Hi everyone! Sorry that I have not updated in a long time, Monday night I was in an Auto accident and I was in the hospital and then on Vikadin sp? And so I am sure you would not have wanted to see what I came up with, important thing is I am ok and so are my guys who were also in the car. I was thankfully the only one who got hurt which is strange because I was the one behind the driver (Elliot) and that's like the safest place in a head on but yeah it was a crazy road and it was late and he swerved a bit and then damn overcorrecting. Sooooo anyway, I wanted to let you all know, this is going to be a filled up chapter, I think that a lot is going to happen and I hope that you all enjoy it as much as I do!
The sun was beating down on the group, hot as ever, the strong urge to just drop and die today was particularly strong, though none of them would give into said urge. Ivy walked through the tall grasses of Hershel's farm alongside Shane, headed to the forest in search of the missing little girl.
Ivy knew that Shane wanted something, she just couldn't figure out what. He kept looking at her, furrowing his brow, then turning away from her, so whatever he had to say, he was incredibly pensive about it.
As the pair made their transition into the woods they each stepping on their share of sticks Shane finally spoke up.
"You seem like a leader." He stated blandly as if he was still thinking about what he was going to say next. Upon realizing that he would not continue until she made a move Ivy nodded curtly.
"Go on." She encouraged him, if that's what one would call it.
Shane looked at her and grinned, it was probably meant to be nice but Ivy thought that he kind of looked more like the Cheshire Cat.
"You see, we have no business lookin' for this little girl. She's dead, prolly a walker by now if I'm honest. You see that right? I know ya do. There ain't no one else though, we need to convince them." Shane restarted and Ivy finally realized part of what Shane had wanted but she knew that there was more to this than just simply the little girl who had gone missing.
"I know. But I ain't one to take away anyone else's hope." Ivy told him, then shrugged. "Look, everyone is hopin' that this little girl is alive, we know she's not, and they'll see it soon too, but we can't take away their hope." She explained to him. Shane looked extremely thoughtful and Ivy knew that she had hit a cord somewhere deep within him, probably and old part of Shane that didn't exist anymore.
"Yeah, I get it." Shane nodded again, like he was still trying to convince himself to believe what she said even though he knew that people would get hurt in the process of fulfilling their hope. "What do you think of Rick as a leader?" Shane asked her with a strange light to his eye. That clued Ivy off to the fact that this is the other half of what the man before her had wanted. All she could do was answer honestly.
"Don't know. I can tell he's a good man, but I ain't got a leader. I'm outta hear sooner or later anyway. I like bein' my own leader." Ivy told him though she knew it didn't give him any answer that he was looking for, though he didn't seem surprised at what she said.
"Yeah, I get that too." He said, nodding yet again to the words she spoke to him.
"So… why are you still here? You don't seem like you would be the one to follow someone else's lead anyway.
Shane chuckled humorlessly and then replied;
" Yeah, I'm not, there's just some people here I need to protect." He told her.
"I gotcha." Was all she said. She had a sneaking feeling that he wasn't telling her everything, but she didn't press the issue as she wasn't entirely sure that she wanted to know.
Time passed in silence as the two looked on forward for the young girl named Sophia, whom the two that were searching had little to no hope for her survival. Suddenly, Shane, who had been walking beside Ivy stopped in his steps and when Ivy looked back at him, he had a gun pointed at her.
Ivy was shocked but grabbed her machete from her belt loop immediately nonetheless and ducked beneath Shane's gun, wondering why he hadn't shot at her already and held a knife to his throat. That's when a shot rang and Ivy looked up as the walker infront of them fell to the forest floor.
Ivy quickly put her knife away and looked up at Shane apologetically. He gave her a strange look but turned around to start heading back to the farm.
"Sorry, impulse." Ivy admitted. Shane said nothing just kept walking, Ivy fell into step with him once more trying to find a peace between them that had been there before the walker showed up and Ivy had pointed her knife to his throat.
"Eh… I get it." Shane allotted to tell her. Ivy just followed his previous gesture and nodded.
The sun was just setting when the pair had gotten back from looking for the young girl and Ivy headed straight for the house, wondering if Daryl, Rick, and Tiny had worked out their issues.
The screen door groaned as she walked in to see her closest friends of the group sitting beside each other on the bed quietly discussing something that she could not quite make out. The two were both unaware of her presence so Ivy took the moment to observe her friends.
Clementine was absolutely beautiful; she had long, wavy red hair, dark green, almost brown eyes and a splash of freckles across her nose which would wrinkle in anger throughout the conversation.
Admittedly, Daryl was a very handsome man. Ivy wouldn't deny it. He had that not-so-blonde hair that girls would swoon over and deep blue eyes that Ivy had always loved, he, of course had built arms that women everywhere would die for. But it wasn't that way for Ivy, he was like a brother to her and she loved him dearly, just not in a romantic sort of way. Ivy was happy, the two were a beautiful couple, she was jealous of them really.
There were times when she just wanted someone to hold. Ivy quickly erased the silly thoughts from her mind as quickly as they came though, she did not want to think of such things in any way.
That's when Clementine's sister, Skye, walked to Ivy and grabbed her elbow. Skye was perfectly named, due to her beautiful sky blue eyes that always sparkled. Unlike her sister though, she had bright blond hair that was tamed, straight, where as Clementine's waves were wild and messy in a flattering way. The two were gorgeous opposites. They paled Ivy into the background as she could never compare in the looks department.
Ivy finally made her presence known to the two on the plush bed, with Skye holding Ivy's hand, which she immediately let go of to sit beside her older sister.
"Hey guys, just wanted to check on ya'll." Ivy told them. Daryl, rolled his eyes, Tiny, frowned deeper. "Good to hear." Ivy spoke sarcastically under her breath.
That was the exact moment when Rick walked into the small and dimly lit room with Lori, his wife, on his arm.
"You should leave Rick." Tiny told him weakly.
"No. Daryl will listen to me." Rick responded sternly, earning a look from his anorexic looking wife.
"I ain't listenin' to shit from you!" Daryl resorted to yelling again. He was pissed, it was clear that the time apart from Rick had done nothing to quell his rage.
"We did noth-" Before Rick could finish Daryl interrupted him and before anyone could stop him he yelled something that Ivy had not expected at all.
"What? Did ya figure that since your wife was fuckin' around with your best buddy that you would fuck 'round too? Well back off! She's mine!"
Rick didn't even look at Daryl when he said that, just looked astonished at Lori, who's eyes were wide open with fear and regret. Her brown eyes showed the truth right there in them.
Holy shit. I had no idea. Ivy thought to herself as Rick just shook his head tight lipped and walked past Lori and out the door not bothering to touch her.
Once Rick had made his way out of the room completely and sufficiently slammed the door as hard as he could Lori fell to the ground, sobbing. No one went to her aid, they all just stared at her, and presently switched their attention to Skye who had begun to cry as well.
"All you cryin' whores get outta here, now." Daryl ordered. Lori stared at him for a moment but then proceeded to stand and exit the room.
"Come on, Skye, you come with me." Ivy said to the little girl who was trying to wipe away her small tears, causing her face to become irritated and red. The last thing Ivy heard before shutting the screen door at the front of the house was;
"What the fuck Daryl!"
Ivy shook her head and took Skye to sit by the fire with Carl.
Glenn walked up to Ivy and asked her about what happened inside the house. Ivy answered in complete honesty.
"Ehh, Daryl was bein' Daryl and Rick and Lori got into a pretty decent fight, so I took it as a good time to peace out." She said as she continued on her way to begin her walk. Glenn just waited to see if the woman beside him would say anything more, but she didn't and he hadn't figure that she would.
"You know, it's not safe to go out there this late." Glenn spoke up to his fear for her. The sun had been down for a good hour and they both knew that it was the walkers' favorite time to eat some dinner.
"Oh, I know!" Ivy said more enthusiastically than Glenn thought that she would and found his suspicions to be correct when the young woman continued. "It's going to be crazy dangerous, you really don't have to come if you're scared. I'll be ok without the manly Asian man around to keep me safe." She finished sarcastically, hurting the young man more than she had thought that she would.
Glenn just continued to walk beside her quietly for a few moments, enjoying the silence along with her until he decided he wanted to ask her something.
"Why don't you like me? I mean the night we played music was the only time you've ever been nice to me." He asked her, unsure of what her answer would be and was incredibly curious to see what her response would be.
Ivy thought before answering, it's not that she didn't like him. He was nice, and brought her to this group of nice people, he seemed about her age, he was cute enough, but really, he seemed rather wimp and none too bright.
'Weird for a yellow guy' Ivy thought to herself
She once more, decided that honesty was the best policy, she would just do it with a double negative.
"I don't not like you." She responded to him not allowing much information to pass through her lips.
"You seem like you do." He pressed.
"Well I don't! That's all there is to it!" Ivy said, maybe a little too loudly for comfort since they were in the woods by now.
"Look you don't have to-"Glenn was interrupted by a rustling sound coming from a bush. There was just an infinitesimal second from the time that they heard the noise to the moment that Ivy had her machete at the ready and Glenn had his gun up and directed accurately at the bush and whatever was squirming within its life.
Glenn moved to the other side, grabbing a large stick that had fallen from the tree above them and poked at the bush until a bloody shoe came out from the bush and more rustling was heard.
Ivy retrieved a large tree limb that was laying beside the tree that the bush sat under. She used it to pry open the tendrils of the bush, revealing a small child. She was blond and had pretty blue eyes, she looked scared and confused. Within seconds though the girl had jumped up and was attached to Glenn.
Ivy was supremely confused until Glenn spoke.
"Sophia!" Glenn yelled joyously as the little girl squeezed the life out of him. The small girl definitely looked worse for wear and was covered head to toe in blood.
"Honey, did you get hurt at all?" Glenn asked setting the child down. Sophia nodded before answering quietly.
"Yes but it wasn't bad, not like Kimi." Sophia explained. Ivy and Glenn shared a look, neither of them knew who the girl was referring to.
"Who's Kimi?" Glenn asked her. Ivy had yet to speak up, she wasn't good with children and she felt extremely awkward and embarrassed quite frankly. Plus, the girl didn't know her and Ivy didn't want to freak her out. It looked like the small blond had been frightened enough in the last week or two that she had been gone, Ivy wasn't sure how long it had been since she hadn't joined until the middle of her new group's search.
"She saved me." The little girl allotted to say while nodding her small head causing tendrils of blond to float back and forth wispily. "Kimi was a kid too, but older than me and Carl… she was this tall." Sophia told the pair of adults and stretched up as high as she could putting her hand to show how tall Kimi had been. "Yeah, and she had red hair like Miss Clementine's hair."
"Where is Kimi at?" Ivy finally spoke up.
Sophia's eyes began to water and her bottom lip poked out, quivering just slightly. "She died."
"Did she get bit by a walker?" Glenn asked the young child but his only response was a nod and he decided collectively with Ivy that they would discontinue their questioning until later, if at all, this Kimi girl had not been bitten, thus had not turned into a walker, and she has died, so she really wasn't of any importance to them at that point.
Regardless of what had transpired during Sophia's absence and what hadn't, the kid looked like she was about to pass out, and she probably was about to. That's when the term "looked like she was about to pass out" became way too literal.
Sophia turned ghostly white and her eyes rolled back into her head as she fell against Glenn's leg. Glenn picked up the girl just to notice that she was extraordinarily clammy.
"We need to get her to Hershel's" Ivy said quietly touching Sophia's hand.
Glenn started jogging back to the farm house with Ivy trailing slightly behind him and to his side.
I hope y'all enjoyed the story so far! I am so happy that I get to write this, please remember to check out the sister story to this one! Ivy is not yet there in that one (as of today) but it follows Clementine (Tiny) and Skye's story up until this point and eventually Ivy will be in it, the two stories constantly intermingle and it is a fabulous story that she is writing (WasteOfAnArrow) Check it out! Remember to review if you are feeling like a good citizen!