The Grimes Sisters

What Lies Ahead

"I guess I'm losing hope that you can hear me. But there's always that chance, isn't there? That slim chance. It's all about slim chances now, I try to do everything right, keep people safe. I tried Morgan. I tried. Our group's smaller now, we lost another, day before last. It was her choice. I won't say I blame her, she lost faith. The CDC was a dead end. I met a man there, a scientist, he told me something, he told me. It doesn't matter. What matters is we're moving on. Atlanta's done. We're going to try Fort Bennet. We're facing a long, hard journey. Maybe harder than I can ever imagine, but it can't be harder than our journey so far. Can it? 125 miles, that's what lies ahead and I'm trying hard to not lose faith. I can't, if I do the others, my family, my wife, my son, my daughters, there's just a few of us now. So we gotta stick together, fight for each other, we gotta be willing to lay down our lives for each other if it comes to that."

Everyone was starting to prepare to leave the place they had stayed the night before. Skylar was putting items in the Rv since her car broke down when she felt a tap on her shoulder.

"Yeah?" Skylar asked the person who tapped her not turning around

"Can we talk?" Glenn spoke and Skylar looked behind her.

"Yeah. Sure." She nodded. They never really talked about their time at the CDC and she was trying her best not to talk about it.

"I do like you, Sky. But I think it's best we stay friends." Glenn told her.

Skylar stood there pressing her lips together before nodding. "Yeah. I was thinking the same thing."

"Okay. So we're good?" Glenn questioned

"We're good." Skylar smiled

"Son, let's saddle up." Dale tells Shane

"It's the only chance we got."

The Engines starts and the RV and the car drives behind it

"Be careful out there Morgan. I hope you and Duane are okay. Stay off the road, keep moving, keep your eyes open. I don't know, just- just be safe. Maybe we'll see you in Fort Benning some day. Rick, signing off."

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"Just thinking about our trip to the Grand Canyon with Girls and Carl." Lori says smiling making Rick laughs

"I don't remember that." Carl says

"Neither do I." Logan says

"Oh I do. Worst trip ever." Aria cringes remembering the twins puking everywhere

"No, you wouldn't. You two were just a baby. And besides, we never made it past Fort Worth." Lori tells them

"No, you two got sick. I never knew twin babies could throw up so much." Rick said

"Ick." Carl says

"Yeah, ick. The doctor in Texas said you'd live. Then we turned and drove home." Lori says

"You both threw up all over me." Aria tells them looking at the twins

"That sucks." Carl says feeling bad they didn't get to go on their trip completely

"No, it was a good trip." Lori laughs

"The best."

"Can we go see it? The Grand Canyon? I'd like to." Carl asks

"I would too. Can we go?" Sophia asks

"We'd never go without you or your mom. That's a promise." Rick tells her

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"Looks complicated." Andrea says watching as Shane was cleaning his gun.