AN: I have to start off with, personally I still hate Andrea. She's just…so…so…awful. I didn't like her when she was like all bitchy to Dale, then she shot Daryl in season 2, that was it. I hated her with a burning passion. AND THEN, to top all of that off, she had to randomly screw Shane in the middle of the road! WHY SHE SO STUPID? And, Vanessa might be too nice for her own good, probably would've still kicked her ass…but that's just me :D. Sorry, just some of my ranting to brighten your day! Here's the new chapter to make it even better! So sorry I didn't update Tuesday like I meant to! I had a stupid English paper due.

"How did you know somethin' was wrong with me last night?" Shane asked as he ate the eggs Vanessa had made him.

"Call it what you will but, I know by the way you kiss me and…everything is just different when you're bothered. It seems like you put your all into the kissing and the love making to make you forget."

"Hm," he was surprised at how easily she picked up on that.

"Don't go all quiet on me Officer Walsh," it had been so long since she'd used that nick name. Vanessa walked around the table and from behind him he wrapped her arms around his shoulders while resting her head on top of his.

"I meant to tell you last night," he paused to look up at her. "I think maybe you should be one of them moms that breast feeds her kid 'til they're like four."

"And why's that?" she decided to humor him.

"Well, you never know when we'll run out of food," he tried to sound like he was actually proving a point.

"You just like my boobs to be at D status."

"Well, there is that bonus," she didn't even have to hear his voice to know that he was grinning.

"Real funny, Shane," she pulled away and walked back into the kitchen area to slice a fresh orange for herself.

"Darlin', y'know I was just messin' around," he quickly got to his feet and wrapped his arms around her waist from behind.

"No you weren't," she grinned. "And I still love you."

"So you'll think about it?" he chuckled.

"Well, y'know, you could always knock me up again."

"If the world was what it once was, I'd have a thousand little beautiful babies with you."

"I wouldn't," Vanessa said, turning to face him. "A thousand little half Shane's runnin' around? I don't think so!" they both shared a laugh. Vanessa turned to face him, seriousness covering every word, "But, if the world does go back to normal, I could deal with two or three more."

"Is that a promise, Mrs. Walsh?"

"Yep."

"Good," he kissed her lips lightly, which only caused her to want more. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him close to her. All too soon, Larayne's crying was heard. Vanessa immediately pulled away and went and got her baby.

"I'll see ya later on!" Shane called.

"Okay! I love you!"

"I love you too Darlin'."

And life went on like that for a while. Shane would leave every morning to continue working with the Governor, Vanessa would stay home or maybe help out at the clinic. Life seemed…normal. Until one day, Vanessa was suddenly very ill. Puking her guts out, sneezing, coughing, fever, the whole nine yards. She had every illness symptom imaginable pretty much. Shane knew she was in absolutely no condition to take care of herself, let alone their four month old.

"I'll be right back," he told Vanessa, who had just returned from vomiting.

"Where are you going?"

"Gonna go let the Governor know that I gotta take care of you," he picked up Larayne from the floor, where she was playing with a few toys and left. He walked down the sidewalk to the Governor's personal apartment. He knocked once before he heard the Governor answer.

"Oh, hey Shane. What can I do for ya?"

"Um, Vanessa's sick. Like really, really sick."

"Was she bit?"

"No. But I need to stay home and take care a her. If that's okay?"

"'Course. Take all the time you need."

"Thank you," Shane said and headed back home. Vanessa was in the bathroom, puking her guts out. "Anything you need, babe?" Shane called from the bedroom as he laid Larayne down on the floor where an array of toys that the people of Woodbury had given them was.

"No…I'm comin' out…" the toilet flushed and Vanessa brushed her teeth before going to lay on the bed. "This reminds me of when we all went to the grand canyon," she stated.

"Oh yeah," Shane chuckled softly.

Vanessa tried to sleep with her head against the rolled up window in the front seat. Rick and Lori were cocooned in the back seat as they drove through the early morning hours. They'd just left King County at midnight and it was only five now. Rick had drove the first two hours but switched with Shane, who had been driving ever since.

"I spy with my little eye-"

"Shh…you'll wake Carl," Vanessa whispered. The last thing she wanted was to wake the sleeping baby.

"Right," Shane whispered back. "So how is it you were able to talk your dad into letting you come on this trip?" Shane whispered back.

"I didn't tell him you were goin'. And, Lori helped."

"Didn't tell him I was goin'? Why's that?"

"He doesn't want both of his daughters knocked up," she grinned slightly.

"Oh, is that so? So he thinks I'd knock you up?" Shane smiled and stole a glance at her. "Don't worry, I'm smarter than Rick," they both shared a laugh, thinking about how Rick and Lori were kind of stuck with each other now.

"I heard that," Rick complained from the back seat.

"You were meant to," Shane replied.

The two spent the next few hours talking until the ran mostly out of fuel. It was Rick's turn to drive again. By now the sun was up and they had just made it to Texas.

The windows were down as Lori, Rick, Vanessa, Shane, and baby Carl drove through Texas. Rick had rented a minivan for the specific trip and had driven most of the way. He and Shane would switch off, ever so often given that Vanessa wasn't quite old enough to drive, she had her temps, but that was it.

"I have to pee," Vanessa whined from the back seat with Shane one her right.

"Why didn't you go at the last rest stop?" Lori asked.

"I didn't have to then," she said sheepishly.

"You're so childish, I swear," her older sister said. Vanessa stuck her tongue out at Lori, causing Carl, who was in a backwards facing car seat to laugh.

"We'll stop in an hour," Rick said. Fatherhood had changed him, he was more uptight now.

"An hour?" Vanessa huffed and threw her legs onto Shane's lap before resting her head against the window.

"What do you think you're doin'?" Shane asked, who had just laid his head against the window too.

"You make a good foot rest," she groaned, trying to get comfortable.

"I don't-"

"I haven't slept a wink since we've been on this damn trip thanks to you! So I'd shut your mouth if I were you," she warned.

"You seemed more than willing to talk to me last night," he said.

"Good God! You two fight like an old married couple," Lori sighed. Shane and Vanessa shared a look before busting out in a fit of laughter.

"Us? Have you seen you two?" Vanessa said between laughs.

"Yeah. It's different when we fight. You two are married!"

An hour later, they'd stop to fill up on gas again. Vanessa quickly stood from her seat and climbed over Shane to get out of the minivan. She ran to use the bathroom. Lori, hot on her trail with a stinky baby in need of a diaper change.

"Not my ideal vacation," Shane said as he leaned up against the gas pump.

"You didn't have to come," Rick said simply.

"Nah, didn't wanna leave ya stuck with both of 'em."

"You didn't come for me, we both know that," he replied. "You only came 'cause a Vanessa."

"No man. You needed me," Shane tried to play it off as it wasn't true, when it was.

"Okay Shane, you're right. I couldn't-"

"Ew! Ew! Ew!" both boys turned at the sound of shrieks. The girls came running out of the bathroom. Lori was covered in greenish liquid.

"What's wrong?" Rick asked.

"He just threw up on her," Vanessa was clearly holding back her laughs.

"I never knew a baby could puke that much," Shane laughed at the memory.

"Me neither," Vanessa chuckled. "But, that's what I feel like now…"

"Why don't you get some sleep?"

"That might be good," she got under the covers.

"If you need anythin', let me know," Shane kissed her head before taking Larayne and a few of her toys to the living room to let Vanessa rest.