Is she alive?
~•Major time skips here && very long chapter•~
"Melissa, I think Judy wants to see you." Carl walked up to me. I smiled and took Judith from carls arms.
"Hey baby Judith." I said in a baby voice. Judith giggled and began to play with pieces of my hair. I laughed and began to rock her back and forth.
"Wanna see your big brother?" I asked in a baby voice. She clapped her hands together. I walked over to Carl who was with the rest of the group.
Judith tugged in carls shirt.
"Bruber!" She said in her cute little baby voice. I smiled She clapped. Everyone's hearts melted.
"Hey, Judy! You said your first words!" He laughed.
"That's adorable." I laughed. Judith turned and looked at me.
"M...m..." She tried.
"Melissa. Mel-iss-a." I helped her.
"Melsa" she said. I looked up at the group and smiled. Close enough.
"Yay!" I said. She giggled. I looked at rick.
"Maybe her third word will be 'daddy'" I shrugged and smiled, trying to make him feel better, what father wouldn't want their baby's first words to be 'daddy'?
"I don't mind." He chuckled, I smiled.
"Melsa, can bruber hold Judith?" Carl asked and laughed. I nodded and gave Judith to Carl.
I walked over to Kayla and she wrapped an arm around my shoulders.
"So, Melsa," she smirked.
"Oh shut up!" I laughed.
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Where we are off to now, I have no idea.
"I'm tired. I feel like I'm gonna drop anytime..." I whined. Carl looked at me funny and I laughed.
"No but seriously, carry me." I stopped walking and looked at Carl.
"Hope on." He said. He bent down so that I could hop onto his back. I did so and we began to walk.
"This is why I love you." I smiled. He smiled.
"This the only reason?" He smirked.
"Yep." I smiled.
"What about this?" He asked and kissed me.
"Sure, maybe because of those too." I smirked. He rolled his eyes and continued walking.
"All we need now is Beth and Merle." I smiled.
"Where's the kids? Did they make it?!" Kayla asked, not to anyone in particular.
"Lizzy and mika are dead..." Carol said. I sighed.
I knew she didn't want to talk about it so I left it alone.
"Where are we off to next?" Carl asked. Rick shrugged.
"The next safe place we see,we will stay there." He said.
"But wouldn't that be a whole lot easier if we weren't in the middle if the woods?" I asked.
"Wouldn't it be a whole lot more dangerous if we weren't in the middle of the woods?" Dad said.
"Okay but when we get out of the woods, we find safe places faster. Here we could just be going in circles and we wouldn't notice!" I argued.
"Melissa, not now." Carl whispered. I rolled my eyes.
"Okay, sure. But I'm just saying because I would know, being alone at the start and all..." I mumbled.
"That's still not my fault, Melissa. Stop bringing it up! I looked for you!"
"You gave up on finding me! What if I never went to the CDC?! What if you guys never went?! You still wouldn't look for me! You would have gave up! You did give up!" I argued.
"Melissa, stop." Dad ordered. I scoffed. I got off of carls back and began to walk.
"You already did." I said. "You stopped looking for me. You stopped having hope. Hell, you stopped being a good fathe-" I stopped myself. The group was now a little ahead of us. I looked at my dad and saw the hurt look he had.
"I try. I'm sorry I'm not the best father ever but I try. You think this is easy? Having to constantly remind yourself that you will see your daughter again tomorrow? That she will live another day and not become a walker? It's tough, and I hate fighting with you, but you always pick a fight. I don't try to ignore you but you've been so distant that I can't even talk to you for more than a minute!"
"That's because you're too busy being ricks shadow! You never talk to me unless it's about you going in runs, or that you have to go somewhere! It's like you don't even care!" I yelled.
"I'm doing what I have to do to help keep this group safe!"
"Oh yea? And how's that working out?" I said. "You seen Beth lately? Merle? No. You haven't. Because you're to busy caring about yourself. Keeping yourself safe! It's like you don't even care. I hate you." I said. I walked away before he could say anything. I walked ahead of the group.
"Let's go..." I said. Carl walked up to me.
"You all hear that?" I asked. Carl nodded.
"Is that vest warm or something? You're always wearing it..." He said. I shook my head.
"No." I said and took it off, tossing it on the ground, leaving me in a long-sleeve shirt.
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"HELP! ANYBODY!" I heard screaming coming from a man in the woods. I began to run, when my dad stopped me by grabbing my arm.
"Meliss-"
"Don't touch me!" I yelled and yanked my arm away. I began to run again, when rick stopped me.
"Come on! We have to save him! Rick, come on!" I yelled. Rick gave in and we ran to the source of the screams. We saw a man in a suit on top of a big rock and about a dozen walkers surrounding him.
We killed them all and helped him down. I stood beside Carl.
The man bent down and puked. Carl turned away, bringing me with him. I could tell that that grossed him out.
When he stopped, we all looked at him.
"Thank you." He shook ricks hand. "Do you have any shelter? Maybe any food?" He asked. Carl gave him some tree nuts he must have found earlier. He said thank you and ate them.
"What about you? You have a-" I was cut off by walkers walking toward us. (A/N- storyline gets a little different here, just a heads up)
There were only about seven, so we began to kill them. I got to one and killed it. Another walker snuck up behind me and tackled me to the ground. My head hit a rock and I passed out.
Carls POV
I saw Melissa kill a walker. I smiled. I love her so much.
I turned around to kill another walker, when I heard a thud. I turned around and saw Melissa, unconscious on the ground, with a walker on top of her.
"Melissa!" I almost screamed. I tackled the walker off of Melissa and killed it. I quickly crawled over to Melissa.
"Was she bit?!" Glenn asked. I checked for any blood and shook my head.
"She must have hit her head on a rock..." Maggie said. I nodded and held Melissa's hand.
"I-is she gonna be okay?" Daryl asked. He lifted her up and we all saw the blood on her head.
"I have a-a church. Hurry, come take her there!" The man who we just saved said. Daryl was the first to hurry with the man to this church.
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"She thinks I hate her... She hates me... What if she dies, she's gonna die hating me... Oh my god..." Daryl paced around the church.
"Daryl, calm down... She just hit her head, she'll be fine..." My dad said. It sounded like he was trying to convince himself too.
"She's unconscious, dad! What if she's in a coma! We don't have anyone here to help her! She'll get dehydrated and she'll starve! Even if she wakes up, she's gonna have a concussion!" I said, tears were running down my face.
"Have a little hope, guys..." The man in the suit said, who we found out that his name was Gabriel.
"He's right, guys. She's gonna be fine..."' Maggie said.
"Daryl, she doesn't hate you." Carol said.
"She thinks I don't care about her. She hates me." He said. I sighed and walked into the room Melissa is in. I sat down on a chair beside the bed and held her hand.
"I love you, Melsa." I smiled through tears.
"I...I love you-you too, bruber..." She faintly smiled. My eyes grew wide.
"Melissa?! Oh my god, you're awake... Guys!" I yelled. Everyone walked in, but I saw her eyes roll to the back of her head and she started shaking uncontrollably.
"Melissa?" I asked. I began to run to her, when my dad held me back.
"Dammit!" Daryl hit the wall and walked out, not able to see Melissa like this.
"No! Let me go!" I struggled to get out of my dad's grasp, but it was no use. I just stood there watching her having a seizure. I didn't bother wiping away the continuous tears spilling from my eyes.
Suddenly, she stopped moving.
"I-is she alive?" I croaked. Maggie ran back in and checked her pulse. She sighed.
"I'm not sure..." She mumbled. The last thing I saw before I passed out was everyone with tears in their eyes.
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Wow okay so that happened.
And I'm not sure if this was very long or not but whatever
Bruber and Melsa. Idk I found it kinda cute so I wrote that.
And that useless fight between Daryl and Melissa wow
And is she gonna die? What's gonna happen to Melissa?