Then...
"Lori! Kate! Get Carl, pack anything you need we gotta go!" We heard Shane yell bursting through the front door of the house.
"Why? What's going on?" I asked him as he walked into the dining room then grabbed my hand dragging me upstairs to the room I was staying in at my brother and sis-in-law's house while mine was being renovated, "No time to explain just get anything you think you will need." He told me then left the room. She was my brother's partner on the force and my, well ex, we broke up about a week ago, at least I broke up with him, he thinks we're taking a short pause, "Kate come on we have to go!" I hear him yell from downstairs. I grabbed my bag and headed downstairs.
"Shane, what about Rick?" I asked him and he looked at me, "What is it?"
"I'm sorry Kate, he's-he's dead" He told me and Lori grabbed on to me as I feel my knees go weak, "Come on, we have to go" He says to us and I nodded at Lori then she let go of my and grabbed Carl's hand and we loaded our stuff up in Shane's vehicle then left.
Now...
That was 3 weeks ago, we ended up finding other survivors along the way then settled at a quarry outside of the city. It had been weeks and I still missed my brother, and like the idiot I am I turned to Shane for comfort so now he thinks I want to start things up again. I tried to tell him no but he kept on insisting saying we were good for each other especially now considering I was in the Army before I was discharged and he was a cop. Truth be told the other reason I didn't want to start again with Shane was because someone else at the camp caught my eye.
I was sitting with Lori picking through some mushrooms when Amy walked over with more, "Any luck?" Lori asked her as she walked over to us
"How do we tell if they're poison?"
"Uh, there's only one sure way I know of." I told her her looking through the bucket
"Ask Shane when he gets back?" She asked me and I stood up after dumping the mushrooms into a pan Lori was holding
"Yeah, you've got it. Thank you." I start to walk away then look up at Dale who was on top of his RV keeping watch, "Dale, I'm heading out."
"Don't wander too far. Stay within shouting distance. And if you see anything, holler. I'll come running."
"Yes, mom." I said softly walking away into the woods when I hear leaves rustling. A bird flaps its wings and I look up at it then hear a branch snap. Suddenly, a hand reaches around my mouth and I'm dragged back.
"Shh shh shh shh shh shh shh." I hear Shane whisper in my ear and I break away from his arms and face him
"You scared the hell out of me." I tell him and he laughed
"I bet. That's what you get for keeping me waiting. I was trying to be quiet. Where you been?"
"Amy the mushroom queen… I had to wait for her to get back." I tell him and he moved to kiss me, "Shane stop" I told him pushing him back
"Oh come on Kate when are you gonna stop trying to deny this?" He asked moving forward again
"I'm not denying anything, we aren't getting back together I've told you this"
"Then why did we spend that night together after we got settled here? Hmm?" He asked and I sighed.
"I was grieving, you know that. Shane we just don't work together, we fight, we butt heads, we just-we can't." I told him and he chuckled
"Okay, yeah that's true but after we fight it's pretty good huh?" He asked putting his hand on my arm moving closer but I pulled away.
"Just...don't" I tell him and moved past him walking away
"Boy, that hose isn't long for this world, is it" Dale asked Jim as he stood there fixing the RV with Jim watching
"No sir"
"Where the hell are we gonna find a replacement?" Dale asked
"Could always take one out of one of the vehicles here" I tell him and they looked at me
"We would have to find a certain one that would fit, can't just take out of any random vehicle. Plus we looked at all the ones here." Dale told me and I smiled
"Yeah that was stupid" I said and he chuckled
"Not stupid, a good thought, but not stupid" Jim tells me and I smiled at him
"You flirtin' with me Jim?" I asked him and he smiled then looked away
"It's late. They should've been back by now." Amy says as she paced back and forth at our camp while I sat there watching her
Just then the radio squawks, "Hello, base camp! Can anybody out there hear me? Base camp, this is T-Dog. Anybody hear me?" We hear over the radio and Dale climbed up onto the roof of the RV
"Hello? Hello? Reception's bad on this end. Repeat. Repeat."
"Shane, is that you?" T-Dog asked
"Is that them?" Lori asked
"We're in some deep shit. We're trapped in the department store."
"He said they're trapped?" Shane asks
"There are geeks all over the place. Hundreds of 'em. We're surrounded."
"Shit" I mumbled
"T-Dog, repeat that last. Repeat." Dale says into the radio but it stops
"He said the department store." Lori pointed out
"I heard it too." Dale says
"Shane?" She asked him
"No way. We do not go after them. We do not risk the rest of the group. Y'all know that."
"So we're just gonna leave her there?" Amy asked looking at him
"Look, Amy, I know that this is not easy…"
"She volunteered to go to help the rest of us." Amy pointed out to him
"I know, and she knew the risks, right? See, if she's trapped, she's gone. So we just have to deal with that. There's nothing we can do."
"She's my sister, you son of a bitch." She tells him and ran away from him
"Baby, the more you fidget, the longer it takes. So don't, okay?" Lori asked Carl while she gave him a hair cut
"I'm trying."
"Well, try harder." She told him
"If you think this is bad, wait till you start shaving. That stings. That day comes, you'll be wishing for one of your mama's haircuts." Shane says to him and I shook my head
"I'll believe that when I see it."
Shane chuckles, "I'll tell you what…you just get through this with some manly dignity and tomorrow I'll teach you something special. I will teach you to catch frogs."
"I've caught a frog before."
"I said frogs… plural. And it is an art, my friend. It is not to be taken lightly. There are ways and means. Few people know about it. I'm willing to share my secrets." Shane tells him and Carl looked at me and Lori
"Oh, I'm a girl. You talk to him." Lori says to him
"I'm with your mom on this one" I told him and he looked back forward
"It's a one-time offer, bud... not to be repeated."
"Why do we need frogs, plural?" Carl asked Shane
"You ever eat frog legs?"
"Eww!" Carl exclaimed
"No, yum!"
"No, he's right. Eww." I said in agreement
"When you get down to that last can of beans, you're gonna be loving those frog legs, lady. I can see it now…'Shane, do you think I could have a second helping, please? Please? Just one?'" Shane says looking at me
"Yeah, I doubt that." I told him looking back down at my gun after loading it and Shane chuckles.
"Don't listen to her, man. You and me, we'll be heroes. We'll feed these folks cajun-style Kermit legs."
"I would rather eat miss piggy." Lori says and I look at her, "Yes, that came out wrong."
Shane laughs, "Heroes, son, spoken of in song and legend. You and me, Shane and Carl." Just then we all hear a car alarm go off, "Talk to me Dale!" Shane hollers at him as we walk over to the RV
"I can't tell yet."
"Is it them?" Amy asked and I put my hand on her shoulder, "Are they back?"
"I'll be damned."
"What is it?" I asked him
"A stolen car is my guess." He says and I see Glenn pull in, "Holy crap. Turn that damn thing off!"
"I don't know how!" Glenn yells over the siren
"Pop the hood, please. Pop the damn hood, please." Shane tells him and he popped the hood then got out
"My sister Andrea. Is she okay? Is she all right?" Amy asked him
"She's okay! She's okay!"
"Is she coming back?" She asked
"Yes!"
"Why isn't she with you? Where is she? She's okay?" Amy continued to ask
"Yes! Yeah, fine. Everybody is. Well, Merle not so much."
"Are you crazy, driving this wailing bastard up here? Are you trying to draw every Walker for miles?" Shane asked him
"I think we're okay." Dale tells him
"You call being stupid okay?"
"Shane knock it off" I tell him and he looked at me
"Well, the alarm was echoing all over these hills. Hard to pinpoint the source. I'm not arguing. I'm just saying. It wouldn't hurt you to think things through a little more carefully next time, would it?" Dale asks Glenn
"Sorry. Got a cool car." Glenn pointed out and I put my arm around his shoulder
"I prefer my chevy's" I tell him and he smiled
"Andrea!" Andrea runs up to Amy and the two sisters hug, "Oh!"
"Oh my god! You scared the shit out of me."
Morales gets out of the truck and his wife and children runs up to him, "Papi! Daddy!"
"Hey. Come here, sweetie. Hey. I told you I'd be back, didn't I?"
"You are a welcome sight." Dale tells him they hug, "I thought we had lost you folks for sure."
"How'd y'all get out of there anyway?" Shane asked
"New guy…he got us out." Glenn tells him
"New guy?"
"Yeah, crazy Vato just got into town. Hey, helicopter boy! Come say hello. The guy's a cop like you" Morales says to Shane and I looked over at the person who walked out from the vehicles and my heart stopped
"Rick?" I asked and look at Shane who looks shocked as Rick looked at me
"Kate?" He asked and I ran over to him hugging him, "Oh my god" He whispered in my ear as tears ran down my face
"Dad! Dad!" Carl yells and Rick moved away from me crying as he wrapped Carl up in his arms.
"Carl. Oh!" He kisses Carl on the cheek and Lori approaches. He hugs them both, and I looked at Shane, I saw disappointment and a bit of happiness in his eyes as he looked at me, I clenched my jaw and shook my head at him.
"Disoriented. I guess that comes closest. Disoriented. Fear, confusion… all those things but… Disoriented comes closest." Rick tells us that night as we gathered around the fire while him, Carl and Lori snuggled together
"Words can be meager things. Sometimes they fall short." Dale told him
"I felt like I'd been ripped out of my life and put somewhere else. For a while I thought I was trapped in some coma dream, something I might not wake up from ever."
"Mom and Aunt Kate said you died." Carl told him
"They had every reason to believe that. Don't you ever doubt it."
"When things started to get really bad, they told me at the hospital that they were gonna medevac you and the other patients to Atlanta, and it never happened." Lori says
"Well, I'm not surprised after Atlanta fell. And from the look of that hospital, it got overrun." Rick tells her
"Yeah, looks don't deceive. I barely got them out, you know?" Shane said and I glared at him
"I can't tell you how grateful I am to you, Shane. I can't begin to express it."
"There go those words falling short again. Paltry things." Dale says and Shane looked at me but I looked back at the fire.
"Hey, Ed, you want to rethink that log?" I hear Shane ask him and I looked up
"It's cold, man."
"The cold don't change the rules, does it? Keep our fires low, just embers so we can't be seen from a distance, right?" Shane asked him
"I said it's cold. You should mind your own business for once." Shane gets up and walks over to Ed's fire.
"I still can't believe you're here" I told Rick from next to them wiping a tear away and Rick looked over at me putting his hand on my shoulder
"Same here. I'm glad you're safe," He says and looked at Lori, "All of you" He kissed her as Shane walked back over.
"Have you given any thought to Daryl Dixon?" I hear Dale ask and I looked over at him, I was slowly getting to know Daryl but with his brother around all the time it was hard because he hit on me all the time causing Daryl to step in. Daryl was mostly quiet around all of us but he would make small talk with me here and there. Daryl was attractive, smart, and tough, I easily began to develop feelings for him but kept quiet because of his brother, "He won't be happy to hear his brother was left behind." Dale adds
"I'll tell him. I dropped the key. It's on me." T-Dog mentioned
"I cuffed him. That makes it mine." Rick pointed out
"Guys, it's not a competition. I don't mean to bring race into this, but it might sound better coming from a white guy." Glenn tells them
"I did what I did. Hell if I'm gonna hide from him." T-Dog says
"We could lie." Amy mentioned
"Or tell the truth. Merle was out of control. Something had to be done or he'd have gotten us killed. Your husband did what was necessary. And if Merle got left behind, it is nobody's fault but Merle's." Andrea says
"And that's what we tell Daryl? I don't see a rational discussion to be had from that, do you? Word to the wise… We're gonna have our hands full when he gets back from his hunt." Dale points out and I stop listening and looked at the fire, this was not gonna go well.
The next day I walked over to Glenn as he watched Jim, Morales and Dale tear apart the car, "You know, this breaks my heart." I tell him and he sighed, I put my arm around his shoulder, "Oh come on now, least you got to enjoy it." He opened his mouth to say something but we hear a woman scream.
"Carl!" Lori yelled running towards it, Rick and I followed.
"Carl!" I yelled and we get to spot where we have a string full of cans at and Carl ran behind me to Lori and we kept going to the walker that was eating a deer, I look and saw two arrows in the dear, that had to be Daryl's.
The walker stands up and moved to us but Rick knocked it down and then they started beating on it, Dale finally cut its head off with an axe, "It's the first one we've had up here. They never come this far up the mountain." Dale mentioned
"Well, they're running out of food in the city, that's what." Jim points out then we hear branches snapping and footsteps, then I see Daryl come out of the forest
"Son of a bitch. That's my deer! Look at it. All gnawed on by this… filthy, disease-bearing, motherless poxy bastard!" He says as he kicks the carcass of the Walker
"Calm down, son. That's not helping." Dale tells him
"What do you know about it, old man? Why don't you take that stupid hat and go back to "on golden pond"? I've been tracking this deer for miles. Gonna drag it back to camp, cook us up some venison. What do you think? Do you think we can cut around this chewed up part right here?" He asked pointing to the bite marks on the deer
"I would not risk that." Shane tell him and Daryl sighs.
"That's a damn shame. I got some squirrel… about a dozen or so. That'll have to do."
Suddenly, the head of the Walker starts to move its teeth, "Oh god." Amy says
"Come on, people. What the hell?" Daryl shoots it with one of his arrows, "It's gotta be the brain. Don't y'all know nothing?" He asked walking away and he looked at me as he walked by heading back to camp, "Merle! Merle! Get your ugly ass out here! I got us some squirrel! Let's stew 'em up."
"Daryl, just slow up a bit. I need to talk to you." Shane tells him and he looked at him
"About what?"
"About Merle. There was a…there was a problem in Atlanta." Shane says
"He dead?" Daryl asked him
"We're not sure."
"He either is or he ain't!" Daryl yelled at him
"No easy way to say this, so I'll just say it..." Rick started to say but Daryl cut him off
"Who are you?"
"Rick Grimes." Rick introduced
"Rick grimes, you got something you want to tell me?" Daryl asked him
"Your brother was a danger to us all, so I handcuffed him on a roof, hooked him to a piece of metal. He's still there."
Daryl started to pace, "Hold on. Let me process this. You're saying you handcuffed my brother to a roof and you left him there?!"
"Yeah."
Daryl goes to attack him, but Rick shoves him off, "Hey! Watch the knife!" T-Dog warned as Daryl pulls his knife out, but Shane is able to come up behind him and put him in a choke hold.
"Okay. Okay."
"You'd best let me go!" Daryl says to him
"Nah, I think it's better if I don't."
"Choke hold's illegal." Daryl tells him
"You can file a complaint. Come on, man. We'll keep this up all day."
"I'd like to have a calm discussion on this topic. Do you think we can manage that? Do you think we can manage that?" Rick asked him bending down to Daryl who nodded his head, Shane lets him go, "What I did was not on a whim. Your brother does not work and play well with others."
"It's not Rick's fault. I had the key. I dropped it." T-Dog tells Daryl
"You couldn't pick it up?"
"Well, I dropped it in a drain." T-Dog says
"If it's supposed to make me feel better, it don't."
"Well, maybe this will. Look, I chained the door to the roof… So the geeks couldn't get at him… With a padlock." T-Dog tried to reassure him
"It's gotta count for something." Rick adds
"Hell with all y'all! Just tell me where he is so that I can go get him."
"He'll show you. Isn't that right?" Lori asked Rick
"I'm going back." He says and Lori walks into the RV shutting the door, Daryl huffed and headed over to his tent and I watched him go.
"So could you just… Could you throw me a bone here, man? Could you just tell me why? Why would you risk your life for a douche bag like Merle Dixon?" I hear Shane ask Rick as they walked over
"Hey, choose your words more carefully." Daryl tells him
"No, I did. Douche bag's what I meant. Merle Dixon…The guy wouldn't give you a glass of water if you were dying of thirst."
"What he would or wouldn't do doesn't interest me. I can't let a man die of thirst… me. Thirst and exposure. We left him like an animal caught in a trap. That's no way for anything to die, let alone a human being." Rick says to him
"So you and Daryl, that's your big plan?" Lori asked him and he turned to face Glenn
"Oh, come on."
"You know the way. You've been there before…in and out, no problem. You said so yourself. It's not fair of me to ask… I know that, but I'd feel a lot better with you along. I know she would too." Rick tells him
"That's just great. Now you're gonna risk three men, huh?" Shane asked
"Shane" I warned him and he glanced at me
"Four." T-Dog says and Daryl scoffed
"My day just gets better and better, don't it?"
"You see anybody else here stepping up to save your brother's cracker ass?" T-Dog asked him
"Why you?"
"You wouldn't even begin to understand. You don't speak my language." T-Dog pointed out
"That's four." Dale mentioned
"It's not just four. You're putting every single one of us at risk. Just know that, Rick. Come on, you saw that Walker. It was here. It was in camp. They're moving out of the cities. They come back, we need every able body we've got. We need 'em here. We need 'em to protect camp." Shane tells him
"It seems to me what you really need most here are more guns."
"Right, the guns." Glenn adds
"Wait. What guns?" Shane asked him
"Six shotguns, two high-powered rifles, over a dozen handguns. I cleaned out the cage back at the station before I left. I dropped the bag in Atlanta when I got swarmed. It's just sitting there on the street, waiting to be picked up."
"Ammo?" Shane asked
"700 rounds, assorted."
"You went through hell to find us. You just got here and you're gonna turn around and leave?" Lori asked Rick
"Dad, I don't want you to go." Carl says
"To hell with the guns. Shane is right. Merle Dixon? He's not worth one of your lives, even with guns thrown in. Tell me. Make me understand." Lori says to Rick as he walked over to her
"I owe a debt to a man I met and his little boy. Lori, if they hadn't taken me in, I'd have died. It's because of them that I made it back to you at all. They said they'd follow me to Atlanta. They'll walk into the same trap I did if I don't warn him."
"What's stopping you?" She asked
"The walkie-talkie, the one in the bag I dropped. He's got the other one. Our plan was to connect when they got closer."
"These are our walkies?" Shane asked him
"Yeah."
"So use the CB. What's wrong with that?" Andrea asked
"The CB's fine. It's the walkies that suck to crap…date back to the '70s, don't match any other bandwidth… Not even the scanners in our cars." Shane pointed out and Rick went over to talk to Lori and I walked up to Daryl.
"I'm sorry" I told him and he looked at me
"What for?"
"For what my broth...for what he did" I told him and we walked up to me
"That's your brother?" He asked me and I nodded then looked down
"Like I said, I'm sorry" I tell him and he gave a small huff
"Not like you did it" He says and I looked at him
"Well...um...be safe" I told him and turned to walk away seeing Shane look over at us. I looked away and continued walking.
"Dale. Have you seen Carl?" Lori asked him as we look up at him
"Shane took him down to the quarry. There was some mighty bold talk about catching frogs."
I looked at Lori and sighed, "I'll get him" I tell her and she nodded then I headed down to the quarry
"Hey, Carl, what did your mom tell you about not leaving Dale's sight?" I asked him walking over to them
"But Shane said we could catch frogs, remember?"
"It doesn't matter what Shane says. It matters what your mom says. Go on back to camp. I'll be right behind you." I tell him and Carl heads back up
"I've got to tell you, I do not think you should be taking this out on him." Shane told me and I look at him
"You don't tell me what to do. You lost that privilege." I tell him and start to walk away
"Kate, could you just wait up a sec? I think we should talk. We haven't had a chance…"
"No. No no. That's over too. You can tell that to the frogs." I said to him and he walked over and grabbed my arm
"Damn it, Kate. Look, I don't know how it appears to you or what you think…"
"How it appears to me?" I asked him pulling my arm away, "I'm sorry. Is there a gray area here? Let me dispel it. You stay away from me. You stay away from my nephew. You don't look at him. You don't talk to him. From now on, my family is off-limits to you."
"Kate, I don't think that's fair."
"Shane, shut up. Don't!" I warned
"I don't think that…"
"My brother is back. He is alive. You told me he was dead! I can't believe you are even trying to defend yourself." I tell him
"He's my best friend. Do you think I'm not happy about that? I told you after I got you guys out of there that I didn't hear a heartbeat."
I scoffed at him, "Yeah I know what you said, but yet here he is, alive and well" I told him and started to walk away again
"Something going on with you and Daryl? That why you told me nothing is gonna happen with us again?"
I turned and looked at him, "No, I told you that because there is nothing between you and me anymore, as far as Daryl goes it's none of your business." I tell him and walked away.
"Oh, baby. Will you look at that?" I hear Morales say and I see Amy and Andrea walk over with a bunch of fish, "Hey, check it out. Ladies…because of you my children will eat tonight. Thank you."
"Thank Dale. It's his canoe and gear." Andrea tells him
"Mom, Aunt Kate, look. Look at all the fish." Carl tells us and Morales holds the fish up to Lori
"Thank you." She giggled
"Whoa." Carl says
"Yeah, whoa. Where did you two learn to do that?" I asked them
"Our dad." Amy answered
"Can you teach me how to do that?" Carl asked her
"Sure. I'll teach you all about nail knots and stuff. If that's okay." She says looking at Lori
"You won't catch me arguing."
"Hey, Dale. When's the last time you oiled those line reels?" Andrea asked as Dale walked over, "They are a disgrace."
"I, uh, I don't want to alarm anyone, but we may have a bit of a problem." He says then Shane walked over, Dale pointed over to Jim who is still digging the holes.
"Hey, Jim. Jim, why don't you hold up, all right? Just give me a second here, please." Shane says to him when we walk up the hill
"What do you want?"
"We're all just a little concerned, that's all." Shane mentioned
"Dale says you've been out here for hours." Morales tells him
"So?"
"So why are you digging? Are you heading to China, Jim?" I asked him
"What does it matter? I'm not hurting anyone."
"Yeah, except maybe yourself. It's a hundred degrees today. You can't keep this up." I pointed out
"Sure I can. Watch me."
"Jim, they're not gonna say it so I will. You're scaring people. You're scaring my son and Carol's daughter." Lori tells him and I put my hand on Carl's shoulder
"They got nothing to be scared of. I mean, what the hell, people? I'm out here by myself. Why don't you all just go and leave me the hell alone?"
"We think that you need to take a break, okay? Why don't you go and get yourself in the shade? Some food maybe. I'll tell you what… maybe in a little bit I'll come out here and help you myself. Jim, just tell me what it's about. Why don't you just go ahead and give me that shovel?" Shane asked him
"Or what?"
"There is no or what. I'm asking you. I'm coming to you and I'm asking you, please. I don't want to have to take it from you." Shane says
"And if I don't, then what? Then you're gonna beat my face in like Ed Peletier, aren't you?" He asked and looked at Carol, "Y'all seen his face, huh? What's left of it. See, now that's what happens when someone crosses you." Jim said to Shane
"That was different, Jim."
"You weren't there. Ed was out of control. He was hurting his wife." Amy defended
"That is their marriage. That is not his. He is not judge and jury. Who voted you king boss, huh?"
"Jim, I'm not here to argue with you, all right? Just give me the shovel, okay?" Shane asked moving towards him
"No, no, no."
"Just give me the… Jim!" Jim shoves Shane away and then threatens to hit him with it. Shane tackles Jim to the ground, "Okay, shh shh."
"You got no right!"
"Stop. Shh." Shane comforted as he pinned Jim's hands behind his back
"You got no right!"
"Jim, just stop it. Hey hey hey hey. Jim. Jim, nobody's gonna hurt you. You hear me? Shh. Jim, nobody is gonna hurt you, okay?" Shane tells him
"That's a lie. That's the biggest lie there is. I told that to my wife and my two boys. I said it 100 times. It didn't matter. They came out of nowhere. There were dozens of 'em. Just pulled 'em right out of my hands. You know, the only reason I got away was 'cause the dead were too busy eating my family." Jim tells us and I closed my eyes
Later that night we all gathered around enjoying the fish fry, "I've got to ask you, man. It's been driving me crazy." Morales says to Dale
"What?" Dale asked
"That watch."
"What's wrong with my watch?" Dale asks
"I see you every day, the same time, winding that thing like a village priest saying mass."
"I've wondered this myself." Jaqui adds
"I'm missing the point."
"Unless I've misread the signs, the world seems to have come to an end. At least hit a speed bump for a good long while." Jaqui mentioned
"But there's you every day winding that stupid watch." Morales added
"Time… it's important to keep track, isn't it? The days at least. Don't you think, Andrea? Back me up here. I like… I like what, um, a father said to son when he gave him a watch that had been handed down through generations. He said, 'I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire, which will fit your individual needs no better than it did mine or my father's before me; I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you may forget it for a moment now and then and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it.'"
"You are so weird." Amy tells him and we all laugh.
"It's not me. It's Faulkner. William Faulkner. Maybe my bad paraphrasing."
Amy gets up from the campfire, "Where are you going?" Andrea asked her
"I have to pee. Jeez, you try to be discreet around here…" She says and we laugh again as she walked away and I see Shane look at me but I ignored him and took a drink of water.
"We're out of toilet paper?" I hear Amy say from the RV then suddenly she screams, I look up and see a walker biting her arm.
Suddenly everyone screams and scatters, "Get behind me!" I yell to Carol as she protects Sophia and I grab my gun out then me and Shane start shooting at the walkers
"Lori get him down!" Shane yells and we continue shooting at the walkers, "Stay close! Stay close!" Shane yells leading Lori and Carl to the RV and I followed but I see walkers attacking a few more people and Jim is hitting them with a bat.
I tell Carol to stay by Shane then I run over to the tents shooting more of them then suddenly my gun runs out, "Shit!" I said and just when I was gonna grab my knife one walked up to me, I put my hands on it holding it back but we fell to the ground, it snaps it's teeth at me but just then it's pulled off and I see Daryl stab it in the head, he reached his hand out and I grabbed it. I silently thanked him then I grab my knife as we head back over to the others while killing walkers. When it was over I ran to Rick, Lori and my nephew hugging them making sure they were okay then I looked at Daryl who nodded at me
"Amy. I don't know what to do, Amy. Oh, Amy. Oh no no." I hear Andrea cry and I looked over at her Amy touches Andrea's cheek then she dies. Andrea begins to sob, "Amy! Amy! Amy!"
"I remember my dream now, why I dug the holes." Jim tells us