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Lights.

They shine brightly into Carly's eyes as she struggles to open her eyelids. The lights seem to be florescent light but it's been so long since Carly has seen such bright artificial light that she thinks that she must be dreaming. But Carly knows that she couldn't be dreaming because she knew she had just woken up from one very confusing dream.

Carly kept having images flash through her mind of a ruggedly handsome man with a eye patch, the feel of his strong arms, and the soothing melody of his deep southern voice. Carly tried to tie these images with anything that she could think of but she could not figure out who this man is.

Carly was suddenly startled from her thoughts by a foreign voice.

"Well hey there honey, it's so nice to see you waking up." A black woman said beaming a smile at Carly.

"Where am I and who are you?" Carl y asked.

"I'm Dr. Stevens; I've been taking care of you. You're in a town called Woodbury, you were rescued by the governor in the woods the other day." Dr. Stevens said.

"A town? How can that be? And who is this governor?" Carly questioned.

"That's not my place to explain everything but he should be in shortly to explain things to you himself, ill go get you some water and something to satisfy your stomach" Dr. Stevens said and exited what seemed to be an infirmary.

Carly's head throbbed. As she reached up to touch it as if that would some how stop the throbbing, she remembered her eye. She remembered she now had a scar from just below her eye to right above it and she felt other small, new scraps along her body as if she had been running. Carly's thoughts were interrupted by the sound of a door opening and then the heavy sound of boots walking on the floor. The next thing she saw was the man she thought she had been dreaming about.

"Welcome to Woodbury." The man said with a boyish smirk on his face. Carly couldn't find any words to say back to him so the man continued on.

"They call me the governor, I sort of run this town that you are in. We found you in the woods and brought you here for some medical attention and some rest, you looked like you needed it."

"Uh, thank you." Carly said and as she tried to draw in another breath to speak it felt like fire burning up her sides and she winced in pain.

"Yeah, I think you have a couple of badly broken ribs. It'll take some time to heal but we don't mind you staying here and recuperating." The governor said again with what Carly was beginning to think was his signature smirk.

Carly and the Governor looked at each other, Carly saw some kind of emotion in his eyes but he couldn't tell what it was.

"Well ill leave you to Dr. Stevens care, ill come back to check on you." The governor said and then nodded his head to Carly and went out the door.

As soon as the Governor stepped out into the streets of Woodbury he heard Merle calling him.

"Governor, we've gone through her bag and her wallet was in there and we found out a little bit about her. Youll want to see this."

The governor followed Merle towards Milton's lab and when they entered the governor saw the camoflauge bag Carly had been traveling with sitting on the table and it was now mostly empty. The governor moved towards what seemed to be the contents of her wallet and start looking at things.

Driver's license.

"So she's from South Carolina and she's young, she's 24 with a birthday coming up in a few months. And her name is Carly Poston." The governor said, reading all the information from her license.

Merle Smiled.

"None of this seems too interesting Merle" the governor said

"So you don't know who she is? I thought you might not but she's sort of famous. She's on a big hunting show on the Outdoor Channel, I use to watch it sometimes when I was buzzin, something nice to look at and a lil huntin' just up my alley." Merle said licking his lips.

The governor frowned the way he does when hes usually thinking. "Well then she might be more beneficial to us when she heals up, more than most survivors." The governor said more to himself than anyone in the room. "I have to go take care of some things, ill touch base with yall a little later on."

A cool fall evening was beginning to set over Woodbury and the Governor found himself making his way back towards the infirmary, where the blonde, now known as Carly was. The governor entered and found her asleep on her bed. The governor stared at the beautiful young girl and couldn't shake a strange feeling that he kept getting when he looked at her. He was attracted to her sure, she was beautiful. But he felt a need to protect her, a need to be something for her. The governor really didn't know what those feelings meant but he knew he couldn't kill this girl or let her go on her way without finding out why he was feeling this way. He wanted to get to know this girl. But right now he had strategy to go plan with Merle and his other men, he had to worry about the prison.

Carly awoke and could see through the windows in the room that it must be the middle of the night. She had been dreaming about the man that called himself the governor. It was a most confusing dream and she found herself being drawn to this man that she didn't even know. She knew that she couldn't wait to see him when he came to check on her tomorrow. And Carly fell back asleep with a small smile on her face.

Phillip climbed into his bed, officially done with his governor duties for the day. The last thought on his mind was the new girl known as Carly and for the first time in a long time Phillip fell into a peaceful sleep.