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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Daryl, Andrea, and Jess went back out into the woods to look for Sophia after he left MJ laying on the car. She heads back to the RV, and Dale looks at her.
"You've been alone out there for awhile." The older man says, and she doesn't even glance his way.
"You have no idea." She mutters as she opens the door and walks inside.
Jack's sitting at the table on the small bench and his legs are stretched out. He has a pillow between his head and the wall and he's sound asleep. She hears Carol crying at the back of the RV and walks over there. MJ sits down, and Carol looks at her. The blonde sighs as she glances at the terrified mother.
"I can't promise you that we're gonna find her, because I don't know anything for certain. I do know, however, that I'm not gonna stop looking." She tells her. "No parent should ever know the pain of losing a child."
"You lost a child?" Carol asks, and she nods.
"My son, when this all started." She sighs. "I have two kids, a boy and a girl. I lost Matty before I met Rick."
"What about your daughter?"
"I don't know where she is... If she's alive or dead." She tells her. "Awhile ago, I...went away for awhile. When I got back, my daughter was angry. She didn't want to see me, so she was staying with her dad. My son, on the other hand, refused to leave me, and so I had him. We were on our way to find them when everything started. Then he died...and I lost all hope."
"I didn't know you had a husband until you mentioned him at the C.D.C." Carol says.
"He's my ex-husband, actually. We fell in love when we were fifteen, had Matty, got married when we turned eighteen." She sighs as she looks out the window. "He and I are so much alike, yet so different. We just didn't work out, you know? Sometimes no matter how much you love someone... You can't make it work. He's a good guy, a great father, and I still love him. I think a part of me always will."
"He could still be alive. We aren't the only survivors." She says. "He and your daughter could be out there somewhere."
"Could be." She nods.
Carol can see that she's still grieving. After all, how much time is enough after you lose your own son? There's no pain like it.
"I'm gonna go get some air." Carol says as she stands up. MJ just nods, and she leaves the RV, careful not to wake Jack.
"How could you do this to us?!" Matt yells as he looks at MJ. "How... How could you do this to them?!" He's fighting back his tears.
"Everything that I am... Who I am and how I am this... It's because of him." MJ wipes tears from her face. "I don't know how to live without my big brother. I can't do it."
