We drove until night and we slept on the side of the road. We decided to head to Fort Benning. We decided to leave some cars behind, so we could save on gas. We left Daryl's truck, Shane's jeep, and T-Dog's van. Daryl drove on his motorcycle and T-Dog and Shane went into the RV. I let Daryl put his bags in my SUV and T-Dog took the rest of the gas from the cars.

Daryl drove in front, followed by the RV, the SUV, and Carol's old yellow car.

We drove onto the freeway but had to stop because of the cars that were piled up. But we got going again once Daryl found a way through for the RV.

"Charlie, don't look." I told her when I passed by a car that had a body in it.

We had to stop again because the RV's hose blew. I sighed and turned off the car before getting out and helped Charlie out of her seat.

"I said it, didn't I say it? A thousand times, dead in the water." Dale grumbled as we all walked to the front of the RV.

"Problem, Dale?"

"Just a small matter of being stuck in the middle of nowhere with no hope of... okay, that was dumb." Dale replied.

I saw Daryl open the trunk of a car next to the RV and look through the stuff.

"If you can't find a radiator hose here..." Shane started.

"There's a whole bunch of stuff we can find." Daryl replied.

"I can siphon more fuel from these cars for a start." T-Dog said.

"Maybe some water."

"Or food."

"This is a graveyard." Lori said and we all stopped to look at her, "I don't know how I feel about this."

"Come on, y'all. Just look around, gather what you can." Shane told us.

"Riley, I'm tired." Charlie whispered, tugging on my hand.

"All right. Come on." I replied.

I put her back into the car and covered her up so she could sleep and locked the doors before I went to go search for some supplies. I found some things for Charlie, some little girl things like a doll and a few clothes. I went into this big truck and found a pocket knife.

"Sweet." I smiled before grabbing it and tucking it into my pants next to my gun.

After finding a few more things, I set them on the hood of a car by Carl and Sophia.

"Hey, Riley, do you want-"

"Under the cars!"

I turned around and saw Rick, 'Walkers! Get under the cars!"

I grabbed Sophia's arm and we hid under a truck and Carl got under a car a few yards away from us. I put my hand around Sophia's mouth so she would be quiet. I just hope Charlie will stay asleep.

Tons of walkers began to walk by, and Sophia grabbed my other hand. Once it seemed like all of the walkers were gone, Sophia started to get out from under the truck.

"Wait, Sophi-"

She let out a yelp as two walkers saw her and tried to grab her. I moved out from my side of the truck and helped her out. She cried and I grabbed onto her hand and were got over the railing, "Come on!"

The walkers were fast, so once she was over we ran down a hill and into the woods. We kept running until I tripped and fell in a small clearing. When I got back up, someone grabbed me.

"Shhh!" It was Rick.

"Are you all right? Are you okay?" He asked us.

"Shoot them!" Sophia exclaimed.

"No! No!" Rick replied.

"He's right, Sophia. The walkers on the road would hear it. It wouldn't be just two, it'd be hundreds." I told her.

We heard the two walkers coming and Rick picked Sophia up and we began running again. We ran until we found a stream and Rick helped us into the water. There was a stick fort looking thing and Rick had us go inside,

"Hide in there. Squeeze in tight. I'll draw them away from you two." Rick said.

"No, don't leave us." Sophia cried.

"Listen listen listen listen. They don't get winded. I do." Rick responded, "I can only deal with them one at a time. I wouldn't be able to protect you."

"Let me help." I said and he looked at me.

"I can't risk that. Daryl would kill me if you got hurt, and Charlie would have no big sister to look after her." Rick replied and I sighed and grabbed Sophia's hand,

"Come on."

"If I don't make it back, run back to the highway, back to the others straight the way we came. Keep the sun on your left shoulder." Rick told us before we heard the branches snap.

Rick splashed water up at them, "Come on. You ugly son of a bitch. Come on!"

One jumped into the water and they followed Rick up stream. Once they were gone Sophia got out and I followed. I listened to Rick, keeping the sun on my left shoulder. Sophia kept her hand in mine and every little noise she squeezed my hand.

We heard growling off to our left. Oh great. More walkers.

It jumped out at us and Sophia let out a small scream and we ran in the opposite direction. I felt an arm grab onto mine and I let go of Sophia and turned to face another walker.

"Sophia, run!" I yelled as I struggled to keep the walker's mouth away from me.

I heard the walker we were running from coming closer and I reached behind me to grab the pocket knife and I stabbed the walker in the head. It fell on top of me and I laid on the ground as the other walker limped past me. The walker that was on top of me was blocking my scent. I quickly pushed the walker off of me and snuck up behind the other walker. I grabbed the back of its dirty and torn shirt and stabbed him in the back of the head.