Cassidy "Sadie" Dixon is the eleven year old daughter of Daryl Dixon. She grew up learning to track, hunt, fight, and shoot. She's especially skilled with a crossbow like her dad, but she knows her way around a gun too. But when she wakes up in the...
Rick unlocked the sheriff's station and walked inside, Sadie, Morgan, and Duane behind him. He brought them to the shower room and turned on one of the showers.
"Gas lines have been down for maybe a month." Morgan spoke. "The stations got its own propane system. The pilot's still on." Rick told them and they all smiled.
"Sadie, right across the hall is the women's shower room. There's shampoo, conditioner, and body wash there. And a bathroom and place to get dressed." Rick told Sadie who nodded, before leaving.
When she entered the women's shower room, she immediately ran over to the shower and turned it on. She put her hand under the water and sighed when she felt the nice warm water.
So she put her backpack down on a bench across the room, she stripped down, and then stepped into the shower. She let her muscles relax as the hot waters flowed down her skin. After who knows how long in a coma, it felt so nice for her to just be able to relax.
She shampooed, conditionered, and cleaned herself up before shutting off the showers, drying herself off with a towel she found on a shelf, and then getting dressed. She smiled once she had on a pair of her own clothes again. She had missed them.
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She relaxed in there for a minute before putting her bag back on her back and leaving the room. She waited in the hallway until Rick, Morgan, and Duane came out, only a few minutes later.
Now that they were all clean and refreshed, Rick took them to the armoury. "A lot of it's gone missing." Rick spoke as he picked up a gun off the wall.
"Daddy, can I learn to shoot? I'm old enough." Duane asked his dad. "Hell yes, you're gonna learn, but we've got to do it carefully, teach you to respect the weapon." Morgan answered.
"That's right. It's not a toy. You pull the trigger, you have to mean it. Always remember that, Duane." Rick told him and Duane nodded. "Yes, Sir."
"Here. Load up." Morgan instructed his son. Sadie started helping Duane pack the bag, while Rick turned to Morgan and handed him a gun. "You take that one. Nothing fancy. The scope's accurate." Rick told him and Morgan tested out the scope.
Then Rick turned to Sadie. "Do you know how to use a gun?" He asked her. "Yes, Sir. My daddy taught me to use a gun ever since I was big enough to hold one. He and my uncle took me hunting hundreds of times. And I rarely miss my target." Sadie answered him and Rick nodded.
"Okay, then. Take this." Rick handed her a handgun. "Do you know what this is?" He questioned. "A .45 ACP Semi-Automatic Pistol." Sadie answered and Rick looked impressed. "You know your stuff. Keep it. Take a box of ammo as well and put them in your bag." Rick told her and she nodded.
Sadie checked the clip and saw that the gun was already loaded, so she did as he said and put the gun and a box of ammo in her bag.
It wasn't too long before they were all packed up and ready to leave. "Conserve your ammo. It goes faster than you think, especially at target practice." Rick told Morgan and Duane as they left the building.
"Duane. Take this to the car." Morgan told his son and handed him a bag, so Duane left to do it. "Are you sure you won't come along?" Rick questioned. "A few more days. By then Duane will know how to shoot and I won't be so rusty." Morgan answered.
Rick opened the police car's door and reached in to grab something. A walkie-talkie, which he then handed to Morgan. "You've got one battery. I'll turn mine on a few minutes every day at dawn. You get up there, that's how you'll find us." Rick told her.
"You think ahead." Morgan said and Sadie glanced up at Rick. "Can't afford not to, not anymore." Rick responded. "Listen, one thing – they may not seem like much one at a time, but in a group, all riled and hungry... man, you watch your ass." Morgan warned them. "You too." They responded in sync.
"You're good people. I hope you find your wife and son, Rick. And I hope you find your daddy and uncle, Sadie." Morgan told them, shaking Rick and then Sadie's hands.
"Thank you, Sir." Sadie replied to Morgan as Rick bent down to skate Duane's hand. "Be seeing you, Duane. Take care of your old man." Rick told him. "Yes, Sir." Duane responded.
Morgan and Duane were about to walk to their car when they all noticed a walker heading in their direction, a fence between it and them.
It was wearing a police uniform and Rick recognized him. "Leon Basset? I didn't think much of him, but I can't leave him like this." Rick spoke as Leon reached the fence. You know they'll hear the shot." Morgan said and Sadie slung her backpack off and grabbed her dagger from inside it. "Then I'll do it." She spoke and looked at Rick to make sure he didn't object.
Rick didn't want the young girl to have to do anything she wasn't comfortable with or afraid of, but he had a feeling that she wasn't going to be sitting on the sidelines from now on. And from the way she talked, it seemed like she had a lot of practice hunting and killing things.
"If you're up to it." He answered and she nodded. Then she stood up, strode toward the fence, and stood in front of it for just a moment, looking at the walker. Then, she used her body weight and momentum to thrust the blade into his head. She waited a few seconds and then pushed against the fence to pull the knife out.
When she looked back, Morgan and Duane were gone and Rick was waiting for her. She wiped the blood on her dagger off on her pants and then walked back to Rick. She stopped to pick up her bag and then joined Rick. The two walked over and got into the car.
Rick turned on the car and then started driving. After a minute, he glanced over at Sadie. "You okay?" Rick asked her. "I'm fine, Rick." She answered and she was being honest. They weren't human anymore, they were just as much animal as the ones she had hunted before. And she had a lot of experience hunting.
