Chapter 1:
I was up around seven this morning, I had only gotten a small amount of sleep again and was perched on a swing on the front porch reading Lord of the Rings. It was a nice day out, sunny, without a cloud in the sky, I could almost forget about the dead things walking around. I was lost in my thoughts when I heard the front door in the neighboring house open and Michonne walked out.
I set my book down and got up. Maggie and Glenn were over by a bin of guns and were getting them all set for when we were attacked. I walked over to hear Maggie talking about hiding some around Alexandria so that we would be able to find them, but strangers couldn't. Which we probably should do even without the threat of another group, after all we didn't even know that other group existed before they attacked us, or at least I didn't.
"Anything I can do to help?" I asked. Just as Maggie was about to answer we heard the revving of Daryl's motorcycle. "Oh no" I heard Michonne say under her breath. We watched as Daryl pulled up to the gate. He started to open it.
"What the hell is he doing?" Glenn said. Something stupid. I thought. "Something he shouldn't" Michonne said as she started walking over to the van that was parked close to us. I followed after her. "We gotta stop him" Glenn said to Maggie as he handed her the gun he was holding and followed after Michonne and I.
The three of us got into the van, Glenn in the driver's seat, Michonne in the passenger's seat and me in the back. They didn't even argue about me tagging along. When we started moving Abraham jumped out in front of us, "Woah! Make room for my freckled ass!" Rosita immediately replied, "No, cover my watch, you stay." She made her way to the door, and Glenn put down the passenger side window," Hey, we should keep numbers here." It's not like four people are going to make a difference. "I know where Daryl's going" Rosita said. I did too. She got in the back with me.
We stopped at the railroad tracks. The blood where Dennese was shot was still there. I figured that it would have washed away by now, I guess I was wrong. There were two fresh bodies off to the side, and a walker that was eating them. I wonder what happened to the two people with only one walker in the area. Probably more people were here, or Daryl killed them. "That's where she died" Rosita said, looking down at the bloody spot on the tracks.
Michonne started walking off the tracks and I was looking at the two dead guys. "All right, so he had to start from here" Glenn said. Michonne found Daryl's bike hidden under some branches and bushes. "He did," she said. Glenn turned around and walked over to Rosita. "Which way did Dwight run?" She didn't answer. "Rosita!" She turned to face Glenn. "We should let him do this." We probably should. "But he doesn't know what he's doing" Glenn said, and I had to admit that he was right, maybe Daryl should have waited for more of us to come and help him, after all, he can't do it by himself. We need to strike before they strike us, we don't know what they have, what their weapons are,we already came too close to losing Alexandria, we won't get that lucky again. "We don't" Glenn continued, "Maybe him trying this makes you feel better about it right now. Maybe they keep knowing more about us that we know about them. Or maybe Daryl's gonna get himself killed, Which way did Dwight run?." She nodded her head towards where Michonne was, and we started walking.
We found Daryl in an empty field, I guess we startled him since he almost shot Rosita in the face with an arrow. She was pissed, I would be too if it were me. "Watch the hell out asshole." "Yeah I did" Daryl said storming past her. I was behind Glenn keeping an eye out for anything in the area behind us, the last thing we needed was a walker to come up behind one of us and take a bite out of our shoulders. "You shouldn't have come" Daryl said, grabbing the arrow from Rosita's hand. "You shouldn't have left" Michonne said back to him, following him as he stormed off. He turned around, "when I split off from Sasha and Abraham, he was out there in the woods, in that burned-out forest with them girls, put a gun to my head, tied me up. I even tried to help him." He started walking away again. Glenn and Michonne followed, I stayed in the back by Rosita, keeping an eye out for walkers especially with the shouting going on.
"So, you think it was your fault?" Glenn asked. Daryl turned around getting in Glenn's face. "Yeah I know it is, I'm gonna go do what I should've done before." He started walking away again, this time Glenn paused before walking up to Daryl, "What for her? She's gone, man. You're doing this for you." "Man, I don't give a shit." Glenn stormed up to him and stood in front of him so he couldn't walk away, "Daryl, we need to get back there and figure this out from home. Our home. We need you and everyone back there needs us right now. It's gonna go wrong out here." Michonne started talking now, "We'll, square it. I will. I promise you. Just come back." Daryl looked like he was going to consider it for a second until he said, "I can't." He walked past Glenn and continued walking. "Daryl" Glenn said. "Man, I can't!" Daryl kept walking. Rosita followed after him,"I can't either." I followed Glenn and Michonne.
We walked in silence before Glenn started talking, "Thing is, those men could be back in Alexandria right now." Michonne answered, "If they are they're dead." "I hope not, we need them alive, we need to find out more." It's not like keeping one of them alive would help us much, they probably wouldn't tell us anything. The only way to get the information we need is to get it ourselves in person, not from a person on the opposite side after we have killed all of their friends. "Yeah, we do" Michonne said. We stopped walking. Glenn and Michonne kept talking to each other, but I wasn't listening. I heard footsteps, the hair on the back of neck stood up, someone was watching us. My eyes widened and I got my gun out, I turned to face Glenn and Michonne, "We need to go!" They looked at me confused, then there was a whistle, their eyes widened and Glenn and I pointed our guns in its direction while Michonne unsheathed her katana. We were surrounded by people on all sides. How long were they watching us and following us? Did they have Daryl and Rosita too? I did I miss them, there were so many, how did I not hear a single one before now? I put my gun down, no use in having it out now. Then Dwight took a step out from behind a tree pointing a gun at us. "Hi."
They searched us and took our weapons. They tied our hands together and gagged us. Then took us deeper into the woods, where they had a small camp set up, they made us sit down. Glenn was in the middle with Michonne to his left and me on his right. We were probably there for a good hour or two, when movement caught me eye. It was Daryl and Rosita. Glenn notice them next. They were incredibly stupid, since they lacked to notice hamburger face sneaking up behind them. Dwight pointed his gun at Daryl's head, there was another guy with a gun pointed at Rosita. Rosita was smart and put her gun down while Daryl decided that he was going to turn around to do who knows what. But before he could Dwight shot him. I went to stand up to go over to him, which as an incredibly stupid move on my part. Someone had slammed what I guess to be the butt of their gun in my face and knocked me out. Stupid me, always getting myself into seriously stupid situations.
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