I hold Carl tightly to my side, the walkers walked by but finally they were gone. I looked back at Rick and then back at Sophia to see her crawling out, "Sophia, no!" I whispered.
But it was to late.
Suddenly, I heard the snarling sound of a walker and it saw Sophia. She crawled back and cried as the walker crawled under the car, trying to grab her. She crawled out from the other side and hoped over the guard rail. She ran down the hill where another walker saw her and chased her with the first one.
I crawled out from under the car, ignoring Rick's and Lori's calls. I hopped over the rail and ran down the hill, running after Sophia into the woods at a different angle.
After a few minutes, I found Sophia, she closed her eyes with tears in her eyes rolling down her cheeks as she hold her doll tightly into her chest.
"Sophia," I whispered. She suddenly opened her eyes and looked at me, gasping, "Quinn?" She asked. I smiled at her and rushed towards her. I kneeled down and she wrapped her little arms around my neck, crying on my shoulder. "It's okay," I said, hugging her tightly.
"Rick led the walkers off and told me how to go back while he was going to look for you," She said before we broke the hug. I wiped her tears away and hold her cheek gently into my palm. "It's okay. You safe, okay?" I said and she nodded.
I stood up and she grabbed my hand as I looked up at the sky. It was going to be dark soon and I knew we need to sleep at the woods because it wasn't safe at night.
"It will be dark soon, so we shouldn't be walking through the forest at night. We'll sleep here and head back early in the morning," I explained. She squeezed my hand and looked down at her. "But, won't walkers find us?" She asked. I looked up at the trees before back at her, "How good are you at climbing?"
She frowned and shook her head, "I don't know how to climbed trees," She said, knowing what I was thinking. "It's okay. You can do it, I'm with you," I said.
...
I opened my eyes, looking up at the morning blue sky. I glanced down at Sophia, her head was resting on my chest with her arms wrapped around me, sleeping peacefully. We both slept the night on a tree, without walkers knowing we were here.
"Sophia," I whispered gently. She started to wake up and then opened her eyes. "Hey, morning, sleepy head," I said with a soft smile. "Morning," She said, giving me a small smile.
"Come on, we should get going," I said, making her smile again and she nodded her head. I glanced down, making sure there were no walkers in sight. I jumped down from the tree and then looked around again.
I looked up at Sophia, "It's okay," I said. She looked a little nervous, but she climbed down with me supporting her.
"You see? You did great," I said, making her smile as she took my hand again. We started to walk to the direction of the highway, "Do you think they are looking for us?" She asked.
"Of course," I said, nodding. "Thanks for coming for me," She said. I smiled down at her as she hold the doll close to her. "You're welcome," I said and she looked up at me, giving me a smile.
Suddenly we stopped walking when we heard a bells going through the forest. "Do you think it's them?" Sophia asked, looking up at me with eyes full of hope.
"I don't know but let's go check, come on," I said and we started jogging to where the noises came. The noises stopped but we continued. We stopped, looking around. "Which way we should go?" Sophia asked, taking a breath.
"I don't know," I said, looking around. "Come on." Grabbing her hand, we started running again. Soon, we found a church and we went towards it. No one was out here.
"I don't see balls," Sophia stated. "Yeah, but still," I said, pulling out my knife. We went to the doors of the church and saw it was opened. "Stay behind me," I whispered and she nodded.
We slowly went inside the church and lowered the knife. No one was inside too. All that was here was a status of Jesus and three dead walkers on the floor. "Are they dead?" Sophia whispered.
"I think so," I whispered before walking up to every body to make sure they really were dead. "Let's go, Sophia," I said and we started walking outside. "Do you think the group were here?" She asked. "Maybe. Hope so," I admitted. "Let's move on."
We continued walking around the forest, trying to find the others. I stopped Sophia when I heard noises. I looked around, trying to find out were it came from. Sophia squeezed my hand and we started moving quietly.
"Quinn, look," Sophia whispered, pointing to the distance with a smile. I followed her gaze and saw Rick, Shane and Carl. I smiled as I saw Carl walked away from him and heading slowly to a buck.
The buck seemed to be unbothered about Carl's presence. I glanced down at Sophia, who looked at the buck with curious eyes. The moment was ruined when I spotted on the other side of the buck a hunter with a rifle. He was about to shot and I noticed that at the angle he was at and the kind of rifle, the bullet will go straight through the buck.
Not thinking at all, I ran towards Carl, living Sophia behind. "Quinn, wait!" She called. I pushed Carl out of the way just as the shot was fired. Suddenly, I felt a sharp pain through my stomach and I felt on the ground. I could barely heard the screams. "No! No!" I heard Rick's voice.
Suddenly, Rick, Carl and Sophia were at my both sides while Shane pointed his rifle towards where the shot came from. "Quinn," Rick called but suddenly my eyes slowly closed and the all I could see was darkness.