Chapter 21

Maggie and Gareth stared at each other for a moment. Maggie was the one that broke the silence.

"It wasn't your fault! What happened to Peanut, that was not on you! It was on Sasha! I was angry and sad, but I took it out on the wrong person! You did nothing wrong!"

Gareth looks at her for a moment.

"I did wrong! I did a lot of things wrong!" he replied. "I've killed countless people and should have died that night at the church! Because I got to live, you ended up tortured, humiliated and lost our baby! How can you say that I was not my fault?"

Maggie walks over to him and kisses him.

"I love you, if you weren't there I would have probably killed myself not soon after Glenn had cheated on me. Because of you I found a reason to keep going on. And Peanut would have never existed if it wasn't for you" she replies. "And her death is sad, but the two month she was in me made me happier than I was ever before in my life. And that's because of you! You have done for me more good than bad. And… we can try having children later. Maybe when we are married, on our wedding night"

"You still want to marry me?" he asked.

Maggie nodded and planted her lips on his. She put her arms around his neck and he put his around her waist.

The following weeks Maggie and Gareth slowly moved on in live. Peanut got an own grave in the cemetery of Alexandria.

People started to recover from the recent heard-attack and Sasha going nuts: Alexandria was ruled now by a council, the members were Rick, Daryl, Carol, Heath, Denise, Abraham and Gareth, who decided over the things that happened at the Safe-Zone. Maggie also had an idea to start farming next year. Canned goods won't last forever, after all. Eugene found a way of making bullets out of scrap-metal, which was a blessing for the quickly out-running supply of ammunition. Rosita basically became the mother of Emma and met a nice guy named Mark. Rick had a somewhat stable relationship with Jessie, but it was unsure how serious it was. Abraham and Francine (I think she is the TV- version of Holly, just renamed like they did with Chris/Gareth) seemed to be in love as well and often spend long times keeping watch or making the walls stronger.

Maggie was coming home from visiting Peanut's grave and found Gareth in the kitchen, cooking something.

"What are you cooking?" asked Maggie.

"Some lasagna, I thought we should celebrate Kay's and Tara's engagement" he explained.

"No way!" Maggie exclaimed. "Who proposed?"

"Kaylee did it. She did in the living room while they were watching Tara's favorite love-comedy"

"Where are they? I want congratulate them!"

"I don't think you should, they went up to 'celebrated' in their bedroom"

"Ow, I wouldn't like to interrupt them. How about we would go upstairs and have a own little 'celebration'?" asked Maggie, with a seducing voice.

"I would love to, but I'm in the middle of something" he said.

"Hmm, well let me help you with the lasagna, if you help me in our bedroom" said Maggie.

"Sound like a good deal!" he replied. "What are we anyway celebrating?"

"You being my cute fiancé " she replied.

A while later after making the lasagna, putting it in the fridge and having a good fuck:

Gareth and Maggie laid naked in bed. She had her head against his chest and had her eyes closest. Gareth was breathing slightly. Maggie was not the first woman he had a sexual relationship, but every time after they had sex it felt like something special. He loved every part of her: the soft brown hair he liked bury his head in and smell her scent, the eyes that suited her last name perfectly, her whole body that was just stunning, and more private parts he liked to visit with his tongue. But while looking at her, he saw the bruises that were still present, fainted, but there.

"Hey, Maggie, you awake?" asked Gareth his fiancé.

"Yeah, just enjoying the pillow" she replies, keeping her head on his chest and eyes closed.

"I was just thinking, should we take those jobs as recruiters that Aaron and Daryl offered?"

"Could be interesting, why are you asking?" she replies.

"Just the idea of you, me and a RW for a few weeks" he said.

"I like that idea, but it is not exactly a holiday" she replied.

"Yeah it is dangerous, but on the other hand we could use some time for ourselves without Kay or Tara being in the way. And we know what it's like to be out there, we're not like Eric"

That came out sounding a little wrong. Eric was a good man, but he just wasn't made for the outside world. The poor man's death in the hands of Sasha had made the entire community angry to her. She was dead, but people did not want her grave at the cemetery. Aaron had been pretty quiet ever since his fiancés death. It must have been shocking to propose to him and not long after getting shot in the head.

"Mhhm, you're right, but I'm really not the mood of thinking about that now" she said, giving a grin.

"And in what mood are you then?" asked Gareth.

"In the mood in which you'll grab me by my butt, put me under you and give me a second good fuck, before we have dinner with our friends to celebrate their engagement"

"I think I'm in that mood as well" he replied, quickly rolled her under himself and started. Maggie put her arms around his neck and pulled him into a kiss. Soon he positioned himself between her legs and did what he had done already several times before, but that was still as good and gorgeous as always.

No matter what would happen, they would never again let anything come between them (well a condom is an exception) and turn them on each other. They would hold on each other, no matter what.

This story is not over! This seems like the end but is not! There so much ahead!

SPOILERS: I plan bringing the saviors, maybe even the whisperers! And should Gareth get Glenn's fate from the comics? Answer please in the reviews!