"Y'all can't be serious. Let that girl hamstring us? The dead girl's a time bomb." Daryl whispered but it as loud enough for everyone to hear. Loud enough to piss Ivy off. She wanted to stand up but she was too busy sitting in her own guilt to do anything. The thought that she could have done something to help her stayed in the back of her head, she saw the walker in enough time to do something but she froze in her own fear. She froze and it got Amy killed.

"What do you suggest?" Rick asked.

"Take the shot. Clean, in the brain from here. Hell, I can hit a turkey between the eyes from this distance."

"No. For God's sakes, let her be." Ivy let out a sigh of relief when Lori said this. The way Daryl was talking upset her. "Have some respect for anyone but yourself?"

Ivy almost buried her face into her knees before seeing her brother a few feet away. "Carl." She whispered trying to get his attention.

He trudged over to his older sister before taking a seat in the same position as her. "I don't want to ask you how you feel because you might not know and I have to be the person to bug you about it but how are you?" She asked with affection in her time.

"I don't know." The two sat there in silence when Ivy heard screaming. She quickly stood up and walked around to the other side of the RV.

"A walker got him. A walker bit Jim." Jacqui yelled pointing at him. Ivy's heart dropped into the pit of her stomach as she grabbed Carl and held him tightly. She knew that as soon as you got bit you didn't turn, but she also didn't know how long it took, if you got weak then came back or if one second you're there and the next you're gone. It had taken Amy a while before turning but it had also taken her a while before dying, and she was mauled by the creatures. Only one bite was an outcome she hadn't seen before.

"I'm fine. I'm fine." Jim pleaded.

Ivy wasn't close with Jim but it didn't mean she didn't feel terrible. She had decided on just walking away from the drama

"No, it's kind of...okay when you're doing long division you pretty much just work with one number at a time and see how many times this number goes into this one." Ivy said pointing at the math problems Lori had written down for Carl. In the beginning, Ivy hadn't exactly found the importance of solving math problems but if the world was ever going to be fixed, she could assume it at that point. Though if she ever had a kid in a world like this, she wouldn't make them do math problems.

"How did you get so smart. You never struggled at all." Carl asked. Ivy felt a bit bad that carl felt that way towards her.

"I did struggle but I learned quickly." Ivy had always done well in school but she was a visual learner, so when she started going to schools with teachers that taught like that, everything made sense to her.

Ivy continued helping Carl with the copious amounts of math problems when RIck and Lori made their way towards them from the quarry. There were people following behind them but they contiued coming for Ivy and Carl.

"Burying other people is bad enough, but the thought of one of us..." Rick said before being cut off by Lori.

"Shh."

"Are we safe now, dad? Now that we're together?"Carl spoke and Ivy looked at her brother and then up to her dad, also wanting to know the answer.

"I won't leave again. I promise you that. Not for anything. Now give me a chance to discuss some things with your mom, okay?" Rick ran his hand along the top of both kids head and smiled gently down at them before walking away

"Said that last time." Ivy mumbled before standing up to walk away.

"Excuse me?" Rick said calmly to his daughter.

"I said you said that last time, now look where we ended up." Anger filling her body. She hadn't really noticed it until now but part of her blamed Rick for everything. If he hadn't left then maybe Amy would be alive right now, maybe everyone would.

"Ivy do not speak to him that way." Lori said as she walked a step closer to Ivy.

"I had to-"

"No you didn't! You didn't have to do anything, you didn't have to go back for guns, you didn't have to go back for that peice of shit, hill billy, asshole either."

"Watch it!" Daryl said from the side.

"You keep talking dickweed, I'm tired of your insensitive ass!" Ivy replied. She didn't know where any of it came from but she couldn't help the words spilling out of her mouth. Almost as if she had no control over her own words.

"Ivy enough!" Rick said, raising his voice a little.

Ivy looked at her a father and her mother, back and forth before her eyes landed on Daryl.

"You wanna put an axe through everyone's head, your first instinct is to put em' all down but you didn't expect that for your brother. You want everyone's life on the line for you and him but you're not willing to risk your own life for any of us?" Ivy questioned with her hands on her hips and a stern face.

No one answered her so she took that as her cue to walk away. She felt bad for her words, she felt sorry for yelling at her dad and Daryl but it was something that had to be said.

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"Everybody listen up. Those of you with C.B.s, we're gonna be on channel 40. Let's keep the chatter down, okay? Now you got a problem, don't have a C.B., can't get a signal or anything at all, you're gonna hit your horn one time. That'll stop the caravan. Any questions?" Shane announced.

They were gonna start making their way over to the C.D.C. Ivy really didn't care where they went, as long as they were safe. Which she was starting to realize there might not be a safe place anywhere.

Ivy learned that Morales and his family weren't coming with them which upset her slightly but she hoped to see him again one day.

"We're gonna have to lap up." Carol exclaimed.

Ivy counted up and that would have made it Carol, Sophia, Carl, Rick, Lori, and herelf. Ivy didn't mind it much. Ivy went ahead and jumped into the back seat of the truck and Carl and Carol followed. Sophia stood on the outside looking into the vehicle with a confused expression. "Want to sit in my lap?" Ivy asked. Sophia had a smile stretched across her face before jumping into the truck and taking a seat on top of IVy before the truck set off.

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They hadn't gotten very far when the RV broke down. Everyone got out of the truck except Ivy, Sophia, and Carl. She knew what was about to happen, she knew Jim couldn't have made it much longer, but she didn't want either of the kids to see. She watched the adults speak and shortly after carry Jim out and sit him against a tree.

They were gonna leave him, Ivy wanted to protest but it seemed that's what he wanted so she didn't. She just leaned her head against the window. She was so tired and she tried not to but she couldn't help it, her eyes closed and she drifted to sleep. In her head she tried to say goodbye. But she realized that she barely knew Jim. So she just wished him well in her head and left it at that.

"Ivy, baby, get up. Let's go."

Ivy shot her head up and looked around, her eyes landed on a building, an extremely large one at that. She opened the car door and stepped out as she rubbed her eyes.

"Alright everyone keep it together." Shane said. Ivy walked behind her father holding her brother's hand. As they got closer to what seemed like the entrance to the building they started walking over bodies. "Oh god." Ivy whispered, absolutely repulsed.

"Keep going baby we're almost there." Lori said to her two children. Ivy looked around at the people she was with, the group had gotten smaller, much smaller.

Shane pounds on the door, Ivy flinched at the sudden noise.

"There's nobody here." T-Dog said annoyed.

"Then why are these shutters down?" Rick asked.

"Walkers!" Ivy turned around to see the two walkers coming up slowly behind them.

Daryl shoot the walker in the head and Ivy gripped her brothers hand tighter. It was starting to get darker and Ivy was scared. Eventually they wouldn't be able to see anything, if they got swarmed they were gone. Ivy used to believe in God but now she wasn't so sure, but still she closed her eyes and whispered, "Please please please don't let us die." Was it a bad prayer? Yeah. She really didn't care though

"You led us into a graveyard!" Daryl screamed

"He made a call." Shane argued coming to Rick's defense. Ivy rolled her eyes, she was starting ot get aggravated. All they ever did was fight and she was starting to get tired of the pettiness.

"It was the wrong damn call!"

"Just shut up. You hear? Shut up. Shut up! Rick, this is a dead end."

"Where are we gonna go?" Jacqui asked. Ivy rolled her eyes once more, something she seemed to be doing a lot of nowadays. Did it look like any of them knew where they were gonna go?

"Fort Benning, Rick... Still an option." Shane asked

"On what? No food, no fuel. That's 100 miles." Andrea questioned. Ivy stayed quiet, not wanting to say anything that would cause yet another fight. She was trying to spare Carl from having to deal with all of the shit.

"125. I checked the map." Glenn piped up.

"Come on, let's go. Let's get out of here. Let's go. Please." Shane begged. Ivy turned around, preparing to run back towards the truck when her father spoke up.

"The camera... it moved."

"You imagined it." Shane said almost immediately.

"It moved. It moved."

Ivy felt fear for her father, she was afraid that he was starting to lose his mind. Maybe everything was making him go crazy. Maybe she was going crazy. Maybe everyone was going crazy but no one noticed because everyone was crazy. She didn't know. Where she used to know any question thrown at her, this time was different. She didn't know anything.

"Dad that damn camera didn't move." Ivy said angrily, ready to leave.

"Rick, it is dead, man. It's an automated device. It's gears, okay? They're just winding down. Now come on. Man, just listen to me. Look around this place. It's dead, okay? It's dead. You need to let it go, Rick."

Rick slams on the shutters, pounding repeatedly, begging and pleading for help. Ivy had never seen her dad like this, vulnerable, begging for any ounce of hope. She held her brother tighter and let out a whine of fear. "Dad!" She pleaded as her dad beat on the door. She was so scared.

"Rick, there's nobody here!" Lori screamed. Her and Shane were struggling to drag him away so Ivy let go of Carl's hand and walked over to him. "Dad stop!" She yelled as she wrapper her arms around his waist, attempting to help drag him away.

"I know you're in there. I know you can hear me." He screams.

"Everybody get back to the cars now!"

"Please, we're desperate. Please help us. We have women, children, no food, hardly any gas left." Her father pleaded. Ivy's eyes started filling with tears, seeing her dad like this hurt her, it hurt her to see him so sad, begging for help the way he was.

Rick pounds on the door again and again, Ivy stood back looking away from the sight. He was starting to go crazy and Ivy could see it. It was the start of something very bad. "Keep your eyes open. If you don't let us in, you're killing us! Please! Please help us. You're killing us! You're killing us! You're killing us!" He repeats.

Finally he gives up and turns around. Ivy looks at him with sorrowful eyes. There was no hope left. Her shoulders dropped and she tilted her head up.

The group is just about to leave when the door to the CDC opens, drowning the survivors in light. Ivy squinted her eyes at the shining white light. She let out a laugh and looked to her parents who were already running in, her following shortly behind them.

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