As of right now we are all on our way to Fort Benning. Daryl had to leave his truck behind, just taking his motorcycle now, we had to save on gas, T-dog also had to leave his vehicle behind. I sat in the RV(A/N I'm not sure if it's an RV or a trailer, I thinks it's like a trailer thing, but I don't know) with Shane, Dale, Andrea, Victoria Glenn and T-dog.

"Oh jeez" was all that I heard, from Dale, looking out the window I saw we were on a road with a lot of cars, looks like everyone ditched their cars, must have been a walker attack or something.

"See a way through?" Dale asked Daryl who pulled up beside the RV on his motorcycle. He looked back and nodded his head in the direction we were going.

"Maybe we should just go back? There is an interstate by-pass-" Glenn started, "We can't spare the fuel" Dale told him, it was true though, we had already cut down on vehicles to make it this far. As we were driving by all the cars, I noticed clothes all over the ground, and the cars were tipped over, almost like they were in some sort of accident. I made note to go look in the cars for clothes for Victoria and myself if we got out. As we zig-zagged through the road, the radiator hose broke. We all sighed, that thing kept breaking, like it was made to break. I almost wanted to face palm at how stupid that thing was.

We all got out, Daryl started looking through cars, I followed and did the same. Dale said he wouldn't be able to find another radiator hose anywhere, but the group suggested we would be able to find other stuff, I heard Victoria creep up beside me, "Victoria. Find yourself some clothes, we will need them." I told her as I looked at her. She nodded and did as I said, looking in the car beside me. "This is a grave yard." Lori said, obviously not happy about us taking other peoples things, Daryl and I stopped for a moment, looked at her but then turned back to continue what we were doing. Everyone else soon joining in, to find stuff of use.

"I found this. It wont fit me, but I thought of you." Victoria came up to me with a black sweater way to big for her, I giggled, and took it. I looked at it further and saw that it was a band sweater, seeing it was my favorite band I smiled and hugged her. I picked up a t-shirt I thought she would like and gave it to her, it would be a bit big, but She took it and smiled. Finding more clothes for ourselves, I put them into the trailer, and on the bed me and her shared at the moment.

Daryl walked up to the car I was looking in and started to dig as well but with one hand. He stopped and then tossed what was in his other hand onto my head. I stopped digging, and reached up to take the piece of cloth off of my head that was covering my eyes. I looked at it more and smiled, it was a dress that would fit Victoria. I smiled at Daryl who just looked at me, then looked away.

"Thanks, i'm sure she will love it." I told him, 'hmm' was all I got in response. I sighed a bit, but then continued to dig, now for stuff that would help the group. I moved to the backseat of the car, no longer looking in the trunk with Daryl. I found some water bottles, still in there package, and none of them were missing, I looked up, to the next part of the backseat. I saw some canned goods. I grabbed all I could in my arms, including the package of water bottles with my other hand, and ran over to the group.

"Guys, look what I found." I told them, they looked at me all happy, some gave me hugs, and Daryl went into the backseat of the car we were looking in to get the rest. He brought it over and we put it in the RV, in the cupboards. When we got out, Shane had found a water truck, So he opened one, and basically took a shower.

Soon there were walkers heading towards us, but Rick told us to get under cars, I told Victorian to get under one with me, and she did. I held her mouth closed, I whispered as quietly as I could for her to be quiet. I was surprised they couldn't smell us, but there were so many of them, they brought they stench with them, you could probably smell it a mile away if you were paying attention.

She stood quiet, everyone did, or at least everyone I could see. Soon most of the walkers had left and I got out from under the car, telling Victoria to stay there and stay quiet. I ran around a couple cars, trying to find T-dog, knowing he couldn't fit under a car(A/N no offense T-dog, I love you!).

*Daryl's POV*

I saw April from my spot on the ground, I shot a couple walkers, and killed one that almost ate T-dog's face off. We had them over us to hide our scent. I saw a walker coming up behind her, she didn't seem to notice yet, so I looked around for walkers, pushed the one off myself and shot the one near her in the head, she turned around hear the impact, and saw the walker fall. She took the arrow out, and looked around her, not for me but for walkers. She then made her way towards me and T-dog. She gave me the arrow, and looked at T-dog with concern. I pulled the walker off of him. She had worry written all over her face, she saw the blood all over his shirt and dripping from his arm. She ripped she long white sleeves off her shirt and put them on his cut, putting pressure on it to stop the bleeding. She then stopped when she heard Sophia yelling, she looked up over the cars to see Sophia running into the woods with two walkers behind her, Rick chasing after them.

She then continued to help T-dog. She turned to me, surprise on her face "I'm sorry! I forgot to thank you, you saved my life back there! I didn't even hear that walker." She told me, I just half laughed a bit, and gave her a half smile. She returned a full smile with her white teeth. I didn't think it was possible to have such withe teeth in this time, but sure enough, hers were white.

*Normal POV (April's)*

Daryl and I brought T-dog out to the rest of the group so he could get looked after. I smiled at T-dog, a reassuring smile, telling him it would be okay in my eyes. His cut was pretty bad, it was deep, and long. Everyone started coming around, Everyone but Rick and Sophia. I sighed hoping she would be ok. I looked around because I didn't see Victoria, I soon started to panic.

"Victoria?" I asked, calling out her name. There was no response, the group started looking around. Daryl walked over to where we were earlier under the cars.

*Daryl's POV*

I went to where April, Victoria, Sophia, and Carl had been under the cars, thinking maybe she didn't notice anyone getting up, or she was just keeping what she had been told about staying where she was in mind. (A/N Ok, so I just realized she is acting young for her age... So for those of you who have read she was 14, I am changing her age to 11, making her 10 years younger than April, who is 6 years younger than Daryl, whom I am making 27) I looked under all the cars, hoping to see her. I was about to walk back when I saw her lying under one of the cars a head. I laughed a bit to myself, walking up to the car, I bent down to look at her.

"Whadda ya doin' down there?" I asked her, her blue eyes opened, revealing fear as she looked up at me, she got up and hugged me. I sighed.

"Whadda ya think yer doin'?" I asked as she hugged me. I could feel her shaking so I took pity on her, she was probably scared without April by her side. I picked her up and carried her back to the group who continued to look for her.

"Look what I found." I called out to them. I got a reply of "Now isn't the time Dary- OH MY GOD! VICTORIA I WAS SO WORRIED!" from April who was searching around frantically before I came back with Victoria. Victoria unlatched her arms from around my neck and ran over to her sister. April crouched down and caught her sister in a big hug. She looked up at me, and put her sister down, she came over and gave me a hug, I had no choice but to accept it as she thanked me for finding her little sister.

*Normal POV*

Soon Rick came back empty handed, no Sophia. He had run off after the walkers to get her. He told us what happened and Carol was glaring at him, wondering how he could leave Sophia all alone with walkers around everywhere.

Glenn, Rick, Shane and Daryl all went out after to look for her. Everyone who was still there trying to keep Carol calm as the men looked for her. Soon Shane and Glenn got back, Shane giving us a list of things to do while we waited for Sophia to see if she came back on her own, but also waiting for Rick and Daryl to see if they found her. When Shane and Glenn got back they told us they were on her trail, so we all calmed down a bit.

I wandered around, Victoria attached to my side still, looking for a car we could use. I mean sure, there were lots of cars here, but none of them had keys in them, or even on the ground near by. The next vehicle was a Jeep Wrangler with out any kind of top, I looked in it for keys. I didn't see any around so I pulled down the sun visor and the keys fell on my lap, I looked around for an easy way to get it out and smiled.

I started it up and backed out, "Victoria, head back to the group." I told my little sister, she nodded and ran back to the group, I watched her as she went , making sure she didn't injure herself or a walker didn't pop up out of no where.

I slowly drove the car through all the other ones, finally getting back to the rest of the group, I looked at the gas level before shutting the car off. It was almost at empty. I sighed, I got out, and asked T-dog where he put the gas. He told me it was in the RV, I nodded and went to find the gas. Finding a walker laying in the middle of the RV instead I sighed but pulled it out. Once it was out, I went back to look for the gas, finally finding it I poured it into the Jeep, filling it and went to find some other car to refill the gas tank.

When I got back Rick and Daryl came back, I put the gas tank I had just filled by the RV, and walked up to them.

"You didn't find her?" Carol asked, worry still on her face.

"Her trail went cold," Rick started "We'll pick it up again at first light." He finished. Carol didn't look to happy.

"You can't leave my daughter out there on her own to spend the night alone in the woods." She told Rick, begging they go back out and look for her. As Carol was talking I put my arm around Victoria's shoulders. "In the dark's no good, We'd just be tripping over ourselves. More people gettin' lost." Daryl told Carol, he was an expert at tracking.

"She's 12! She can't be out there on her own! You didn't find anything?" Carol questioned

"I know this is hard, but I'm asking you not to panic. We know she was out there." Rick told her, Daryl continued with "And we tracked her for a while."

"We have to make this an organized effort. Daryl knows the woods better than anybody, I've asked him to over see this." Rick told everyone.

Carol looked at Daryl's shoes. "Is that blood?" she asked in panic. Rick told her they took down a walker and made sure that her didn't touch Sophia by ripping his stomach open, I wanted to gag. I couldn't imagine how gross that would smell or be in general.

Carol sat down on the bars surrounding the road, then asked, "How could you, just leave her out there to begin with. How could you just leave her?" She questioned in a rude way. But if Rick hadn't, they both would have died. But still he answered, "Those two walkers were on us. I-I had to draw them off, It-it was her best chance." Rick told her.

Everyone seemed to be against Rick at this point, there was nothing going on, but Carol saying how her little girl was left in the woods. I sighed to myself. This wasn't going anywhere. She had been given the choice to get back, she was given directions. She didn't follow them for whatever reason, but she needed to be found as soon as possible.

Soon it was dark and time for everyone to go to sleep. "If Victoria doesn't mind, could she sleep with me tonight? I'm used to sleeping with Sophia." Carol asked from behind me. I turned and gave her soft eyes, I nodded and told her "Of course, but only if she wants to." She thanked me and we both walked to the trailer. Victoria was already in bed, she wouldn't be asleep yet though.

"Victoria, would you mind sleeping with Carol? Just for tonight or until we find Sophia." I asked my little sister, she turned to Carol, who gave her pleading eyes, she nodded and crawled into Carol's bed where Sophia usually sleeps. Daryl came onto the RV and I gave him a questioning look, he then walked past me and sat on my bed. "Umm, Daryl?" I asked him, he looked up at me from taking his boots off. "That's my bed." I replied, he looked around for another bed but there were no more left, I did the same. "Dale said I could sleep in the RV." Daryl told me, I nodded and started putting pillows down on the chairs. "Whadda ya doin'?" he asked. I noticed everyone was sleeping now, T-dog out cold, Carol was sobbing a bit in her sleep, and Victoria curled up to her. "Putting pillows down so it isn't as uncomfortable." I replied continuing what I was doing. "Why?" He asked again. I turned to him, "I'm sleeping here, so I don't want to be uncomfortable and end up getting no sleep." I told him then turned away again.

"No. Yer not sleepin' there. Yer sleepin' with me." Daryl told me.

I turned to him a confused expression on my face. "Last time ya ended up sleepin' with me anyway. May as well just start out that way so ya don't wake me up again." I swear I heard him mutter 'damn woman' after, under his breath. "That's just because I was cold." I retorted. "It's colder here than it was in the damn CDC." He told me. I sighed but gave in, there was no point arguing and wasting sleep, he would be gone by the time I woke up anyway.

The next morning I woke up and Daryl was already gone, just like I thought. Today almost everyone was going to look for her, minus Dale, T-dog and myself. Andrea wondering where the guns were, Shane told us all that Rick, himself and Dale would be carrying them, so no one makes mistakes by shooting when a herd of walkers is near by, making them come after us, and it be game over for all of us.

I decided to stay back with T-dog and Dale, to make sure if anything happened to them they would be in good hands. T-dog asked Dale why he wasn't fixing the radiator, what we would do if they came back with Sophia. Dale told him it was fixed yesterday that he just wanted to wait and see if they found Sophia, that he wanted to stay a while longer. He was right, once they found out we were mobile, almost everyone would want to go, maybe not Carol, but that was the case. We would have to do something if we didn't find her, at least tell her what was going on, the poor girl was only 12. Victoria being bored walked into the RV and did what ever it was she does.

"So you and Daryl, huh?" T-dog asked with a sly smile on his face.

'Huh?! Why would you think that?" I was blushing and I knew it. He just laughed. "Because I saw you two this morning when I got up, you two looked quite comfortable being as close as you were." He laughed. I blushed even more. "I have no memory of that what so ever. Last think I knew when I fell asleep was we were both on our own side of the bed." I told him, thinking it was a good come back. "Oh, well why were you in the same bed to begin with?" He asked me. "I get really cold, and there wasn't enough room in anyone else's bed. So I had to sleep with someone to keep warm." I told him. "Looked more like Daryl kicked Victoria out and replaced her." He laughed. I sighed, "No. Carol wanted to sleep with her since Sophia is gone. Plus she is usually my source of heat, so iIwouldn't have anyone else to sleep with to keep me warm." I told him, he just 'Oh'ed at it and continued talking to Dale about God knows what.

I decided to go and find more supplies for the group, I went ahead searching cars for about 20 minutes. When I came back with some more canned food; Daryl, Glenn, Andrea and Carol were back. With no Rick, Carl (or Sophia), Lori or Shane. Not that I didn't mind Shane being gone. He always had to get into everyone's business, and just plain got on my nerves. And I didn't trust him, it was just something about him that wasn't trust worthy, but Rick on the other hand, I would give him my life. Daryl and himself knew what they were doing. Slowly, Daryl was becoming better than Shane, and was becoming more important to everyone, including myself. I had begun to like Daryl more, I had an attachment to him, I didn't quiet know what it was, but I could feel it.

"Where is everyone else?" I asked, Daryl turned "Some lady on a horse, came by, took Lori. Says Carls been shot. Gave us directions to the house they were at and took off. We gotta go and get 'em. " Daryl told me, I nodded. and got my stuff ready to leave. Carol wasn't about to leave, the search for Sophia still going on. We told her we'd make a little sign somewhere and tell her we'd come back everyday. We ended up putting it on a windshield, leaving some food for her too, and we all took off the next morning.

With a long discussion about who was going when, Dale told Glenn he had to go, and he had to bring T-dog. We didn't need him dying on us,he needed to go, and get his arm checked out, he had a blood infection, and it needed treatment. Daryl went to his motorcycle and went through the bag, got out a bag of pills, and boy was there a lot. He told us they were his brothers, and that he had tons of stuff. Looking through the bag he found pain killers and and anti-biotics. He tossed the pain killers at Glenn, and the anti-biotics at Dale.

That night I had to sleep with Daryl again, Carol still sobbing in her sleep. For some reason, I just couldn't fall asleep, I got up, and walked outside to see Dale keeping watch, little did I know, Daryl was following grabbing his crossbow and arrows, i always kept and knife on my belt, and a small gun in the back of my pants. I looked up to see Dale looking at me in confusion, "Where are you going?" I turned from walking a head, "To look up and down the roads a bit, see if I can find Sophia." I told him, he nodded, I then saw my shadow, a bright light being displayed behind me. I turned to see Daryl walking out, with his crossbow over his shoulder, and a large flash light in his hand. He told Dale he was going for a walk, to shine so light in the forest to give Sophia something to look at if she's there. Dale wondering if it was a good idea, asked. I looked at him, the light still on me so he clearly saw my annoyed face. "We kill a couple walkers maybe, or we find Sophia." I told him. He sat back in his chair and just watched as Daryl joined me, and we walked together along the roads.

"Do you really think we're gonna find Sophia? How ever long we look for her?" I asked Daryl. He turned his head to look at me, "Do you not?" He asked. I gave him my 'touche' look. "I'm not sure. She could be anywhere. Think she is only 12." I told him. "Hell, I was younger than her and I got lost. 9 days in the woods, eatin' berries. Wipin' my ass with poison oak." He told me, he was finally opening up. "Did they find you?" I looked at him, his eyes searching for Sophia, "My old man was off on a bend with some waitress, Merle was doing another sentince (A/N So just in case you guys haven't caught on, I am trying to make things Daryl says in the way he would pronounce it, no the actual way it's spelt, so that's why half this stuff isn't right) in Juvy, they didn't even know I was gone. I made ma way back though. Went straight ta the kitchen and made maself a sandwhich. No worse for wear, except ma ass itched something awful." He told me, I laughed a bit and then apologized. "Sorry, that is terrible." I started laughing again though, I heard him chuckle a bit too as he looked at me, and our eyes met, even though it was dark, I could still see his piercing blue eyes. "The only difference is though, Sophia's got people lookin' for 'er. I call that an advantage." He told me, I realized his mom must have been out of the picture, I wanted to ask about her, but decided against it. We continued our walk for a bit more, then decided to head back, thinking it be best that they don't worry about us. Even though Dale would be the only who would.

The next morning I got into the jeep, Victoria hearing cars starting and Dale probably telling her to come to the jeep, she got out of the RV and ran to my car, I watched her every step of the way making sure she was safe, she got in the jeep and looked at me, "Where's everyone?" She asked in her small quiet voice, I could hardly hear her. I smiled a sad smile, "Carls been shot, we gotta go over there, we might be setting camp up there for a bit." She nodded and looked back out the window. Some times I swear she was a teenager, but others I realize she was just a kid. After Daryl pulled out infront of my jeep on his motorcycle, I pulled out second, having Carol's vehicle with Andrea driving, and then the RV after that.

Ok, I know it has been a week, but this one is pretty long, longer than most of the chapter by twice as much. So hope you guys like it, sorry I just randomly stopped, I will write tomorrow if I get a chance. We are having a party for a friend, so I might not. And my exams are coming up. And I need all ten hours (which i have none) of comminuty service in less then a week, because my religion teacher decided it would be ok to make just us do it. So yeah, I'm deff going to a public school next year:) Then I can just get all 40, and not have to get 10 each year. Well anyway, enough blabbing on. Hope you guys like it, Rate, comment, like, favorite and all that fun stuff to let me know you do!:)