MJ and Jack separated from their family the night before the battle between Michael and Lucifer. Little did they know, that would be the last that they would see of their family.
Infection spread, and now the dead are walking among the living, and i...
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"Disoriented." Rick says as they all sit around one of the campfires. He's got Lori and Carl in his arms. "I guess that comes closest. Disoriented. Fear, confusion — all those things, but... Disoriented comes closest."
"Words can be meager things." Dale says, and they look at him. "Sometimes they fall short."
"I felt like I'd been ripped out of my life and put somewhere else. For awhile I thought I was trapped in some coma dream, something I might not wake up from ever. I don't know what I would'a done without them." He looks at MJ and Jack. "She kept me going, mostly she kept me calm."
MJ winks at him and makes a clicking noise with her mouth. "That's me." The blonde forces a smile. "Cool in a crisis." She says, and Jack looks at her. "Voice of reason."
"Not with Dean." Jack says, and she looks down at him.
"Yeah, well, sometimes siblings fight."
"Mom said you died." Carl says as he looks up at his dad. Lori sighs and brushes his hair out of his face.
"She had every reason to believe that." Rick tells him. "Don't you ever doubt it."
MJ takes a deep breath and looks up. She sees the brief look exchanged between Lori and Shane — Rick's best friend and his partner when they were on the police force together.
"How did you know how to take care of him?" Carl asks as he looks at MJ. She turns her attention to him. "Are you a doctor?"
"Not even close." She chuckles. "I grew up with two brothers, and they liked to find trouble. Our dad too. I always helped them when they were hurt, it was like my job. And then I met a man who became a doctor... He was a really good friend of mine. He taught me what he could. Said I was a natural." A sad smile crosses her face as she looks away from him and his parents.
"When things started to get really bad, they told me at the hospital that...they were gonna medevac you and the other patients to Atlanta, and it never happened." Lori tells her husband.
"Well, I'm not surprised after Atlanta fell." He says, and she nods.
"Yeah."
"And from the look of that hospital, it got overrun." He adds.
"And looks don't deceive." Shane interjects. "I barely got them out, you know?"
"I can't tell you how grateful I am to you, Shane." Rick says. "I can't begin to express it."
"There go those words falling short again." Dale says. "Paltry things."
"Do you know if there was a doctor there named Matthew Parker?" Jack asks as he looks over at Shane, gaining everyone's attention.
