A/N: What is Lilly thinking?

Lilly's POV

2 hours later

After that chat with Paige, I can't think about anyone else. Shut the hell up, Lilly, one, he's married, and two, there won't ever be a time for me to ever be with him in any way.

I was just sitting at the table in the kitchen eating my breakfast. After the interview, I had gone back upstairs to rest for about an hour and a half. I came downstairs, and starting eating some eggs and bacon, best meal I've had in months. I didn't realise how much I missed everyday foods.

A familiar face came up to me, it was Mason. "Hi," he said, in his British accent. "I don't think I've actually introduced myself to you."

"Don't worry about it," I said to him, shaking his hand in introduction. "A lot of people haven't said 'hello, except for that little girl over there, Madeline."

"Well, sorry about that," he said.

"No apology needed," I responded. "I'm Lilly." I told him. "You're Mason, right?"

"Yeah," he said, smiling. "Well, I just wanted to introduce myself, and I should be going, I've got to carry on looking after the hole in the wall." I waved goodbye as he walked away.

He seems nice, nice accent, but not my type. What has happened to me? Why am I acting like this? Hormones? I haven't been with anyone in over a year and now I'm surrounded by quite a lot of good looking guys. Lilly, get your mind out of the gutter, this is not right.

I look up and see Clara walking up to me. She sits down on a chair next to mine. "Hi," she said to me. "What was going on between you and Paige?"

"What do you mean?" I asked in response. I was quite shocked by her out-of-nowhere question.

"Don't play dumb with me, I'm not stupid," she angrily said to me. "Stay away from my husband, or I'll gut you like a fish."

"I don't know what you're talking about," I lied. "Why would I go after him?"

"Because you seem like a slut," she said, which kind of hurt my feelings. "I wasn't lying when I said I'd gut you." She lifts herself from the chair and walks away from me. Well, it wasn't just me then. If Clara noticed, that definitely means that Paige noticed.

Well, it doesn't matter, there's an apocalypse and I don't even know if I'm staying here. But, this place does seem like a good deal. Only Clara seems to be overemotional.

I see Madeline walking up to me, seems like everyone wants to have a chat with the new girl. "Hello," she said with her cute squeaky voice.

"Hello," I said to her. "What are you doing here?" I asked. She just smiled and I smiled back. She's cute, but I have a feeling that that is going to change any day now.

"You seem lonely," she said, in a kind of sadder tone.

"It's not bad to be alone," I informed her. "Sometimes, being alone can really help someone."

"Really?" She asked, confused. "My parents told me something different."

"Because they don't want you to be alone," I said, kind of depressed. "They want you to be protected, instead of fighting."

"I wanna fight," she cheerily said.

"How old are you?" I asked her.

"7," she responded.

"You'll have to wait for you're parents to do that." I said to her. She seemed disappointed in my answer.

"Why can't you teach me?" she said.

"It's not my place to do it," I tried to make her understand, but she didn't seem to get it.

"But they could go any day," she said, sadly. I was quite shocked that she said that, it's normal in my dreams, but to hear an actual little girl saying this is kinda depressing.

"Don't think like that," I tried to cheer her up, "they could be here forever." She smiled.

"Madeline," I heard a woman say from the other side of the restaurant. "Come here, sweetie."

Madeline looked around to look at what I assume to be her mother. She waved goodbye to me and ran to the woman. Well, quite the moment.

Can I please get an hour of someone not talking to me, I mean, it's getting restless.

The doors to the restaurant burst open. It was Cole.

"Quick, it's them, they're at the gate." Everyone in the room gasped and screamed. What? Who's 'they'? Everyone but the children ran outside the room. I left my table and ran outside with the rest of the adults.

As everyone crowded outside the gate, but making sure to keep a distance, Paige was there talking to someone outside, whilst several gunmen were peering over the gate, aiming guns.

"Leave us now, Leo," Paige said to the unseen person behind the gate. "We outnumber you."

"Is that so," I heard. His voice sounds weird, kind of gravelly. "Because last time I checked, your group was down to about 36 people."

"Only because you shot us the day you met us."

These groups really need to sort out their differences. Why do they need to kill each other, it's not as if there aren't any walkers out there looking to kill already.

"Just give us some food," Leo said. "Anythin' you can get us really, we don't want to start anything."

"You've already started something," Paige yelled at him. I walked closer to the gates, and a I saw his face, he had a deep scratch mark going over his face, his eye was pure white. Painful. He had brown hair, cut at the sides and hair all over the top. He looked young considering his voice makes himself sound older.

"Come one now, Paige," he said in an intimidating voice. "We don't want to hurt you, but don't do what you're told, then we have to get our hands dirty, and we don't want that, now do we?" Paige just stared at him with anger, it was kind of scary, I looked behind me to see Clara, looking more scared than me.

"Why are you here?" Paige yelled. He was really angry, he could be drawing walkers. Behind Leo were a lot of men.

"Paige, keep your voice down," Leo said slowly and calmly. "Wouldn't want my buddies to do something now, would we?"

"What do you mean?" Paige said, more quietly than before. "What are you gonna do to us?"

Leo clicked his finger. Five trucks reversed, with the rear ends pointing towards the gate. Two men came out of each truck and went to the rear and put their hands on the shutters. All of them opened them up simultaneously and about 20 walkers came out of each one. Leo's group then got in their own cars and drove away, leaving us with the walkers.

Shit. What do we do? I looked at Paige, he looked back with fear. I looked behind me to see Madeline.

"Madeline, honey, get inside with your mom, tell them to lock the door." Madeline looked at me with fear, but she nodded and ran away. As she did so, I took out my knife. "Everybody, no matter what, try not to use your guns or any other load weapon."

I looked back at the gate. The wall was coming down, it is no match to the amount of walkers behind it. The wall then split in half and so many walkers came out. Well, time to fight. Not exactly what I planned, but I am not dying today.

A walker is coming towards me, so I walk up to it and stab it in the eyes. A load of walkers behind it and I started stabbing like mad. This was giving me such an adrenaline rush. I had ran out of walkers, there was a lot behind me, attacking members of the group. I looked over and saw Madeline's mother, she was being bitten in the neck, she seemed helpless. I ran over to her and stabbed the walker.

She looked at me in fear. "I was trying to protect her, and it just jumped on me." I looked around and everyone was fighting, I also saw some people being bitten. "Look after her," she said to me. "Make her stronger." She looked at my knife.

She snatched it off of me and stabbed herself in the head. She dropped to floor, knife still in her head. I just looked at her in shock, I had never seen anything like that. I look at the window and see Madeline. She looked on in shock. I think she knew what happened.

Killing yourself is one thing, but to do it with a knife, must be quite painful. I had to look away, we are still being attacked. I saw Paige and Clara attacking the walkers. I ran up to help them.

A walker was walking up to Clara, she wasn't looking because she was killing another one. The walker came close to biting her, but I managed to stab it. Clara looked around and saw what I did.

"Thanks," she said, quietly, obviously not wanting to say it to me loudly. I don't blame her, it's not as if she didn't threaten me earlier.

After a few more killing, I looked around to find that we had somehow managed to kill all the walkers, without that many people dying, only Madeline's mom, and some other people I didn't introduce myself to. In total I think we lost 3 people. Good, considering how many walkers there were.

Paige walked up to me. "Thanks for helping." He said to me.

"Don't mention it." I replied. He then threw his arms around me.

"Thank you for saving Clara as well." He replied.

"You're welcome," I replied. For some reason I was hurt by his comment. I think I know why, but it was still confusing.

Paige let go of me and walked away, towards his wife. I looked around and saw Madeline, walking up to her mother's body. I went up to her and put an arm around her shoulder.

"Don't look honey," I said to her. Madeline then put her face on my chest, crying. I held her tightly. "It's going to be fine," I whispered. "Don't worry, you're gonna be fine, you'll get past this."

"When?" I heard her sob, "Why did they do this?" I rubbed her head slowly, trying to comfort her.

"Because they are bad people," I explained. "They don't have a reason, they just do it because they can." I saw Mason talking to Paige, I then looked at Madeline. "Honey, I need to have a second, just wait inside the kitchen, okay?" She nodded.

Madeline stood up and walked away, with tears running down her face. Poor girl. I kind of understand, but she's only little.

I walked up to Mason and Paige. "What are we doing about the wall?" I asked them.

"Well, we should fix it, don't you think." Mason said. "Those bastards need to be taught a lesson."

"We have to defend ourselves first," Paige replied. "How's Madeline doing?" Paige asked me.

"She saw her mother stab herself in the head, what do you think?" I said, depressingly. "We have to focus on getting the wall fixed, then think of something to do with the bastards." They both nodded. "Those are the guys from Chattanooga?"

"Yep," Mason confirmed. "This time they brought more people." Mason just looked around the camp, obviously distraught by what's happened.

"We might have to send more people out for wood and scaffolding tomorrow." Paige said to us. We both nodded.

"We could still use some of the wood from the broken wall." Mason said, offering an idea.

"Sounds good," I said to them. "I'll go back to Madeline." I walked away from Mason and Paige and towards the kitchen where I told Madeline to go. I walked in and there she was, sitting at the table, with Emma.

I walked over to the table, Emma looked up. "Hi," she started. "What's it like out there?"

"Bad," I informed her. "Three people are... Y'know." Emma nodded, understanding what I meant.

"Well," she bypassed the conversation. "Do you want anything, Maddy," she asked her. She didn't reply. "I'll go get you a slice of bread." Emma got up from her seat and walked behind the counter of the room.

I looked down at Maddy, who was still crying. I sat down next to her and rubbed her shoulder. She dug her face in my chest again. She obviously really loved her mother. "Don't cry, this'll all be over soon." She looked up at me and shook her head.

"No it won't, this won't ever be over." She carried on letting me hug her and Emma came back with a slice of bread. Maddy looked at her and took it, eating very slowly.

She was right, this won't ever be over.

A/N: Sorry for the delay, but here it is. What will happen next? Will the wall be built? Will they get revenge of the group in Chattanooga?