After a few miles away from camp, Dale started honking the RV's horn. Everybody stopped their vehicles. Daryl and I got out of the truck and met everybody else in front of the RV. "I told you we'd never get far on that hose. . I said I needed the hose from the van," Dale sighed. Rick examined the hose, "Can you jury-rig it?"

"That's all it's been so far. . It's more duct tape than hose, and I'm out of duct tape." Dale explained.

"I see something up ahead," Shane said, removing the binoculars from his face. "If we're lucky it's a gas station."

Jacqui stepped out of the RV with a worried expression on her face, "Y'all, it's Jim. . . It's bad. . I don't think he can take anymore." The others looked worried, but I knew it was going to happen. . It always will but how many losses could this group take?

"Hey, Rick, want to hold down the fort? I'll drive ahead and see what I can bring back." Shane said as he headed towards the Jeep.

T-Dog stepped forward towards Shane. "Yeah, I'll come along too and back ya up."

"Y'all keep your eyes open now. We'll be right back."

I hoisted myself up onto the roof of the truck, sat there and began to space out. I was in deep thought about Kira and all the good times we've had together. A really good time was her 7th birthday, it was a blast. Trevor and I weren't fighting for once and we went to the carnival and then to Chuck-E-Cheese. . You could tell she was so filled with happiness that she could've exploded with it. Me and her had even had a few good moments in the past few days too. . When we had that pillow fight in the tent and when we snuggled up close to each other and fall asleep. I was snapped out of my thoughts by a hand waving in front of my face, it was Trevor.

He put one of his hands on my cheeks, "You gonna talk to me yet?" He smirked.

I felt like I was about to cry again but swallowed it down. I moved his hand away from my face and glared at him. "Don't touch my face, you bastard," I mumbled.

His face expression changed drastically, "What the fuck did I do?!" He grabbed me by the wrist and pulled me off the truck, "Huh?! What did I do to you!?"

I yanked my hand away from him, "I know what happened while I was out in the hospital! Kira told me everything! You're an asshole and you should've been there to protect her!" I could tell some of the group was watching us but I didn't care.

He scoffed and took a step closer towards me, "I protected her for months! It's not my fault she couldn't keep up with me. And besides. . I was there for you last night, wasn't I? Doesn't that make up for anything?" He gave me a soft expression and put his hand on my cheek again, trying to make me forgive him.

I pulled Trevor close to me and I whispered in his ear, "Oh, Trevor. ."

He smiled, thinking he had won my forgiveness.

"I would've sought comfort from a dead walker, but you were the closest thing to me so you had to do." I stepped back from his, patted his shoulder, and gave him a big, fake smile.

I could tell Trevor was about to explode, he stared daggers at me and stomped away. Holy crap! I can't believe I actually did that. . I bet Trevor was planning his revenge already. I sighed and rubbed my forehead. Rick had called everybody in a circle, making me stop thinking about Trevor. I stood in between Rick and Shane, with the others surrounding him, Trevor wouldn't stop glaring at me while I stood next to Rick. Rick started talking, "Jim want's us to leave him here. . That's what he said he wants."

"Is he lucid?" Carol asked.

"He seems to be. . I would say yes," Rick answered.

"Back at the camp," Dale spoke up. "When I said that Daryl might be right and you shut me down." He shook his head, "You misunderstood. . I would never go along with callously killing a man. I was just going to suggest that we ask Jim what he wants. And I think we have an answer. ."

Shane looked at Rick for a moment, "We just leave him here and go? Man, I'm not sure I could live with that."

Lori looked at Shane, "Not your call." Then she looked at Rick, "Neither one of you."

` It was silent for a few moments, Rick and Shane looked at each other and I moved out of their way so they could get inside the RV and get Jim. When they got out of the RV carrying Jim we followed them as they propped him up against a tree. We all said our goodbyes to him except for a few of us, headed back to our designated vehicles and starting driving towards CDC. While Daryl was driving I decided to to get some sleep since I barely had any the night before.

I opened my eyes to see that the CDC was just a few blocks away, I re-adjusted myself as Daryl pulled in behind the other vehicles. I grabbed my backpack and pulled out my gun just in case. I followed behind the others as they looked around at all the dead bodies and the flies flying around them. They were dead bodies everywhere, you could see them go all the way down the streets. I covered my mouth with the top of my shirt as we walked up to the entrance of the CDC. When we got up there we started to lift up some of the shutters. "There's nobody here," T-Dog commented.

"Then why are the shutters down?" Rick argued.

"Walkers!" Daryl yelled.

We all turned around as Daryl shot it in the head with one of his arrows. It started getting dark and everybody started to panic. "You led us into a graveyard!" Daryl yelled as he got into Rick's face.

"He made a call," Dale said in Rick's defense.

"It was the wrong damn call!" Daryl yelled.

Shane pushed Daryl away from Rick and yelled at Daryl, "Shut up! You hear me? Shut up. Shut up!" Shane sighed and turned his direction to Rick, "Rick, this is a dead end."

"Where are we going to go?" Carol asked, full of worry.

Shane put his hand on Rick's shoulder, "You hear me? No blame."

"She's right, we can't be this close to the city after dark," Lori stated.

Shane started backing up, "Fort Benning, Rick, that's still an option!"

"On what?" Andrea argued. "No food, no fuel. That's a hundred miles.

"125, I checked the map," Glenn informed.

"Forget Fort Benning, we need answers tonight! Now!" Lori yelled.

"We'll think of something!" Rick tried to say reassuringly.

"Come on, let's go, let's get out of here." Everybody said as they started jogging towards their vehicles.

I kept staring at the building while everybody was talking, something caught my eye, a camera. I pulled at Rick's sleeve, "Rick, look. There's a camera. . ! It moved, I saw it."

Rick looked at me, concerned. "Are you sure? It could be automated. ."

I nodded my head and moved closer to the camera. "Let us in! I know you can hear me! I know you can!" I yelled as I banged at the shutters. Shane pulled me back but I kept yelling, "Please! you have to help us! We can't lose any more people. . ! We have children with us! No more food. . No more gas. . We don't have anything! YOU HAVE TO LET US IN!" Shane kept pulling my back but I kept kicking and screaming, "YOU'RE KILLING US!" I began to cry. "YOU'RE KILLING US ALL!" I went limp in Shane's arm, I had no more energy in me and I guess Rick was right. After all, there was nobody in there.

Shane started carrying me out of the CDC, we all stopped walking and stood in silence for a moment when we heard a loud noise and turned around to see the shuttered opening and stated into the whiteness that it held. Shane put me down and we all entered the CDC quickly, but cautiously. "Hello?" Rick semi-yelled. Hello?" He said again. "Close door and watch for walkers," He instructed. I looked at how big this place looked. We heard a gun cocked and we all turned and aimed our guns in that direction.

"Anybody infected?" A man yelled we put our guns down.

"One of our group was, "Rick answered. "He didn't make it."

"Why are you here and what do you want?" The man asked, stepping closer.

"A chance. . ."

He raised an eyebrow, "That's asking an awful lot these days."

"I know. ." We all stared at the man, hoping he would let us stay here and give us a chance.

He looked at everybody of our group for a moment, "You all submit to a blood test, that's the price of submission."

Rick nodded, "We can do that."

After getting all of our blood tested he showed us to the dining area and we all starting eating and drinking. Everybody drank alcoholic beverages, except for Sophia and Carl, of course. Carl wanted to try some but ended up not liking it anyways. Everyone was laughing and having a good time while I was just drowning my sorrows with a glass of wine and stuffing my face with food, it had been days since we had eaten and I was taking advantage of it. From time to time Rick would look at me with concern but I pretended not to notice. After a few drinks and everyone was done eating Dr. Jenner started showing us where we could stay.

I walked into the room I was assigned, it was in between Shane and Rick's. I sighed as I face planted my bed, it was way better than sleeping on the ground. I decided that I needed a shower and that I probably stunk. I didn't have the energy, so I rolled off the bed, not a good idea. I groaned and pulled myself up from the ground. I had a bottle of wine in my hand and chugged at it, I was getting a little tipsy. Anything to get my mind off of things. I slipped out of my clothes and headed towards the shower. When the hot water started pouring out of the faucet I couldn't help but let out a moan of pleasure, it felt too good to have hot water relaxing my tense muscles.

After I changed into a pair of black and white striped shorts and a loose tank top. I kneeled down to pick up the cardigan and put that on as well. As I was putting on the cardigan I heard a noise come from the other room. I left the bathroom and didn't see anything. I relaxed a little and turned around to see Trevor pointing a gun at me. I held my hands up and backed up a little. "Do what I say and you won't get hurt." He said. "Okay. . ." I nodded slowly, eyeing the door handle, which was only a few feet away. I tried to make a break for the door but got stopped when he hit me in the head with the butt of his gun and everything went black.