Thedarkpokemaster-Okay so quick disclaimer Merle was just a hallucination, I just thought that Locke talking to Daryl about it would fit since he and Jack that type conversation in season 1 of lost. As for the rest of your points, you are right with people slowly seeing things in Sawyer and Daryl. And I think you'll be happy when some things happen later on.

Kevinrock8899-Yeah our guy Sawyer is gonna show back up in this chapter and who knows maybe with some new nicknames! As for Merle, he was just Daryl's subconscious, Merle is not showing up earlier. And the walkers being found does indeed start this spiral of events to come, so look forward to that. All I can say is this season finale is going to be brutal.

Jestalnaker94000-You'll see in about two chapters, til then the secret remains lol.

Redangel2463-Glad you like it and hope you like this fresh update.

Don77-Yes the barn reveal is coming soon, who knows what you may find. As for Desmond, our scotsman is making an appearance in this chapter so enjoy!


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Sophia and Carl were outside feeding the few chickens wandering around outside Hershel's chicken coup. They continued to share friendly glances towards each other as Lori watched from the side. Just behind them Patricia opened up the chicken coup itself to gather the eggs laid the night before. Carl and Sophia looked over to Patrica then back to Lori who had a concerned look spread across her face. "Don't look so worried." Carl said to his mother,

"It's my job." Lori replied with a little smirk,

"No it's not, You're a housewife." Carl said with a grin,

"Oh yeah, punk?" Lori said as she flung chicken seed at him, "Do you see my house around here?" She said causing Sophia and Carl to laugh. Lori shook her head slowly, "Housewife." She muttered to herself,

"They don't have a mom." Sophia said softly as she crouched down in front of a group of chicks,

"Yeah, you're right." Carl said a bit sullen in tone,

"She might be somewhere else." Lori said trying to be reassuring,

"Maybe she got eaten." Carl replied,

"You're probably right." Sophia said in easy agreement. Lori stared at the children in a bit of horrified shock, "Everything is food for something else." Sophia said with a glance to Carl who only nodded in agreement.

Patricia looked back to Lori and the kids making sure they weren't watching before quietly picking up a chicken and walking out of the coup. She slowly made her way to the tool shed nearby and slipped through the door. After checking around for anyone nearby, she took hold of the chicken's leg. She held a blank, almost dead expression as she snapped the chicken's leg. The chicken clucked and struggled to get out of her grasp as she stuffed it into a potato sack bag along with half a dozen other chickens.

She put the bag into the wheelbarrow and began to walk towards the barn. As soon as she arrived she took the bag and climbed the side of the barn to the second floor. She peered into the barn seeing the half dozen dead staggering. She closed her eyes and sighed before dumping the bag of chickens out down at the walkers. They quickly and furiously began to feast on their prey as Patricia watched in a disgusted silence.

About forty five minutes later Glenn, at the group's campsite, stood with his binoculars watching the barn intently. Suddenly he heard a few steps coming towards him and Maggie's voice whispered out to him, "Can you be anymore obvious?" He dropped the binoculars quickly and sighed as he turned to her. She looked at him with a mixture of worry and annoyance before putting down a basket of fruit, "Here."

"Are you trying to buy my silence with fruit?" Glenn asked a bit timidly,

"Of course not." Maggie said firmly before leaning towards him, "There's jerky too."

Glenn pursed his lips and shook his head, "Will you please tell me why your dad had a secret barn full of walkers? It's creepy." Maggie quickly shushed him, "You know that right?"

Maggie shushed him a second time, "Please, just trust me on this, okay?" Maggie said firmly as she could,

"But I suck at lying, I can't even play poker. Charlie says I have a tell and that's because it's too much like lying." Glenn said almost frantically,

"You have to keep this to yourself. You have to. Please." Maggie said nearly begging at this point,

"Morning!" Charlie called out to the pair causing Maggie to back away from Glenn and walk away. Charlie walked over and knelt down at the basket, "Oh would you look at that, oranges, apples and...jerky!" Charlie took a chunk of jerky and stood up next to Glenn, "So what's going on mate?"

Glenn looked at Glenn with a confused and defeated expression, "Nothing, I just...got a lot on my mind right now." Glenn replied after a moment,

"Oh with the Lori thing eh? Yeah, right there with ya." Charlie said with a nod as he took a bite of jerky,

"Look just pass this out to the group." Glenn said as he turned and walked away,

"Yeah...right…" Charlie said a bit put off by Glenn's overall attitude this morning.

Meanwhile Daryl, now stuck in his tent to heal, lazily poked a bolt through the screen of his tent. The advice from Locke was still ringing through his ears, he loved his brother but he wasn't blind. He knew Merle was bad news, telling him to shoot down Rick wasn't a good plan, hell it was just plain stupid. He let out a deep exhale just as he head the leaves crunch right outside his tent door. He adjusted himself and looked over only to see Kate poking her head inside, "Hey." She said with a little smile, "How you feelin?" Daryl gave her a little half shrug as she held out a book, "It isn't that great but should pass the time."

Daryl took the book into his hand and thumbed through it, "What, no pictures?"

"I'm so sorry. I feel like shit. " Kate said as she knelt down,

"Yeah, you and me both." Daryl said as she adjusted his pillow and sat up a bit,

"I don't really expect you to forgive me, but if there's anything I can do…" Kate said sincerely,

Daryl gave her a dismissive head shake, "You were trying to protect the group. We're good." Kate gave him a little smile and nodded as she got up. As she headed out the tent Daryl spoke up again, "But hey, you shoot me again. You best pray i'm dead." He said causing he to let out a little chuckle.

On the other side of camp Charlie had worked his way around the camp with the fruit and stopped as he reached Lori. Part of him knew this wasn't any of his business, but Lori was pregnant. She needed special attention, especially nowadays. He approached her and put the basket of fruit down, "Hi." He said with a little awkward smile. Lori half ignored it and tried to quickly grab her fruit, "Right, so…" Charlie said as he looked around, "How did Rick take the news?" He asked softly. Lori peered up to him then back down remaining silent, Charlie stared at her waiting then his eyes widened, "Bloody hell...you didn't tell him." Charlie rubbed his face anxiously, "But you have to." He said walking closer to her, "You are pregnant." Lori looked at him then around with an annoyed expression, "You need vitamins, medicine, a nice pillow." Charlie quickly dug through his satchel and pulled out his piece of jerky, "Here take my share."

"Honey, I don't want your food, okay? Eat." Lori finally said to him,

"Bollocks to that, you need to eat. I mean look at you, you're too skinny." Charlie said urgently still holding the jerky out to her, "If you're not gonna let Rick take care of you, then someone has to." Lori pushed past him and grabbed a pail of water and silently started to pour it into a pot above a fire to boil, "Lori, you have a medical condition. You're a mum, you need to do what's best for the little one, yeah?" Lori let out an annoyed scoff and sat staring at the ground just praying Charlie would leave, "Just tell me what you need, I can make another run into town. There's a baby store and I could-"

"What I need is for you to be quiet about this." Lori said standing back up, "All right? Please."

Just then they heard a whistle and Sawyer called out for Charlie, "Hey Ringo Starr! You gonna share some of those peaches?!"

Charlie let out a little grunt and picked up the basket giving one last glare to Lori before heading over to Carol's SUV where Rick, Shane, Sawyer, Jimmy and Ana were standing. As he approached Rick continued to go over things with the others, "The creek flows south, past the farmhouse where Sawyer's crew found Sophia. Maybe Andrea dropped her bag there and the current brought it south."

Shane rubbed his head then pointed to a small dirt road on the map, "So what, you think she took this road here."

"Then she probably went north." Ana added in, "Up this way, working her way around." She explained as she traced her finger around the map,

"What's up there Jimbo?" Sawyer asked as he leaned against the truck,

Jimmy thought hard for a moment then said, "A housing development I think, Wiltshire Estates, or something like that. Been up for some ten odd years."

"We should take a run up there after gun practice." Rick said looking over to Shane,

"Amy and Sayid have been itching to go out searching. Sounds to me like a good match." Shane replied,

"Depending, we know Sayid can protect himself but what about Amy." Ana asked the others,

"We'll have to see how she does during target practice." Rick replied, "If she's not up to it make sure Sayid is with someone else, after what happened with Daryl. I don't want anyone going out alone, we stay in pairs."

Charlie headed over to Sawyer and held the basket out to him, he reached in took a peach. After shaking his head so the hairs were out of his face he quickly bit into the peach as the others each took one. Charlie looked at Rick, his tongue catching in his throat. He looked over to Lori then back to the others internally arguing with himself, "What you want a tip or something?" Sawyer asked with a smirk.

"Charlie find Glenn and grab my binoculars from him." Shane said after thinking for a moment,

"Yeah, right, okay." Charlie quickly said then walked away from the others. Sawyer watched Charlie leave the group and let out a little laugh at his sudden awkwardness before taking another bite of his peach.

Right behind them, Beth and Patricia approached the group, "We'd um, we'd like to join you for gun practice today." Beth said timidly,

"Hershel's been pretty clear, We can't involve any of you in what we do without his okay." Ana explained with a stern look,

"He doesn't like it, but he consented." Beth replied,

"Otis and Desmond were the only one's who knew guns. Figure we ought to learn." Patricia added on,

Ana looked up at Rick who rubbed his brow for a moment, "Well, no offense but I'll clear that with Hershel myself."

Shane gave Ana a little tap on her shoulder and she turned back to him. He pointed over to Carl who was leaned up against the RV with a something poking against his shirt and a knife in his hand, lazily sharpening a stick. The pair walked over to him, "Hey, nice lid, man." Shane said as he motioned to Rick's sheriff hat,

"Suits you." Ana said with a smile, "What's going on?"

Carl looked between the two of them and firmly said, "I want to learn to shoot, Carol is letting Sophia so I should learn too. Can you guys teach me?"

Ana looked up at Shane as he looked at her. Shane let out a little scoff that turned into a chuckle. He ran his hand across his head and said, "Well man, that's-that's up to your parents."

"He's right we can't do anything without their say so." Ana added on,

"Well can you talk to them? They'll listen to you guys." Carl said with a hopeful tone,

Shane looked at Ana trying to get a read on what she thought and the both seemed to agree with Carl, "We'll, uh, we'll see." Shane said with a nod,

Carl gave a halfhearted nod and started to walk away, "Carl." Ana said a bit firmly causing him to stop, "What do you got there?"

Carl stared at her unmoving for a moment, "Go on now." Shane said just a firmly. Carl slowly lifted his shirt and revealed a small twenty two revolver stuck in his belt. Shane let out a disappointed frown and quickly tossed his peach away.

Minutes later Carl was sitting on a log as Lori, Rick, Shane, Ana and Dale stood talking things over. Lori checked and was now livid seeing that the gun was loaded as well, "How the hell did this happen?" She asked staring at the others almost accusingly,

"Well, it's my fault. I let him into the R.V." Dale replied, "He said he wanted a walkie, that you sent him for one."

"So on top of everything else, he lied too?" Lori said before taking a slow breath, she looked over to Rick and whispered to him, "What's he thinking?"

"He wants to learn how to shoot." Shane answered for him,

"He asked us, after hearing that Sophia was going to learn, I think he feels he should." Ana added on, "But besides jealousy he may be feeling, It's hard to argue against doing it. It'd be safer for him in the long run." Ana explained,

"Are you joking? What he just did proved that he isn't ready for this responsibility." Lori said firmly,

"It's none of my business but I'd be happy to do it. In the end it's your call though." Shane said with a nod,

Rick looked over to Lori and let out a little sigh trying to figure out the right wording. Lori immediately caught on with what he was trying to do, "Oh no, don't make me out to be the unreasonable one here. Rick?"

"I know. I have my concerns too, but-Ana's right. In the long run it'll be safer for him to know how to use one." Rick tried to explained,

"Hell with that, he was just shot." Lori exclaimed, "He's just back on his feet and he wants a gun?"

"Better than him being afraid of 'em." Rick shot back,

"Lori we have guns un camp for a reason. He should learn to handle them safely." Ana pointed out,

Lori looked back to Ana with a narrowed brow, "I don't want my kid walking around with a gun."

"How can you defend that?" Rick asked as he shifted into a dismissive stance, "You can't let him go around without protection."

"He's as safe as he'll ever be right here." Lori replied wholeheartedly. Rick nodded clearly becoming annoyed at Lori's hard headedness. Lori let out a little sigh seeing it too, "Look, everything you're saying, that all of you are saying,makes perfect sense. It just...feels wrong. I mean I didn't feel good about him following you out into the woods. And I wish i'd said something. I should've gone with my gut."

"He's growing up, thank god." Rick said sternly, "We've got to start treating him more like an adult."

"Then he needs to act like one." Lori shot out irritably, "He's not mature enough to handle a gun."

Carl quickly got up, "I'm not gonna play with it, mom. It's not a toy. I'm sorry I disappointed you, but I want to defend the camp. Protect people, help find Andrea. I can't do that without a gun."

"Shane and Ana were the best instructors at the station. Not to mention I'd trust no one more to do this. I've seen them teach kids younger than Carl."

Lori stared at Rick for a moment before closing her eyes and taking a slow breath. She turned to Carl and walked over to him, grabbing his chin with her hand, "You will take this seriously and you will behave responsibly. And if I hear from anyone in this camp that you're not living up to our expectations-"

"He won't let you down." Rick said supporting Carl,

Carl nodded in agreement, "Yeah." Lori let out a small nod and walked away from them before she changed her mind.

Nearly thirty minutes later, everyone that was going to gun practice was loading up into their cars. Rick was tossing the bag of guns into the back of Shane's Tucson only to hear a voice from behind him, "Um, Excuse me brotha. Could I have a moment?" Desmond asked awkwardly,

Rick turned to him holding a bit of a colder gaze, "What can I do for you?"

"I just wanted to apologize officially. With everything that was happening I felt like I didn't get a chance to really say it." Desmond said sincerely,

Rick slowly rolled his jaw and shook his head, "It was a mistake, an honest mistake. You repaid everything you owed me when you went and got those supplies." Rick said honestly, "We're good." He added as he held out his hand,

Desmond let out a small relieved smile and took Rick's hand shaking it, "Where are you going?"

"Gun training, you're welcome to come along if you want to." Rick said as he slammed the door shut,

"Actually that sounds terrific, I could use some practice with a pistol." Desmond replied,

"Okay, find yourself a spot in a car. We leave in five." Rick said as he turned back around,

Desmond nodded and headed back towards the camp only to see Carl walking his way. Desmond jogged up to the kid quickly, "Carl, right?"

"Yeah?" Carl replied,

"Carl I am so sorry for what I did." Desmond said sincerely as he knelt down, "I wish I could take it back and I hope that you could forgive me." He added on as Rick had turned around watching the exchange,

Carl let out a shrug at Desmond, "Things happen, you didn't mean to do it." He said to Desmond's surprise, "I forgive you if that helps." He said causing Rick to let out a proud smile,

"I thank you, Carl." Desmond said as he gave him a small pat on the shoulder. Carl gave him a nod and walked past him heading towards Rick.

Meanwhile Charlie was in the midst of trying to convince Claire not to come with them, "Claire you've got to think of the little one, all this loud noise and the gunpowder, it can't be good." Charlie said as she picked up her hat and put it on,

"I asked Jack and he said it'd be fine. I just want to go with you all and watch, maybe shoot just a little bit." Claire replied,

"Yeah but-" Charlie started to say,

"Charlie!" Claire exclaimed as she put her hands on his shoulders, "I am going to be fine, okay?"

"Yeah, of course you are. Just fine." Charlie said with a weak smile. Claire leaned in and gave him a small kiss on the cheek,

"C'mon let's go." Claire said grabbing his arm and leading him along.

As everyone who was leaving loaded into the cars and drove off T-Dog pulled his truck over and stuck his head out to window calling for Glenn, "Hey! Ain't you coming?!"

"I-I gotta...help Dale! Clean the spark plugs on the R.V." Glenn called back, "I actually should go find him!"

"You found me." Dale said from just behind him with a confused expression. Dale looked back towards the T-Dog's truck and waved them off, "He's a good learner!" T-Dog let out a shrug and pulled out following the rest of the cars down the dirt road off of Hershel's farm. Dale in the meantime walked up to Glenn and crossed his arms, "Sparkplugs huh? Want to tell me what's going on?"

Glenn nervously bit his tongue before turning to Dale, "You're old. You know things. So...what if somebody told you something that somebody else should know-" He stumbled out,

"Glenn, stop being dramatic." Dale said interrupting him, "Spit it out."

"There's-there's walkers in the barn and Lori's pregnant." Glenn stammered out in relief, as Dale stared at him in shock.

Nearly an hour later the whole group that left were in the midst of shooting dozens of set up bottles and cans. Some were paired off while others were directly under the eyes of the better trained survivors. So far the stand outs in the group were Sawyer, Amy, Kate and Sophia. Carol had been keeping a watchful eye over her, not training too much herself but once Ana gave Sophia a few tips she was hitting her target at least eighty percent of the time.

Rick and Shane made their rounds watching each person checking for issues, T-Dog had spotted one quickly with Jimmy and spoke up before them. Jimmy had been holding his gun sideways, trying to impress and act like a gangster. "Don't give me any of that gangster bullshit, gun up." T-Dog said firmly. Jimmy gave him a minor nervous nod and quickly began to shoot properly, now a lot better.

Sayid had been giving Amy harder and harder targets to hit, in an attempt to improve her rapidly. As she hit what remained of a already broken bottle Sayid spoke up, "Excellent, let's try something even harder."

"Harder?" She said with with a confused look, "I just hit that small bit of glass, what could be harder than that?"

"See that sign?" Sayid asked as he pointed towards a tiny do not enter sign, "Hit a shot in between the o."

"The o? Are you fucking serious?" Amy replied dismissively,

"Yes." Sayid said with a amused smile,

"Ugh." Amy replied as she put her pistol up and took a slow breath. She fired and a ping was eagerly lowered his pistol and her eyes narrowed as she saw the shot high above her target, "Goddamnt."

"Don't worry, it's a difficult shot." Sayid said as he walked over to her. He wrapped his arms around her from the back and helped her line up the pistol where it should sit, "We'll just try it again." He said softly as Amy blushed ever so slightly.

Sun and Jin were off to the right each taking turns making shots and every once and awhile the group would pause as Jin let out an excited yell when Sun would hit her target. Some chuckles were heard through the group each time before the gunfire returned. Even Charlie had loosed up from his original stance with Claire and watched her take a few shots before sitting back down. After a few short minutes Ana returned to Shane and Rick, "Looks like it's going good, not everyone is doing great but it's better than expected." Ana said slightly impressed,

"That's good to hear, you guys think you could handle this for a minute?" Rick asked as he looked over to Carl,

"Knock yourself out." Ana said with a smirk. Rick gave her a thankful smile and quickly headed over to assist his son. Ana and Shane stood their silently for a second before she spoke up to him, "So you've decided not to leave us. Any particular reason?"

Shane gave a small shrug and a half chuckle, "Nah, just...perspective changed." He replied simply,

Ana gave him a small nod and decided not to press the issue, "Desmond's doing well." Ana pointed out causing Shane to shift a bit,

"That's,uh, that's good. Always use another able gun." Shane murmured out,

"What about him?" Ana said pointing towards Eko who was slowly wandering behind the shooting line with his pistol in his back pocket, "He even shoot today?"

"Uh, I think that'd be a no." Shane said now confused as her,

"Hey Eko!" Ana called out as the two walked over to him, "What's the matter with you, you alright?"

"I am fine." He said softly,

"C'mon man we need to see what you can do. Take a few shots." Shane said motioning to the fence,

"No, I'd prefer not to." Eko replied casually,

Shane let out a little smirk, "What you no good? Can't hit anything without the stick?"

"It is not that, I do not like guns." Eko replied,

Shane let out a scoff, "I hear the same thing from whiny moms and bad shots all the time." Shane replied as he turned around shaking his head.

Eko swiftly pulled out his pistol and took three quick shots at the targets hitting each one to both Ana and Shane's surprise. As he slipped the gun back into his belt he said, "I am not a bad shot, I just do not like them." Shane stared at him then over to Ana who too was taken aback.

Back on the farm Dale headed down to the stables to have a much needed conversation. As he entered the stable Hershel glanced up at him but said nothing, he just continued to brush the horse. "I love your fields." Dale said as he reached him, Hershel looked up and gave him a small nod, "I took a long walk today, I ended up near the barn." Dale continued causing Hershel to stop dead, "I heard the moans."

Hershel let out a small sigh, "That's unfortunate."

"I'm sure you have your reasons for keeping this a secret." Dale said trying to defuse any tension,

"I saw the broadcasts before they stopped, saw the irrational fear, the atrocities, like the incident at my well." Hershel explained as he continued to work,

"We put down a walker." Dale replied now confused,

"You killed a person." Hershel said firmly,

Dale blinked a few times and ran his hand along his beard, "Well, if you watched the same broadcasts I did, you saw walkers attack, kill. They're dangerous." Dale replied trying to breakthrough to Hershel,

"A paranoid schizophrenic is dangerous too. We don't shoot sick people." Hershel replied calmly easily defending his beliefs,

"With all due respect, you are cut off from the outside world here. But i've seen people that I cared about die and come back, and they're not people." Dale said firmly,

"My wife and stepson are in that barn." Hershel said with a small glimmer in his eye, "They're people." He added on with a slight crack in his voice,

Dale's eyes widened at the realization and reached out putting his arm on his shoulder, "I'm sorry." Dale quickly thought and said, "Let me help, let us help you. I can speak to Rick or Eko. They're good men. We can make the barn more secure, keep everybody safe." Dale said trying to sum up a compromise,

Hershel lowered his head and shook it slightly, "The barn is secure. Keep this to yourself if you want to help. Rick, Eko, sure they are men of conscience, but are you so sure about everyone in your group?"

Dale pursed his lips and lowered his head, Hershel was right what would Sawyer, Daryl, let alone Shane do if they heard this. Dale slowly turned away from the man and began to walk out of the stables.

Nearly an hour later the group had returned from gun training except a select few who were going to head to advanced training. As everyone talked about how it went, who was the best shot, especially Sophia and Carl, Claire headed over to Hershel. "Hello." Claire said with a little wave,

Hershel looked up from the fence he was working on and gave her a warm smile, "I suppose it went well. Children look happy. " Hershel said with a motion to Carl and Sophia,

Claire smiled and let out a little giggle, "Yeah, they did. Actually they did a lot better than most of us."

"Be thankful that works for them, everything's a lot simpler when they just wanna learn to shoot." Hershel said jokingly, "Do you know if it's a boy or a girl?" He asked looking at her stomach,

"Uh, no actually. I'm guessing it's a boy though." Claire said as she rubbed her stomach lovingly,

"Good, daughters are tougher." He said with a laugh, "And try raising three. "

Claire laughed and took a step forward, "I just wanted to say that we don't take your kindness for granted. And you need to know that we'll earn our keep."

Hershel lowered his head before raising it back to Claire, "I...appreciate that, but with Carl getting better, I imagine you'll be moving on soon. Fort Benning I hear. " Claire's face sank into a deeply worried state as Hershel knelt down, picked up a nail and went back to working. She slowly backed away from the man and headed back towards the camp.

Meanwhile back off the farm Shane and Sayid were coaching Sawyer, Kate and Amy with moving targets. Sayid and Shane had rigged together a simple rope and tree branch that swung while hung from a tree. Each person had three shots to hit the target, after two full rotations still no one had hit it. On Kate's final shot Shane walked up and took hold of the target and inspected it, He shook his head and called back, "Still a virgin!"

"The target's too small." Kate said with a scoff,

"That's bullcrap, half hour ago you three could bullseye a mouse from twenty five feet." Shane said with an irritated tone,

"Yeah but the target wasn't moving." Amy said as she crossed her arms,

"A walker is not going to stand still, you need to be able to adjust yourself." Sayid explained calmly,

"The man's right, focus and reload. Amy go!" Shane shouted as he shoved the target back into a swinging motion,

Amy took a slow step forward and raised her gun, after a moment she shot yet once again missed, "Uh-oh, did we piss you off? Come on, girl, you've got walkers all around you. They're in the woods." Shane walked up to Kate and said, "They're in the R.V. you're gonna need hell of a lot more than a damn screwdriver to stop them all."

"Jesus Shane can you stop badgering us?" Kate shot out,

"You're too damn emotional, sadness, happiness, guilt you gotta shut it down, cut it out!" Shane shouted back to them,

"Yeah cause you're about as in control as a car skidding in a blizzard." Sawyer retorted,

Shane quickly pulled out his pistol and took a quick shot hitting the target, "See that, I can be pissed off or whistling dixie, but I always hit the target. Everytime." Shane said holding a cold glare at Sawyer. He quickly reached out and grabbed Sawyer's collar pulling him forward, "Now you stand here and you point your weapon. Point like you point your finger. Do not think about it! I'm talking about muscle memory! Now shoot this sonofabitch!" Shane shouted out again as Sayid pushed the target back into a swinging motion.

Sawyer took a half step and took a shot missing by a mile, "Damn it!"

"Kate! Shoot your weapon!" Shane yelled out, Kate took a step and fired missing the target as well, "Amy!" Shane shouted out. Amy put her weapon up and started to fire, "He's coming for you! He's ten feet away!" Shane shouted walking towards Amy causing Sayid to walk towards him cautiously. Amy missed again, "He's five feet! That's the walker that got Boone! That's the walker that got Shannon! That's the walker chasing Andrea right now, not you shoot it!" Shane shouted out wildly mere feet away from Amy,

Amy looked over to him with an almost horrified look while Sayid took a step in between the two of them. Shane looked at him with an almost confused look as Sayid gave him a icy stare, "Enough." Sayid said coldly, "We are done for today." Shane watched as Sayid lead the others away from him heading back towards their vehicles leaving Shane to think over what he had just done.

Back at the farm Rick was going through each of the guns making sure they were unloaded when Lori and Claire came walking up to him, "Rick." Lori said in a hushed whisper, "Claire told me that Hershel is expecting us to leave?" Rick looked at the pair with an acknowledging gaze, "Does anybody else know?" Lori asked,

"Eko." Rick replied softly, "Listen we're trying to work it out, it's not carved in stone."

"Well he thinks it is, please you have to fix this." Claire begged,

"It's okay, We are working on it." Rick said sternly,

"I need my baby to be safe and safe is here. Maybe if-maybe if I talk to him too." Claire said nearly in tears,

"No, things are uneasy. The best thing we can do is just give him a little space." Rick replied, "Trust me, nothing is going to happen to your child."

Claire let out a little wince, "Honey?" Lori asked as she put a hand on her shoulder. Suddenly they both heard the sound of liquid hitting the ground,

"What-what is that?" Claire asked fearfully,

"Oh god, your water broke. You're baby is coming." Lori said with wide eyes.

Alright everyone I am back, each time I write a chapter I like this story more and more. This chapter in particular was a fun one to write and I hope you all enjoyed it! If you did write me a review expressing your thoughts and I will catch you all in the next one!