AN: I didn't realized the line breaks weren't automatically added…so since I most likely won't have the time for that, I'm gonna do like *s to tell when I'm moving like forward in time.

It had been roughly two weeks since Marie had had the twins and she was now taking a walk with the two of them, Gavin, Sophia, and Carl. Sophia was holding Airy while Marie had Parker, Dug walking at their side. It was nice to be outside. She'd missed this.

"So who are their God parents?" Carl asked his aunt.

"God parents? Hm," Marie hadn't even considered that. "I'll have to talk to Daryl about that one. Although my first thought would be you two, maybe Elizabeth and Rick…but I don't know how I'd feel about Rick raising my child…"

"Who were my God parents?" Gavin asked. "What are God parents?"

"They would be the ones to take care of you if something happened to me-or in Parker and Airy's case me and Daryl. You didn't have any though."

"Oh." He said.

"You and Shane were mine, right?"

"Mm hm. Which your mom was against from day one. Still don't know why."

"Why would you pick us?" Sophia asked, they were so young. Two thirteen year olds couldn't easily raise two kids.

"Well, don't tell anybody, but I trust you two more than anyone else. Carl, you're stronger than most people in this group, maybe not physically, but mentally. And you're a good shot. Soph, you're caring and sweet. You'd be a good mom.

"Gavin!" a small voice called. "Gavin!" the little boy turned at the sound of his name. It was Jilly, Elizabeth's daughter. "Will you come play with me in the gym? We're one person short!" He looked up at his mother.

"Go ahead, but be careful, please. Okay? Take Dug with you!"

"Thanks momma!" he ran off with the young blonde, the dog trailing behind. They giggled as they went along, which brought a smile to Marie's face. As they continued to walk, Marie noticed yet another child. But this one was all alone. Amanda. The older brunette poked her blonde counterpart's arm. Sophia looked up and Marie looked from Sophia to Amanda.

"Invite her to walk with us? Would you, please? She looks so sad…"

"But Jenna…" Carl interjected.

"She's not her mother. She's a child, and she's kind of my niece."

"Here Carl, hold Airy," Sophia said. The boy reluctantly took the baby. He didn't want Amanda to walk with them. Her mother had been vile to Carl's aunt and he didn't like that. For all they knew Amanda was just like Jenna! And Marie was inviting her to join them. He loved his aunt by sometimes he thought she had too much faith in people.

"Hey Amanda," Sophia said timidly when she walked over to the little girl. She immediately looked up with shocked blue eyes. "We're walking around the prison, if you want to join us…" she offered. Amanda looked up at the group that was walking. Another young boy and a woman with two babies. She recognized the woman right away. That was Marie, the woman that her mother had told her to stay away from. Supposedly she was mean and evil, but with the kind smile the brunette offered her Amanda didn't see how that could be possible. She was always one that had to see things for herself.

"Okay," the ten year old finally agreed.

Marie heard Carl sigh as the two girls approached. He swatted his arm. "Be nice," she waned. When the two merged with the group Marie looked at the young girl, noticing how much she looked like Merle. Marie felt kind of silly believing Jenna when she said the little girl was Daryl's child. "Hi. I'm Marie. I'm glad you could join us, Amanda."

"Thanks for offering," Amanda gave her a sweet smile. Marie was slightly confused, but didn't show it. She couldn't see how such a sweet little girl was the product of such a cruel woman and a once cruel man. Merle may've been an asshole at times, but he changed for the better.

"Not a problem." They began walking once again and Carl handed the baby back to Sophia.

"What are their names?"

"Parker and Airabella, but we just call her Airy."

"Those are cute names," Amanda smiled sweetly.

"Thank you."

"How old are you?"

"Why?" Marie asked suspiciously. The younger girl just shrugged. "Thirty-one. How old are you?"

"Ten." Amanda was quiet for another minute while thinking of a question. "Was my dad nice?"

"At first…no. But He was a good guy if you thought about it. If it weren't for him, we might all be dead right now…"

"Hey babe," Daryl walked up out of nowhere and placed his hand on the small of her back and kissed her cheek. "Hi Parker," he greeted the baby.

"You wanna hold Airy?" Sophia offered. Daryl nodded.

"My mom said that you two won't last long…That soon Daryl will leave and come to her…" Amanda blurted out.

"Crazy bitch said what?" Usually Marie tried to watch her language around children…but that was extreme. Who tells their child that?

"Tell yer mom that ain't happenin'. M'happy with Marie an' my kids," Daryl said blatantly. "I'll have a talk with her," he promised Marie.

"No, I think it's time that I had a talk with her," Marie said. "She needs to leave our family alone," she murmured.

"Mm," he agreed.

"Kids? Can you give us a minute?" Marie asked. "Y'all can keep walking." They all agreed, Carl reluctantly so. "Look, Daryl I can't do this. I can't have some woman that I have personally done nothing to keep this up. It's rude and uncalled for. I can't stand it. She's very immature and it's driving me nuts! Gavin's more mature than her!"

"She wasn't like this when I knew 'er. She was kinda like ya, lil' crazier but still. An' I'll admit I might a had a thing for 'er then…I jus' don't know what happened. "

"Clearly she has more than a crush on you! She's lost her mind! Daryl…I'm just…It's stressful! I'm just glad she didn't show up a few months ago! Do ya know how bad that woulda been on the babies?"

"It's a'right," he soothed her, pulling her to his side. He couldn't exactly hug her, thanks to Parker and Airy.

"And I'm tired…and…" she dropped her head to his shoulder and he smoothed her hair back. He was tired too, but while he was doing whatever to help the group during the day, she was with the babies constantly.

"Go take a nap. Me an' Soph'll take care of it."

"No I can't-"

"Why? We got it. Ya said ya was tired now go."

"I don't wanna stick you with the kids-"

"Yer not stickin' me with 'em. I'm offerin'. Go." He called Sophia back and she-along with the other kids came back. "Tell 'er to go take a nap. We can take care a the kids."

"We got 'em," Carl said.

"Yeah, go ahead, everyone needs a break," Sophia smiled.

"Okay," Marie relented. "I love you guys," she passed Parker to Sophia and kissed Daryl quickly before disappearing into the prison.

After an hour of napping, Marie felt much better. She rose from her bed, stretched, and decided now would be a fine time to take a shower. She gathered some comfortable clothes-a pair of grey sweatpants and a T-shirt. She began walking toward the showers when Glenn stopped her.

"Me and Maggie are going on a run. Anything you want or need?" he offered.

"Baby clothes? Stuffed animals? Y'know the usual stuff? I know Gavin wanted Cheetos. But I don't know how likely that would be to find."

"I mean anything for you…"

"Hm…just for me? Where are you going specifically?"

"Just this little town. There's lots of stores."

"Some soap and some hair bands," she decided.

"I'll do my best," he promised.

"Thank you," she smiled at him before continuing on her way. "Be safe out there!" she called as an after thought. It always worried her when someone went on a run. She wished that they could all stay safely barricaded behind these walls for the rest of time.

She arrived at the shower a few seconds later and smiled upon seeing it was empty. They'd put up modesty curtains, which she was thankful for. Right now, she didn't want anybody to see her naked, let alone someone that she didn't really know. She stripped her clothes off, after hanging her new ones and turned the cool water on. It didn't bother her or anybody else that it was cold. They at least had running water. She heard footsteps echoing across the white tiled walls. She worried a little bit when she didn't hear the water at another shower head turn on.

"Marie?" she sighed in relief upon hearing Daryl's voice.

"Yeah?" she called back. "I'm in here."

"Guessed that," he said with a huff.

"Where are Airy and Parker?"

"Nappin'. Carl an' Sophia are watchin' them. Tol' 'em to come an' get me if they need anything."

"Oh." She stated as she ran her fingers through her dark hair, trying to get everything clean. Once finished with her shower, they walked back to their block. Gavin came rushing from the gym, red faced from running.

"Momma! I gotta tell you somethin'!" he exclaimed.

"Okay. Go on with out me?" she smiled at Daryl, who nodded. "What happened?"

"These older boys started bein' mean to me an' Jilly! One of them pushed me," he frowned.

"An older boy pushed you?" she asked with raised eyebrows.

"Yes!"

"Show me this boy," she placed her hand on her hips and followed Gavin back to the gym. He pointed to a boy about Marie's height. He must've been about fourteen-far too old to be picking on her son. "Gavin, sweetheart go back to the cell with Daryl and your brother and sister, okay?"

"But mom…I wanna-"

"No. Go on, you don't need to see this…" He relented with a sigh. "Hey kid!" Marie exclaimed, walking across the gym to meet him.

"What do you want?" he asked nastily.

"Follow me into the hall," she said.

"Why the hell would I do that?"

"Listen here little punk, you come with me now or you don't even know what I'll do," she grabbed his arm roughly. "And the rest of you little punks don't even think about coming out there with me," she warned the group of people around him. Once his back was against the wall, Marie got to his level further. "What the hell makes you think that you can put your hands on my son?"

"I don't know what you're talkin' 'bout lady."

"Kid, I swear to God, if you don't stop fucking lying to me, I'll take you out into the yard and shoot you dead." Okay, maybe it was a little far, but Gavin was her child and she wasn't going to let some little asshole harm him in anyway shape or form.

"So what? I pushed your kid? Cry me a river."

"So what? That kid is ten years younger than you! Are you so insecure that you've got to hurt a little kid? What the hell is wrong with you?"

"I ain't insecure. Your kid's just-"

"You leave my son alone!"

"He needs to stay out of my gym."

"Your gym?" Marie actually laughed. "It's more his gym than yours! He was here first!" She eyed him carefully. "If I hear about you laying your hands on anybody here, make my words you'll regret it." It sounded like a threat, but Marie was serious. She had always hated bullies, and in times like these, there should be no such thing as bullies. People should be coming together, not pulling apart.

AN: I don't know how I feel about this one…but I figured I'd go ahead and post it today…I had said Saturday, but I didn't think that y'all would be opposed to me posting a day early :). Please review :) Sorry it was short!