Hey guys this was an idea I couldn't help but write, I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy writing it!

And I don't think it has been done, but if it has I am not copying, I just don't know about it!

Now I have this story set a little before season four where everything is 'comfortable' around the prison, not everyone is being brought back, but you will figure out the players soon enough.

And I couldn't find a date for when The Turn happened but Nicotero told that it has been about a year and a half over the course of the show to the point I am starting so it is like this for my story (I'm stepping up the years a little): The Turn started on September 21st, 2012, Current time is March 21st, 2014, and they get sent back to January 14, 2012.

I don't know if there will be a Rickyl twist to this story, but I do love the pair so there will at least be a stronger bond between the two.

If you have any more questions just message me!

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Rick's POV

Finally we have a little peace. And even a little bit of peace nowadays is hard to come by. After we won back the prison and brought in new people it has a completely different feel. Bigger, more like the 'old days' or at least what we all remember of them..it hasn't been long since The Turn..but even a year in these times is longer than most people can fathom.

No now we have daily patrols, and enough people to make sure everyone gets the rest they need, we have a garden, we have school for the children and the adults were taught how to properly fight, the way my group knows how. The prison is practically a town all its own and it even has a council to make decisions, so there's no more of my dictatorship. Now I know that's what was necessary at the time, much like my other choices, I won't be the hero they want, but I will be the leader they need.

Standing here looking out over the prison yard is the first time in a while I have stopped to take a breath. Thankfully some clouds are rolling in so there is a breeze gusting through, we will have some fresh water to store. I glanced back at someone walking behind me and nodded my head at Hershel.

The clouds are moving fast, almost barreling across the sky, I see one strike of lightning in the distance, lightning stronger than I've ever seen before, after that I see a bright light, hear a monstrous crash and it all goes black.

When I open my eyes I am in a house..but not any house..my old house. The house I lived in with my wife and son before The Turn, when I was an officer of the law, with a best friend and partner I depended on for everything, when I had only shot at people, but never killed, before I had been shot, before I lost my wife and felt what was left of my old self crumble into pieces only to be forged stronger and harder than ever before changing into the man I am now, after watching my son harden and transform into the fighter he is today.

The first thing that comes to my mind is another hallucination, or maybe I passed out from whatever hit me, so I reach over to pinch my tanned, dirt covered arm, but the sharp feel of pain told me it was no dream or hallucination. Maybe this was my mental break, who knows, but I need to at least get my bearings, I looked around, I am standing in the front door, with the door open, my hand instantly goes to my gun, thank God I didn't take off my belt like I had planned. But there was no litter, no debris, I didn't smell any rotting flesh only my own BO, something I haven't noticed in a very long time. There was no trails of blood or missing items, and there is electricity, and the house is warmed with heating.

What is going on.

I had come to the conclusion that I had lost my mind completely but then I heard stomping coming from the staircase, I immediately pulled my gun on whatever was barreling down the stairs and I paused when I saw it was my son Carl. Not the young boy from whatever mental image I'm living, but the Carl that is wearing my hat, covered in dirt and grime, with the eyes that are harder than any other child his age because of the things he had to do. I dropped my gun and dropped to my knees in front of him.

"Dad?"

"Carl..Am I..Is this..and Judith?" I couldn't get it out, we all knew I was unstable before, but I don't like how weak I was, and talking about it is hard.

"No, I'm here, actually here..but how..I think I just passed out, I ran outside with the rest of the group because there was two huge bangs and then I got hit by white light and woke up upstairs and Judith was with the girls and Carol, I think Carol ran out with us, so they are probably watching her, you know the older women don't put her down..but Dad...my TV..it's on."

Before I had a chance to reply we heard a call coming from the kitchen, "Carl what have I told you about running up and down those stairs, you're gonna fall and hurt yourself!"

We both froze in place. We knew that voice. It can't be..I looked at Carl and he is wearing the same expression as I was. We were still stuck in place staring at each other, saying the same thing with our eyes, 'there's no possible way.'

We then heard the clink of glass plates, and steps toward us and with every step my pulse picked up more and more, and my heart sank and sank, if this was truly happening how could I accept it. I had to move on, I had to, now I haven't and will never move on fully, but I can't open my heart to her again, I won't, she is gone.

But when she stepped out of the doorway everything I thought went blank, it was her alright, smiling in a way I haven't seen in a very long time, even before The Turn, "You finish fixing the car? Wait, Rick how did you get so filthy, there's not that much oil, and you know the rules, gun belt off in the house, I know it's your new gun, but you can put it down for ten minutes so we can eat lunch."

"Lori?"

"Mom?" I heard Carl almost shriek, when I glanced at him he was holding back tears and that's when we both, at the same, time ran and engulfed her in a hug, it was like she was alive again, all the demons from our past were laying down at the moment, I knew they would rear their heads eventually, but for now it was her, and Carl, in my arms, safe.

We were both almost in tears holding on to her and I pulled away to look at her again, not covered in dirt and sweat, no blood, not pregnant with a child that may not have even been mine. Just Lori and I kissed her forehead. But we needed answers and now. Before I could think of a good question she was already speaking.

"What has gotten into you boys," She asked and when I pulled away and tugged Carl with me she yelled, "AND WHY DOES MY SON HAVE A GUN? You are too young to be playing with guns are you trying to get yourself killed Carl?"

When Carl looked down at his gun I just knew what was going through his mind, I saw his eyes go from cheerful to solid ice as he relived the last time his mom looked at the gun he held in his holster. Carl looked to me and I knew he was ready for answers as well.

"Lori, what is the date?" That was the only question I could think to ask, I'm no physicist, but that lightning wasn't normal, and the only explanation we have right now is that we have somehow popped back in time.

"The fourteenth."

"No, I mean the whole date, Month, day, year."

"Rick you're scaring me, its January 14th, 2012"

I looked to Carl, he had just spent time with Hershel and he was the only one that had kept track of the days, there was a calendar in the barn and Carol threw it in her bag when she packed before the herd reached the house.

Carl knew what I was going to ask, before I even asked it, that's how our group is now, and he said, "About two years, dad."

Before we could say anything else we heard a car driving up and parking behind the garage, beside my patrol car and the sound of someone walking up the pavement, this time Carl and I both eased our hands to our weapons, Lori didn't notice, and stood up to see who the visitor was, I should have shut the door.

"Hello, hello, you get that motor going, Rick?"

The man who walked in the door, shutting it after him, sent another chill down my spine, Shane, someone I know so well, friends forever, and I know how much he cares for and will come to care for my wife, I know that he will not be able to handle the changed world, I know he has a darkness inside of him that he probably doesn't even know about. And I know that I shoved a knife in his chest.

"Excuse me for a second and let me speak with Carl."

I walked over to the hallway, out of earshot of the two now speaking with confused and concerned looks on their faces, and again bent on my knees and looked up at Carl, "Son, we need to figure out what's going on, now you said you heard two booms, the only person out in the yard with me was Hershel, so maybe he was sent back too, now I'm gonna go to the farm, see if he is there, and if anyone else made it back then they will most likely go there too." After I spoke about our team, our family, I felt empty, cold. Without the people I have lived with for almost two years, who I've seen every day, who have saved my life and I theirs, I have a pit in my stomach that is empty without them here.

"Okay, I'm going too."

"Alright."

I stood up to tell Lori that we were going to be gone for a bit, but before I had the chance there was a knock at the door. Lori went to answer it with a mumble of 'who that could possibly be' when she opened the door she looked shocked and I heard a voice that filled in a bit of that hole that I was just feeling. "Is Rick here?"

I quickly moved forward as Lori turned to call me, when Carl saw who the person was in the door he ran to give her a hug, she laughed and bent down, "Hey kid."

"Michonne." I said in greeting, with a huge smile on my face, I reached down to put a hand on her shoulder and she did the same with mine and after we had our reuniting she simply said, "Rick?" and I knew she was searching for answers too.

Okay! There is the first chapter! I will have this rated M for any flashbacks and language that is going to occur.

But now for the other character introductions! Don't worry Michonne's will be described as well!

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