Life went on, our group grew more but we lost people along the way but not as many as we would have if we were out there. Not even close. According to Beth, we haven't had an incident in 29 days, cool. This morning I wake up with a start. I had a nightmare, the first one in a while. I can't remember it now but I know it scared the crap out of me. I turn and Daryl is still asleep, it must be early. He's usually awake before me. I kiss his cheek before I slide out of bed and dress. I'll feed Judith, give Rick a small lie in… for him anyway. I walk into Rick's cell like I do many a morning. He's passed out on his stomach with no shirt on, he's snoring lightly but its semi muffled by his face in his pillow. I let out a little laugh and look over at a cooing Judith. This little monkey always wakes up early. I lean over her cot and tickle her stomach a little making her laugh.

"I'll be back in just a moment, little bug" I whisper.

I put formula in a bottle and take it out to boil some water. After the water boils, I fill the bottle, put the top on and shake it up before putting it in a bowl of cold water to make the cooling down time less. I grab some of the fruit that Rick brought in and mash it up into a little bowl then head back to the cell. I pick Judith up and out of the cot and place her on my hip. Babies sure do grow quickly. I bounce her about a little as she starts fussing. She's hungry. I write a quick note and leave it next to Rick's head telling him I've got Judith. I take her out to the main part of the cell block and sit on a bench and pull the bottle out of the bowl and shake a little of the milk on the underside of my wrist to check it's temperature. Too hot still. I feed her the fruit first. She makes happy noises as she eats. She finishes and I check her bottle again, it's fine, then feed her that. Rick comes out mid bottle.

He smiles at me tiredly "Didn't sleep much, Gwen?"

I nod "I did, I just woke up early and decided to have some Gwen and Judy time."

Rick sits in a seat across from me and stares at his daughter for a moment before looking up at me with a smile "You make a good mother"

I laugh "Thanks"

Rick disappears for a moment and comes out dressed in his farmer gear and an MP3 player that Daryl got for him. He nods at me as he walks by. Carol comes down next.

"Mornin' Gwen" She says sitting in the seat that Rick just left

"Mornin' Carol" I reply with a smile

"That deer that Daryl brought back yesterday will do us all another day or two but we need other supplies." Carol says as she plays with Judith's fingers.

I nod "Yeah, Daryl's doing a run today but we are short on people. The fence duty has been increased. You should have a look, they've increased something awful over the last few days"

She nods then stands "I'm going to start on breakfast"

"Thanks, Carol" I say to her.

She smiles "No problem"

Not 10 minutes later out comes Daryl looking around confused and a little panicked until he spots me with Judith and he relaxes. He heads down the stairs towards me and slides on the bench next to me.

"You alright?" He asks looking concerned.

I nod confused "Yeah, I just had a little nightmare but I'm fine, I can't even remember what it was."

His arm slides around and shoulder and he tickles Judith's stomach, making her laugh hysterically and he smiles "Mornin' little ass kicker" He mutters.

I giggle and kiss his cheek "You're so cute"

"Aww, you guys are so sweet" I look up at Beth startled then smirk.

"You'd make a great ninja in another life" I tell her

She laughs "Thanks, I think" She holds out her arms "I'll take over for a little while if you like? I know you're goin' on the run today"

I shake my head at her but too late.

"You're what?" Daryl growls.

I hand Judy over to Beth who looks at me guiltily "She'll need another bottle" I tell her.

I head for the exit and Daryl follows me suit "Hey, Gwen, don' ignore me"

I stop in the corridor and turn to him "Daryl, must we go through this every single time!" I snap "I'm going on the run"

He sighs and throws his arm around my shoulder as we head to the outside kitchen for some breakfast "You do enough as it is, Gwen."

I nod "Yeah, I know but not nearly as much as I used too"

"Morning Daryl and Gwen!" A voice calls and Daryl jumps a little looking shocked.

"Morning Daryl and Gwen" Doctor S calls

"What's up Doctor S" Daryl replies, he like Doctor S, he's a cool guy.

"Morin' Daryl, Mornin' Gwen" Another voice calls.

"Hey Gwen! Hey Daryl!" Yet another shouts

Daryl is positively baffled by the time we reach Carol who is laughing at the look on his face.

"Smells good." He says, removing his arm from my shoulder and accepting two bowls and hands one to me

"Just so you know, I liked you both first." Carol says with a smirk

"Stop. You know, Rick brought in a lot of them, too." Daryl says looking embarrassed

"Not recently. Give the stranger sanctuary, keeping people fed, you're gonna have to learn to live with the love." Carol says

"Yeah, baby, you've been good to these people" I say to Daryl and kiss his jaw

"You too, Guinevere Dixon" Carol scolds. My eyes widen.

Daryl smirks at me as Carol continues "You work day and night to ensure this place runs, they feel safe because of you"

"Right." Daryl says and takes a bite of his meat then kisses my temple

"I need you two to see something." Carol says then turns to the kid with glasses behind her "Patrick, you want to take over?"

"Yes, ma'am." Patrick says enthusiastically "Mr. Dixon" He says causing Daryl to stop in his tracks and look at the kid confused

Patrick continues enthusiastically "I just wanted to thank you for bringing that deer back yesterday. It was a real treat, sir. And I'd be honoured to shake your hand." The kid sticks out his hand

I raise an eyebrow and a smirk twitches at the corner of my mouth. Daryl looks at me confused then down at the kid and smirks. He makes a show of licking every one of his fingers before griping Patrick's hand in a potentially crushing grip. I cringe but Patrick looks thrilled, like he had just touched his superhero. I smirk, Daryl's my superhero, kid.

We turn to walk away again when Patrick says "Oh, Mrs Dixon!" I nearly spit out my food at the formality and turn to look at him

"Yeah, kid?" I reply.

"You're class yesterday on the Tudor Dynasty was fascinating" He says with a blush

I smirk "You were listening to that huh?"

He nods his face reddening "Yeah, I listen to all your classes"

I hear Carol giggle and Daryl wraps his arm around my with my waist and pulls me into his side "sorry kid, she's taken"

Patrick looks positively shocked and embarrassed and looks away from us. We follow Carol "Aw, you were mean to the poor little kid"

Daryl shrugs "Horny little brat was checking out my wife"

"Daryl, he's like 14" I say with a raised eyebrow.

He shrugs "So?"

"About today, Gwen was right, I don't know if we're gonna be able to spare a lot of people for the run." Carol says interrupting our little talk

"That place is good to go." Daryl says with a mouth full of food "We're gonna move on it."

"Yeah." Carol says as we reach the first set of fences that look out into the courtyard and down to the second lot of fences where dozens of walkers are pressing against them and I frown at them worriedly

"The thing is, we had a pretty big build-up overnight. Dozens more towards tower three. It's getting as bad as last month. They don't spread out anymore." Carol continues

I groan a little "It's worse than it was last night"

"With more of us sitting here, we're drawing more of them out. You get enough of those damn fence-cleaners, they start to herd up. Pushing against the fences again." Daryl says indicating to the line of people killing walkers through the fence

"It's manageable, but unless we get ahead of it, not for long. Sorry, Pookie." Carol says with pouty lips

I laugh a little but stare at the fence a little longer until Daryl tugs me away gently "Come on Gwen, we're meetin' Sasha, Maggie and Glenn by the cars"

"Is that all that's going? And you were going to leave me behind?" I ask in disbelief.

He grunts and I frown "Don't you grunt at me, Mr Dixon"

He stops next to the car and grabs me around the waist, drops his head and kisses me. I kiss back feverishly and slide my arms around his neck. He pulls away briefly.

"I'll stop gruntin' at you when you stop goin' on runs, Mrs Dixon" He mutters and presses his mouth back onto mine

"Honestly, do you two ever break apart" Glenn says walking up to us.

I pull back a little and stick my tongue out at him "Says you, speaking of which where's Maggie?" I ask

"She's not coming but Tyreese said he would take her place" Glenn says, I frown at him, he still sucks at lying.