Cassandra walked slowly beside Eugene who had also been left alive. Tears were running down his face like a flood and Cassandra couldn't help but feel bad for him. She sighed sadly and said, "Don't cry for the dead, cry for the living instead."

He was going to snap at her, tell her she didn't know anything - that she was a cold-hearted bitch. He didn't say a word, though. He shut his mouth and continued to walk forward.

It felt like they had been walking for hours when they finally came to a stop in front of two trucks filled with armed men. Eugene looked at Cassandra with wide eyes. This was probably just a small proportion of their real army. "Looks like you got the boys all together." Cassandra felt the need to make a snarky comment.

The man who had captured them glared at her as if he wanted to smack her. "You play tough as long as you want darling." He snarled, pushing her over to one of the trucks.

Cassandra was seated between two gruff-looking men who seemed rather eager to shoot her, or worse. To her demise, the man she just had a verbal dispute with, took a seat just in front of her. She swears to god, if they were alone he would probably be grinning like a damn fool, but they just glared at each other. Cassandra's upper lip started to twitch, something she did when she was angry. She hated it. It made it so much easier for people to read her.

They came to a stop and Cassandra was pushed out of the truck. "We'll walk from here so they don't hear us comin'." A bald man with said.

Eugene and Cassandra were knelt down in front of Alexandria's gate beside Dwight, she had learned his name was.

Dwight raised Abraham's machine gun in the air and pressed the trigger. He let a dozen shots go off in the air before he yelled, "Wake up you lazy fucks!"

There was a moment of complete silence Rick and a few others rushed out to the gates. Rick glared at Cassandra as if it was all her fault. "Who are you and what do you want?" He asked coldly.

Dwight smirked, "Does it really fucking matter? You let us in right fucking now or I'll blow this bitch's brains out." He grabbed Cassandra by her hair and forced her up on her feet. Dwight was a head taller than her and could clearly see everything that was going on.

She looked Rick in his eyes with a deadly glare and did something totally unexpected. She shot her head back right into Dwight's nose. There was a small cracking noise and a loud 'fuck' before his grip loosened. Cassandra was pushed down to the ground but she turned around and bit him right in the crotch. He screamed and pulled at her hair but she only proceeded to bite harder until blood stained her face.

It distracted them long enough for Andrea to take out five of them nearest to Cassandra. They all started to panic once they realized what the hell was going on and started shooting wildly at everything that moved past the gate. Cassandra took cover behind a tree until the shooting finally died out. She peaked out from behind the tree and breathed with relief as she saw that they had retreated

Rick, Holly, Eugene and a few others were rushing out the gate as Cassandra stepped forward

"You're alive!" Eugene exclaimed with shock as he rushed over to her to cut her bindings off. "That was one hell of a maneuver."

She smiled a little, flattered that someone actually thought she did something good for once. Though she looked like she would throw up, she continued to smile weakly as she began to walk back into Alexandria.

"Wait!" Cassandra turned around, frowning. Rick rested his hand on his gun and looked down to the ground. "We need your help. We're going to the Hilltop to get help. We need to stop this... Negan." His eyes rested on hers as she looked away.

"Alright, but you owe me a day off." She muttered and went to the armory to grab a gun. She had no idea where her rifle had gone, but it was probably in someone else's hands by now.

When she came back to the gate everyone was already done and ready to go.

The road was bumpy and the floor of the van was extremely uncomfortable. Beside her sat Carl and Sophia and in front of her Glenn and Maggie had snuggled up against each other.

Later they stopped so everyone could get some sleep, but not even when everyone was asleep could she shut her eyes. Glenn was snoring like a pig, but maybe she was just hypersensitive.

An hour passed without any kind of commotion but then she suddenly heard a low thump. She sat still and listened closely. Nothing for a moment, but then there was a loud gunshot. Everyone jolted up and rushed out of the van. Cassandra was pushed out too, in the hurry.

When Cassandra came to her senses they were surrounded by at least 50 or 100 men. She was shocked and stared with her mouth wide open. Her heart was beating like never before and she began sweating. It was different being surrounded by humans. They were smart, they could run as fast as her, and they could do much worse things than the walkers could.

A man stepped out from the crowd. He was grinning like crazy. "Oh boy, we pissin' our pants yet? Which one of you pricks are the leader?"

One of the men pointed at Rick, "This is the one."

Rick glared at the man as he stepped in front of him, "Rick right? I'm Negan."

Cassandra's heart started beating faster. His name was eating its way into her head. As soon as she heard him speaking, she knew someone was going to die. He had it in his voice. Madness.

She felt like she wasn't going to make it out alive. She felt as this was her last day on earth. She didn't feel sad or worried. She closed her eyes, imagining a bullet going through her brain. Free. At last.