This Chapter is what Liv is now going through after seeing the prison.

Pairings:

[Rick Grimes & OC]

& very Little [Daryl and Carol]

*DISCLAIMER DO NOT OWN The Walking Dead*

CHAPTER 4: Lied Underneath

They must be dead.. it's all my fault. I could have helped save them, but that doesn't matter now. I need to bury Hershel. He was a decent man… one of the 'good ones' and now that he is gone. I don't even know if this world has any left. My friends, family, my chil- … Carl and Judith… gone. All I have is a duffle bag with Hershel's head and body in it, and the Bible that was in his back pocket.

Liv drove a few miles out till she seen a graveyard and went in it. She drove to the highest hill and got a shovel from the back of the car that she drove and had began to dig. When she was finished digging, she threw the shovel out of the grave then crawled up and out. She made her way back to the nearby car and pulled out the duffle bag. She already had a bed sheet so she carefully placed Hershel lifeless, headless body in the center, and put his head were it would go as if it wasn't cut off. Liv then wrapped the sheet a few times around him tightly. Now standing in the grave she reached up to Hershel who was beside the grave she dug, and pulled him in placing him into the grave making sure he was handled gently. Liv had no idea what or why she was doing this, but she did it with no expression on her face. After she placed the dirt over him she carved a gravestone out of the biggest rock she could find, though she never thought she would roll a rock up a hill. The rest of the day she sat next to his grave reading the bible out loud to him as if he was really there. She stayed there a few days and in the afternoons she would read the bible. After a few days she finished the Bible, and decided it was time to leave.

"Hershel. . . Imma head out, but, uh, I'll be back once I find your girls. I don't even know if they know that . . . you're gone, but I'm sure Beth would want to see where you're buried. . . this bible, I'll give it to Beth as well. I seen her reading it to Judith a few times, ha. . . Thank you, for everything." Liv stopped as she started to cry a bit while resting on her knees in front of Hershel's headstone. "I'll be back." kissing her right hand, and putting on the rock before placing some flowers in front of it.

-~Lied Underneath~-

Liv left and drove a few miles farther till she stopped in the middle of the road. She took her belongings and with her twin machete knives on each side of her upper back she began to walk. Again she walked alongside the road. Once and a while she would look up and imagine a car coming around the corner that was hidden by all the trees, but she saw nothing.

Liv could swear she was going crazy when she thought she heard the sound of a car, but when she shot her head up straight she seen nothing but an empty long road. Though she kept hearing it, louder and louder as if it were getting closer. She finally spun around when she heard a honk from a distance.

"Rick?" She whispered under her breath.

A 2014 black hummer stopped about twenty feet away from Liv as the driver stepped out the car. "Well shit, if it ain't the devil's child." A tall man with dark blonde hair and blue eyes came out wearing a nice long black over coat with dark jeans on.

"I thought you were dead." Liv said with her mouth hanging open.

"I thought you were dead, ha!" The man said walking closer, giving Liv an inviting hug.

"Aren't you overly dress?" Liv asking looking at his nice clothing.

"Over dressed for what?" He questioned.

"Um, for the damn apocalypse maybe?" Liv lifted both her hands gesturing to the deserted road around them.

"Aren't you under dressed." He joked raising an eyebrow and giving a small smile. "Come on. I told 'em I'd be back in less than an hour!" He added running back to the black hummer and getting in the driver seat.

"Jack... Jack who's them?!" Liv followed behind getting in the passenger seat.

Jack was the man in the helicopter with her and her father. The one she was "betrothed' to... well she liked to think of their engagement that way.

A few minutes had passed in the car and Liv had never felt so disrespected, "Jack, you have been driving for ten minutes and have not answered any of my questions."

"You've been talking?" He played as he glanced over to a pissed Liv and immediately stopped smiling.

"Yeah, who the hell is 'them'?" She spoke up.

"Them, has a name." He pouted like a baby.

"Okay. What's their name?" Liv irate, and a little frustrated at the man's childish games, asked.

"The U.S army, Liv, I have an idea!" Jack announced getting excited.

"Wait, what? What do you mean the army?!" Liv demanded trying to slow him down.

"We're going to rebuild and we need soldiers." He stated glancing at Liv though she was still confused.

"Yes, I understand you have soldiers but where did you find these 'soldiers'?" She requested trying to get a grip on all of this.

"Men and women who were in the military before all of this, people like us, Liv. We find them and take them in, help them, give 'em shelter, and they train just like it was before in the military." He explained.

"I see." She thought to herself for a long moment before adding, "But what about others, like non-military people?"

"We take everybody in; men, women, children, babies - everyone, because its going to take everyone... now, of course we have are soldiers go out on the runs to get the supplies we need for the group and if someone who's not a soldier wants to help, they can come with if they'd like. We do train the ones that want to be trained as well." He pulled up to a metal two door gate as both doors began to open the car pulled in.

Liv looked at the people as they carried on with their business, work, and what not. "They all have a role, don't they."

"Yeah; they all want to help." Jack pressed on the breaks softly and took the keys out of the ignition.

"Well, you helped them... they might as well sell their souls to you." Liv said, just as she widened her eyes from remembering when Carl made that joke to her.

Jack turned to Liv in shock, "What have you been up to?"

"What do you mean?" Liv asked taking offence.

"I have never heard you make a weird joke like that in my life. It's like you've got intact with your inner child." He took a second then stated, "I like it!" before getting out the car.

Liv rolled her eyes as she began to exit the car as well. A few men with large guns wearing soldier uniforms ran up to them.

"Hey, we're ready to move the walls." One said.

"We'll just push the north side about twenty feet."The shortest of the four men explained.

"Push the gates? What does that mean?" Liv spoke, thinking out loud, as the men who didn't acknowledge her presents in the first place turned to look at her.

"Men, this is my fiance." Jack said putting his arm around Liv then added, "She's been apart of the U.S army most of her life. Anything she says goes-" before he could finish, Liv interrupted.

Though Jack was speaking highly of her, she felt uncomfortable especially since he had his arm around her. "Jack, let me settled in before you make me ruler." She enlightened, quietly, but the men could still hear as they smirked.

"Yeah, where shall we put you." An African American soldier man asked when he turned to look towards some women washing clothes.

Liv raised an eyebrow. "Mm, I don't wash... or clean." She bluntly stated.

"Oh, is that so?" An older white man stepped in. He kind of reminded Liv of her oldest brother, Merle.

Jack spoke up. "Hey, she'll be sleeping in my room. We'll discuss what her part is later. I just got to see her for the first time in a while and I like some time with her to catch up." He explained.

The soldier men walked away. "Where's my father?" Liv asked expecting him to be there.

"I don't know. He was out of the helicopter when I woke." He looked down to Liv, who was a bit shorter than him. Jack held her cheek with his left hand as he said, "We're together now, that's all that matters."

Jack began to lean in for a kiss. "There is something you need to know." Liv turned away.

"What? You can tell me anything. I just want you to know that I love you, Liv." He walked closer to her.

"You won't... not after what I tell you." Liv didn't feel right with him. They didn't even have a relationship before he proposed; one day he walked up to her almost as a complete stranger, got down on one knee and proposed right in front of her father and from there they called it a 'relationship'. Nothing about that was romantic and even though Liv didn't look like the romantic type, she wanted her proposal to be special and she wanted the person that would be proposing to be special to her, just like every girl dreamed of.

"What is it?" He asked panicked.

Liv stood there completely still. She knew if she said something like 'I don't love you', he would say something along the lines of, 'Well I'll spend the rest of my life trying to make you love me'. So Liv blurted out the first thing she could think of.

"I have a daughter." She slightly raised an eyebrow in hopes that he would believe her.

"You have a daughter?" He took two steps back and thought to himself as Liv continued to speak. They had been way from each other long enough for Liv to have gotten pregnant... but her body didn't look as though she had carried, but he wouldn't really know.

"Her names Judith and, uh, she's with my brother... I hope."

Jack had cut in disregarding what she had previously said, "You found your brothers?"

"Daryl. Merle's gone… but the thing is, I lost Daryl which means I lost my daughter... which means I lost everyone that was with them and I need to find them!" Liv clarified looking to the gate then back to Jack.

"Who's the baby's father?" Jack questioned resting his hands on his hips.

"Does that matter?" Liv questioned.

"Who's the baby's father?!" He shouted, as bystanders turned and looked their way.

"You don't know him." Liv muttered partly embarrassed.

"Do you love him?" He softly spoke making Liv feel completely uncomfortable.

"I wouldn't have had a child with him if I didn't..." At this point Liv jokingly hoped to herself that she would never find Rick. Jack started off the other way yet turned around with a forgiving face when Liv teased "I guess this means we're not sharing a room ha… ha no okay..." She bit her lip with a light smile.

-~Lied Underneath~-

A few months had passed and some things had changed in the camp and so did Liv.

She was one of the three main leaders of the group. She gave speeches and helped with the medical center they were building, and every few weeks they would push their walls twenty feet out. The reason they did this was so the could take back their land from the dead. They had a lot of space there, such as the 'living courtier', where everyone would sleep in a big building that had a lot of rooms, much like a hotel. Then they had the 'food court' where everyone would eat; there were tables outside of a little cabin were they stored and made food. The 'Training center' was where the soldier men trained and helped train the non-military members of the group. Then the 'conference room', a big empty room that was by the entrance of the whole place, was where they had meetings with soldiers about runs they needed to make, and where they would bring people when they found them and gave them the run down of what this place was. In the center of everything was a meadow like field and in the middle was a white medium sized shed where they kept extra weapons and ammo. Only Jack had the key to this shed.

"This is going to be the last run of the month, Sergeant Snow." A soldier man confirmed to Liv.

"Mm... yes, Leo, because there is only one day left in this month." She mentioned to him as he shot his head back down to the clipboard that he held.

"Oh, yeah…" He muttered.

Liv continued to walk down to her car as she loaded her gun and slid it into the pouch on the right side of her hip. She took out her twin machetes that rested on both sides of her upper back to check if they were as sharp as she wanted, then put them back. She wore black leggings with tan combat boots and a white v. neck short sleeved shirt.

"You ready?" Jack came up behind Liv and padded her back, passing in front of her.

"As ready as I'll ever be." She replied.

Liv left with three of the soldier men; including Jack, the main leader Marco, and a soldier man, Brian. They drove a few miles out till they reached the city. Once they got there, they drove to a store so they could get some clothes since a woman in the group gave birth to a baby girl recently, in which Liv helped deliver.

"Jack, the streets. They're getting worse." Liv stated, observing the amount of walkers outside.

Just with their luck, the store that they wanted to get in was filled with walkers.

"What's the plan?" Marco, who was driving, turned his head a bit to face Liv sitting in the back seat.

"We clear all of it from the front instead of killing them as we go 'cause that can be too risky. Then we get what we need and go." She reasoned.

"Lets move!" Jack ordered as he jumped out the car and stabbed the closest walker in the forehead and moving onto the next walker to kill as the others followed behind.

Liv grabbed her left machete with her right hand and adhered the knife in a female walker's head, with her foot she pushed the walker away releasing the knife. Brian carried a handgun with a silencer on it, he took a few head shots at some walker as the dropped to the ground. Jack opened the front door to the shop and took a step inside as Liv went up behind him, covering his back. They soon all walked cautiously around the store.

"Look," Liv directed the men to the baby section of the store just as she quickly jogged over stuffing as much as items as she could fit in the bag she carried. Liv was finish with getting the supplies they needed, so the four of them headed for the front doors. Liv lead the way with Jack a few inches behind her and the other two men were ten or-so feet behind making sure they didn't leave anything behind. Brian stopped when he seen a walker come up behind Jack. Marco, who was standing behind Brian, was looking through some shelves so he wasn't aware of the walker. Reacting quickly, Brian pulled out his handgun and went for the head shot. As the bullet left the gun it shot clean through the walkers skull and into the man in front of the now dead walker. . . Jack was hit as his lifeless body began to fall. Liv spun quickly around when she felt some weight on her. Jack fell onto Liv's body as she tried putting the upper part of his head together; the bullet caused it to burst. Liv was now trapped under the dead weight of the walker and Jack. She lied underneath them, looking up at the ceiling in complete shock as Jack's head continued to bleed out on her.

"JACK!" Brian yelled as he and Marco, began to run towards Liv.

Once the men got the walker and Jack off Liv, she got up slowly and a bit shaky "Wha-wha-wha." She tried to speak but nothing truly came out.

"Sergeant Liv… I didn't know I jus-jus-" Brian couldn't finish talking as he started to cry uncontrollably.

"Guys, guys we need to go!" Marco explained. Marco had a strong upper body so he picked up Jack 'bridal style', being gentle with Jack's head and started for the door. Liv slowly followed behind in the utmost shock. She didn't feel any anger towards Brian as Brian continued to cry all the way to the car. Marco sat in the drivers seat and drove; Liv sat in the passenger seat with her hands clenching onto her thighs as she blankly stared at the road they passed. Jack was dead. A man you'd think would die from an explosion because he was saving people, but, no, Jack died from being in the way of someone trying to save him.

Once they pulled up to the gates of the base camp, a few tears escaped from Liv's eyes. She didn't trust the others as much as she trusted Jack but that is because she had known Jack before the apocalypse.

"Sergeant Liv, a new group of people are here. We need you to give them 'the talk'." A soldier man said as he walked closer to the car then turn his head to the left when Marco grabbed Jack's body from the back of the car. "Liv..." He start as his face fell. "I can talk to the new comers… you should get cleaned up-"

"No.. I'll do it ... Jack would want me to... as a leader." She said blankly. Slowly she felt herself slipping, but she ignored it.

The soldier nodded his head, understanding the need she must have to keep herself going. "They're in the conference room. Some soldiers are keeping watch on them. Whenever you're ready." He patted her shoulder as she nodded.

Whenever new people stumble on this community, the soldiers who found them would take them to the large empty room to deliver a speech of what this group is; what they have to provide for them; and what they expect. Jack and Liv would usually give the speech together but now it was just Liv, though standing behind her would be about fifteen soldier men in uniform with large guns, like an AK-47 or sniper rifles just to show they meant business.

Liv made her way to the conference room. There was one opening to the room which was on the right hand side. She walked in the room and kept her head down. From the corner of her eye, she seen a group of people to the left hand side. They were staring profusely at her and to the right was her men standing in a nice orderly fashion holding their large guns in front of there body. Liv was still soaked in blood, having all the men's expression change to confusion when they seen her like that. Liv turned to face the new group as she still had her head down. She could hear a baby gurgle. She slightly smiled to herself, as she lifted her head slowly. When she lifted her eyes from the ground, she saw all familiar faces. In complete shock, she stared at them blankly not knowing how to react. She found herself searching through the mass of people and landed on a man she so desperately needed... Daryl.

She stared at them for what seemed like forever until Daryl looked around the group then to Liv.

"Hey..." He said as Liv looked closer at him.

"Hi." She awkwardly replied, taking a second to look at her bloody white shirt, then back to him with a slight smile and a raised eyebrow.

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