I pushed my cart to the door before running over, I saw Bob trapped under a fallen over shelf of wine bottles. "You alright? You cut or something?" I heard my dad question from beside me because he got there before me. Dad flashed his torch under the shelf, and I leaned down so I could see a trapped Bob.

"No, man, but my foot is caught." Bob responded.

Tyreese and Zack came over as well. "He's just caught. Help me lift it." Dad said to Tyreese and Zack. I took a couple steps back so they could do that.

"What happened?" Glenn yelled, running over.

"Everyone's all right." I responded. "This shelf just kinda fell on Bob, I think."

"I was driving fast, man. Drove right into the drinks." Bob told us.

"Man, you lucked out. If this thing had come down on you the wrong way." Tyreese shook his head. Suddenly, I felt something land on my head. I fell onto the ground when the ceiling tile hit me. Dad grabbed me from under the bit of rubble and pulled me out. We looked up and saw a hole in the ceiling, a walker was hanging from some old cables as well. "Are you alright?" Tyreese asked me.

"I'm gonna wake up with a headache, but I'm alright." I responded. The ceiling tiles were the thin plastic squares, so it didn't really hurt.

"We should probably go now." Michonne commented running over.

"Bob's still stuck. Get him outta there." Dad ordered.

More and more holes in the ceiling start appearing and walkers fell through each one. I was looking up to make sure no more ceiling fell down on me, a bit opened up in front of me so I backed away so avoid being body slammed by a walker. I ran into one of the isles before the walker could see me. I spotted Glenn on the floor with a walker above him, Glenn was struggling to hold him off. I ran over before stabbing the dead pest in the head and kicking the body off Glenn. "Thanks." Glenn panted out.

"We're surrounded. There's too many of them." I commented.

"It's alright, stick with me. Watch your six." Glenn ordered.

We made our way round another isle. Glenn shot a walker that was coming up behind Sasha without her realising. She turned around and sent him a thankful nod before continuing to fight. I climbed up one of the shelves and spotted a walker coming up behind my dad, I jumped down on it, stabbing it in the head before I fell down with its body. Dad turned around, ready to shoot at the noise, but instead gave me a hand up when he saw me. "Are you okay?" Dad whispered to me.

"Behind you." I pointed out. Dad quickly turned around and shot the walker with an arrow. While dad was distracted, I ran off. I grabbed a golfing kit before opening it up and grabbing a metal golfing club. I ran forward, taking out one from behind before killing one that was coming up behind Tyreese. I ran over to Bob, killing three on the way. I knew Bob was pretty much defenceless at the moment. I heard Bob's heavy breathing, when I ducked down and crawled under the shelf with him, I saw why. There was a walker crawling towards him from the other side. "Take this." I said, handing him the club. Bob fought off the walker while I ignored the pain from the broken glass that was cutting me as I used my entire body to move the bottom of the shelf up a couple inches so Bob could slide out his foot. With one final whack to the walker's head, Bob finally killed the thing in the limited space.

"Let's go." Dad said, grabbing my shirt and dragging me out from under the shelf before giving Bob a handout. I saw more and more ceiling tiles falling and it looked like a helicopter was about to fall through and into the shop. We heard screaming and looked over to see Zack had been bitten and was getting dragged by a walker that was eating him from the leg. The walker quickly got high enough on Zack to start eating his neck.

"Zack!" Glenn yelled.

I went to go and help but dad pulled me away. "Go, go!" He shouted at us all as the ceiling was seconds away from collapsing in on us all. When we got out of the main space of the store, it did collapsed right behind us. We were seconds away from being flattened by a helicopter.

We rushed out of the building and quickly ran over to the cars, taking a second to catch our breath and process the fact that Zack just died. "What did Daryl tell you!" Glenn yelled at me.

I looked at him shocked. "Excuse me?"

"He said stay by me, him or Michonne! You ran from me to save your dad, then you ran from him to go off on your own!" Glenn shouted, emotion thick in his voice.

I scoffed. "I killed a bunch-"

"That doesn't matter-" Glenn started to argue back.

"I saved Bob! No offence, Bob, but you were seconds away from that walker eating you." I responded.

"None taken." Bob shook his head.

"You've known Bob a week. Why are you prioritising his safety over yours?" Michonne added. "No offence, Bob."

"None taken." Bob crossed his arms over his chest and looked to me like he agreed with Michonne and Glenn! Even though it was his life I saved!

"I'm just as skilled as any of you so why do I need a babysitter!" I shouted back.

"Cause you're still a kid! Children who are left alone die! That's how it works!" Michonne raised her voice... For the first time... Ever.

"You're not my mum!" I yelled back after a couple seconds after I realised, I had no other defence.

"No, but I'm your dad, and they're right. You were stupid and reckless." Dad stepped in.

"This is ridiculous." I scoffed. "Bob's alive because of me and I'm getting yelled at? Screw this." I shook my head and walked back to the car.

"Ellie!" My dad yelled at me to come back but I ignored him and slammed the car door as I got in the back.

I was sitting with Hershel in his office. He was cleaning up all of my cuts that I got from the glass. Suddenly, the door opened and in walked Rick. He had a calm expression on his face before he closed the door and came to sit next to me. "Here to yell at me too?" I asked.

"No, not quite that." Rick responded.

"I'm all done here. I'm gonna go check on Bob." Hershel said to me, grabbing his crutches.

"Okay, thank you, Hershel." I smiled at him.

"It's my pleasure." He said before leaving the room and closing the door behind him.

"I don't regret what I did, Mama Rick." I commented, shuffling back to lean against the wall since me and Rick were sitting on a hospital bed that we'd put in an old office for Hershel to work on people.

"I didn't say you should." Rick denied.

"Well, good." I crossed my arms over my chest.

"You know I care about you, right?" Rick asked.

I raised my eyebrows. "Uh... Thanks, I think?"

"My point is... That if something were to happen to you. It would affect a lot of people." Rick said to me. I scoffed and shook my head, so Rick continued. "Me, Sophia, Carl, Daryl, Carol, Maggie, Glenn, Hershel, Beth, Adam, Sasha, Tyreese, Michonne."

"What's your point, Rick?" I asked.

"Glenn told me what you said. Sophia and Carl haven't forgotten about you at all. In fact, Carl was talking to me last night... He thinks you've moved on from him." Rick said to me.

"He did?" I questioned.

Rick hummed with a nod. "Just because we've built a community here. A place where we have more people... That does not mean everybody's moved on. We've changed, but we still love the same people."

I sighed and pinched the bridge of my nose before letting my arm dropped down again. "I know, it's just... I'm not used to being around a lot of people. The only friend I had before the change was my friend Emily. We were each other's only friend. When she died, it was just me. Then it was just me, Sophia and Carl. Then the whole group got closer over the winter. After T-dog and Lori... Now everything's different. I'm just taking a little longer to adjust to it than everyone else. I'm sorry."

"You have nothing to apologise for." Rick insisted. "Even at the store, you did what you thought was best and you saved Bob."

"But Zack's dead." I replied.

"You can't save everyone." Rick shook his head.

"Thanks, Mama Rick." I said quietly.

"Come here." Rick opened up his arms, I moved over to him and hugged him tightly. Rick hugged me back and sighed into my shoulder. "I know you're worried something's going to go wrong, but it won't. We're safe here."