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[ the barn ]

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Rick walked up to Vanessa who was sitting on Hershel's front porch. "Hey, breakfast is ready," he said. "What are you doing?"

She showed him the drawing she was working on, only half done. "It's Sophia. I was gonna give it to Carol."

"That's nice. It's pretty good too" he said. "Come on, let's go eat before Shane gets all the eggs."

At the mention of Shane's name, Vanessa felt herself growing nauseated. "Rick...I have to tell you something about Shane."

"If it's about him and Lori I already know."

Vanessa looked up at him confused. "You know about that? Did he tell you?"

"Lori did. Told me she asked you not to say anything so I understand why you didn't say anything. But she's...she's pregnant."

"Lori's pregnant? Jesus, that sucks" she said before shaking her head. "I mean congrats, life is precious I guess."

Rick snorted, never knowing his sister to be someone who bit her tongue.

"Yeah, it's scary. We'll figure it out" he said.

"Do you think it could be..."

"Maybe."

"Hey, you know what I've thinking about a lot?" she asked. "Uncle Pat. Remember he'd always get super drunk at Christmas and go on about how he got abducted by aliens when he was 19?"

"Yeah. He'd talk about how they probed him and everyone'd yell at him to shut up."

"I'm starting to think he might've been telling the truth."

Rick laughed, holding out her hand as he helped her up and they walked over to the rest of their group. Piling their plate with eggs and spam, everyone say down to enjoy a quiet meal.

Suddenly Glenn got up and stood in the center of the group. "Um, guys. So...the barn is full of walkers."

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The group stood in front of the barn as Shane peered in through one of the small holes. He jumped back as a decayed face looked back at him, snarling when it noticed him. Shane huffed, backing away as he turned to Rick.

"You cannot tell me you're all right with this," he said.

"No, I'm not. But we're guests here. This isn't our land" Rick told him.

"This our lives!"

"Lower your voice" Glenn hissed.

"Rick, what if they get out?" Vanessa asked.

"It ain't right. Not remotely" Shane said. "Okay, we've either got to go in there, we've got to make things right, or we've just got to go. Now we have been talking about Fort Benning for a long time."