I heard Gabriel sobbing. Probably because of Dad.

Daryl and Carol weren't back yet which got me worried.

I was so close to bring my sister to sleep but then suddenly the gunfire began.

She began to cry again.

Me " shh. Baby, everything is alright. You're safe. I won't let anyone hurt you. "

I kissed her forehead softly.

Suddenly they brought a one leged Bob inside.

Judith fell asleep and I laid her down.

I walked to them and asked confused " What happened?"

Bob " I was in the graveyard. Somebody knocked me out. I woke up outside this place. It looked like a school. It was that guy, Gareth. And five others. They were eating my leg right in front of me, like it was nothing, all proud like they had it all figured out. "

Me " Do they have Daryl and Carol?"

Bob shook his head " Gareth said they drove off. "

I breathed out relieved.

Bob groaned in pain.

Sasha " He's in pain. Do we have anything?"

Rosita " I think there are pill packets in the first aid kit. "

Rosita stood up but Bob stopped her with " Save 'em"

Sasha shook her head" no"

Bob " really. Damn "

He sat up and showed us his shoulder. He was bitten. We all froze.

Bob " it happened at the food bank "

Sasha held back her tears. I walked to dad and sat down next to him.

Bob laid back.

Gabriel " there's a sofa in my office. I know it's not much, but..."

Sasha nodded " thank you"

Tyreese picked Bob up " I got him"

They carried him into the next room.

Judith woke up and Carl carried her into the next room.

Dad " has he fever?"

Maggie " He's just warm"

Glenn " Jim lastet two day before we left him"

Dad nodded.

Abraham " we need to leave for DC right now"

We all turned to him.

Me " Daryl and Carol aren't back yet. We are not going anywhere without them"

Abraham " I respect that but there's a clear threat here for Eugene. I need to extract his ass before things get any uglier"

I scoffed " you talking like he's Jesus'"

Abraham " so, if you all won't come, good luck to you. We'll go our separate ways"

I looked at Dad.

Dad " you leaving on foot?"

Abraham " we fixed that damn bus ourselves. "

Dad walked to him " there are a lot more of us"

Abraham " you want to keep it that way? You should come."

Dad " Carol saved your life. We saved your life. "

Abraham " now I am trying to save yours. Save everyone's."

Dad shook his head" We're not going anywhere without our people."

Abraham " your people took off"

That one hurt.

My jaw dropped.

Dad " They are coming back. "

Abraham yelled " to what, picked over bones !?"

I yelled" keep it the fuck down! "

They glared at me.

Dad wanted to grab the gun " you're not tak-"

Abraham yelled" do not lay hands!"

I walked to them.

Rosita yelled " Abraham!"

Glenn separated the two " hey, hey, stop! Now!"

He turned to Abraham "do you really think that you're gonna be any safer leaving right now in the middle of the night?"

Abraham nodded" yeah. Yeah"

Glenn "what about tomorrow?.we need each other for this. We need each other to get to DC. We can get through all of it together. "

I rolled my eyes.

Abraham looked at Eugene " Eugene, let's go. Eugene. move it. "

Eugene shook his head " I don't want to. "

Abraham growled" now. "

Eugene cracked in" now"

He stood up and walked to Abraham.

Dad shook his head " you're not taking the bus. "

Abraham scoffed " try to stop me. "

Dad came at him but Glenn held them apart.

Glenn " hey, hey, hey!!! You stay...you stay and help us, and we will go with you. "

Dad shook his head" no"

Glenn looked at Dad and shook his head " It's not your call."

I scoffed.

Glenn looked at the red head" You stay and help us."

Abraham gave in " half a day.. come high noon, we're taillights. I'm not waiting for the other damn shoe to drop. "

Maggie nodded " and we will leave with you."

Abraham " 12 hours. Then we go. "

He walked away.

I looked at Glenn and he at me.

Dad came into the backroom.

I looked at him and smiled "hey"

Dad " you don't want to go to DC?"

I shook my head.

He sat down next to me " is it because of Daryl?"

I took a deep breath " I'm not leaving without him, dad. I can't "

Dad " but there's something else, isn't it?"

I shook my head " I don't believe in this whole cure thing"

Dad nodded chuckling" I know. I could read your face. "

I asked confused " You really wanna take that risk?"

Dad " This group will break otherwise, Ken"

I shook my head " But you shouldn't decide that alone. Daryl and Carol are part of this group, too. Part of the dead council. I know that Daryl's words helped you make the decisions you had to make. "

Dad nodded " I know"

Me " I'm worried, dad "

Dad put an arm around my shoulders " I know. I'm gonna have to ask you for a favor though "

I looked at him and nodded " of course"

Dad " everyone, except Carl, Rosita, Tyreese, Eugene, Bob, Gabriel and your sister, is leaving to kill those Bastards. I want you to keep an eye an everything. You're in charge till I'm back, sweetie"

I nodded " of course "

He kissed my forehead " have I ever told you how proud I am of you?"

I smiled " now you did"

He smiled and stood up.

Me " good luck"

He smiled at me and left with the others.

I took Judith's basket and walked to the others who where in Bob's room.

We blew out the candles.

....

Suddenly I heard a crack outside.

I looked at Carl and we took our guns out.

The front door was broken open.

Fuck

I held my gun up.

I heard Gareth call out " Well, I guess you know we're here. And we know you're here. And we're armed. So there's really no point I'm hiding anymore. We've been watching you. We know who's here. There's Bob, unless you've put him out of his misery already. And Eugene. Rosita. Martin's good friend Tyreese. Carl. Kendall. Judith"

I aimed at the closed doors. And so did Carl.

Gabriel " Rick and the rest walked out with a lot of your guns. Listen, we don't know where you all are, but this isn't a big place. Let's stop this now before thing get more painful than they need to be. "

Then they tried to open the Locked door.

Rosita aimed the shotgun at the door.

Gareth " look, you're behind one of these two doors and we have more than enough firepower top take down both. Can't imagine that's what you all want. How about the priest? Father, you help us, Wrap this up, we'll let you walk away from this. Just open the door and you can go. You can take the baby with you. What do you say ?"

Suddenly Judith started to cry.

I love this baby but she really got a bad timing.

Carl rushed to her.

Gareth " is your last chance right now to tell us you're coming out. "

Suddenly they began to groan in pain.

I breathed out relived.

Dad.

I heard them scream. I opened the door and saw them slaughter everyone.

My jaw dropped.

I walked back to the baby and held her up. I hugged her. Dad came in with Abraham. He walked to me but i hid Judith's head in my neck.

Dad looked at confused.

I shook my head" your face, Dad. "

He nodded.

The sun went up and we were all in the room. Bob won't last long.

We all walked out but Bob called dad back.

I put a hand on Carl's shoulder and we walked out.

Tyreese had ended things with Bob for good.

We were standing outside. Glenn, Maggie, Abraham and his group were in the mini Bus.

I smiled at them.

The others, we, will stay till Daryl and Carol come back and then we'll catch up with them.

Abraham drove off.

.

Michonne and I were sitting on the front steps holding watch.

Suddenly we heard a noise coming from the bushes. We walked to it.

Daryl walked out.

I smiled at him.

Michonne asked confused " where's Carol?"

Daryl looked behind him into the bushes" come on out"