The C.D.C. is gone and along with it, a piece of the hope that they all clung to. Now, all they have left is each other. The group must stick together even as new challenges threaten to tear them apart. But sometimes surviving isn't worth it when th...
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Rick, MJ, and Daryl head back to the highway, and the others walk over to them to hear what they have to say. Carol starts crying when she sees that they don't have her daughter with them.
"You didn't find her?"
"Her trail went cold." Rick says. "We'll pick it up again at first light."
"You can't leave my daughter out there on her own to spend the night alone in the woods." She says as MJ and Daryl step over the railing.
"Out in the dark's no good." Daryl tells her. "We'd just be trippin' over ourselves. More people get lost."
"But she's twelve. She can't be out there on her own." She argues, starting to become hysterical as she thinks about what could happen. "You didn't find anything?"
"I know this is hard. But I'm asking you not to panic." Rick says. "We know she was out there."
"And we tracked her for a while." Daryl adds.
"We have to make this an organized effort. Daryl knows the woods better than anybody. I've asked him to oversee this."
MJ reaches out and grabs Carol's hand. "I'm not leaving here until we find her. I promise you that. I'm gonna find Sophia." She says, and the woman sighs as she looks between MJ and Daryl.
"Is that blood?" Carol asks suddenly, seeing what's on Daryl's clothes.
"We took down a walker." Rick tells her.
"Walker? Oh my God."
He tries to get her to look at him, but she's starting to panic. "There's no sign it was ever anywhere near Sophia." He says.
"How can you know that?" Andrea asks, and MJ clears her throat as she looks down.
"We cut the son of a bitch open, made sure." Daryl tells them.
Carol sits on the railing and takes deep breaths, then she looks up at Rick. "How could you just leave her out there to begin with?" She asks. "How could you just leave her?"
"Those two walkers were on us. I had to draw them off. It was her best chance." Rick says as Shane walks over.
"Sounds like he didn't have a choice, Carol."
"How was she supposed to find her way back on her own?" She questions, tears running down her face. "She's just a child. She's just a child."
"It was my only option. The only choice I could make." Rick's saying, and Daryl taps on MJ's arm to quietly get her attention. She looks at him, and he motions for her to take a step back.
