Chapter 29 - Suspicious Behavior and Taken

[Tim's POV]

"Tell us where the camp is." Rick said with a friendly voice. I knew it was fake. No one would be stupid enough to fall for this fake shit. "I can't do that." I said calmly. I glanced over at Becca. She looked at her group with scornful eyes. "Just tell us already." growled the redneck, which I learned was called Daryl. I let out a long sigh. "Bring me Randall." I stated. Daryl looked like he was about to lunge at me and Rick put his arm in front of him. "We can't do that." Rick said, still in his fake friendly voice. "What could it hurt?" Rebecca said. Daryl's head snapped towards her. "You can't be serious. Those two together..." Daryl started. "I know... but..." she said. She grabbed Daryl and Rick and the rest followed. They whispered for a while, leaving me alone with the one kid. I think his name was Dillan. "Hi." I said. He nodded and watched me with a cautious look. I opened my mouth to ask him about the group when they came back in. "Okay, we discussed it and... we will bring Randall here." they said. I nodded and Daryl and Rebecca left out of the kitchen. After a short awkward moment, they returned pushing in a beat up Randall. "What the hell?!" he cursed. He looked up to see me and he looked like he seen a ghost. "T-Tim?!" he exclaimed. "Hey man." I said with a smirk. Now to set my plan in motion.

"Long time no see." I stated.

"What are you doing here?!"

"Came to get your worthless ass." I let out a small laugh and so did he. I turned to the group who was watching our interaction. "Can I talk to him in private?" I asked.

"Like hell!" Daryl growled.

"Just let him. You can talk in the back room. We will be outside the door. You have half an hour." Becca nodded. I gave her a grateful smile and she returned it before leading us to the back room. She closed the door and I turned to Randall who was sitting in the chair.

"Now tell me, why are you here? Carlos send you?" Randall asked.

"Something like that." I replied.

"So what's going on? How did that girl get back here?"

"I brought her back to get you."

"So what's the plan?"

"Well..."

[Rebecca's POV]

I stood outside the door. They had been in there for almost a half hour now. I knocked on the door and the whispers behind it stopped. "Time's up. I'm coming in." I announced. I opened the door and they were both sitting, Randall in the chair and Tim on the bed. "Come on Randall. You have to go back." I said. Tim followed us out as I handed Randall over to Daryl. Daryl roughly grabbed him and forced him out the door. I rolled my eyes and went out to the porch and sat down. Daryl has been a ticking time bomb recently. He could be fine one moment and exploding on me another. It's exhausting... It's when he acts like this... It makes me doubt my feelings for him... Or his feelings for me... I let out a long sigh, when I felt someone sit next to me. I looked over and saw Haley.

"Hey." she said.

"Hey." I replied.

"Got a lot on your mind?"

I let out a sigh. "Yeah."

"Maybe we should do something to take something off your mind."

"Want to go swimming?" I asked with a shrug.

"Seriously? Took you forever to ask." she grumbled.

I rolled my eyes and got up. We started to head towards the wood when someone called our names. We turned around to see Rick. "Where ya' going?" asked Rick. "Oh, since we weren't really doing anything and Rebecca was going to show me the lake." Haley explained.

Rick nodded, but motioned for Haley to come over. I raised an eyebrow and just stood there with my arms crossed watching them. He whispered to her and she nodded and once glanced back at me and then nodded again. I was starting to get irritated. He finally nodded again and she came back over. "What was that about?" I asked. "Nothing." she simply replied. "Suuure." I said, dragging it out to show that I highly doubt that. We started back towards the woods when someone else called my name. "God, what now?" I whispered to myself. I turned around to see Dillan. He ran over and literally jumped on my back and climbed up me. "Well hello to you too." I joked. "Where are you going?" he asked as he wrapped his arms around my neck. "Going for a swim... Let me guess you want to come?" I said. "Yeah." he answered excitedly. I let out a sigh and held his legs so he was on my piggy back style. "Okay, let's go before someone else bothers us.

***

We were walking back to camp. It was starting to get dark and Dillan was starting to fall asleep on my back. I felt his slow breaths against my wet hair. "That was fun." Haley said as she stretched. I let out a small breath. We stepped out of the clearing and immediately I felt like something was wrong. Rick was pacing back and forth in front of the porch.

"What's wrong?" I asked as I glanced between Rick and Haley.

"I... I don't know how to say this, but..." Rick started. A pit was forming in the pit of my stomach.

"What? Say what Rick?" I pressed.

"Daryl... and Glenn.... They were taken."

A tidal wave of emotions hit me at once. "B-By who?" I stammered out.

"Carlos."

With that name... Everything he did came back to me in one hit. I felt my legs get wobbly and I felt like I was going to throw up. "C-Can you t-take Dillan?" I asked as I let Haley take sleeping Dillan off my back. She carried him in the house as I staggered over to the porch steps where I sat down. "H-How?"

"They went out on a run with Maggie... He let Maggie go back to deliver the message. They gave us their location. They want to trade..."

I looked up at him, he looked taken back by my expression. "For who?"

"They want Tim, Randall... Haley and you." he said the last part silently.

I felt like the breath was knocked out of me. I felt like I couldn't breathe. I covered my face and focused on my breathing.

"Well then let's give him what he wants." I heard a voice state. I turned around to see Haley with her hands on her hips. "You can't be serious." Rick exclaimed.

"No one said we were going easy." Haley stated as she cocked her gun. Upon seeing that some strength returned.

I let out a shaky breath. "Let's do it. We can head in. Keep the rest as back up."

Rick gave us a look as if we were crazy. He paced a little longer before he looked like he made up his mind. "Okay, they said the trade occurs tomorrow." he stated. He walked into the house without another word. I looked to Haley who put her hand on my shoulder and gave it a reassuring squeeze. I gave her a weak smile and headed for the tent. I stepped in and laid down on my side. I glanced over at Daryl's side. It was still as messy as usual. I let out a sigh and turned my back to his side and closed my eyes.

***

[Meanwhile in Daryl's POV]

I glared at the prick in front of me. He propped his feet up on the table as he looked at me. "What the hell ya' looking at bastard?!" I growled at him. "Feisty... Just like your girlfriend..." he said with a smirk. The anger was boiling up inside me. I could hear the grunts and thuds of Glenn getting beat up in the other room. If my hands weren't tied behind my back I would smash that bastard's face in. "Rebecca was her name, right?" he continued. "She was a nice one... she cried a lot... That's for sure... And after she would always whimper 'Daryl save me' or 'Daryl help'... Really sad, but funny. And here you are..."

"You bastard!" I yelled at him. He let out a cold laugh. "The trade will occur tomorrow." he said. He stood up and walked to the door. He opened it and was halfway out before he popped back in. "I can't wait to see Rebecca... We will have a good time." With that he closed the door. I silently cursed him as I tugged at my restraints.