A/N: I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I know it's been two weeks. Hey everyone, I got my motivation back for this story and whilst being super busy studying for my degree I'm excited to carry on with this story! And I can't believe y'all came through for me! It super motivated me, I love it! So i know I said every Monday/Tuesday and its the following monday but if you live in London like me you know that it snowed a couple inches and that's a lot for here! So I was busy playing in it...
So the climax of season 3 is here, it will generally be what happened in season 3 in the show. Also I will definitely be doing some chapters or maybe one long chapter between season 3 and season 4 and Maggie and Glenn's wedding is a thing that I will make happen! It'll be great, in that time we will also see Pol training with Hershel and maybe some more interference stopping Rickaris from happening (if you have a better ship name please let me know).
Also who saw the mid-season premiere last week and this week's episode? Props to Chandler for doing his best in the shitty situation (looking at you Gimple).
Thank you to all the support for this story, including the follows and favourites: time-twilight, Luckygirl1013, speedy-skye, Insanity's Haven!, BexOnTheRun, midnightstorm111, beloved of Naruto and Chewbecka! There's so many of you and every time I got an email I was like shit I need to upload. Also to my reviewers welcome back!
Ryane: Fear not! We got a little off track and this story will continue! Aww I'm glad you love this story, I forgot what it felt like writing it. Enjoy!
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One important thing to mention, I want to know your opinions for when you want Rick and Pol to get together, I had plans for it to happen in season 5 because I had a particular scene in mind, but I would like to hear opinions from anyone if they think it should happen sooner. I don't want to completely drag them out for too long but at the same time I literally had the specific scene in mind it would happen. let me know your thoughts.
what would you prefer and why? season 5 or 4?
Disclaimer: I do not own the walking dead, any characters or storyline, only my OC and my storyline.
"Hey Beth." I smiled at the girl holding Judith in her arms as she walked down the stairs.
"Hi Pol." She smiled back.
"How are you?"
"I'm doing good thanks." She smiled sweetly before walking out of C-block, just as I was about to follow her I looked over at the cell next to mine seeing Carl stare at what looked like a photo frame in his hands.
I leaned against the cell door watching him as he put it away inside his bag noticing his room was relatively empty. We were preparing to leave, I didn't want to leave but we had to be prepared. The risk of staying was too high especially with the heavy artillery the governor had, we didn't stand much of a chance.
A few days ago we voted to go but we were still preparing for his possible attack during our escape.
"Carl," I called out to him as he turned to face me.
"Hey," He said his blue eyes looking over to me.
"You all packed?" I walked into the cell seeing the table beside his bed completely clear of any objects.
"Pretty much. Are you?" He shrugged as I sat down on the single bed beside him.
"Yeah." I nodded looking back down at the ground in silence.
"I don't want to leave." Carl said adjusting Rick's hat on his head.
"Me too Carl, it's become, well like a home. Never thought I'd be saying that about a prison." I laughed looking at the grey walls around us.
"Yeah, but it's not just that. I mean I thought we should fight." Carl looked up at me his blue eyes burning.
"I want to fight too. But the smart decision would be to leave if we have to." I patted him on the back before walking around back to my cell. I had my normal backpack and a larger big duffle bag with the few pairs of clothes I owned inside them. It was getting colder definitely, I put a new jacket I had found one of the runs over the t shirt and cargo pants I was wearing, before looking around at the empty room. I put the bags around my shoulder and followed Carl outside C block into where all the cars were parked.
Rick was loading supplies into the car with Michonne holding another crate of food.
"Carl," Rick touched his shoulder but he shrugged him off harshly and walked away.
"He's still mad?" Michonne stood beside me holding the crate as we watched the scene.
"Yeah I nodded sadly." There was a difference of opinion amongst the group along with underlying tension which had been slowly developing. I walked over to my BMW where Rick had the front hood open and was tinkering with it.
"Hey, what's up?" I asked as he looked up at me and stood back up.
"Checkin' everything works. Hey could you start the car for me?" Rick asked as I put the duffle bag down and went to the driver's seat putting the keys in the ignition. The engine roared to life then became silent as I switched it back off and walked on over to Rick.
"How are you holding up?" I asked as he slammed the front back down.
"Carl." Rick said seriously.
"I've never seen him this bad. Even with Lori, he just shut down." Glenn came over shaking his head.
"He's still a kid. That's easy to forget." Rick walked off towards his car as I followed him.
"I know some of y'all don't wanna leave." Rick said to me.
"But it was the majority decision, the smart one." I reassured him.
"I don't know if we'll find another place like this." Rick looked at me before his eyes focused up on the bridge connecting the prison together and he trailed off. I followed his line of sight and turned around to see what he was looking at. But there was nothing there.
"As long as we stick together. We'll survive. That's what matters." I smiled.
"Yeah." Rick said unconvincingly.
"I'm gonna go take another round of the block. Check if we left anything." Rick said after a while.
"I'll come with you." I said as he nodded. We walked in silence side by side back through the prison into C block. We looked inside the cells as he took the upstairs section checking for any left behind weapons, bullets, clothes, food. I looked into my cell and saw a cartridge left there. Placing it inside the pack I made sure my weapons were loaded. Once I checked over all the cells I waited around at the bottom.
"I'm glad you're here." Rick said suddenly looking down at me as he walked down the stairs into view.
"I don't know if I could've done any of this without you." His blue eyes were focused on me.
"Oh sure you could've." I said dismissively.
"Don't underestimate yourself, you're a huge part of this group. Thank you. Especially when Lori died and I lost it. I was seeing things but you were still there, you were still by my side. You're family." Rick finished standing in front of me. I stood shocked but my heart was swooning at his statement genuinely making me feel happy.
"You know, the concept of family was very foreign to me. Before all this. Strange how it took the apocalypse for me to find mine. I never really had anywhere to call home, friends, I never really loved anyone." I looked up into his eyes just on the edge of making an admission to Rick. I liked him a lot. No. I loved him.
Oh. I was in love with Rick. Rick Grimes.
"But now.."
"What?" Rick asked looking intently at me. Come on you coward. Tell him.
"Now-"
"We're ready, there you guys are." Michonne came in as I closed my eyes briefly wanting to hit her for her impeccable timing.
"Yeah okay." I moved back from Rick slightly disappointed as he snapped out of our conversation. Michonne stood beside Rick as I walked a little behind them, half relieved I hadn't said it. Oh my god. Imagine if I told him now? How awkward would that have made things.
"The deal the Governor offered, you had to think about it." Michonne nodded looking at him in understanding.
"I get it." She said gently.
"Yeah, well I'm sorry. I came real close." He said admittedly.
"But you didn't." Michonne looked at him smiling slightly as we walked slowly out of the cell block.
"Someone changed my mind. I'm glad they did." Rick turned around to look at me making my heart flutter.
"Me too." Michonne turned around as I grinned at her.
"I never thanked you. For taking me in, getting me out there that day." Michonne said to Rick.
"Well if you didn't have that baby formula, I wouldn't have." Rick joked.
"You could have just taken the formula." Michonne deadpanned.
"Well, must have been something else then." Rick glanced at me again smiling slightly this time.
"You're one of us. You belong here." Rick said to Michonne who smiled and walked off.
"Nice speech Grimes." I nudged him.
"What were you going to say, before?" Rick asked.
"What? What do you mean?"
"Before Michonne interrupted. You were talking about family, you were talking about home and love." Rick said with the last word settling on me.
"Love." I repeated not knowing how to get out of the situation. Should I just tell him?
"I was just going to say-"
But before I could finish I was interrupted by a large explosion sound coming from outside. We gave one look to each other and ran outside weapons at the ready. The outside guard tower was destroyed and rapid gunfire.
"It can't be." I shouted at Rick as we ran through the block trying to reach the courtyard.
"It is." Rick growled.
"Looks like they came a little earlier than planned." I said uneasily as we reached the courtyard.
"You guys ready?" Rick asked Michonne, Maggie, Beth, Hershel and Glenn who had their rifles and guns out and just finished loading up the cars.
"Hershel, you know what to do." Rick nodded to him as he took Carl and Beth with him along with Judith through the tunnels out the backside of the prison and into the woods to temporarily hide there.
"Alright let's get into position." Rick said to the rest of us who were left behind.
Glenn and Maggie were wearing the armed police uniform with the rifles as Rick and I watched them shoot automatic fire into the crowd of Woodbury people who began fleeing.
We parked some of the cars outside into the woods ready for our escape if we had to leave what was our home. By now the Governor and his main men were trawling through C block trying to find us but we planned ahead. This time we were going to be ready for them.
There were more of them than there were of us so we were outnumbered, outgunned. But we had home court advantage. The gunfire went on for a while and suddenly we could hear footsteps coming up the stairs. Rick turned to me putting a finger to his lips as he stepped forwards with his rifle up looking over the stairs.
I pulled out my gun and held my finger on the trigger. More rapid footsteps could be heard running up the stairs.
"Get out of here!" Rick shouted shooting his rifle bullets down onto the stairs to prevent anyone from coming up. Whoever it was worked because we could hear the retreating footsteps.
"It's too quiet on this side Rick." I whispered to him not knowing if anyone else was up here listening.
"Let me go check the west side again, see if anyone snuck in through the tunnels." I said as he thought to himself for a minute.
"Okay. Be careful." He said lowly.
I nodded and walked across the dark corridor switching my colt for the rifle checking around the rooms for any movement. I reached the west side of the prison building which was half burnt down. Looking around there were no snipers, no men from the Governor.
I stayed there for a few minutes just in case when a few armed men came into view trying to find a way into the tunnels. I picked up the rifle and shot near their feet immediately making them point their weapons up in the air and shoot towards me. I ducked down quickly covering my head from the fire when they stopped.
"We don't wanna hurt ya! We just do what he tells us to." One of the men shouted up.
"Whoever ya are, please don't shoot." the other man spoke.
"I'm warning you, step back." I called from my low position to the ground I peaked my head around just to check and sure enough the men were moving closer to where the tunnels are.
"Look take it easy darlin' and nobody will get hurt." Another man drawled out.
"Okay I warned you." I said before shooting the rifle in their general direction causing them to run back and into the woods. I stayed there for a longer time to make sure nobody else was smart enough to sneak in.
Sufficient it was clear I creeped back down the corridor and over to where Rick was shooting into the courtyard. He stopped when he noticed I came back.
"What happened? Heard a lot of gunfire." Rick asked.
"Some guys thinking they were smart enough to sneak in through the tunnels. I took care of it." I reassured him as he nodded. I set my rifle up next to his as we watched the courtyard, there were still gunfire coming from other areas of the prison. But then we heard and saw the cars revving out of the courtyard and it was suddenly silent.
"It worked?" I whispered to Rick from our place towards the roof of the building.
"Looks like it." the corners of his mouth lifted as we leaned forward from our hiding place seeing the courtyard clear with just a few cars parked. We went down the stairs which were smoky from all the gunfire into C block and saw it remained intact.
Michonne, Daryl, Glenn, Maggie and Carol came out to the courtyard, all of us out of breath and exhausted letting out sighs of relief.
"We did it. We drove them out." Rick said triumphantly looking over the fields and the destroyed guard towers.
"We should go after them." Michonne said holding her sword.
"We should finish it." Daryl nodded agreeing with her.
"It is finished didn't you see 'em hightail it outta here?" Maggie asked incredulously.
"They could regroup." Michonne reasoned.
"Yeah we can't take the chance he's not gonna stop." Glenn argued.
"They're right. We can't keep living like this." Carol sighed.
"We can't take the fight back to Woodbury, we barely made it back last time." Maggie said anxiously.
"Yeah," Rick trailed off looking into the distance.
"Let's check on the others." We followed him into the prison when out came Beth with Judith along with Carl and Hershel.
"Carl," I jogged over to him and gave him a tight hug which he returned.
"Hey Hershel." I smiled at the man who walked in on crutches as he smiled back.
Judith was making sounds in Beth's arms as I bent down and kissed her on the forehead.
"You good?" I put my hand on Beth's shoulder who smiled at me.
"Carl," Rick pulled him in for a hug but he just remained stiff. Okay so he was still pissed with him.
"Dad, I'm coming to Woodbury." Carl said firmly as Rick placed a hand on his forehead.
"Carl," Rick stood back up sighing.
"I-I did my job out there, just like all of you. Took out one of the Governor's soldiers." My eyes shot up in surprise as I looked at Carl and was slightly concerned when I saw no remorse in the kid's eyes.
"Soldiers? That was a kid who stumbled across on us." Hershel clarified as I shot Carl a worried look.
"I'm sorry you had to do that." Rick looked down at Carl.
"That's what I'm there for. I'm going with you." Carl said before walking off.
"Rick he can't. He shouldn't." I walked over to him where he was standing beside Hershel.
"The kid was handing his gun over, it wasn't in defence." Hershel said lowly as I gulped taking in what he was saying.
"Maybe it looked like that to you but-" Rick started.
"Rick." Hershel said more forcefully.
"He gunned the kid down."
"Both of you, Carl's been through a lot at such a young age. Those experiences, they change you." I looked between Rick and Hershel who gave me their undivided attention.
"He's had to grow up so fast and now he thinks he needs to do this. Rick you gotta remind him he's still a kid and that he doesn't need to, no matter how much he tries to oppose it." Rick's blue eyes flashed in mine as he nodded slowly.
We gathered our weapons and began loading up the cars ready to move out to Woodbury, we were going to take the fight to them. We had the advantage as they had no idea we were coming yet. Daryl had his motorbike ready as I drove my BMW up to the front gate, Glenn loaded the supplies and weapons into my car.
"Glenn, haven't had much of a chance to talk to you lately. I'm sorry about that, how are you?" I looked at the man who was loading boxes into the trunk.
"Hey Pol, nah its alright. I'm okay, I'm happy. I know it's weird to think that, considering what's going on but I've got the person I love." Glenn looked back at Maggie who was helping Michonne load the jeep with machine guns and bullets.
"I'm so happy for you both." I smiled at him.
"It's weird, my family they lived in Maine and I moved out when I was about 18. I was never all that close with them so when the outbreak happened I just assumed they died." Glenn began looking at me.
"I've got more of a family now than I ever did, especially working as a delivery boy." Glenn shrugged.
"I bet you were one hell of a delivery boy." I nudged him.
"The best." He smiled.
"I know what you mean. All of you are my family, I'm glad I found you. Even at the end of the world." I said sincerely as he placed a hand on my shoulder before going towards Maggie.
Carl was sitting alone on the table looking down at the ground. I wanted to go talk to him but this was something he needed to hear from his father. Rick walked past me and towards Carl as they spoke in hushed conversation. I watched them as Carl said something and walked away leaving Rick bent down looking at the ground.
"Rick, we're staying. We don't know where the Governor is but if he comes back, we'll hold him off." Glenn stated referring to himself and Maggie.
"Just the four of us goin' then? Alright." Daryl nodded picking up his machine gun.
"Take care y'all," Daryl looked at Beth, Hershel, Carl, Carol, Glenn and Maggie who were staying behind to defend the prison.
We took my car as it was the fastest as Rick drove I decided to stay in the passenger seat with Michonne in the back, Daryl's motorbike was just speeding ahead leading us out of the prison.
"Y'all know the plan?" Rick looked at me and Michonne as we nodded.
"Yeah it'll be fine." I said dismissively but there was an undeniable tension in the air as we drove down the highway. Daryl signalled us as both the car and motorbike slowed down. We got out of the car as I placed a hand over my mouth in shock. The road was littered with half eaten dead bodies and walkers eating those people. There were a few trucks but no signs of life.
"This is horrific." I said pulling out my machete and putting the poor bastards out of their misery.
"But these are the Governor's own people. He wouldn't do this to his own?" I asked around as Michonne took care of the other walkers.
"Oh I think he would." Rick said angrily. There was a thud in the window of one of the army trucks as we looked up seeing a woman in there. Alive.
Rick immediately pulled out his gun and pointed it towards her. Daryl opened the truck and helped her out as Rick lowered his gun. I recognised her, she was one of the residents of Woodbury, one of the Governor's people. This had to be a trap. A trick definitely.
"What happened? Where is he?" Michonne asked her katana by her side.
"H-he he just- he just-" She was shaking and could barely get her words out, she was genuinely scared. I lowered my machete as Rick and Daryl lowered their own weapons.
"It's alright." I said gently as her eyes shot in my direction. The words we won't hurt you stayed in my mind, because there was no telling what was going to happen.
"Tell us." Rick said firmly.
"He started shooting, he killed everyone, I don't know why but he just shot everyone without a second glance. I'm sorry, I didn't know what he was like. He's a monster." The woman said anxiously.
I pulled Rick to one side as Daryl followed whilst Michonne kept an eye on her.
"Do we believe her?" Daryl asked looking between us.
"I think I believe her, how else would we explain this massacre. I don't think it's a trap, the Governor is fully capable of a monstrosity like this." I said spitting out my hatred for the man.
"I don't know if we can trust her, but she seems to be telling the truth. We'll take her with us." Rick said decidedly.
By the time we arrived at Woodbury, we had the cover of darkness and we took the woman known as Karen with us. She was trustworthy and she was helping us find a sneakier route in. We snuck past the gazebo and up to the gate with our weapons drawn.
Suddenly there was gunfire as I ducked down to the ground, scraping my hand against the tarmac making me wince. We fired back at the gate as we all hid behind the old rusty cars.
"Tyrese! It's me don't-" Karen shouted.
"Get down!" Rick shouted pulling her to the ground.
Tyrese? I know that name, they came to the prison. Asking us for help, and we turned them away because we thought we couldn't trust them. Now look, they're shooting at us.
"Karen! Karen are you okay?" A gruff deep voice shouted back as the gunfire ceased.
"I'm fine!" She stood up and wrestled out of Rick's grasp with her arms raised in surrender.
"No wait." I tugged on Rick's shoulder who was about to pull her back down. He turned to look at me affronted.
"They trust her, just wait." I said noticing how his face was only a couple of inches away from mine as his blue eyes were locked in mine. The moment passed and the intense gaze was gone as he snapped his head back to Karen.
"Where's the Governor?" The man who must've been Tyrese asked.
"He fired on everyone! He killed them all." Karen said her voice wavering.
"Why are you with them?" Tyrese shouted aggressively.
"They saved me!" Karen said.
"We're coming out! We're coming out." Rick shouted as we all lowered our weapons and moved towards the gate with our hands up.
"Tyrese, Sasha." I nodded to the siblings who walked out through the gate with their weapons also lowered.
"Why are you here?" Tyrese asked.
"We were coming to finish this, until we saw what the Governor did." Rick said.
"He-he killed them?" Tyrese asked in disbelief as Rick nodded slowly looking down.
"Karen told us Andrea hopped the wall, going for the prison. She never made it. She might be here." Rick said looking around at them. I looked down at the ground, feeling ashamed that I never considered if Andrea was okay, she was staying with a dangerous man.
"Alright, come in." Tyrese said as we followed them through the gate down the roads of the town which seemed completely empty.
"What-what is it?" Michonne asked noticing my ashamed expression.
"Andrea, we never even considered if she was okay." I said sadly.
"You can't blame yourself Pol, she's a grown woman who made her own decisions. We'll find her." Michonne nodded to me walking beside Daryl.
"I hope so." I muttered.
"There's nothing more you could've done." Rick said watching me.
"Yes there is." I nodded closing my eyes.
"We could've let her stay with us." I said walking forward.
"You can blame me for that." Rick said gulping.
"We're both to blame." I said looking back at him.
"I think I know where Andrea might be." Daryl said from in front of us. He led us over to a building which looked all too familiar. We walked inside and the same old, bloody brown walls with long twisting corridors stood before us.
"This is where he held Glenn an' Maggie." Daryl commented as Sasha and Tyrese walked beside him.
"The Governor held people here?" Tyrese asked in shock.
"Did more than hold 'em." Daryl replied. We had our guns out as we walked into a dark room and came out to a corrugated metal door. On the ground there was a scarlet pool of blood seeping through.
I inhaled sharply and pulled out my machete looking worriedly at the door. I looked at Michonne who had her katana and the same forlorn expression in her eyes.
"Will you open it?" She said with a shaky voice to Rick. I think we knew. We knew what was coming. Why would we think we could catch a break with anyone, we've already lost so much family.
Rick pulled the door open as Daryl held his crossbow out and there was a dead Walker lying on the floor in the centre of the room. Just behind the door there were feet laying across the floor.
"Andrea!" Michonne exclaimed dropping the katana as we both ran towards her unconscious body leaning against the wall. She was alive. God she was alive.
"Andrea." I whimpered holding her up with one arm as she gave me a weak smile.
"I tried to stop him." She said weakly with blood on her forehead. I used my jacket to wipe some of the blood off her face but she pushed my hands off.
"You're burnin' up." Michonne said looking at Andrea who was pale and sweating profusely, Rick leaned down in front of her. Andrea pulled back the shirt on her right shoulder where there was a large bite mark which had blood spewing from it. I moved back slightly as my eyes welled up with tears. Rick looked down placing a hand on his forehead before focusing on Andrea again.
"Judith, Carl. The rest of them." Andrea looked at Rick.
"Us. The rest of us." Rick said, his voice thick with emotion. Michonne was silently crying on her other side as I couldn't bring myself to look at Andrea in the face. Too much guilt, if I had just told her to come with us, stay with us, she wouldn't be dying.
"Are they alive?" She asked Rick as I looked down at the concrete ground tears clouding my vision, I settled for holding her hand.
"Yeah, they're alive." He inched closer to her as she smiled.
"It's good you found them." she smiled at Michonne who choked back tears.
"No one can make it alone now." Andrea looked up at Daryl who had a look of grief on his face.
"I never could." He replied solemnly.
"I just didn't want anyone to die." Andrea looked at Rick.
"And you." I didn't have to look up to know she was looking at me.
"Pol."
"Polaris." She said my full name as I began wiping my tears away from my face furiously.
"Yeah," I whispered not being able to speak.
"Stop it." She said forcefully.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sor-" I couldn't finish the sentence, my heart was overwhelmed, I was losing more of my family.
"Stop blaming yourself. This wasn't on you." She squeezed my hand.
"It wasn't on any of you." She looked at the others.
"I can do it myself. I have to. While I still can." Andrea said as Michonne nodded breaking out in tears again.
"Please. I know how the safety works." She smiled at Rick as a look of understanding passed between them. Rick placed the gun in her hand.
"Well I'm not going anywhere." Michonne managed a weak smile.
"Neither am I." I said firmly as Andrea looked back at me.
"I tried." Andrea said looking at all of us.
"You did, you did." Rick said shakily placing a hand on her shoulder before Rick and Daryl closed the door leaving the three of us together.
Michonne had one hand behind Andrea's neck stroking her hair as I sat up against the wall on Andrea's other side.
"You two are my best friends. I love you both." Andrea said looking at both of us as we had tears down our cheeks.
"We love you too." I choked out in sobs.
"I think it's time." Andrea said as I moved to lean in front of her. She held the gun up to her head closing her eyes.
"We're here, we're here for you." Michonne said placing a hand on her knee.
Seconds went by and felt like a lifetime. I closed my eyes then suddenly, the sound of the gunshot rang out loud and clear, by the time I opened them, Andrea was lying lifeless on the floor, a hole in her head as me and Michonne stayed there mourning for our dead friend.
The entire ride back to the prison in the jeep, I didn't say a word. Michonne stared out of the window, Rick silently drove and I put my headphones in my ears, lost in my own bubble. The Governor had escaped, he was nowhere to be found. Good riddance. The rest of Woodbury, we brought back with us in buses and trucks. More people to survive with, more people to take in.
I looked out the window as the gates to the prison opened with Glenn and Maggie, the beautiful sunrise poured in lighting up the sky in a streak of colours.
The rest of our family came out of the prison and the members of our new family we helped out of the bus.
"What is this?" Carl asked Rick as more people came out.
"They're gonna join us." Rick said as Carl ran away. Hershel, welcomed the stream of new people inside the prison block.
No one said it was going to be easy. We were going to lose more people along the way, we've lost friends, family, people near and dear to us. But we had to stick together, we were going to build our community.
I watched as Rick looked up towards the bridge connecting both parts of the prison and into the sun.
"You see something?" I asked as he looked back down and turned to face me.
"Not anymore." He smiled slightly. I wrapped my arm around his bicep as he looked at me in surprise.
We walked together as I looked back into the sunrise.
It was a new day.
- Angels and Douchebags.
A/N: What did you guys think? Let me know about the relationship thing, so I can plan out how to do it. Also I'm so sad for Andrea's death, I hope I did that scene justice between the three of them and even though she was in Woodbury, I wanted to show that they were still close and circumstances got in the way of that so I wanted to resolve that.
A side note, the next couple of chapters will be between season 3 and season 4 because Glenn and Maggie's wedding! Also Pol training with Hershel to learn some medical ish. So stay tuned! Hopefully I will upload next week, I will do my best!