Eloise felt useless. The group was falling apart. Abraham and Eugene still haven't talked since Eugene admitted to not knowing the cure, making meal time's very awkward for everyone that lived in the house. Noah was dead, Tara still hadn't woken up and Rick could be exiled.

So to try and keep herself busy, Eloise sat by Tara's bedside everyday. The doctor said she should be waking up any day now and Eloise did not want to miss it so she sat in the infirmary with her, holding her hand, hoping she'd feel her squeeze back to let her know she's there.

The whole group came to visit all the time but the main people that came where Eloise, Rosita, Eugene and Abraham which was quite unfortunate since Abraham and Eugene still aren't on speaking terms.

Eloise sat on a chair beside Tara, her knees pulled up to her chest as she tried to rest but couldn't over Eugene's loud snoring.

She heard the door creep open and Eloise softly opened her eyes and saw Abraham peak his head through the door holding flowers. He was about to fully walk in until his eyes landed on Eugene. "Oh. I'll come back later."

Eloise groaned, loud enough for Abraham and Rosita to hear but not loud enough to wake up Eugene. "You two are unbelievable." They both froze at her words before gesturing to the sleeping man across from her. "He's asleep. You don't need to be hiding away when he's sleeping." Eloise spoke again. She was never rude to either of the men, she thought very highly of them, both in different ways.

Abraham was always the cool uncle with funny one liners and tells you to go and be a teenager, live your life, get drunk, be stupid. He always taught Eloise cool survival hacks before they went to Alexandria and Eloise even tried to teach him knife throwing but he insisted guns were his calling while Eugene was the weird uncle who always said things no one understood but you enjoyed talking to them anyway. Before the world went to shit, Eloise considered herself a nerd, Jasper would call her a dork and a dweeb all the time so she always enjoyed her conversations with Eugene.

Abraham sighed at the young girls words, quietly closing the door and walking into the room. He made small steps to the chair beside Eugene and Eloise watched with a proud smile and out of the corner of her eyes, she could see Rosita slowly pushing a metal cookie tray off the counter. The loud clanging made Eugene jump awake. "Whoops." Rosita smirked out as Eloise held in her laugh.

Eloise watched as Eugene stared at Abraham, waiting for one of them to say something but they didn't. "Are you two gonna say something or just stare into each other's eyes?" Eloise asked.

"Lou!" Rosita warned from the kitchen. Eloise rose her hands in surrender as Eugene finally spoke. "Good afternoon." Abraham didn't say anything in return, only watched Tara. "She saved my life. She also cracked open my gourd to considering implications I hadn't I will remake about those at this time." Eugene said again and Eloise froze. Her face scrunched up in disgust, having no clue what a 'gourd' is and not wanting to know how Tara 'cracked it open'. Eugene quickly picked up on Lou's disgust.

"A gourd is not what you think it is. I meant bravery and strength. Also, incase you have forgotten, Tara is more attracted to the female population then the men." Eugene said and Eloise nodded her head before a 'pst' made her look past the men. Rosita motioned for her to join her and Eloise reluctantly did, leaving the two men to talk to each other.

When Eloise got close enough to Rosita, she hit the girl with her towel, making Eloise let out a small yelp. "What the hell, Ros!" Eloise whisper shouted as Rosita gave her a glare. "You kept ruining the moment. Stop it." Rosita said back to her and Eloise quickly nodded her head before the two watched the men from afar.

"I'm... sorry, too." Abraham mumbled after a long few seconds of silence. Rosita and Eloise missed most of the conversation but were glad they finally apologized.

"Utterly and completely unnecessary." Eugene spoke, shaking his head. "I almost killed you." Abraham growled and Eloise visibly tensed, not liking how the conversation turned around so quick.

"Yes, there is that." Eugene agreed and the two men just stared at each other, not saying anything else. Rosita let out a small groan, slamming her hands on the table. "So, was that an apology or not?"

Eugene and Abraham both nodded as Eloise started to grow a little happier. "So that's it? No more awkward meals? You're good?" Eloise asked. They nodded their heads. "Affirmative." Eugene answered and Eloise did a little happy dance in her spot beside Rosita before running to the men and embracing them in a hug.

"You can let go now, Lou." Eugene announced, feeling uncomfortable in the hug, not getting many in his life time. Eloise muttered an apology before taking her seat back beside Tara.

"So, you staying here the rest of the night?" Rosita asked as she made her way over to them, leaning in Abraham's chair. Eloise looked up at Rosita, biting the inside of her cheek before nodding her head. "Yeah. Carol talked to Carl and I already. We're not aloud to go. Carl wants to stay home and I want to stay here." Rosita nodded letting out a hum before putting a hand on both mens shoulders.

"Well, these two are going so it'll just be you and I here waiting for her to wake up." Eloise smiled at the woman.

...

It was now night time. Abraham and Eugene left hours ago, Rick's 'trial' should be ending any time now.

Rosita sat in the seat Eugene was once in, reading a book to keep her occupied while Eloise sat in her same chair as always, staring at the unconscious girl she had grown so close to, humming the same song she always hummed whenever she needed to calm down.

Rosita instantly recognized the tune Eloise hummed and began to sing the lyrics. "Oh, I believe in yesterday."

Eloise let out a small laugh as the two began singing together. "Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be. There's a shadow hanging over me. Oh, yesterday came-"

"Suddenly." A voice croaked, trying to sing along.

Rosita and Eloise jumped at the voice. A smiling Tara was facing both of them. "What? Was my singing shit?" Tara joked but Eloise ignored her, embracing her in a hug. Tara laughed, hugging the girl back as she smiled at Rosita over Lou's shoulder. When Eloise let go, Tara cleared her throat. "Can you two help me sit up?"

The two girls gently sat Tara up, making sure she was comfortable when the door slammed open, Glenn and Nicholas coming in, both bloody and limping. Eloise ran over to Glenn, helping him to a hospital bed as Rosita did the same for Nicholas, knowing Eloise was pissed off at the man still and if she had the chance, she'd stab him with a scalpel.

"Glenn, what happened? Are you okay?" Eloise asked and Glenn nodded his head. "I'm okay." His eyes landed on Tara, a breath of relief escaping his lips. "You guys look like shit." Tara muttered to the two men. "She's fine. She's okay. She's fine." Eloise mumbled to Glenn in hopes of calming him down as Maggie walked in. "Tara?"

"I'm okay. You just... you just check on them." Tara breathed out and Maggie quickly ran to Glenn. Eloise went for the medicine cabinet beside Tara's bed, grabbing supplies to clean up the mens wounds when another voice spoke. "Holy shit." Eugene breathed out, making his way towards Tara as she smiled at the man. "Thank god... nothing happened to your hair."

Eugene didn't get upset or offended at Tara's remarks, only staring at her, glad she was alive. Tara let out an awkward chuckle. "Okay, Eugene's freaking me out. Somebody wanna send Noah in here to protect me?"

Eloise dropped all the supplies in her hands, shutting her eyes tight, the metal clashing against the floor, startling everyone. She tried to catch her breath as Eugene put a hand on her shoulder to calm her down. Eloise slowly opened her eyes, tears already starting to well up as she turned to Nicholas, giving him the meanest glare she could before her throat started to close up, a sob trying to make it's way to her lips but she choked it back.

Noah was her friend. Her only friend besides Carl. He would always come to her when he came up with a new game they could play to pass time, always making sure Carl and Lou were smiling. She felt she didn't tell him how much he meant to her, how he was one of her greatest friends. She still remembered their last conversation, as if it were yesterday...

"You know, I'm expecting an uno rematch when I get back!"

"You're just mad that I always win."

Noah never got his rematch.

"Um... I'm gonna go tell Carl you're awake." Eloise spoke, her voice cracking as she stared at the ground. Before anyone could say anything or stop her, Eloise walked out of the infirmary and towards the line of houses.

What she didn't know was while she and Rosita were helping Tara and Glenn, something else was happening at Rick's 'trial'. Reggie was killed by Pete. The man was quickly tackled by Abraham as Deanna mourned her husband. She looked at Pete then to Rick, no trace of remorse in her face as she said two words. "Do it."

That was all it took for Rick to kill Pete. Shooting him in the head right in front of the adults of Alexandria and two new people Daryl and Aaron brought, both of them knowing someone in the town, they just didn't know it yet.

"Rick?"

Rick quickly turned around at his name and saw and old friend. Morgan. But he wasn't alone. With his was a boy, looking around the same age as Eloise and Carl, standing there awkwardly, feeling like he shouldn't have been at the scene he just witnessed.

Eloise was running passed the trial to get to Carl's house but quickly skidded to a stop at the sight of a boy she thought she'd never see again. A boy who was once her best friend but now can barely recognize.

"Jace?"

"Ellie?"

—WE'VE FINISHED SEASON 5!

So there wasn't much Carl and Eloise this chapter, I wanted this chapter to rotate around her relationships with other people in the group.
They never really explain it, but when the group lives in just the two houses, theres like 15 of them including Judith which means like 7 or 8 people in a house which makes no sense unless they share rooms and people take couches so what I had in mind was Eloise lives with Carol, Rosita, Abraham, Eugene, Noah, Tara, Glenn and Maggie while Carl lives with Rick, Judith, Daryl, Sasha, Gabriel and Michonne
Ik that makes no sense but we just gonna pretend it does, okay? 😌 ✨