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building. “If you could fence that in somehow you’d be set.”
    “Yeah that’s the key.” Casey said now standing next to her.
    Finally feeling tired again she turned to Casey.
    “Well I’m going back to bed. You have a good night Casey.” Jill said and limped off to the stairs to take her back down to the ground floor. Casey didn’t reply, just watched her go. I guess she’s not that naïve, maybe one day he would change his opinion of Jill.
     
    Jeff stood by one of the new made watch towers that had been added to the already existing wall. He was talking to woman whose name he couldn’t remember but hoped to have a good night with anyway. All he wanted was some information and to get laid, but she wouldn’t stop talking about her little pet dog she had to leave behind when she came here. She was practically crying.
    “There there. I’m it sure got out, probably running around the countryside chasing squirrels.” He said.
    “You really think so?” She uttered between sobs.
    “Oh yes honey I know it. I just have this gut instinct.” He slowly put his arm around her and she put her head on his shoulder, when he noticed Jill and Casey up on the roof talking what appeared to be a serious conversation and then her hobbling back down the stairs. He’d eventually get to her, but tonight he already had his pick.
    “So how many guns did you say this place had again?”
     
     
    Waking the next morning feeling shockingly refreshed, Jill meandered outside and found Jack helping Beth’s daughter Meghan. They were loading bags of soil and fertilizer for the green house.
    “Hi guys, how’s it going?” Jill asked brightly.
    “Just fine. We are trying to get started on planting for some new veggies, with summer coming tomatoes should be a hot commodity around here.” Meghan said while continuing to load the pickup truck.
    “Well good. Jack can you help me for just a sec.” Jill requested and made her away out of earshot from Meghan.
    “What’s up?” He asked looking back.
    “So are you enjoying babysitting?”
    “Oh shut up. Why didn’t you just tell me she was a cutie my age? You let me think she was 10.” Jack said resting his hands causally on his hips.
    “Now where’s the fun in that? Go finish your work, might I suggest asking her to have lunch with you later.” Jill added.
    “Would you just go please?” Jack clearly a bit embarrassed.
    “Ok I’m going.” Jill put her hands up in surrender and backed away and Jack returned to his task.
    “So you guys aren’t related at all?” Meghan asked Jack when he came back.
    “No. Why would you think that?”
    “Just the way you guys act together.” She stated plainly.
    “I did have a sister once. And a brother, but they didn’t make it. And my dad abandoned me, only a few weeks ago actually. Jill happened to come across me and we’ve been together since.” Jack continued to heft bags in the back of the truck. Meghan started closed the back deciding they were done. They went around and got into the cab of the truck.
    “Ready for the next leg of the trip? Planting.”
    “Oh boy my fav.” Jack replied sarcastically.
     
     
    Over the next few days, Jack and Jill both spent time becoming acclimated to the work that was here and the place as whole in general. Both were fast learners and Jack was proving to have decent ideas about building weapons and added traps. Finally with someone backing Casey on some of his ideas and able to give visual drawings to them, people were excited. Jill met two other women during the discussions for improving the place, Lucy and Jane, they were very much into this stuff as well, they were hard, like had seen and done some things that should never be spoken out loud, hard. Lucy, she had lost her baby girl when this all when down, she was out for blood and vowed to kill every walker she saw. And Jane, was actually a Jane Doe, she woke up in the front seat passenger side of a station wagon in the middle of an