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Finding Each Other

Chapter 20: Panic

To all of my viewers, subscribers, and friends that I've met on here, please don't hate me for what you're about to read. This is the only warning I can give you, without giving anything away. Lets just say with each death, comes life. I think that gives a pretty vague description on what's going to happen in this chapter. Once again I say, please don't hate me. I didn't have to do it, but I had to at the same time. :) :/ :(
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Panic
Daryl’s POV
At some point last night, I climbed up into McKayla’s bed to hold her, completely aware of all the tubes that are coming out of her. She nuzzled her head onto my chest and slept peacefully all night. With how small this bed is, it reminds me of the bed I had when we first met. Even then, she slept just like this with my arms wrapped around her tightly. I never wanted to let her go then and I don’t want to now.
When we first met, I thought she was an angel sent from heaven. Blonde hair that when the sun hits, I swear she has a halo wrapped around her head. Blue eyes that every time I looked into them, I always forgot everything I was feeling. I know I had the same effect on her because she told me multiple times. It wasn’t until we first kissed that we actually felt something for each other.
Now, after being together for almost twenty years, my love for her hasn’t changed. I don’t think it will ever change no matter what happens. If she dies sometime in the inevitable future, I’ll still love her. Even when I thought she was dead, I still loved her. I will always love this woman that I have wrapped tight against me.
The sound of someone screaming nearly made both of us jump out of our skins. McKayla looked up at me with wide eyes knowing that I was going to be getting up to investigate. I know she’d get up as well, but she’s hooked up to the monitors still. Whatever is going on, there’s panic going on in the entire house right now.
“I’ll be right back.” I tell her as I kiss her forehead and slip out from her grasp.
Walking out the door to McKayla’s room, I started heading down the hallway towards the front door. Once I get there, the hallway that’s on the opposite side of the house, has people running back and forth. That’s when I see Christie covered in blood, standing in the main hallway of the house. It almost reminds of a scene in a horror film until I see Raymond running towards her and throwing his arms around her.
“Daryl!” I hear Rick yell from where everyone is running. I start running towards that area to see nothing but blood smothered down the hallway.
“What the fuck happened?” I asked him.
“Antonio changed in the middle of the night. Christie went in there this morning, got attacked. Abraham saved her but…” That’s when we both saw Rosita walking down the hallway crying hysterically. She was followed by Tara, Carol, and Eugene.
“Anyone else?” I asked Rick and he shook his head no.
“Daddy?” I heard DJ say from the top of the stairs with Judith by his side.
Rick turned around at the same time as I did and we both walked up the stairs to our kids. We both stayed up there for a while until we got the clear to come down. Koda was growling the entire time Rick and I were standing in the second-floor hallway. When we started walking the stairs, he barked which made both us stop.
“Ko…” I was cut off when we heard screaming again.
“DJ, go back into your bedroom with Judith now.” I said putting him down. Koda followed both of them back into the room and the door closed behind them. Rick and I ran straight down the stairs to see Rosita and Christie fighting. Rick went straight for Rosita while I helped Raymond control Christie. There’s something about Hispanic women when they start fighting, you don’t always want to get into the middle of it. Tara was sitting up against the wall holding her face.
“Enough!” We all heard someone yell. I turned around to see McKayla standing there, wrapped in a blanket. For some reason, that was enough for all of us to completely stop what we were doing.
“Someone care to explain what the hell is going on?” She asked holding onto the banister.
We all started looking back and forth at each other, not really sure what to say. McKayla started walking closer but stopped and kneeled down to see what happened to Tara.
“Come on hun, let’s go get you cleaned up.” She says standing back up while holding onto Tara. They stopped just in front of the stairs and McKayla leaned up to whisper something in Tara’s ear before taking off her blanket. I almost forgot that I got McKayla a change of clothes last night. She turned around and started heading towards us.
“You all should be ashamed of yourselves right now. I’m not sure what’s going on, but I have a pretty good guess based on the amount of blood. When someone dies, you don’t fight like a bunch of savages. You stick together no matter what. And if this is your idea of being a leader Rick, you’re not doing a good job.” She said before turning on her heal and walking away.
“Should I be worried at the fact she said all of that without yelling?” Rick said without looking at me.
“Yes because that usually means she’s extremely pissed off.” I tell him as I turned around to see Carl and Michonne heading in our direction.
“Where’s DJ and Judith?” Carol asks us.
“Upstairs with Koda.” Carol nods and they both tell us that they’re going upstairs to keep the kids busy. Raymond walks passed us with his arm wrapped around Christie. Rosita is sitting on one of the chairs in the kitchen while Eugene continues to stand there. Maggie and Glenn are standing behind Rosita trying to comfort her as much as she’ll let them.
I turned around to go find McKayla. By the time I get to the front of the stairs, something stops me once again. This time, it’s not screaming. It’s not fighting, crying, nothing like that. It’s Maggie’s voice.
I walked back to where everyone is to see Maggie standing nearly completely still with wide eyes. Glenn looks as white as ghost as well as Rick. I must be missing something but as soon as moved closer is when I see the puddle underneath Maggie. I turned around quickly to go find Raymond.
Running up the stairs, skipping steps in the process. I run straight to their room and bang on the door. Raymond answers and I never gave him the chance to say anything.
“Come quick. Maggie’s water just broke.” And with that, Raymond follows me back down the stairs as Maggie and Glenn head towards the infirmary. I follow them, but instead of going where they are going, I head towards where McKayla took Tara just a few minutes before. It’s obvious that she’s pissed, but I need to make sure that she’s alright.
McKayla’s POV
For some messed up reason I decided to get out of bed to figure out what was going on. To my surprise, it was nothing but absolute chaos. People fighting and yelling at each other while someone else is sitting on the floor bleeding. I got Tara up and out of there before I said what I needed to say. I may have said some things that the group may look at me differently from now on but I don’t care.
That’s all I was thinking the entire time I was helping Tara clean up. She explained to me that she was trying to hold back Rosita but her elbow connected with her face. I’m not sure if it’s broken or not but it’s bleeding. Luckily enough it’s calmed down a lot since we came in here. It’s only minimal now.
“Can you breathe through your nose Tara?” I asked her and she tried which was a success.
“Well I don’t think we need to set your nose because it’s not shaped weird. She must’ve hit you just right so it didn’t actually break.”
“Is that supposed to make me feel better?”
“When Mattie was six, I got a call from the hospital telling me my husband got into a car accident. When I got there, I was told that he was in surgery. Apparently, an 18-wheeler went right through him. But as you can see, he lived.”
“Your husband really is the ultimate badass isn’t he?” Tara asked with a smile across her face. I was going to answer but a knock on the door stopped me. Daryl’s head popped in and Tara told us that she’ll leave us alone.
Taking a deep breath, I grabbed everything we were using to either throw away or rinse out. Once I came to the conclusion that it’s not going to be thrown away, I walked over to the sink to wash it. Daryl shut the door and sat down in one of the chairs behind me.
“I can’t believe you snapped on all of us like that.” I heard Daryl say from behind me.
“Well it seemed to me that someone needed to snap you all out of it.”
“McKayla, Rick is a good leader. Yes, he’s had his moments but we’re still alive, well most of us anyways.” That’s when I heard him standing up and walking towards me.
His wrapped around my waist and pulled me tight against him. He moved my hair to one side before burying his face in my neck. I could feel his hands running up and down my stomach as he started kissing my neck. In that moment, I completely forgot what happened.
Daryl has a way to make me forget everything. It could be a single look, a touch, even just his voice. He’s always had this power over me and sometimes it drives me absolutely insane. I know it’s so I’ll calm down and it always works.
“McKayla, you know I love you right?” He whispered in my ear and that gave me the initiative to turn around in his arms to face him.
“Yes? Why?”
“Just wanted to tell you that.” I raised an eyebrow up at Daryl when he said that. It almost seems like he’s hiding something from me but I have no idea what.
Then we hear a knock on the door which makes us stop doing whatever we’re doing. Carol’s head pops in and her face looks worried.
“Hey sorry, um McKayla, can I speak to you for a second please?” Daryl looks down at me and kisses me quick before leaving the room.
“What’s going on Carol?”
“It’s Maggie, she’s in labor. She’s freaking out, won’t let Raymond touch her. She wants you McKayla.” I pierced my lips together and closed my eyes when she said that.
“Alright let’s go.” I said as I walked passed her and out the door. The other infirmary room we had set up was across from mine. Raymond was standing in the wall outside of the door.
“What’s going on?” I asked him.
“She’s freaking out. She wants you because you’ve gone through a pregnancy and a birth and came out alive.” I nod and knocked on the door before walking in. Maggie was laying on her side while Glenn rubbed her lower back. Walking over to the sink, I washed my hands and put gloves on. I’m taking all the necessary precautions that I possibly can right now.
“Maggie, can you roll onto your back sweetie?” She looked up at me with tear filled eyes and nods before turning over slightly. I proceeded to tell her to bend her knees so I can check how far along she is.
The last thing I expected when I looked down there was to see a nearly a full head of hair. Her body is doing all the work and she didn’t even realize it. I looked up at Maggie and smiled at her which resulted in her giving me a curious look.
“Maggie, the baby is coming right now. You don’t need to worry. Just push, not hard though, alright?” And that’s exactly what she did. She started pushing along with her body. A few pushes later, I had a baby in my arms and I’m starting to wipe it off. I asked Carol for the clamp and scissors so I could cut the cord. Then the baby squealed loudly and it reminded me of when Mattie and DJ were born.
“It’s a girl.” I said standing up and handing her over to Maggie. Maggie’s eyes started tearing up which automatically made mine as well. The baby is absolutely beautiful. A perfect combination of Maggie and Glenn.
“What are you naming her?” I asked and Glenn and Maggie looked at each other with a smile.
“Bethany Leanne.” She tells me with a smile stretched across her face. I took that moment to leave the room so Raymond can check Maggie and the baby out. Delivering is one thing but the aftermath is completely different. I have no idea what I’m doing.
As I walked out of the room, I see Daryl leaning up against the wall. I smiled and grabbed his hand to bring him back into the room I’ve been staying in. Wrapping my arms around his neck, I pull his mouth to mine and press my lips to his. His arms are moving up my sides and taking my shirt off in the process. I begin doing the same to him as well. Then he picks me up and carries me to the bed. I think the rest is self-explanatory.

Notes

So, um, ya that just happened.
Leave your responses below if you're mad at me for killing off a TWD character. I'm sorry for that. I originally had this chapter written out differently. To the point that all of this happened the morning after they found out about the blizzard, Carl and Mattie were actually in the house, McKayla was still in her coma, and guess what, Noah was alive still. So there was a lot of changes that was done to this chapter and there's been a lot that has changed throughout this story.
Next chapter will be in Mattie and Carl's point of view. *wink wink* :)
I'll post it in a few days.

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Comments

@Heartlove689
Looking forward to both!

Grimesgirl63 Grimesgirl63
9/27/16

@Grimesgirl63
Hello and thank you for the feedback. I'm working on posting new chapters for both stories shortly, I promise. My muse and I are arguing at the moment. Finding Each Other only has a few more chapters left until it completes. Bonded by Pain on the otherhand, I'm not sure how many chapters it will be yet.

Heartlove689 Heartlove689
9/26/16

Hey there, discovered your story the other day and have now read both stories, Bonded by Pain and Finding Each Other. Loved them both, and how you have written Finding Each Other from all these different points of view, the different story streams and then bringing them all together. I hope you plan on updating this one soon. On a personal note, I do hope that things have settled in your life and I am praying for you.

Grimesgirl63 Grimesgirl63
9/25/16

CROSS BOW DWELLING?

Lolly Lolly
1/19/16

@Laurabites22
I won't leave for long at all. I'm just working on another project and sealing with some stuff. Leaving on a cliffhanger was part of the idea for when I went on a hiatus. Sorry!

Heartlove689 Heartlove689
7/28/15