It's been a day since Rick had let Katherine out if her cell, and in that time, he had cut the rope off her wrists, he seems to trust her more, but he is still very cautious. He has been glancing at her to make sure everything is okay. She feels like a child and that her parent is making sure she doesn't get into any mischief.
She hasn't talked to anyone and no one has talked to her much, which she is grateful for. Daryl came back last night, she had noted the look on his face and she had realised why. She didn't see anyone with him, so that only confirms what she was thinking. Rick had asked where Merle was and all Daryl did was shake his head and looked down at the ground, confirming that his brother didn't make it.
Rick went to put a hand on his shoulder but Daryl shrugged it off before he went walking towards the door that would lead to outside. She guessed that he needed to be alone for a while. But before he walked out the door, his head turned towards her before he quickly looked away and left the room.
Today was the day that they would set their plan into motion, they were predicting that the governor was gonna come and attack today and they were going to trick him into thinking they had left and were to try scare them away. So here was everyone gathering up all their stuff up and load them in the cars. To get their plan to work they needed to make them think they had packed up and left so that is what they were doing.
She saw Carl in one of the cells, shoving his things into his backpack. The last thing he had to put into the bag was a picture which he was looking at. She walked into the cell until she was standing just beside him from where he was sitting on the bed. It was a photo of him, with Rick and another woman that she hasn't seen.
"is that your mother?" she asks him. He just nods his head. So, she goes on. "she was beautiful" she tells him.
She wants to believe that she was just being nice to him now because of the way she spoke to him yesterday. But that wasn't the case. Because why should she care about the way she spoke to him anyway?
"thanks" he pauses for a minute "I had to shoot her" he tells her. This takes her by surprise. "wait, what?" she asks him.
"she died while giving birth to my baby sister, and I had to shoot her so she wouldn't come back, I took this photo so she would know what her mother looked like" he says.
Katherine nods "that's a good idea" she says. This made her a bit upset because no Kid should have to do this. He shoves the picture into his bag and walks out of the cell with it.
She follows him until she sees the woman, who she now knew as Carol, stuffing bags with the tins of food that they had, along with other important stuff. She was a bit bored, so she thought she would help out. She is not doing it out of the kindness of her heart or anything, right? No, she was just bored. That's what she was trying to convince herself.
"need any help? I could start taking these bags out to the car, if you want" Carol has a surprised look on her face before she gives her a small smile. "yes, thanks that would be great" Carol says before Katherine starts picking up the bags.
She's outside, stacking the bags in the car with the girl, Beth. She starts walking towards Rick, when she sees Carl walking towards the car with more bags.
"Carl" Rick says, grabbing his arm trying to get his attention. Carl just shakes his arm off as he keeps walking.
Rick walks over to the other Car and keeps on working on it as he turns to Katherine. "where were you just now?" he asks her. "I was inside, helping with the bags" she answers him.
"I thought I told you to stay in eye sight, and you're not exactly part of the group, so why don't you just sit down and let everyone else handle it" he tells her.
Katherine scoffs and sits down against the wall, with her knees pulled up to her chest. She watches as Glenn comes over as he keeps glancing at Carl.
"I've never seen him this mad, even with Lori, just, shut down" he tells Rick. Rick nods as he looks at Carl then back to Glenn. "he's still a kid, it's easy to forget" he says before closing the bonnet of the car and then walking away, but not before telling Daryl to keep an eye on Katherine.
Now that they were alone, maybe Katherine could have a chance to say something to him. She gets up and walks over to where he was sitting on the ground next to his bike and sits down next to him. She clears her throat to get his attention, and he looks up from what he was doing.
"hey, I just, uh, I just wanted to say, um, that, uh" Katherine was having a hard time getting out what she wanted to say and it wasn't because she was embarrassed or shy.
"spit it out, girl" she hears Daryl say with annoyance in his voice. "I just wanted to say, th-thankyou" she finally forces herself to say the word. She can't remember the last time she said thankyou to someone.
"for what?" he asks, but he already knows what for, he just wants to hear her say it. 'is he really gonna make me say it' she thinks. She rolls her eyes. She is starting to think that rolling her eyes is her signature move.
"for saving my life" she says. 'there, I said it, I hope he's happy' "oh, well, ya welcome" Daryl gives her a small smile, knowing that she mustn't say it that much.
They sit there in comfortable silence for a while until Carol comes over. "you know, Merle never did nothin' like that in his whole life" he tells Carol. Katherine looks down at the ground feeling a little sad for him. She knows what it's like to find someone you love dead, because, she came home and found her whole family dead by the hands of Klaus.
"well he gave us a chance" she tells him before she holds her hand out for him to take to help him stand up. Before he starts walking away he looks back at Katherine "come on, its time" he tells her before she gets up and follows him to where everyone else was.
Katherine was to go hide in the woods with Carl, Hershel and Beth, she couldn't stay to help them for when the other group gets here. The first reason was because of her injured leg and then there was the other reason.
Rick walks over to her and holds out a gun to her. She just looks at it as she glances between the gun and Rick processing what he was doing. She was wondering if he was serious or not. "I'm not too sure if this is a test or not" she wonders out loud.
He just laughs lightly as he is still holding the gun out to her. "wait, so, you're really giving me a gun, do you actually trust me enough" she asks him "I don't trust you fully, but I trust you enough to know that you won't intentionally hurt any of my people," he tells her.
Katherine goes to take the gun but pulls her hand back. "is there a problem?" he asks her. She is totally gonna feel embarrass when she tells him.
"no, it's just, I don't know how to use it, I have never used one before" He just looks at her. "never?" he asks
"never, I never needed to" she replies. and she's not just talking about during the outbreak, she was talking about throughout her whole life 'because I was much more deadly' she thinks to herself, but she wasn't about to say that out loud.
He nods as he quickly shows her the basics of how to use it. "now, you are not to use it unless you absolutely have to, okay, do you understand" he tells her firmly.
"yes, I understand" she tells him as she nods her head. She is about to hop in the car before she turns her head to Daryl. "good luck" she tells him before closing the car door before it drives away.
They drive into the woods to hide, not too close, but not too far away that they could still see the prison. Katherine finds herself feeling very worried, and she hopes everything turns out okay.
The car is now parked and they sit there in silence before getting out of the car, getting ready in case someone or, as Katherine has learned what they call the dead, walkers, try to sneak up on them. She likes the sound of 'walkers' better than what she was calling them anyway.
When they see that they are safe for now they start working together and put leaves and branches on the car to keep it hidden. When they finish, she notices the look on Carls face as he looks around his surroundings.
"you don't have to worry, they will be okay" she assures him. "I'm not worried" he says as he walks further away from her. She notes how strong he is, but she knows it's just an act. She can be pretty good at reading people.
It felt like hours before they all heard gunshots, which meant that they were right and the governor had come to attack. Katherine was starting to get really anxious, she was standing there fidgeting, she couldn't stand still. Every sound of a gunshot that was ringing through her ears made her flinch. And she didn't understand why.
And then there was the fact that she couldn't stop thinking about Daryl. They were crouching down behind bushes looking towards the prison.
"we should be there" Carl tells the three of them as they sit there in silence, waiting for it to all be over. They watch as they see the governors people run out to their cars, get in and start driving away.
Katherine can breathe now that the sound of guns has died down to a stop. She never liked guns. A few moments later, they hear a crunch of leaves to see a teenage boy running towards them with a gun. They step out behind the bushes and raise their weapons to him.
"whoa, whoa, whoa, don't shoot" he pleads. "drop your weapon, son" Hershel orders him. "sure, here, take it" he gives in and starts handing his weapon over to Carl. But Carl stands his guard as he pulls the trigger, with the boy falling to the ground. The other three just stood there wide eyed at what he had just done.
They all arrive back to the prison and they all arrive back at cell block C at the same time. Rick sees Judith in Beth's arms and goes and kisses the top of her head. Then he turns around to Carl and crouches down to hug him, relieved that they were safe.
"Dad, I'm coming to Woodbury" Carl tells his Dad. Rick sighs as he runs his hand over his face. "Carl" he warns and is cut off when Carl keeps talking. "hey, I did my job out there, just like all of you, took down one of the governor's soldiers" then Hershel cuts in.
"one of his soldiers? That kid runnin' away, he stumbled a crossed us" "no, he drew on us" Carl defends. Rick puts his hand on Carls shoulder.
"I'm sorry you had to do that" Carl nods. "it's what I was there for, I'm going with you" he says as he walks away. Hershel turns to Rick.
"that kid was scared, he was handing his gun over" "he said he drew" Rick defends his son. Hershel just shakes his head "Carl said it was in defence" he defends once more. "I was there, he didn't have to shoot, he had every reason not too" Hershel tries to convince Rick.
"maybe it looked like that to you" Rick tries to find any excuse for his son but Hershel wasn't having any of it.
"Rick" Hershel says a bit louder. Then he goes back to his normal voice. "I'm tellin' ya, he gunned that kid down" it now looks like Hershel has gotten through to Rick by the look on his face.
Katherine feels it would be perfect if she had some popcorn there or something. Hershel starts walking away and that's when Rick turns to her, so she decides to speak as she raises her hand so it's in line with the side of her head, as if she was in class
"if it makes it any better, I was there too and Hershel is kind of right, and that's coming from me" she says as she starts craving popcorn. 'Damn it, why did I have to think about that' Rick closes his eyes feeling defeated.
Later that day, it was decided that Rick, Daryl and Michonne were to go after the governor, as Maggie and Glenn decided to stay here. She watched them leave before she walked back into the cell block and she saw Hershel siting down by himself, so she sat on the chair opposite him, figuring it wouldn't hurt to start a conversation with him.
She looks at him and gives him a fake smile as she looks down at his leg that was propped up. "if you don't mind me asking, what happened?" she asks him gesturing towards his leg.
"a walker bit me, so Rick chopped it off, saved my life" he tells her as her eyebrows raise. "he chopped it off" she says to make sure she heard right. "yeah, he did, and I just gotta say, even though what he said in his speech yesterday, if it wasn't for him, I don't think some of us would be here today" Hershel says, and this time Katherine gives him a genuine smile, not like the faked and forced ones she was giving before, but a real one. Hershel continues.
"and another thing about him is, he gives people a chance to be part of the group, he didn't trust Michonne at first either, but look at her now" Hershel hints at her.
"I don't do too well with people" she admits. He gives her a smile, "you seem to be doing just fine" he says before getting up and walking out of the room. Katherine just sits there for a few moments, processing what he just said.
Katherine was in her cell room that they had given her trying to sleep, not that she could, when Hershel's words were still going through her mind. 'You seem to be doing just fine'. Was she? Because she had never been good with people before. Maybe when she would put on an act. But with these people, she wasn't. Then, from a distance, she hears Maggie yell out.
"their back!" Katherine gets up and walks outside to see Daryl getting off his motor cycle and behind him is the car that Rick and Michonne were in, but it's what's behind the car that catches her eye.
"whats going on?" she asks Daryl. He looks behind him then back at her. "their gonna be stayin' here, couldn't find the governor, but, stumbled a crossed his soldiers that he had killed" he tells her as he comes to a stop next to her as they watch all the people being escorted off the bus.