Okay- first off, hi.

To those of you who don't know me, I'm baby-kitsune9. And this is my first try at writing a Walking Dead story. I'm not entirely sure what may pop up later in the story or just how weird it may get, so fair warning to those of you who have never read anything of mine.

I don't do rainbows and kittens. I do M-rated shit.

Zombies, rape, blood, gore, incest and whatever else pops into my head. So- if you leave a review and your a dick about it because your easily offended, or you had nightmares or wet the bed- I will destroy you.

Because I gave you fair warning at the top of this chap.

Now because I new to this I'm going to try and keep it in character, but that's sometimes easier said than done. This story takes place when Rick and the others reach Alexandria, and have agreed to give it a try without knowing what the one stipulation for them to stay is.

However Rick knows and is already going over things in his mind.

So people, this is a Rick Grimes and OC story.

Enjoy the fun. I will.

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Alexandria two months ago-

It had been the answer to their prayers, or so it had seemed to him, from the moment he and his make shift family had walked through the thick metal gate where they were met by two young men with semi automatic guns and a smiling woman in a sage green knit sweater wit shoulder length blond hair.

The woman as it turned out, was named Deanna, and she was the leader of the people of Alexandria.

Which was a good thing, he supposed since she was a former senator from another state who hadn't gone on ahead with everyone else in office and thus somehow wound up in the middle of no where in Georgia where she came across an abandoned lot of land with a gated community built upon it, and had settled there. And built walls and begun to take in other survivors.

To people like Rick and his family, the high stone walls and thick gate standing between them and the undead was- after such a long and tiring time on the run- a nice change of pace. They all felt that they could finally take a load off and relax.

Deanna was more than generous with her welcome of them. Giving them two large two story houses that had never been lived in before, complete with food, running water, clothing and more than enough room for everyone.

All she asked for in return once they were settled, tied into a complicated stipulation for them to remain. For Rick and his family to be able to stay, the unwed men of Ricks group had to take wives and start families.

Understanding just how much more responsibility they would be taking on and how it might upset his family's dynamics, he asked for time to think of a way to tell everyone what would be happening.

After all if your going into an arrangement like the one Deanna had planned- one couldn't walk into it blind. Well, not completely anyways.