A few minutes into the woods and, already, Lex is on the lookout. Leigha is walking fast upfront and Pride yells for her to slow down. Pride quickens his pace, but Lex puts an arm in front of him, slowing him down to a slow walk. Pride looks at him questionably. Lex whispers to him, "Has it ever occurred to you that she might be leading us into a trap?". Pride's jaw drops and he frowns. "Lex, I trust her and I know she's not doing anything of the sort," he says without hesitation.

Lex shrugs, "You haven't talked to her in almost two years. What if she's like some people and change their morals every second of the day. I don't trust her as far as I could toss her, why is she leading us here? Why is she so eager to go back there? You would think that she would like to stay as far away as possible". He did have a point.

"She's doing it because she knows it's helpful to me and because she wants to save the others, if we can," Pride says. Lex shrugs exaggeratedly. As they catch up to Leigha, Pride begins to wonder if Lex is right. No! He couldn't be right! Lex is never right! He shakes his head.

Leigha hears them whispering behind her. They don't think that she can hear them, but she can. They're wondering if they can trust her. She thinks that Pride will convince Lex that she's trustworthy, but he whispers of his own suspicions.

"How much farther?" Pride asks after a little while. Leigha senses the annoyance in his voice. "I'm doing the best I can, Pride!" she yells back at him angrily.

"How do you even know if we're going the right way?"

That was Lex. She stops and turns around. "Fine!" she yells angrily, "You can go and find some one else to take you there".

She starts to walk back towards them. Before she passes them, she yells in Lex's face, "Oh, and Lex, you should probably trust the next person to lead you there a whole lot more considering your dearest Tai-san is there". Lex is speechless. He's been trying to find Tai-san for what seemed like forever. She's lying, she has to be. His face softens and she notices. "I saw her, Lex, I saw Tai-san. She was there and she most likely still is. She kept believing that you would come and save her, and then when you didn't she said that it was just like you to take your time about things you didn't care about!" she says angrily.

Leigha can see Lex's fist out of the corner of her left eye, but she doesn't move. She stands her place and takes the blow to the side of her face, turning her head to the right. "Don't you dare ever talk about her like that again!" he screams at her. "Why? Because you know that's what she said?" she says angrily. "You're not the only one who lost someone, Lex!" she says. She pushes past him and moves back towards the mall.

Leigha stops and turns around, her cheek almost burning now. She walks a few steps back to them. She stands with her back to Pride and she faces the side of Lex's body. "Before I left, Lex, I told her you would come for her. I promised her that you would come no matter what. She said that you wouldn't believe me and she said I should give you this..." she says softly. She takes a piece of cloth out of her pocket and hands it to Lex. He gently takes it, a frown still on his face. Leigha lets out a breath and begins to walk away again, back towards the city.

Lex looks down at the fabric between his fingers. It's Tai-san's, he's sure of it. "I need you," he whispers. Leigha wonders if she has even heard anything at all. She turns. "I need you," he says louder, "to help me find her". She goes back to them and stands right where she had when she yelled at him, just minutes before. "Lex, that was the reason I wanted to help. I have to save Jack for Ellie, Tai-san for you, and the others for Pride," she says, glancing over her shoulder at Pride, "I just didn't tell you about Tai-san because I knew how much you would worry and I didn't want you to be troubled all this time". Lex nods, he understands. He looks at her. There is still anger in his eyes. Leigha blinks hard, trying to erase his look of anger from his face.

In a split second, he throws himself at her, hugging her, perhaps, tighter than Pride had when he first saw her. She smiles and closes her eyes. Lex pulls away and looks at her cheek, it's beginning to swell. He touches her cheek and says gently, "I'm sorry-". She shakes her head and smiles. "It's alright," she says. Lex inhales deeply and starts walking the way they had first intended, through the woods. The though of saving Tai-san has deepens his cause and moves him faster.

Leigha looks at Pride and he smiles at her. A feeling of heat rushes from her ears to her toes. That goofy smile again. He reaches out and touches her shoulder. She smiles and starts to walk behind Lex.

It's getting dark and they have already made a fire, courtesy of Lex. It wasn't cold so they had purposely set their blankets a little bit away from the fire. Pride and Lex dragged a large log in front of the fire so they could sit.

The fire was growing low and Lex has gone off to find dry wood, leaving Pride and Leigha to their conversation. She is lying on her stomach on the blankets, her face turned towards the fire, her hair on one side of her neck. Pride is sitting beside her when he notices the bruise on the back of her neck. He gently touches it. She flinches and turns her head towards him. "How-?" he asks, he can't finish. She looks down. "I ran into Rian when I was going to the city," she says softly, he can barely hear her. He sighs softly.

He touches her arm, and for the first time he realizes that they are covered in bruises. You couldn't see them if you just glanced at her, but Pride was doing more than just glancing. Without her consent or even asking, he slid the fabric on her back up about two inches. Just like he had thought, her back, as well, was bruised to the max.

"He-" he couldn't bring himself to say it. He placed her shirt where it had been, covering her skin. Pride ran his hand from her shoulder to the small of her back, this movement greatly comforted her. She closed her eyes, feeling the warmth of his hand through her shirt to her flesh. She sat up and looked him in the eyes. Before she knew it, he was leaning in, kissing her lips. He pulled back and hugged her, his arms around her waist, trying carefully not to touch a sensitive bruise.

He let go of her and she lay down. He went to the log and sat down, waiting for Lex. When Lex came back he sat down after dropping the wood in the fire. He looks over at Leigha who, they both thought, was sleeping. "She's a good person," Lex says. Pride nods but doesn't say anything. Lex looks at him. He knows something is troubling him. "What's wrong?" he asks. Pride bites his lip. "She ran into her brother the other day," Pride says. "And..." Lex wants him to explain.

"When we were back in our tribe, he-...he hurt her a lot, Lex" Lex frowned. "He hit her- more than once, almost everyday," Pride says, continuing. "That's why you had to bring her with you when you came to the city?" Lex asks, finally getting the picture. Pride nods. "And because I love her".

"And you still do?"

Pride smiles and nods.

They all share the blanket. With a man on each side of her, Leigha sleeps in the middle. More than once, she would wake up and strangely find her fingers entwined in Lex's long soft hair, his body twisted around her. Lex was a nice guy and all, but he had Tai-san and she was with Pride. She would then carefully untangle herself from him, moving as far away as possible, and cuddle against Pride, his arm thrown over her, his warm body pressed against her. Sometimes she would awake to Pride's face pressing against her neck, muttering softly into her flesh.