DON'T KILL ME! I was rather torn writing this chapter… I had a few paths to choose from and they're all just begging for me…

Everything happened so fast, Harry barely had time to react when Sophia slipped out completely from his view, then a decomposed head appeared at the bottom of the car.

'Bloody hell!' He snarled and scrabbled out on the other side. Bad move. There he met two other walkers, who immediately started lumbering at Harry. On top of that, Harry had no idea where Sophia had went. 'Fuck my life.' he growled, then took off, leaping over the siderail and into the woods.

He tried to not dwell on the fact that every woods he had entered in his life had promised nothing good.

He scampered across the ravine, his eyes scouring for the blonde girl, with her luminous eyes and ever so pointing chin (A/N: This is my opinion of TV show Sophia. Way too mature face for a kid.)

Growls rang through the air, the walkers lumbering through the woods. The silent woods. There were no birds fluttering away in alarm, no critters running amok on the soil, no little rodents squeeing their fear. The last time Harry entered a wood like this one, he almost got killed. Narrowly escaping to have Mulciber and Dolohov trying to portkey him to some mysterious place and instead-

He got distracted. 'Gah!' he cried as suddenly a walker emerged from nowhere. Its nails narrowly missed his face.

Sprinting off another path, Harry didn't dare think of other stuff again, instead to keep his eyes peeled for walkers. He only hoped Rick was looking for them.

He could faintly hear the growls of the walkers on his trail, crashing across the greenery.

'Shit!' He snarled, veering off as another walker emerged. He had no weapons, he had no way to tell the group where he was, he had no idea where Sophia was- hell, he didn't know what he was doing. He knew he had to find some way to kill those walkers behind him, or they would just draw more walkers.

Then the worst thing happened. He tripped. More walkers emerged from the undergrowth, closing in on the sprawled boy on the ground. Ju- just something! Harry reached blindly for anything, for everything, just to defend himself. Just anything.

His hands brushed his pants leg.

Yer a wizard, Harry.

'Indencio!' He shouted, whipping Draco's wand out. A burst of flame spewed out, instantly latching onto two of the walkers, devouring them hungrily. The flames weren't as strong as his old wand, but this wand accepted him enough, or maybe knew its master was dead, to be wielded by himself.

A blasting curse took care of the nearest walker, but its rotten blood sprayed over Harry.

With his reacquaintance with magic, walker corpses lay beside him, his whole shirt covered with the muck. He quickly scrambled to his feet, the wand in his death grip.

Panting heavily, he took in his surroundings carefully. There didn't seem to be anymore walkers around, but he still had to find Sophia. Where was she?

Hefting up his wand, the familiar words slipped instinctively out of his lips. 'Point me Sophia.'

The wand trembled under his hands as he followed the magical trail. He hoped that he could reach the blonde girl in time.

He found her hiding under the riverbank, safely secluded from walkers.

'Draco!' She whimpered. She reached for him, clutching her doll possessively with one hand. 'Rickand shanecamealongandhetoldmetoh idehereandthentorunupbacktot h-'

'Hush,' Harry interrupted, 'Calm down. Rick found you?'

Sophia nodded, biting her lip as she followed Harry out onto the banks of the river. 'And Shane. They were going to lead the walkers away and told me to go back after some time.'

'Let's go, shall we?'

Sophia grasped his hand tightly as they started back, Harry peeling his eyes for danger.

'Draco?' Sophia suddenly asked, 'You're holding a stick.'

Harry nodded. 'Sophia, this is a secret between you and me, okay?'

'What secret?' She asked incredulously.

A wild walker suddenly emerged from the trees.

Raising his wand, Harry fired off a blasting curse, the bones and rotten flesh immediately plastered on the trees.

He looked back at the awestruck Sophia. 'You alright?' He asked. Children were often more accepting to the existence of magic.

'That- you-' She shrieked once, than quickly clamped her hands over her mouth. 'You-'

'A secret, alright?' Harry asked again. Sophia nodded her head rapidly. Harry smiled slightly. 'Come on, let's get back to the RV.'

The thing was, when they got back to the road, the RV was gone.

The thing is, I know, this is like super duper short BUT I NEE YOU GUYS TO DECIDE FOR ME

1. A. Kill off Shane now and forget the epic showdown scene between Rick and Shane (and Carl)

B. Nooooo let's build the climax up!

2. A. Harry goes directly to Hershel's.

B. Harry rejoins the group first.

Decide on these two questions! Please!