A/N: My apologies if these last few chapters are short, a lot has been going on in my life and I haven't been writing as much as I want. Hopefully I will write longer again soon.

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Grieving is an interesting feeling, the feeling of losing someone so close to you—it felt like your heart was ripped out of your chest. It can feel overwhelming if you let the emotion take control. Although, how am I supposed to know I'm just a dog?

Today, Rick's group prepares for the upcoming assault on the prison from The Governor's men. A few of ours stay while the others (like myself) head to Woodbury. The others were Rick, Daryl, Myself and Michonne, we drove some distance from the prison where we saw a massacre of The Governor's convoy.

A few walkers feasts on the dead body but most of them were executed by Daryl and Michonne — We hear a bang coming from one of the truckers, it was a brunette woman with splotches of blood on her face.

Daryl practically ripped the woman out of the truck while I gave a sniff rundown. She was good—So we took her captive to Woodbury.

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It was already nightfall when we arrived at Woodbury, the boys had their rifles aimed while I sniffed around for anything unusual. Then a bullet passed by me, that nearly killed me.

The boys started shooting while we hid behind a car to take cover, the brunette then spoke up. "Tyreese! It's me! Don't—"

"Get down!" Rick cuts her off.

"Karen!" This 'Tyreese' shouts. " Karen, are you okay?"

"I'm fine!" Karen then stood up with her hands up in surrender.

"Where's the Governor?" Tyreese shouts.

"He fired on everyone." Replied Karen " He killed them all."

Dead silence fell for a few minutes until Tyreese asked. " Why are you with them?"

"They saved me." Karen replies.

Rick went on to shouts. "We're coming out!" Wait, what?

The border opens to show a tall dark-skinned man with a dark skinned woman. " What are you doing here?" Tyreese asks.

"We were coming to finish this until we saw what the Governor did." Replies Rick.

Tyreese looks on at the leader. " He ... he killed them?"

Rick sighs. "Yeah. Karen told us Andrea hopped the wall going for the prison—She never made it. She might be here."

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We head into a ware called "the torture room." where Andrea is held by The Governor. " This is where he had Glenn and Maggie." Rick says.

"The Governor held people here?" Tyreese asks in disbelief.

"He did more than hold 'em." Daryl responds.

I catch the sniff of iron...blood. I accidently stepped in a puddle. My white paw is stained with red, Rick bursts open the door to see a dead walker and sat in the corner is Andrea laying in her own pool of blood. Michonne and Rick lay beside her, " You're burning up." Michonne noticed.

The barley conscious woman lifts the collar of her shirt showing off a bite mark. She's been infected. " Judith, Carl, the rest of them—" She spoke.

"Us." Rick corrects her. " The rest of us."

"Are they alive?" She went on to ask.

"Yeah, they're alive." Rick replies.

Andera gave a soft smile, she cranks her neck to look at Michonne. " It's good you found them—no one can make it alone now." I decided to lay on her lap. She placed her hand on my ear and gently stroked it.

"I never could." Daryl said to her.

Andrea then looks up at Rick. " I just didn't want anyone to die..." She pauses before adding. " I can do it myself."

"No." Rick dejects.

"I have to...While I still can. Please?" She fell silent before jests. " I know how the safety works." Rick let out a sigh, he handed her his Colt Python in her hand. " Well, I'm not going anywhere." Michonne told her friend. Andrea looks up at Daryl who hasn't spoken a word since.

Andrea looks up at Rick. " I tried." She spoke her last words.

Rick nods his head. "Yeah. You did." he tells her. He then stood up. "Come on, Nyla."

I lick Andrea's face who ruffles my fur and follows the boys outside the room, he closes the door. We waited for a minute until we all heard a gunshot.

Andrea is no more.

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It was morning when we headed back to the prison, I followed Daryl's motorcycle while a large school bus filled with the Woodbury people inside it with men, women, children and even dogs. "They're gonna join us," I heard Rick tell Carl.

I smile at Snowy who came up to rub himself on me, I did the same thing.

I'm glad to have more people, hopefully this apocalypse will be better now that we have more people to protect.

End of season 3