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 lowers his gun and looks over at Jack. The teenage boy's sobbing now, trying to get away from Rick. MJ turns around and walks over to Jack, putting her gun back in her waistband as she looks at the expression on his face.
"Hey, hey." She places her hands on either side of his face, but he quickly swats them away from him.
"Get off of me!" Jack struggles against Rick and then storms off as soon as he's free of his hold.
Ellie looks at her mother, and then turns around and quickly runs after Jack. Matt turns to look at the little girl, but doesn't stop her. Both of his kids always liked Jack, he figures that she just wants to be with him now because he's so upset.
MJ then looks up at Matt, her face void of any emotion. "I guess you can add all these walkers to your list of people you think I murdered." The blonde says. "From Jr. all the way down to Kelly."
"I never said that." He shakes his head as he looks at her.
"You didn't have to. I've known you since we were teenagers, I can read you like a book." She tells him. "I could see it on your face." The hunter says, and then she walks past him.
A little while later, Rick walks over to MJ as she's pacing back and forth by the firepit in front of their camp. "Is Jack okay?" He asks, and she shakes her head as she glances at him.
"No, he's not okay. He thinks that this was his fault, that he did that to her." She tells him, and he shakes his head, confused by her words.
"How could that possibly have been his fault?" He questions.
"He thinks that he's evil, and that that was her punishment for having him. She died so he could be born and then she was brought back just to end up a walker." She stops pacing and runs her hand over her face. "I don't know what to do here, Rick. I have no idea what I'm doing. Matty's dead. Ellie hates me. Jack..."
"She doesn't hate you." He moves to stand in front of her. "She's scared and she's confused. I take it she's never seen you like that before?"
"Just that fight in the woods with Meg." She sighs. "And I never hit Matt before yesterday. We've argued and we've yelled, but we never got physical like that. I was just so angry and I acted before thinking... I never should've..." She shakes her head. "And I'm failing Jack just the same as I failed them."
"You have not failed."
"I can protect them from the monsters out there — sometimes — but I can't protect them from what I've become." She scoffs. "Can't protect 'em from my own damn family."
