There was a rule in Negan's community, one that even he followed. The woman had to say yes. Now Negan still counted a 'yes' that came under duress, that was how he got most of his wives. He'd threaten a family member, a lover, a close friend. The women never said no to him.

He met her by accident. At first he thought that she must be naive, to come traipsing up to their group on the road without a hint of fear. Later he found out that she simply didn't care about her own safety anymore. They were stopped on the side of the road. One of the guy's driving a truck had been complaining of chest pain. He was now sitting on the ground next to the truck, clutching his chest. Negan was about to get back into the truck and leave him there when he saw a beautiful woman walking towards them from the woods.

"Well, well, well," Negan said with a grin, "And what's your name beautiful?"

She glanced over at him like he was nothing, "Seriously? You're a scumbag." She didn't even stop walking as she said it. Negan's grin grew wider. He liked the fiery ones. He followed her over to the guy who was on the ground. She took her backpack off, kneeled in front of the man, and pulled out a bottle of aspirin.

"I'm sorry," she told the man, "it's all I have, but it might help."

He looked up at her, "Thank you."

"When did the pain start?"

"About ten minutes ago."

"Ever have anything like this before?"

The man swallowed nervously and shook his head, "Are you a doctor?"

"Yes. Well, I was. My name's Toni." Finally she looked back up at Negan, who was leaning against the truck next to her. "There's a hospital about five miles from here. There are walkers, but I think you guys have enough manpower for us to get in there."

Negan kept on grinning and shrugged, "Ok." It was something that he would normally have said no to, but he was hoping to find out a little more about this woman. He needed to find some leverage if he was going to make her his wife. "Do you have a group? They can come with us."

She looked a little suspicious, answered slowly, "No, it's just me."

"How long have you-"

"Listen, we can chat later, your friend needs to get to a hospital. Help me get him in the truck. Is there room for him to lay down in the back?"

Negan nodded, "Sure thing." Negan grabbed the man roughly by the arm and Toni grabbed the other arm. Negan was surprised when she managed to hoist the overweight man from the ground with only a little help from Negan. He smiled to himself, thinking that he may have found his favorite wife. They got him in the back.

"What's your name?" she asked the man once they had him settled. She climbed into the back with him.

"Andy."

"Well, Andy, we're gonna get you to a hospital and see what we can do, ok?"

"You can ride up front," Negan said, though it sounded like he was giving her an order rather than an option.

"He shouldn't be alone."

Negan shrugged again, "Just tell us how to get to the hospital."

"Get onto the highway and take exit 6, then make a right."

Negan nodded and walked back to the front of the truck.

When they got to the hospital they had to kill a small herd of walkers, but Toni was right, they had plenty of manpower to get the job done. When Negan walked to the back of the truck, he saw that she had started CPR. "Go get a stretcher from inside."

"If he's dead, we'll just leave him and be on our way."

"I can bring him back, we just need to get him inside."

Negan told two of his men to get a stretcher and watched as she did CPR. She was really beautiful. She could easily have been a model instead of a doctor. She had dark blond hair and beautiful green eyes. She was about average height, but more toned than most. It looked like she must still exercise, even with the world as it was.

"Did you ever model?" Negan said with a grin.

"Actually, yeah. That's how I put myself through medical school," she continued to work.

"You put yourself through medical school? No help from the folks, huh?"

"Listen," she said harshly, "We can all get to know each other later, it's not the time for twenty questions."

Negan put up both hands in defeat, "Whatever you say darlin'."

The men came back out with the stretcher and all of the men with him had to help to get the heavy man onto it. Toni kneeled on the side and continued CPR.

"Get us inside, and somebody find a crash cart. It's a bunch of drawers on wheels." For the next several minutes, she barked orders at people, started an IV, injected drugs, and shocked the man twice. He finally awoke with a start. Negan clapped, still with that grin on his face.

"Bravo, doc. Now we need to talk." He grabbed her by the upper arm in an attempt to lead her away, but she quickly pulled out of his grasp and continued to work on her patient.

"Still not the time, asshole."

Negan chuckled, "No, it's the time." Two of his men grabbed her and pushed her down the hall.