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p style="margin: 0px;"SARAH /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Finding a way to arrange where they all would have slept that night hadn't been easy. They were many and they all needed to sleep closed somewhere, but they didn't all fit inside the RV. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Once Lori had managed to make Carol move away from the guard rail, they all agreed on letting the woman rest in Dale's bed. They made T-Dog lay down on the seat of the RV, next to the table and they had forbidden him to take a shift to keep watch. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Me and Glenn will be the first to keep watch" at Rick's words Lori took a breath. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Rick..." she said "I think you should rest" Rick frowned at his wife's words. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""How can I, Lori?" asked the man. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""It's not been easy for you too, today" she said putting her hands on his chest. Rick was exhausted, since he came back from the woods. It was easy to see that he felt responsible for what had happened to Sophia, but he needed to reast. The next morning, they needed him to be in his full strength. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""We can make it for one night" said Sarah with a small smile making a step forward form between Glenn and Dale. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I could take watch with Glenn" she offered, making all of them looking towards her. Shane had his hands on his hips as Daryl observed her biting his bottom lip. She was waiting for him to say something but Glenn got closer instead. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""You sure?" he asked looking from Rick to her that nodded her head. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I can't shoot, but you can" she stated "And two pair of eyes is better than one" silence fell on them. The men always preferred to be the one protecting, but now it was different. They all needed to help as much as they could and she hoped that they were all thinking the same. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Yeah, why not?" said Shane after sharing a look with Rick, making the girl took a breath nodding her head. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I want to help too" said Andrea stepping forward making the two cops nod their heads. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Ok, but no gun" at Shane's words Andrea scoffed, but the man ignored her. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Then Sarah noticed Shane looking behind her back and following his gaze, she noticed him looking at Nicki who was sitting on the hood of a car next to Carl, waiting for them to decide what to do. Sarah frowned a bit, just before Shane spoke: /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""What about you, Nicolette?" he asked making her sister look up not expecting to be called. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""What?" she asked. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""You pulled up a nice show, according to Rick" he said. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""What are you up to?" asked Sarah feeling her hands sweat as she put herself between Shane and Nicki. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Carl had told Sarah how Nicki had rolled out from under the car where they were hiding when the heard of walkers passed. As she had noticed one of them following the former Sheriff that was trying to reach Sophia, Nicki ran and shot an arrow right through the walker's head, taking it down. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""She's got skills; she could help us" Shane said making Andrea scoff. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""She's just a child" said the woman. Sarah couldn't help but glare at her. It was true, Nicki was young, but she didn't like the way Andrea had spoken, but she decided to ignore her and turn to Rick when he spoke. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""She saved my life" Rick said "Maybe we... we should let her learn how to be out there with us" Sarah looked her sister that silently was observing the scene in front of her holding her bow tightly. She really couldn't understand what Nicki wanted. She didn't know if her sister wanted to try, or preferred to sleep safely inside the car. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I don't know if I'm ok with this" Sarah muttered with honesty. And after Sophia, she couldn't help but feeling uneasy by the situation. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""She could help us" Shane said "At least she could learn how to" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""It could be safer for her too" Rick said looking the woods. Sarah didn't like to think of her sister taking watch during the night, but on the other hand Nicki knew how to use a weapon... maybe in that world it was the right thing to do, to let her learn. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""She wonder 'round a lot?" asked suddenly Daryl making Sarah turn in his direction. A little frown appeared on her face. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""She is responsible" Sarah said "If she wanders is always where someone can see her" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Right" Daryl said before turning to Nicki "Hey!" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Yeah...?" asked Nicki in surprise. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I'll wake you when it's time" Daryl said to her before turning to Rick "We take the last shift" then he moved to walk away. When he passed by Sarah, Daryl nodded slightly, before entering a car and laying down on the backseats. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Come on, Sarah" said Glenn softly as he nudged her with his shoulder. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I'll be right there" she said before walking to her sister. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Nicki was looking at Carl that hopped down the car to follow Lori and Rick inside the car they had travelled with. Sarah had never noticed how difficult reading Nicolette could be. When things were easier, she felt like she always knew what her sister was thinking. When Nicki had a discussion, it was usually Sarah that tried to talk her parents out of it. For how her sister could be stubborn, and she was, she never really argued back with them, always preferred to walk back in her room. That was why Sarah tried to explain to their parents Nicki's point of view and she usually wasn't wrong. Or so she thought... she wasn't sure anymore... /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Are you ok with this?" asked Sarah getting closer to her sister that looked up silently before turning her head nodding. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""You don't have to if you don't want to" Sarah said trying to search for her gaze. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""No, it's fine" Nicolette said before hopping down from the hood of the car taking her bow. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""You sure?" Sarah asked with a small frown. Nicki turned to her nodding her head, before adjusting her quiver on her shoulder and starting to walk to the RV. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Sarah observed her for a moment, before taking a breath and going to Glenn to climb up the ladder of the RV. Glenn went before her and, once he arrived on top, he held out his hand for her to take and helped her up. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""We should sit down" said Glenn a bit anxiously as Sarah silently nodded and did as he said. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Hey" he spoke sitting next to her on the edge of the RV "It's going to be alright, you know" Sarah smiled at him slightly. Her gaze went to the car Daryl was reasting in. She couldn't understand Daryl Dixon at all, but on one thing she was positive, Daryl would protect Nicki. He had helped T-Dog with the herd and he immediately went to search for Sophia. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I remember the first time Nicki got her bow. She was like 6 or something" she said taking a breath with a sad smile "It was one of those made in plastic with suction cups instead of tips" she let out a laugh looking towards Glenn "It was Christmas, my grandparent's present. She was so fascinated by it. She took it in her hands, observing it silently but she got this huge smile" she could see Nicki, all dressed up in a red dress with her black hair tied in two pigtails by two huge red ribbons. Sarah laughed so hard when her sister complained about those ribbons. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""In our living room there was this still life picture, you know" Sarah kept say "And she came to me and told me 'Watch me, Sarah. I'm going to hit that apple' and she did" she laughed again and she heard Glenn chuckle too "God, my mum was so angry, but we all knew that she had some kind of a gift. That's how she started with archery" she could feel some tears forming in her eyes at those memories "And every time she used that bow, I could see how happy she was, even if she missed, even if she lost a competition. She didn't care" then she took a breath "I never thought that that passion of hers would have put her on the line". /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Glenn observed her, she could feel his gaze on her. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I know it's not easy for you" said Glenn "And with all this Sophia's situation..." she nodded her head. That wasn't helping at all. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""But she made the difference" Glenn said making the girl look at him "She saved Rick's life. I think that Nicki could help us a lot, and we need help". /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Maybe he was right. Sarah thought of learning how to defend herself to be more helpful. But she still needed to learn, to get comfortable with it. So maybe that was the right thing to do. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""And she hit it right through the head" Glenn said making her chuckle "She is a monster" Sarah nudged him, bumping Glenn with her shoulder. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Maybe she was thinking too much and Nicolette wasn't alone, Daryl would have been there that night. And the whole group during the day. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""What about you, Pizza boy?" she said looking at her friend "How are you holding up?" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Scared shitless" he said after taking a breath "You?" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I feel like I'm becoming an anxious old lady" she confessed. She felt always on the edge. Always looking around, always scared that something would have happened to one of them. And that day it did. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Do you think we will find her?" asked Sarah "Sophia?" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"That was a question that was painful just to say out loud. She was hoping and praying for Sophia to come back, for someone to find her and bring her back to them; so that she could be safe. Sarah hoped that for Carol, and for all of them. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I hope so" Glenn said. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Sarah often observed Nicki, Carl and Sophia, they were able to make them feel the normality back, when they played, when they laughed or argued, she didn't know why, but she always felt like they up lift their spirits. They deserved to live and be happy and feel safe. They shouldn't be running into the woods at night. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Sarah and Glenn had been up there talking with each other, like they always did. They had been up there for a few hours when Shane and Andrea called for them from below. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Everything's good?" asked Shane with his hands on his hips. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Yeah" said Glenn "All good" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Alright" Shane nodded his head "Go to sleep, we got it covered." /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"The two of them got down from the ladder. Glenn gave his riffle to Shane and followed Sarah inside the RV. T-Dog was lying down on his back on the seat, snoring a bit. Dale was sleeping with his hands crossed sat on the seat in front of T-Dog. Nicki was on the ground, lying on her side and her arm under her head, her bow and quiver were next to her. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Where do you want to sleep?" asked Glenn in a whisper. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I take the floor" she said with a little smile. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""You sure?" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Sarah nodded her head before pushing her friend towards the seat next to Dale. She preferred sleeping on the ground. When she was in high school and she and her friend had a sleepover, they always slept together in the living room. Her friend Lucy always wanted the sofa because after she had slept once on the floor, her back hurt so much that she had to stay in bed for two days. She had always been over dramatic, but she had always brought them cookies and cupcakes. Lucy had always been very generous with the food she made. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Once she lay down, she suddenly felt all the fatigue come crushing over her. She put herself on her side yawning, she hadn't realized how tired she had been until that moment. She had just time to hear a faint sob coming from Carol. Sarah had tried to stay awake, to get up and going to the woman, but suddenly her eyes closed and she fall in deep slumber. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Sarah dreamt of Amy, Jacqui and Jim, alive, and Sophia sitting on the ground with all of them, eating before a fire. They were all laughing at something that Dale was saying. Carl and Nicki were bickering, from next to Rick and Lori. She was sitting next to Glenn laughing before turning to see Daryl not far from where she was eating peacefully. Like he had done in the CDC. It was nice, being surrounded by all of them, feeling safe, feeling happy. Suddenly, though, walkers started to attack all of them, biting everyone. Screams could be heard, loud screams. She had tried to ran towards Nicki, but she got bitten on the neck and turning she saw Glenn on the ground. She suddenly felt someone pull her back, just to see Daryl being bitten on the arm by another walker. She was crying as she held him once he fell on the ground in pain. She called his name once he closed his eyes and her sobs got louder. There was no one else alive around her, they were all dead, all of them. She was alone. She was ready to get bitten, but when she opened her eyes, Sarah realized that she was in the RV, in a sitting position. Her breaths were laboured. When she turned, she noticed Nicki not being there and she couldn't help but feeling anxiety rise inside of her, remembering the walker and the bite and all that blood on her sister. But then she noticed Glenn and Dale sleeping not too far from her and she finally remembered where she was and that she was safe, they all were. She looked around to see where Nicki was, but when she noticed that the bow wasn't there, she was sure her sister had left the RV. She walked closer to the door, when she heard Daryl's voice. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Scared, girl?" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Why are you asking?" Nicki asked not speaking loud as per usual. Silence fell for some moments before Daryl spoke again. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Saw how you looked away 'fore" he said but Nicki didn't answer "Lucky shot, right?" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""How...?" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Not looking so proud like always" Nicki chuckled at his words. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I'm not used to moving targets. I have to learn" she said after taking a breath "I have to be good, like you all want to". /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"That was what was wrong with her before, she felt pressured by their praise and expectations. Nicki had told her how much she wanted to be useful among them and she was trying to find a way to keep her cool. To be strong. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""If that was a lucky shot" Daryl said "You ain't got nothin' to worry abou'" Sarah couldn't help but smile at those words, hearing her sister thanking the man with a more relaxed than before. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Suddenly, thought, she heard a scoff coming from behind her, noticing Andrea sitting just before the entrance of the 'bedroom' before turning avoiding Sarah's glare. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"SARAH /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Finding a way to arrange where they all would have slept that night hadn't been easy. They were many and they all needed to sleep closed somewhere, but they didn't all fit inside the RV. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Once Lori had managed to make Carol move away from the guard rail, they all agreed on letting the woman rest in Dale's bed. They made T-Dog lay down on the seat of the RV, next to the table and they had forbidden him to take a shift to keep watch. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Me and Glenn will be the first to keep watch" at Rick's words Lori took a breath. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Rick..." she said "I think you should rest" Rick frowned at his wife's words. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""How can I, Lori?" asked the man. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""It's not been easy for you too, today" she said putting her hands on his chest. Rick was exhausted, since he came back from the woods. It was easy to see that he felt responsible for what had happened to Sophia, but he needed to reast. The next morning, they needed him to be in his full strength. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""We can make it for one night" said Sarah with a small smile making a step forward form between Glenn and Dale. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I could take watch with Glenn" she offered, making all of them looking towards her. Shane had his hands on his hips as Daryl observed her biting his bottom lip. She was waiting for him to say something but Glenn got closer instead. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""You sure?" he asked looking from Rick to her that nodded her head. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I can't shoot, but you can" she stated "And two pair of eyes is better than one" silence fell on them. The men always preferred to be the one protecting, but now it was different. They all needed to help as much as they could and she hoped that they were all thinking the same. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Yeah, why not?" said Shane after sharing a look with Rick, making the girl took a breath nodding her head. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I want to help too" said Andrea stepping forward making the two cops nod their heads. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Ok, but no gun" at Shane's words Andrea scoffed, but the man ignored her. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Then Sarah noticed Shane looking behind her back and following his gaze, she noticed him looking at Nicki who was sitting on the hood of a car next to Carl, waiting for them to decide what to do. Sarah frowned a bit, just before Shane spoke: /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""What about you, Nicolette?" he asked making her sister look up not expecting to be called. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""What?" she asked. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""You pulled up a nice show, according to Rick" he said. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""What are you up to?" asked Sarah feeling her hands sweat as she put herself between Shane and Nicki. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Carl had told Sarah how Nicki had rolled out from under the car where they were hiding when the heard of walkers passed. As she had noticed one of them following the former Sheriff that was trying to reach Sophia, Nicki ran and shot an arrow right through the walker's head, taking it down. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""She's got skills; she could help us" Shane said making Andrea scoff. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""She's just a child" said the woman. Sarah couldn't help but glare at her. It was true, Nicki was young, but she didn't like the way Andrea had spoken, but she decided to ignore her and turn to Rick when he spoke. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""She saved my life" Rick said "Maybe we... we should let her learn how to be out there with us" Sarah looked her sister that silently was observing the scene in front of her holding her bow tightly. She really couldn't understand what Nicki wanted. She didn't know if her sister wanted to try, or preferred to sleep safely inside the car. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I don't know if I'm ok with this" Sarah muttered with honesty. And after Sophia, she couldn't help but feeling uneasy by the situation. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""She could help us" Shane said "At least she could learn how to" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""It could be safer for her too" Rick said looking the woods. Sarah didn't like to think of her sister taking watch during the night, but on the other hand Nicki knew how to use a weapon... maybe in that world it was the right thing to do, to let her learn. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""She wonder 'round a lot?" asked suddenly Daryl making Sarah turn in his direction. A little frown appeared on her face. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""She is responsible" Sarah said "If she wanders is always where someone can see her" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Right" Daryl said before turning to Nicki "Hey!" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Yeah...?" asked Nicki in surprise. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I'll wake you when it's time" Daryl said to her before turning to Rick "We take the last shift" then he moved to walk away. When he passed by Sarah, Daryl nodded slightly, before entering a car and laying down on the backseats. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Come on, Sarah" said Glenn softly as he nudged her with his shoulder. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I'll be right there" she said before walking to her sister. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Nicki was looking at Carl that hopped down the car to follow Lori and Rick inside the car they had travelled with. Sarah had never noticed how difficult reading Nicolette could be. When things were easier, she felt like she always knew what her sister was thinking. When Nicki had a discussion, it was usually Sarah that tried to talk her parents out of it. For how her sister could be stubborn, and she was, she never really argued back with them, always preferred to walk back in her room. That was why Sarah tried to explain to their parents Nicki's point of view and she usually wasn't wrong. Or so she thought... she wasn't sure anymore... /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Are you ok with this?" asked Sarah getting closer to her sister that looked up silently before turning her head nodding. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""You don't have to if you don't want to" Sarah said trying to search for her gaze. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""No, it's fine" Nicolette said before hopping down from the hood of the car taking her bow. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""You sure?" Sarah asked with a small frown. Nicki turned to her nodding her head, before adjusting her quiver on her shoulder and starting to walk to the RV. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Sarah observed her for a moment, before taking a breath and going to Glenn to climb up the ladder of the RV. Glenn went before her and, once he arrived on top, he held out his hand for her to take and helped her up. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""We should sit down" said Glenn a bit anxiously as Sarah silently nodded and did as he said. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Hey" he spoke sitting next to her on the edge of the RV "It's going to be alright, you know" Sarah smiled at him slightly. Her gaze went to the car Daryl was reasting in. She couldn't understand Daryl Dixon at all, but on one thing she was positive, Daryl would protect Nicki. He had helped T-Dog with the herd and he immediately went to search for Sophia. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I remember the first time Nicki got her bow. She was like 6 or something" she said taking a breath with a sad smile "It was one of those made in plastic with suction cups instead of tips" she let out a laugh looking towards Glenn "It was Christmas, my grandparent's present. She was so fascinated by it. She took it in her hands, observing it silently but she got this huge smile" she could see Nicki, all dressed up in a red dress with her black hair tied in two pigtails by two huge red ribbons. Sarah laughed so hard when her sister complained about those ribbons. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""In our living room there was this still life picture, you know" Sarah kept say "And she came to me and told me 'Watch me, Sarah. I'm going to hit that apple' and she did" she laughed again and she heard Glenn chuckle too "God, my mum was so angry, but we all knew that she had some kind of a gift. That's how she started with archery" she could feel some tears forming in her eyes at those memories "And every time she used that bow, I could see how happy she was, even if she missed, even if she lost a competition. She didn't care" then she took a breath "I never thought that that passion of hers would have put her on the line". /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Glenn observed her, she could feel his gaze on her. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I know it's not easy for you" said Glenn "And with all this Sophia's situation..." she nodded her head. That wasn't helping at all. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""But she made the difference" Glenn said making the girl look at him "She saved Rick's life. I think that Nicki could help us a lot, and we need help". /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Maybe he was right. Sarah thought of learning how to defend herself to be more helpful. But she still needed to learn, to get comfortable with it. So maybe that was the right thing to do. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""And she hit it right through the head" Glenn said making her chuckle "She is a monster" Sarah nudged him, bumping Glenn with her shoulder. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Maybe she was thinking too much and Nicolette wasn't alone, Daryl would have been there that night. And the whole group during the day. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""What about you, Pizza boy?" she said looking at her friend "How are you holding up?" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Scared shitless" he said after taking a breath "You?" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I feel like I'm becoming an anxious old lady" she confessed. She felt always on the edge. Always looking around, always scared that something would have happened to one of them. And that day it did. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Do you think we will find her?" asked Sarah "Sophia?" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"That was a question that was painful just to say out loud. She was hoping and praying for Sophia to come back, for someone to find her and bring her back to them; so that she could be safe. Sarah hoped that for Carol, and for all of them. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I hope so" Glenn said. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Sarah often observed Nicki, Carl and Sophia, they were able to make them feel the normality back, when they played, when they laughed or argued, she didn't know why, but she always felt like they up lift their spirits. They deserved to live and be happy and feel safe. They shouldn't be running into the woods at night. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Sarah and Glenn had been up there talking with each other, like they always did. They had been up there for a few hours when Shane and Andrea called for them from below. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Everything's good?" asked Shane with his hands on his hips. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Yeah" said Glenn "All good" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Alright" Shane nodded his head "Go to sleep, we got it covered." /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"The two of them got down from the ladder. Glenn gave his riffle to Shane and followed Sarah inside the RV. T-Dog was lying down on his back on the seat, snoring a bit. Dale was sleeping with his hands crossed sat on the seat in front of T-Dog. Nicki was on the ground, lying on her side and her arm under her head, her bow and quiver were next to her. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Where do you want to sleep?" asked Glenn in a whisper. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I take the floor" she said with a little smile. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""You sure?" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Sarah nodded her head before pushing her friend towards the seat next to Dale. She preferred sleeping on the ground. When she was in high school and she and her friend had a sleepover, they always slept together in the living room. Her friend Lucy always wanted the sofa because after she had slept once on the floor, her back hurt so much that she had to stay in bed for two days. She had always been over dramatic, but she had always brought them cookies and cupcakes. Lucy had always been very generous with the food she made. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Once she lay down, she suddenly felt all the fatigue come crushing over her. She put herself on her side yawning, she hadn't realized how tired she had been until that moment. She had just time to hear a faint sob coming from Carol. Sarah had tried to stay awake, to get up and going to the woman, but suddenly her eyes closed and she fall in deep slumber. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Sarah dreamt of Amy, Jacqui and Jim, alive, and Sophia sitting on the ground with all of them, eating before a fire. They were all laughing at something that Dale was saying. Carl and Nicki were bickering, from next to Rick and Lori. She was sitting next to Glenn laughing before turning to see Daryl not far from where she was eating peacefully. Like he had done in the CDC. It was nice, being surrounded by all of them, feeling safe, feeling happy. Suddenly, though, walkers started to attack all of them, biting everyone. Screams could be heard, loud screams. She had tried to ran towards Nicki, but she got bitten on the neck and turning she saw Glenn on the ground. She suddenly felt someone pull her back, just to see Daryl being bitten on the arm by another walker. She was crying as she held him once he fell on the ground in pain. She called his name once he closed his eyes and her sobs got louder. There was no one else alive around her, they were all dead, all of them. She was alone. She was ready to get bitten, but when she opened her eyes, Sarah realized that she was in the RV, in a sitting position. Her breaths were laboured. When she turned, she noticed Nicki not being there and she couldn't help but feeling anxiety rise inside of her, remembering the walker and the bite and all that blood on her sister. But then she noticed Glenn and Dale sleeping not too far from her and she finally remembered where she was and that she was safe, they all were. She looked around to see where Nicki was, but when she noticed that the bow wasn't there, she was sure her sister had left the RV. She walked closer to the door, when she heard Daryl's voice. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Scared, girl?" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Why are you asking?" Nicki asked not speaking loud as per usual. Silence fell for some moments before Daryl spoke again. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Saw how you looked away 'fore" he said but Nicki didn't answer "Lucky shot, right?" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""How...?" /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""Not looking so proud like always" Nicki chuckled at his words. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""I'm not used to moving targets. I have to learn" she said after taking a breath "I have to be good, like you all want to". /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"That was what was wrong with her before, she felt pressured by their praise and expectations. Nicki had told her how much she wanted to be useful among them and she was trying to find a way to keep her cool. To be strong. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;""If that was a lucky shot" Daryl said "You ain't got nothin' to worry abou'" Sarah couldn't help but smile at those words, hearing her sister thanking the man with a more relaxed than before. /p
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p style="margin: 0px;"Suddenly, thought, she heard a scoff coming from behind her, noticing Andrea sitting just before the entrance of the 'bedroom' before turning avoiding Sarah's glare. /p
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