Rick and Daryl are walking around the woods setting up snares when Daryl asks, "So how did she take it?"
"As expected I suppose", Rick answers, "She probably thinks I'm being over protective now that I asked her to take my last name."
Daryl stops walking, "Really?! When the hell did this happen?"
"Oh yea...the night before all that shit went down."
Daryl continues walking, "Damn! I miss all the good shit when I go out huntin'."
He continues walking, "Well, it's about time the two of you stop playing cat and mouse."
"Yea, that's the same thing Carl, said when I told him but, she's pretty pissed off at me. I just don't know how else to get her to stop taking all these risks." Rick confesses
Suddenly, Rick and Daryl hear the shrieking cries of an something up ahead. The two of them begin walking quietly toward the cries when they come across a fence with a sign, "Roscoe's Junk Yard ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK."
Daryl gets nervous as the shrieking continues, "We gotta stop that noise before it brings in more walkers."
The two of them hop the fence; and slowly move closer to the noise. As the two walk further in; they see what used to be a male and female walker leaning inside the trunk of a beat up Corolla. Daryl kills both walkers with his crossbow then slowly approaches the car.
When Daryl peeks inside in the trunk he drops his shoulders, "Aww, that's a god damn shame, man!"
Once Rick looks inside he becomes sadden by the horrible site as well; then looks further in to the back of the trunk and begins smiling, "Who's on night watch tonight?"
"Umm, I think its Glenn and Bob tonight." Daryl answers.
Rick shakes his head while brandishing a mischievous smile, "I think this would be a goodnight for Glenn and Bob to start teaching Carl how to keep watch."
Daryl pulls a joint out of his shirt pocket and lights it. As he hold in the smoke he smiles and shakes his head at Rick, "I suppose this would also be a good night for Ty to keep Judith too right…", he blows the smoke out and smirks, "Good thing your room is located at the farthest end of the motel."
Rick knocks on Shyanna's door, "Hi, Rick something wrong". She asks
"Hey, how ya' doin, No but I could use you expert opinion on something." He says.
Shyanna hesitates for a second thinking that Rick could be leading her in to a trap; so she takes a deep breath and quickly yells, "Tori, wasi'chu."
Catori immediately runs in to the room with her jacket on with her spiked tambos in place; then Shyanna grabs her jacket and kamas.
As the three of them walk down the hallway Rick looks at Shyanna then back at Catori. When they finally reach the room down the hall he asks "I take it you still don't trust us just yet?"
Both of them stand behind Rick, then Shyanna responds, "I just don't trust my judgment of you and people yet."
He nods his head and turns the door knob, "Well, I hope we can change that for you soon."
When Rick opens the door Shyanna and Catori see Carl on the floor playing with 6 puppies.
Catori's eyes grow wide with excitment as she runs in to the room and sits down next to Carl to play with the puppies.
Shyanna's stern and defensive face melts in to sheer fondness when she looks at the cuteness of Carl and Catori as they play with the puppies.
Daryl walks in from the adjoining room and sees Shyanna with her leather jacket and her kamas in their holster; completely in awe of Shyanna's exquisite like presences and pale green eyes. He walks over to her and introduces himself.
"What's up? I'm Daryl", he raises his arm to shake Shyanna's hand.
She smiles and says, "I'm Shyanna and that's my sister Catori, where did you find these beautiful puppies?"
Rick walks over to one of the pups, "We found them in the trunk of car in a abandon junk yard".
He picks up the puppy and walks over to Shyanna, "What do ya' think, are they healthy? I was hoping that maybe you and Catori could hang around for a while; at least long enough to train them for our group." He hands the pup over to Shyanna.
She's in awe and completely weakened by the cuteness of the puppy then begins to examine it.
"Well it has some huge paws so that tells me their parents were pretty big; most junkyard dogs are though. All of them have wet noses...they look pretty damn healthy to me."
Rick and Daryl smile at Shyanna's opinion.
She purses her lips while admiring the puppy's face up close, "I tell you what, you give me one of these puppies…my choice mind you…", she watches Tori as she plays with Carl and the other puppies, "…I'll train them and join your group."
Rick looks at Shyanna somewhat troubled by what he needs to tell her, "There's just one thing, after you told me about your run ins with those people; as a group we decided that all of the women should always have a guy around for back up whenever they go beyond the perimeter."
Shyanna stares at Rick with some doubt then looks over at Daryl.
Daryl walks closer to Shyanna as she rubs the pup's little head against her cheeks, "Look, Rick told me about that first group you ran into…we ain't like that. All of us just been through too much together; when someone joins our group they become kin. Besides Rick told me you're a tracker; you and I both know a group is always stronger with two."
She winks one her seafoam green eye at Daryl and pokes out her lips a little cause she knows he's trying to butter her up. He tries to conceal his smile and shyness by looking looks down at the floor.
Rick on the other hand, is visibly enjoying his brother's "meet-cute" with Shyanna.
Shyanna goes back to watching Tori being happier than she's seen her in months; then she glances back at Rick and Daryl, "The universe must be working in your favor today Rick Grimes", and with that she nods her head in agreement.
Catori watches as her sister agrees to them joining the group and says, "Yes!"
Carl smiles at Catori and bumps the elbow of his new friend.
Shyanna places all the puppies in a rolling laundry room basket with the exception of one; then her, Catori, and Daryl leave the room.
As Catori pushes the crate down the hall she listens as Daryl asks her sister, "Hey, do have anything that's sorta soft and long like a belt?"
Rick watches Carl with the one puppy, "So I spoke with Ty earlier and he's gonna keep Judith for the night and I'm gonna have you start learning how to keep watch tonight with Glenn and Bob. After hearing some of the things Shyanna and Catori went through to make this far…"
Rick sits down on the bed,"…I realized that me telling you're a man is one thing but I have to start letting you be that man. I need to start trusting your instincts; start paying attention to what you have to say. You tried to tell me months ago about how Michonne needed to be under the same roof with us. And because I didn't listen I nearly lost her."
Carl looks at his father, "You don't need to explain yourself Dad, I know what you're trying to say."
He looks at Carl and chuckles, "It seems like eveytime I hold your hand you keep trying to let go of mine."
Rick stands up and looks down at Carl on floor as he holds and strokes the puppies back, "Don't get me wrong this ain't gonna be easy for me, but I know that the only way your gonna learn to trust your own instincts is by using them."
Carl gets up with the puppy and hands it to his father, "Well, I better go find out what time Glenn and Bob want me ready then."
"Before you do that I need your help with somethin'", Rick tells him.
Daryl walks back in to the room; in his hand he has a long shiny silk turquoise belt in his hand; he asks Rick, "Did you tell him yet?"