Next day. Morning.

The camp members were all sitting outside in a circle eating breakfast. There was still tension between Mom and Dad. Obviously.

I was sitting next to Carl.

Glenn stood up and we all looked at him.

I took a bite of my apple.

Glenn took a deep breath "Guys, barn's full of walkers"

Everyone froze.

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we walked to the barn.

Shane walked to the doors and looked in through the slit. We all could hear moaning and groaning coming from the inside.

Then he walked back to Dad, pissed off "you cannot tell me you are alright with this"

Dad shook his head "no, no, i'm not but we are guests here. This isn't our land"

Shane "These are our lifes!"

I yelled "Shane!"

Shane "We need to go in there and make things right or we need to go. We've been talking about Fort Benning for a long time now. "

Dad shook his head"We can't go"

Shane "Why?"

Carol "Because my daughter is still out there. "

Shane nodded "okay. i think it's time for us to consider the other possible-"

Dad "Shane! we are not leaving Sophia behind"

Daryl "i was close on finding her. I found her damn doll 2 days ago"

Shane nodded "Yeah, Daryl. That's what you found. A Doll."

Daryl "You don't know what ya talking about!"

Shane "i just said what's need to be said"

He was losing his mind.

Dad tried to calm him down.

Shane "Let me tell you something else, man. If she would still be out there and saw you coming with geek ears around your neck, she would've ran in the other direction, man"

Daryl yelled"shut up!"

Suddenly he came at Shane but Dad got in between them. Suddenly everyone was trying to hold them back.

I put a hand on Daryl's chest and pushed him back.

Dad "Back off, Shane!"

Shane to Mom "get your hands off me"

Dad" just let me talk to Hershel. Let me figure it out"

Shane "and what are you figuring out?!!!"

Dad "if we gonna stay and clear the barn, i have to talk him into it. This is his land. "

Dale "Hershel sees those things in there as people....Sick people....his wife, his step-son"

Dad looked at him "You knew?"

Dale nodded "yesterday i talked to Hershel. "

Shane asked pissed off "and you waited the night ?"

Dale "i thought we can survive on more night. We did. I was waiting till this morning to say something but Glenn wanted to be the one."

Sahen "this man is crazy, Rick. If Hershel thinks those things are LIVING THEN-"

I screamed "SHUT UP!! ALL OF YOU!!!"

Everyone looked at me.

The walkers in the barn went crazy.

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Everyone was tensed. I was walking into the stable and saw Daryl in there. He walked to a horse box.

I shook my head "You can't go out there. Hershel said you aren't fit yet"

Daryl "i'm fine, Kendall. I don't care what he said"

Me "But i do."

He looked at me, then opened the gate to a horse "You think he's right"

I looked down "Fact is, She's alone out there, everywhere you turn there are walkers. As much as i want to believe that she made it, i just can't get past that fact. "

He turned to me. He took the sattle but let it fall. It was his thigh. I put a hand on his shoulder but he shook it off.

Then he walked off.

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We all were sitting on the porch. Except Dad, Hershel, Jimmy, Daryl and Carol. Shane was running around pretty much on edge.

Daryl and Carol came.

I looked at them.

Daryl "isn't anybody taking this seriously? We got us a damn trail. "

He saw Shane "Ah , here we go"

Shane walked to us with the bag of weapons.

I raised an eyebrow "What are you gonna do, Shane?"

Shane offered Daryl a shotgun "Are you with me?"

Daryl nodded and grabbed it" hell yeah"

Shane "Time to grow up"

He looked at Andrea "You already got yours."

Andrea nodded.

He gave T-Dog a gun.

I stepped in his way "Shane, enough"

Shane glared at me.

I shook my head "I'm not afraid of you, Shane."

Shane "Look, we thought this place was safe. Now we know it ain't."

He handed Glenn a shotgun "How about you, man? you gonna protect what's yours?"

Glenn nodded.

Shane asked Maggie "Can you shoot?"

Maggie "Can you stop? If you do this, you hand out these guns, my dad will make you leave tonight. "

Carl "We have to be safe, Shane"

I raised an eyebrow at Carl and shook my head "No, no, no, no, no. You stay out of this, Carl"

Lori walked to us, confused „What is this?"

Me "Shane's lost his fucking mind"

Shane "we aren't going anywhere, alright? Look, Hershel...he doesn't understand. Okay?. well, he's gonna have to."

He kneeled down in front of Carl "We gonna need to find Sophia. am i right?. Now we need to do this"

then he handed him a gun.

Me "Shane, don't you dare"

Shane "You take your gun and keep your mother and your sister safe. Now go and take the gun and do it"

I shoved Carl behind me and grabbed the gun from him "gimme that"

Mom snapped "Rick said no guns. This is not your decision to make."

Suddenly T-Dog yelled "oh shit!"

We saw Dad and Hershel dragging two walkers to the farm.

Shane's whole body started to shake from anger.

Me "Shane, don't"

Shane ran to Dad.

Dad and Hershel made their way to the barn.

We all followed Shane.

Shane screamed "What the hell are you doing!!!?"

Dad "Shane, just back off"

Hershel "Why do your people have guns?"

Shane "Are you kidding me? That's living? You see what you're holding onto?"

He was now losing it completely.

Hershel "I know what I am holding onto"

Shane shook his head "no, you don't"

We were standing in front of the barn.

Dad "Shane, let us do this and then we can talk."

Shane "What do you want to talk about, Rick? These things ain't sick. They ain't people. They're dead. They don't feel because all they care about is to kill!!! These things right here, are the things that killed Amy. They killed Otis. They gonna kill all of us. "

Dad yelled "Shane, shut up!!"

Shane "hey, Hershel, man, let me question something. A living breathing person, can they walk away from this?"

Then he shot the walker in the chest.

Dad "Shane!"

Shane taunted "Why is it still standing?! hm?"

Then he shot it in the lungs "That were the lungs!! Why is it still coming at me!?!?"

Dad yelled "Shane, enough!"

Shane "Hey you're right, man. That is enough. "

Then he shot it in the brain.

Hershel was shocked.

Shane "Enough! We risk our lives for a little girl who's gone! Enough! Living next to a bar full of things who are trying to kill us! Enough! Rick, it ain't like it was before! Now if you wanna live, if you wanna survive! you gotta fight for it! i'm talking about fighting! Right here! Right now!"

He ran to the barn gate.

I ran to him "Shane! Stop it!"

He broke open the gate.

The door opened and the walkers came out.

I ran back to the others.

The gunfire started.

Walkers fell to the ground.

After a while the gunfire ended. All walkers were dead.

But then we heard another groaning.

a walker came out.

It was a little girl with blond hair.

It was Sophia.

Everyone was shocked.

Carol began to cry. i walked to him and hugged him. Carol ran to Sophia but Daryl held her back. Carl held onto me like his life depended on it.

i pressed him to me "don't look. Don't look"

I turned his head to the crock of my neck so that he didn't have to look at her.

Dad raised his gun at the girl.

He hesitated at first.

Then we heard the shot.

Carl started to cry harder.

The groaning stopped.

Everything went quiet.