AN: So what do we have like 3 months to wait for the next episode of the Walking Dead? This is gonna kill me! UGHHHHHHHHH! Fucking Daryl, making me worry about him! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!

So anyway. This Chapter doesn't have any Daryl in it except one part. YOU: BOOOOO! *throwing tomatoes at me*

Hey! Hey! Calm Down! I don't like it either, especially with that fucking Mid Season cliff hanger, but it's part of the story. And where'd you get tomatoes? Any way you can tell me the Reviews when you're done.

Enjoy the chapter! I own nothing!

Chapter: In the Dark of the Night

The one's going back to Atlanta were, Rick, Daryl, T-Dog, and Glen, not out of kindness. Shane and Lori weren't to happy about it. Diana and Violet said good-bye to everyone.

"Can we go to the quarry?" Violet asked.

"Sure, let's go get your bucket." They walked passed Dale and waved, "We're gonna go to the quarry today."

"Have fun you two. Be safe."

When they got there they saw Shane and Carl with buckets. Shane was splashing around. "What are they doing? Probably catching frogs like Carl told me. Gross." Diana also saw Andrea, Amy, Carol, and Jacqui washing clothes. Ed was by a car smoking a cigarette.

"Now I want you to take off your shoes and pick up what ever rock you think is pretty and put it in the bucket."

"Why not seashells?"

"Cause there are none. We're at a quarry not the sea."

"Okay," Violet took her shoes off and was picking up different kinds of rocks. They walked by the ladies and waved. There Violet found a pink rock.

"Di?"

"Yeah?"

"Why are birds made?" she asked watching one fly over them.

"Their born that way. What do you think?"

"I think they are like fish," she threw her hands in the air. Diana laughed, "Why are they fish?"

"Because the water has fish and the air has birds. So they were made to be opposites. Like boys and girls. There's always an opposite," she smiled after she said that. Diana looked down at her, "This girl believes in yin and yang."

"Okay, how do they fly?"

"Grav-vit-tee allows it," the youngster attempted to say.

"What's gravity then?" Violet thought for a second, "It's the thing that keeps up to the ground so we don't fly away into space."

"What's in space?" Diana tried to quiz her.

"You asking too many questions," Violet said making Diana laugh. The first thing they saw when they looked up was a horrible sight.

"You don't tell me what!" Ed yelled and he smacked Carol in the face, "FUCKING ASSHOLE!" Diana ran over to them and tried push Ed away like the other girls, but then Shane came and pulled him out and threw him to the floor and just whaled into him.

He was punching the shit out of him. Violet began to cry because she didn't understand what was happening. Diana then covered her eyes and ran off.

"Why was Officer Poopy pants beating up Sophia's dad?" Violet asked once they were near the camp and taking a rest.

"Because Sophia's dad is a jerk and Shane was putting him in his place," Diana explained.

"So it was a good thing?"

"Sometimes violence is a bad thing, it mostly is. But there are times where you need to fight back to protect people who are in trouble. That's what Shane did. He was protecting Sophia's mom by beating up her dad."

"This is confusing," Violet snuffled and whipped away her tears. Diana picked her up, "I know it is, Violet. I know."

Diana was with the group around the fire when Andrea and Amy came by with a crap load of fish. Violet was having her hair braided by Diana. She wanted her to look pretty for dinner.

"Even in an apocalypse you're worried about looks?" Carol asked.

"Just because I look like a muddy mess doesn't mean little Violet here has to," Diana smiled.

"Speaking of messes, have you and 'you know who' gotten any further?" Carol asked. Diana smiled, "Well earlier today before he left we kissed," They both laughed while Violet said, "Ew! Kissing!"

"That's right. Kissing's gross." Diana mocked a serious face. "Then why did you kiss Mr. Daryl?" Violet casually said.

"Shh!" Diana looked around to see if anyone besides Carol heard that. Coast was clear, "How did you know it was him?"

"How many other guys do you like here? I'm not dumb. You always look at him with lovey dovey eyes," Violet mocked.

"Shh!" Carol couldn't help but laugh. Diana looked at her, "See what you started. Now I won't hear the end of it," She waited for Carol to calm down a little.

"Carol can I ask why are you curious about my love life with, um, 'you know who'?" Diana started on the next braid.

"I don't know. I see him and I feel bad. Like he doesn't have anyone to care for him. Then I saw you so full of life and care giving. It just seemed like you could bring out the light in him."

Diana smiled at Carol, "The most ironic thing in that statement is when I first came here, I felt dead inside. I might as well have been one of those things out there. Then I met everyone here. I met this little bundle of joy. She really brought out that care giving side. Looks like I have you to thank, Violet," She tickled her neck causing the little girl to laugh.

Diana smiled at Carol, "Thank you for not freaking out over the age thing."

"You're not to young or old to love someone."

"How old do you think he is?" Diana asked. Her and Carol were thinking about it until Dale came in.

"I don't want to alert anyone, but we may have a bit of a problem," everyone's eyes were on Dale. He pointed up to Jim. Jim looked like he was digging.

The group decided to go see Jim and talk to him. "Why are we gonna bug him?" Diana thought, "If he wants to dig holes let him. Everyone has a way with coping with death."

"Hey Jim?" Shane called, "Why don't you hold up? Give us a second, please?"

"What do you want?" Jim said. He looked exhausted.

"We're just a little concerned is all," Shane continued.

"Dale says you've been out here for hours.

"So?" It didn't seem like a big deal to Jim, "So why are you digging?" Shane asked, "What are you heading to China, Jim? What?"

Jim tried to chuckled it off, "Doesn't matter. I'm not hurting anyone," he continued to dig.

"Except maybe yourself. It's a 100 degrees today. You can't keep this up," Dale's face was written with concern.

"Sure I can! Watch me!" He dug up another scoop. Lori stepped in, "Jim they're not gonna say it so I will. You're scaring people. You're scaring my son, Carol's daughter, and the girl Diana watches."

"He's not scaring me!" Violet yelled out. Diana covered her mouth to hid her smirk. This whole thing is just ridiculous to her.

He stopped to looked over at the three, "See? They got nothin' to be scared of. I mean what the hell people I'm out here by myself. Why don't you all just go and leave me the hell alone."

"There he goes back to digging again," Diana squeezed Violet in comfort.

"We think that you need to take a break. Why don't you go get yourself in the shade, some food. Maybe, I'll tell you what, maybe in a little bit I'll come by here and I'll help you myself, Jim," Shane offered, "Just tell me what it's about. Why don't you just go a head and give me that shovel."

Jim stopped again and looked at Shane, "Or what?"

"There is no 'or what'. I'm asking you. I'm coming to you and I'm asking you to do it, please. I don't wanna have to take it from you."

"If I don't then what?" Jim asked again, "Then you going to beat my face in like Ed Peletier aren't cha?" That seem to have stung Shane, "Ya'll seen his face, huh? What's left of it. See now that's what happens when someone crosses you."

Shane looked pissed, "That was different, Jim."

"You weren't there! Ed was out of control and was hurting his wife," Amy explained.

"That is their marriage! That is not his!" Jim pointed at Carol, "He is not 'judge and jury'. Who voted you king boss, huh?"

"Look I'm not out here to argue with you, alright. Just give me the shovel," Jim backed away, "No. NO!"

Jim got the shovel and attempted to swing at Shane, only to be tackled by him. Jim was yelling at him, "You got no right!"

"Stop it!"

"You got no right!"

"Jim just stop it! Hey hey hey! Jim! Jim! Nobody is gonna hurt you!" Shane tried to reach him but Jim was off planet.

"That's a lie. That's the biggest lie there is," Shane was cuffing him, "I told that to my wife and two boys. I said it a hundred times. It didn't matter. They came outta nowhere. There were dozens of them. Just pulled them right outta my hands," Diana's eyes grew big and she looked over to see if anyone else was like her. Lori was, "You know the only reason I got away 'cause the dead were too busy eating my family."

Everyone sighed at such a shocking story. Diana felt so horrible for all the times she thought Jim was being creepy. She didn't know how he got here or what he went through.

Jim was tied up to a tree. Diana figured it was a form of time out. She was at a table with Lori, Carl, Carol, Sophia, and Violet. Diana knew Violet would draw them next to the quarry, and by quarry it was a big blob of blues. She drew Shane and Carl and a frog in the blob of blue. In the background there was a stick figure tied to a tree. She figured it was Jim.

"Sorry if I scared your boy and your little girls," Jim apologized.

"You had sunstroke. Nobody's blaming you," Lori said.

"You're not scared now, are you?" Jim didn't mean to scare them. That's the last thing he wanted.

"No Sir," Sophia said. Violet was done with her drawing, "Can we go put it with the others?"

"Yeah let's go. Later Jim," Diana waved to him and he nodded. Violet let go of Diana's hand and ran down the small hill to where Jim was. When she was in front of him Shane was about to shoo her away until he saw her fall on her knees to hug Jim.

"You don't scare me Mr. Jim. You're to good to be scary," Jim closed his eyes and made a soft smile. Diana was pretty sure he would have hugged back if his arms weren't tied to the tree. Violet finally got up and waved at him, "Bye."

"Good-bye Violet," Jim nodded at her. Everyone watched as Violet ran back to Diana, grabbing her hand to leave. Violet might not know it now, but she just did the nicest thing for Jim that he needed.

They walked into the Grimes tent. Diana dug under hers and Carl's cot and took out a book. It looked like a photo album. Diana asked Glenn for one during one of his runs. She's put all of Violet's drawing in it so far. She opened up to the last place she left off. Diana put the picture in and shut the book.

"Di?"

"Yeah, honey?"

"I made another picture for Mr. Daryl," Violet pulled out a folded up piece of paper from her green dress. She handed it to Diana and she opened it. The drawing was of Daryl himself. He had with him his crossbow and a bunch of squirrels in the trees around him. Diana smiled to herself.

"Do you think he'll like it?" Violet asked looking a little shy. Diana pulled her in for a hug, "I'm sure he'll love it."

Later on. Sophia asked Diana to give Ed some water. Diana wasn't happy about it but she fetched a bucket. She walked in and had a rag on it.

"Why don't you come outside with everybody?" Carol offered. Diana saw his face and tried not to look disgusted. His face was like one of Violet's drawings, it had so many colors on it.

"Hell with them people. Wouldn't piss on them if their heads were on fire," Ed said. Diana looked up at him and shook her head as she placed the bucket down next to the bed. Sophia was getting ready to leave when Ed grabbed her arm, "Hey! Why don't you stay here. Keep your daddy company."

"Ed, she wants to join in," Carol got her daughter out of there. Diana sighed.

"You got something on your mind?" Ed's voice was aggressive. Diana glared at him, "Yeah I do. Like how grateful I am that I don't get my face beat to a pulp for being a dumb ass."

"What you say?" Ed got up a little.

"You heard me. God, you're just trash from the bottom of the barrel, aren't you?"

"I don't deserve to hear this from a little bitch like you!"

"No! You deserve a turd sautéed in piss!"

"Excuse me?"

"In other words you don't deserve anything good that happens to you. And you sure as hell don't deserve your wife and daughter!"

Diana looked from the corner of her eye and saw Carol covered her mouth from either shock or hiding her laughter.

"You need to show me my right amount of respect, little girl," Ed threatened.

"I am, Pig!" she left the tent. Diana darted off to the fire clutching her throat. It took a lot out of her but it needed to be said. People looked like they were hiding away something. Diana looked up at them and saw everyone looking at her.

"What?" she threw her hands up.

"Nothing," Lori said as everyone went back to their business.

Diana doesn't normally like fish, but it wasn't that bad. Everyone was listening to Dale's speech on how time is important. Even Vince was there. Diana didn't care about it any more. All it did was just hurry you up or slow you down.

"Psst!" Vince whispered to Diana. She looked over at him.

"I'm going to my tent to get something really quick. It's for Violet," he looked excited.

"What is it?" Diana asked. Vince just smiled, "I found it in the quarry and fixed it up just for her."

"Okay, but what is it?" she whispered still curious.

"You'll see," Vince got up and headed over to his tent.

"You are so weird," Amy said to Dale. Everyone laughed. Then she announces that she needs to pee to Andrea.

Violet was sitting close to Diana, enjoying her fish. "We're out of toilet paper?" they heard Amy say. Then the worst night ever started with a scream.

Everyone was running around so fast. Diana grabbed her bow and arrows to start shooting at any walker that came near them. Violet was screaming and crying at the same time as gunshots and beatings were happening. She was clutched around Diana's waist as people were getting eaten.

Diana could hear Amy's yelling as she was being bitten. She was crying at how this all happened so fast and how so many people were dying. She heard Shane's yell for everyone to regroup. Diana carried Violet with one arm and ran all the way up there. She continued to shoot three more walkers.

Suddenly the guys were back. Daryl shot a walker that was right next to Diana. She didn't even see it there. Diana reached the RV along with everyone else. She stopped shooting and fell to the ground holding on to Violet and they both started to cry. Diana looked around and saw Andrea crying over Amy. As more tears kept streaming down her cheeks she looked around more and saw a familiar body that wasn't there when all hell broke loose. Over by some bushes was Vince clutching on to something as he died.

AN: Man that's sucks Vince is dead! And like a lot of other people at the camp... like Amy D: Any way, along with tell me where you got your tomatoes, let me know what you thought? Like when Violet hugged Jim :D or Diana yelling at Ed, moments like that.

Muwah! *kisses* See you later!