caryl au: hiding in louvre
“You think you get used to the destruction, and then…” Carol motioned around them, gazing briefly at the torn paintings covered in blood. “Just shocks you again.”
Daryl shrugged, alert to any danger that might be lurking around the corner.
“I wonder if Mona Lisa made it,” she said as he cleared the next corridor.
“She a friend of yours?” he asked and Carol chuckled, catching up closer so she can catch his satisfied smirk. Shockingly, there wasn’t one.
"You’re serious,“ she realized, somehow still shocked about the information despite all she knew and assumed about Daryl’s past. "You’ve never seen Mona Lisa?” That got her another shrug and mumbled words along the lines ‘didn’t watch tv much’.
Carol gave the room around her a long look, before finding the remains of a map still nailed to a wall a bit behind them. “This way,” she decided out loud and quickly dissapeared in the opposite direction from Daryl.
He found her sitting by a portrait of a young brunette. However, his eyes were fixed on Carol, trying to figure out what was on her mind. They were silent for a few minutes, the air heavy in his lungs.
“I always wanted to see the painting. It’s so small,” Carol said after awhile.
“That Lisa?” he gestured at the painting. Whatever was going on in Carol’s head, he wasn’t following. And yet, he wanted to see her smile. “I don’t know, I’d rather look at you than her,” came out of his mouth, something he was quite sure he did not mean to voice. Or at least not to make it sound like that.
“She’s the best known work of art, Daryl,” she looked up, not knowing why she had the need to brush his unlikely compliment off. It was still strange for her to entertain the idea someone might like her better than…well, anything really. Damned Ed.
“She ain’t you, though,” he shrugged yet again and smiled down at her.
“Stop,” she rolled her eyes but smiled anyway, leaning against him as he sat down next to her.
There, Daryl though, she’s back from the dark place.
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