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It was Dale's funeral today.

Rick started speaking about Dale.

"D-Dale could under your skin, he sure got under mine. Because he wasn't afraid to say exactly what he thought, how he felt. That kind of honesty is rare and brave." tears of people filled my nose and my own tears fell.

"Whenever I'd make a decision, I'd look at Dale. He'd be looking back at me with that look he had. We've all seen it one time or another."

I never wanted to howl so much in my life, because Dale was the voice of reason when we all need to hear what he had to say.

"I couldn't always read him, but he could read us. He saw people for who they were. He knew things about us, the truth, who we really are."

I looked up at Daryl and he pet my head.

"In the end, he was talking about losing our humanity. He said this group was broken. The best way to honour him is to unbreak it. Set aside our differences and pull together, stop feeling sorry for ourselves and take control of our lives. Our safety... Our future." Rick speech was made me realize that my humanity was still with me.

"We're not broken. We're gonna prove him wrong. From now on we're gonna do it his way. That how we honour Dale." Rick finished and everyone started leaving as did I. And thinking about how to honour Dale.

Now we are moving all our stuff into the Hershel's house.

"We should have moved you in awhile ago." Hershel told everyone.

"All right, let's move the vehicles near each of the doors facing our towards the road." Rick said as everyone started moving things. "We'll build a lookout in the windmill, another in the barn loft. That should give us sightlines both sides of the property."

I felt my right ear being scratched, I look to see Daryl.

"Ya okay?" he ask.

"Yeah." I answered and helped the others move into the house. And I had a gut feeling that something bad is going to happen.

"Hey Blue." I looked up to see Carl.

"What's up wolf cub?"

"Um... If I tell you someting, will you promise not to tell my parents?" He looks to me.

"It depends..." I answer.

He sighed and put Daryl's gun into my left claw hand.

"I took it from Daryl's bike. If he found out I took it, he'll kill me." I look to Carl.

"Carl why would you think that? Yeah sure Daryl has a temper but he wouldn't kill a kid."

"How do you know?" he ask.

"If he did, I would of ripped him to shreds for killin such adorable kid." I said as I pat his shoulders. And there was a silence between us.

"Dale. It's my fault that his died."

"Carl he got bit by a walker, which I torn apart. Why would..."

"I saw that walker. I was going to shoot it." Carl cut me off.
"It was stuck in the mud. I was throwing rocks at it and stuff. But I was gonna do it, shoot it right the head. It got free, came after me and... I ran away." I listened to Carl.

"Cub listen to me when I say this 'it's not your god damn fault' you get me?" I saw Carl thinking about what I said to him.

"Now I want you to take it and protect yourself." I told him. He didn't take it.
"Carl, take it."

"I'm never touching another gun again!" he started walking away.

"Damn it. It's not an option, wolf cub... Take it."

"Just give it back to Daryl." Carl said and walked off.

"Shit..." I muttered to myself.

I find Rick with Daryl talking about where to take Randall to.

"We'll take him out to Senia. Hour there, hour back give or take... We may lose the light, but we'll be halfway home."

"Rick?" I cut in. The pair look to me.

"Yeah Claire?" Rick ask.

"Can I talk to you?"

"Can it wait?" I shook my head.

"Sorry no it can't Rick."

"Fine shoot." He answers.

"Have you seen Carl lately?"

"His inside with Lori." He answered quickly.

"Look Rick, he came to me... But me being the loyal bitch that I am, but he was in the swamps yesterday and he came across a walker stuck in the mud. He got scared, ran off." I saw Rick taking in what I said.

"The same walker that killed Dale?"

"Yep the one I torn apart." I answered.

"I'll have Lori talk to him."

"Rick... look I think he wants to talk to his father, the alpha of this group." I told him.

"Well, I want this Randall thing done already."

"I know I do too, but Carl needs you now more than you think."

I saw him breathing deeply. "It's my call."

"I know it is, but how about I ride out with Dixon?" I ask.

"Nah, I need you here. Keep an eye on Shane."

"Fair point... Anyway freeing that kid... More important to you than Carl?" I said, as I left flicking my tail in Daryl's direction.

I was helping Daryl and T-Dog loading the truck.

"Only have so many arrows." Daryl told T-Dog and I.

T-Dog hand Daryl a gun. "Is that Dale's gun?" He ask. There was a silences.

"Yeah..." T-Dog answers.

"Wish I knew where the hell mine is." Daryl complain.

"Um Daryl." He looked to me and I pulled out his gun. "Sorry I was training with it..." I felt like I had my tail in between my legs and I didn't want to look up at Daryl.

Daryl just pulled on my ear.

"Idiot." He said.

"Ready?" We look to Rick when he came over.

"Yeah." Daryl answers.

"I'll get the package." T-Dog told Rick.

"Thanks." I giggled a little at what T-Dog said.

T-Dog came running back.

"What's wrong? Where's the kid?" I ask.

"He's missing."

"Missing?" Maggie said coming out of the farmhouse.

I smelt the air. Blood, Shane's blood.

"Something smells wrong..." I muttered.

"Rick! Rick!" Shane yells.

"What happen?!" Lori said worried.

"His armed! He got my gun!"

"You okay?" Carl ask.

"I'm fine. Little bastard just snuck up on me, clocked me in the face."

'Sure.' I thought.

"Alright, Hershel, T-Dog, Claire, get everybody in the house." Rick told us.
"Daryl, Glenn, come with us."

I grabbed Daryl's arm. "Be careful Dare."

"Always Blue." and he follow the other into the woods.

~Beside the Dying Fire~

I was pacing not stop for the guys to come back.

"I'm going after them." Andrea and I said.

"Don't. They could be anywhere. And of Randall comes back we're gonna need you both here." Lori told us. And the front door opened.

We only Daryl and Glenn walked in.

"Rick and Shane ain't back yet?" Daryl asks.

"No."

"We heard a shot."

"Dare maybe they found the kid." I answer.

"We found him Blue." Daryl said.

"Is he back in the shed?" Maggie asks.

"He's a walker.

"Did you find the walker that bit him?" Hershel ask.

"No, the weird thing is, he wasn't bit." Glenn told everyone.

"He neck was broken."

"So he fought back?"

"The thing is, Shane and Randall's tracks were right on top of each other. And Shane ain't no tracker, so he didn't come up behind him. They were together." Daryl said.

"Would you please get back out there and find Rick and Shane and find out what on earth is going on." Lori asks asks Daryl.

"You got it."

"Thank you."

"Claire." Daryl call me to follow.

We all headed outside and we all saw a herd of walkers.

"Holy shit." I muttered as I looked to Daryl.

"Patricia, kill the lights."

"I'll get the guns." Andrea answers and went to get them.

"Maybe they'll just pass like the hard on the highway. Should we just go back inside the house?" Glenn ask.

"Not unless there's a tunn downstairs I don't know about." I giggled a little bit.
"A herd that size will rip the down."

"Carl's gone." Lori came running outside.

"What?" Carol and I said.

"He was upstairs. I can't find him anywhere."

"Maybe he's hiding." Glenn suggested.

"I doubt that Glenn." I told him and Lori cuts in again.

"He supposed to be upstairs. I'm leaving without my boy." She started getting more worried.

"We're not. We're gonna look again. We're gonna find him." Carol reassure Lori and they went back inside the house.

Andrea came back with the gun bag. We started grabbing guns.

"Maggie?" Glenn looked to his girl.

"You grow up country, you pick up a thing or two." Maggie told him.

"I got the number, it's no use."

"You can go if you want."

"You're gonna take them all on?" I ask.

"We have guns. We have cars. Kill as many as we can to lead the rest away from the farm." Hershel said.

"Are you serious?" Daryl asks.

"This my farm. I'll die here." Hershel said and left us.

"All right. It's as a good night as any. C'mon Blue." I looked to Daryl as he jumped of the porch and I followed.

"Still have my gun there Blue?"

"Yeah Dare." I answer.

We all got on or in a vehicle with Daryl and I on his bike.

We got close and started shooting walkers.

"Yo! Must been Rick or Shane who started that fire. Maybe they're trying get out back!." Daryl said to Jimmy that was in the RV.

"Why don't ya circle around? Go!" I yell.

"Got it." and we moved to kill more walkers.

Daryl got us some distance away from the barn when I heard screaming, it was Carol.

"Daryl go help Carol."

"I'm not leavin ya here." Daryl started arguing with me.

"Yes you are Dixon." I said getting off the bike. "Now go!" I yelled at him.

"Meet us on the highway."

"I will." and transformed into wolf form and ran off.

~Daryl's POV~ (Yay)

'Stupid girl.' was all I was thinking about on the way to the highway and found the other along the way.

Coming to the spot I saw Rick, Hershel and the kid, but no Claire.

"Where'd you find everyone?" Rick asks after the little reuion with his family.

"Well, those guys' tail lights zigzagging all over the road... Figured had to be Asian, driving like that." I said pointing to Glenn.

"Good one." he laughed a little.

"Where's the rest of us?"

"We're the only ones who made it so far." Rick answer.

"Shane?" Lori asks. And Rick shook his head slightly.

"Andrea?" Glenn asks.

"Andrea saved me, then I lost her." Carol said.

"We saw her go down." T-Dog said.

"Patricia?" Hershel ask.

"They got her, too." the young daughter of Hershel answers.
"Took her right for me. I was... I was holdin' onto her, Daddy. She just..." started crying again and hugging her father.
"What about Jimmy? Did you see Jimmy?" she ask.

"He was in the RV. It got overrun." Rick told her.

"What about Claire?" Carl asks.

"She ran off as her wolf, don't know what happened after that." I said.

"You definitely saw Andrea?"

"There were walkers everywhere." Lori answers.

"Did you see her or Claire?" Carol asks.

"I'm gonna go back for them." I said gettin on my bike.

"No." Rick stopped me.

"We can't just leave em'." I protested.

"Don't know if they're there." Lori said.

"They aren't there. Then ain't. They probably somewhere else or they're dead. There's no way to find them." Rick told us.

I started have feeling in my gut of lost and emptiness.

"So we're not even gonna look for them?" Glenn asks and bring me back to reality.

"We gotta keep moving. There've been walkers crawling all over here."

"I say head east." T-Dog suggests.

"Stay off the main roads." I answer while getting my crossbow.
"The bigger the road, the more walkers, the more asshole like this one. I got him." I answer and took aim to shoot but something got to it first and rip it apart then smashed it head in.

"Fucker." it muttered.

"Blue?" I called her or it.

It breathed heavily and look towards us.

"You got anything to eat Dare?" then I knew was Claire and she started to fall down and fainted, I ran to catch her.

"Thank god you're alive." I muttered to her.

"Get her some water and put her in one of the cars." Hershel said. I took to the red one. And we started moving out from the highway.

~Claire's/Blue's POV~

I started opening my eyes and groaned a little as I sat up.

"Rick she's awake." someone said and I saw T-Dog, Carl, Lori and Rick.

"Hey." I said.

"You okay?" Carl asks.

"Yeah I'm fine wolf cub." I answers and the other laughed a little.

"What?" both Carl and I ask.

"Nothing you two." Rick told us.

We were drivin for awhile, til Rick hit the wheel.

"What's wrong?" I ask.

"We've been riding red for the past hour." He answer me.

"Better make sure we don't get forgot." T-Dog pointed out to Rick.
And Rick beeped the horn to the other to stop.

We got out of the cars. And Rick and I ran up front to where Daryl was.

"You out?" Daryl ask as I ran to hug him.

"Yeah, just running on fumes."

"We can't stay here for long." I said as I was holding on to Daryl and he patted my head.

"We can't all fit into one car." Glenn pointed out.

"We'll have to make a run for some gas in the morning." Rick told everybody.

"Spend the night?" Carol asks worried.

"I'm freezing." Carl said as Rick give him his jacket.

"We'll build a fire, yeah?" Lori said.

"If you're going to look for firewood, stay close." I reminded everyone.

"I only have so many arrows. How ya doing on ammo?" Daryl asks Rick.

"Not enough." he answer.

"We can't just sit here with our asses hanging out." Maggie complained.

"Watch you mouth." Hershel told his eldest daughter.
"Everyone stop panicking and listen to Rick."

"Alright, we'll set up a perimeter. In the morning we'll find gas and some supplies. We'll keep pushing on." Rick said.

"Glenn and I can go and make a run now, try and scrounge up some gas." Maggie suggested.

"No, we stay together. God forbid something happens and people gets stranded without a car." Rick told everybody.

"Rick, we're stranded now." Glenn said to Rick.

"I know it looks bad. We've all been through hell and worse, but at least we found each other."

"Rick's not wrong were here together, and let's have it that way." I said.

"Yeah... We'll find shelter somewhere. There's gotta be a place."

"Rick look around, okay?" Glenn said walking a little bit forward to Rick.
"There's walkers everywhere. They're migrating or something." Rick cut Glenn off.

"There's got to be a place not just where we hole up, but that we fortify, hunker down, pull ourselves together, build a life for each other. I know it out there. We just have to find it." Rick finished.

"Even if we do find a place Rick, we think it's safe, we can never be sure for how long for." I told him as turned to look at me.
"Look at what happened to Hershel's farm. We were fooling ourselves to think that was safe."

"We won't make that mistake again." Hershel said.

There was a second of silence til Rick spoke again.

"We'll make camp tonight over there." he pointed to a clearing.
"Get on the road at break of day."

"Does this feel right to you both?" Carol asks Daryl and I.

"What if walkers come through, or another group like Randall's?" Beth ask.

"You know I found Randall, right? He had turned, but he wasn't bit." Daryl said.

"How's that possible?" Beth ask.

"Rick, what the hell happened?" Lori ask Rick.

"Shane killed Randall. Just like he always wanted to."

"And the herd got him too?" we all look to Rick for a answer.

"We're all infected." he answers.

"What?" Daryl and I said.

"At the CDC, Jenner told me. What it is, we all carry it, and Claire has a more infected gene." we all went quite.

"And you didn't say anything." Carol said and I yell at him.

"Would it make a difference?"

"Yes it would it make a difference to us Rick, especially me." I said.

"And you knew this whole time?" Glenn asks.

"How could I have known for sure? You saw how crazy that..." Glenn cut Rick off.

"That's not your call. Okay, when I found out about the walkers in the barn, I told for the good of everyone."

"Well I thought it best if people didn't know." Rick shot back, then looking at everybody before walking off with Lori on his tail.

~Night~

The fire was going and we sat around it.

"We're not safe with him. Keeping something like that from us?" Carol whispers to Daryl and I.
"Why do need him? He just gonna pull you both down."

"No." Daryl and I said. "Rick's done all right is."

"Daryl your his henchman, Claire your his loyal dog, and I'm a burden. You both deserve better."

"Carol seriously, what do you want?" I asks her.

"A man of honour." she answers.

"Rick has honour." Daryl said and throw a stick into the fire.

"I think we should take our chances." Maggie whispers.

"Don't be foolish. We don't have food, gas, or ammo." Hershel says.

A loud rustle come from the bushes. "What was that?" Beth asks.

I transformed and when to the bushes.

"Claire?!" both Rick and Daryl called me.

I came back with a buck dragging it back legs to the camp.

I transformed back. "What?"

"Blue! Don't ever do that again." Daryl hiss at me.

"Sorry I smelt deer and yeah. And stop panicking." I said.

"I'm not sittin' here waitn' for another herd to blow through. We need to move now." Maggie says.

"No one is going anywhere." Rick snaps.

"Well do something!" Carol hisses.

"I am do something! I'm keeping this group together. Alive! I've been doing that all along! No matter what. I didn't ask for this! I killed my best friend for you people for Christ sake!" Rick hisses.

Everyone started at Rick.

"You saw what he was like." Rick says. "How he pushed me. How he compromised us. How he threatened us. He staged the whole Randall thing. Led me out to put a bullet in my back. He gave me no choice! He was my friend, but he came at me. My hands are clean." Rick hiss.

Everyone was still silent.

"Maybe you people are better off without me. Go ahead. I say there's a place for us, but maybe it's just another pipe dream. Maybe I'm fooling myself again. Why don't you go and find out for yourself. Send me a post card! Go on, there's the door. You can do better. Let's see how far you get." No one answered him.
"No takers? Fine. But let's get one thing straight-You're staying. This isn't a democracy anymore." He finishes.

No one moved. We all looked around.

This is who we are... The Walking Dead.

Season two finished.

I hoped you enjoyed this. And I'll update whenever I can. I will do season three. And I'll update on its states when I can.

And I requests for my Norman Reedus: Oneshots book.

This is ThatOneHunter signing out.