Abraham decided it was best just to be silent. Michonne didn't seem very talkative. He was driving the RV in what he knew to be was the direction of Wayward Pines. They would know for sure when they reached a tunnel.

Michonne, for her part, had already pushed her lovemaking with Abraham to the corner of her mind. When they found this tunnel, they would in all probability be taken prisoner in some way. If the Governor's babbling could be believed. And the closer they got to this mysterious town, the more Michonne believed that something had to be amiss. After all, the Governor killed himself rather than go back there.

"Here it is. Up ahead." Abraham said quietly. Michonne set down the map and touched Abraham's arm. He looked at her hand, then at her.

"This is just a step. A step towards helping Carl." he told her. Michonne nodded to him, then slowly removed her hand. Abraham slowed down right before they got to the entrance to the tunnel.

"Someone knows we're about to drive in here." Michonne said in a soft voice. Her gut was now telling her maybe this wasn't a good idea!

"Well maybe this 'someone' can help Carl." Abraham said, his mouth tightening.

"We've come this far. Let's go." she said, sitting back in the front passenger seat. Abraham took a deep breath and drove the vehicle into the darkness of the tunnel. Nothing happened for a few moments.

Then a car appeared to be coming straight at them in their lane!

"Christ!" Abraham yelled, blowing his horn.

"Move over into the other lane!" Michonne yelled.

It was after they uttered those words, that a gaseous substance began to seep into the vehicle! Abraham stopped the RV and he and Michonne got out of their chairs and dropped to the ground to avoid the fumes. But it was for naught, as they both lost consciousness.


Abraham was the first to wake up in a hospital. He blinked hard. He actually recognized the nurse standing over him!

"Cousin Pam! How the hell are ya!" he boomed, trying to sit up. Pam Pilcher smiled tolerantly. Good God in hell! It was cousin Abraham Ford. She and her brother David were related to Abraham through their mother but...well...David couldn't abide Abraham or any of his siblings. He said they were trash.

Pam had always liked Abraham well enough but he did bully David a lot when they were children. And David had already told her he wanted Abraham thrown the hell out of Wayward Pines!

David walked in just then, all 5"5 of him. He cleared his throat.

"Abraham, welcome to Wayward Pines. We'll give you a little food and send you on your way."

"What? What the fuck are you talking about? There's walkers out there eating people and this place seems pretty damned nice! Are you in charge around here? Where is the woman I was with?"

Meanwhile, Sheriff Ethan Burke was in Michonne's room. She was starting to wake up. He had never liked the practice David and Pam had of tricking people here. Most people wanted to stay of course, considering what the world was like now. But many resented a lot of rules that came with living in this town, and decided to take their chances on the open road with the undead.

Michonne opened her eyes and saw a dark haired man, wearing a police uniform, standing over her. Her eyes left his and looked around. Where was she? In some kind of hospital?

Back in Abraham's room, he was becoming kind of belligerent!

"So you all knew that this shit was going to happen? And you had this place built and didn't come for my family and me? Why?"

"Well, Abraham," David said primly, "you have always been quite the survivor. We figured you'd be fine on your own."

Abraham stared at David for a short while, before breaking into a grin and pulled his much shorter cousin, in a headlock! He then gave him a noogie!

"You always were a scrappy fuck!" Abraham grinned.

"Pam, get him off of me! Call Sheriff Burke in here for the love of God!" David yiped. Ethan left Michonne and walked into Abraham's room. There had not been much to smile about, since the world had went crazy. But he could not help grinning!

"What's going on in here?" Ethan asked carefully. Pam had already pulled David out of Abraham's grip.

David glared at Abraham, while Pam explained.

"This man is a relative of ours. We're going to give him some food and supplies and send him on his way." she said.

"And the woman he was with?" Ethan asked. But God help him, he knew...

David answered.

"I think she'd make a good addition to the town."

"Whoa! Wait a minute! Michonne and I are together now. We came here from another town looking for help. A child is hurt..." Abraham began.

"There are children where you come from?" David asked, now having some use for his much despised cousin.

"Yeah. Actually a congress woman runs it. I don't vote so I didn't know who the hell she was. But her name is Deanna Monroe."

David nodded.

"She's from Ohio." he noted. "And you say she runs a community?"

"Yes in Alexandria, in D.C.."

"Okay, Abraham," Pam interrupted, "then why aren't you still there?"

"Because we need help and someone told us where this place was. He wore an eyepatch." Abraham said, now looking at his cousins hard. David looked to Pam. Pam looked to David and Abraham could tell they knew just who the hell he was talking about!

So did Ethan. He eased out of the room and returned to Michonne's. She was now sitting up.

"Maybe you should just lie back. You inhaled a lot of gas." Ethan noted.

"Why were we gassed? And who are you?"

"I'm the Sheriff of Wayward Pines. Your friend is in the other room getting reacquainted with his relatives." Ethan told her.

Michonne's eyes widened!

"Relatives? Abraham has family here?"

"I guess so. Though they want him to leave. They don't feel the same about you, however. You might want to leave with your friend anyway." Ethan said in a tone that seemed to brook a warning.

"How did you find us?" Ethan asked.

"A piece of shit told us."

"A piece of shit with any eyepatch? His name was Brandon?"

"He called himself 'The Governor' and I have watched him kill and maim his way across this country. He killed himself when Abraham and myself forced him to bring us here."

"Brandon's dead?" Ethan asked, a little disbelieving. He wasn't actually surprised to learn any of this bad stuff about him. The man had had a bad vibe to him.

"Yes. And I never would have thought him the suicidal type," Michonne admitted, "can I see Abraham?"

"Yeah, he's in this room over here. Can you walk?" Ethan asked. Michonne nodded, surprised at how good she did actually feel. She followed Ethan out of the room and took note of how unworried the medical staff she did see, seemed.

"Michonne!" Abraham called out, reaching out his hand to her. Michonne hurried in and clasped it, catching a glimpse of the street outside. She pulled away and looked down. This looked like a real community. More real than Alexandria. She now looked at the other two people she had not been introduced to.

David spoke.

"Hello, Michonne. I'm Dr David Pilcher. I am the head of Wayward Pines. This is my sister Pam."

"They're my first cousins on my mama's side!" Abraham beamed. Michonne could tell that David and Pam, weren't especially fond of that advertisement.

"It's nice to meet you all. Did Abraham tell you about our medical emergency?"

"Yes, and we want to go back with him, by helicopter, to tend to this young man. You should stay and rest." David advised.

"Helicopter? You have a helicopter?" Michonne asked.

"We have quite a bit." Pam said, eyeing her. What Michonne didn't know is that when she had been unconscious, they had done a full medical exam on her. She was still in her child bearing years and had had one child already, from what Pam could tell. This Michonne would make a good, fertile addition to Wayward Pines. Now...who to pair her up with?

Pam glanced at Abraham. She could sense something between them, but since David couldn't stand the sight of their cousin, he couldn't father any children by this woman. At least he couldn't and stay living here.

"David, Pam, Michonne and Abraham need to be clued in on just how things here work. No tricks. If you don't tell them, I will." Ethan said, just as his phone rang. He answered it and walked out of the room.

"How the hell is a cellphone working around here?" Abraham asked. Michonne frowned and then eyed Pam.

"We're here because someone lead us here."

"Yes, 'Brandon'. He was my husband for a short time." Pam sniffed. Michonne looked to Abraham, and Abraham gaped at his cousin!

"Why the hell would you marry that piece of shit? You know he was a murderer? A mass one at that!"

"Did you throw him out of here? Did he kill someone here?" Michonne asked. David walked over to Michonne and patted her arm.

"None of that is important now. Look, let's get the two of you settled in, rest a little bit and then we'll make our way to Alexandria." he told her.

"Doctor, I don't think there's much time. I would feel better if we could go now." Michonne said.

"It takes time," Pam said, "to get the supplies together. And it's not a big helicopter. There will only be room for myself, the pilot, my brother here and the patient we bring back."

"Whoa! You can't treat him where he is?" Abraham asked.

"We can't take the chance that this young man will need more than we can provide in his setting," David said, "and of course we'll need you to convince your people that we're not there to harm them."

"But only one of you can go." Pam said, looking at Michonne. Michonne didn't believe their story, but told herself that Carl's getting help was all that counted. She walked over to Abraham.

"Go with them. I'll be fine here." she told him. Besides, Michonne kept thinking about the walkers that had watched her make love to Abraham and what the Governor had said. If these people were breeding a new kind of walker, she wanted to find that out.


Meanwhile, back in Alexandria, Carl recovered. And Enid admitted that Carl had done some unknown drug and had a reaction to it!

Jessie was relieved but Rick was pissed off! Not only with his son, but when he found out that Michonne and Abraham had taken off with the Governor to get help for Carl!

What if the Governor had killed them both?

And Carol told him that Jessie had blocked her and Michonne from seeing Carl. Did Michonne think that that had been his idea as well?

Jessie was setting the table for supper. Judith had been fed and was sleeping. Carl was recovering upstairs, though he probably wasn't sleeping soundly. Rick had let him know that when he was better, he would be punished. Sam was also around here someplace.

And she could feel her husband's anger. She set a plate down and looked at Rick.

"What's wrong now?" she asked testily.

"What's wrong 'now'? Carol told me you kept her and Michonne out of here. Michonne is now off someplace battling the Governor..."

"Michonne is off looking for medical help for Carl. Or so she told everyone."

Rick, who had been sitting down, stood up.

"What does that mean?" Rick asked coolly.

"She's with Abraham. There is something between them. Everyone can see it. For all we know they may never come back. Let's just be grateful that Carl is okay."

"Jessie...what in the living hell is the matter with you? Michonne was blocked from coming in here and she knew we had no help for Carl. The Governor, who was probably lying, told her he could take her to find somebody!"

"You don't know that's true!"

"I know Michonne. And if her and Abraham aren't back by tomorrow night, I'm going out looking for them." Rick told his wife before leaving the kitchen. Jessie stared after her husband and refrained from throwing the pot of spaghetti she made in celebration of Carl's coming through his 'illness'.

Now that was all spoiled to hell and back. And it was all Michonne's fault! For all any of them knew she had planned this, knowing Rick would come looking for her. Jessie drummed her fingers along the counter top. She wasn't putting up with this crap! Not for one minute!

Jessie turned and walked out of the back, kitchen door. Her destination was Father Gabriel's church.


Father Gabriel and Morgan were cleaning up a new act of vandalism that had happened inside of the church this time. The words 'Pussified Priest' were spray painted on a wall of the small building. Father Gabriel was struggling to hold his tears in check, when he glanced out of a window, then stopped what he was doing.

"Morgan," he said quietly, "she's back."

Morgan looked out of the same window and saw Jessie Grimes walking towards the building. He looked at Father Gabriel.

"Jessie is a very unhappy woman, Father."

"Morgan," Father Gabriel hissed, "you had carnal relations with another man's wife! And that said man is crazy!"

"Rick is my friend. I was in a weak way and it just happened. It won't again." Morgan said as Jessie entered the room.

"Father Gabriel? I was hoping to speak to Morgan here alone."

Father Gabriel said nothing but nodded. He left the church, hoping that nothing ungodly would take place in his absence!

"Jessie, why are you here?" Morgan asked in a no nonsense voice.

"Rick is going after Michonne. I told you he loves her! I can't...I don't know what to do!" she wailed. Morgan put down the cloth he had been holding and walked over to touch her shoulders.

"Rick loves you. Michonne is someone he has been in battle with. They have a connection. It is not love."

Jessie ignored his words and walked up to Morgan, kissing him deeply on the mouth.

Meanwhile, Noah and Glenn were on patrol. They passed by Father Gabriel, who looked as if he had been crying again!

"Did you spray paint the inside of the church this time?" Glenn asked casually.

"Hey! I wouldn't do that to the inside of any church! Even if it does belong to a bitch ass priest." Noah sniffed.

The two men passed the side of the church, then stopped abruptly when they heard a thump! They both looked towards a window where they saw a naked ass!

"What the hell!" Glenn breathed. Noah looked back at Father Gabriel, who was walking away from the church. He had to have known two people were in there going at it! But what two people?

"Go around to the opposite window," Glenn said, "so we can get a look!"

He and Noah ran around the back of the church and to the opposite side of the tell tale window. They then peered in through another pane of glass...

"Holy shit!" Noah hissed. "That's Morgan! Morgan and Jessie!"

Glenn pulled Noah away from the window.

"You can't say anything about this!"

"We're not going to tell Rick?"

"Tell Rick what? That his wife is cheating on him with his friend? No. And I know I am not telling Maggie a thing about it!" Glenn huffed.

"Why? You don't think Rick should find this out?" Noah protested.

"This is a small community, Noah. Either someone else will tell Rick or he will find out on his own. But Maggie is a 'Michonne and Rick' fan. And I don't want her involved in this."

"Yeah, I can kind of see your point," Noah admitted, "someone could end up dead once this gets out."

"Yeah." Glenn agreed. He then looked up and around.

"What?" Noah asked.

"You don't hear that?"

Noah frowned and looked up as well. He then heard and saw it.

A helicopter was coming towards Alexandria.