Since I'm on a role I thought it would be fun to update faster then normal. Enjoy

Disclaimer- I do not own anything Walking Dead related. I just like to play with the characters and see where things go.

Summary- Judith Grimes also known as the lil' Ass Kicker is 18 and all grown up. She is on her own in the world of walkers and bad people having gotten separated from her older brother Carl a few years prior. With her family gone can she make it in this world. Will a chance meeting with a surely 16 year old change everything. Follow Judy as she makes her mark on the world gone to hell.

Flashback

"Daddy?" I asked as I pulled my legs up under me on the dining room chair. "Do you think I'm pretty?"

"Of course Judy, why would you think otherwise?" My dad Rick Grimes said sitting on the chair next to me. My homework was spread out on the table in front of me forgotten.

"Some of the other kids at school were making fun of me today." I said sadly, he grabbed my hand in his larger one and squeezed gently. "They said I needed a mom to help make me pretty everyday and since I don't have one I can't be."

"Those other kids are wrong sweetie, you are the most pretty girl in the whole world. You look just like your mom did."

"Was she pretty?"

"The most beautiful woman I ever knew." He replied. I smiled a big toothy grin at my dad as he sat remembering my mom, a woman I never knew. "Now why don't we get to work on some of this homework huh."

"Okay daddy." I giggled pulling the word problems closer to me on the table. Carl came in then and sat on the sofa with Enid, this girl he met when he first got here. I think they are in love like Auntie Maggie and Uncle Glenn.

End Flashback

"RUN." Daryl barked as the walkers emerged on the cabin, the back door was flung open as everyone tried to get out of the small building. Jack grabbed my hand as we ran through the opening and out into the woods. No stopping and no looking back. We ran and ran as the darkness of night finally began to turn into light.

"Jack, we need to stop." I was breathless and my legs were aching. "We have been running for a long time now, we need to regroup."

"It's just us again." He stated looking around for signs of anyone else. I slumped to the ground in defeat as a fate worse than death came back to me. "You ain't alone Judy, I won't leave ya." He said sitting next to me in the cold moist dirt, his arm draped around my shoulder.

"We just found them Jack. We just found them and now they are gone again." I cried. "What if we can't find them again Jack, what if..."

"Then we survive on our own. We had been doing it before we found them and we can do it again." He said sternly pulling me in close to his side. "But for now we gotta keep moving." He finished pulling me to my feet and directing me west.

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"This will have to do for the night." He said opening the door to a large mansion in what was once a fancy community.

"Oh yeah it'll do. God I hope they have a change of clothes." I muttered. After clearing the house we began our search for anything we could use and came up empty. We met back in the grand living room with its torn up sofa's and big marble fire place. "I bet this place was amazing before the turn."

"I bet this place was expensive."

"Like these boots I found a few years ago." I chuckled. "I had found this old Apartment that was untouched by this world, these were in the closet and I'm amazed they are still in okay condition. I mean the tag thing said they were over 200 bucks."

"People spent money like that on shoes?"

"I guess, I bet your mom did at some point in her life. I mean from what Maggie said cowboy boots were not cheap."

"She never talked about stuff like that."

"Do you think she is still mad at Maggie?" I asked him changing the subject. He sat down on the floor and leaned back against the once upon a time fancy sofa.

"You weren't there when my mom saw those signs for the first time. It was like her heart broke. The blood was nearly all washed off but you could tell what they said. 'Glenn go to terminus. Maggie.' And my dad had to hold her up for a good two hours as she stared at the words looking for any sign that her name was ever there."

"How old were you?"

"Three. We hadn't left the house we had been in until then. At that point we needed to find some place new and when we came across the signs my mom wanted to leave Georgia and her past behind. We never did though."

"Did you end up going to Terminus?" I asked him.

"Nah, mom refused thinking Maggie would be there and well my dad does whatever she wants basically, but oh god don't tell anyone I told you that."

"His secret is safe with me." I laughed. We stayed quiet for a while just enjoying each other's company, our hands laced together between us. "What are something's that interest you?"

"Dunno' hunting."

"Anything else?" I probed him, this is how I imagined everyone else felt about Daryl back in the day when trying to get information out of him.

"Tracking, and um I like bird watching."

"All things to do with animals and being outside."

"Yeah, it's a family thing I think." He replied. "What about you?"

"I like reading old novels, I mean now a day's every novel is old but I really like the ancient ones. My teacher had my class read Jane Eyre just before our town fell and other then the French parts that I couldn't understand, it was a great book. And I love collecting things like rocks. My old bedroom had this giant rock collection."

"So back before we were born people like Maggie would have called you a nerd. I think is what my mom said years ago?"

"Yeah and she has called me a nerd many times."

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We stayed camped out at the old mansion for about a week, we found an old map and tried to map out where the others would go if separated but we had no luck. The forest around us felt like a safe haven away from the walkers and un friendly people of the world. The green was comforting and the sounds of the woodland creatures and birds above made it seem like more of a paradise then it actually is. "Human." He said holding his hand up before dropping down into a crouch to inspect the tracks he found. "Come on." He instructed as we moved quickly through the woods following the footprints.

"What are you seeing?"

"Female, size 6 or 7. walks light, she is trying not to leave a trace."

"But you found it?"

"My dad trained me, he can find anything. Most likely this is my mom."

A loud piercing scream echoed through the woods causing our heads to snap up in the direction it came from...

Let me know what you think. I know this one is a little on the short side but it is going somewhere I promise. Next chapter is going to be from Beth's POV so we can see what happened to the others when the cabin fell.