Rosita POV

Rick steps aside putting away his gun, everyone draws their weapons,put them away. I put Judith in front of me holding her close, her head on my chest. "C'mon in" I heard Rick tell Ezekiel and his company. As they were coming into the house, I felt all of their eyes on me...I haven't done anything wrong from what I know, not in a while.

"So what's going on?" Rick asked Ezekiel as he sat the sofa.

"One of our soldiers attacked the hilltop, with a group of about thirty people. We were able to hold them off but there was too many of them." Ezekiel told Rick as he was moving to sit next to him.

"What does he want?" Rick asked again as he ran his fingers through his hair.

"Rosita. And Revenge he told us." Ezekiel told Rick as he was looking in my direction, I held Judith closer to me, hoping that she would keep calmed down somewhat.

I look around to see that everyone was looking at me, every pair of eyes were filled with curiosity and question. That's when Rick came over to me and kneeled down in front me asking "Rosita do you know why this person would want revenge?"

I think back from when I met up with Eugene and Abraham to meeting this group. I thought good and hard until it hit me, it was when us three was in a group full of twenty-five people, I was out on a run with Abraham, two other people named Jasmine and Dylan. Jasmine went on runs with us before, but Dylan was a new to going on runs, I didn't want him to go but his brother insisted.

Flashback

It was a sunny afternoon in Texas, the heat beating down on my back, as I was putting the cooler in the backs sit of the car, as a stood upright ,I wipe away a bead of sweat that was rolling down my face. I turn around to see the leader of the group named Simon, coming towards me with Abraham angrily behind him, a girl named Jasmine she has black hair, with green eyes, a shorter than me, she was innocent but she knew how to kickass. As they came closer to me, I see Jasmine shaking her head, while abraham wasn't having none of it. Simon younger brother Dylan was a feet behind them as I can see.

"Rosita, need a favor?" Simon asked me.

I crossed my arms across my chest "What's up?" as they stopped in front of me.

"Rosita tell him no, he's not ready This would be like sending Eugene out there without us to protect him." Abraham angrily told Simon.

I looked between the two of them, than look at Jasmine who has her arms crossed her chest, she does not look pleased, that's when Simon spoke "I want my brother to learn the ropes of being out there, I want him to learn how to handle himself if I wasn't there to protect him."

"Are you sure? He never held a weapon or even fired a gun." I told Simon who was looking at me with pleading eyes, I look over his shoulder to see Dylan looking nervous biting his nails "Ay Dylan are you sure you're ready for this?" I asked Dylan as Abraham threw his arms up in frustration.

"I'm gonna have to learn effectively" Dylan looking away from me,while rubbing his arm.

"See he's ready" Simon told me "Rosita when he goes with you can you watch over him." he asked looking at me with pleading eyes.

I look over to Abraham, he was shaking his head trying to tell me no, while Jasmine was zoned out with her arms across her chest. Simon was still looking at me with pleading eyes, Dylan was looking at the sky...my gut was telling me that he wasn't ready for this...but I knew that he had to prepared for this world, he's was gonna have to effectively.

"Sure" I told Simon who punches a fist into the air, Abraham throws his arms in the air in anger then he goes over to a tree and punches it, Jasmine shakes her head, she comes over to me, puts her hand on my shoulder, looks at me in my eyes and tells me "I hope this is the right decision Rose" she goes over to the car, gets into the backseat, I look in her direction she throws a look of pity. Was this the right thing to do?

Just then Abraham comes over to me, he grabs my arm and pulls me to the side "What in the donkey nuts is that Rosita?" He angrily told me looking in my arms.

I shaked my arm out of his grip and look at him in the eyes "If I was to say no that I don't think he's ready...I would most likely be kicked out or who else knows what would've happened. You're forgetting that Simon is the leader...he didn't have to take us in….he could easily kick his out."

"Ms. Espinosa that's like me saying if you are ready to go out there, even when you aren't. Dylan and you are two different people. You learned the hard way, this boy been having someone as a bodyguard ever since the start, never held a gun or knife." Abraham told me as I looked over his shoulder to look at Dylan and Simon. Simon was showing him how to use the gun probably, Dylan was biting his lip nodding away as Simon was teaching him. I closed my eyes, sighed heavily...I hope he learns fast.

"I will watch over him" I whispered to Abraham with my eyes still closed.

Abraham gets in my face "I thought you were smarter then this " he told as he went towards the car "Lets go boy" he yelled as he got into the driver sit of the car and starting the car. I see Simon handing his brother the gun, pat him on the shoulder, I heard him say "Good luck" as I got into the passenger seat of the car.

I looked straight ahead, avoiding Abraham stare, I glove compartment; I take out my fingerless gloves put them on, then grab my pocket knife put it in my boot and make sure my gun is loaded. Abraham start to drive away from the courtyard of the building. From the rearview mirror, I can see Simon standing in the middle of the courtyard, with a look of pride on his face. I turn around to see Jasmine cleaning her gun, Dylan was looking out the window lost in his thoughts….Was he ready for this? Why was Simon trying to push his brother to do this supple run?..Even if he knew that he wasn't ready? I closed my eyes, and lean my head against the window hoping I made the right choice.

An hour later we arrived at the next town over, Abraham parked the car in vacant parking lot. He stops the car, I can feel him looking at me. "Let's get this done and over with. Jasmine do you have the town map for the direction the shopping outlets and list?"

"Yeah right here." She digs under the driver sit, and pulls out the map. Then goes into her back pocket to get the list.

"Alright C'mon. Dylan stay close to me." I ordered as I opened the car door and slammed it shut. As we all got out of the car, I told Jamine "Lead the way chica." Out of the corner my eye, I seen Abraham drinking from his flask, he puts it in pocket after closing it.

As we got onto the main road, the formation was Jasmine in the front, Dylan and I in the middle, while Abraham was behind us. While, we were walking to the destination Dylan was getting so close that I felt like I was suffocating. "Dylan can you move over a little? And hold your gun up." I asked him.

"Sorry Rose" He mumbled under his breath as he moved a little to the right, from behind me I hear Abraham snicker from behind me, I stop giving him my death glare, he shakes his head. The next thing, I knew….there was a herd of walker coming towards us...this area was cleared...when they last checked it. Jasmine, Abraham, and I put our weapons into position, we start to shot at the walkers, I look over who was on my right to see Dylan froze.

"Snap out of it." I yelled at him, I saw him snap out of it. He shakingly rise his gun up aiming towards the walkers, his finger on the trigger but he he doesn't pull.

"Rose get him out of here." Abraham told me "Jasmine and I can hold the off, go back to the car."

"C'mon Dylan, Don't forget the supplies if yall got a chance to get there we'll wait" I grabbed him by his shirt, we run into the direction of the car.

As were running, there were some walkers in our path. I put up my gun, start to shoot...I look over to Dylan he froze again. I grab him by his face and made him look at me "Don't freeze up this is the time to prove to us that you could this. Your strong. Don't look behind you." He nodded not breaking eye contact with me "Now C'mon."

We start to go in the direction of the car, which was about twenty minutes away. As we were running, the amount of walkers was decreasing. I look over at Dylan he was doing a good job...I was proud of him for not being afraid. I was running faster, It was until, I heard screams from behind me, I turn around to see Dylan getting beaten by a walker on his shoulder. I saw red, I went into my boot to take out my pocket knife, I stabbed the walker on top of its head, I put my arm around Dylan waist to support. How could this happen? He was doing so good.

"Rose...What happened?" Jasmine asked as she ran up to his with a army duffle bag in her hand and a book bag on her back...They must've gotten the supplies we needed.

"He was doing great, then next thing I knew. I heard screams….I turned around to look and it was him getting bitten by a walker." I told her "I don't understand they came out of nowhere...I told Simon I would watch over him...I should've listened…"

"Rosita stop you were begged to have him out here." Jasmine told me as Abraham apraoched us with a bunch of bags in his hands.

"Don't tell me he was bitten?" Abraham asked Jasmine and I looked at him with worry in our eyes. "Shit C'mon we have to go...Simon is gonna hear it from me. Rosita take the bags. I'll carry him." Abraham handed me the bags, while he carried Dylan bridal style.

We ran to the car as fast as we can, when we reached the car, Abraham put Dylan in the backseat, while Jasmine and I packed up the trunk of the car. I climbed in the backseat with Dylan, Jasmine went into the passenger seat, Abraham started the car and drove off going one hundred mile per hour. As he was driving, Dylan was dripping sweat, I used the bottom of his shirt to wipe away the sweat as head was leaning against the window. "I'm sorry...I should've watched you better." I whispered in his ear.

He moves slightly to look at me, he took my hand and told me "It's okay Rosita...I always looked up to you. You're brave. You're strong. this was the best day of my life even if it has to end like this. Stay strong Rose. You're made for this world." Dylan coughed roughly as he covered his mouth...when he removed his hand from his mouth there was blood on his palm.

"Keep your strength" I told him running my fingers through his hair as a tear fell down my face.

By sun down we reach the courtyard of the building, Simon was fidgeting from his spot from excitement. Abraham stop the car, we all hold our breath, looking at him...not wanting to get out of the car...we all know he would blow up. He doesn't recognize our facial expressions, we watch him go to the side of the car, and open the car door that Dylan was leaning. As, he open the door Dylan fell into his arms….he was crying holding his brother close, Abraham was holding onto the steering wheel his knuckles turning white as I looked at him from the corner of my eye, Jasmine was staring straight ahead digging her sharp nails into the skin of her arm. I tried not to look at Simon but I felt like he was looking at me from the corner of my eye.

"Get out of the car!" He angrily told us as he grabbed the gun that he gave to Dylan and pointed it towards us. "Move on this side" We got out of the car, moved to the side of the car...he laid Dylan down in the backseat.

We stood shoulder to shoulder, he paced in front of us; mumbling words that I could hardly make out. "I thought I told you to watch my brother as he was out there. I trusted you Rosita" Simon stepped up to my face yelling. "Now explain!"

"Back up from her" Abraham told him grabbing Simon by his arm.

"Did you tell her not to watch over him as soon as y'all left? Someone who lost his wife and children should know the feeling of being alone" Simon taunted Abraham, Abraham punched Simon in the face.

"Simon calm down, she did watch him as were out there…"Jasmine tried to speak up as Simon rubbed the spot where Abraham hitted his face "Why aren't yall letting her talk? You know what...tomorrow y'all are leaving...take the weird guy with y'all also. Jasmine you're staying" He told us.

"Why am i staying here? But Rosita and them have to leave?" Jasmine asked stepping up to Simon, she wasn't afraid to step to him..even if he was the leader.

"Because...you're still needed. Their not. Now go pack y'all shit and leave" Simon said opening the door, as he was opening the door. A zombified Dylan sprung out of the car landing on the ground, he crawling along the ground. Simon shot at his brother then picked him up, holding his corpse close to his body, mumbling to the body and started to walk away. As he was walking away..he stopped and turned around. "Oh Rosita one day I will get my revenge."

The three of us stood in our spots until, Abraham tapped my arm tilting his way of our apartment. Jasmine follows us, staying quiet….I think she did have some regret about what happened. We reach the apartment to see Eugene sitting a chair eating a popsicle; Abraham knocks it out of us hand and it falls to the ground. Abraham kicks down the door and goes into the house, I stay outside to explain the whole situation to Eugene and then I go into the house to pack our things. The next morning, we leave with the clothes on our backs and the clothes in our bags. I hug Jasmine one last goodbye then get into the army truck. As we drove off, I looked out of the car window to see Jasmine standing there, holding herself like she was trying to hold onto my hug. I felt a sense of lost as we got farther and farther away from the building. I lost two great friends in one day...both were my fault.

End of Flashback

"His name is Simon….he wants revenge because I was supposed to watch his brother while Abraham and this friend of ours named Jasmine, were on a run. Abraham was trying to tell him, that his brother wasn't ready to go out there….Simon kept saying that his brother would have to learn sooner or later...practically begged me to let him go with us...I gave in…" I explained to the group as I felt Judith moved slightly in her sleep, I rocked her so she could fall asleep. Michonne holds her arms out so she could take, but I hold onto her and shake my head no.

"Was that the only reason?" Rick asked putting a hand on my arm, his eyes filled with worry.

"From what I know…yeah the day that happened, he told me that one day he would get revenge one day…" I nervously told Rick as I ran my fingers through JUdith hair.

"He ain't gonna touch you...I'll make sure of that" Daryl stated speaking for the first time, while looking at me, giving me a reassurance that everything will be okay.

"What about Negan?" Erick asked looking around the room.

"What about him?" Father Gabriel asked looking at Eric with a displeased look.

"We are also in battle with him? What if this person is teaming up with him?" Erick responded back with a question.

"We can take him also as my dad would say is that we're family, family would be protect each other. Negan is a punk he hides behind his guys, I might not know this guy but no one is touching my family...I don't care who it is. We don't back down from anyone." Carl explained to Eric, he sounded like Rick.

"Carl is right" Rick agreeing with Carl, that's when Rick looks at me, smirks while looking at Tara, Carl, Father Gabriel, Daryl, Michonne, and Carol. We all knew that smirk that's when Rick says "They're screwing with the wrong family."

That night we went to sleep, having a sense of pride and confidence….for some reason I felt uneasy, until I felt Daryl wrap his arms around my waist.

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