Negan and Sarah returned to the Manor and she smiled as they cruised back in through the gates.

"That was really fun," she told him.

"You got the hang of it," Negan said with a nod. "Teachin' one kid to ride a bike and the other to drive."

"Life is good." Sarah looked over at him in the driver's seat. "Thanks."

"You're welcome."

Jack raised his eyebrows and gave a look once they were inside and the gates had closed.

"Uh oh," Sarah said. She looked at Negan. "Okay, now I regret what I said. I hope you don't get in trouble."

Negan looked at Jack who gave him a shrug and a nod. "Well... that doesn't look too fuckin' promising." He gave a laugh and pulled the truck off to the side, killing the engine, "Good first fuckin' lesson though. We'll head out again."

"I'll see if I can get Alex to go do some decompressing breaths with Kismet and George before you see her."

"She may not even know we went out."

The two of them climbed out the truck and simultaneously looked up at Jack.

"Well..." Jack called down, "Good luck buddy." He gave a thumbs up with a smile.

"What the fuck's that mean?"

"Your girl has a feisty temper when she's angry."

"Is that right..."

"Just a notch above you my friend." Jack laughed again. "I almost got fired because of you two."

"Thanks for fuckin' covering for us," Negan told him with a wave.

"She's too smart for all that." He shook his head and leaned his hands on the railing, beginning to chuckle.

"Agreed," Sarah said and then looked at Negan with a pat on the back. "I'm going to offer to babysit... get on her good side." She smiled, "Thanks again Negan."

"Yeah..." He watched as she jogged up ahead of him toward the town and he took his time wandered toward the medical building where he assumed Alexandra was working. When he arrived and entered Nancy sat in a chair counting out pill bottles. She recorded something on a sheet of paper and then looked up as he walked in.

"Nancy."

"Negan." She nodded and continued what she was doing.

"She here?"

"She?" Nancy purposely played dumb, "Oh Alexandra." She removed her glasses and leaned back in the chair, staring up at him. "Hasn't the poor woman been through enough?"

Negan sighed. "She's not here?"

"Not anymore."

"Alright." He turned to walk out and Nancy shouted to him.

"You won't find her at the house either."

Negan spun back around and looked at her, putting his hands on his hips. "Where is she? With Annie?"

Nancy shook her head and then went back to counting.

"Well the least you can fuckin' do is give me the rest of the details."

"Why should I?"

Negan scoffed. "So I can speak with my wife."

"All's I'm saying is that you didn't care to give her details about your whereabouts... so why should I tell you?"

"Actually it appears as if Jack sold me out," Negan went on, "So if you want to even the score you might as well do the same thing." When Nancy didn't immediately reply he spoke again, "Nancy..." She looked up and he decided to go soft in his tone, "Please."

She cleared her throat. "The farm."

"The farm..." He pressed his eyebrows together.

"Blowing off some steam I believe."

"Thanks." Negan turned to go again but she called him back a second time.

"I was sworn to secrecy so if you tell her I told you I'll take a baseball bat to the back of your legs." She spoke so sweetly in her threat that Negan couldn't help but let out a laugh.

"You're fuckin' scary Nancy... I like it." He pulled open the door and left, leaving her smiling behind him in the medical building.

Negan walked the block once so he wouldn't blow Nancy's cover if Alexandra happened to see him go right from there to the farm but eventually made his way down to the back of the Manor past a coop full of chickens on one side and small rows of corn and other crops on the other. When he approached the barn-like structure the doors were open and Alexandra was raking through hay with a pitchfork, clearing it into a hefty pile by a window on the right hand side. It had begun to pile up near a short stack of hay bales that were packaged into cube-like structures.

"Hey!" Negan greeted. He pointed to the hay she was shifting around when she raised her eyes to meet his. "And I don't mean that kind of hay..." A smile formed on his face but she didn't return it.

Alexandra turned her back to him and continued on with what she was doing. When he coolly approached where she stood she whipped around to face him with the pitchfork raised.

"Easy." He smiled wide and raised his hands, "I'm unarmed."

Alexandra continued to glare at him with a scowl. He took one step in her direction. "Stay back."

Negan looked her directly in the eye, still grinning. He could see it was both infuriating her and making her want to smile back at him. He took another step.

"I'm warning you Negan." Her face was still stern and her hands were clenched around the pitchfork.

"I've always wanted to make sweet love to an angry farmer," Negan told her.

"Go see if Big Lenny is up for it," she replied back, "This is usually his job."

Negan gave a loud laugh, making her smile just barely and he pushed down lightly on the end of the pitch fork until Alexandra lowered it so it wasn't pointed at him anymore.

"You lied to me," she said flat out, challenging his stare with her own.

"I just want to take the kid driving. She needs to know."

"There are roads in the Manor."

"Not like out there. What if she hit a fuckin' kid or something because she veered off course."

Alexandra shook her head. "It hasn't even been a month yet since I've gotten you back. Not to mention that you and Sarah going out for a drive is what led to all that shit that happened in the first place. Talk about fucking deja vu."

"How'd you know?"

"Why'd you lie to me Negan?"

"I didn't... lie. I just-"

"Didn't tell me." Alexandra shook her head and began to rake the hay again, "Same damn thing."

"Alex..." he sighed and watched her for a moment and then placed a hand over hers on the tool when she didn't acknowledge him. "Alexandra I was wrong, but I didn't want Sarah to hurt anybody in here if she went off the road. That was why I took her out there. Jack could see us the whole fuckin' time in case something happened. It wasn't reckless. It was practical."

"Practical." She shrugged and nodded, looking back at him again, "Practical is going outside of the walls unnecessarily now because you're bored."

"I'm not bored," Negan assured her.

"Look, I'm not the controlling type. I don't want to be the wife that makes you run every single aspect of your life by her... but I've almost lost you several times... too many times to count and emotionally..." Alexandra put her hand on her forehead and propped the pitchfork against the wall. "It's hard. It's exhausting."

"You're right," he said, looking down. "You're right. I'm sorry."

"You do this all the time. You say you're sorry and then you just go behind my back like this and do what you want anyway." She shook her head and turned to put her hand on the wall, looking out the small window. "Maybe it's me... maybe it's my fault... maybe I am too controlling."

Negan approached her cautiously and put both of his hands down lightly on her shoulders. "It's not your fault," he assured her, "It's me." He let out a loud sigh, "I've driven every woman crazy in my life time. It's only a matter of fuckin' time before I do the same with you."

"You don't drive me crazy all of the time." Alexandra turned to him partway. "Just sometimes."

Negan sighed. "I know I do shit my way a lot. I'm not trying to being a dick."

"I know," she nodded and looked back out the window.

"Are you leaving me?" he asked, making her spin around to face him.

"What?"

"Well you're making yourself what looks like a nice little bed here in the barn," Negan joked, motioning to the hay. "And you weren't at home. God knows where the kids are."

"They're with Annie. She offered to watch them for a half hour while I came down here."

"How long's it been?"

"Since I've been down here?"

"Yeah."

"I don't know twenty minutes." Alexandra sighed.

"So you didn't answer me," Negan said, "You want to be with me or not?"

She rolled her eyes. "I'm mad at you Negan. It doesn't mean I don't want to be with you."

"So you say now." He took a step and leaned his back against the wall, leaning his forearm on the end of the pitchfork.

Alexandra looked him in the eye and wrapped her hand around the end of it. "I don't want you to lie to me... about anything. Anything," she emphasized. "I don't care what the hell it is."

"Okay." When he smiled she shook her head and went to leave. "You don't take anything seriously."

Negan reached and gently caught her by the arm. "Wait... Alexandra..." When she turned to him with another scowl he softened his eyes and couldn't even bring himself to crack a smile. "I'm sorry. I do. I am... I just... I don't know. I'm just sorry for fuckin' smiling. I'm really sorry. I do take you seriously."

"You do?"

"Yes I do," he said adamantly. "I fuckin' hate it when you're mad at me honey. I'm trying to just make this part be over, but you're right. Sometimes we need to fuckin' talk it out before I say or do something to try to make you fuckin' smile." Negan shook his head and glanced down. "I was trying to lighten the fuckin' mood but I know what it feels like to be pissed the fuck off." He nodded and looked back at her, "I'll leave ya alone."

Negan went to go walk away but she moved to step in front of him and put her hands on chest to keep him from going.

"How did, um... how did she do?"

"Sarah?"

"Yeah. How did she do driving?" Alexandra looked up at him and Negan nodded.

"She did a good job for her first time out," he informed her, "Needs a lot of work hitting the brakes and not sending the two of us flying forward, but..." He tipped the corner of his mouth up in a smile. "But not bad."

"Good." She let out a breath through her nose. "You know, you two are you going to drive me completely insane."

"I'm sorry." Negan swallowed hard, "It was based off of a whole good deed scenario."

Alexandra smiled at him. "I know."

He smiled back and took a deep breath and looked around. "Can we fuckin' do this shit now?"

She narrowed her eyes at him. "Do what shit?"

Negan grabbed her hand and pulled her down with him as he sat on a bale of hay.

Alexandra began to laugh as she was taken off-guard when he guided her onto his lap and began to kiss the side of her face in sloppy, silly fashion. "Negan!"

He kept his grip on her tight so she couldn't get away and laughed as she fought him to break free. "You want me to let you go?" Negan asked with a chuckle.

"Yes!" she laughed back and he loosened his grip, allowing her to get out of his grasp.

Alexandra rose back to her feet and took several choppy breaths before fixing her disheveled hair and standing with her hands on her hips staring at him.

Negan put his hands behind his head and leaned his back against the wall, widening his feet in the mess of hay on the ground. When he winked she smiled back and shook her head. "I'm so fuckin' into you right now," he told her, "You're so fuckin' hot when you're mad."

"You're unbelievable." She took a step in his direction with a smile. "I want to be so fucking mad at you right now."

"What do you say you fulfill that farmer fantasy of mine?"

"I'm still too mad to make sweet love," Alexandra told him. She looked down and placed a knee between his legs where he sat and looked him in the eye until Negan glanced down.

"An anger bang will do just fuckin' fine too," he added. Negan swallowed when she moved her knee a little closer to him. "Easy honey."

"I thought you told Jack you'd sacrifice yours to save his... at least that's what he told me."

He laughed and pulled her toward him by her waist. "They're already yours." Alexandra laughed and looked down prompting him to duck his head down to force her eyes back on his. He proceeded to lean in and kiss her, immediately letting his aggression take over as he slid a hand up to latch onto the back of her neck.

"I think you're getting off too easy," she whispered, bringing her lips back to his.

"Let's just hope it's not too quick." Negan laughed against her lips again and readjusted her legs so both of her knees were positioned on either side of his. "You know... it's healthy to fuckin' fight once in awhile in relationships. It makes you want your partner more right afterwards and brings you closer together"

"Yeah?" Alexandra ran a hand through his hair making him lean his head back against the wall again. "State your source."

Negan unbuttoned his pants and looked down. "That's my source." When he looked back up at her Alexandra had a wide smile. He put a hand on the side of her face. "I'm sorry honey... again."

"It's okay," she said right away and then added. "Again." Alexandra kissed him hard and sighed when his hands began to urge her shirt up. She ducked out of it and wrapped her arms back around him. "Alright, fuck it... let's fulfill that farmer fantasy."

Negan laughed again. He barely opened his eyes to meet hers through a squinted stare, "The mouth on you when you're mad at me..." Negan kissed her, "Fuck."

Alexandra laughed again against his lips and then decided to get over her temporary bout of anger in the best way she knew how.