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~Daryl's Pov~

It's been a few months since the world has gone to shit. There were walkers everywhere and people and slowly being stripped from their humanity. You can't trust anyone anymore. But then again, I never really trusted people. Merle is gone and some stupid idiot from our group handcuffed him to a roof. Merle chopped his hand off, Ashley is still gone, we haven't heard or seen her. I'm worried because she's never been separated from me or Merle where ever he is. I want to find both Ashley and Merle. I need to know they're okay and i want to see Ashley again.

I'm not losing hope. Not yet. We're currently in a highway, Making a stop trying to get through this place. The cars were blocking the road. Sophia ran away. She was chased by two walkers, That poor girl. Rick and I are after her, i helped him draw the walkers away from her. Rick drew them away and it's currently sundown and we went to go check on Sophia were Rick left her.

"You sure this is the spot?" I asked him taking a second look. This girl could be anywhere by now.. I care about her, I'm not gonna lie. And i'm not much of a person to care. "I left her right here, I drew the walkers away in that direction up the creek, she was gone by the time we got back here, i told her to keep the sun on her left shoulder" Rick said looking at me. I looked away from him and back down at the floor. "Clear prints right here, If she did as you told, maybe she went back to the highway." I said as I looked at some footprints on the dirt.

We spent most of our time looking for Sophia but we had no luck so we headed back to the highway. To find out that she wasn't there. She hasn't come back. "You didn't find her" Carol said "Her trail went cold, we'll pick it up again first light" Rick said to Carol. "You can't leave her out there on her own, to spend the night alone in the woods she's only twelve she can't be out there on her own" Carol said to us crying. It was true. She was alone and she didn't have any experience with Walkers at all.

~Ashley's Pov~

Its been awhile since I've gone on a hunt out in the woods so I decided I would go see what I could find. I still had my knife, I was running out of food and water. While I was walking I started to think to myself. 'What if my brothers are dead- ' I was cut and drawn out of my thinking by voices. People! 

Or was i just going crazy? I hid behind a tree to see that it was two guys and a little boy looking at a deer. So i'm not crazy. I didn't come out because i didn't know these people, They could be bad for all i know. You can't trust anyone. I stayed hidden and quiet. "Shane." The man in the sheriff uniform said to the other man pointing a shotgun at the deer.

I looked over to the direction of the little boy, He was walking up to the deer, so amused by the sight. He looked about the same age as me. Those people looked like they cared about this boy.. I don't have that.. Not anymore.. A man in a sheriff uniform looked at the boy, he seemed happy. And I looked at the boy. Same blue eyes. I made the connection. Father and son. The kid stepped at the branch and it scared the deer. The deer moved a bit and I saw a man with a bigger gun about to pull the trigger. This kid had a family. I acted on instinct and i pushed the kid out of the way. 

And honestly.. I don't think i was going to make it through this, This new life i mean.. I'm all alone. I have no one.. Maybe in that moment i thought i was saving the boy but then that thought ran through my head. Was i really going to survive this? 

~Rick's Pov~

Carl was so close to the deer but he stepped on a branch scaring the deer. When out of nowhere a little girl that looked around Carl's age appears from the woods pushing Carl to the ground. I was about to go up to her but a gunshot went off. The deer and the little girl went down. I ran up to her and applied pressure to the wound. She saved my son's life. Shane went to pick up Carl from the ground and he came over to see the girl.

She looked at me breathing heavily. She started drifting away. "Daryl" she whispered out of breath and passed out. "Daryl? "Did she just say Daryl?" Shane asked looking down at the little girl. Shane checked for a pulse on the girl. "Yeah." I said. "She's alive. But our Daryl?" Shane asked once again. "I don't know. If we don't get her help she's gonna die. I can't let a child die." I said looking at the Shane. Not taking my hands off the wound. "Let's take her back-" Shane was cut off by a man walking towards us with a sniper rifle looking down at the girl. "Come here you!" Shane yelled to the guy and pulled him up. He was looking at the girl on the floor.

"There's a farm about a mile away, Talk to Hershel he'll help the girl" The man said out of breath. Pointing in the direction of the 'Farm.' He may be lying.. Something told me to help this little girl. I don't know what. "Merle don't leave.."  she whispered subconsciously. I ran towards the farm. With that said, I knew that she was talking about our Daryl. I had to help her fast she's losing a lot of blood. But who was she?

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