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my names deanna monroe, nikki right?
um, yeah, i am.
how's your arm feeling? i know you just got proper antibiotics so you're getting better, right?
yes, thank you.
how's your eye also? mind telling me what happened for it to get that way? all bruised?
i got in a fight with another outsider, a woman. she clocked me in the eye with her gun, that's how it got bruised.
i'm very sorry that happened, nikki.
it's fine, it happened. i'm alright.
i'm glad. back in ohio, i was a congresswoman, district fifteen, what about you?
does it matter?
yes, more than you think.
okay, well i was uh-a bartender before i had my daughter lola, but after that, i became a staff member at a middle school, an advisor i guess you could say, kids came to me for advice and i gave it to 'em.
that's wonderful, now, were you with rick before all this-
no, i wasn't. i had a husband, and his name was shane, lola's dad.
can you tell me about him, what happened to him perhaps?
it matters?
no matter what people say nikki, everyone's past defines them to who they are in the current.
he was short tempered, a police officer like rick, but the only reason he's dead today was because he realized what the world was before any of us. and he, he made love possible for me. but about nine months ago, he uh-tried to kill rick and rick had no choice but to y'know-kill him, i saw it all.
i'm very sorry about that, now i don't mean to offend you but-you were friends with rick's former wife, yes? and he was friends with shane? so that means that after they died, you and rick fell into love?
i-well when you say it like that, it sounds funny, but it's true, yeah. carl and lola are like siblings now, it all just kinda fell into place for us.
and judith is your daughter, right?
yes but-not biological, her real mom, rick's wife, died from childbirth, and i promised to look after her so-here i am, her mother now.
i'm sorry to hear that.
it's just how it was and how it is now, as much as i miss them, i wouldn't change how everything went down, there was a reason for it.
well i'm glad you guys are okay. anyways, i'd like to know your perspective on this community, do you see good things happening here?
i guess, i like it. it's just—my kids, they deserve a roof, a safe environment to grow up in, that's what i want for 'em, more than anything.
well you're in lucky, nik. this place is it for them, i swear to you.
yeah, i hope. anyways, you got a job figured out for me?
yes, actually. i'll let the community know that you can be our knew psychiatrist, or advisor i'd rather say. people can come to you for advice and you can still raise judith on your own time.
