Carly walked down to the rock quarry where all the women were washing clothes, obviously trying to take their mind off the men that went to Atlanta. Carly had never been one for washing clothes but she needed to take her mind off Daryl.

She sat down at the far end of the women next to Amy. In her short time at camp she had come to adore all the women. The women gossiped while scrubbing clothes. Amy finally spoke directly at Carly…

"Tell us again what happened to you before you got with our group, I never really got the full story" Amy said. "That is if you feel okay talking about it" Amy smiled nervously.

"Well, I was at home in South Carolina and before things got really bad I felt like something just was not right, so I went ahead and left heading towards Georgia to meet up with some friends of mine from law school." While I was traveling things got really bad, traffic was jam packed with people trying to get to Atlanta. While waiting in traffic the Dixons pulled up next to me. Merle being as charmin' as always wanted to know if a pretty girl like me thought I could handle driving such a big truck. Daryl just sat there being his quiet self and then they invited me back to camp with them, and the rest is history" Carly looked up and smiled.

Andrea said "Well you and Daryl are inseparable, is there something going on there?" She winked

Carly laughed, "Well Daryl and I just get along right good together and he is by no means bad to look at!"

The women busted out laughing.

Carol's husband Ed came over lecturing the women on how they needed to be working cause "this aint no comedy club" Andrea was peeved, and Ed kept pacing behind the women. Andrea finally had enough and snapped at Ed. Ed tried to pull Carol away with him and ended up slapping her, drawing blood. All the women were on him then and then out of nowhere Shane pulled Ed away and beat him to a pulp.

Laundry time was officially over.

Amy and Andrea went out to fish; they thought it would be nice to have a fish fry for the group. Carly went back to her tent next to Daryl's and got out her compound bow. She promised she would show it to Carl. The rest of the afternoon went on like that, everyone just going about themselves trying to keep their minds occupied.

Amy and Andrea came over the horizon with a stringer full of fish. Carl jumped up "Wow" He said, "Look Carly, Mom, Shane, look at all the fish" He seemed to be so happy! Everyone in the camp got ready for the fish fry, and soon the smell of fresh fish and canned vegetables filled the camp.

Everyone was placed around the campfire talking and reminiscing about what their lives were like before the dead started walking around. Everybody was laughing and carrying on. Then Amy stood up and protective Andrea said "Where are you going?" Amy rolled her eyes and said "To the bathroom, I have to pee; Jeez there is no privacy around here." Everyone chuckled at the young girl's very truthful remark.

Everybody in the group kept on talking but the laughter was soon interrupted by a shrill scream as everyone turned and saw a walker take a piece out of Amy. Everyone jumped from around the fire; some grabbed weapons and began to attack while some grabbed the children. Carly quickly pulled out her pistol and shot walkers as they grabbed at Andrea trying to make her way over to her dying sister. It was all flash and gunfire, the walkers just seemed to keep coming, Carly feared they weren't going to survive this attack.

Then out of nowhere the group of men returned from Atlanta with guns blazing. They took down the remaining walkers and everything fell silent except for the sobs escaping from the women, and Andrea.

Daryl quickly scanned his eyes around then camp until his eyes fell upon her, Carly was safe and that's the most important thing to him. Carly was having the same reaction looking through the crowd of fellow campers with the gun smoke still settling until she saw his ice blue eyes. She suddenly realized she had been holding her breath and exhaled.

Before Carly knew what she was doing her feet were carrying her over to Daryl and she flung her arms around him, he tensed up and looked down at the woman holding him. Daryl wanted to hug her back but it seemed his body wouldn't allow him, too many years of practice avoiding that stuff. The moment was soon interrupted by a gruff voice…

"Hey babydoll, why don't you come over here and hug on a real Dixon" Merle laughed. Clearly the men had succeeded in find Daryl's brother..