Zayla woke at dawn as she usually did and Daryl was up with her. They went out on a hunt together and didn't bag a deer, but their snares caught enough rabbits for a meal. When they were making their way back to the farm, it was around 9 AM and everyone was up and about. Carl and Sophia were waiting for Zayla and Andrea was with them. When she approached, they all had a gun that was cleaned and ready for use, so she got started on their gun lesson for the day, focusing more of her attention on Andrea. The blonde woman wasn't as horrible as she thought and she was keeping up the pace with the kids. With a few more lessons, she'd be just as good of a shot as Carl.

"Zayla, that you under there?" Shane asked the figure sitting on the porch with their back to the wall, unknowing if Zayla or Maggie was under the hat, and Daryl was leaning on the banister a few feet in front of them.

Zayla tipped Maggie's hat up to look at Shane, still not used to his cut hair. "Present."

"Whatcha' up to?"

"What do you want, Shane? You need somethin' or you just want my attention?"

"I don't wanna interrupt your relaxation time 'cause Lord knows you've earned it, but I've got something I think you'd like to know. You too, Daryl."

"Somethin' like what?" He beckoned her closer and when she stood at the railing, he beckoned her even closer, so she leaned over the wooden rail. "Shane, if you try to kiss me or put your tongue in my ear or any kinky stuff like that, I will not be responsible for my actions."

"My intentions are pure, I promise." He crossed his heart before whishpering. "Old Farmer Greene's gotta bunch of Walkers locked up in the barn. Rick knew and he didn't do a damn thing about it."

"Daryl, honey, c'mere." She pointedly smiled at him. "Guess what?"

"What?"

"There's a horde of Walkers in the barn."

"There's what in the barn?" Glenn asked, overhearing the conversation as he made his way out of the house with that guitar he either found or Hershel gave to him slung over his shoulders, with Maggie.

"Walkers, nice bunch of 'em, and Rick, the asshat y'all put in charge, knew they were in there." Zayla repeated.

"We've been here long enough to get comfortable and at any given moment, those things could've gotten out and killed us all." Shane announced to everyone listening before he went over to the pickup truck and grabbed a shotgun from the pile on the bed, tossing it to Zayla. "Enough living next to a barn full of things that are trying to kill us. It ain't like it was before! Now, if y'all want to live, if you want to survive, you got to fight for it! I'm talking about fighting right here, right now."

Zayla tossed Daryl one of her pistols and Shane had the rifle in his hands as they made their way as a squad to the barn. Now that things were quiet, she could hear the soft growling coming from within the wooden structure and wondered just how many Walkers were in there. Shane went to the wooden doors and pulled the wooden latch before pulling the barn's doors open.

The reanimated corpses of Jimmy, Hershel's first wife, Patricia, Otis and a few Walkers staggered out of the open doors and one by one, Daryl, Shane and Zayla shot them down. It wasn't until all the gunfire stopped did anyone hear the Greene sisters crying and Beth went to one of the bodies to mourn. Glenn was consoling Maggie while Hershel was watching in horror with Rick at his side.

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Later that night, Rick was still trying to convince Hershel to let them stay on the Farm when the elder man told Rick to go away once and for all. Without much of another option, he left the farmhouse and went to his tent. All of the survivors were out of the house, so after talking to Glenn, Maggie found herself at the barn with a candle and the recently dug graves for her family members was next to it. She was about to go to her mother's grave when she noticed someone smoking inside the barn.

"Zayla-"

"You knew them Walkers was in this barn?" The ginger cut her off, but Maggie didn't immediately answer, just hung her head. "Did you know or not?"

"I helped put them in there." She admitted. "They weren't just Walkers to us, Zayla. Some of our family and friends were in there. Daddy just thought they were sick and every sickness has a cure. We thought that if we just kept them locked up until this whole thing was over, someone would have a cure and we'd get our family back."

"Maggie, I'm about to drop some heavy shit on you, so listen up." Zayla warned before taking a long drag from her cigarette, blowing the smoke out of her nose like a dragon. "The world has ended, Mags. Society has fallen, authority is gone, the world as we once knew it is just a memory now. The entire planet has been plagued with this terminal disease. This is a whole new kinda Cancer that nobody saw comin'. Shane told us everything he knew about this virus, said it was the last thing broadcasting on TV before the power went out and they moved to the quarry with me and the Dixons. Those things in that barn were not your family. Once someone gets bitten and dies, nothing is left of who they used to be. They aren't family anymore; they don't love you. When people die and reanimate, they ain't even human no more. They are monsters. You can't cure a monster."

Maggie was stunned into silence, but slowly nodded at the woman's words. She knew the world just about stopped, but she didn't know the very definition of those things lurkring around now. It was terrifying knowing that most of the Walkers they saw were just people who never got properly put down and she hoped when her day came that someone would be there to do it if she couldn't do it herself.

"We were delusional. I get that now, I understand." She slowly admitted. "Zayla, I'm so sorry about what happened. I don't want you or any of your people to leave."

"Gimmie a few days to calm down, then maybe I'll forgive you for lying to me and puttin' my family in danger." She strictly told the brunette. "As for your Dad, I've been meaning to speak with him because Rick's probably makin' things worse."

"He's in his room. C'mon." Maggie led them back to the farmhouse and upstairs to Hershel's room, knocking.

They waited a moment, but nobody answered and Maggie opened the door, finding the room empty. They ran back outside and asked around for Hershel, but nobody's seen him nor Rick for at least an hour and they realize one of the cars is gone. The girls informed everyone of the missing men and Lori insisted someone go out looking for her husband while Maggie refused to go anywhere while her sister still needed tending to. Glenn and Daryl decided to go out looking in Daryl's pickup and they quickly sped off into the night, following the tracks left behind.