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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The group's still walking when Lori and Jess stop to look behind them. The others notice and turn to face them.
"You still worrying about it?" Andrea asks as she looks between the two women.
"It was a gunshot." Lori says.
"We all heard it." Daryl says, and she turns back.
"Why one? Why just one gunshot?"
"Maybe they just put down a walker."
"Please don't patronize me. You know Rick wouldn't risk a gunshot to put down one walker." She says. "Or Shane. They'd do it quietly."
"And where the hell is MJ?" Jess questions.
"Shouldn't they have caught up to us by now?" Carol asks.
"There's nothing we can do about it anyway. Can't run around these woods chasing echoes." Daryl says. "And MJ goes off by herself all the time. She probably just went back to look for Rick and Shane."
"Not without telling someone." Jess argues as she looks at him. "And every time she comes back, she's got another cut or bruise."
"We can't go back for them. We gotta beat the bush for Sophia, work our way back to the highway." He tells her.
"I'm sure they'll hook up with us back at the RV." Andrea says.
"We can't just leave MJ out there all by herself. We don't know if she went back for Rick, Shane, and Carl." Jess argues. "She could be hurt."
"We can't risk more people because MJ wants to play hero." She says, and everyone looks over at her. "In case you haven't noticed, she doesn't play well with others. She likes being by herself."
"Nobody likes being alone." She refutes, taking a step toward her. "None of you know a damn thing about her or what she's been through."
"How can we? She doesn't tell anyone anything about herself." She argues. "And what she does say is obviously only half truths, if not a flat out lie."
"When I knew her before all of this happened, she had a lot of family that she spent every single day with." Jessica tells them. "Then she and Jack show up at camp and it's just the two of them. Tell me something, would you go around telling everyone about the people that you've lost?"
"What do you want us to do?" Daryl asks. He knows a little bit about MJ — not as much as Jess, but more than the others. He wants to help her, but he doesn't know how.
