We slowly walked towards a gleaming medal stair case, we stepped on the first step and walked, the stairs bent around the building and kept going up, until it reached a roof, nothing but a roof, until rick pushed up the board about the last step. Light streamed through the opening and as we all piled in laughter and voices filled our ears.

"Welcome" said Aron "To the resistance"

"Whoa!" said Althea looking at me "Cat , there are so many people"

"This is amazing" I said looking at all the new faces, the chatter have stopped and everyone was looking at us.

"This here, are.." rick started

"Catalina Sanchez and Althea Riviera" I said pointing to Althea as I said her name. There was a few gasps from the crowd, and I looked in there direction, a younger man in his mid-twenties stood up and walked to the front of the group.

" You mean the two girls from the east side, who kill rotters with only a dagger?" he asked

"um.. Yeah" I said looking at Althea who looked like she had just won the lottery.

" Really?" Aron said grabbing her hand. " Could you please teach me some knife drills?"

" Sure!" Al answered a huge smile lighting up her face.

" everyone could use some teaching" rick said eyeing me " I heard you telling O'shea you could shoot not use a dagger"

"whatever!" I growled, I was really starting to hate this man.

" Tomorrow , we will be issuing a task force, to look for more survivors and for more equipment and food" rick said " Anyone who is interested step forward now"

For a few seconds no one moved, I looked over at Al who nodded, we both took a step forward followed by connor , Aron and a few other people I did not know the names of.

" No" rick said staring at me " You girls can stay here with the women and children"

My mouth dropped open and I stared.

"Why!?" Althea almost shouted

"because you are girls and you will probably get yourself killed" he growled stepping closer to the both of us"

" I can kill a zombie just as good as you Rick" she growled stepping closer so she was nose to nose.

"So can I" I said stepping closer to the both of them, some one grabbed my hand and I turned.

" Please, stay here, were its safe" conner said looking at me with his green eyes.

"no, innocent people are dying, and I can do something about it" I said meeting his gaze.

"please for me?" he asked, my chest felt tight, but I knew what I had to do.

I turned around to face rick

" We Will be on this squad" I hissed stepping forward " do you need me to prove how good we are? Or are you gonna listen to the others and let us in?"

" Prove it" rick spat through clenched teeth. " bring in the weapons I need to see what they are made of"

To big guys pulled in box full of an assortment of guns and knifes, I didn't see what I needed so I turned to face him.

" got any arrows?" I asked looking him dead in the eye. He gave a nod to one of the muscle headed guys and he came back holding a beautiful black wooded long bow, complete with a quiver of black feathered arrows.

"Thanks " I said as I took the arrow and bow. I pulled the quiver up over my head and felt the familiar pressure on my back as the quiver settled. I looked over at Althea who grabbed a hand full of assorted daggers, and smiled.

" what do we have to do?" I asked just to have the meat heads bring in two targets and placed them at the far side of the room.

"hit the target" rick said with a smirk " dead center"

Althea and I walked over to the marked spot and got ready.

"Ready?" she asked a smile on her lips.

"Always" I answered like I always did. I watched as she pulled back her arm and threw, the dagger left her hand with lightning speed and imbedded itself dead center of the target. She grabbed the next dagger and with dead strait accuracy , it once again imbedded itself dead center of the other target. She looked over and rick, smiled and went to collect her daggers.

" your turn" she said as she walked by

I reached back and felt the feather touch the tip of my finger, I pulled and it easily slipped out and over ,my head, I held the bow in front of me like my father had taught me, I placed the arrow against my thumb and pulled the string back, until it was just beside the corner of my lip. I slid the arrow in place and looked down the shaft then let go. There was a satisfying twang of the string and thump as the arrow hit the center of the target. I pulled my hand back again this time grabbing two arrows as I had done many times before , there were a few gasps and I let the string go, both arrows were dead center of the targets. I looked over at Conner, who still had his mouth open, to Althea who was holding Arons hand and with the other giving me a thumb up.

" well.." I said walking over to rick " was that amazing enough?" I asked mockingly

" Fine" he puffed and walked too and out the door.

"wow that was cool!" Conner said when he reached me, his eyes still showed his surprise at my little trick.

" YAYA" Althea said happily " We get to goooo"

"YEP" I said a smile plastered on my face

"well I guess I will show you to your room" Aron said awkwardly.

"sure" said Althea grabbing his hand. We followed as Conner and Aron led us down a hallway, they stopped in front of the room at the very end of the hall.

"we have plumbing ,electricity and water" said Conner with a smile " bathroom is right here" he said pointing the door to the left of our room. " And our rooms here" he said pointing to the door to the right.

" I CALL BATHROOM FIRST" Althea said grabbing the door handle and stepping inside.

"you suck" I mumbled then looked at the boys "thank you, for everything" I said louder.

"No problem " Conner said walking into his room " see ya in the morning, breakfast is at 6"

I opened the door leading into our room and gasped, there was a bunk bed on the left wall, a double on the top , queen at the bottom. I walked over and placed my bag on the blue stripped quilt on the bottom bunk. I looked around , there was a chair under a boarded up window, and a small desk at the far side of the room.

"Whoa" Althea said, walking into the room "Hey, Why do you get the big bed?"

"Because I got here first" I said laughing " now I'm going to bed"

*I don't normally do these author notes things but I'm going to give them a shot . Firstly Plz Review! ! And secondly if there is anything I should add or fix to make the story better plz say something! I would greatly appreciate it! *