"Dr. Walsh," I turned when I heard someone calling my name. I was back in the ER. But it felt wrong. What the hell was even happening? I stood, feeling completely frozen, amongst the rest of the team. I couldn't move to see who was even there. I really had no idea what was going on. And that wasn't like me at all.

All at once, hell broke loose onto the medical ward. There were walkers everywhere. But I was still frozen. I couldn't move. My feet were glued to the floor—or so it felt. Fuck. I was dead. I was going to die. There was a walker inches from me and I still couldn't move to fight it off.

Seconds later, someone lifted me from the floor and moved into a hospital room. He locked the door and I would recognise that wavy black hair anywhere. His presence brought a smile to my face.

"Hey," I greeted. His dark brown eyes met mine and I saw a smile fall onto his familiar features.

"Sadie," he said. He messed up my hair and the hospital room seemed to fade away. I couldn't exactly put my finger on where we were, or what was going on, but I was strangely okay with all of it. I didn't feel like I was in danger. My big brother was here. Despite everything, I still loved him. Despite everything, I still felt safe with him being here.

"Shane, what's going on?" I didn't feel angry, or any sort of negative emotion. I felt very peaceful, even though I felt like I probably shouldn't.

"We don't have much time, Sadie," he said. "It boils down to the fact that you've got a choice."

"A choice?" I rose my eyebrow.

"You ain't doin' so hot right now, a'right? And now you've got a choice. You can either keep fightin' it an' everythin' will go back to how it was. The prison, the virus...everythin'. Or ya can stay up here."

"Up here?" I asked.

"Yeah. Up here. You can be with me again, baby sis."

"And leave Carl and Judith. And Daryl and Rick? I can't do that, Shane. Are you telling me that I can choose whether or not to die?"

"Yes. If you go now, it'll be easy. But if you go back there, you've got nothin' but a whole lotta hell ahead of ya, just to end up back here again."

"I've already been through hell."

"Sadie, I'm tellin' ya now, what lies ahead, it's ten times as bad as what you've already gone through. I don' kno' if ya wanna do it."
"Shane, I do. Trust me. I need to go back. I need to go back to them. Carl and Judith need some kind of mom. Daryl needs somebody. Rick needs me too...They need me. Let me go back."

"Okay, but don' say I didn't warn ya. Ya ain't gonna like what happens to you real soon."

"Fine."

XxX

I opened my eyes to see three sets of blue orbs nearby. I sat up slowly, smiling at the three of them. Carl was the first to move. He ran over and hugged me.

"You're okay," he stated.

"Yeah, I'm okay," I said weakly.

"I thought you were going to die..." he cried, as I hugged him.

"Nah, it takes a lot more than a cold to take me out," I looked up at Daryl, who was waiting across the room. "Come here, Daryl, I'm fine," that was all he needed to come over beside me.

"Ya passed out in th' car," he said. "We had ta break th' windows to get in..."

"Shit, that's right. Everyone else is okay, right?"

"They're fine," Rick said. He moved beside me.

"Good..." Daryl did what I didn't expect him to. He kissed me. Right there in front of everyone else. "I love you guys. All of you. Carl. Daryl. Rick. I'm glad that I'm okay...and I'm glad that you're here..."

"I love you too, Sadie," Carl said and both men nodded. I gripped Daryl's hand and I felt okay. I could tell that he was relaxed now. But still kind of uneasy.

"I'm fine," I told him, smiling and giving him a quick kiss again. I felt Rick mess up my hair and I looked up at him. Everything from that dream popped in my head again. I had a tough road ahead of me. Whatever that meant. But if it meant that I could spend a little more time with these three—and Judith, then fucking bring it on.

AN: I'm sorry it's been so long since I've updated. I've been hella busy and low on ideas. I got help with this chapter too from elizarocks9902. So thank you, again. And anyway, everyone please leave your reviews. Hopefully I can get another chapter out soon. But we'll just have to see how the weeks goes. I've got a lot going on right now...I'm sorry. Also, I'm really sorry that it's hella short. I couldn't think of anything else to add. That made sense, anyway.