When Shane woke up the next morning, the bed was empty and the smell of food wasn't wafting into the room. The space where Vanessa normally slept was cold, she had long since left with Larayne. He didn't know if she was only in the other room or if she had left, left. He rose from the bed and dressed for the new day, after a quick shower. Once he was finished, he walked into the rest of the apartment with a throbbing headache.

Everything was empty and quiet. Deadly quite. It scared him, quite honestly. He walked across the carpet, then the tile to the kitchen table. He saw a small piece of scarp paper on the table. It had Vanessa's careful, pretty script on it.

Gone out for a walk with Larayne. Be back soon.

-Vanessa

It was simple, which was a really bad sign. Because, Shane knew Vanessa and she wasn't a simple person. Anytime she was quite or kept it brief and simple, she was pissed, very pissed. He had to tell her…he simply had to. He couldn't stand for her to be mad at him, he just wanted her to be happily in his arms once more.

Vanessa bounced Larayne on hip as she walked down the streets of Woodbury. Everyone still seemed a bit tightly wound from everything that happened with the other group. She felt somehow really uncomfortable and Larayne was beginning to get restless. She was obviously hungry. She sighed, knowing she'd have to face him soon anyway and turned to head back to her and Shane's apartment. She didn't want to face him so soon, but she had to. She couldn't just sit down in the middle of the sidewalk and feed her baby. So, for the sake of the baby, and lack of places to go, she went back to her apartment.

When she walked into the apartment, she found it to be quiet…Shane clearly wasn't in the living room or kitchen/dining room area. Maybe he left, she thought hopefully. But, sadly, she wasn't so lucky, when she entered the bedroom, there he was, laying on their bed. He'd dressed and shaved, but was clearly in distress.

"Ness…"

"Don't start Shane. I only came back to feed Larayne," she turned and started to leave the room.

"Please Ness don't do this."

"Do what? Ignore you because you're being a lying asshole?" she asked in a rather acidic tone.

"I didn't lie…" he tried to defend but fell short.

"You didn't tell me the truth either!" she exclaimed, trying not to be too loud and further irritate the baby on her hip.

"Please understand."

"No Shane," she slammed the door behind her and went to sit on the couch. She started feeding the hungry baby and tried to calm her nerves.

"All right, look Vanessa," Shane said coming into the room. He was going to get his side in one way or another.

"Feeding the baby. Talk to me later."

"No, I'm gonna talk to you n-"

"Shane unless you want me to choke you to death with a baby blanket I suggest you leave me the hell alone right now!"

"Ness-"

"This is the last warning, Shane. I mean it."

"Fine," he mumbled and retreated back into the bedroom, slamming the door behind him. Real mature, she thought, even through she had just done the same thing.

Not quite what I was hoping for, Shane thought as he plopped back onto the bed. He laid in there for nearly an hour before she walked back though that bedroom door, and when she did, she stood there with her hands on her hips, staring at him intently, with an ever constant tapping of her foot.

"Well, are you ready to tell me what the hell happened?"

"I-I," he paused. "How do ya always know when I'm mad?"

"How the fuck should I know? You're body language maybe? You're tense? I don't fucking know! Answer the damn question."

"Well…Darlin'…Damn it I can't tell you."

"And why the hell not?"

"For your safety…" The Governor may not have said it, but Shane knew that he would find and kill him and his family if they left now, or if he even so much as told Vanessa.

"Tell me or I take Larayne, walk out that door, and never come back."

"That's not fair," Shane said.

"Neither is it for you to keep secrets. I'm your wife, the woman you're supposed to love, the mother of your child, tell me what the hell if going on. Because y'know what? I let it slid when you came back that night at the farm and saved Carl. I didn't press you about what happened to Otis."

"Damn it Vanessa, are you really gonna do this?"

"Yes!"

"Fine! The group that we're after is Rick's! I saw we-"

"Oh my God! Shane how could you hide this from me!?" tears streamed down her cheeks. She was so angry and so hurt. "That's my sister, my brother-in-law, my nephew!"

"You think I don't know that?" he stood and moved to face her. Her arms were now crossed over her chest, he lifted her chin with his index finger, that is until she jerked away. "That's why this was so hard, Ness. We can't leave."

"Why not?" she had gone from angry to a pouting puppy.

"He will hunt us like animals…"

"Shane…" she really did feel bad for being so angry. She just hated that he was hiding something from her. More tears flowed from their ducts. "I'm sorry for being angry-"

"No, I'm sorry for hidin' it from you."

"What can we do?"

"I don't know Darlin'. I don't know."

AN: So, I'm not sure if I said it last chapter or not but I think that I'm gonna end this once I get to the season 3 finally and start back up once season 4 starts (long time, I know). Although, I could still come up with my own way between now and then. What should Shane and Vanessa do? Should they leave and risk death by Governor? Or should they hang out in Woodbury for a while? It doesn't matter to me either way, I have ideas for both ways. Please review! Thanks y'all!