My watch was uneventful, and after staring out a window for four freaking hours, I was relieved by Trina. Her eyes were bloodshot, and I doubt it was just from being woken up at the ass crack of the night.

Back in LA, I would have never asked how Trina would be feeling, simply because I didn't like her or care about her. But now.. Now we had to at least attempt to care about each other, because we were all each other had.

"How are you holding up twi-Trina?"

Trina gave a ghost of a smile. "I'm alive Go-Jade. Thanks for watching out for Tori. She needs it. Now more then ever."

Everyone knew that Trina and Tori loved each other, but did their damndest to hide it. Even now. "Who's watching your back?" I asked.

"Robbie is, he can never take his eyes off of it"

I rolled my eyes at that and exited the room. Trina gave a light chuckle before taking up her vigil. I made my way back to the room that I was sharing with Tori. Along the way, I looked at the walls. They were completely bare, but I could see the faint outlines of where pictures used to hang. There were a lot of those faint outlines.

I think it's one of the worse things about the entire apocalypse. How quickly everything fell apart. One day everything was the same as normal, and the next…. My hand brushed the area where a picture was hanging. I sighed and continued on, wondering what the family thought as they fled this area. I chuckled, imagining the argument that must have raged across the house, as the husband grabbed and packed as much food and clothes as he could, and the wife grabbing all the pictures and the photo albums and trying to pack them.

I was still chuckling as I entered the room. I changed into my usual sleepwear and lay down on the bed. Tori had her back to me, and I brushed the hair from the side of her face and resisted the urge to give her a kiss. The urge was overwhelming, and it didn't help when she rolled over and faced me. Even asleep she looked beautiful. If anything she looked more beautiful as the worries and troubles of this world seemed to fade away to nothing.

I retracted my hand and fell against the pillow. I really need to learn to keep my hands to my self. I stared up at the ceiling, a torrent of thoughts racing through my head. Surviving, my feelings for Tori, the future, it went on. Never seeming to end. Tori snuggled into my side, and rested her head on my chest.

I sighed and closed my eyes. I better get some sleep.

"See anything?"

Tori's whisper seemed as loud as a scream in the silent room.

"How long were you awake?!" I demanded.

"Just now, I woke up when I rolled into you"

I breathed a silent sigh of relief. She hadn't seen me messing with her hair.

"I didn't see anything. These suburbs are as dead as your love life"

Tori frowned at that, and I gave her my trademark smirk. She huffed in irritation and pouted. I couldn't help but laugh. Tori blew a raspberry on my neck. The sudden sound and the feeling of her mouth on my neck had me gasping in lust and laughing from the very odd tickling sensation. It came out as a very odd sound. A sound I didn't want to be heard making again.

I grabbed her shoulders and pushed her over until she was on her back. I jumped up and pinned her down.

"Don't. Do. That. Again." I growled.

Tori just smirked at me. A second later she yawned, and before I could stop myself, I yawned as well.

"We need to get some sleep." I said, and then I dropped down right on top of her, knocking the wind out of her. Woops. That was an accident. Really.

Turned out to be bad move because I became very aware that my breasts were pressed right up against Tori's and from the look on her face, she was very aware of that as well.
"I uh, I should move" I mumbled.

I rolled off of her, and Tori backed into my arms. Without thinking, I wrapped my arms around her and nuzzled into the back of her head. When it dawned on me what I was doing, it was far to late. Tori let out a content sigh, and seemed to be drifting off to sleep. I looked outside, and the darkness seemed to be fading. I thought about what Jane had said earlier. She was right. I let myself relax and I just enjoyed the fact that Tori was right here with me, and we didn't have to fight anyone.

For the first time in seven months, I fell asleep with a smile on my face.

I woke up to an empty bed. It didn't surprise me; even before the apocalypse Tori would sometimes be an early riser. Especially when she didn't have a watch to do in the middle of the goddamn night.

A light tapping on the doorframe got my attention. Tori came in followed by the rest of the Misfits.

I raised an eyebrow. "Holding a meeting in my room now guys?"

Beck chuckled, "We weren't going to originally but no one wanted to wake you up"

I grinned evilly and saw most of them flinch or look away. Nice to know that even now I could still intimidate people.

"Something wrong dear leader?" I asked.

Beck shook his head. "No, everything is…passable for right now."

"Then what's with this big meeting?" I asked somewhat impatiently. What? I didn't like having a crowd of people surround me while I'm in bed.

"We need to figure out what were going to do next. Can't just wander around, we risk losing people and running out of supplies." Trina broke in.

I looked around and saw everyone nodding in agreement about that. I knew that she was right.

"What about what Mike said? That ships were picking people up from places like San Francisco?" I asked.

"Was he even telling the truth, or trying to save his ass?" Andre asked.

"He was telling the truth, or as he knew it" Jane said.

Everyone looked at her, and she started to explain.

"Ships are picking people up from some of the coastal cities, but most of those cities have been over run by now. San Fran might be holding out, but I doubt it. Haven't heard anything from them in a long time"

"I think we should head north, less walkers up there, and probably less psychos up there too," Robbie said.

"And probably less supplies up there as well. Besides, Canada got it just as bad as the rest of America." Tori said with a sigh.

"Wait back up, what about your families?" I demanded.

The mood shifted to an even more depressed feeling. Everyone was silent as they shifted around, trying to figure out who should be the one to explain their sudden change. Eventually, lo and behold, it was Tori who spoke up.

"We- They want to keep looking for their families, but the odds…We cant go head first in SoCal, it's a dead zone. We would only risk" Tori stopped talking for a second, before she inhaled and started again. "We would only risk losing ourselves. Right now, we need to find a base, a home, somewhere we could return to and let us actually live, and that would give us a better chance of finding our-their families, instead of wandering all over the place"

Everyone was silent after Tori's little monologue. It didn't surprise me. To many it would seem like a selfish decision, to save ourselves before we risked everything to find the adults. But it had been over six months since the apocalypse, and we hadn't found anything. Holly had been a goddamn fluke. If I hadn't been shot, we would have driven right past Eden and never would have known she was there. But that didn't change the fact that they were right. If searches were to have any chance of success, we needed a home to return to.

But where to go? That is the real question. None of us could come up with an answer that all of us agreed on, so after a half an hour, I shooed everyone out. I wanted to go back to sleep. I didn't know when I would have the chance to sleep on an actual bed again. Even I didn't fall asleep, just being able to lie down and not hit anything felt wonderful.

The bed dipped a little as Tori sat next to me. She leaned against the headrest and didn't say anything. After several minutes, I forced my eyes open and looked at her, only to see that she had been staring at me.

"That's creepy Vega" I snapped.

"Sorry, but you looked so peaceful while asleep. It just looked nice."

Keeping my face straight was difficult, seeing as her words almost completely echoed my thoughts from a few hours ago.

"I talked to Beck, he said it looks like we might be able to stay here for a couple of days, while we figure out what our next plans are going to be"

I nodded. "Good, then I can enjoy this bed for a bit longer"

Tori chuckled at that, and she leaned back against the wall and started humming. I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But sleep wouldn't come, no matter how I hard I tried or wanted it to. I kept imagining a swarm of corpsers breaking through and devouring me; or falling prey to bandits, or being caught and kept by people like Mike.

I tossed and turned, failing to get comfortable or finding any kind of peace. It wasn't until I felt my hand being enclosed by Tori's that I stilled.

"Don't worry Jade, I'm right here. I'll always be here"

I didn't say anything, just brought my hand over hers and held her hands tightly. Ever so slowly, I was able to relax. I stopped tossing and turning, and after what seemed like forever, I fell asleep, with the warmth of Tori's hands wrapped around mine.

A short little break in between the violence of the zombie apocalypse. And lets here it for rapid fire updates! Don't know when I'll be able to do that again, but I'll try. This semester only has a few weeks left in it anyways.

-C.H.