Carol helped Lori prepare something to eat as most of the group was moving around cleaning up the mess that was left in the wake of the walker attack. Her eyes kept searching out Sophia as her daughter set idly with Carl both with their eyes flicking around the group. Sophia's blazing brown eyes locking with Carol's own pale blue eyes, there was years in her eyes beyond her age.

Sophia shifted back around and Carol followed her eyes seeing her watching the brothers. They were in a heated discussion Daryl shaking his head and Mac gesturing around them wildly. Daryl kept his head down his body tense as his brother talked at him nodding along every so often. Carol wanted to thank them again for saving her girl and doing what they had done to Ed. How did one go about thanking a man for killing her husband? She didn't see it as she was cold. No how could one be cold to the death of her husband when all she had known from his hands was abuse and despair. He had left her bereft with only her daughter as comfort and even that was getting dangerous.

Ed had despised Sophia from birth claiming Carol had intentionally had a girl and saddled him with more bitch bullshit to deal with. She couldn't fathom what was wrong in that man head to make him feel the way he had about his own blood. What got Carol though and something that had her ready to put a knife into Ed herself was the way the man had taken to looking at her baby girl. He didn't look at her in a way a father should, he had started watching her more his gaze lingering and suggestive.

Carol's eyes flicked to the brothers again about the time Mac gave a triumphant smile and slapped Daryl on the back hard enough to throw his body forward. Daryl's eyes lifted and she watched the bright blue of his eyes dance with mirth at his brother as Mac danced out of reach of him. She was amused and awed at the same time that neither allowed events to tear them down to where they were running on fumes. She could see it in the they moved though that it was on their mind and she was acutely aware that Merle hadn't made it back with them from Atlanta.

"I don't trust those two." Lori's voice was low as to not be heard.

Carol looked over at her surprised considering that Daryl had saved Amy last night by putting himself between her and walkers that were cornering her. Not only that but he had made sure that Lore herself and Carl were safe and out-of-the-way as he got Amy up to the RV. Mac had saved her daughter, not something she would soon forget.

Andrea set down her gaze on Lori and Carol looked between the two women. Their was tension already brewing and it was sweltering between them and Carol just wanted away from it all. She wanted to breathe without feeling like at any moment a fight was going to break out between people around her.

"Why do not trust the two men who do more for this group than anyone else?" Andrea questioned.

Lori looked up her face put on as if she wasn't sure what Andrea was referring too. Andrea cocked her head to the side and then let her eyes go to the brothers who were doing the brunt of the work with clearing bodies and making sure they didn't come back. Seeing Daryl walk by with pickaxe over his shoulder covered in everything she'd rather not think about.

Lori straightened her shoulders tossing her hair over them, "It's not that they've done something but people like them are generally..." She waved her hand around, "Well they just aren't good men."

Carol herself was nonplussed her mind reeling with what Lori had just said. Was she not watching as these men had busted their ass from the beginning and up to now? Where the hell had she been?

Andrea leaned forward her eyes flashing, "Did you honestly just say that?" Shoving herself standing the blonde towered over Lori making her seem like an errant child. "Did you miss the part where Daryl saved my sister and your son? Or were checked out as usual?" She snapped. "How about where Mac saved Carol's daughter?"

Lori sputtered and stood as well her eyes going to Carol seeking her assistance. "I agree with Andrea here Lori." Her voice was soft.

Shaking her head, "You all think what you want but one good deed doesn't make a good man."

Mac just happened to appear out of the brush behind them his eyes bright and knowing. His eyes went to Lori and Carol seen them darken his anger leaking through. He heard them. "Yeah and fuckin' ya husbands best friend before he's cold don't make you a good wife." He snapped.

Carol's mouth dropped open and her eyes widening as Mac breezed by his eyes meeting hers with a slight nod. They then went to Andrea running the length of her body his smile turning from lethal to wolfish in seconds. Andrea shifted on her feet her eyes following him while Lori stood wide-eyed and opened mouth not sure how to react to Mac.

She stomped her foot storming away just as a loud barking laugh met their ears. Both Andrea and Carol looked over seeing Mac talking to Daryl his eyes on Lori. Daryl was shaking his head a rare smile gracing his lips as Mac talked to him. His eyes lifted suddenly and Carol watched as he tracked Sophia again around the camp. Her heart clenched at the sight and she felt the need to gather her daughter up and hold her tighter to her. She would have lost her if not for these men stumbling onto them.

His eyes went to her suddenly and he was talking to Mac again. She looked away the heat of his eyes making her uncomfortable. She didn't know how to read this man. He was so different from Ed that she was unsure of everything about him.

"Can you believe that bitch." Andrea growled.

Carol looked to her, "I can't believe Mac said that." She smiled, "Well...yes I can."

Both women smiled before taking off to finish cleaning up what they could of the camp. Sophia kept close to her letting her mind rest as she worked. She tried to help her mother but there wasn't really much she could do at the moment without being under Carol's feet.

The day passed and Rick moved to the center of the group Lori just behind him. He called everyone over and Carol motioned to Sophia but she stood where she was and Carol raised an eyebrow only to feel them shoot in her eyebrows realizing her daughter was waiting on the brothers. As soon as they were close to she slipped in between the pair of them falling in step with them easily. Both mens eyes flicked down to her Mac snorted and Daryl just raised an eyebrow then looked to her. She blushed at his look not sure how to react. Sophia had said she felt safer around these men and after last night she figured that was an even stronger feeling now for her.

"Now we've talked it over and we've decided between to destinations to move to." Rick spoke firmly.

Carol moved closer to where her daughter was standing with Mac and Daryl still. Mac was standing at the picnic table his foot kicked up on the seat as he leaned on to his bent leg with Daryl leaned against the RV behind him. Sophia was setting on the picnic table top between them her small hands messing with something Carol couldn't see.

Daryl looked at her as she moved closer to her daughter. His look was fleeting before going back to Rick speaking.

"Now Shane suggested Fort Benning and I'm thinkin' the CDC will have what we need." Rick qualified.

There were murmurs that ran through the group and Carol swallowed at the prospect of being on the road when so many things were unknown. Daryl scoffed behind her and she seen Mac stiffen and look over his shoulder at his brother. An entire conversation passed between the two in mere seconds as they looked at each other. Daryl pushed away from the RV taking off towards their tents his body tense as Macs eyes tracked him.

"Where's your big brother?" Sophia's small voice whispered.

Mac's eyes closed for a second before opening back up and his head swiveled to the small girl next to him. He eyed her for a minute and Carol moved around him. She watched as Sophia looked up at Mac not put off by his demeanor that intimidated the rest of the group.

"Sophia." Carol admonished.

Mac chuckled, "I reckon his dumbass done went and got lost."

"Are you and Daryl gonna find him?"

Mac chewed his lip his eyes appraising as he gazed down at the small girl in front of him, "Bloods blood Kit. Aint lookin' to write my brother off so easy."

She smiled at the name he gave her and he shook his head standing straight. Carol got the first glimpse of what she had toyed with in her hand and felt her gut churn. Mac slipped the knife into his boot his eyes going to Carol before going back to the small girl.

"Stick close to your mom." His voice was terse.

She hopped up not willing to let him get away to easy and Carol smiled at her. It was amusing to see her talking as much as she was especially with a man who was so rough and tumble. Sophia tended to be scared of her own shadow, she still backed away from Shane and the other men of the group. Something about these two men though put her daughter at ease, if Carol was honest with herself it did her too.

"Why Kit?" Sophia grinned at him her brown eyes shining.

Mac looked up at Carol a wicked smile lighting his features as he leaned down speaking conspiratorially, "Kit is a fox pup."

Sophia shook her head, "Why am I that though?"

"Aint none of y'all privy to what me and my brother talk about." He shot a look at Carol again.

Carol felt her face burn at his words and his grin widened. "Sophia leave him alone."

She got the distinct feeling she was missing something important from what Mac had just said but her mind couldn't quite grasp his meaning. Mac stood straight again heading towards her brother. She shook her head and moved back towards the group as they talked over what they would do now that their sanctuary had been breached. She tried to catch as much of what was going on but the bickering between Rick and Shane was getting to be too much for her.

"Rick just let it go." Shane snapped.

Shaking his head, "Their apart of the group. We need to see what they think...thats to more men that can help around here." Turning and looking towards the men in question, "What I gather anyways and what I've seen they do more than most anyways. Their an asset."

"You heard 'em, their breaking away to find their brother." Shane huffed.

Rick looked at him, "Your attitude sure didn't help with any of it."

Shane tensed up and Rick walked away heading for the brothers. She was left with the deafening silence and the information that they weren't going with them wherever they headed. That sense of security she had clung to since meeting them was evaporating quickly. Mac's words rang in her ears and she looked over at them seeing them talking to Rick as they packed more of their stuff. What had brought her up and who had started calling her by a nick name that Mac didn't give her.