1. I Found

-burning out-

-The Next Morning-

Sleep was becoming less and less, and Theo was beginning to feel the effects of the lack of sleep; she was exhausted.

"Morning sunshine," Glenn said from behind her, teasing her about her state just as she had the morning of his first hangover.

Theo was more tired than usual.

 Her head was pounding, and everything was a little blurry.

"Anything for some coffee?" She groaned, "Or some tablets" Theo held her head in pain. 

"Are you okay?" Dale asked her, concerned at the girl's state and noticing her off-attitude. She was usually the first awake, the first to help everyone out.

"Yeah, I'm just a little off this morning," Theo smiled, trying to ignore all the pain in her head.

"How's that cut on your arm," Rick asked, looking at her worriedly. 

"I don't know," she said as she pulled down the cloth covering it. 

It was clearing up nicely.

"Incoming!" Carol yelled from the distance, everyone standing and running to her calls.

They all looked at the eight walkers incoming. 

Theo grabbed her bat, excited to use it. The adrenaline made her forget about the pain she had experienced after waking up.

Rick and Glenn went in first, using their knives to kill the first two. 

Andrea went in next, killing one herself with a swift stab of her knife. 

Theo walked next to Andrea, who grabbed her bat tightly before swinging at the walker. By swinging hard, she made the walker's whole head depart from its body.

Theo laughed in shock as she finished the rest of the walkers herself.

But as she went for the next and final one, things began to spin again.

Before she could prepare herself to swing again, the walker tackled her to the floor.

It groaned in her face as it tried to bite her; she was all it wanted and all it craved, and it wasn't going to stop.

She wrestled with the walker to get hold of her gun.

"Theo!" Carl yelled at his sister, panicking as he watched her struggle. He wanted to do something but didn't know what he could do; he had no weapon to help.

She struggled for a few more moments before a bolt went through the walker's skull.

The walker's weight collapsed onto her before her dad pulled it off.

She looked to see that Daryl had killed the walker, and he helped her back onto her feet.

"You okay?" He asked Theo, checking over her for bites.

"What's going on with you?" Rick asked his daughter, concerned that she was having a problem.

Everyone joined them; people gathered around Theo, making her feel claustrophobic and dizzy.

Her breathing hitched, and she reached out to Daryl.

Theo was gripping his arm tightly as Daryl turned to her. 

"Theo?" Daryl called out to her, but her whole body fell instead of answering. Daryl caught her body, gently releasing her on the floor.

"What's going on with her?" Shane asked Daryl