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❀ LUCY ❀
THE DAYS AT THE QUARRY REFUGE CAMP TICKED BY AT AN EXCRUCIATING SLOW PACE. Consisting of morning chores, followed by an afternoon of babysitting Carl and Sophia or helping Dale keep watch.
Lucy's new life felt strange. Slow even - too much time left to think about her father, her family, and the state of the world. At first, she had her M-Player, a gift from her parents last Christmas, but it died about a week ago. After Carl used it one night to fall asleep and forgot to shut the music off. Draining the battery dry before morning arrived.
Lucy and Carl's fight after she discovered his blunder was colossal, and could only be stopped by the pair's mother. Who unfortunately had to separate the two children. To give herself some peace from their squabbling. Carl kicked Lucy's shin, and Lucy made sure to trip the little bugger after that move. And Lori, for to be tied with her troublesome offspring, sent them to different corners of the camp. To think on what they'd "done to one another".
She scoffed at that remark. Hand placed firmly under her chin, and fingers tracing the dirt in front of her. Lucy was placed under the guardianship of her uncle, Shane Walsh. Watching him clean the shotguns for what felt like the hundredth time. While Carl, in a cocoon of his own denial, stayed close to the RV with Lori, and worked on some reading assignments.
Unfortunately, with her only source of entertainment being zapped away, and no energy to think up another. Lucy Grimes engaged in a pout of her own. Her lips quivered as she traced her lines in the dirt, feeling the particles run across her hand with every strike. She wanted to ask Shane a question, but Shane, who had been a pillar to the Grimes family after the tragedy of Rick's death, was for lack of a better word; grumpy.
While it was true that Shane Walsh hadn't ever been known as an agreeable man. The bursts of depression, followed by an anxious outburst, rarely occurred with Lucy's dad around. He'd always been able to talk his partner, and childhood best friend, off the ledge he danced upon.
With him gone, and Shane stepping up to fill his role, the moods happened more frequently, and more aggressively. Always directed at Ed Peletier or one of the Dixon brothers. Both who frightened Lucy to her core, and who she was glad to have Shane's defense for. He was tough like her dad, and like her dad, Shane made an oath to protect the Grimes family.
