I'm yours

1

The sound of Judith crying pierces my ears and shakes me from whatever sleep I had gotten last night.

I sit up from the rock hard mattress in the dump that used to be a house. The sunlight streams in creating patterns on the floor and across my face, causing me to squint.

"Cassidy, we're moving out!" Carol shouts from down the hall. I grab my weapons and hook them to my belt before walking out the door.

"How's she doing?" I ask to noone in particular and cradling the tiny baby's face.

"Good. She could use a little more food though. We all could." Tyreese answers.

I ran into Carol about a month or two ago. She told me all about how she had been kicked out of her old group because she killed two people to prevent a sickness from spreading. I believed her.

We travelled together for a while before we found Tyreese, Judith, and Lizzie and Mika. That's a story I really dont want to get into. Bottom line is, it's just Carol, Tyreese, Judith and me.

Tyreese had come from Carol's old group and Judith was their leader, Rick's, baby girl. With Carol and Tyreese dealing with Lizzie and Mika, I had turned into Judith's temporary mother, caring for her, giving her what she needed. I would sacrifice my life for this baby girl.

Carol had told me all about how they found a prison, but then it was destroyed by a man named the Governor.

"Cas? Cassidy!" Carol snaps me out of my daze. I shake myself awake and grab my bag as I follow Carol outside. We're leaving the house because we can't bear to stay there with the Lizzie and Mika tragedy.

The breeze hits my face and blows my hair back. It feels so nice and refreshing. We travel for a day or two, stopping every once in a while to take care of Judith.

Suddenly, we run into a man near a small broken down shack. He talks into his radio about a chick with a sword and other members from Carol's old group and she and I instantly run at him with guns raised.

"Where are they?!" Carol yells at him.

He eventually tells us that they're inside a place called Terminus. Affer debating for a little while we decide Tyreese will stay with the baby and the man and Carol and I will go after her group in Terminus.

"Alright let's go. The longer we take to get there the longer the baby has to stay here." I state, filling the rest of the duffel with the guns and ammo and kissing Judith's head and patting Tyreese's arm.

The plan was that Carol and I would create a distraction to get into Terminus and hand out the weapons to whoever we could find from her group.

Oh. And try not to get killed.

It took a good half hour and a lot of sweat to get to the wire gate around Terminus. Surveying the area, we drop the duffel and try to figure out how to get inside. Suddenly we see men opening a storage unit and pulling out men from Carol's group.

"They must be in there." she says.

"Alright, here's the plan. You cause the distraction and go for the rest in the storage containers, and I'll get the guys they took inside." I brainstorm aloud.

"No, Cas. I could never make you do that."

"Carol, please. I want to help you. You've had my back for a while now and I want to make it up to you. I need to do this. They need you more than me if we all survive this anyway." I state.

She just looks at me before we embrace in the tightest hug.

"Please be careful. I can't lose you too. I love you so much." she whispers.