Divided In War

Chapter 4

Where Is He?

Sylvia was tired, she didn't sleep that well at night and really didn't feel like going on patrol. She walked out of the house and started to drag herself to the stables. As she was gaining her ground she heard snickering and kids laughing in the park. Sylvia turned and found Dina having a snowball fight with the kids. Sylvia chuckled,

"You need some help there? Looks like you're getting your ass beat." Dina got startled but laughed the comment off.

"You get in here I need all the help I need!" Dina calls out hiding behind the slide. Sylvia smiled widely as she swung her leg over the fence and running to hide with Dina. She grabs a handful of snow making a snowball and looking for some kids to swing at. She's sees a kid with a blue jacket on top of the playset, Sylvia reels back the snowball and whips it at the poor unsuspecting kid, hitting him in the shoulder. The kid falls onto his butt and whines of getting hit.

"Hey! Fair is fair kid, get over it!" Dina calls from beside me.

After nailing a few kids earning more whines, a familiar red head walks into view over the short fence. Sylvia taps Dina's shoulder catching her attention and she turns to who Sylvia is pointing at. Dina looks back at Sylvia with an evil grin and Sylvia matching it. The both of them get themselves a snowball. Dina starts to count down from three, once the counter was up, they threw their snowballs at Ellie. BAM! BAM! The snowballs hitting her forehead and her stomach.

"OW!" She whips her head to Sylvia and Dina laughing while rolling on their backs.

"Real fucking funny you guys." Ellie annoyingly continues as she brushes the snow from her face and sweater.

"Okay time out, I'm done you guys." Dina says once she and Sylvia had finally calmed down. The kids whined protesting losing their enemies in their fun.

"We gotta job to do kids, we'll continue this after we come back." Sylvia calls out to them as she swings her legs over the fence. To finally make their way to the stables. Somehow her best friends always make her day so much better.

The trio was walking to the stables and Sylvia could feel their eyes on the back of her head. Sylvia tries to ignore it and just sped up to meet Jesse before they head out on patrol.

Once Sylvia was far away enough from Dina and Ellie, Ellie turns over to Dina and starts,

"Do you think she's okay?"

"Um, yea why wouldn't she be?"

"Well, you know, she kinda outed herself in front of everyone last night while 'helping' us." Ellie and Dina both walk over to their horses.

"That's her business, I don't think we should bud into it." Dina says while grabbing the reigns of her horse.

"But it's our fault-"

"It's not our fault. Don't blame yourself. It was the heat of the moment and she just let it slip. I'm just happy that she's taking it better than I thought." Dina cuts Ellie off. But Ellie just nods in response, not really taking what Dina said to heart.

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Jesse and Sylvia left Jackson on patrol and are now on foot walking through some houses the two of them came across. They had already went through two houses and found nothing in them. Happy that they hadn't met with any infected Jesse spoke up,