"Merle?" I ask as I take a step toward the man. He turns around with a big smile on his face.

"I knew ye weren't that dumb." I smile as I pull him into a hug. "Why are ye about to cry?" He asks as he pushes me away from him to see my eyes. I shake my head slightly.

"I thought you died. Y-you're body is out there." I say in disbelief.

"Really?" We step out of the room and see our group surrounding the body. We watch as Glenn turns the body around to revel a man with the same build and hair as Merle.

"Merle." Daryl breathes out, as he's the first person to notice us. He pulls Merle into a hug and I smile a bit to myself because they hardly ever get along.

"I'm so glad you're alive." Ty says to Merle.

"I'm sorry about earlier." Daryl says shyly. Ty just nods.

"It's okay, man."

"Sergeant Pleasure over here thought he stole my hand and clothes." Everyone laughs. I go to speak, but Belle cuts me off.

"Mom, can I talk to you?" That's when I remember her period. I nod and motion her to the other room.

"Merle. Where is my bag?" He furrows his eyebrows.

"The one with Judy's stuff?" I nod. He points to a couch across from me.

"Thank you." He nods his head and I pick up the bag, only to go in the other room with Belle, making sure I close the door. I shuffle threw the bag before I find a pad. "How are you feeling?" I hear her groan before I walk closer to her.

"My stomach hurts and I want something sweet." I smile as I take her bag off of her. I find a pair of underwear and hold the two items in front of her.

"We'll find you some." She just nods and sits up straight in her seat as I hand her the underwear and pad. "All you do is unravel the plastic around it and place the sticky part on your underwear, where you want it to stay. It may be easier to have the underwear on while you try to figure out where you want it. I'm going to go out there to find some pants because there aren't any in my bag. I'll make sure no one comes in, just yell if you need me."

"Okay." I smile to her before I walk out.

"Michonne." Her eyes find mine and I just reel my head back. She catches on and jogs over to me.

"Everything okay? You disappeared fast." I send her a smile before lowering my voice.

"Belle started her period and I was wondering if you had any pants she could wear." She thinks for a second before grabbing some pants out of her bag and handing them to me. "Thank you."

"No problem." As I turn, her voice stops me. "Why are we being quiet though? Every girl goes through it."

"I don't want to embarrass her." She nods and walks back to where everyone else is. I knock on the door lightly before I hear Belle crack the door open just enough for her hand to come out. I hand her the pants and she closes the door again.

"Thank you." I laugh a bit as I wait for her to open the door. After only a few minutes, she lets me in and I throw the backpack on my shoulder and watch as she does the same with hers. "What do we do with the bloody clothes?"

"We can just leave it because I'm sure we'll be leaving soon. There's not much daylight but this house couldn't hold for a night." I say as I point to the crack running up the wall. She nods and we both walk out.

"About time. We've been ready for a while." Rick says. I just roll my eyes and give him another hug. I'm beyond happy to have found my family. Now, we're only missing Maggie, Sasha, and Bob. Not too long after, we start our journey. Since we don't have any vehicles at the moment, we had to start our journey on foot. Rick made a pit stop to write on the sign with red spray paint. I have no idea where he got it from.

After around two hours of walking with no breaks, we decided to stop and call it a night. We didn't have a house to stop at since we are still following the railroad tracks, but at least we're stopping before it gets too dark. I let out and uneasy breath as my people start to lay on the tracks with the light blankets they've been able to keep in their bags. Everyone pulls a little something out of their own bag to eat on. I take Judith from Rick so he can eat. I don't have much food left in my bag and I'd much rather the kids in our group eat it. For they are going to be the ones who live the longest in this world.

"Mai?" I turn to Daryl and see him motioning me over to him from across the tracks. He picks up his bow and I know he wants to hunt. I hold one finder his way before I hand Judith to Merle since he finished eating to take first watch.

"Would you mind?" He nods with a smile.

"Sure thing, sweetheart." He looks down at Judith. "She is just the sweetest thing. Aren't ye?" I let out a smile laugh before following after Daryl. I keep my hunting knife in my hand as Daryl uses his flashlight to shine the way in front of us.

"Are you okay?" I ask Daryl after a few quiet minutes.

"I am now." He says with a smile as he shines his light on a house not even twenty feet from us. I smile at him and in pure excitement, I kiss him. I shy away for a second. We haven't done anything with meaning since before Woodbury. I see confusion, yet excitement in his eyes.

"Why don't we go get the others so we don't have to sleep on the ground tonight?" I turn away, but his hand grabs my wrist. I turn around, only to be pinned to the tree behind me. His mouth immediately finds mine and kisses me so roughly, yet with so much passion. I hear his bow hit the ground right before his hands find their way to my shirt. He quickly takes my shirt off and lets his hands roam my exposed chest. Just as I go to take his off, a twig snaps, followed by a snarl.

I grab my knife from the ground as he grabs his bow. We struggle to find the walker with the little light we have. Once we find it, Daryl shoots it with his arrow. As he goes to retrieve his arrow, I feel a gross, cold hand touch my skin. I let out a small scream before I throw the walker over my shoulder, making it land on its back. I raise my knife in the air and quickly push it into the walkers skull. When I pull it out, I hear the satisfying noise that lets me know it's dead.

"Mai? Are ye okay?" I look at him and my frightened face soon turns into a big smile. He soon has the same look and I let out a laugh.

"I don't think you're even trying to hide your smile from me anymore." I laugh as he comes closer. The smile never falters from his face as he grips the waistline of my pants.

"Why would I hide anythin' from ye?" He kisses my neck, turning me on far more than he was before. I bite my lip as he places another kiss on my collar bone. He knows this is my turn on, he's doing this on purpose. Then I feel his hot breath on my ear. "I already have ye where I want ye." I smile before placing a long kiss to his lips.

"Why don't you take me all the way then?" He smiles before he kisses me. I deepen the kiss by running my fingers in his hair and giving it a slight tug, since that is his turn on. Two can play at this game. I push him off of me before running to the house. When I say running, I literally mean running. I hear him running behind me, but I make sure to stay just a few feet in front of him. Once we're inside, I hear him slam the door shut. I let out a giggle as I run through the house, trying to find a room.

"Oh, Darlin!" I hear him sing. Once I find the bedroom, I take a quick scan of the room. When I see no one, living or dead, I peek my head out.

"Are you coming?" I ask and smile at him from down the hall. He drops his bow before coming into the room.

"I will be soon." He grabs my hips and lifts me up the wall. I let out a small squeal as his hands find their way to my ass and squeezes. I grab him by the back of the neck and pull his face closer to mine, if that's even possible. I shimmy my way off of him and take take his shirt off. I bring him into me and when my hands touch his back, he stiffens. I frown a bit. I know it's not his fault but he hasn't been like this with me for a while.

"I'm sorry." I say as I slowly drop my arms. I feel his head shake as he places my hands back on his back.

"It's okay." I feel the scars on his back and gently run my fingers across them. This causes him to push my back into the wall with a hard kiss. I take his pants off and he returns the favor. I run my hands to his chest and lightly push him off of me. I slide his underwear down and do the same to myself before grabbing his hand and going to the bed. He lays down and I get on top of him.

"You sure you want to do this?" He answers my question by placing his hands on my thighs and pushing down. I do just that and slowly start to guide him in and out. I pick up the pace when he starts moaning. Every bounce causes a deeper moan. Right as I know he's close, I stop bouncing and give him a sweet kiss on the cheek.

"W-why'd ye stop?" He breathes. I send him an innocent smile as I peck his lips. When I don't answer him, he flips us over. This takes me by surprise since he's never done this before. I'm definitely not complaining though. He throws my legs over his shoulders and readies himself. I have no time to prepare myself before he starts trusting, hard. I let out a loud moan from the surprise. He keeps going for about five more minutes before I decide to speak up.

"Do you h-have a condom?" He has no time to answer before he finishes inside me. I let out a small laugh before he lays beside me. "I guess that means no." I give him a small kiss and look into his eyes, or what I can see with the small amount of moon light creeping through the window.

"I've missed that a lot." He breathes once more. We both laugh and get off the bed to get dressed to bring our group back here. I pull my underwear on and put my bra back on and decide to be the sarcastic hoe I am.

"Really? I didn't notice." I see him raise an eyebrow as I pull my pants up. He takes a few steps towards me as he pulls up his own pants.

"Oh yeah? Do I need to make ye notice?" He pushes me against the wall again and places a passionate kiss to my lips. This kiss holds so much love, that I almost say it back. Instead, I just give him the same energy back.

"I won't complain about that." I feel him smile into the kiss before walking away to put his shirt on. I shuffle the floor for my shirt as he throws his vest on. "Where's your flashlight?" He tosses it to me and I scour the room to find my shirt. My eyes widen as I look at Daryl.

"What?"

"My shirt's in the woods." He laughs and I hit him with the flashlight before hauling ass to the forest.

"Ye'll be okay. Im sure they won't even think twice." I roll my eyes as I follow the path.

"Really?" I turn around and he stops a few feet in front of me. He nods and I look to his pants. "Drop the pants and then we'll talk." He raises an eyebrow as he grabs his light out of my hand and points to the ground.

"Where did ye drop it?" I laugh before he finds it and throws it to me.

"Thanks." He shines the light on my chest as I throw my shirt on.

"Ye look better without it." I laugh and run my fingers through his hair again.

"Wanna go for round two?" I see him contemplate before a walker emerges from the bushes. I throw one my my knives at it before more start coming out. Before I know it, we're surrounded. I keep my back to his, just as we did at the prison, to make sure we're safe. I pull my hunting knife out Merle gave me not too long ago and start stabbing everywhere I can. I push myself away from Daryl when my side starts thinning.

"Mai?" I don't answer as I get knocked down by an ugly walker with blood oozing out of her mouth. "Mai!" His yell sounds scared, so I push the walker up as much as I can and look at him, only to find him surrounded.

"I'm okay!" I exclaim as I finally push her off of me, only to have another grab my foot. I turn my head and see Daryl with around double the amount of walkers I have. "Use your gun!" I pull mine out and start firing. There's no other way we can make it out of here. We're too far from each other with too many walkers. After I shoot five bullets, my gun clicks. "Shit!" I exclaim as I pull my knife back out and pull myself off the ground.

"Ye okay?" I hear over his bullets.

"Peachy." I say through gritted teeth. I stab a man in the head and my knife gets stuck. "How are yours looking?" I ask as I start throwing my last three knives.

"Not looking too good." After I throw my last one, our backs meet again. "I'm out." He breathes. I nod and start pushing walkers back with my feet.

"Me too." He intwines one of our hands as we prepare for what's to come.

"I love ye, Mai. I always have. I'm so sorry it took me this long to actually admit it to you." I kick another and right before I speak, I hear gunshots. I smile as the walkers thin to nothing. I turn around once they're all gone and see Maggie, Sasha, and Bob. My smile grows as I run and tackle Maggie and Sasha into a hug.

"Oh my god!" I hear Sasha yell. Once I pull away, I help the girls up.

"Where the hell have you guys been?" I ask with a smile.

"We were headed to Terminus, but we saw Ricks sign and headed back." Maggie says.

"Then we heard the shots and came running." Sasha finishes.

"They knew it was one of you guys." I laugh as Bob just smiles. Daryl then comes beside me and hands me my weapons. I put them where they go right as the rest of our group comes in view.

"We heard the shots and came as fast as we could. Are you okay?" Rick asks with his gun up. I watch as everyone's guns lower as they see us fine.

"We're great. Look who saved the day." I smile as I point towards our lost members.

"Maggie?!" Glenn yells as he drops his stuff and runs to her.

"Glenn." Is all she can whisper as they tackle each other in a hug. Ty and Sasha hug as I put my arm around Daryl, causing him to do the same. I smile at our small reunion before Merle ruins the moment.

"We better get goin', 'fore we get anymore company." He slices a walkers head in half with his blade before we all agree.

"We can't stay here, we've attracted too many. We need to keep moving." I say.

"It's too dark." Rick says sternly.

"And I'm tired." Belle wines. I look at Daryl for some back up and walk to Belle to grab my bag from her.

"Look how many we just killed, ye really think they ain't gonna brin' more?" She just shrugs, so we all file back to the train tracks. Belle goes to lay down again, but I shake my head.

"We can't stay here either, we're not too far from where we shot the walkers." She nods and gets up before we start our walk to who knows where once more.