You are the one

I know it is bad to start another story when i have the other one up already but this AU story with no Walkers have been on my mind for a long time and i just need to get it out of my system. Please read and review. I always love to hear feedback, even bad. Please enjoy.

Chapter 1: Serape Lives

Rick stood at the alter with the biggest smile on is face looking at the woman that was approaching him. He never saw anything as beautiful as her. Her face was adorned with the most beautiful smile and her eyes were glistening from tears. It took Rick all of his strength not to run to her and take her in his arms and kiss her. Rick was the luckiest man that walked this earth as he had found his soulmate. He found that one person that understood him. Even without saying a word she knew what he needed and what he wanted. He had found that one person that made his day a better just by standing next to him and it only took 37 years and one failed marriage but alas they were here now and he cannot wait for them to start their life together. So how did this start, well lets get on with this.

Over a year ago...

Rick woke up minutes before the alarms went off and took a deep breath. He had a couple of minutes of peace and quiet before all of the madness of getting the kids ready to school began. Rick looked to the left side of the bed and found it empty like it had been for the last three years since his divorce from his now ex-wife Lori. As much as the separation hurt they needed to do this before they hurt each other beyond repair. Rick married Lori when she finished collage and he was straight out of police academy. They were dirt poor living in a one bedroom house at first but sooner than later they made it work. She quickly got a job in their local middle school and he was a police officer. It took them a couple of years before they saved enough money to buy their dream three bedroom house and start a family.

When Carl was born it was their mutual decision that she will stay at home and raise their son as they did not want a stranger to do it. Rick took more hours at work to make sure that they were able to live comfortably and that their son could have everything that he would need.

Everything was great for a couple of years. They had their son and they had each other but when Carl was getting older and more independent something began to change for them. Rick wanted to have another child so that Carl would not be alone but Lori wanted to go back to work, she needed to get out of the house and although Rick was hesitant he was fine with it. He knew Lori needed this and he loved her and wanted what was best for her. That was when something broke in their relationship. Lori threw herself into work. There were the hours she needed to stay behind, the outing with her friends. Another child was not in her radar. Rick pulled away and when Lori realised she got angry. They fought all the time and even with the smallest of things. Things were so bad that Rick moved to another bedroom. They spend two moths barely talking to each other acting like they were strangers.

Then one night Lori came to his bed and said she wanted to fix this. She wanted another baby with him and she wanted her husband back. She wanted things to go back to normal. They made love that night and every chance they had after that it was like the beginning again. They laughed and joked with each other and most of all they loved each other. Soon Lori was pregnant again and Rick could not wait to meet his daughter. His little princess. This time when Lori gave birth things were a little complicated. Lori nearly bled out to death and she could not have any more children. Rick was so close to losing Lori that night that he was hovering over Lori at all times making sure that she was fine. It bothered her and they started arguing again just moths after Judith's birth. It took them two years to acknowledge that they needed to let go of each other or they will not be happy. That week they filed for divorced and soon their house was sold and they moved out and on with their lives.

It was hard for Rick to move on from Lori. He loved her for more than a decade but Lori had no problem to move on. 8 moths after their divorce was finalised Lori told him that she was seeing a doctor Edwin Jenner. Soon it turned serious and they had moved it together and married half year ago. It was hard for Rick but what was he to do. They were divorced and the man was good to her and his kids.

Now it was Ricks turn to find love. He was more than ready its just he had been out of the game for so ling he did not know how to start. Rick put an arm over his eyes to shield them and basked in the silence counting the seconds until his little love buck will run into his room to wake him up as she cannot be late for school. And in cue the door slammed opened and little pitter patter of little feet could be heard running to his room.

"Daddy wake up, i will be late to school if you don't get out of bed now." Rick heard her little high pitch voice and his heart swelled with love. He took his arm off and looked at her little face that was so like Lori's he smiled. Her green eyes were shining at him happily her brown hair were all over the place and Rick had to chuckle at her.

"I'm up up my little lovebug. Do you need help getting dressed or not." Rick said sitting on the bed.

"No daddy i am a big girl, i can dress myself." Judith said hugging Rick and kissing him on the cheek and jumping of to bed and running to her bedroom. Rick smiled and shook his head. He did not know where she got all of her energy from but she was right in one thing. She was growing up before his eyes. She was five already and soon she will be off to collage and he will have to let her go and it was something that Rick will never be ready for. She will always be his little girl.

Rick got out of the bed and out of the bedroom to find Carl his 13 year old on still in bed snoring his life away. He was lying on his stomach his arm falling off the bed and his feet were sticking out of the covers.

"Wake up son." Rick said and got no reaction from his son which was normal for him. Rick shook his head and grabbed one of his feet and began to tickle him to which Carl just grumbled and turned on his side and turned into a foetal position. Rick took the c

covers and pulled them of Carl making him moan and wake up.

"Really dad how old are you." Carl mumbled and sat on his bed.

"You're the one that refused to wake up. I want to see you downstairs in five or there will be cold water poured over you." Rick said and walked downstairs to start making breakfast, the only thing he knew how to make which was eggs. Soon he heard little feet running down the stairs and Judith came running down in her little yellow sundress.

"How do i look daddy." Judith twirled for him making Rick smile.

"Like a princess darling, let me do your hair." Rick said putting the skilled down and putting Judith's hair in two ponytails.

"Thank you daddy." Judy said sitting down on the stool and began eating as Rick put the food down before her. Carl came downstairs with his head in his phone texting someone already.

"Good morning son." Rick said to Carl and watched at he sad down grunted a response and began shovelling food down his throat. Rick just shook his head.

"Your mom will be here in 25 so make sure you eat and brush your teeth." he said as he ate his own eggs.

"Yes Daddy." Judith said and Carl just grunted. Soon when everyone was done eating and brushed their teeth and Rick was dressed in his uniform there was a knock on the door and through came Lori wearing green sundress and her hair let down and big smile on her face.

"Mommy." Judith jumped of the stool and into Lori's opened arms.

"Hey there Judybug, how was time at daddies?" Lori asked asked kissing her daughter all over her face and listening to her high-pitched laugh.

"It was great mommy, we built a fort and he said if i am a good girl i can have a dog at his house." Judy said exited making Lori look at Rick with a raised eyebrow he just smiled at her.

"I said i will have to think about it, its not set in stone." Rick said walking over kissing Lori on her cheek.

"Yeah right, you can never say no to your children so there will be a dog here soon enough." Lori said shaking her head with a smile on her face making Rick shrug his shoulders.

"How was your time at dad son." Lori said and watched as Carl shrugged and grunted not

taking his eyes away from his phone. Lori looked at Rick with eyes full of disbelieve.

"You know i wonder when our sweet and loving son was kidnapped and an alien was put in his body." Lori said and Rick laughed as Carl took his eyes away from his phone and looked at both of his parents.

"Ha ha, who knew old people can be funny." Carl said sarcastically. Lori just walked over to him ad hugged him and kissed his cheek.

"Eww mom please stop." Carl said wiping his face and walking out the house. Both parents shook their head their son.

"Next week i need you to have the children for two weeks. Edwin's mother is not feeling well and we want to go and check over her, make sure she's all right." Lori said.

"When do i ever have a problem with spending more time with my kids Lori. Go on and make sure she's all right. We will be fine." Rick said and Lori nodded.

"Thank you. I will see you soon." Lori said kissing his cheek and walking out of the room with Judy holding onto her hand. Rick closed the doors behind them and quickly drank his coffee before he brushed his teeth and ran out the door to meet his parter and best friend Shane Walsh.

"Hey man what up." Shane said as Rick sat down in their squad car.

"I'm good man. Lori just came to get the kids." Rick said and Shane looked at him with a smirk.

"So i heard you have a date with Jessie Anderson tonight. You think you will tap that. She's one hot widow and she has not been fucked for some time." Shane said making Rick's skin crawl.

"Aren't you married." Rick said pointing at Shane's wedding ring. Shane shrugged.

"Even if i don't order from the menu i can still look right? Besides i am rooting for you brother. Its been some time for you too." Shane said pulling out of the driveway.

"Do you want me to tell Andrea what you've been saying about Jessie." Rick said with one raised eyebrow.

"You would not do that to me brother. I like my ball intact thank you very much. I still want to have more children with my wife." Shane said with a small loving smile on his face looking at the picture of his wife and two daughters.

Shane was always the town player. He loved changing his women like socks, therefore it never lasted more than two moths. It was a shock to everyone when Shane came to work one day and said he was in love. He had spend a night with this hot shot lawyer from Atlanta and after that one night he said he will marry her. They spend every free moment they had with each other and 3 moths later Andrea was pregnant and Shane and her were running to the courthouse to get married. 4 years of marriage and they have two daughters. Andrea moved here from Atlanta and they have been together ever since.

"Balls, what balls, everyone knows that Andrea has them locked under a key." Rick said and Shane looked at him.

"I would not have it any other way." Shane said with a look like a love sick puppy.

"How is she anyhow." Rick said, he liked Andrea, she grounded his best friend and gave him happiness.

"Oh she is over the moon. Her best friend is moving here to King County. She needs the small town feeling to paint and it would be better to raise her son here. Andrea is looking for a place for her to rent." Shane said and Rick nodded.

"Good luck with finding something." Rick said knowing that most of the houses in king county were for sale.

Atlanta

Michonne sat at the island sipping her coffee. Her eyes were heavy as she has not fully woken up yet. She looked at the sight in her window and saw how the sun shone over this beautiful city. She smiled cherishing that sight as soon she will not have it everyday. Michonne looked around her living area and saw the piles of boxes. Everything in her life was now it them. Michonne still tried to convince herself that he was doing the right thing. That leaving Atlanta and moving to a small town called Kings County was the right decision. She was city girl through and through. She loved the hustle, the fast pace of life. The fact that you can get takeaway at anytime of the day or night. She loved it. But she needed a change. Something that was completely different from what she was used to.

It was her friends Adrea's idea to move to Kings County. Andrea was also a city girl, loving to party and loved to chance to get on the top of the food chain in her career. She never was the one for love and family until one day she met a guy that may not have been the most handsome fella but she fell in love with him and soon after they met he was dragging her pregnant ass o the courthouse to get married. Andrea moved from her fancy law firm to small one in Kings County and had two daughters since, Maddy and Leah. They were her life now and it was a side of Andrea that Michonne liked but she missed her best friend as well. The party girl that was her room-mate in collage.

Party girl. Michonne scoffed. She was not a party girl herself anymore, she couldn't be. There were other things that were more important than that.

"Mamma!" She heard a small voice and small feet running and she looked down to see her little man running to her in his Spiderman PJ's rubbing his eyes and dragging his teddy behind him. Michonne smiled lovingly at the sole reason of her happiness, her three year old son.

"Hey there you little peanut." Michonne said picking him up and kissing him all over the face making his squeal in laughter. Then she remembered why she was moving. It was all for him. So that Andre could have a life where he would be able to play in the streets and know the people he lived next to. So that he would be safe.

Andre was no planned, not for a second. It was all a doing of that one night of passionate sex she had with her then boyfriend Mike.

Mike was different from the guys that she met and that was what drove Michonne to him. She was passionate, he was driven and ambitious. He wanted to go far in life. Not to mention he was handsome as hell and his voice drove her crazy. Like Michonne he liked to have fun and party and they had great time together. Michonne was a growing artist and he was an entrepreneur trying to make rich people richer while getting rich himself. They were the perfect couple and they had fun together and Michonne thought they were in love. When Michonne found out that she was pregnant it was a shock but he was happy and so was she. They would start a perfect family together. Michonne was never so inspired to paint and Mike wanted his child to have everything that was the best in life.

It was going great until one night police stormed into her house asking where was her boyfriend. Mike invested a lot of money that was not his into bad business and lost it all. She did not even know what was going on and when she found out she did not know if she supposed to be angry or sad or heartbroken. Not only did Mike abandoned her and his child but he did so when she 7 months pregnant. The stress of it all had brought an early labour and Andre was born with undeveloped lungs it was touch and go for a minute but Andrea was with her in every step of the way therefore her son is named after her wonderful best friend.

Michonne was pissed to say at least. Mike did try to contact her but she refused all of it. She did not want to be in contact with a man that abandoned his pregnant girlfriend because of bad business. She was done with that man. She raised her baby boy on her own and she thinks she does a wonderful job. She looked at her little boy who was hugging to her and kissed his head. Her leaving the city was the best move for her. It was all for him and she was willing to move mountain and hills for her little boy. She let Andre go and he ran to his action figures and began to play when Michonne's phone rang and surprise surprise it was her best friend Andrea.

"Hello there my beautiful Nubian Queen." Andrea said in her cheery voice making Michonne chuckle.

"I'm awesome Princess Diana." Michonne could hear Andrea laugh at the other end of the phone.

"I have some great news for you my darling. I just found you a little three bedroom cottage to rent. The price is decent and the place is so cute. There is one room with perfect lighting for you to pain. The older couple that lived there are moving to Palm Springs but they cant let go of their house so they are renting it. I just sent you some pictures that i have made." Andrea said and her phone ringed again and she saw the pictures and the place was really really cute. She could see herself pain there and Andre having a beautiful life. Michonne knew that this place was the one she wanted.

"Shane and the girls are with me and they love this place as well so if you want i can tell that you want it." Andrea said and she could hear Shane in the background talking to the couple.

"Yes Andrea, i want this place, thank you so much for doing this." Michonne said and she heard Andrea squeal in the background.

"I cannot believe we are going to be neighbours again. Well sort of. I am so glad you will be coming to leave here. I missed you so much." Andrea said and Michonne laughed.

"Me too, so when can i move there?" Michonne asked Andrea getting exited by the prospect of leaving in that cottage and close by to Andrea.

"The couple are moving there this week so late next week you are free to move here. Shane has a truck ready to move all of your stuff. We will come and help you." Andrea said and Michonne chuckled.

"Thank you and thank Shane he puts up with you and your crazy." Michonne said.

"No need thanking me Chonne, at least she puts up with my ugly mug." Shane joked through the phone.

"Hey i love this ugly mug." Andrea said and Michonne could hear kissing sounds through the phone and a small voice saying Eww through the phone.

"Okay i will let you go. I will see you soon Andrea." Michonne said and heard a chorous and voices saying goodbye to her. Michonne clicked the phone and looked at Andre who was playing and walked over to him and began to tickle him making him laugh.

"Look like we are moving peanut. I have a great feeling about this. Out lives will change for the better." Michonne said and she had not idea how good her life will turn out to be.

Soo what did you think? Was this good enough? Did you like the backstories for Richonne? As you can see Lori and Shane did not have an affair so Judith is Rick's baby. Shane and Andrea are married and Lori and Rick are on good terms. There will be no Lori bashing in this story as i have no issue with her as of now. It was not the case when i ws watching TWD for the first time. I always liked Shane so he will be a part of this story here as well and he will be put in a good light as you can see. So i hope you like it and pleas please review and thank you.