"Save me, I can't face this life alone."
They didn't like relying on others because they always ended up losing, but now they needed people to survive.
They needed saving from the walls they had built around them as protection, from the walls others...
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2x13 Beside the Dying Fire
They had reached the place where the group had left the supplies for Sophia when the sun had come up.
"Wait, where's mom? You said she'd be here," Carl turned to look at Liz. "W—we gotta go back for her," he told his dad.
"Carl—" the man shook his head.
"No. Why are we running? What are you doing?" Carl questioned him. "It's—it is mom. We need to get her and not be safe a mile away," he raised his voice.
"Shh," Rick tried quieting him, walkers were nearby. "You need to be quiet, all right? Please."
"Please," Carl pleaded, serious. "It's mom."
"Look, Carl, listen—"
"No," the boy squirmed away from his father and went to a car far from him.
"I'll talk to him," Liz said to her dad, he nodded thankfully.
"Kid," she spoke sitting beside him, Carl didn't look at her. "I saw your mom, okay? She's getting here, we just have to wait."
"You don't know that. She could've been overrun by walkers. Maybe she's still there."
"Hey," she slated his head to look at her. "We can't just go back, the place is filled with walkers. I saw some cars getting away. We are here, you just gotta trust she'll be here too. Nothing is going to keep her from getting back to you okay? Let's just wait for a little longer."
"I'm sorry," he said eventually. "For not listening to you."
She looked at him pointedly. "Yeah... you should be. Your mom was out of her mind and I was ready to kill you myself," she remembered how she felt when she was told he wasn't in the room she left him. "As long as you don't do that again, we're good."
He nodded. "I killed Shane," he said after a while. "He was turned...but I did it, I shot him."
"Carl—"
"He could've killed dad, so I did."
Liz breathed slowly, hugging him. "I'm sorry you had to do that, you did the right thing." He held her tightly, letting his worry and loss fade into her embrace.
They stayed next to each other waiting for the rest of the group to get to them. She didn't know how much time it had passed, but they had to go to their dad and Hershel for walkers had begun showing up, they had avoided several walkers passing by already. The quartet was behind a car, hiding when Hershel whispered: "I don't know how much longer we can stay here."
"I—I'm not leaving without mom," Carl said.
"So we're just gonna walk away?" Rick whispered to Hershel accusingly. "Not knowing if my wife, your girls are still out there? How do we live with that? Liz said Lori was heading here, your daughter was with her."
