Daniela's POV

I felt really embarrassed being around Daryl. I should have knocked first, I didn't think he would be walking around like that but, he didn't seem to mind so I needed to stop making it such a big deal.

Daryl and I got down from the wall to go have dinner. Jeremy came up to me and said, "I'm glad you're okay Daniela." and hugged me. I kissed him on the forehead and went to grab my bag, I had found a dinosaur book for him with tons of pictures. When I handed it to him, his eyes lit up, I couldn't help but feel warm inside.

These were the moments I lived for, seeing the kids happy made me happy. Jeremy thanked me again and gave me a hug wrapping his arms around my neck. I picked him up and said, "You're welcome Jeremy, you know what this means right? You're going to have to try extra hard tomorrow during training okay?" Jeremy nodded and I put him down so he could go have dinner.

I looked at Daryl and he was smiling.

The next couple of days, Daryl continued helping me with the kids, training them on how to shoot and how to properly use a knife. It was a lot of fun really, the kids listened a little bit better when Daryl was with me.

Jason and his gang continued going on runs, bringing back supplies left and right. Alexandria and the other ladies, focused on keeping things tidy and clean as well as planting. They cut fresh vegetables for us every day.

Daryl and I stood on watch most nights together at the gate. Sometimes I fell asleep but we took turns. Either he'd take a short nap or I would.

A couple weeks had now passed and Daryl and I hadn't gone out on a run since the last time when we got attacked. But it had been a while since we had left those walls so we decided to go on one. All the kids were getting sick too so they needed medicine, since I felt responsible for them, I felt like it was my duty to make sure they got better so Daryl and I decided to make a 150 mile out run.

I told Jason about it hoping he would approve and after a couple hours of arguing he agreed and said that if we took longer than a week he'd come find me. We assured him that we would be okay and that we would return safely. He was iffy about it but I didn't think it was a bad plan, I felt confident in myself as well as Daryl.

We left at dawn the upcoming day. Jason, Katherine, and Kody all walked us to the door to say goodbye. I kissed the kids and gave Jason a big ol' hug. Jason made us carry rifles and 2 handguns as well as back up ammunition for each. "Stay safe baby sis, I love you." He said.

"I love you too okay. Ill be back soon, please dont worry, stay here with the kids, I'll be fine." I said. "As for you two, listen to Jason kay, and make sure that the other kids feel better and dont get sick! Wash your hands and keep away from them, just make sure you all get a lot of rest! Okay?"

They both nodded and I padded Jason on the shoulder then we left. We had a car ready for us right outside the gates we packed it with supplies for a couple days just in case things got bad as well as plenty of ammunition and headed out.

Beth's POV

We've been on the road for a couple days now, after leaving that camp I couldn't help but feel a bit upset that we didn't just stay there after what has happened the last few days.

We ran out of gas not long after leaving. We went out looking for more but in the process found ourselves a herd of walkers and were then steered completely away from where the car was. We've been on foot for a like two days now, we are tired and are supplies are low.

We went into a neighborhood today and found a house we were able to secure from walkers. Olivia and I searched everywhere for supplies, all we found were a couple mints, cough drops, and chocolate bars.

We stayed there for the night moving the couch in front of the door making sure it couldn't be opened.

The next day Olivia and I decided to go through the other houses see if we could find anything else. Meanwhile Rachael stayed at the house.

Olivia and I had become really good friends, we were around the same age so we got along very well. She was funny, had a good personality and being with her and laughing at her jokes made me feel better about Daryl.

We were inside a house when we heard a walker upstairs. Olivia joked around acting like she was a cop searching a building and closely tippy toe up and down the halls, "I hear something!" she yelled.

"Could that be it?!" I said. "The one and only I have been searching for this whole time?!" I said sarcastically.

"Well we will have to see, but he must be a 10, if not then I don't approve!" Olivia joked.

We went up the stairs and opened the door the walker was locked behind. When the walker came out Olivia pushed him down the stairs. "Nope nope, he was like a 9.5, sorry won't do!" she laughed and she ran down the stairs and stabbed the walker in the head.

"I really like that one Olivia, thanks!" I said. Then we just laughed about it for a couple minutes as we continued searching the house.

After a couple hours we had finally finished scouting all the houses and headed back to meet Rachael. When we went inside the house we called for Rachael but no one answered. We began to look around and couldn't find her. I looked over at Olivia and she had worried look on her face, so I said.

"Don't panic, she's probably around here somewhere." we walked out through the backyard maybe she had gone outside for a bit.

Olivia and I walked around the backyard to and didn't see signs of anything until we heard a scream and we ran into the woods. We didn't know where the screams were coming from so we just kept running straight forward.

When we saw Rachael she was trying to pull a walker away from her as her son stayed behind her. There were two walkers one behind the other so she was having a hard time pushing them far away enough for her to stab one.

We came up behind them and Olivia grabbed one and I grabbed the other, we both stabbed them in the head.

"What were you thinking?!" Olivia screamed at Rachael.

"I-I I just came out here to get fresh air. And-and that happened." She answered nervously.

We heard steps behind us and Olivia and I turned right away putting our knives up in defense.

There were three people standing in front of us. One was a big strong man, he wore combat pants and boots, he had red hair and held a hand gun. The other was a guy with a mullet who was just standing there looking lost. The third was a female she had a rifle in her hand and was not pointing it at us.