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Need You Now

Chapter 130

Sunday, April 29th, 2012

When they rounded the corner to Daryl's house, Sam spied Cassie sitting on the back porch of Rick’s house with baby Judith perched in her lap. Bypassing Daryl’s house, Sam caught Cassie’s eye as she made her way over to her best friend and was nearly bowled over by the level of pure bliss that radiated from her. Feeling fairly certain that last night had been 'The' night for the couple, Sam added a smile of her own; truly happy for the brightness of her best friend's smile.

Only slightly embarrassed by her own disheveled appearance since Cassie looked even more beautiful than normal, if that was even possible, Sam smoothed her hands over the heavily wrinkled front of her black funeral dress as she walked up the stairs to Rick's back porch. She had intended on going home or to Daryl’s after visiting with her family for a while once the funeral was over, but those plans had gone awry after drinking the large mug of drugged tea.

As Sam climbed the stairs, Cassie passed Judith off to Rick and engulfed her in a tight embrace the moment she stepped onto the porch; which Sam returned with equal enthusiasm. When they broke apart, Sam smiled knowingly up at Cassie and said, "Well, good morning to you, too."

"Oh, huh, yeah." Cassie's face flushed red at the inflection in Sam's comment and realized that her friend knew exactly what she and Rick had been up after leaving the Collin's residence the night before. Smothering a giggle of sheer happiness, she pointed to the French press style coffee pot sitting on the table next to Rick and asked, "You want some coffee? I know it's not really your thing without all that sugar, but...If you don't mind me saying, you look kinda tired."

"I could've slept a little longer, but no, thanks on the coffee." Sam punctuated her words with a yawn, which led to a concerned look from Cassie. Waving off her friend's worries, Sam leaned on the railing next to Daryl, who had an oddly quiet Jacey snuggled against his thigh, and glanced down at her daughter and asked. "I'm going to run home for a little while, if that's okay? Take a shower, or maybe a bath, and change. You want to come with or stay with Daryl?"

“I wanna stay here with Daryl.” Jacey replied, her normally boisterous voice oddly timid and worrisome enough to have Sam worried. She looked up at Daryl with concern obviously etched across her face, because he rubbed Jacey’s back comfortingly while reassuring Sam that everything would be fine long enough for her to run home and bathe.

"Go on, get cleaned up. Jace and I will hang out here." Daryl put his arm around Sam's shoulder and pulled her close enough to brush a kiss across her forehead. He wanted to say that he could use the rainwater reserve to draw her a bath at his house and run to her apartment for some of her clothes while she lounged in it, so that she didn't leave, but he understood her need to have some time alone. The fact that they were going to have to have a serious discussion at some point that night, after Jacey went to sleep, only added to the stress Daryl knew Sam must be under at the moment.

"I'll walk with you!" Cassie exclaimed, eager to share her excitement from her night with Rick with her best friend. Plus, after two rounds of sex, she was in dire need of a shower herself. Just the thought of their morning activities had her skin flushing as she recalled the way they had woken up as the sun was rising and sought out and embraced one another.

Leaning over, Cassie connected her lips with Rick's and kissed him goodbye, adding a whisper of a kiss across the downy honey blonde hair on Judith’s head before straightening. "I'll see you at lunch." She whispered huskily, before she turned to Sam and clapped her hands together, "Alright, let's get this show on the road."

"You need anything from our place, Jace?" Sam asked as she brushed aside one of the many unruly locks of golden curls on her daughter's head. The level of quiet the child was giving off was disconcerting and Sam shared a look of worry with Daryl, as his sister hugged herself as close as possible to his thigh. Leaning in close to Jacey, she asked, "You okay, baby girl?"
"I'm fine." Jacey mumbled in response, although the shimmer in her eyes let Sam know she felt just the opposite. "I don't need anything from home."

"Okay, I'll see you at lunch then." Sam kissed Jacey on the forehead and straightened. Fully intent on talking to her daughter in private later that afternoon, Sam let the issue drop for the moment until they were alone. She stepped closer to Daryl and leaned in to kiss him lightly on the lips and said goodbye, before following Cassie down the stairs and in the direction of home.
Once they were on to the street and out of earshot of the others, Sam finally let a grin spread across her face as she cut a glance out of the corner of her eye to Cassie. "Someone's happy this morning. Got this whole glowing thing going on. I assume that means you and Rick finally did the deed?"

"Yes!" Cassie cried triumphantly as she skipped for a few paces. "And, it was magnificent! It really was! I mean, just nothing like I've ever experienced before."

"Ever? Really?" Sam couldn't help the surprise that tinted her voice, before following it up with a chuckle at the way Cassie shimmied and skipped down the street. "You've had um, several 'experiences', but last night was the best? Go Rick."

Cassie stopped dancing around and grabbed hold of Sam's hand as they continued towards home. She sighed dreamily and said, "It was just....Wow, you know? I don't know, Sam, there was just something so special about it. And, I felt different than normal...it was like there was this bubble inside, and I didn't know if I wanted to laugh or maybe cry while we had sex, but it was there...and it was something I've never felt before. Has that ever happened to you?"

She had felt that way before, but only with one person...Daryl. In fact, that was the exact way she had felt the first time they'd had sex and that bubbly feeling was what led her to professing her love for him afterwards. Smiling with genuine happiness, Sam clued her friend in to what that mysterious feeling was, "That, my dear friend, kind of sounds like love, to me. I'm sorry to say, but I’m pretty sure you've finally been bitten by the love bug, Cass. And, it's written all over your face! You have yet to quit smiling."

"Love? No, I mean...really? Are you sure?" Cassie had a look of bewilderment shimmering in her eyes, but the smile was still in place, lurking at the slightly upturned corners of her mouth. "Am I in love?"

"Sounds like it to me...I felt that way the first time with Daryl. And, that dreamy expression on your face looks familiar." Sam had a fleeting moment of envy, wishing she could go back and experience falling in love for the first time again, but brushed it aside. She had Daryl to fall in love with again, and that was what she had wanted for years now, they just hadn’t had the chance to do so properly without life and a butt load of drama involved. "Just know, if it ever builds up to the point that you actually do cry during sex, it's not always a bad thing. Sometimes you just get so overwhelmed it happens."

"Do you still feel that way with Daryl?" Cassie grinned mischievously and prodded further. "Is it still as good with him? Or did he get better with age? Like a fine wine?"

"I don't know...I mean, better or worse? I can't really judge past and present that way. It's different, how's that?" Just thinking about sex with Daryl had her tingling all over. The one thing that hadn't changed was the way her body responded to his, and his body alone.

"Oh come on, you can do better than that.” Cassie chastised as they rounded the corner towards home. “I told you about Rick, it’s your turn to spill the beans. It’s what best friends do, I’m sure I’ve given you this lecture before.”

“You’re not going to let this drop until I tell you, are you?” When met with the look Cassie gave her that plainly stated that she wouldn’t, in fact, drop the subject until she had been given all the sordid details, Sam sighed in false frustration and dramatically stated, “He’s the best I’ve ever had. Like a beast…a sexual beast. Is that good enough?”

“Please, like I didn’t already know that Daryl was the best you’d ever had. Pfft, Ryan’s a good looking guy, but he doesn’t give off that-as you put it-sexual beast persona. And, Judah? Guy practically screams that he only cares about himself in bed. Daryl though? Yeah, he’s got that look about him, so I already knew that alleged juicy tidbit.” Cassie smacked Sam on the shoulder and continued, “Come on! Better or worse than before?”

“Better! Okay? Satisfied.” Sam’s cheeks turned a violent hue of red and the laughter that spilled out afterwards was something she had needed for a while. “So much better. Not that it was bad before, not in the slightest…it’s just now there’s more to it. I really don’t know how to put it in to words to fully describe it, Cass…it’s just better. A whole new level of greatness.” But, deep down, she knew what made the sex with Daryl better now…they’d experienced life without one another and there was this sense of urgency between them now, that overwhelming desire to make up for the twelve years they had spent without the other.

As the duo split and went in to their separate apartments, Daryl stepped out in to the hallway after changing out of the clothes he’d had on since the morning before and headed towards the living room. Once he entered the main area of the house and realized that Jacey was no longer on the couch where he’d left her, Daryl returned to the hallway and headed towards her bedroom. He poked his head inside and spied her sitting on the floor with her back facing him. Knocking lightly on the door frame, he asked, “Can I come in?”

“Yeah.” Jacey’s reply was nearly inaudible as she closed the book in her lap and laid it on the floor by her bent legs.

“You alright?” Daryl asked after he claimed a patch of floor next to her, leaning his back against the twin bed that had thankfully already been in the room when he’d been assigned back to his former house. “You, uh....is it ‘cause of your grandma?”

After only receiving a barely perceptible nod in response, Daryl decided to let the topic drop for the time being…or at least until Sam was there to help out. Trying to navigate the emotions of a woman had never been his strong suit, much less a child. In hopes of finding something to talk about and maybe perk his sister up, Daryl reached out and grabbed the book she’d laid down.

“You like reading or is this for school?” He asked curiously, peering at the yellow cover of the mystery book about some chick named Nancy Drew.

“I like reading. It’s fun.” Jacey’s reply finally had a bit of spark in it, so Daryl prompted her to tell him what it was about. “It’s about this girl who’s a detective, but she’s only in high school. She solves all sorts of strange cases. It’s really cool. It was Sam’s when she was little.”

As Jacey went on to tell him all about the particular book in his hands, Daryl flipped open the cover and found that she had scrawled her name inside of it just below Sam’s, which looked like it had been there for years, along with a newer inscription ‘If found, return to Jacey or Sam Dixon’. Confused, Daryl interrupted Jacey and asked, “Why’d you put Sam’s last name as Dixon in here?”

“Because it’s her name, duh.” Jacey rolled her eyes and snatched the book out of Daryl’s hands, flipping to the page she was last reading so that she could fill him in on what was coming next, but was interrupted again.

“That was her name, kid…ain’t no more. That got changed back when we split.” Daryl explained carefully, feeling sorry for his sister who obviously wanted another Dixon in her life at the time she made the notation, that she listed Sam as such.

“No. Sam’s last name is Dixon, same as mine.” Jacey didn’t bother to glance up at her brother as she scanned the page she had last read, looking for a specific part in the story.

At that piece of information, Daryl simply sat in shocked silence while his sister proceeded to read an entire chapter of the book to him. He felt bad for barely registering what Jacey was reading to him, but what she had just told him had rendered him speechless and he couldn’t wait to bring it up with Sam when he had a chance to get her alone.

Notes

Comments

@aphishinthec


Wow! Thank you so much. Glad you enjoyed it again. :)

Serenity Serenity
12/1/16

I binge read this too over thanksgiving weekend and literally could not put it down. I was a constant reader when the updates were regular, but sadly am the worst at remembering to review. Excellent story to binge read!!

aphishinthec aphishinthec
12/1/16

@Tripper


Squee! Glad you liked it just as much the second time around. :)

Serenity Serenity
11/28/16

So, I may have just gorged myself on this story and read it all over again in a few days. This is one of my very favourite stories of all time. So freakin' good. Thanks again for this wicked story!

Tripper Tripper
11/25/16

@Lunabelle4


Thank you so much!

Serenity Serenity
11/14/16