Phillip could not hide his annoyance at seeing Michonne and Rick walk up to the car. Tyrese, who was going to be driving, did notice. And he felt bad for all those involved.

He and Sasha had originally been at Woodbury, a nice town with about 75 people that had been run by Phillip and Michonne. There was no 'rent' bullshit. Woodbury had been about family, honor and hard work. Everyone shared in guard duty, cooking, even mowing of grass when necessary. Tyrese knew that Phillip and Michonne were striving to give people back the society that they had come from, before everything went to hell and back.

Then Andrea showed up from God knows where. She claimed she had been thrown out of some other group at a prison, and had been left to die. Phillip and Michonne took her in, fed her and nursed her back to health. Andrea should have just become another member of Woodbury society.

Tyrese remembered that it was Sasha that first said she saw Phillip and Andrea kissing. Tyrese warned her not to say anything to Michonne and to his knowledge, she didn't. But it became clear that Michonne found out somehow. And it didn't help that Andrea bonded with Lizzie, Phillip's daughter from a first marriage.

And then came the fire.

Yes, someone set fire to Woodbury and walkers got in. They all had to evacuate in a hurry and it was Andrea that suggested trying to get back in at the prison. Tyrese could honestly say, that if he could find better, he would take Sasha and Karen and leave this damned place!

Things really went wrong when they arrived. Something either had happened with Rick and Andrea or Andrea and Darryl, Tyrese could never figure it out. But Rick's cool welcome mixed with vile hostility, was clear to everyone from the start. And Tyrese felt that Rick could sense the problems between Phillip and Michonne and took advantage.

But he didn't dare say that shit to Rick, that was for damned sure!

Meanwhile, Michonne walked to the passenger side of the car and started to open the door, when Phillip stopped her, his hand touching hers. It was all she could do not to jump out of her skin!

"I thought we could sit in the back." he suggested.

"I need to be able to see clearly, so I can tell Tyrese where to go." Michonne replied, shaking off his hand and opening up the door. Phillip could feel Rick's eye on him, but he ignored him and got in in the back, followed by Rick.

Tyrese started the car and soon, the gate opened. Michonne breathed a secret sigh of relief. She would just wait a bit, jump out of the car and run into the woods until she lost them. Then she would search for the wavy wall by herself.

The drove in silence for awhile and then something totally messed up happened.

Karen and Bob appeared in the road, caked with dirt and looking like living hell! Michonne's mouth dropped open as Tyrese squealed to a stop and he, Phillip and Rick jumped out of the car and hurried towards them.

Michonne realized she would only have one chance. She eased over into the driver's seat, started up the car, backed back and turned around! There had been a turn off back aways! She would turn down that road and lose them all forever!

Michonne found the side road, turned quickly and sped down the street! She began to relax the further she got away. Oh thank God! Thank God! Now she didn't have to worry about that soap opera she had just left! And God knows what Karen and Bob would've said about her!

Meanwhile, Phillip recovered from Michonne's appalling get away, by looking around, then catching Rick by surprise by pistol whipping him! Rick fell to the ground for a brief moment, before Tyrese backed Phillip up by pointing his own gun down at Rick!

Phillip looked down at Rick.

"We could have all lived together without any bloodshed or trouble. But no. You had to come in between my wife and me!"

Rick spit out some blood, then burst out laughing!

"I didn't come between shit! You messed up with Andrea! Hell, knowing you, you messed up before her! Forcing a woman like Michonne to be a mother to your psychotic brat!"

Phillip now grinned!

"Lizzie is a model child. Just because she put out your eye with that piece of glass, doesn't make her dangerous. Lizzie was just trying to protect Michonne."

Karen and Bob glanced at one another. Karen had always wondered how Rick lost his eye. She could've never imagined Lizzie had any involvement in that. Bob licked his lips. He needed a drink badly!

Tyrese cocked the hammer on his own gun.

"I'm tired of your 'rent' demands! And you had better keep that mongrel of yours away from my sister and Karen here!"

"Mongrel? I don't know who you could be talking about, Tyrese," Rick said calmly, "but if you all are planning to just beat me down and leave me out here, think again. Merle, Darryl and more than a few others, have been given special instructions on what to do if that happens."

Phillip's grin faded slightly. But not from surprise.

"I'm sure they have been told what to do in case we planned a 'coup'. But do they know what to do in the case of your running off with my wife?" Phillip asked.

Now Rick did look surprised! His jaw clenched.

"What the hell are you talking about? No one is going to believe that."

Tyrese snorted!

"The hell they won't! Everyone and their mama knows that not only are you hot for Michonne, but that Judith is..."

Tyrese stopped himself. Karen put a hand on his shoulder and Bob continued to really wish he had a drink!

Phillip turned away from Rick and confronted Tyrese.

"I hope you're not suggesting that Judith is Rick's? Because that is just not true. She's almost the spitting image of Lizzie when she was that age." Phillip said softly. Karen linked arms with Tyrese.

"No! No, he isn't saying any such thing, are you, Tyrese?"

Bob looked expectantly at Tyrese, expecting him to back down. But he didn't.

"Phillip, I am not trying to be disrespectful here. I'm just trying to point out another reason to get rid of him. We need to do more than just leave him out here. We need to make sure he can never come back to the prison. Our story about his running off with Michonne won't hold for long with Merle and Darryl." Tyrese said matter-of-factly.

"Uh guys?" Bob interrupted. "He's gone."

Phillip, Tyrese and Karen looked down and saw that during their argument, Rick Grimes had slipped off.

"DAMN!" Phillip screamed. "WE NEED TO FIND HIM NOW!"

Bob agreed as he followed after the three of them. They had sincerely fucked up and he wanted no part of it! HE was paying Rick rent with bottles of whiskey! But if Rick got back to the prison before them and got his men together, there would be no need for any of them to take their sorry asses back there!

Michonne didn't quite understand that in this reality, EVERYTHING was the opposite or backwards. So the road she was traveling on, was actually taking her back to the original road she had been on with the others!

Michonne recognized a few things and started to turn around, yet again, when she realized she should be seeing someone walking in the road. Where the hell did that group go anyway?

Michonne found herself slowing down to a crawl and looking in the woods from the driver's side. Had Tyrese, Bob and Karen been attacked? Should she stop and help?

No. She couldn't risk running into the Governor and Evil Rick. She turned away and looked face forward, when Rick quickly ran out of the woods, opened the passenger side car door and got in, slamming the door behind him.

He just as quickly pointed his gun at her.

"Start driving. I'll let you know when to stop." he smiled and Michonne could see lust shining bright in his one eye. Oddly, she found herself wondering if the real Rick would ever look at her like that in their lifetime?

Michonne shook off such ridiculous thoughts and did as she was told. Driving until she was told to stop.

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