~Rick's pov~
"Can I talk to you a second?" I ask as phoebe leaves Carl's room
"Sure" She smiles before leading me to the kitchen
"Is everything okay?" She asks
"When, uh we were out that day Carl got shot, we were looking for something, someone" I say, phoebes eyes widen the slightest bit but doesn't say anything as I continue
"We were on the highway when a herd of them came, it spooked Carols little girl, Sofia, she ran into the woods and we've been trying to find her since. We are going to start searching for her again and I wanted to know if you could come with us, I know you've already done enough for us and I'm extremely grateful but you know how to handle yourself out there some of us aren't as experienced yet and that might end up getting people hurt." For a second I thought she might reject it but instead she says all the right things
"Of course, I'll get hershal to watch carl"
An hour later Andrea, Shane, Daryl, hershal and I stand around one of the cars out front
"How longs this girl been lost?" Hershal asks
"This is day three" I respond watching phoebe lay down a map on the hood
"County survey map" She says smoothing it out
"This is perfect. We can finally get this thing organized" She nods before looking back down
"I was thinking we grid the whole area, start searching in teams" bringing her into this was probably the smartest thing I've done since this little girl went missing, she has experience in this and knows what she's talking about, when I move my gaze to her I realized this is the first time she's wearing something that shows her dog tags but instead of 2 ID tags there's 4
"Alright let's get started" I say tearing my eyes away from the chain
"Not you, not today" her voice holds authority
"You gave 3 units of bloods you won't make it 5 minutes this heat and you" She says pointing to Shane
"Any pressure on that ankle and you'll be useless for a month"
"Guess it's just me" darly says lifting his boy onto his shoulder
"Guess again" phoebe says lifting the strap of what looks like a giant sword onto her head. Daryl looks her over for a second before his eyes stop at the tags
"Alright, we ganna head back to the creek , work out way back from there" he says, my stomach drops at the thought of phoebe being alone with Daryl
"I can still be usefull, ill drive up to the interstate, see if Sofia wondered back" Shane says looking at her but she doesn't meet his gaze
"Alright, tomorrow then" I say after realizing she wasn't going to answer him
"That means we can't just have our people out there with knives" Shane says
"Then need the gun training we've been promising them" he continues
"I prefer you not carry guns on my property, we've managed so far without turning this into an armed camp" hershal says, Shane looks just about ready to argue so I speak up before he could
"This is your property, and we will respect that" I say putting my gun down on the hood, and after a moment of hesitation Shane puts his on after
"I hate to be the one to ask but someone's got to, what happens if we find her and she's bit?" Shane asks
"You do what has to be done" I manage to say
"I'll gather and secure all the weapons till we're at a practice range off site, I do request one rifle man on look out, dales got experience" Shane says, hershal looks unconvinced. Phoebe looks at Shane for the first time analyzing him before she turns to his uncle
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tomorrow's promise
RandomPheobe meadows had been with the Greene family since just after the apocalypse took over, once Rick and his group found sanctuary at the farm she had grown extremely found of most of them. After the farm was taken over by the dead everyone thought P...
