Disclaimer: I do not own The Walking Dead, nor the storylines. And of course, I don't make any money out of this (although I really wish I did). I will be following very closely the storylines from the first 4 seasons (with some modifications, of course).

I do, however, own Becca, Ben and Mike.

Chapter ten

After the attack, seconds turned into minutes. Minutes turned into hours. They all had lost track of time.

Lori, Carol and Becca had held Carl, Sophia and Ben for part of night, until Rick had told them to bring them in the RV. Becca had said she would stay in the RV with the kids, and the two other women had left her alone. She had sat down at the table, being able to see the children in bed, as well as everyone else outside. She had seen that only the children had been able to sleep.

She had also seen that Andrea had stayed next to Amy throughout the night, and that one by one, people had come to pay respect to Amy, without a word being said from Andrea.

After Lori relieved Becca from watch, she got out of the RV. She looked around, getting used to the bright sun light.

On her left, she saw Shane and Rick talking; on her right, she saw Daryl putting the axe to one of the walkers head, and Glenn and T-Dog dragging the bodies to a nearby fire. She looked back the her left, this time seeing her dad standing next to Carol and decided to go see them.

As she got to them, Rick and Shane had also joined up with them.

"She still won't move?" Rick asked.

Dale shook his head "Won't even talk to us."

"She's been there all night…" Shane started.

"What do we do?" Dale asked.

"We can't just leave Amy like that. We need to deal with it. Same as the others" Shane stated.

"I'll tell it like it is." Rick said.

"No!" Becca disagreed. "Let me deal with her… I've done this plenty of times already." She started walking towards Amy and Andrea.

"She has to know that Amy needs to be put down." Shane told her. Becca turned around sharply.

"Amy is still human Shane… Not a goddamn animal. I'm sure Andrea will deal with it when the time comes." Becca said to Shane before she turned around and walked towards Andrea.

Once she got next to Andrea, she paused for a few seconds before talking. "Andrea… it's me Becca. Can I join you?"

Becca waited for a few moments before she saw Andrea nod. She then knelt next to the blonde and put a hand of her shoulder.

"I'm sorry you have to go through this" Andrea never spoke up for a few moments.

"Thank you… for defending me. And Amy. It's nice to know someone is still on our side."

Becca nodded " I'm sure they are still on your side." Andrea shot her a look and Becca put her hands up in the air. "Not defending them or anything. They just never dealt with having someone die in front of them."

"And you have?" Andrea questioned.

"Kind of… It's a long story, but being in a field where you deal with people passing away every day, it makes you realise stuff." Becca answered. Andrea nodded.

Becca then hear Glenn scream at Daryl that the geeks went in the fire and the victims were buried. She shook her head when she heard Daryl scream back that this had happened because they had left his brother for dead. A few stray tears fell from Becca's eyes.

After a few minutes, although it has felt like hours, she heard Jacqui scream.

"A walker bit Jim!" Becca looked at Andrea, who hadn't moved an inch and she told her she would be right back.

"Show us!" Daryl yelled at Jim as he held the ice pick. Becca saw that Jim was panicking and he had grabbed a nearby shovel.

"It's ok Jim… we just wanna see" Becca tried to reassure Jim.

T-Dog grabbed Jim from behind, restraining him and in the process making him drop his shovel. Daryl lifted Jim's shirt up, and everyone could easily see the bite mark on his stomach. Everyone moved away from Jim, except Becca, as he muttered over and over again that he was ok.

Becca was now sitting down with Jim on the bumper of the RV, watching everyone talk about what the next move would be.

She had asked him why he hadn't said anything, and he had answered that he didn't want people to worry about him.

Becca eyed Daryl, knowing that he was on edge. She saw him shuffling from one foot to the other, and as soon he moved towards them, she got up.

She put a hand to his chest once he was close enough, and once again, blue met brown. Daryl slowly dropped the ice pick.

"We don't kill the living" Rick stated after he cocked his gun.

Daryl turned around to face the officer." It's funny... coming from a guy who just put a gun to my head."

Everyone left their separate ways, Rick taking Jim to a safe spot, and Becca got back to Andrea, this time kneeling at the head, in case Andrea had to shoot Amy.

Becca pondered a thought in her head for a few minutes before she finally spoke up. "I just want to say… If something happened that you can't do… it, I can do it for you." Andrea lifted her head up, mumbled a thank you and looked once more at Amy.

It was a few minutes before Andrea moved, getting something from her bag. Becca noticed it was nicely wrapped, and the realisation hit her hard.

"It was Amy's birthday?"

Andrea nodded. "Her birthday was always like a week-long affair. I always seemed to miss it. I was away at college, or too busy for kids parties. She'd call, all excited. I always said that I'd make it and I really meant too, but… I never made it past that phone call."

Becca looked at Andrea as she unwrapped the gift, and then spoke " You know, things are already hard enough for you; you don't need to add guilt to that" She looked on as Andrea put the necklace on Amy, and Becca lifted Amy's head to help Andrea out.

After she studied the necklace, she spoke up once more "It's a really pretty necklace; Amy would of loved it."

A certain movement caught her eye in the distance, and she looked up to see Carol bashing Ed's skull with Daryl's ice pick as he was watching her do so. A few seconds after, Daryl locked eyes with Becca.

Becca broke the eye contact as she heard breathing noise coming from Amy. Becca backed up a bit, hoping that Andrea would remember that she was there if the need presented itself.

She noticed Amy's hands twitching, confirming to both women that they hadn't imagined the breathings sounds. Amy's eyes then opened again, revealing the sickly green color and she slowly lifted up her head.

"Amy… Amy, I'm sorry. I'm sorry for not ever being there" Andrea said as Becca saw Amy reach up to try to grab Andrea's hair.

"I always thought there would be more time" she continued as Becca saw Amy grab Andrea's hair and get slightly up off the ground.

Becca shuddered as she heard the distinctive moans and groans coming from Amy. She looked up and saw Shane and Rick starting to walk towards them and she lifted her hand up. She was surprised when they stopped, seemingly understanding that everything was still under control.

"I'm here now Amy… I'm here now" Andrea said as she reached for her gun. "I love you"

Becca shut her eyes as Andrea brought the gun to Amy's temple and jumped a bit when she heard the gun shot.

A few hours later, everybody with the exception of Jim walked up to the hill where Shane and Rick had finished digging the holes that Jim had been working on the day before.

Of course, Daryl stated that he thought it was a mistake that they didn't burn the bodies, but Lori quickly shut him down when she said that everyone needed to mourn the people they had lost.

Everyone helped burying the bodies. Becca and Daryl grabbed the first body and brought it to the first grave. They noticed Ben following them, and both of them realised it was in fact Ben's mother when he put a flower on the corpse. They both looked at each other for a moment before he spoke up.

"Ya got this?" Becca nodded.

After he left, she grabbed a nearby shovel and it was only after a few minutes that she saw Ben helping her out with his little plastic shovel. Becca's heart melted at the sight.

Once they finished, Becca knelt down to talk to Ben. She told him that his mother was a good person, and that the thing that attacked him was not his mother. He cried, hugged Becca and stayed like that until Becca noticed people walking back to camp. She picked Ben up, who refused to let go and walked towards camp again.

They eventually met up with Lori and Rick as Becca heard the latter state: "I need to discuss something with you."

"Come on Carl, you can walk with us" Becca piped in, giving the couple the chance to talk privately. The trio walked off, Becca carrying Ben in her right arm and her left arm wrapped around Carl's shoulders.

A few hours later, after Shane, Rick and Dale had done their sweep, everyone was around the firepit once more. It felt like ages ago that they had been surrounding this, laughing and joking around.

"I've been thinking about Rick's plan. Listen… there are no guarantees either way, I'll be the first one to admit that. I've known this man a long time. I trust his instincts. I think the most important thing is that we need to stay together. That being said, those of you that agree, we will be leaving first thing in the morning.

Let me know what you think!

Tasha