Waking up the next morning Kayla felt refreshed and recharged. It was the first good night's sleep she's had in a while. She quickly got dressed in a pair of dark jeans and a dark red flannel shirt with a tank top underneath and boots on her feet. Once she tied her hair up into a bun on the top of her head she walked out of her tent as she holstered her knives and gun in her belt.

"Morning." Dale greeted as she walked out of her tens.

"Morning." She replied.

"Want some breakfast?"

"No thanks, I'm not that hungry."

"Well Rick and the others are over there planning the search for Sophia."

Kayla looked over and saw the search group members standing around the truck. She stood up and walked over just as Jimmy, Beth's boyfriend, said he wanted to help. "Hershel's okay with that?" Rick questioned.

"Yeah he said I should ask you." Jimmy said.

"Alright then thanks."

"Nothing about what Daryl found is screaming Sophia to me." Shane interjected. "Anyone could have been held up in that farm house."

"Anyone includes her right?" Kayla replied. "Plus that farm house wasn't too far off from the highway which means she could have easily stumbled across it."

"And whoever slept in that cupboard was no more that yay high." Daryl added holding his hand up a little past his waist for a height reference. Kayla gave him a small smile which he returned.

"Maybe we'll pick up her trail again." Rick said.

"Maybe you might, I'm gonna borrow a horse." Daryl responded, looking at the map while Dale put the gun bag on the hood of the car. "Head up to this ridge right here, get a bird's eye view of the whole grid…if she's up there I'll spot her."

"Good idea." T-Dog said. "Maybe you'll see your chupacabra up there too."

"Chupacabra?" Rick questioned.

"Oh you never heard that?" Dale asked. "First night at the camp Daryl tells us the whole thing reminds him of the time he went squirrel hunting and he saw a chupacabra."

Jimmy chuckled. "What you braining at jackass?" Daryl questioned annoyingly.

"So you believe in a blood sucking dog?" Rick replied.

"You believe dead people walking around?" Daryl retorted when Jimmy reached for the shotgun on the hood of the car.

"Woah, you ever fire one before?" Rick asked.

"Well if I'm going out I want one." Jimmy explained.

"People in hell want slurpees." Daryl interjected, causing Kayla to smile. The hunter then walked off to the barn to get a horse.

"Why don't you come to training tomorrow?" Shane suggested. "If you're serious I'm a certified instructor."

"For now he can come with me." Kayla offered, jerking her head to the side to motion Jimmy to come with her. "We'll search the west side grid. See if she wandered off that way."

"He's yours to babysit then." Shane told her.

Kayla rolled her eyes as Dale handed her a hatchet and extra gun before she and Jimmy walked off towards the woods. She handed Jimmy the hatchet and a knife as they walked towards the woods while she checked the ammo in her handgun.

"So what are these things exactly?" Jimmy asked nervously. "I mean I've seen them before, but Hershel just thinks their sick." Kayla looked at him. "Well I hate to burst you're bubble but these things ain't sick. They're walking corpses who want to eat the flesh from your skin." She told the teenager. "They'll never be the same and the only cure is to put a bullet through their brain."

Once in the woods, Kayla and Jimmy began focusing on looking for Sophia. "What's it like out here?" Jimmy asked her. "I mean I've been on the farm and haven't really seen a lot since the broadcasts stopped."

Kayla stopped in her tracks and turned towards him. "Jimmy the world is done…over, gone. It belongs to the dead now. Every state, city, county, town, and neighborhood is gone. Whatever the hell this plague is destroyed the world you once knew. Some people didn't last more than a day after the outbreak and were eaten alive."

"How did you make it this long?"

"Very carefully. I didn't stay in one spot for too long and made sure I always had a plan B. Anymore questions?" Jimmy shook his head. Kayla didn't mean to be mean, but this kid was already getting under her skin.

As they advanced through their grid, a familiar low growl caught Kayla's attention. She stopped in her tracks and looked around and saw the source of the noise…a walker about ten feet in front of them half hidden behind a tree. "Do we kill it?" Jimmy whispered.

"If we don't it will come back and bite us in the ass." Kayla replied. "Literally." She whistled and the walker turned around, instantly seeing her and Jimmy. It began limping towards them and Kayla looked at Jimmy. "You wanna take this one?" she asked. The teenager looked at her. "How do I do it?" her asked.

"Trauma to the brain." Kayla answered as the walker got closer. Jimmy looked at it and swallowed hard. Kayla pulled the knife from her holster and walked towards the walker. "Like this." She explained, jamming the knife through the top of the walker's skull. It stopped moving and fell to the ground dead…for real this time. "Think you could do that?" Kayla asked Jimmy. He nodded.

A few minutes later the pair came across another walker. "Like I said, trauma to the brain." Kayla whispered as she pointed to the walker standing motionlessly in front of a creek bed. Jimmy nodded once and walked up behind the walker as it turned around. It growled at the teen and Jimmy quick swung his hatchet down on the top of its skull as soon as he was close enough. The walker fell frontwards onto Jimmy causing him to fall to the ground with the corpse on top of him. "Get it off!" Jimmy panicked. Chuckling Kayla walked over and pulled the dead walker off of the kid. She helped him to his feet and then patted his shoulder. "Not bad kid." She commented. Jimmy smiled at her as she began to look around. "We reached the end of our grid." She said. "Let's get back before it starts to get dark."

Back at the camp Kayla was greeted by Dale handing her a plate of food. "You gotta be hungry by now." He said. Kayla smiled weakly and accepted the food. "You have no idea." She replied. Dale smiled and then walked back to the RV while Kayla sat down and ate her food.

"Find anything out there?" Shane asked sitting next to her.

"Not a thing." Kayla told him as she took a bite of the rabbit and beans on her plate. "What about you and Rick?"

"We didn't have any luck either." Shane answered. Kayla looked at him and noticed the front of his shirt was open, revealing his muscular upper body. She went back to her food when Andrea yelled. "Walker!" the blonde called out. "Walker!" Kayla quickly picked her head up and looked out at the field. She could vaguely see a figure walking towards the camp. "Just the one?" Rick asked Shane shot up off of his seat.

"I bet I could nail it from here." Andrea said picking her rifle up.

"No, no Andrea put the gun down." Rick ordered.

"You best let us handle this." Shane said, picking up a pick axe and walking towards the field.

"Shane hold up!" Rick said. "Hershel wants to deal with walkers."

"What for man? We got this covered."

Kayla set her food down and stood up, watching as the men run off towards the figure. She picked up a pair of binoculars and zoomed in on the figure. "Andrea don't!" Dale said. Looking over, Kayla saw Andrea laid across the RV with the gun aimed down. "Back off Dale." She responded. Kayla looked through the binoculars again and focused on the figure. At first she thought it was a walker herself until she saw the crossbow it was dragging behind itself. "Daryl?" she said to herself putting the binoculars down. "Andrea do-" was all Kayla managed to say before a shot ran through the air.

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