Life Isn't Fair

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I wake up staring into the blue eyes of my doggo, Ollie. I smile and pat his head, and look down at my arm to see that its wrapped up. I lay my head down on the pillow and stare at the ceiling. "Where is everybody Oll?" I ask quietly and he barks, and after a few seconds of silence a bunch of footsteps come toward the van that Im laying in. Just as I turn my head I see a glad Rick, a concerned Glenn, a rueful Sasha, a relieved Daryl, and a happy Maggie. "Hey guys." I say while smiling at Rick. He slowly brings his hand to my face and cups my cheek, so I thankfully leant into it. "You're okay." Rick says looking through both of my green eyes and hugs me. "What happened while I was out and how long was I?" I ask looking at Daryl for answers. "Nothing really and about 2 days." He says, voice raspy. "Can you walk?" Maggie asks with furrowed eyebrows and a scrunched nose. "Yea I can walk and move my arms." I said goingto sit up, but feeling very dizzy and laying back down. "I've had enough rest. I need to get up and move around to stimulate my body. So it's okay for me to get up." I say and rub my temples while laying down, then rubbing them when I sit up which helps tremendously. "Are you sure?" Glenn asks and I nod, while standing up on both on my feet. I look over to Sasha and she avoids my gaze, so I try and talk it out with her. "Give me and Sasha a moment please guys." I say and they all hug me and nod while walking out of the RV. When they shut the door, I look over at her and say, "What's wrong?" she replies with, "Everything. I don't feel right anymore. I lost everything that I cared about. Everyone. I just...Don't know how to deal with it." she says teary eyed and I give her a hug. "I--All of us are your family. We love you even when you're mad, or in you're worst moments--We are still here for you and we always will be. Remember we're family." I say hugging her and signaling for Ollie while letting go of her and opening the door to jump out of the RV. When my feet hit the ground I start searching around the cars until a barn comes into view. I walk closer to the doors until I get to the front and hear voices. "You really think that I would try and poison your baby daughter? Brutally right in front of you? No way." someone unfamiliar says. I fly my hand down to my side and don't find my knife there so I look down and notice that Im in pajama clothes, so they probably changed me while I was out. I run back to the RV and find my backpack with a spare outfit inside. A pair of light blue ripped skinny jeans, and a long sleeve Grey jumper with knee high black combat boots. I tie my hair up in a messy bun after changing and tie knife and gun holsters around my waist and occupy them with my weapons. I go back outside and back to the barn with Ollie behind me, and take my knife out of my holster while opening up the barn doors. Inside, I find a guy tied to a wooden post and Rick feeding Judith some type of apple sauce. "Rick? What's going on?" I say while raising my eyebrow at the worried man on the floor. "He is trying to attack us." Rick says setting Judith down and bringing the backpack up to me. "Have a look inside." he says it more like an order than a suggestion, so I take a peek in the first pocket and find a few cans of food and a flare gun. "What's this for?" I take the orange thing out of the bag and inspect it, while leaning in front of the dudes face. "How many walkers have you killed?" I ask out of nowhere. "Excuse me, What?" he asks. "You heard me." I say while shoving the gun back in the bag. "A dozen or so Im not sure." He looks at Rick who just nods his to head me and makes him look me into the eyes. "How many people have you killed?" I say a bit slower, asking that way to take precautions. "Two." He says while hanging his head low. "Why?" I ask while showing concern. "Because they tried to kill me." He says sadly. "If you even touch a single hair on anyone of them, My family, I will kill you with my own hands. Do you understand or not?" I ask threatningly. "Yes." He gulps. "Rick? Where are our people?" I ask him while standing away from the person in front of me. "They're securing the area and making sure that this Aaron guy doesn't have anybody waiting to kill us." he says pointing two fingers at Aaron, or so I learned that as his name. "He won't touch you guys unless he wants to die, which I don't think he wants to do anytime soon so we're okay. And uhm....I have a question, Aaron. Why do you need this?" I ask, pulling out the flare gun and waving it around. "To signal my friend. So that I know he's okay." He replies back. I buy the story for now. "Okay....Rick keep an eye on him. I'll take Judy." I say and reach my arms out towards the small baby. Once she's in my arms I take Ollie and Judith back to the RV. I find a can of spaghetti rings and I open them with a knife and serve them to Jude. She giggles when I do the choo-choo train on her. "Brrrr- Choo choo! Here comes the airplane...Vrooooommm!!" I say and spoon feed the tiny child. Next thing I know Ollie is growling and the rest of the group is walking in front of the barn, but they don't notice the huge walker crowd behind them until Daryl does. He rushes everybody inside and shuts the barn doors. I run to the RV door and lock it tight, and get Judith and Ollie to safety in the back, and hidden. I watch closely as walkers get closer to the barn and almost make me lose my sight until Ollie starts growling again and I have to hold his muzzle with my hand and tell him to be quiet. After he calms down I lay down with Judith and she falls asleep, which is helpful, and me and Ollie guard the RV while everybody in the barn is having a hard time keeping each other safe. I sigh sadly and hopefully, we can wait this one out. I go back to laying down next to Judith and Ollie lays down on the bed across from me and we relax for a little bit unnoticed until we hear tons of gunshots. I shot straight up out of my position and flew my hand towards my gun and aimed in at the hallway while walking out of it, but to my surprise, lowered it because I didn't really need it anymore. I watch as Glenn, Maggie, Daryl, Carl, Abe, Rick, Michonne, Rosita, Tara, and Sasha take out the crowd of undead creatures. I crawl back to Judith and Ollie, knowing that we're safe. I sit there for a moment until theres a pause in the shots. I look around quizzically and then stand up and rush to the front to see that all of the walkers are dead. My cold hands find their way to my warm face and I look behind me at an alert Ollie. I smile and he jumps off of the bed to come investigate. After looking around frantically, Rick sets his eyes on me, and by that time Im holding Judy, and he drops everything and runs to the RV. Once he gets in he wraps his arms around both of us and cries unwarningly. "It's okay. Me and Oll kept her safe." I say and kiss his forehead. "Th-thank you." He says looking at me with red, watery eyes. "No problem Rick." I say and let Carl, Rick, and Judith have a small reunion. I hop outside and immediately get bombarded by hugs. "Are you okay?" Glenn asks and I smile brightly at him and the others in the big bear hug. "Yes. I should be worried about you guys, while you were in that barn I was all comfy watching you guys fight hard and I couldn't do anything to help."I say, hugging tighter. "I should've been there to help." I say with desperation in my voice. "You did. You kept Judith safe." Carl says from the side of me. I smile down at him and snuggle into Daryl who was right in front of me. I giggle when Ollie starts licking my arm, and I start running and he starts running after me. "Come on Ollie!" I say, running around and playing like a little child. After a while of that, I go and regroup with Rick, to hear his plans. "We're gonna go through route 23, because I don't trust what this guy says, based on what you saw or not. So Me, Glenn, Michonne, Skylar, and Aaron will all be in one car while the others will be safely in the RV. Got it? Right." he says and turns around and tells people to start getting their stuff together, because it's gonna be a trip.