The next morning Jorgia was the last one to wake up, after sleeping peacefully the night before because of her mother's singing, she finally had a decent sleep since the outbreak started. Stretching her legs and arms; she slowly rose from her sleeping bag and carefully brushed her long curly jet-black hair. Checking her surroundings, she saw a fresh pair of clean clothes folded neatly in the corner of the tent. She grabbed her clothes and quickly changed and grabbed her toothbrush and toothpaste and headed to the quarry.
"Good morning Miss Jorgia!" said Sophia and Carl, the Morales children waved and the four kids all came up to her and hugged her. "Morning guys, let me freshen up and I'll come play with you guys deal?" Jorgia said, the kids all cheered and continued playing around the camp. Smiling softly, she made her way into the woods and to the quarry where she saw her mom and Carol again washing dishes and clothes. "Morning Mom, Carol. The three of them looked up and smiled, "Morning," they replied, Maranda stood up from her position and hugged her daughter, "I have your breakfast in the Audi. It's not much, but it's enough to get you by until your brothers and Daryl come back from their hunt." With that Jorgia grabbed the bottle water next to her mother and began brushing her teeth.
Walking back feeling fresh, Jorgia walked back to the campsite, ate her breakfast which consisted of a cereal bar, a granola bar, and orange squeeze orange juice. After she was done, she kept her deal with the kids and began playing with them.
"You're daughter is so beautiful," Carol said softly as she washed her husband's clothes. "Thank you, she gets her looks all from Stephen." Maranda thanked, "Your daughter Sophia is beautiful as well, I can see a miniature you. Beautiful eyes." Maranda cooed. "Thank you, she's my little angel." Carol smiled, "I get what you mean, after having 3 boys, I wished God this time to give me a girl, prayer answered and now I got my little princess." Maranda joked, "I always loved dressing up Sophia, she would have so much fun playing princess." Carol reminisced. "I wish Jorgia had done that, living with 4 males they all wanted to made sure she knew how to survive. I'm glad she did though, it came to good use." Carol nodded, "I wish Sophia and I did, I don't know how we lasted this long to be honest." Maranda stopped and looked to Carol, she gingerly placed her hand on top of Carol's. "Carol, if there is anything you need, or someone to talk to, you know I am always here to listen." Maranda said gingerly. Carol nodded gratefully and the two went back to their chores.
The survivors all stood around the camp, when Lori was giving her son Carl a hair cut, and Shane talking about frog legs when all of a sudden a blaring alarm echoed through the mountains. Shane looked over to Dale, "Talk to me Dale," he said as he stood up. Dale shook his head, "I can't tell yet," and looked through his binoculars. He followed the movement and saw a red top moving at a fast pace. Amy looked up in concern, "Is it them? Are they back?!" No one answered, but they all stood up to see. "Well I'll be damned," Dale said as he saw the red Dodge speed through the roads. "What is it?" Jorgia asked, "Stolen car is my guess," Dale answered. The red Dodge came to a halt, and Glenn stumbled out with a smile on his face, Amy quickly went to his side and asked is Andrea was okay, "Yes, she's fine, we're all fine. Well cept Merle." Glenn answered; Shane and Jim disabled the alarm and furiously yelled at Glenn. "You crazy driving this up here? Trying to attract walkers for miles?" "I think we're okay," Shane gave Dale a dirty look, "I'm not arguing, I'm just saying," he then turned to Glenn, "it wouldn't hurt you to think twice next time." Dale scolded like a father. Glenn got a sullen look and apologized, "at least I got a cool car." He shrugged; Glenn and everyone turned when they saw a white moving van pull up. Glenn then looked back and saw some new faces, but the attention was turned back to the van when the group piled out and hugged the rest of the camp. "How'd ya'll get out there anyway?" Shane asked, "New guy, got us out." Glenn answered, "Yeah, hey helicopter man! Come on and say hi!" Morales said as he hugged his family, "he's a cop, like you." He told Shane. Everyone saw a man in a sheriff uniform exit the van and Carl turned to him, surprise drawn over his face and ran to the new man. "Dad!" Carl yelled as he ran to hug his father. Lori, shocked, hugged her husband tight as they all embraced like a big family.
"I can't believe it," Shane exclaimed as he hugged his partner. After all the hugs, the group then was introduced.
Night fell before they knew it and everyone huddled before the fire pit and listened to Rick's story of when he woke from his coma. "Bless your heart, and Thank God you made it out," said Maranda as she and Jorgia shared their blanket. Jorgia's PDM beeped, breaking the silence, signaling her to check it, "Miss Jorgia, insulin is out, please refill." Jorgia sighed loudly, "Mom, this has been saying this every 3 hours, I just changed the insulin when we made that pit stop before Atlanta. "There must be something wrong, let me check it." Jorgia handed her mother her PDM and soon began to feel lightheaded. "I need to check your pod. I wish we had a fridge instead of that cooler, oh way does the world have to end now?" Maranda groaned, Jorgia and Maranda excused themselves and headed to the Suburban, where they kept a freezer cooler full of Jorgia's insulin. "You're pod is full, I don't know why Sheila's acting this way." Maranda said as she checked Jorgia's pod. "How do you feel, lightheaded? Disoriented?" Jorgia nodded her head, "I feel lightheaded." Maranda rummaged through the food box and found a can of 'beefaroni' and quietly cooked it in their camp pot. "Eat it here," Maranda said and she walked back to the campfire. "How is she?" Dale asked, "She's a little lightheaded, she's fixing it right now." Maranda replied, keeping it hush on the food. "Is it just you and your daughter?" Rick asked, Maranda shook her head, "No, I have my husband and three sons. They're hunting with Daryl." "Speaking of Daryl, how are we gonna tell him?" Dale said, "I'll do it, it was my fault, I cuffed him" Rick began, "No, it's mine, I had the key, I dropped it down the drain." T-Dog interjected. "Not trying to bring race into this, but it'd sound better coming from a white guy," Glenn said. "How about we lie?" Amy thought, "Or we can tell the truth, I mean, you know how Merle is, he would've gotten us killed." Andrea reasoned and turned to Rick and Lori. "What your husband did was right, he saved us, if he didn't Merle would've gotten us killed." The group all silenced then and felt uncomfortable of what would happen tomorrow when Daryl came back and didn't see his brother.
A few minutes later, Jorgia came back, feeling better, "How are you honey?" Dale asked the young girl, "I'm fine now, thank you for asking Dale." Jorgia said softly, "I'm going to head to bed." Maranda nodded and followed her. "Goodnight everyone," everyone smiled and bid the two goodnight. One by one the survivors all bid their goodnights and retreated into their tents, hopefully getting to see another day.