CHAPTER 2: IN THE BED.

Without knowing about the incoming threat outside of the house, sweaty Rick and Michonne kept their loving doings with each others on the mattress in the living room, not willing to stop until the very last candle has been burned off.

However, they eventually decided to keep the brief pause in their make out in the mattress, but they still kept themselves wrapped inside of the blankets to keep themselves warm by pressing themselves against each others prevent the warmth from escaping from under of the blankets wrapped around of themselves.

Michonne lied beneath of Rick, who lied above of Michonne on his left elbow.

However, Rick had moved her left arm beneath of Michonne's head, so that Michonne was able to rest her head on it, and she was also holding from his left hand with her own right hand.

Rick had also lifted his own right hand to rest on Michonne's right arm.

They were lying there for a moment silently, until there appeared the slight look of uneasiness on Michonne's face and she was like she wanted to know something so badly.

Michonne eventually turned her head towards Rick and opened her mouth to say something.

"How did you do it?" She said.

Rick took immediately aback after Michonne asked the question from him, as he raised his own head above of hers and looked at Michinne into her eyes with slightly confused look on his face and eyes... noticing clearly the uneasiness in the eyes of the woman he loved.

"Excuse me...?" Was all what Rick could say, telling to Michonne that Rick did not either caught her question clearly or then he wasn't even ready before she had asked her question from Rick just like that with the hurry... without even calling his name at first before her question.

Michonne decided to ask again.

"How did you manage to survive out of the corner, after I saw with my very own eyes you getting yourself cornered from everywhere and nearly eaten by those walkers back in the carnival area? How did you managed to get out of such of life-threatening situation alive?" Michonne asked, reminding Rick about the nearly happened incident When they were getting guns from the zombified soldiers back in the carnival area.

Remembering that, Rick gently rested his head on Michonne's right shoulder, thinking for a moment that how he could answer satisfactorily to Michonne before he moved his head against her own head's right side so that his mouth was in the level of her hear.

Rick's warm breath released the pleasant chills to run along of Michonne's body and they both ended up to snuggle to each others

They were again for a moment quiet...

...until Rick eventually opened his mouth to speak.

"Has Glenn ever revealed to you how he managed to survived through of that stone quarry's massive walker herd before their massive invasion to Alexandria over two months ago?" Rick asked from Michonne, even though it emotionally and mentally hurt him to speak Glenn's name loud after what happened to him back in the woods.

Michinne noticed this clearly, even though Rick's head was behind of her right cheek and she reacted to it by lifting her right arm from the mattress and landed it comfortingly to the right cheeck of Rick's face to comfort him about it.

"No," Michonne answered.

"We were back then so busy to clean the entire Alexandria from all of that dirty and rather bloody mess those savage people (The Wolves) and that massive walker herd caused to us and yet we were so busy to rebuild all destruction Alexandria has suffered from it and yet having our serious troubles with the threat of the saviors before them taking over of Alexandria, that I have not had time to ask about it from him, before he died in the hands of that fucking monster!" Michonne added, angrily and bitterly cursing the one who's responsible for Glenn's brutal murder.

Rick noticed this as her muscles tightened from vengeful-like anger the Michinne felt towards Glenn's murderer.

And as a result, Rick allowed Michonne to have a little time to calm herself down and swallow her anger before he would be able to say more.

And after Michonne's muscles relaxed as a sigh that she had completely calmed down, Rick opened his mouth to speak.

"I assume that you were aware that when you were trapped into that pet shop as the herd was coming for you, Glenn and Nicholas departed from you when they were supposed to lit one house from that abandoned town into the fire in order to distract most of the herd to prevent them from reaching to Alexandria," Rick started, as he nuzzled with his own head Michonne's head.

Michonne nodded at this, as she remembered that day back in that abandoned town. That memory was mentally pungent as she remembered that they had lost in that town most of their group to the walkers while trying to get back to Alexandria, especially Annie, who was buried and devoured alive under the herd shortly after their escape from the pet shop and David, who was trapped behind of a gate and was brutally pressed against the gate's barrels and mauled by the herd of walkers.

Seeing David getting brutally killed – even though he had already got the life-threatening bite from the walker before the arrival to the town – had left her saddened, because he seemed to be good guy and honorable husband for his wife waiting back in Alexandria for his return, one of the purely good people which were not many in the world like this and which would have deserved to live longer.

Michonne also remembered Glenn saying back then that he will signal to Michonne either with the smoke or then with the flare gun if he and Nicholas were successful on their mission...

...but she didn't saw on that day from the direction of the town any shot from the flare gun nor the smoke in the air, which had told her back then that both Glenn and Nicholas had failed their mission and that they were both dead.

Until it was revealed to her during of the walker invasion and the final battle for Alexandria that Glenn was still alive, even though she didn't still know that how.

"Well, when Glenn and Nicholas had found out that the building they were supposed to lit into fire had already been burned down, and that there was the walkers which began to swarm from every corner, from every alley and from every route of the town, Glenn put his full faith on Nicholas because he had visited in the very same place earlier and that he was familiar with that town. Meaning that he was probably their best chance to find the way out of there before they get buried under the upcoming herd of the walkers."

"But, however, Nicholas had paralyzed after seeing the walkers coming while Glenn was desperately urging Nicholas to find their way out of the situation. Glenn had told me after the walker invasion that he had seen Nicholas getting paralyzed with fear more than often in every time when they had lost someone to the walkers during of their trip through the woods and that abandoned town while trying to get back to Alexandria."

"And yet he had paralyzed the fear again as the herds of walkers began to swarm towards them from every corner of the town, surrounding them and cutting all escape routes from them. It had also drove him with the panicking hurry to lead both of them to an alley, which was blocked with the fence, behind of which was more walkers and the massive herd was following right behind of them."

"Glenn and Nicholas tried to fight them off and get away from the alley before it's completely overrun by the walked by escaping through of the nearby staircase, but the way was blocked with the heavy object and there was too many walkers to be gunned down and they eventually get themselves dangerously cornered."

As Rick kept telling Glenn's narrow survival story, Michonne slowly began to settle down on her back to the mattress so that she was able to look at Rick into his eyes, but kept her head resting on Rick's left arm, at the same time as she wrapped her arms around of Rick. And as an result, Rick wrapped his right arm around of Michonne, pulling with his hand more blankets around of themselves, pressing them closer and against of each others.

"Glenn and Nicholas were forced to climb on a dumpster as the herd surrounded them from everywhere, leaving them with no chances to escape anywhere from such of situation. And it was then when while the walkers were clawing at their feet, Nicholas had once again paralyzed with fear and desperate as he stared in horror the horde, all of those from everywhere reaching dead hands, all those snapping dead jaws and all of those blind lust for the living flesh in their eyes, something eventually had snapped inside of Nicholas which drove him to commit suicide with the gunshot into his head. Glenn was then knocked into the herd by Nicholas' falling corpse and after that we all believed him to be dead."

After hearing that in what kind of situation Glenn was after they went into the separate ways back in the town, Michonne's eyes widened with unbelief that Glenn actually survived from such of life-threatening situation that she almost sat up from the mattress.

"Glenn ended up with Nicholas in such a situation without any chance of survival nor way out of there, and yet he still lived with us until the night when he was murdered by Negan?" Michonne said in disbelief.

Even though she had went through the even worst situations with Rick and the others before the walker invasion, Michonne was more than just sure of the fact that even the longer lived and much experienced survivors like herself and her group long before even arrival to Alexandria Safe-Zone would never survive through the such of herd like the one they tried to lead far away from Alexandria but ended up to cut down the half or most of the herd within the walls of Alexandria with the help of the alexandrians within the ine night.

Michonne revealed her beliefs to Rick, who nodded as agreement.

"Well, has proved our beliefs wrong and Glenn has also proved many times over that he always has a thing or two to survive out of the most desperate situation alive," Rick stated.

"But what it has to do with your narrow survival from the such of desperate situation which nearly cost you your life?" Michonne asked again as she lied down on her side right side while looking at Rick's eyes.

Rick chuckled a bit before he turned his eyes back at Michonne and kept telling the story.

"Well, Glenn told me and Maggie that luckily for him, he had landed beneath of Nicholas dead body after he had committed suicide on himself and dragged Glenn with his body into the herd. The walkers and thus they began to devour Nicholas dead body while Glenn used it as his final advantage and crawled from beneath of Nicholas Body to beneath of a dumpster away from the walker's reach and he had stayed under of it the whole night until the walkers had lost their interest and wandered away from the alley," Rick explained.

"Well, I had to admit that I've learned something from Glenn during of our time together since our first meet in Atlanta. I kind of used the same technique to avoid getting eaten by the walkers back in the carnival area, when I fell from that Ferris wheel after I failed to shoot down that deer I wanted to replace with one you lost to the saviors."

Michonne created a questionable look on her face. With the such of expression on her face and without the words, Michonne demanded the answer from Rick to his narrow avoidance of getting nearly torn apart by the walkers.

"When I crawled away from the walkers, accidentally getting myself into the trap and I ran out of ammo, the same deer I tried to shoot happened to by the accident ran pass of me as it tried to itself get away from the upcoming herd. And when the walkers were too close of me, through of my instincts I grabbed from one of the escaping deer's hind legs in order to sacrifice it to the walkers like I sacrificed out pigs to the walkers to prevent them from knocking down the fence of the prison after they were attracted by the gunshots in the chaos that overcame Cell Block D if you remember that... so I snapped that deer's hind leg to prevent it from escaping from the walkers and I left it to distracted the walkers while I sneaked away from the walker's reach into the carnival ride to cover," Rick explained.

Michonne kept listening Rick's own narrow survival story, which sounded quite identical with Glenn's own narrow survival story during of the pre-walker invasion to Alexandria.

She even allowed the slight chuckle to escape from her lips as Rick claimed that he had indeed learned something about the survival to survive from such of life-threatening walker-situations from Glenn himself since Atlanta.

"So that's how you survived? Using Glenn's own technique to get out of the bad situation by sacrificing someone's else's life just like that?" Michonne said.

Rick nodded, but he also shook his head half-negatively to Michonne's claim about "sacrificing someone's else's life to save his own." That claim reminded him about the moment when Glenn told him about how Nicholas had selfishly and cowardly sacrificed Noah and three-four other alexandrians before his group's arrival to the walkers to save his own skin.

At least Glenn didn't survive from his own desperate situation back then by sacrificing someone else to save his own skin, but it happened by the accident and through of Nicholas' committed suicide.

"Well, I admit that I sacrificed only one deer to the walkers to survive out of the situation, but it is much different with the living people," Rick claimed.

"Well... speaking of which, I'm not myself completely pure in that case, because I also have left some people behind during of my time, though without the selfish reasons like Nicholas did with Noah." Rick added.

"Like you did with Merle. I heard from him himself the first time we met, when I was brought to Woodbury with Andrea by him, that you cuffed him to the rooftop back in Atlanta and you left him behind when the building from where you were taking refuge was overrun and he was forced to cut off his own hand to get away," Michonne said, reminding Rick about his first days of the apocalypse.

Rick didn't deny this in front of Michonne.

"I did. I indeed cuffed him to the rooftop of Atlanta. As a cop, ex-cop, back then, I was supposed to keep him in under control when he got too violent with the other group members, not to leave him chained to the rooftop like an animal at the mercy of the walkers. It all happened too fast. We had to get out of there quick as possible as the building got overrun by the walkers. Besides, I left my keys to the cuffs into the hands of one of our group member named T-Dog, who accidentally lost the keys and forced us to leave him behind. We came back to pick him up, but he was gone," Rick honestly explained before he went for a moment silent as he remembered well what he (indirectly through of T-Dog) had done to Merle during of his first days of apocalypse, after he was saved from the tank surrounded by the walkers by Glenn and met for the first time Glenn, Andrea, T-Dog, Jacqui, Morales... and especially Merle back in Atlanta.

Now almost everyone from the original group, with the exception of Daryl and Carol, were gone... But over time the dead people were replaced by new people of whom he had to take care of like the family members with his life.

Rick then opened his mouth to continue.

"There's more people I've left behind than just Merle, one of them was the man called Jim from the Atlanta camp. He was rather unsociable and mentally stressed over his wife and his children being killed by the walkers in Atlanta when this all started and him being the only survival due to the walkers focusing to eating of his family. We left him behind at his own request after he had got the bite from the walker during the walkers attack to the camp at night and there was nothing what we were able to do for him. We left him behind, with the request to allow him to reanimate," Rick explained.

"There was another fellow survivor from the same camp. Her name was Jacqui. She died at peace with the man called Edwin Jenner, the scientist of the Center for Disease Control, who attempted to find a cure to stop the outbreak when all of this began and he was the one who's responsible of finding out that we're all carriers of the outbreak virus. He was extremely well aware of the utter horrors and he strongly believed that staying alive in this utter world was pointless as a painful death was inevitable. So he trapped all of us inside of the Center for Disease Control building and set the building to explode with all of us, including himself, inside of the building in the attempt of commit mass suicide and offering us "easier" escape route to avoid the the horrible and painful way to die with the chance of much more painless way to die. The situation was tense, and some of us, especially Daryl and Shane, even tried to kill him, which would not have helped the situation at all. However, we were barely able to convince him to change his mind to let all of us out of there and let us out to continue the fight for survival by our own way. However, Jacqui wasn't willing to suffer the same fate that Jim and Amy, Andrea's sister, did because of the walkers and she decided to stay behind to wait for the death. So we reluctantly left her behind to die in the following explosion at her own decision with Dr. Edwin."

"Then there was the girl named Sophia, Carol's daughter. After Jacqui, we were on the road until we ended up to the highway where the way was blocked by dozens of abandoned cars. There, we encountered the large herd of the walkers, which forced us to went into hide under the cars until the herd has passed through. When all seemed clear, Sophia came out from her hide, but ended up to giving the unwanted attention of two walkers who were still passing through. Terrified, Sophia ran away the highway and into the nearby woods, the walkers on her tail. I went after her and found her, but I urged her to stay near of the creek while I distracted and killed the walkers. But when I and the others came back to pick her up, she was nowhere to be found."

"Before and after we arrived to Hersel's farm and met Maggie, Hersel, Beth and the rest of their neighbors, we sent out multiple search parties into the woods to find her, to no avail. We were also forced to leave the highway after Carl was accidentally shot by Otis, one of Hersel's neighbors, we left a message behind on a car windscreen in case Sophia returns to the highway."

"After day-to-day explorations, we eventually found her, but we found out that she had already been bitten by the walkers and she had reanimated. And when we found her, I shot a reanimated Sophia in the head, ending her suffering. But even though it has been a long time, I still blame myself for leaving her behind and on her own without the skills and experience of survival just like that."

"Then there was a man called Andrew, the prisoner who lived in the prison with the other survived prisoners when we arrived to the prison the first time. With the exception of the other three more kind prisoners, Axel, Oscar and Big Tiny, he and the other guy of their little gang named Tomas attempted murder me when we were cleaning the prison's inside from the walkers. After I killed Tomas for trying to kill me twice, Andrew attempted to escape from the scene and I went after him. He ended up by running into a courtyard filled with walkers. He attempted to re-enter the prison, but I closed the entry gate to prevent him from doing so. It was the first time in my life since all of this began when I actually left someone behind, but the main reason was the safety of my group than my own skin. Maybe I should have killed him directly than left him to the walkers, and as an result, he returned alive, let the small herd inside of the prison and caused the deaths of two members of our group, including my late wife Lori."

"And finally, I assume that you probably remember that poor hitchhiker guy we passed on our way to King County, Georgia to search for the weapons and ammo for the war with the Governor and Woodbury. He was alone, lost and in need of help. He pleaded us to stop and help him but we just ignored his pleads and kept moving... twice... and we only took his backpack with us during of our trip back to the prison and when we found him dead. He did seemed an innocent guy, but I assume that a main reason for it could be that we were in the war and that we could not take the risk with outsiders or then we did not want to drag him into the mess into which we had already dragged ourselves into. I guess that the reason which I mentioned first is a much more rational explanation for leaving him behind," Rick explained.

Michonne listened carefully all of time Rick while he was telling shortly about the people he had left behind alternating for many reasons.

While listening Rick, Michonne knew that she herself wasn't the better person as well as Rick with leaving people behind to die back in the past, remembering how coldly she had left her now-dead boyfriend and his friend to die out of pure bitterness and hatred after the camp they had taken refuge in the beginning of everything was overrun by the walkers and both of them had been high on drugs, causing them to be unable to fight, which resulted her three year old son Andre being devoured by walkers and both of them becoming bitten.

Michonne also remembered how she had amputated their arms and jaws and chained them like the animals after they had reanimate and how she had dragged them closely behind her at all times, using them as her shields to cover her scent and avoid being detected by walkers.

And because of her son's tragic death, she had became the prisoner of her own self for a long time, while her outside form was slowly becoming day after day more and more from outside hardened, self-excluded, even almost emotionless and aimlessly wandering lonely and silent warrior, nearly sealing her mentally broken true person inside of her physically and mentally hardened form forever... until she met Andrea, Rick, Carl and Judith, whose close friendship and the Grimes family's shown family love for her released her true person from her mental prison. Nowadays she was more open and happy, and now she had a completely new family she had received from Rick, Carl and Judith, whom she was more than just willing to protect with her own life as their family's official member.

Suddenly, the slight smile appeared on Rick's lips.

"Well, I just realized that I nearly left one behind yesterday on the previous day," Rick said.

Michonne created questionable look on her face after she heard what Rick did just say. She was also slightly confused about Rick's claim, because the only people around of here were only she and Rick, none else, not even hitchhiker during of their supply run in the woods and countryside searching for the weapons.

"Who you're talking about, Rick?" Michonne said with the confused tone.

Rick let out another chuckle, as he turned his head towards Michonne.

"I'm talking about you, Michonne," Rick calmly responded.

Michonne created another confused and questionable look on her face after Rick's confusing respond to her question.

She didn't remember when Rick nearly would have left her behind.

Rick saw her confusion and opened his mouth to explain his answer.

" Well, after I had distracted those walkers with the deer, I tried to sneak away from the scene behind of the carnival ride to rotate them in another way and get to you, while the walkers were focused on feasting with that deer, even though I a bit regret of leaving it as cripple at the mercy of the walkers instead of handing it over to you, until I suddenly saw you standing there right next to the feasting herd, in the paralyzed state, your sword had dropped out of your hands while you were staring at the walkers feasting with the deer, and yet you nearly allowed the walkers to surround you and devour you. It forced me to jump out from the hide back to the scene, to prevent you from getting yourself killed," Rick said, lastly with a bit scolding tone to Michonne.

Michonne playfully took this as an offense, even though her own instincts did not allow her to deal what she had witnessed with her very own eyes nearly happening in the carnival area with any kind of jest.

"Rick Grimes, know this that I was going to help you put of such of situation, and know also this that I was unaware of your narrow survival from such of bad situation. I just saw the walkers feasting with the fresh flesh and intestines, which I though was yours until I saw that it was the deer torn into pieces," Michonne said back with the playful scold.

"Well, you were the first one who dropped the sword in the bad time in middle of from everywhere approaching walkers. You kind of forced Rick Grimes appeared out of nowhere at the wild western's hero style to rescue his loved one from the certain peril," Rick jokingly said back to Michonne.

Michonne responded to this with the chuckle and the wide grin.

"Well, my hero of the wild west gets himself always in trouble whenever my eyes turns away from you. I can't take you anywhere, Rick," Michonne said with the playful grin.

"You should not say something like that what can one day you'll regret. As you yourself said, even a long-lived and well-experienced survivor like you will one day find herself from the trouble out of which she cannot escape on her own," Rick said humorously.

Michonne let out another chuckle out of her mouth.

"Neither a long-lived and well-experienced leader like you," Michonne said back.

"Little Rick Grimes need to leard to take care of himself a much more carefully or else he needs someone, with the strong manners of caring mother, to look after him so he cannot get himself into any kind of trouble again," Michonne joked playfully with the humorous grin on her face.

Rick chuckled at this as well, knowing that Michonne meant jokingly herself as a babysitter for Rick, before he finally moved over Michonne, gently pinned her down to the mattress and wrapped his arms around of her, as Michonne willingly lied down on her back to the mattress and placed both of her hands to the both sides of Rick's faces.

Both of them looked at each others with the loving smiles.

"Maybe I should do the same thing with the certain woman. To have someone certain man as a babysitter for the certain woman to make sure she doesn't get too much distracted from what happens around of her," Rick stated.

Michonne chuckled with the wide grin at Rick's claim.

"Are we both now each other's babysitters?"

Rick smiled warmly to her, as he lowered his head towards Michonne's face.

"Have not we always been?"

Both of them chuckled at each others, as Michonne wrapped her arms around of Rick's neck both pulling his head down and lifting her own head up in intention to press their lips together again into passionate kiss...

Suddenly, before their lips even had the time to touch each others...

Their attention was suddenly caught by suddenly through of the window flying bullet, which hit in the living room's wall hanging old family photo's glass surface.

"WHATTA HELL?!" Both of them exclaimed, before the hell was indeed released upon of them from outside.

Sorry guys, another cliffhanger...
Rick and Michonne are under attack by those strange people, who had been stalked them from the woods.

What's gonna happen next, we'll find out the next time.

I hope that you guys liked this chapter.

See ya.