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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"I like when we come out to look at the stars." Ellie says, laying on her back on the hood of her father's car.
"I do too, mama." MJ says as she brushes her daughter's bangs off of her forehead.
"We should do it more." She says, and her mom sighs. "I really wish you would stay with us for longer, Mommy."
"I know, baby. I'm sorry."
"Your mom's work is very important." Matt says. "She helps a lot of people."
MJ sighs as she turns to her head to face him, her eyes closed. He presses his lips to her forehead, and she tries to find comfort in the small notion.
The three of them are laying on the car and they have their daughter between them. MJ and Matt are angled so their heads are near each other, and she's resting hers on his shoulder. Ellie has her head on her mom's stomach and she's laying crooked with her legs across her dad's lap. Jr. isn't with them, he's sick so he stayed with Matt's mom.
"What does Mommy do?" Ellie asks.
"She saves people from very bad guys."
"Like a superhero?"
"No, baby. I'm not a superhero." MJ says as she looks back up at the stars. "I'm not a hero." She mutters, and Matt tightens his hold on her, pulling her closer to him.
"You're our hero." He whispers in her ear and then kisses the side of her head.
"What are you doin' way out here?" Daryl asks as he walks over to MJ. She's laying on a car looking up at the night sky.
"On clear nights like this, my brothers and I would take the car and we'd drive out to the middle of nowhere." She tells him. "We wouldn't say anything, never needed to. We just sat back, had a couple beers, looked at the stars. The kids always loved it whenever we took them."
"Kids?"
"My two, and Dean's daughter." She smiles at the memory. "The first time we took Dana out, she was mesmerized. So, when Matty and Ellie got older, we took them too. Our dad was never one for sitting down and just doing nothing, but he liked that we went. I could tell. Our life was far from perfect, but it wasn't all terrible either."
Daryl looks up at the sky and then glances at MJ. She hasn't taken her eyes off of the stars once since he walked over to her.
"Addy and Matthew liked coming out too. It became our own little tradition." The blonde sighs.
