Surviving the Dead
"Look at me." Rick tells Dwight, "Why?"
"'Cause I want it stopped. I want Negan dead."
"So why don't you kill him?" Rick asked
"Can't just be me. They're all Negan."
"That girl you murdered she had a name." Tara says to him walking over to him bending to look at him, "Her name was Denise, and she was a doctor. And she helped people."
"I wasn't aiming for her." Dwight tells her and Daryl moved past her pinning him to the wall holding a knife to him
"Do it. Do it." Tara said to Daryl
"You wanna end it this way you go ahead. I'm sorry. I am. I know you want to." Dwight pointed out to Daryl
"He could just be here to see if you were here." Rick says to him
"We can't trust him." Michonne adds
"He owned me. But not anymore. What I did, I was doing it for someone else. She just got away. So now I'm here. So are you because of her." Dwight tells Daryl
"Do it!" Tara pushes
"There's another choice." Dwight pleaded, I walked up to him slowly putting my hand on his arm and I feel him tense
"Daryl."
"Daryl, you knew her." Tara says to her
"Negan trusts me. We work together, we can stop him. You knew me then, and you know me now. You know I'm not lying. I'm not."
"Do it. Do it!" Tara demanded, Daryl still holds his knife at Dwight
"Daryl" I said and again and after a few minutes he puts his knife down and hands it to me
"They have Sasha, if she's even alive." Rosita tells us and we all look at her
"Why didn't you say something? He could be our only chance to get her back." Jesus says to her
"Because I don't trust him. But I trust Daryl."
"Negan's coming soon. Tomorrow. Three trucks probably. 20 Saviors and him." Dwight tells us and I do an internal groan, "I can slow them down, bring some trees down in the road, buy a little time for you guys to get ready. If you can take them out, that's where we start. You kill them, I'll radio back to the Sanctuary."
"The Sanctuary?" I asked him
"Where Negan lives. That's what they call it. I can radio back to them and say everything's okay. You drive the trucks back, and I can lead you right inside, and, with the right plan, we can wipe out the rest. Check to see if your friend's still alive. Then, we get the workers on our side, build our numbers up, and go from outpost to outpost and end this." He explained
"I hate to admit it but it's a good plan" I tell Rick
"Keep talking."
The gate as they shut after Dwight leaves, "We just started it-the whole thing." Rick tells Daryl as me, Michonne and Jesus stand behind them
"If he's lyin', I'm gonna kill him real slow. When this is done, I don't give a damn if he's sorry. I will kill that son of a bitch."
"If he's lying, this is already over." Rick says and walks away from him coming up to me, "Sam, I want you and Jesus to take Judith to the Hilltop, she'll be safe there."
"Jesus and Enid can take her there, I'm staying" I said to him and Jesus looked at me
"What?"
I turned and faced him grabbing his hand, "I have to be here, they need me."
"But.."
"I'll be fine, I got Daryl here, I got Rick, I'll be okay" I tell him and he puts his hand on my face
"Promise me you will be safe."
I kissed him and leaned my forehead against his, "I promise, I still plan on marrying you." I say with a smile and he kissed my head then pulled me into a hug
Jesus POV...
"So we don't have Oceanside, but we have their guns. Negan has Sasha. Daryl wants us to trust Dwight. Rick wants us to stay here in case things go wrong so there's another card to play, another safe place the Saviors think they control. But he doesn't know that Gregory's gone that maybe he's telling them things that'll make them think something else." Maggie says to me and Enid as we stand in the study
"And it's all about to happen." I added
"You're thinking of leading the Hilltop over there to fight." Enid says to her
"I am. If Negan finds out they're planning something, they're gonna need help, even with those Scavengers on their side."
"Well, you'd have to decide right now, and it's a very tough decision." I mention to her with a smile
"Why are you smiling?" She asked me
"'Cause I'm glad you're the one making it for us."
"How do I?" She asked me
"I don't know. I just know you can." I answered and Judith coos, Maggie went to pick her up but Enid stopped her
"Let me take her. You take this." She hands her the pocket watch picks Judith up and leaves
"How's Sam doing?" She asked
"She's doing ok, at least that what she wants me to believe but I know she's scared, not just for Daryl but for everyone"
"You two planning on getting married after today?"
I chuckled and put my head down then looked at her, "I actually wanted to marry her yesterday night before me and Enid left, but she told me she wants you there," I tell her and she smiled, "She also said she doesn't want this battle to be the reason we do it, it takes the romance out of it."
"Sounds like her. Get her a ring?"
I chuckled, "No the jewelry store was closed" I tell her and she smiled
"Glenn got mine off a walker, I was a little weirded out to be honest but it came from him, and he knew I would want something to know that."
"I just don't feel right leaving her there, who knows what could happen." I said
"She'll be fine, she's got Daryl, when those two fight together nothing can stop them." She says and I nod my head
"She truly is amazing, that's why I love her."
"Rosita. Get into position. I'll signal you. And the wall's gonna hold?" Rick asked her from up on top of the gate
"It'll hold."
I look at Daryl as we hear vehicles approaching, he gave my hand a light squeeze and I went back to what we talked about earlier
"Sammie I want you to do me a favor."
I looked at him after I loaded my gun, "What's that?"
"If they try to take me again..."
"Daryl..
"Sammie, if they try taking me again, I want you to kill me" He tells me and I look at him
"Are you hearing yourself?"
"Listen," He says and puts his hands on my shoulders, "You are my baby sister and I love you, I would die to protect you, but I won't go back to that place again."
"Daryl you can't ask me to do that, please"
"It has to be you Sammie, I don't wanna leave ya but it's the only choice." He tells me wiping the tear that fell from my eye onto my cheek
"Ok"
"All points are covered. Every contingency is already met. I come armed with two barrels of the truth. A test is upon you, and I'm giving out the cheat sheet." We hear Eugene tell us over a mega phone as he rides on the back of a truck to the gate followed by the others, "H-Hello. I come salved with the hope that it is my dropped knowledge that you heed. Options are zero to none. Compliance and fealty are your only escape. Bottom-lining it - You may thrive, or you may die. I sincerely wish for the former for everyone's sake. The jig is up and in full effect. Will you comply, Rick?"
"Where's Negan?" Rick asked him
"I'm Negan."
After hesitation Rick looked at Rosita signaling her, she presses the button for the explosives and I turn my head squinting my eyes but nothing happens, I look at Daryl then suddenly the Scavengers pull their guns on us and both me and Daryl raised ours and we hear a truck door open and shut.
"You ever hear the one about the stupid little prick named Rick who thought he knew shit but didn't know shit and got everyone he that gave a shit about killed? It's about you. You're all gonna wanna put your guns down now." Negan tells him
"No one drops anything."
"You push me, and you push me. And you push me, Rick. You just tried to blow us up, right? I mean, I get me, my people. But Eugene? He's one of yours. And after what he did - He stepped up. You people are animals. Universe gives you a sign, and you just shove your finger right up its ass." He says sticking his middle finger in the air, "Dwight, Simon, chop-chop," He tells them and they get on the truck Eugene is on and start undoing the tie downs on a coffin, "So, you don't like Eugene anymore. You guys gotta like Sasha." He points out and my heart stops I do, too. Got her right here packaged for your convenience, alive and well. Now, I brought her so I wouldn't have to kill all of you, and not killing all of you could get complicated. See, I know there's a lot of firepower left in there, Rick. So I'm gonna make this simple. I want all the guns you've managed to scrape up. Yep, I know about those, too. I want every last grain of lemonade you got left. I want a person of your own choosing for Lucille. Daryl - Ooh, I gotta get me my Daryl back. I see you." Negan says to my brother and I step in front of him feeling Daryl grab my arm, "Ho-ly crap would you look at that, he's got a bodyguard" He chuckles then looks at each of us, "Now hold on, wait, is-is that your sister?" He asked and I looked at Daryl then back at Negan, "It totally is, I think she might have even bigger balls then you do Daryl." He smiled then looked back at Rick, And I want the pool table and all the pool cues and chalk. And I want it now or Sasha dies, and then all of you. Probably. C'mon, Rick. Just because I brought her in a casket doesn't mean she has to leave in it." Rick stays quiet, You know what? You suck ass, Rick. You really do. I don't want to have to kill her, but that's exactly what you're gonna make me do."
"Let me see her." Rick tells him
"Oh. All right. Just give me a second. I might have to get her up to speed. You can't hear shit inside this thing," He says and bangs his bat on the coffin, "Sash. You're not gonna believe this crap." He opens the coffin and suddenly Sasha comes out, but it's not Sasha, it's a dead person wearing her body, "Holy goddamn!" Negan yells as they fall to the ground as she tries to eat him, Carl started shooting his gun at the Scavengers up top and both me and Daryl started taking out the ones around us then soon others joined in.
"Sammie come on follow me!" Daryl tells me and we make our way out from behind the car and continue shooting
"Duck!" I yell at him and he does so as I shoot one of the Scavengers I saw coming towards him out of the corner of my eye. He shoots his gun killing another person then runs over taking theirs and we take cover shooting out when we could, "Cover me!" I tell him and he did so as I moved put from behind and went over to behind a house and we killed three more.
"Sammie behind ya!" Daryl yells but before I could turn around and react I hear grunting then turned around seeing Jesus slicing the guys throat
"I got your back beautiful" He tells me and I smiled then Maggie walked up
"Let's do it"
We walk down the street and I see Shiva attacking one of the Saviors then King Ezekiel and his people come in as well as Carol, "End these Saviors and their accomplices! Alexandria will not fall, not on this day!"
"Phalanx out, third group, now!" Maggie tells the people of the Hilltop
"Move up! Now we got your backs!" Daryl adds and we kill and kill a few more, I ended up splitting off from Jesus then I feel someone knock my gun out of my hands, I look to see it was a Scavenger, I whipped around punching him in the face then kneed his gut but suddenly he grabbed my arm when I went to swing again and knocked me to the ground, he holds up his gun up and was about to shoot when Shiva attacked him, she looked up at me when she was done and I smiled
"Thanks girl" I tell her and she runs off again and I grabbed his gun and mine then met back up with Jesus
Suddenly I see a flare go up then the area gets covered in smoke and we all move behind the RV, "Their falling back"
"Eduardo, Bertie, between the houses- Cover the gate!" Maggie tells them and they leave, "Let's go." She says to me and Jesus and we move out as well and head out into the woods, as we walk through we hear a growling and raise our guns but we stop, Sasha was moving towards us, Jesus looked at me and Maggie then moves over taking her to the ground, tears sting my eyes and I look at Maggie who is barely trying to hold it in and I put my hand on her shoulder
"You don't have to do it" I tell her and she looks at me
"I do" She says and pulls out her knife walking over then hesitated before killing her, she stands up and I walk over to her her, she pulls me into a hug and we both cried for our lost friend, our family member.
Maggie POV...
"Do you think Sasha did that herself?" Rick asked me
"I don't know how, but I know she did."
"She gave us a did. You made the right decision to come." He says to me
"The decision was made a long time ago, before any of us knew each other, when we were all strangers who would have just passed each other on the street before the world ended. And now we mean everything to each other. You were in trouble. You were trapped. Glenn didn't know you, but he helped you. He put himself in danger for you. And that started it all-From Atlanta, to my daddy's farm, to the prison, to here, to this moment now not as strangers-as family because Glenn chose to be there for you that day a long time ago. That was the decision that changed everything. It started with both of you, and it just grew to all of us to sacrifice for each other to suffer and stand, to grieve, to give, to love, to live to fight for each other. Glenn made the decision, Rick. I was just following his lead."
A/N: Oh that hit my heart hard *sniffles and wipes away tears* I hope everyone is enjoying the story so far and again positive and negative voices are welcome but mainly just enjoy.
