Jason's pov
"I'll tell her. She's going to be really annoyed." Daryl says. I sit on the floor, tossing a baseball at the wall and waiting for it to come back. I catch it and throw it again. "She's not gonna be annoyed. She's gonna be pissed off." I grumble. "Hey guys?" Oh shoot she's awake. I stand up. "Ya know what I'll talk to her." I say. He just walks away and I walk back in our cell.
Miranda's pov
"I know you're upset about the hopes of a cure but there's most likely it's all crap." I tell him s he lays down beside me. "That's not what's got me in a bad mood." He says. "What is it? Did Hershel get worse!?" She cries, panicked. I sigh. "No, Honey nothing like that. It's just....." "You know you can tell me anything, right?" He holds my hands. "Merle is gone." He says. "Gone!? What happened?!" I whimper, terrified. "He went with the new guys to D.C. along with Glenn." "Oh God when you said gone, I thought you meant dead!" I gasp, laying back down, relieved. "You ain't mad?" He asks, surprised. "Of course I am. I'm just glad he isn't dead." I say, looking over at him. He stares at the ground. I sit up and hug him. "I'm sorry about Chris." He tenses up. "How-How'd you know his name?" "You said it when he got shot." "Oh. I'm not upset about that." "Yes you are." He sighs and leans against the wall. "What was your brother like?" "I don't wanna talk about him." He says, walking out.
Jason's pov
Maggie is killing the walkers near the gate. Daryl is standing beside her. Whoa! Is his arm around her and is her arm around him?! "Holy smokes!" I gasp. Miranda comes running. "What is it?!" She cries. I move away from the window where she takes my place. "Damn, who woulda thought!" She gasps. I hug her. "Looks like I'm not the only one who found someone to love." I say. She smiles and kisses me. I hear a scream!! Oh no! I grab her hand and run down the hallway to Andrea's room where the screaming is coming from. A walker has bitten her in the shoulder! "Shit!" I gripe, backing up. My hands shaking as I pull out my pistol. I shoot the walker. She backs out of the room. I know she's about to freak out. I grab her arm. "Calm down. It's gonna be okay." "N-No!" I've got to put Andrea out. I raise my pistol. "Poor Andrea." She whispers. I nod and grip her hand then shoot her in the head. We go back outside where everyone else is and tell them the bad news. Daryl sighs and walks to bury her. I follow him. "You need any help?" "Not with this. But if you can go on a supply run, we need more medical supplies." I guess I'm going on a supply run. I reload my pistol and fill my pockets with ammo then I grab her gun and my bow and arrows. "Hey, honey." I say as she walks in. She cries and I hug her. "This sucks." She grumbles. I smile. "Of course sweetheart. But these were the cards we were dealt. This is the world we live in and we have to make hard choices." "Like Merle leaving." "Yeah like Merle leaving." We say goodbye to the rest of them then head into town, hopefully for some medical supplies and food if we can find any. I hear leaves crunch underfoot. I stop walking, loading my bow. "Stay beside me, there's trouble afoot." I whisper. Some guy walks out of the woods. Followed by several of them blocking us on all sides. "Blocked in." She whimpers. I grab her hand and raise my bow. "Get 'em." The first guy says. Someone tackles me.
Miranda's pov
"Get off him!!" I cry. The guy has his head shoved in the dirt and his arm pinned behind his back. "Get off!" He snarls, trying to pull free. One of the guys picks up his pistol. "Claimed." He says. Claimed? Jason grunts trying to get away. The leader grabs my arm. "Claimed." He says. "Get your hands off me!" I scream. The guy pulls Jason up, holding his arms behind his back, making him wince in pain. The ringleader has my arms held down at my side. I kick him in the crotch and he hits his knees. "You have 3 seconds before I claim your mother freaking asses on a one way ticket straight to hell!!" I scream, pointing my gun at the guy, holding Jason. One of them punches him in the gut then they all run in the woods. He's on his knees, breathless. I run over and get on my knees beside him. "Damn... Babe.... That... Was badass!" He chokes out. I throw down the gun and hug him.
Jason's pov
I still can't breathe after they gut punched me. I hold her tightly as she cries. "Nobody hurts the man I love and gets away with it. I would've shot too if he wasn't so close to you." I'm surprised by this. I hold her hands in mine. "I thought we don't kill the living." I gasp. "That was until the living started trying to kill us." She whispers, staring at the ground, her hands in fists, her lip trembling as tears fall down her cheeks. She's not the scared little kid I met months ago. She's become a zombie kickin' no shit takin' badass that I'm so desperately in love with and I couldn't live without. I brush the tears from her eyes and kiss her. "It's okay. I'm okay." "You are now. What would they have done... If I couldn't..." "Baby they didn't. That's all that matters. They didn't do what they would've done because my badass girlfriend scared them away." I assure her, smiling. "Now we have to go get supplies." I say, helping her up. She hugs me. "Just don't die on me." She whimpers. "I won't. I promise." I say, holding her tight.
