dear_mun | ...just finished season 3 of TWD. (oh god I'm so behind)

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canon: the walking dead

...just finished season 3 of TWD. (oh god I'm so behind)

Whoa there, girly. You best slow down.

It don't much matter to me what happens after this point 'cus things're pretty much done for me anyway. But you? You wanna go in with some surprises, don'tcha? Lettin' me out in the world, seein' those people again -- they're gonna talk. You're gonna find out things you don't wanna know.

But I guess you don't give a shit, do ya? [ Chuckling. ] So long as I see my baby brother again, huh? Can't say I disagree with your logic. Well, mun, I say this's the beginnin' of a beautiful thing. You an' me are gonna get along just fine.

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Yer behind...[He says lowly. Then again maybe that was a good thing ? Shit hadn't gotten better. Sure at one point they thought they were safe, thought things were normal. They all got too damn comfortable and now here they were, here he was. They had lost more people, good people ]

Maybe ya just got lucky ?

[Yeah right. This world didn't offer luck anymore]

[ Merle laughs. ]

Lot luckier than you, li'l brother. That's fer damn sure.

[ He reaches out, his hand resting on Daryl's shoulder and giving him a rough nudge of quasi-affection. It's about the closest they're gonna come to it. ]

Seems so these days. Ya wanna call it that.

[He pulls back from the touch slightly, eyes staying along the man beforw him ]

What ya gonna do now ?

[ His lips purse. What was he gonna do now? Merle doesn't really know. It's not every day you get a second chance at life. His shoulders lift upward. ]

Dunno. Find some place and get pissfaced, maybe? Find a shower and give my ass a good scrub? Sounds like just as good a plan as any. Doesn't seem like we gotta worry 'bout biters 'round here.

Ain't seen walkers round here so far. Guess it's pretty safe for now. Guess people just come here and scatter bout. Know they usually don't stay long. Often just drift. Might seen 'em again, might not.

Mean ya ain't got no plan? That's kinda a first.

Could make all the plans in the world, ain't gonna get me nowhere. That's all in the hands of the big, almighty out there.

[ He gestures upward. ]

Could say all I want 'bout findin' someplace an' draggin' you with me. S'bout as good as me pissin' rainbows.

[ Merle studies Daryl thoughtfully. ]

But you got a chance, li'l brother. A chance at findin' someplace real nice.

Don't really think many places out there are nice. Mun argues that with me though. Says might be a place out there that will actually take me in, least for awhile. Hell might even have the others. I keep tryin to tell her no place is nice, can't stay round long. Keep losin people or shit happens.

[He shrugs a little himself]

Guess that's why we just stopped lookin. She was at least hopin to find the others. Keep tellin her they might be scattered or just not around. Not sure.

Sure there'd be a place for ya. Plenty'd take you in, clean you up, feed you some grub. But I don't think you'd like a place like that.

[ The corner of his jaw twitches. ]

Wouldn't much like it neither.

[ Merle rolls his shoulders, popping and cracking them. ]

Tell ya what, though. Mun's got a few others up in her head she's wantin' to try out. Might not be the ones you wanna see, but it'd be familiar faces. None of 'em nearly as pretty as mine, though.

Mun keeps sayin the same thing. She just don't know of many places and she knows deep down I ain't gonna fit in no rainbows and sunshine kinda place. Ain't my style.

[He lets his eyes fall along his brother once again]

Mun has a few up in her head too. She's kept 'em locked away for awhile but she's happy to at least see you round. She was gettin kinda worried we we're gonna find nobody and she don't want that.

[ There's a selfish moment where Merle contemplates keeping the information to himself. A part of him likes this. It's familiar. And Daryl has to be around him and only him here. Can't go running off to rejoin his little group. But in the end, it won't matter. Daryl will probably find it on his own anyway. ]

Mun says that this place is pretty dead. She didn't get it 'cause it was popular a few years back. So she went searchin' an' she found a place called

dear_player. Pretty much the same as this place, only there're more people there. More from back home. Hell, even more of me.

[ His jaw squares. ]

Reckon if yer lookin', that's a good place to start.

[ He tilts his head curiously. ]

Who're you sharin' with up in there? Anyone good?

[He tilts his head slightly]

Mun and me ain't ever heard of that place. Didn't even know it was a round but we're both gonna give it a go. Both of us really wanna find some of the others, though mun says she can do without some. Has some she wants to find a bit more over the rest. Guess I can't blame 'er.

[He glances down slightly]

Guess you'll be a lookin too? You and your mun?

[He glances back at his brother]

Depends on who ya think is good. Mun and me know ya didn't really give a shit much about the others. Some she don't really blame ya.

Neither did my mun 'til last night. So now ya know.

[ He keeps his tone as unreadable as possible. ]

Naw. I ain't goin' over there. Perfectly fine right here. But she might go check it out.

[ Merle meets Daryl's gaze after the last comment before fidgeting with the duct tape on his blade arm. ]

The doctor ya had was a good man. Liked him alright. Then there's Carol. [ He lets out a low whistle. ] What a firecracker she's turned out to be. Came to my cell and threatened to stab me in my sleep if I hurt'cha, that one.

Mun says thank ya. Ya know I think she's gettin kinda sweet on ya and yer mun. She's been smilin a lot.

[He takes a moment to study his brother once again, trying to get some sort of read]

Mun and me really like it 'ere too. Ya know if it just had more people to talk too but sometimes ya get lucky. She's glad we stumbled on one another.

[He glances back down slightly] Hershel? [He asks lowly, though there might be a slight pain in his voice but his head whips up at the mention of Carol]

Carol's changed lot. My mun's real fond of 'er, liked 'er from the start now she's got this huge heart for 'er. She's one of the ones my mun has up in 'er head. She's very protective of her.

[Of course he's one to talk. So is he]

[ Merle puckers his lips and smacks them to make a kissing sound. ]

Good. That jus' means she'll be stickin' around now don't it?

[ He nods. ]

My mun's glad, too. Even if it's a ghost town 'round here -- we were able to meet up.

[ As soon as Daryl reacts that way, Merle knows. Hell, he figured Hershel wasn't gonna make it. The man had one leg and half the fight of Merle. The only thing that kept him going longer was probably a mix of heart and faith. ]

Damn shame.

[ He perks up and then laughs. ]

Well ain't that somethin'? You two all cozy up in that headspace now. You an' Carol...

[ Merle had his suspicions from the very way Carol acted toward him in the prison. ]

Mun and me ain't goin no where anytime soon. Both been lurkin round here while. Just waitin and lookin. Thinkin maybe someone come round. Sometimes they do, like I said though, never really seem to stay long or at all.

[Hershel was a good man, damn good man. Maybe one of the few of them that hadn't changed and tried to keep the rest of them as sane as he could. He didn't deserve to die, he hadn't hurt nobody. Hadn't done shit to anyone]

Wasn't good. Didn't deserve it. Hershel never hurt nobody. Never done nothin no one. Guess thats just how it works. Good ones go first? None of us couldn't really don nothin any how. Didn't have a damn choice. Course do we ever really do?

[His jaws clinch a little at the mention of Carol again and getting cozy. Even if there was something, just a little something there he wasn't about to admit it]

Ain't fuckin like that. [He hisses lowly]

[ Merle definitely agrees. Hershel was one of the few good men left in this shithole. But hey -- he's probably in a better place right now. Anything had to be better than the alternative. He lets his silence hang heavy, and he doesn't say anything else about it -- simply nodding. ]

...

[ Though the way Daryl reacts to the tease about Carol is all the confirmation Merle needs. He laughs. ]

Knew it! So tell me, is she just as good with her handlin' things down there as she is with handlin' a knife?

[Daryl likes to think that Hershel is in a better place. Shit anywhere has to be better than the world he's currently stuck in. It would had been hard on the man any ways, all this running they were having to do now. hat didn't mean Daryl didn't miss him any less and a lot of him felt guilty about the old man's death. Hell these days Daryl was feeling guilty about a lot of things Merle wouldn't understand or didn't know about ]

[He shoots his brother a look, jaws still staying tightling clinched] Said wasn't like that, shut up and don't say shit like that bout 'er. [He warns lowly]

[ He cackles. ]

Well if'n ya need some love advice, you jus' let me know. Yer big brother's been 'round the block a few times. He can give ya some pointers, that's fer damn sure.

[ Merle licks his teeth, the amusement never fading from his face. ]

Don't need yer damn pointers [He mutters. Because again it isn't really like that. Besides Merle didn't even know what was goin on with Carol any how and then there was the shit with Beth]

[Though he can't help but glance at Merle once again]

So she threaten ya huh? [Maybe there was a bit of amusement and satisfaction in his rugged voice] Ya got lucky. She'd just kill ya now.

[ Merle laughs outright when Daryl rejects his offer. ]

Suit yerself.

[ And then at the subject change, he lets out a little chuckle. ]

Would've loved to see her try. Really. Might've been cute. Would you have been jealous, baby bro? Me gettin' all that attention from your woman?

Ain't no tryin bout it Merle, she woulda killed ya. Carol ain't the woman ya knew before. She's changed, ain't taken shit like she was. Woulda killed ya faster than ya coulda whispered 'er name and she wouldan't looked back. Not once.

[He shifts along his feet slightly]

Lotta of us changed. Ain't like it was before. Not after what happened with Hershel. Hell maybe even before that?

That right? You tryin'a'tell me ya changed? That it? You tryin'a'tell me yer different now? Not whatchu once was?

[ Merle looked Daryl up and down, sneering slightly before he approached. ]

You was always weak, baby brother. Ain't nothin' gonna change that.

[His jaws seem to lock slightly as Merle calls him weak. It's something he's grown use to by now but he still takes offenses. Yes he has changed but its for the better ]

Weak huh ? Still here ain't I ? You ain't !

Aw, c'mon now. That hurts. That's hittin' below the belt there, li'l brother.

[ Merle pouts. ]

Ya can't say ya didn't have that one a comin.

Yeah, yeah. Alright. I'll give it to ya. Walked into that one.

Yeah, yeah ya did. [Looks him over once again]

But it ain't just the weak that's dyin' in this world. You best remember that. No matter how strong you get, death don't give a shit. All ya can do is hope it come quick.

Know death don't give a shit. Keep gettin reminded that real fast. Lotta strong people use to be with us ain't no more. All I'm doin is what I been doin all along, survivin. That's what lotta of us are doin. Gotta, none of us want to die, don't want each other die neither.

But we do...

Hell. Folks've been fightin' that since the beginnin' of time -- tryin'a stay alive. Ain't nothin' too wrong with death, so long as it's on yer own terms.

Ya better make it on yer own terms. Live 'til yer old an' shriveled or 'til ya got no other choice. But don't die stupid, Daryl.

Lotta of 'em didn't die stupid. Bad shit just happened, like with Hershel, Dale. Got to the point now the damn livin worser than the fuckin dead. People don't gone lost their minds I reckon. Guess that's what just happens. People just changed.

And I ain't goin down without a fight.

Maybe it's better if you just keep your distance.

Is it now? And who's that gon' benefit, huh? Been too long since the world's seen ol' Merle. Can't have y'all forgettin' 'bout me.

It's been a good long year, Merle. I think you might want to consider the possibility that we've all got bigger fish to fry.

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...just finished season 3 of TWD. (oh god I'm so behind)

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late as hell but i had to.

nooo never late. come to my arms

8D i also need... to make her more icons wow most of these are s2