A/N SORRY THE UPDATE TOOK SO LONG, BUT I HAVE TWO YOUNG CHILDREN AND I LOOK AFTER MY GRANDPARENTS SOME TIMES I JUST CANT FIND TIME TO WRITE. BUT HERE IT IS HOPE YOU LIKE IT.

Kneeling bound and gagged with guns to their heads Rick and Daryl watched as Shane from one side of the room to the other. Rick's blood boiled with feelings of betrayal. "See Rick, if you knew how to control your people this one here.." Shane pulled Emery's head back pulling at her hair. "Well she never would of led the two of you into this mess. And me and Andrea would of just slipped away."

As he finished his sentence Andrea walked into the room. Her eyes immediately fell on Rick. She'd always liked him and harbored no ill will toward him. Nor did she blame his for the events that led her to part ways with him. Shane on the other hand believed all the blame for his current problems started and ended with Rick.

"If you would of just been man enough none of this would be happening." Shane paced around the room with his goons watching his every move. Rick watched and with every step Shane took the pieces began to fall into place. All the things that went missing from camp. The people coming and going with out a single person noticing. Shane had been helping these people for months.

"Now that you know the truth I can't just let you walk back to your camp. And I don't think you'll be happy here. So what do I do with you? My men seem to really enjoy Emery's company, so she can stay. But you two aren't welcome." Shane nodded to one of the men. Pushing the tip of his gun to Ricks head the man cocked his gun. "We'll offer for everyone else to join us, those who chose not to, well there's a whole large enough for them out back."

Nodding once again to the other man Shane had Andrea taken out of the room. She had long ago been brain washed by him and nothing he did was wrong in her eyes. Shane stopped next to Emery and made her stand. Removing the gag from her mouth he tired to kiss her. Turning her check to him she kneed him. Shane feel to the ground and the man hold the gun to Rick's head turned and shot Daryl in leg causing him to fall.

"Hey!" Emery yelled and tried to go to Daryl as he cussed under his gag. Shane got back to his feet and back handed Emery causing her to fall to the floor. With all three of them on the ground in one convenient place Shane held his gun up.

"I'm done playing games with you people." Shane cocked his gun as his goon walked to his side. Daryl leaned over Emery hoping to protect her from what was to come. Rick watched as Shane's finger slowly pulled back on the trigger.

BANG! THUD! The sound of glass and wood breaking filled the air in between the sound of gun fire. T-Dog and Glen broke through the window behind Shane and tackled him and his goon. As soon as they realized it, Shane and the man left the room. T-Dog flipped the table up and shot back as the sound of bullets filled the air. Glen made quick work of cutting the three lose.

Once free Rick and Glen joined T-Dog firing back at Shane and his men. "Take Daryl and get out of here!" Rick yelled to Emery as they created a diversion. Emery helped Daryl to his feet and the retreated out the door away from the gun fire. Once he saw that they were out of the room Rick sent Glen and T-Dog to follow Daryl and Emery. The last one out Rick tried to catch a glimpse of Shane. With no luck he was sure that Shane was still alive, and wasn't going to just let them go.

The five of them ran through the woods as quickly as possible. Only looking back to be sure there was no one following them. Once at camp Rick ordered every one inside and locked the building down. Shane would be coming after them, and he was never one to be known for his patients. "What the hell was that Shane?" Glen asked trying to catch his breath.

Hershel hurried to Daryl removing the bullet and closing the wound. "Yea." Rick answered looking around the room filled with people relying on him to keep them safe. How was he so post to do that. His right hand man had turned on him. The person he trusted with all the secrets of their building, and all his back up plans if something should ever go wrong, the person he trusted to look after his wife and child if something should happen to him, had just tried to kill him.

"We have to kill him, we have to end this now, once and for all." T-Dog looked at Rick for an answer. Rick didn't have at that moment. Going back to that place wasn't going to work. Shane would be more than prepared for that. Staying there and waiting for him to come knock on the door wasn't an option either. He didn't know how many people Shane had, nor how many weapons he had.

"We put people on guard, wait for them to show up, kill them as they come." Glenn suggested.

"He will have thought of that. Plus he knows every weakness this place has. He knows what kind of guns we have, how many people everything." Rick paced back and fourth trying to come up with some kind of where scenario he didn't lose all the people he cared for.

"Then we can't stay here." Maggie stood up in the middle of everybody. "We can't go there and fight him, and if we stay here were just waiting for him to come kill us."

"We can't just leave, we worked to hard to make this place a home to just give it up to him." Glen grew upset at the thought of losing everything they had worked for, risked their lives for.

"What if we just act like were leaving." Emery spoke standing and leaving Daryl's side. "He's got people watching this place. I over herd people talking. We load up, leave in a hurry, make him think we've given up. Him and his people will move in here." Emery looked at Rick as he approached her.

"They want to come here?" Rick asked.

"Yea, while they thought I was out I over herd Shane and his groupies talking. They were gonna kill us, come here and offer everyone the chance to stay and play nice, as they put it, those who didn't what to do things his way he was gonna kill." Emery looked back down at Daryl.

"You think he'd come after us if we just leave, run scared?" Daryl asked Rick.

"I don't know."

"The first thing he's gonna do is take this place. We keep watch, find out how many people he has, gather some guns and wait for the right time." Emery looked back to Rick.

"If we leave why even bother fighting, just let him have it." Hershel hated the thought of needless fighting.

"Because this is our home, and I don't that he won't come looking for us at some point. T-Dog's right we need to end this now." Rick paused for a moment and looked around the room. "Everybody gather your stuff, travel light, and don't talk. If he dose have people around I don't want them getting wind of our plan to come back." Rick took Lori and Carl by the arm leading them to the room they shared. The rest of the group slowly moved to their rooms. Once they were sure that Rick was serious they moved more quickly.

Alone in the room she now shared with Daryl Emery sat on the bed. Daryl hobbled around the room gathering his things when he noticed that Emery was not moving. Sitting on the bed next to her he took a deep breath. "Did they?" He spoke softly.

"No, not this time." She answered but never broke her stair from the floor. "Do you think this will work.?"

"I hope so." He turned to her. Looking at her with her hair down around her face all he wanted was to kiss her. They'd had no physical contact other than him holding her at night. He wanted to kiss her, feel her body next to his. But he didn't dare touch her in that manner until he was sure she was ready.

Emery turned to Daryl to catch him starring at her. She was replaying a moment in her mind. As Shane held the gun pointed at them, ready to pull the trigger and kill them, Daryl placed his body in front of hers. Even after he'd been shot he was still will to take another bullet for her. Tears began to form and stream down her cheeks. Daryl placed his hands on her shoulders.

"Don't cry, it's okay. I told you I wouldn't let anything happen to you." Daryl wondered if he'd done something wrong to make her upset. "Don't be scared, this will work..."

"It's not that." Emery cut him off. "You really do love me don't you?" She asked him wiping the tears from her face. Daryl nodded giving her funny look. "I love you too Daryl Dixon." Emery leaned in and kissed him softly on the lips. "I love you too."

HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT, AND TRUST ME SHANE IS GONNA GET HIS, JUST HAVEN'T FIGURED OUT HOW. I WILL TRY TO UPDATE VERY SOON. BUT IF I CAN'T THANKS FOR UNDERSTANDING.