In denial//clexa-lexarke an

Whats for dinner

Madison and Nick sat at the table and Elyza waited to see where Alicia would sit in order to sit opposite her.

"Mom, where are the rest?" asked Alicia as she took a plate from Nick who had begun passing some plates around and was serving the food.

"They went looking for you two days ago. We agreed we would regroup three days later at a spot we picked on the map." Said Madison without removing her stare from Elyza.

"What if you hadn't found me?" asked Alicia after considering what it meant to have agreed to have a regroup point in a limited time.

"I knew we would find you eventually. And even if we or they hadn't found you in three days, Nick and I were going to stay until we did. We wouldn't leave without you" said Madison, breaking her stare from Elyza to look upon Alicia and reassure her.

"Yeah Lysh, we'd never leave without you" said Nick with a smile.

Elyza mouthed "Lysh" to bother her and Alicia smiled and gave an eye roll in response. Madison noted the interaction and it made her slightly uncomfortable that her daughter was so at ease with an outsider whom she had just met.

"We went looking for you, when you disappeared." began Madison. "We heard gunshots in the distance. We began packing because we thought it might be someone dangerous but then we couldn't find you. Nick went looking for you but all he found was the bike in the middle of the street and glass from the car window."

"The gunshots were from Elyza, she shot some zombies." Cleared up Alicia. "She actually fought some without guns. She's a pretty bad-ass fighter." She added, slightly surprised by what she had just said. What happened to not letting her know you thought she was bad-ass?

Elyza hid her smile, knowing the show she had put on that day hadn't been for nothing. Alicia had been knocked out of her bike and she was on the verge of passing out while Elyza had been fighting, and she wasn't sure she had seen her kick zombie ass, or that she would have even remembered if she had, but she was sure now. And not only had Alicia seen her, but she thought she was bad-ass too, she had even said it out loud.

"Cool" added Nick, clueless to the tension present at the table.

"Yeah, Alicia had gotten herself into quite a situation. She was pretty much surrounded when I found her." Said Elyza trying to sound calm and giving Alicia a small smirk reminding her of how she had saved her and how she was aware of what she thought of her now, as she continued to eat while at the same time being mindful that Madison was watching her intently.

"Where'd you learn how to fight and shoot Elyza?" asked Madison in a tone that cops gave criminals on tv when they questioned them.

Alicia was going to stop her mother and remind her that this wasn't an interrogation but she found herself curious as to the question her mother had just asked. She had spent a couple of days with the woman and hadn't even bothered to ask her any question that might give her some indication as to who she was, so she turned to Elyza and waited for her answer. Thankfully, the blonde seemed very calm as she ate her food, and if she wasn't calm then she was at least good at pretending she was.