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What Future is There?

Chapter 23

"I wish you was marryin' me." Daryl said. He was spooning Michonne, rubbing her belly and kissing her back at intervals. She was already drifting off to sleep, but hadn't gone entirely. Hershel was finally going to marry Glenn and Maggie the next day and that had been pretty much all the prison had talked about all day.

"Are you asking me to marry you?" Michonne asked.

"I ain't got no ring…and my luck if I got one from a Walker like Glenn it wouldn't fit." Daryl said. Michonne responded by shifting backwards and snuggling into him.

"I don't need a ring, Daryl." Michonne mumbled. She pressed his hand to her belly. "I think we pretty much have enough right here."

"So you'd marry me?" Daryl asked.

"I'll talk to Hershel tomorrow." Michonne said. Daryl was quiet a few minutes.

"'Chonne, what is your last name?" He asked after a few minutes.

"Don't have one." She mumbled back. It didn't matter anyway and she'd never been fond of her last name after she and her husband divorced. She had always thought she'd get it changed back to her maiden name, but she'd never legally done that. These days no one needed last names.

"Everybody's got a last name, 'Chonne. You ain't Cher." Daryl said.

"Does it matter, Daryl?" Michonne asked. Daryl responded by kissing her back again.

"Baby's gotta have a last name." He said.

"I guess it's Dixon, then." Michonne said. Daryl was quiet again. "Can we go to sleep now?" She added.

"Night, 'Chonne." Daryl said.

"Goodnight, Daryl." Michonne said.

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"Maggie, can I talk to you?" Michonne asked the next morning, finding Maggie in the courtyard talking to Beth.

"Sure." Maggie said. Beth took the cue and went to find Carol to see about helping with the special dinner they were planning.

"I wanted to find out how you'd feel about Daryl and me getting married today too. We would ask Hershel to do it privately, just something quiet. I wouldn't want to distract from you getting married." Michonne said. To her surprise Maggie threw her arms around her.

"You mean like a double wedding? That would be so great!" Maggie said.

"Well, I wasn't thinking about it that way." Michonne said when they split apart.

"No, I love it! We'll get married together. It'll be a big day for weddings around here. I'm so excited! I have to go tell Glenn." Before Michonne could say anything, Maggie went trotting off.

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"Well I hope you were serious about us getting married." Michonne said when she found Daryl twisting wire around one of the patches that was weakened.

"Course I was serious." Daryl said without stopping what he was doing.

"Well, Maggie is thrilled. She wants us to get married together. A double wedding kind of thing." Michonne said.

"You mean like a wedding, wedding?" Daryl asked. He hadn't really thought about all that. Which it wasn't like Maggie and Glenn were going to really have any kind of a special wedding. They didn't have dressy clothes or anything, they were just getting married in front of everyone and Carol and Rachel were making some kind of big meal for everyone. "I guess it don't matter." He added after a moment.

Michonne wasn't sure why she felt nervous, but she did. They were getting married, but it wasn't like anything would change. The only thing that would change is she would be able to call Daryl her husband, but that was basically what he was anyway. At least that was how she had come to think of him. He was just there. She knew that every night he was going to be in her bed, their bed…these days there wasn't anything legal about anything, so wasn't that really all being married was going to boil down to?

Daryl liked the idea of getting married, and it surprised him how much he liked it. Michonne hadn't said anything, she'd just turned to head back to the prison and he'd continued twisting the wire, trying to make sure that no Walkers got through to come to the ceremony. Daryl was getting married today…Michonne would be his wife. He'd finally know what to call her when people asked him…all the new people that they might meet one day. Now he'd be able to say she was his wife.

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"I always cry at weddings." Rachel admitted to Carol. They were in the yard and waiting for everyone to get settled.

"Really? I never cry at weddings. I never really understood why anyone cries at weddings." Carol said.

"It's just so emotional. I mean you realize that the two people that are in front of you really love each other." Rachel said.

That wasn't always the case at weddings, Carol thought. It hadn't been the case at her wedding. She had loved him, but it hadn't taken her very long to figure out that once they were married he didn't love her. At least that wasn't the case with the people who were getting married today. Maggie had announced to everyone that Daryl and Michonne were going to get married with her and Glenn. Carol thought it was a nice idea. She had no doubt that Glenn and Maggie loved each other, and she also had no doubt that Michonne and Daryl were very much in love. You could always see real love, it was always written all over their faces.

Hershel performed the ceremony and everyone had clapped when the two couples kissed. It really hadn't seemed like much of anything. Just the "public" declaration of what everyone already knew, but at least it was as official as anything ever got these days.

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Michonne was pretty sure this was the strangest conversation that she'd ever had with anyone. She was lying on her back on the bed, and Daryl was standing over her.

The conversation had begun essentially because, just as they were going to bed, Rachel had started teasing them about the prison being up all night because they had marriages that they better "get to consumatin'".

Daryl had been put off by the comments, and the teasing that followed from the others.

"They're gonna hear us." Had been his first concern.

"They already hear us." Michonne had countered.

"Yeah, but now they're gonna be listenin'" Daryl had said.

As the conversation had progressed from there, Michonne had finally talked Daryl out of that line of worrying. Then he had entered into another line.

They hadn't had sex since she'd been injured. For obvious reasons that had been off the table for a while. Michonne wasn't really sure why, but they hadn't decided exactly how long to wait. Neither of them had been driven crazy with the need…the only thing that had driven them crazy was the period of time when Daryl wasn't allowed to sleep in the cell with her, but once he'd been allowed back in they had been perfectly content just to sleep together. So Daryl's next concern was that it might still hurt her if she got jarred.

"I'm fine and I feel fine. I'll let you know if it hurts." She had assured him.

Once they had solved that problem, then had come the logistics of how…what would be the most comfortable option for them both. That had taken them a few minutes to sort out, but they'd finally gotten through it. Now Daryl was concerned about something else.

"What about the baby?" He asked.

"What about it?" Michonne said. She put her hands behind her head. At this point she was not even in the mood anymore, though she had been at various intervals during the conversation.

"Well, I mean, what if…I don't know…what if it like shakes loose or something?" Daryl asked. Michonne laughed.

"Daryl, we've had sex since I got pregnant and it didn't shake the baby loose. It'll be fine. Pregnant women can have sex." Michonne said.

"Yeah, but you weren't as pregnant then." Daryl said. Michonne laughed again.

"You know what this is turning into? It's making me feel like I'm on vacation in Daryl Land." Daryl just looked at her.

"Daryl Land?" He asked after a minute.

"Yes, this little trip inside your head is like being at an amusement park, except no one is being amused." Michonne said.

"Don't be a smart ass. I can't help it if I get worried about that stuff. I don't want nothin' happenin' to the baby." Daryl said.

"Daryl, the baby will be fine, I promise." Hershel called out from his cell. Michonne laughed.

"Damn it, 'Chonne! See, they're listenin'!" Daryl said.

"We're not listening, Daryl. We're all asleep. It's OK. Go ahead." Carol called out. Michonne laughed again. Daryl's face was priceless.

"Come on, Daryl, come to bed. We'll try again later." Michonne said. It was more than obvious that it wasn't happening tonight, since it didn't seem like either of them was in the mood, or likely to be in the mood any time soon.

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"Daryl, the key to it is that you don't think about it as much." Glenn said over breakfast.

"I reckon you're going to give me advice now? Do you want to discuss technique with me too?" Daryl snapped back.

"What he's sayin' is true." Josh said. "I mean if you think about it, it ain't gonna happen. You can't let it get to you that everyone can hear everything, you just gotta think about the task at hand."

"Damn it, shut up! I ain't talkin' 'bout this with some kid who can't even shave." Daryl said.

"Calm down, Daryl. They're just teasing you. No one is questioning your manhood. I, for one, have heard enough octaves of Michonne's voice to know you have no problem in that area when your mind is on it." Carol said. "Besides, from what I heard this morning you redeemed yourself nicely."

Daryl blushed and Michonne reached over and put her hand on top of his.

"I've got no complaints." She said. She leaned over and he kissed her.

​ "I'm glad you're married." Carol said. "Or I wouldn't stand for that kind of behavior at the breakfast table."

Comments

Just discovered your story and love it so far. Always thought Daryl and Michonne would make a good couple!

Grimesgirl63 Grimesgirl63
1/28/18

Really great story!

cemmia cemmia
7/18/14
I love it! start writing again!!!
neentje neentje
8/6/13
I love your story. Keep up the good work
SVJohnson21 SVJohnson21
6/23/13
This is very well writen and I enjoy reading it.
Thewalkingdixon Thewalkingdixon
5/27/13