[center][h1][color=yellow] Part one of two-Collaborations with [/color][/h1][/center][center][@Joker892][/center]
April was back at the falls with Lilly. She had cleaned her up and given her a bath in the water. In the sun it wasn't so bad but if you stopped moving for too long it was cold. She had her sitting on the edge with her swollen ankle soaking in the water. She had been chatting with the child and calmed her down and fed her. Hearing the guys coming back April looked up and smiled. 

[color=ed145b]"I'm glad to see you two. Lilly is doing well and so is Jax."[/color] Lilly had buried her hands in Jax's fur and was petting him.

Darric looked at his sister and the child and he sat down near April. [color=92278f]"I need your help. Elsa is ready to have a passel of kids and I don't know that she is the one and I need to know that before I consent to being father to an imagined 15 kids."[/color]

Hector chuckled and shook his head as he sat down next Jax and Lilly. [color=a0410d]"Still finding it hard seeing you as a father, no offense,"[/color] he said and scratched behind Jax's ear while giving Lilly a smile. [color=a0410d]"But if ya want my opinion, I say you simply tell her you want things to go on slowly. Me and April have been doing it and you don't see a bun in the oven yet, do ya?" [/color]he said before looking to April with a stern look. [color=a0410d]"There ain't no bun in the oven is there?" [/color]


[color=ed145b]"No but there is a four year old on my lap so you tell me."[/color] She said sweetly with a grin. Darric chuckled at her expression. 

[color=92278f]"Yeah, she got you there buddy." [/color]he looked at the water. [color=92278f]"I'm thinking I should just cut my losses with her and move on. Problem is there aren't a lot of choices around here. Not too many of the girls here catch my attention. That Amy chick is a bit off. Petra is pretty but she is very into her animals and there are others that I really haven't spent any time around. So who knows right?"[/color]

[color=ed145b]"I think you should let Elsa go if you feel like it's not going to work out. You can have a baby when Hector and I do...in ten years when he feels like it."[/color] April gave Hector a look and then back to her brother.

Hector chuckled and rubbed the back of his head with a sheepish smile. [color=a0410d]"Am I that predictable?" [/color]He asked with a grin. He leaned forward towards Darric. [color=a0410d]"Ya know, maybe I can hook you up with someone, that is if you're up for it," [/color]he said. 

April raised her eyebrows. Wait...What? she worried. He really wanted to wait ten more years? Scouts didn't always live that long nor did troopers. She wanted to have kids sooner than that. She refused to look at Hector. Instead she picked up Lilly and went up higher to the water and started to show her how to skip rocks.

[color=92278f]"Hook me up? With who? I thought I knew everyone you did if not more."[/color]

Hector grinned and shook his head. [color=a0410d]"Well I got a few new members in my team and I think one of them would be decent enough for ya. I think her name was Bella,"[/color] he said and glanced towards April who was teaching Lilly how to skip rocks.[color=a0410d] "Also, did I say something? Your sister seems a bit upset," [/color]he said in a hushed voice to make sure she couldnt hear them. 

[color=92278f]"Yeah, I think you pissed her off. She wants kids in the next couple of years. I think I'll steal Lilly from her and go talk to Elsa. She won't kill me if I'm carrying a cute kid like Lilly. I might get out of there alive." [/color]he chuckled.[color=92278f] "Good luck man."[/color]

Darric went up the hill and spoke to April a moment and left with Lilly on his arm. Her giggles could be heard for quite a distance as he tickled her upside down as he walked away.

April continued skipping rocks.

A heavy sigh escaped Hector watched April skip rocks for a few more seconds before pushing himself up and walking towards her. He could have worded it better, but he knew he should have kept his mouth shut on the baby subject. As he reached her side he turned towards the water and buried his hands into his pockets. He watched her skip rocks in silence and glanced towards her.[color=a0410d] "You mad?" [/color]

April stopped with the rocks and looked at him, then sighed and said, [color=ed145b]"I would think that having kids was something we would talk about not something that you just up and decide on your own. Why would you think that I would want to wait til I was 33 to have a baby? Why not next year or the year after? What if one of us dies in five years and we have nothing left of the other one? I think you deciding on your own was selfish and cruel."[/color]

Hector cringed and lowered his head with a sigh. [color=a0410d]"Look, I didnt mean it like that, its just..." [/color]he said and turned towards April with a frown. [color=a0410d]"I would love to have kids, but... what if something happened to both of us and we leave him or her behind? Sure I trust Darric, he can do the job, but just the fact that we would be leaving our child alone fucks with my head. I didn't mean to make a decision without you, I just sort of spat out shit that I didn't think about,"[/color] he said and groaned as he ruffled his hair in frustration. [color=a0410d]"I don't know how to explain this shit, but I just want to let you know having a kid with you would be both the best and most terrifying thing to happen in my life."[/color]

April couldn't help it she smiled a little at his confession.[color=ed145b] "Mine too but I'd rather have a child who was ten years old with memories of us with him or her than one who was an infant who knew nothing of us."[/color] April walked slowly to him and wrapped her arms around his waist and pulled his hands out of his pockets.

[color=ed145b]"I'm not saying that I want a baby today or tomorrow but I don't want to wait for ten years either. Okay?" [/color]April kissed him a little seductively on the bottom lip catching it between her teeth and holding it just a second. 

Hector nodded and looked down to April with a grin and let his hands run down her figure before planting a kiss onto her lips. [color=a0410d]"Ya know, if we work fast we can finish up by the time Darric is done using Lilly as a sheild,"[/color] he chuckled and pulled her closer to him. 

April pulled him down to her in a long kiss and tugged him into a cave behind the falls for a little privacy.



Darric ducked with Lilly in his arms and ran out of the tent that Elsa was in. A book hit him in the back of the head. [color=92278f]"Well fuck you too Elsa!"[/color] He rubbed the back of his head and looked at Lilly. [color=92278f]"Don't say that bad word ok. April will yell at me." [/color]

Sauntering around the tree nearest where they had set up camp he pulled the tire and rope he had found and made a tire swing and placed Lilly on it. [color=92278f]"Let's give them a chance to make up okay? You like to swing right?"[/color]

Today has been a bit slow for Bella, killing a few walkers, finding a girl who nearly blown her team leader head off and losing her favorite knife. She sighed and flipped her hoodie over her head to hide from the sun.[color=fff200] "I miss my bed,"[/color] she mumbled to herself as she walked through the camp. Though she halted at the sound of a childs laughter. She glanced to her right and raised an eyebrow to see an unusual sight for her. It was the girl they had found in their sweep and she was being pushed on a tire swing by another teams leader, she forgot his name. She watched the two play and couldn't help but smirk. Soon she decided to join the two and walked towards the two with her hands buried into her hoodie. As she reached the two she gave a small smile and waved towards the girl. [color=fff200]"Hey there, looks like you're having fun,"[/color] she said and chuckled.  She glanced up at the man and chuckled sheepishly. [color=fff200]"Hey, sorry if I'm interrupting your play time, but it looked fun,"[/color] she said and stuck out her hand. [color=fff200]"Bella."[/color]

Darric looked up and smiled at the girl speaking to him and Lilly. [color=92278f]"Hey, no you aren't interrupting us. We are just playing around on the swing. Hey you are on Hector's team right? I think he's mentioned a couple of new people." [/color]

Lilly wanted down so he stopped the swing and let her off. She ran around the area pretending to be an airplane. Darric sat down on the ground and Lilly catapulted herself into his upper body sending him backwards laughing.

Bella watched the two play and covered her smile as she chuckled. They looked like they were having fun. [color=fff200]"Well glad Hector told ya about us, but I dont think he has mentioned you yet. Your a leader for another team right? Whats your name?"[/color] she asked as she sat down across from the two. 

[color=92278f]"I'm Darric and this is Lilly. She is my new buddy. Isn't that right squirt?" [/color]Lilly answered by giggling. Darric smiled at Bella. He thought she seemed nice. Maybe Hector was right.

[color=f6989d]"Darric said a bad word when that lady hit his head with a book. ..but I'm not saying it...." [/color]Darric turned her upside down and tickled her tummy. She howled with glee.

Bella raised an eyebrow and smiled. [color=fff200]"A bad word?"[/color] she questioned and looked to Darric. [color=fff200]"Now why would a lady be throwing things at your pretty little head?"[/color] she asked with a grin.

Darric actually had the grace to blush at that question and before he could stop her Lilly said, [color=f6989d]"She got mad!" [/color]Lilly's eyes got big as saucers. [color=f6989d]" Essa said a bad word first." [/color]Darric laughed at her and listened. Lilly continued. [color=f6989d]"He said he wasn't gonna give her fiffy babies when she wasn't the one." [/color]She looked up at Darric matter of factly and asked. [color=f6989d]"The one what?"[/color]

Darric was beet red at this point and looked at Lilly and said matter of factly. [color=92278f]"Elsa is not the lady I'd want to make my wife so we can't have babies." [/color]Lilly climbed up and said [color=f6989d]"Okay I'm gonna play on the swing some more."[/color] She ran over and climbed up and started swinging it.

Darric scratched his head a bit embarrassed. [color=92278f]"Kids say the darnedest things, huh?"[/color]

Bella crossed her arms and gave Darric an amused smirk. [color=fff200]"They sure do," [/color]she chuckled and watched Lilly swing. [color=fff200]"Cute kid, she seems totally different from when we found her,"[/color] she said and shrugged. [color=fff200]"Well, as long as she is up and moving then its fine,"[/color] she looked back to Darric and tilted her head. [color=fff200]"So, things not working out in the love life?"[/color] she chuckled. 

Darric shook his head. [color=92278f]"Its not that she isn't a nice person, she is I just don't love her. My sister and Hector love each other and you can see it. I want that you know, someone I can try to grow old with. I know it's kind of old fashioned but what's the point of life if not family and the love and strength that comes with it?" [/color]Darric felt a little like he said too much and that it might have made him look weird.  He asked her, [color=92278f]"So how is your love life?" [/color]with a smirk.

Bellas eyes widened a bit from the question and rubbed the back of her head with a sheepish smile as she crossed her legs. [color=fff200]"Me? Love life? Now that is a fantasy!" [/color]she laughed. She shook her head and shrugged. [color=fff200]"Never actually had time to hook up with someone, always been training or studying,"[/color] she confessed. She let a grin slip onto her face as she raised an eyebrow towards Darric. [color=fff200]"Why so interested? Just out of a relationship and now your back on the hunt?"[/color] she joked. 

Darric chuckled and glanced over at Lilly on the swing. [color=92278f]"Elsa and I've been off and on for a while. She wanted to get serious and I didn't. I'm not sure if you would call it one relationship or ten short ones. I don't want to have a different girl every night, it's too exhausting. I have to keep my eyes open or I might walk right past Miss Right. So I ask you. Are you my Miss Right?" [/color]Darric asked her softly. His voice was teasing and light. He wasn't wanting her to run off but he wanted to let her know he was interested in her too.

Bella couldnt help but snicker. She didnt mean to be rude, but his question just seemed to  amuse her. She shrugged and scratched her cheek.[color=fff200] "Miss right? Not sure really, maybe if ya get to know me a little better youll find out," [/color]she said with a wink. She pushed herself up from the ground and grinned at Darric. [color=fff200]"Well it was nice meeting you Darric, we should talk again some other time,"[/color] she said and waved to Lilly. "And hopefully we can play next time to. You looked like you were having fun," she chuckled and turned away from the two with a wave. As she walked away she seemed to have that Darric fellow on her mind. She thought for a moment and blushed a bit. Maybe she could find time for someone special..

Darric got to his feet and smiled at her as she kind of waved at him and Lilly. He could tell she kind of liked something about him. She was very happy when she left. Much more so than when she had gotten there. Darric chuckled and grabbed Lilly off of the swing and turned her upside down. Her shrieking laughter filled the ears of all in the area. His gaze followed Bella as she walked off. He would keep his eyes on that one. Figuring that they had had enough time he headed back to Hector and April's to drop Lilly off.

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