Rick's Unknown Daughter (A Walking Dead Love Story)

Chapter Nine: Look At The Flowers

We continue our journey to Terminus along the railroad tracks. Carol and Tyreese discuss the probability of Mika and Lizzie's survival, while I carrying Judith, Mika and Lizzie all walk ahead of them.

"Lizzie's tough." Tyreese states.

"When it comes to people." Carol agrees.

"What do you mean?" He asks.

"You haven't seen it? How she's confused about them, the walkers. She doesn't see what they are. She thinks they're just different." She informs him.

"Mica the same way?" He asks.

"No, she's worse. She doesn't have a mean bone in her body." She answers him, I look over my shoulder at her. She locks eyes with me before I turn my head back around. I start thinking which cause me to get stuck deep in thought hoping that Dad, Carl, and Daryl made it.

"We should stop here. We need to look for water." Carol states as we stop.

"I can do it." Tyreese volunteers.

"No, you need to rest. Rest your arm." Carol tells him. "Mica will help me." Lizzie, Tyreese and I are playing I Spy while we wait for the other two to come back.

"I spy trees and weeds." Lizzie says before turning towards me. "Your turn." I look around looking for something to spy.

"You three stay here." Tyreese states, interrupting our game. I hear snarling as Tyreese begins to walk towards it. I look over at Lizzie, she jumps up to follow Tyreese.

"Lizzie!" I yell, standing following her. As I approach Tyreese and Lizzie, I see a walker who has fallen through the train tracks and is now stuck.

"Tyreese. Sometimes we have to kill them. I know that. But sometimes we don't." Lizzie pleads. Judith begins crying so I try to shush her. Tyreese looks at me, not knowing what to do before looking at Lizzie. Tyreese finally agrees to let the walker live after Lizzie continues to beg. Carol and Mika came upon a house in the middle of a pecan grove and lead Tyreese, Lizzie, Judith, and I to the house. Carol suggests staying here for a few days to rest, so we leave the three girls outside while we clear the house. Once we're inside we hear a gunshot, I run outside and see that Mika had shot down a walker and Lizzie is in tears. After all three girls are asleep, I sit on the outside porch looking at the stars, missing my father, my brother, and my boyfriend. Well, I'm not really sure what Dixon is, if he's my boyfriend or not since we've never discussed it. I sigh and then notice Carol walking outside. I knew she didn't know about Daryl and me being together. I personally don't care for her too much so I probably won't tell her.

"You miss Rick and Carl?" Carol asks sitting down beside me. I nod. "I'm sure they're fine. I saw them leave and they're both really tough," She speaks again. I agree while sighing. The next day, Carol and I are in the house when Carol spots Lizzie happily playing tag with a walker in the yard. Carol rushes outside and kills the walker, but Lizzie screams at Carol, saying that the walker was her friend. Later, Carol and Mika are out scouting in the forest. The two return to the grove house and find Tyreese pumping water, who suggests we settle at this location instead of continuing toward Terminus.

"We have to keep moving," I say walking out of the house, "They're still out there and they'll find it. They'll get there." I said.

That afternoon, We hear the girls screaming. We, Tyreese, Carol, and I; run to the screaming girls, Who are running back to the house from the direction of the train tracks. A herd of walkers following them, the five of us form a line and shoot down the walkers.

The next day, Carol, Tyreese, and I return to the house from a hunt to find that Lizzie has killed Mika with a knife. I look at her in disbelief.

"Don't worry. She'll come back. I didn't hurt her brain." She pauses while we look in horror of the little girl lying lifeless behind her sister, "No, no, no! We have to wait. I need to show you. You'll see. You'll finally get it. We have to wait." Lizzie yells at us as she points her handgun at us.

"Lizzie, put the gun down." Tyreese begs her.

"I just want us to wait." Lizzie retorts.

"We can wait. We can wait. You just give me the gun. We can wait, I swear." Carol pauses and Lizzie hands her, her gun. "You, Iyana and Tyreese should take Judith back. It's not safe for her."

"But Judith can change, too. I was just about to..." Lizzie starts before I cut her off.

"She can't even walk yet." Carol tries to reason with her again.

"She's just a baby Lizzie." I snap.

"Yeah, you're right." Lizzie agrees.

"So you three take Judith back to the house and we'll have lunch. And I'll just tie Mica up. You know, just so she won't go anywhere." Carol tells her.

"Promise that's what you'll do?" Lizzie asks.

"Mm-hmm. I promise. I'll use her shoelaces." Carol tells her. Once, Lizzie finally agrees I walk over to Judith and pick her up. Tyreese escorts Lizzie inside and I take Judith inside. I watch from the window as Carol sobs and pulls out her knife and stabs Mika in the brain to prevent her from changing into a walker. That night, Tyreese tells Carol he learned from Lizzie she had been feeding the prison walkers. He wonders if Lizzie killed Karen and David; Carol says she couldn't have as she would have let them become walkers. Tyreese suggests leaving with Judith to protect her from Lizzie, but Carol notes that Judith needs the three of us to survive. Carol believes Lizzie is too dangerous to be around other people, and Tyreese agrees. I don't agree to kill the girl, but it's two against one.

The next morning, Carol takes Lizzie out for a walk. As Tyreese watches from the porch, I'm inside with Judith when I hear the gunshot. They bury both girls. That night, Carol gives Tyreese her revolver and admits to killing Karen and David, explaining that she had to contain the illness. I knew we couldn't trust her. I stood up and walked into the living room where Judith was sleeping. Tyreese was upset at first but forgives her. The next day, Tyreese, Carol, Judith, and I leave the grove and continue our journey to Terminus.