Hey guys! It's been a little while! I swear though I have been writing I am actually like 10 chapters (at least) ahead of this in my writing and plot is all written out (cause that's suuuuper important) But for some reason or another is not working very well on my computer which is kinda pissin' me off but oh well at least it is up here now! Read and enjoy and leave a review if you are feeling like a good citizen!

Time Again: Chapter 5

It was another beautiful day outside in the morning as the sun was beginning to rise so Ivy took the rare opportunity to continue to read her novel, she finished quickly though and was left with nothing to do until everyone had woken. She was about ready to become lost in her thoughts of her past and what the world had been like before.

Not to sound like she was a person who wanted to destroy the world or loved watching people die or anything that would amount to that, but Ivy did prefer the world that they lived in now. She didn't have to sit in an unhappy tedium every day. Yes, she had been working to do what she loved but the tedium of the everyday choices and obstacles now seem so insignificant to what is now the truth.

Music was truly the only thing she missed out of everything, of course she missed the relationship with Anthony, a story she would save for a later date, but after what had happened between them, she could hardly find it in her at all to remember him. Music though… yes, music she could recreate. Glenn was good for that.

Glenn was also good at finding the most opportune moments to scare the living Hell out of her.

"What are you thinking about?" He asked her, making her jump as she had not noticed his presence.

'That would not do well if it were a walker attack…' Ivy thought, unhappy with herself. Glenn gave her an odd look as if he had known exactly what she had been thinking about.

"You were thinking about the old world, weren't you?" Glenn wondered, he also wondered what she thought about it though as she had an odd expression on her face the entire time that had not passed the others' features when they had thought of such things.

"Yeah… I have a view that I don't think you want to know though." Ivy whispered back, still not wanted to wake anyone who might still be asleep in their tents, feeling safe for just awhile until they would need to move on.

"Try me." Glenn responded taking her lead on voice level, but smiling all the while.

"Well… I prefer this new world to the one before." She said, receiving a surprised and almost disgusted face from her companion. She decided that now would be a relatively good time to explain her words; "Don't get me wrong, not at all, hear me out." She told him.

Glenn only gave a small nod in encouragement for her explanation, as it was obviously needed. "It's not that I love seeing the destruction, or pain, or hurt of anyone, it's not that I see people in need or the way that the soles of the living dead are lost. I find no enjoyment of any of those things. However I do find joy in the fact that now we, as human beings work together for a greater cause, we have all truly formed relationships with each other that whether we be in this world, or a true, safe world, can never be broken now that they have been made. But can't you see? In the old world, I would have never even considered the majority of this group to even talk to them. I am talking even of Shane and Maggie, two people that I quite obviously dislike." Ivy took a moment to pause her monologue as this was the first time she was speaking of it out loud and this is a time that Glenn is hearing it for the first time; they both needed a moment to process all of what she was saying and the meaning of the words cleverly spaced in between the lines of what she had said.

When she continued she spoke softer as she had increased in volume with every word she had spoken.

"I am saying that we have formed a real bond, one that could never exist in the old world." She paused once more, thinking over her words before she would say them.

"I am saying that we are stronger both physically, and in our hearts. We are still here in the new universe of survival of the fittest. There is a reason we will find a cure, and when we do, that old world we knew? It will be gone, yes, but we can create an improved community we could make it so that the tedium of every day being lived in the same way, no longer is life. And I am saying we could m-"

Ivy was interrupted by the living Hell being frightened out of her once more this morning.

'Group 2, Ivy 0' Ivy thought as she ran up the stairs of Hershel Greene's front deck upon hearing a fight between Daryl, whose voice had been the loudest, and two others. Ivy would assume Clementine who had yet to leave the room he had been bed ridden in.

"MY WOMAN! MINE!" He was yelling pointing at Rick who was looking down, angry as all get out. Ivy was supremely confused, it was obvious that Rick loved no one but his own wife, Lori and would always be faithful to her.

That's when Ivy saw that Tiny was wearing Rick's shirt.

"Look. Daryl, Shane was beein' Shane, and Tiny gave her shirt to you to-"Daryl interrupted for the however many-ith time, which Ivy could tell had been several.

"Stop with the God damned lies! And don't you dare be callin' her Tiny! Her name is Clementine to you!" Ivy and Glenn decided that it would be a good time for them to leave since they really had zero relevance to the situation, especially Ivy who, had currently been wailing on Andrea and had not seen what really happened that day regarding Clementine.

As the two were walking out the front door they could clearly see that the yelling had caused a commotion outside as well.

"What's goin' on in there?" Two voices questioned at the same time, though one voice was a sweet and quiet womanly voice, while the other was a gruff and demanding male voice.

Glenn quickly explained what was going on to Carol and Shane and when Shane made the move to go inside it was Ivy who stopped him.

"Look Shane, I get it, I want to help them settle things to, but it would be doin' no good for us to go in tryin' to help 'cause we could always just end up stirring the pot more." Shane begrudgingly backed down but did however, listen to her words.

"Is anyone goin' out today to look for my girl, or do I need to? I will, I'm just not a very useful tracker…" Carol's shy voice trailed.

"I'll go." Ivy said.

"Well you saw what just happened the other day now, Ivy, you best not be going by yourself." Dale said looking chastising and very serious.

Before Glenn, who wanted to help, could say anything, it was Shane who offered to go. Ivy found this strange though; Shane didn't like her, and thought that it was a waste of time to go on looking for the little girl.

"Oh, that's all right Shane, you don't need to come, I'll do just fine on my own." Ivy told him, knowing that she could handle herself. Ivy didn't really know exactly what had happened to Daryl, but she knew that it had to have been extreme and a not-so-everyday-occurrence for him to have been hurt so critically.

"Oh! No you don't!" Dale said once more from atop the RV where he sat holding a rifle.

"That's alright little girl, I'll go, besides, you don't even know what little Sophia looks like, regardless if you can take care of yourself or not." Shane replied evenly.

Ivy truly, just didn't understand what his motives were, she knew it wasn't really to find Sophia, but if not that, then what?

Ok so it was another short chapter in there, but I promise, long ones are coming. Can anyone guess what Shane wants? Thanks for reading, Review if you are feelin' like a good citizen today! :P

~Jessika