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IV

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Delilah helped everyone til morning. Everyone was scared and exhausted. The last thing they wanted was their camp to get overran. Delilah knew this wasn't over. She knew they needed to start making up a plan to leave. Delilah's thoughts get interrupted when Glenn rushed over, making her jump.

"Woah woah, what are you doing those are for geeks? That is one of our people." Glenn said, stopping them.

"We don't burn them!" Glenn yelled.

"We bury them. Our people go over there." Glenn said while pointing toward the direction of the graves.

Daryl and Morales just look at each other and started dragging the body toward the graves. Delilah continued separating the bodies.

Delilah helped Daryl burn the last walker.

"Are you bleeding?" Jacqui asked Jim.

"No I just got some on me from the bodies." Jim answered while panting.

"That bloods fresh, were you bit?" Jacqui asked concerned.

"No I got scratched during the attack." Jim said out of breath.

"You got bit?" Jacqui spat back.

"I'm fine." Jim said.

"Then show me." Jacqui said louder. Delilah looked over noticing the argument. Everyone was looking at them. Jim starts begging.

"Don't tell please don't." He said out of breath

"A walker got Jim, he's bitten." Jacqui yelled turning around towards Shane. Shane, Daryl, Rick, and Lilah all walked over to Jim and Jacqui.

"I'm okay. I'm okay." Jim whispered.

"Show it to us." Daryl demanded. Delilah watched as everyone started arguing trying to get him to show them his bite. Jim grabbed the shovel aggressively.

"Grab him." Shane said. Tdog got up behind Jim holding his arms back while Daryl runs up and pulls Jim's shirt up revealing a bite near his ribs.

"I'm okay. I'm okay." Jim repeats over and over again. Everyone stayed back looking at Jim. Delilah closed her eyes trying to process everything. She joined the circle next to Daryl and Shane.

I say we put a pick axe in his head and the dead girls and be done with it." Daryl started.

"Is that what you want if this was you?" Delilah asked Daryl.

"Yeah and I would thank you while you did it." Daryl responded.

"I hate to say it and I thought I never would but maybe Daryl's right." Dale said, regretting what he said.

"Jim's not a monster, Dale, not a rabid dog either." Rick said.

"I'm not suggesting tha-" Dale said while getting interrupted by Rick.

"He's sick, he is a sick man. We start down that road, where do we draw the line?" Rick argued.

"The line's pretty clear. Zero tolerance for walkers, or them to be." Daryl argued back.

"Maybe we could get him help. I heard the C.D.C was working on a cure." Rick suggested.

"I heard that too. Hard a lot of things before the world gone to hell." Shane answered.

"What is the C.D.C is still up and running?" Rick said back.

"Man that is a stretch right there." Shane said.

"If there's any government left, or structure at all, they'd protective C.D.C at all costs, wouldn't they? I think it's there best shot, shelter, protection." Rick explained, looking at everyone.

"Okay Rick, I know you want those things. I do too okay? Now if they exist, they're at an army base. Fort Benning." Shane added.

"That's one hundred miles in the opposite direction." Lori said.

"That is right, but it's away from the hot zone. Now listen to me. If this place is operational, it'll be heavily armed, we'd be safe there." Shane added to his opinion.

"They've got overran we've all seen that. The C.D.C. Is out best choice and Jim's only chance." Rick argued.

"You go looking for aspirin, do what you need to do. Someone needs to have the balls to take care of this damn problem!" Daryl yelled running toward Jim with his pick axe ready to impale Jim in the head. Delilah quickly ran after her brother and held his arm.

"Daryl stop! This is not right!" She yelled aggressively. Rick came up from behind her and aimed his gun at the back of Daryl's head.

"Get back!" Delilah said, trying to attack Rick. Shane grabbed her arm. She struggled in his grasp.

"Let me go!" She yelled, struggling.

"We don't kill the living."

That's funny coming from a man who just put a gun to my head." Daryl spat.

"We May disagree on some things, not on this. You put it down." Shane said to Daryl, letting Delilah go. Daryl shoved the pick axe in the ground and stormed off. Rick took Jim into the RV so he could rest. Dale went to talk to Andrea which was still on the ground with her sisters body on her lap.

Delilah went after her brother. He was angry, putting bodies down. When he got to Ed Carol stopped him.

"I'll do it." Carol, cried looking down at her dead husband. Daryl passed her the axe. Delilah watched as Carol brought the axe down on her husbands face. She kept going abut after hit, crying.

Delilah and Daryl headed towards the grave area to join everyone else. They watched as Andrea was dragging her sister into her grave. Dale tries to help but Andrea stops him. They all stood silently for a second, looking at the graves.

Shortly after Rick and Shane went out into the woods to check if there were any more walkers around. Delilah follows her brother away from the group a bit.

"What do you think about the CDC?" Delilah asked, wiping her face with a bandana.

"I don't know. Sounds like bullshit to me." Daryl said.

"It's a fifty, fifty chance someone will be there. It's closer than Fort Benning." She shrugged. Daryl shrugged, and slung his cross bow over his shoulder.

Rick and Shane got back and informed everyone to get ready to leave. Delilah packed her bag with the few things she had. Daryl loaded Merle's motorcycle into the back of the truck they were going in. Delilah got into the truck beside Daryl and drove off with the rest of the group.