Michonne begins to walking home from the neighborhood announcements.

Carl runs up behind her and asks, "Did you already know that my Dad was going on a run?"

"Yea, he told right before they left", she tells him, "It's probably really important like medication or tools or weapons or something". She grins then ruffles his hair.

"Well, how far does the group have to go", he asks.

"He said something like twenty miles out, but they have a car, they're heavily armed, Daryl and Tyreese are with him so he'll be alright Carl", she tells him reassuringly.

Michonne stops to look at sun set and the beautiful dusk colors in the sky; looks at Carl and reminds him, "It's getting late, it'll be dark soon. You really need to be locked in side with Jane and Judith, I'm gonna cut through those vacant houses to get home."

Carl starts walking away; he sees Jane walking with a sleepy Judith on her shoulder smiling and nodding for him to catch up and walk home with them.

Before there's too much space between him and Michonne, he turns his head to the side and says, "Why is my Dad with her? He doesn't really like even being around her. That's probably why he volunteered to go."

Michonne laughs a little, "Carl, just because you can't see it doesn't mean there's nothing there. Besides he needs someone to take care of Judith that he can trust."

"Isn't that something you can do? You know, I can see plenty; I can see that he doesn't really want her…he wants…" Carl looks at Jane then back at Michonne who's waiting for him to finish, "… someone else. I just wish I knew what the hell he's waiting for."

Carl gets really annoyed and turns away from Michonne; while walking away he sayw, "I maybe a kid but I am not blind Michonne, and I know you're not blind either."

She quickly grabs his arm, upset by his tone she whispers, "Hey, what is that supposed to mean?"

He snatches his arm out of Michonne's hand, "You know what I am saying, we should all be under the same roof. I don't know why you and Dad can't see that yet", he bitterly walks away.

Before Carl knows it, he riddled with guilt after speaking to the one woman in his group that he loves like a mother. Lately he had been feeling frustrated by all the tip toeing that his father and Michonne were doing around him and the rest of the group.

Almost with in arms-length of Jane and Judith; he tells Jane, "Wait a minute, I forgot to tell Michonne something."

"Can't it wait until tomorrow, it's starting to get really dark out here", Jane obnoxiously pleads.

"No it can't", he yells and continues running back over towards Michonne who's nearly disappeared in to the vast darkness between the two vacant houses.

Just as he's about to walk between the two houses he hears muffled yelling and scuffling, "Ouch! You Bitch!"

Carl pulls out his flashlight out while turning the corner only to see three men trying to pin Michonne down on the ground. One of the men stands up and kicks her in her ribs knocking the wind out of her, "That's for biting me", the man says.

The second man kneels on the ground towards the top of Michonne's head; pulls out a knife cuts her on the cheek bone while the other man straddles across Michonne's chest; both of his knees holding arms down to the ground.

"Where's that fucking sword", one of the masked men standing up whispers.

Someone hands him Michonne's sword then he starts slashing her pants with it. One of the slashes jabs the upper part of her inner thigh causing her to scream in pain but no one can hear her by her gagged mouth.

"Get off her! Get off her!" Carl yells and starts running toward Michonne. One of the men drops the katana then all three run in the opposite direction.

Carl runs over to Michonne on the ground and tries hard to hold back his tears but, she can hear trembling in his voice as he asks, "Are you o.k.?"

Carl sniffles some while trying to help Michonne stand up.

"I think so just help me up." She tells him.

Once she's standing she painfully bends down to pull her pants up. She feels evening air hitting the hot blood rolling down her leg from where they stabbed her inner thigh.

Michonne looks up and sees Jane holding Judith in her arms but Jane can't see Michonne well enough to notice that she was attacked.

"Carl, Michonne' are you guys alright", Jane yells.

"We're alright, Carl will be right there", Michonne yells back.

"Hand me my sword" she tells him in low voice.

"I'm not going with her I am going with you; I need to help you home." Carl tells her strongly.

"Carl if you don't go with Jane she will know something is up and then she'll tell Rick then all hell will break lose in the neighborhood. And you and I know how he can get when he's pissed off. I will be alright, just look for our signal in the window when you get in the house, then come by first thing in the morning so that I can talk to you, o.k.?" Michonne was practically begging Carl to walk Jane and Judith back home.

She wasn't too concerned about getting home she was more worried that her attackers might be waiting at her house and the last thing she wanted was Carl to bear witness to her being killed or raped.

A huge lump begins to form in Carl's throat as he walks backwards toward Jane and Judith in order to watch Michonne's shadow limps the rest of the way between the two houses…alone.

His eyes burning with anger and tears because he can't be there for Michonne. With each step she took toward the other end of the opening the more enraged Carl became.

Carl blamed his father for this one; he felt that once again his father can't seem to protector or save anybody he cares about. He feels that he could take care of Judith and Michonne leaving Jane out of the picture and possible his father too.

His resentment for Jane was growing at a fast pace as Michonne limped out of Carl's line of sight.

He reluctantly turns back to face Jane and Judith, "Lets go" was the only thing that he could muster as he storms past the two of them with his hand on his gun.