Lori really didn't like the fact that I hit her lover and husband so she tried to punish me with doing laundry. I smirked at her and made a mad dash to the forest. You could hear her screamin at me for a while but hey I don't play well with others. I walked for a while until I heard some footsteps. I stood ready to attack, axe ready in mid swing and saw that it was a walker. I growled and slammed my axe into its head. I would have just left but I noticed that there was a few more not too far from where I stood.

I grabbed my throwing knives and hit each of them right in the head. I walked towards the walkers and grabbed the clothes that were on them. We could use the clothes for future use. I climbed my way back to the group but remained hidden from the rest of them. Didn't need to listen to them bitch for nothing.

I peered through the trees to see where everyone was and noticed that most of the group was down in the quarry washing clothes. I wonder how pissed they would be. I made a dash to them and saw that they had just gotten started. I came up behind Ed and walked around him and placed the last bit of clothes on the pile of clothes.

"Where the hell you been girly? You should be here washin clothes." Ed harped at me when he saw that I put more clothes in the dirty pile.

"None of your damn business Ed. I am more than just a washer of clothes." I hissed at him and straighten my back.

"You don't talk to me like that you little bitch." Ed said as he got all in my face.

"I will talk to you how ever I damn well please and if you think I am afraid of you you are wrong as fuck. An if I see those girls of yours with bruises again I'll cut off your little pencil dick and feed it to you do I make myself clear?" I growled and pulled out a blade.

Carol walked up to us trying to prevent Ed from hitting me but got in the way and got hit instead. I stopped for a second and reached to punch the son of the bitch. I would have hit him if it wasn't for Shane. He came out of nowhere and started to beat Ed like a bad habit.

Once he was done Shane walked away and made all the other women scared of him. I smirked and walked towards Ed.

"Well someone made you their bitch. How's it feel to know you aren't the strongest or the toughest thing out there prag." I said to him and laughed as he tried to get back up to hit me. I smirked and stepped on his hand. Putting enough force behind it to break his hand.

I lifted my hand and walked away back to the main camp. I found the animals standing around the my Uncle's tent just waiting for me. I smiled at them and went into the tent and grabbed a sleeping bag and got comfy. Since Daryl and the others weren't here I wanted to get some rest before night fall.

Someone needed to take watch. The animals and I got comfortable and went to bed. No one bothered me until the sun went down. Then Dale and Uncle Big Al came to me and woke me up.

"It's time for the watch kiddo." Uncle Big Al said.

"Yes Uncle let me get redressed and pee then I'll be ready to keep the walkers at bay." I said to him and stretched and went to do my business.

I got redressed in a pair of black blue jeans, a black and green plaid shirt wearing a corset under the shirt. It too was black and green and it had a skull on the left breast. I grabbed a black cowboy hat that I had in my pack and sat on top of the RV. I watched the group get a fire started and get dinner ready.

I sat on the RV for what felt like hours but it was only about an hour and a half. The sun had set and the sky was dark. I looked around and saw a walker near a tent. I pulled my knife and jumped off the RV. I was about to make a dash for it when I heard Amy behind me screaming. I turned and stabbed it in the head.

Everyone got up and started to run to us but I turned and saw a lot of them near us. I growled and threw dagger after dagger into their heads. Everyone was either fighting or protecting the children. I heard a walker behind me and I was about to turn and stab it when an arrow went right through its head.

I blinked a few times and saw that it was Daryl and the others. No Merle though. That sucks. We kept at it until there was nothing else to shoot at. I breathed deeply and stopped shaking. A hand was on my shoulder silently asking me to get up.

Once I was on my feet I saw that it was Daryl. I could see in his eyes that he was upset and happy. I rubbed his cheek and looked around me. A lot of people were dead but all the walkers were dead as well. The others got the walkers to a spot off to the side so everyone could get some sleep.

I sighed and looked around sad. This could have been a lot worse but still this was bad. I went to hop on top of the RV but Andrea grabbed me and went to punch me in the face. I dodged her hit and waited for her to deal with her pain.

"You let Amy die!" She yelled at me.

"How the hell was I to see a walker creep around the same RV that I am on and bite your sister. There is no sense in that. I and maybe three other people cannot be the only ones watching your ass! This is a group effort and yet only five of us are doing all that we can do." I growled at her and walked back into the woods.

I went looking for walkers. I had to kill something before I put my axe right into Andrea's fucking face. About twenty minutes of walking and I found about two or three of them. I swung my axe and smashed all of their heads in. Once I was done I felt better, I was going to just go back to the group until I heard some steps from behind me. I was going to attack when I saw that it was Daryl.

"You ok girl?" He asked as he looked at the ground.

"Better now than I was five minutes ago." I replied and leaned against a tree.

He smirked at my handy work and walked up to me. He looked me dead in the eye to make sure I wasn't lying. When he could see that I was fine and looked like he wanted to do something but he couldn't figure out how to do it. I pushed off the tree and hugged him. He tensed a little then relaxed and returned the gesture.

"What are ya doin to me?" He asked as he pushed his nose into my hair.

"Don't look at me I'm wingin it." I replied and moved to look up at him.

"What do you want?" Daryl asked as he narrowed his eyes at me.

"You, the surly hunter with deep blue eyes. I don't care if you just want to be my friend or something else but that is all I want." I explained quietly.

"What if I want more?" He asked as he cupped my un marred cheek.

"Then you can have it." An it was true. He and my uncle could ask anything of me and I would do it in a heartbeat. How did these two men have such control over my actions I will never know.

"I want all of you Courtney." He said and leaned into me and kissed me gently. His lips were surprisingly soft and they tasted dark…as if they held dark promises that I REALLY wanted to know about.

I kissed him back and wrapped my arms around his neck. He wrapped his arms around me and I was a little surprised that he was able to get them all the way around me. I wasn't small like Andrea and Lori but I wasn't huge.

"So what is the next plan of action?" I asked him as he looked beyond me and into the forest.

"We fight. We survive and if we are lucky we piss off Shane and Lori along the way darlin'." Daryl said.

I smirked and nodded. This sounded like a good plan. Simple an yet complex. This was how our future was going to be. No need to muck it up with bullshit drama.

"As you wish Daryl." I told him as he slowly let me go and lead me back to the group.

They saw that we were coming back and told us that they were sleeping in shifts and that when dawn came we were dealing with the walkers and leaving the quarry. Well there went all my fun.