Stars will fall | TWD

helicopter boy

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Rhea's laying on her sleeping bag, attepting to draw a sunset with her markers with the paper against the tent floor.

Suddently there's an annoying beeping noise coming from the distance, starting to get louder and louder. Like a car's antitheft alarm. Rhea furrows her eyebrows, the noise making her get distracted from drawing. Rhea's too lazy to go check it out.

The beeping becomes really loud until it stops. It's quiet again. Then a car door slamming shut.
Rhea decides to get up, putting her baby blue sneakers back on and opening the tent flap, stepping outside.

Oh, it's just Glenn.. With a really cool red car?
Rhea watches the scene, wondering that if Glenn's here, then where are the others.
But then also the RV pulling up from the corner. Many campers making their way to also come check out on what's going on.

Rhea sees Andrea come out of the RV first, running to hug her sister Amy. Then Morales, Jacqui and T-dog.

Where's Merle?

Rhea just stands there, her eyebrows slightly furrowing as Merle's not in sight.
She sees Lori side-hugging Carl, telling him something. Rhea watches as Lori kneels down to look at Carl, clearly comforting him about something.
Hmh, nice. Rhea thought to herself, mentally rolling her eyes.

"How'd ya'll get out of there anyways?" Officer Shane asks the group that had just came back to camp after being gone overnight.

"New guy, he got us out," Glenn answers, leaning against the open door of the cool looking car that he drove.

"New guy?" Shane questions. Rhea watches and listens to the interraction.

"Yeah, crazy battle just got into town." Glenn casually explains.

"Hey, Helicopter boy! Come say hello!" Morales lightly yells to the direction of the RV.
Helicopter boy? Rhea turns her gaze to the RV still confused of everything that's going on around her.

"Guy's a cop, like you." Glenn says to Shane.

Then a man actually comes to sight from behind the red cool car. He's wearing cop clothes, exactly like the ones that Shane has. But he looks confused, but also shocked about something when he looks around the people of Rhea's camp.
What is going on? Rhea thought, really confused as she sees Shane taking a step back like he's in disbelief. Then she also sees Carl's and Lori's heads turning to look at the man, both of them also looking shocked.

"Oh my god.." The man breaths out, his voice sounding as shocked as their faces are.

Carl starts running towards the man.
"Dad!" Carl screams happily. Also Lori running behind the little boy.
Oh.... My god!? wasn't he dead? Rhea thoughts, her eyebrows now more raised that furrowed anymore.

The man hugs Carl, almost falling as he does. He's crying loudly. Then he picks up Carl and Lori bringing the two boys into a hug, them in a tight group hug.
Rhea stands there just like everyone else, watching this happen. The family hugging happily.

After a moment long hug, the man seems to notice Officer Shane, now looking shocked again. They seem to share a look, giving each other a slight nod. Rhea never understands the way adults communicate with each other silently, it's confusing.

Rhea and the group spent the daylight hours just talking and getting to know Carl's dad. His name was Rick. He, infact, was the police chief. Daryl was absolutely nowhere to be seen the whole day, which really didn't suprise Rhea. He was probably hunting. Without her.

The sun had settled down, it was pitch black now except for the light from the campfire that the group was gathered around at. They welcomed Rick to the group, and they trusted him already. Rhea was fine about him. The man was her friend's father, so she thinks he's pretty trustforthy.

But still Merle's not here. And Rhea found out why.
Rick told the group around the campfire that Merle had been really loud and annoying, firing a gun that attracted even more walkers and was calling people names, so Rick just pulled out his police skills and had handcuffed Rhea's uncle to a roof of a tall building in the center of Atlanta.
Daryl's not gonna be happy...

Rick was just telling and explaining stuff around the campfire in the night, the whole camp listening and conversating. He was sitting next to Lori on the ground with Carl in his arms. Ugh...
Rhea was sitting between Dale and Amy. She really liked Dale, he was actually nice even thought not many people seemed to care about him.

"Disoriented. I guess that comes closest. Fear, confusion... All those things but... Disoriented comes closest." Rick explains.

"Words can meager things. Sometimes they fall short." Dale says from next to the little brunette girl, that catching her attention. Rhea's not even fully listening. She doesn't really care about what Rick's even saying, it's just weird seeing him after Carl said that he was dead.

"Mom said you died." Carl said, looking up at his dad from where he was sitting, basically on Rick's lap. Well... There it was. This all confuses Rhea.

"She had every reason to believe that. Don't you ever doubt it." Rick explained to his son. Rick seemed to share a look with Shane again. Rhea noticed it again.
She had no idea what it was supposed to mean, but they were clearly watching each other from the opposite sides of the fire.

They sit like that for awhile. Lori, Shane and Rick explained some stuff and talked togheter, they seemed to know each other really well.
Rhea just sits around, listening to all the conversating and watching everyone silently. She watches as Carol's husband, Ed puts a log on the fire.

"Hey, Ed, you want to rethink that log?" Shane suddently said from the silence. Rhea didn't know what was wrong.

"It's cold, man." Ed said back to the officer, his voice scary as always. Rhea really, really did not like Ed. He seemed so scary.

"The cold don't change the rules, does it? Keep our fires low, just embers so we can't be seen from distance, right?" Shane gruffly tells him. Ed looks annoyed.

"I said it's cold. You should mind your own business for once."

Then suddently Shane stands up and walks over to Ed and the fire. Shane gets close to his ear, whisper yelling.

"Hey, Ed... Are you sure you want to have this conversation, man?"
Ed seems really annoyed and he glares at Shane's face close to his. Rhea just watches them two, like everyone else. Suddently Ed turns to Carol.

"Go on. Pull the damn thing out. Go on!" Ed practically shouted at Carol. She stood up fast, pulling the log out of the fire. What the hell? Rhea thinks to herself, watching Ed with silent slightly wide eyes.

"Christ." Shane muttered, eventually stomping out the fire.

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