Authors Note: I do not know anything of Walking Dead series no matter what so thank you! Also first time writing story.

A hopefully UNIQUE what if? What If Tara and Heath were captured and BOTH part of the line up?

What if...

Tara says something and offers a deal that changes the direction of the show forever?

Couples: Slow burn

eventual Tara/Arat, Rick/Michonne, Glenn/Maggie, Abraham/Sasha, Eventual Carol/Ezekiel, Daryl/Rosita, others I'll consider and what you all want to see.

So with that, let's get to it!

Where was she?

Tara opened her eyes, to see herself within a small space, looking to see Heath next to her, groaning as well...

What had happened? She had reunited with Heath, leaving the community of woman that she had found...then next thing she knew there was darkness...then waking up here.

A blinding white light shined through the open door now and a harsh voice shined through

"OUT!"

She was shoved out and she was looking around, her eyes blinking in the harsh light, then her eyes widened as she saw the others.

Oh God.

Rick, Carl, Glenn, Maggie, everyone, they were all here.

She turned and saw more men, one with a large mustache saying "get on your knees." He then pointed a gun at Maggie, who to her horror was lying on a stretcher (oh god what happened to her?)

"Now."

They shoved them all to the ground, on their knees...Tara looked desperatly at Rick, hoping their leader would say something, but she saw nothing but pure terror on his face.

Then the man with the mustache yelled "alright...let's MEET the man."

And he knocked on the door of the RV in front of them all...and out came a giant of a man.

He was wearing a leather jacket, over brown jeans...a thick beard covering his features, a bat over his shoulders and a broad grin...

As he started to speak, Tara's mind clouded...reminded of another man with charisma and leadership...a man that her family took in.

Brian, Philip, Governor, whoever he was called.

She helped him. Killing Maggie's father with a sword...her sister, niece, all of them gone.

God what had she been thinking letting the man with the eyepatch stay, she knew he was bad news, but he helped her dad...protected her niece

She thought about killing herself, then Glenn...

NO!

As she thought of that, Glenn burst forward pleading for Maggie...the man, now named Negan...the leader of the Saviors. The people who they thought they destroyed...only to be revealed as more numerous and dangerous then even Rick could imagine.

She barely heard him, her mind filled with terror...recalling Oceanside, how they es-

Wait.

No no, you promised...Cyndie, Natania you promised you promised.

But...her family, they were all there...Maggie was sick, she needed to get out of here, she was going to collapse...this man with the bat promised to kill one of them. What if it was her? Glenn?

No no.

Up front, Negan was saying "I simply cannot fucking decide." He turned and thought, then turned back around "I have an i-"

"I found Natania!"

ALL movement stopped...Negan blinked, his eyes enraged, thinking that he was interrupted again...he swore he...

Wait...

Negan walked to the woman, the others staring at her in horror...Negan looked down, TOWERING over her.

"...What did you just say?"

Tara gulped, knowing she could be killed any second.

"Natania...her people...the ones...they escaped...I know where they are."

The man put his bat over his shoulder, then turned to the man with the mustache "hey Simon, ain't that the bitch with that community that took off?"

Simon was staring at Tara, then turned nodding "yeah...she could be bluffing Negan!"

"Then how the fuck did she know that name dumbass?" Ignoring his Second's scowl...he knelt down at Tara's eye level...

Tara babbled, trying to plead "I can show you, they have guns, lots of guns. They have people there, lots of people to work, that can make up for what we killed. I can show you if you let us go."

Negan narrowed his eyes "what makes you think I won't pop these fucks off one by one until you blab?"

She gulped "I don't...b-but I PROMISE you if you do that, I won't tell...these people escaped, maybe humiliated you...t-t-t-that's worth finding them...isn't it?"

Every inch of her covered in sweat...

Please, please please please...

Negan continued staring at her...tilted his head to the side, a grin on her face...and stood up...

"Well well well HA HA! This chick's got more cajones then ALL you fucks combined! HA!" He smirked and looked at Rick "well well Ricky...guess what? THIS is the luckiest day of your fucking LIFE...I ain't killing any of you today...but I expect DOUBLE rations one week from today...if not...well I'll leave it to your fucking imagination...but YOU."

He turned to Tara with a grin on his sinister face.

"Your coming with us."

Next to her, Tara grabbed Daryl's arm as he growled, their eyes met...Tara pleading silently with the Dixon...

Daryl grimaced, and clutched the bloody wound he sported...as a burnt faced man picked Tara up, glancing at Daryl briefly then shoved Tara forward...

Soon enough the crowd dispersed as Negan called out "ONE WEEK Rick...until then, ta ta."

Abraham's eyes went flat meeting Tara's as Maggie sobbed.

I'm not letting you down again Maggie...I helped kill your Dad...

I won't let you or your husband die.

AND THERE'S the divergence...

Tara sells out Oceanside, BUT to protect the her family she had no choice. So in this continuity, she met the Oceanside survivors and met up with Heath as she left, then was ambushed miles outside Alexandria.

So as shown NO ONE died, but Tara is now a prisoner of the Saviors and Rick is still more then a bit terrified seeing the NUMBERS the Saviors had and could have all been killed instantly.

In my profile, I think Tara always blames herself for not throwing Brian out of the apartment, thus leading to the rebirth of the Governor and the prison's downfall...so she would do ANYTHING necessary to protect Maggie, the daughter of the man the Governor killed as well as the man who gave her a second chance aka Maggie's husband Glenn.

So how do you think it will change? Oceanside's odds aren't good along with the arsenal, but no one is dead (yet) and might be starting to fight sooner.

Leave reviews and guess on what you think might change as well as ideas you think might be good cause as said, FIRST ever story!

Thank you!