Thank you cemmia.

I realized that everyone should be in the house during the last chapter, but I forgot that when writing. Sorry!

Lily Sullivan is my OC. The Walking Dead does not belong to me.

Once she told him Randall was gone, Daryl disappeared into the woods to tell Rick who was still arguing with Shane. Glenn came from inside the house and joined Daryl in the search for Randall.

"I'll be back soon!" Daryl shouted to Lily.

"You better be!"

When Rick and Shane didn't reemerge from the woods, Lily could only assume that they had gone off to search for Randall together. Rick probably saw it as a way for Shane to redeem himself.

After at least half an hour of waiting for him to come back, she took her bag filled with medical supplies, slipped on a jacket and walked outside. She was walking towards the woods when movement caught her eyes. It was Daryl and Glenn. Randall wasn't with them though.

"You find him?" she asked them her breath visible in the night.

"Yeah, we did," Glenn said.

"He was a walker. No, he wasn't bit. His neck was broke," Daryl answered her.

"What's going on?"

"Need to tell the others."

"I'll stay out here and watch for Rick and Shane to come back."

"Stay on the porch." She rested her things on the railing waiting for any sign of life to emerge from the woods.

The walkers melted out of the woods coming directly for camp.

"Walkers!" Lily screamed as she ran into camp. She was forced to a skidding stop as a walker rounded the side of the RV.

She punched the walker in the head before stomping it into the ground.

They hadn't come back from the woods. Rick or Shane.

A gunshot broke the night.

"Rick! Carl!" Lori wailed from the house porch. Carl was missing too?

Carol held her back when she tried to run.

The walkers were swarming the RV and Lily knew she had to do something to draw them away so the group could get to the cars. The keys to Daryl's bike were in one of the side bags because there was no point in carrying keys anymore. She drew them out, stuffed her bag in after them, and started the bike making as much noise as possible. To draw the walkers away, she circled around the RV to draw the walkers back where they came from. Her breath caught in her throat when she saw the severe number of walkers on the other side.

There was no time to hesitate so she revved the engine as loud as it would go and stormed off through the herd just barely avoiding the grabbing hands.

When Lily circled down by the house Daryl came sprinting out to see who had taken his bike.

"The hell ya doin'?"

The look she gave him said 'Don't question me' as she readjusted herself on the seat.

"Go. Go!" He shouted as walkers came closer to the bike a smirk on his face. "Take 'em to the barn!"

She revved the engine following Daryl's plan. Jimmy took the RV and began following her. When they got close, she pointed him toward the barn which was on fire where Rick and Carl were standing on the roof and then circled back around and headed for the house.

Half way there, Daryl hopped into his proper place on the bike and took it back down to the fence shooting the walkers who were too close for comfort.

"I'd give you a gun if there were any more to give!"

"I can take care of myself! I've learned how to do at least that much!" she said grabbing the machete from his bike.

As she reached for it, he took off and she spilled from the bike landing with a thud. Walkers were upon her in seconds. Blood rained down upon her as the machete ended the lives of many, but many more were coming.

Carol screamed drawing Lily toward her.

The blue ford truck was coming toward them and Lily pushed Carol into the back of it. Andrea had a walker on top of her so Lily dragged it off and killed it.

"Go!" Andrea took off for the woods as Lily covered her back. The second Andrea left, a walker crashed down on Lily. It's teeth collided with the blade of the machete and Lily forced the blade trough its head.

Blood filled her eyes forcing her to wipe it away. When she could see again walkers were closing around her so she jumped on the shed where Randall had been locked up. A walker grabbed her jacket dragging her back. She slipped off the jacket and surged forward.

Off in the distance she could see the cars leaving the farm. She was going to get left behind. This group had taken her in and were now leaving her behind. She fell to her knees in defeat when a loud engine filled her ears.

"Get you're ass down from there and get on!"

In one swift movement she jumped from the roof sending pain through her legs and Daryl took her arm pulling her up behind him and she wrapped her arms around his waist.

"Let's get the hell out of here!"

They rode off together for a solid hour before they stopped. The sun had just begun to rise shedding some light on them bringing with it some warmth. His hand was warm against hers.

"Thank you for not leaving me."

"You'd just saved four of us in a row and expected ta be left behind? I told you I'd take care of ya."

"The cars were leaving... Even if I shouted they wouldn't have come back."

The breeze made a shiver run down her back causing her to hold her arms and lean into Daryl's back.

"You're turning purple!" he exclaimed reaching into one of the side bags and wrapping one of his shirts around her.

"Lost my jacket to a walker."

"Take this too." He took off his jacket and gave it her. "You need it more than I do." She put on his clothes and wrapped her arms around his waist again. The jacket was so much warmer than she expected.

"What do you think we should do?"

She thought for a moment before answering, "Go back to the highway. That's where we broke down... That's where they were headed..."

"Ok, I hope you're right."

"Me too."

Lily was as cold as she'd ever felt since the dead came back to life. Winter was setting in and she was aware of it more than ever and dreaded every coming second. Winter had been one of her favorite seasons but from the other side of a window pane. Now she realized she was going to have to tough it out trough the snow and cold weather without a house. The highway seemed more crowded than the last time they were there but that was impossible considering the world was practically dead and there was no one left to drive cars.

"Hey, man," Daryl greeted Rick clapping his hand. "We need some warmer clothes. This one's almost frozen."

"We'll look through these cars to find something for her. Glad to see you here."

"Good to see you too. Seen anyone else?"

"No," Rick said helping her from the bike and to the back of the truck where Carl crawled into her lap.

"Daryl's jacket smells funny," Carl said wrinkling his nose. Lily laughed.

Hershel helped the other two search through cars and it wasn't long before a pile of clothes was collected and Lily took her pick of what to wear.

"Keep it," Daryl told Lily when she was taking off his jacket. "It's not much but it'll have to do until we find ya a jacket of your own."

"Thanks. But won't you get cold?" Lily reached into the pile drawing a scarf from inside.

"Nah. I'm good," he said sighing as she wrapped the scarf around his neck and over his head.

He made to walk off but turned back around and picked Carl from Lily's lap. "It's my turn, bud. That cool with you?"

Carl smiled. "Yeah, that's fine."

Daryl crawled into the back of the truck and pulled Lily close to him.

"The adrenaline rush usually keeps me going. I guess that's why I'm so cold now because the hecticness has stopped for a while."

"Just shut up and come 'ere. I think ya got too used to bein' in the house..." He pulled her into his lap and wrapped the blanket around them and slipped his arms under the jacket she wore. His hands upon her back made her shiver which made him think she was colder, enticing him to pull her closer.

Rick cast them a side glance, still trying to get used to the idea that Daryl could show affection to people other than his brother.

The warmth from Daryl's hands and the steady beating of his heart sent Lily to sleep.

"We need to start moving. We can't wait here any longer." That's what Lily woke to.

"Aren't you going to wait for others?" Daryl asked quietly not knowing she was awake.

"Has no one else shown up?"

"Shit. Sorry to wake ya."

She waved him off as she stretched her stiff limbs.

Motors filled the air as two cars drove down the highway to where the five of them sat.

Lori, Beth, T-Dog, Carol, Maggie and Glenn.

Lori jumped out of the truck and ran into Rick's arms hugging him and Carl close. Maggie and Beth ran to Hershel.

"Thank you for saving me last night, Lily," Carol said coming up to her.

"I only hope you would do the same for me," Lily said to her.

"Yeah, she also saved Rick and Carl," Daryl said. "She lead Jimmy to them and they were able to hop down from the barn."

"Jimmy and Patricia. Those are who we lost. God," Lily sighed running her hands down her face. "I don't know them and I feel like being us there caused this to happen."

"You're probably right," Daryl said not trying to sugar coat anything at all. "But we lost Sophia and Dale and do you see Shane anywhere?"

At the mention of Shane, the hair on the back of Lily's neck stood up and every fiber of her set itself on edge looking for him. She wondered how she had forgotten him. Only a few hours earlier he'd tried to kill her because she was close to the Grimes.

"Shane?" Lori asked getting to her feet. "Where is he?" She looked at Rick. Rick looked at Lily before turning his attention back to his wife.

"Didn't see him leave to farm," Lily said jumping to Rick's rescue. The look on his face told Lily that something bad had happened since she told him what Shane had told her. At least she got the feeling.

"Andrea?" Carol asked.

"Saw her fall," T-Dog said.

"You're sure about Andrea?"

"There were walkers everywhere," Lori said.

"Did you see her?"

"I pulled a walker off her and pointed her towards the woods," Lily said. "Did none of you see her?"

"Nah, man," T-Dog responded. "We just ran."

"I'm gonna go back," Daryl said walking over to his bike.

"No." Rick stopped him.

"We can't just leave her."

"We don't even know if she's there."

"She isn't there. She isn't. She's somewhere else or she's dead. There's no way to find her."

"So we're not even gonna look for her?" Glenn asked.

"We gotta keep moving. There have been walkers crawling all over here."

"I say head east," T-Dog piped up.

"Stay off the main roads," Daryl added. "The bigger the road, the more walkers, more assholes like this one. I got him." He picked up his cross bow and aimed it at the walker who was currently walking down the road wearing a sweater vest. He fired an arrow through it's eye and he fell with a thud.

After the walker fell, everyone grabbed a place in the vehicle or on Daryl's bike and got back on the highway with the goal to leave the invested farm far behind.

As Lily hopped on the bike behind Daryl, she saw the faded message on the nearby car windshield telling Sophia that they'd be back every day to get her if she returned. It just served as a reminder to all who had been lost since going to the farm.