek.

Pete dropped his eye contact to the pair of us and looked to the floor, trying to suppress a laugh.

"Lily," Rick said sternly and stepped forward.

Daryl held up his hand to Rick, signally him to back off. He did so. Rick had seen me on several occasions when my anger had gotten the better of me, he knew how physical I could get.

"You bastard," I pushed him back.

"How could you leave me?" I pushed him again.

Tears were, of course, streaming heavily down my face.

I was about to push Daryl once more but he caught my wrist. With his free hand, he slowly lifted it to my face and wiped away the tears.

He looked up from my eyes and to behind me, presumably at Hayden, Olly, Maggie, Beth and Carl. The sound of footsteps signalled that they were leaving. Rick, Pete, Glen and Michonne also made their way inside.

Daryl stayed quiet and kept hold of my wrist until everyone was inside and the door was closed.

I looked over my shoulder to see Hayden stood with his arms crossed over his chest, staring at the pair of us.

"Go inside Hayden, it's okay." I would have sounded okay if my voice hadn't of broke on my last word.

Hayden nodded once and slowly turned around, he retreated to the prison and I turned my attention back to Daryl.

When I heard the click of the door, I broke down and Daryl pulled me into his chest.

"I'm sorry I left." He said.

"You should be." I replied.

"I didn't know what to do or what to think. The only thing I knew was to get out of there, but I knew it was wrong."

I looked up go his eyes, "Remember how you felt all those years ago when Bella took off without even a proper goodbye, just a note. Your whole world was crumbling down and the last good thing in it ran away. How did you feel Daryl? Did you ever forgive her for it?"

Daryl chewed on his bottom lip for a moment before answering, "I have never forgave her and I don't think I ever will." He said honestly.

"What of I do the same, what if I never forgive you Daryl? I didn't even get a note."

Daryl sighed but had a smile painted on his lips, his hand reached up to my chest. "But you have a necklace." He said. "It looks like you forgave me the moment I left." He laid the delicate, silver heart pendent on his finger tip.

Daryl was absolutely right, I had forgiven him straight away, I couldn't be furious with him like I probably should be. I had been asking him all the 'what if' questions to make him think about his actions and to make him imagine what things would be like now if it wasn't for my understanding.

My hands slid out of his hands and up his forearms, over his biceps and along his shoulders before holding the back of his neck.

"Please don't leave me again." I whimpered.

"Never again," he replied and planted a kiss to my forehead.

My hands moved from his neck to his waist then I pulled myself in closely and tightly. There was a quick intake of breath from Daryl, I looked up to his face and it was contorted with pain.

"What's the matter?" I asked alarmed.

Before Daryl could even answer, I was inspecting his body for any signs of an injury. Hidden by his leather jacket was a bloodstained checkered shirt. I gasped at the sight of afresh blood and began to unbutton it, my fingers fumbled over the small buttons with anxiety.

I whipped back his shift to reveal the wound; it was a deep cut running down his stomach, most likely done by some sort of blade. The injury was identical to the scar which I had on my own stomach.

"What happened?" I was almost reluctant to ask.

"Two guys in the forest, am telling ya, they were absolute psychos. They ran using their arms and legs and when they stood up the were hunched over. They didn't really speak either, they just growled." Daryl said.

"What did they want from you?" I asked.

"They wanted to fucking eat me." He said.

There was an almighty twist in my stomach, for a minute I thought I was going to be sick but I somehow managed to keep the contents of my stomach contained.

I gulped hard, "How did you get away?"

Daryl was suddenly hesitant, "I'll understand if you think differently of me now Lily.." He said.

I waited patiently, I doubted that whatever he did would make me love him any less.

"I killed one of them and injured the other, I shot him in the shoulder, the other in the head." He finished then hung his head in shame.

"Hey," I said, "Why are you acting like this? Daryl, I know you are capable of killing someone, you've done it before, before I joined the group."

"Exactly." He said. "Before you."

"Honestly Daryl, I don't care. You did what you had to do to stay alive."

"Would you have done the same?" He asked.

"To return to you, yes, of course."

***

Everyone had been gathered into the living cell by Rick, everyone included Bella with the twins in their pram and new combers Tyreese and Sasha, who both looked a lot better than they did last night. I couldn't look at any of the three in the eye.

I kept my head down and my eyes on Daryl's fingers which were interlocked with mine while Hershel tended to his cut.

Daryl had informed Rick, Pete, Glen and Michonne on his meeting in the forest before I rocked up. Rick felt like the incident should be acknowledged by everyone.

"What so there's, like, cannibals running around our back garden?" Olly asked.

"Supposedly, we have to prepare for the worst."

"Cannibals." Sasha repeated then gasped. "It all makes sense now!"

"What all makes sense?" Pete asked.

"Deeper into the forest, we passed a camp. They seemed to be set up pretty well having a large camper van and a river on the other side. We were going to take a look inside to see if they would take us in but Sasha found a big pile of bones, then I spotted another pile but it was only out of skulls. I want to tell you they weren't human but we can't be sure." Tyreese said.

"I can be sure," Sasha said, "They were very human, the whole camp of theirs smell rotten and was surrounded with carcasses and bones. It wasn't pretty."

"Did you see anyone in the camp, how many men strong were they?" Rick asked.

I bet he was glad he allowed Tyreese and Sasha stay this morning otherwise he wouldn't have had this information and he wouldn't have had the extra help if this escalated.

"We only saw two guys, didn't look the most pleasant." Tyreese replied.

"I don't feel comfortable with them in such close quarters, it just ain't right." Maggie said.

"Me either," Beth agreed.

"Do you think it was one of them who broke in through the fence?" Carl asked.

"Probably," Hayden said.

I shivered at the thought, Daryl felt me and gave my hand a firm squeeze.

"I think we should go out there and deal with them ourselves." Rick said.

"Anything to protect the prison." Pete said with Michonne nodding along by his side.

"Now hold up," Hershel began. He had finished seeing to Daryl and was now up on his crutches taking centre stage to speak. "Nothing is for certain. We can't go and slaughter a full camp just because we suspect they are cannibals, just becasue we think they might be a threat. We don't know anything."

"The evidence is mounting." Michonne said.

"What if there is kids in that camp, children, babies, old people?" Hershel listed.

"Then we rescue them, kill the cannibals. Seems like a no brainer to me." Daryl said, Olly nodded with him.

"It's not that easy," Hershel said. "At least wait for them to make the first move."

I was puzzled, "They already did Hershel." I said and pulled Daryl's hand onto my lap, I used my free hand to point at his fresh bandage.

Herhsel seemed to have missed the first, and most important, half of the story.

"They did that to you?"

Daryl nodded.

"What did you do to them?" He asked.

"Killed 'em." Daryl said with a shrug of the shoulders.

Hershel balanced on one crutch and rubbed his beard, "I worry that we may have another battle on the horizon."

Notes

Hope you liked this! xx

Comments

Girl, its been like 4 months since u last updated.

ElyseStyle ElyseStyle
6/6/14

Girl, its been like 4 months since u last updated.

ElyseStyle ElyseStyle
6/6/14

Love it, Lily and Bella bonded how sweet anyhoo great chapter can't wait to read more update as soon as u can :)

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1/23/14

@Alice_Weekes
thank you! :D

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1/23/14

@SierraaDixon
Hahaha thank you so much!!! X

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1/23/14