Chapter 37

Hi! Last chapter had some ties with the comics, so is this one! Also there will be soon a major-character death!

A few days have passed from the meeting of the saviors. Gareth had tried to do the best he could to shake of the illusion Alexandria had given him of peace and a guaranteed happy ending. He could go back to his emotionless-state in which he was back at Terminus, but he didn't know how to be that person again and still love Maggie. Maggie. In the past few days the couple had given each other a cold shoulder, ever since the little argument they had the night after the encounter with the saviors.

"I'm going on a run with Eugene for more material to make bullets!" said Gareth as he walked past his wife in the living-room.

"Hmm" was the reply of Maggie Burton.

Gareth walked to the armory where he met Abraham.

"Chance of plan, Hannibal" muttered the big ginger. "I'll go with Eugene. I've been looking for his ass back on the road, I'm doing now here again"

Gareth clearly didn't want to argue with the big ginger and was assigned by Michonne on watch with Aaron at the south-gate.

"So how has it been ever since the wedding?" asked the gay man as the two men were on the tower as look-outs.

"Very good. Pretty much the same except that we have now both a ring on the finger" replied Gareth.

"That bad?" asked Aaron, sounding confused.

"Yeez, noooo! Things are not bad! They're as good as they can get in this world! Perfect! We still have sex when we want and have the same habits and are happy!" Gareth replied.

"Okay, why do you sound then that you have something bothering you?" asked the gay man.

"Well, me and Maggie had a sort of a fight a few nights back and we haven't really talked about it since then" explained Gareth.

"What was your fight about?" asked Aaron.

"Well, on the road we killed those hostiles and Maggie killed one by bashing his head with the back of her riffle and I was stupid enough to mention it in bed. She got pissed and asked me why I mention it. So I mentioned that I had this stupid fantasy about her being this perfect being. And then I said that this fantasy was shattered by her smashing that man's head. We sort of had an argument about how to live in this world and that I had gotten a little soft ever since arriving here" Gareth explained.

"That's your trouble?" asked Aaron.

Gareth nodded.

"You know me and Eric had much worst. Before the outbreak. He once thought I was cheating on him and planned to move out. Of course I wasn't cheating on him, the man I was visiting was my cousin from California whom I had never mentioned. I found him packing in our bedroom and we were able to settle things. Our relationship almost ended because one of us was too shy to talk about it. And don't worry, all relationships have fights or arguments at some point"

"Yes, I guess I should clear things with Maggie before…" Gareth was not able to finish his sentence as several shots were fired from outside the walls. The two man ran up the wall, and were joined within seconds by Rick, Daryl, Tobin, Carol and Heath.

On the other side of the wall were a band of four people who were holding one person. That person was Eugene. Abraham was nowhere to be seen, but one of the men was holding his M16.

"Who the he hell are ya?!" wondered Rick as he saw the four men.

"My name is Joshua and I have a message from Negan! From now on you'll be one of his colonies! From now on half of everything that you have is ours!" said the man that was holding Abraham's M16. He was in his 30's and had a half-burned face. Gareth knew his voice from somewhere, but was not sure where he had heard this before.

"So let us now in!" shouted Joshua.

"Why would I do that?" asked Rick the man.

"Listen, we'll come in whether ya want it or not! So do ya take the easy way or the hard way?" shouted Joshua back.

"Neither way!" replied Rick and gave a sign to the others. All seven of them started shooting at the men. Two of them fell dead on the ground, but Joshua and an other were able to get away. Eugene was able to get cover and wasn't hit by the bullets.

"Get Eugene!" said Rick to Heath and Daryl. The two men ran to the man with the mullet and got him back inside the community.

"Where the hell is Abraham?" asked Rick from Eugene.

"They got 'im! Just shot him in the head!" replied the man. "We were talking when a bullet flew just through his skull!"

"Fuck!" muttered Daryl.

"What do we do now?" wondered Gareth.

"I don't know" said Rick, clearly being concerned by the death of the big ginger. Abraham had become a leader-figure inside Alexandria and was practically a one-man-army. The saviors large were a threat if they were able to take him down like that.

Later, Mareth's and Taylee's residence:

Gareth was sitting on the bed in his' and his wife's bedroom, while Maggie walked in.

"Is it true?" she asked. "That Abraham is dead?" She had been helping out Denise in the infirmary with Mrs. Miller's condition, so she had heard the news pretty late from one of the original Alexandrian's, Erinm who usually gossiped around.

Gareth turned his head to see her.

"Yeah, Tobin and Daryl are picking up his body right now" he replied.

"Jesus…" she muttered to herself and sat next to him on the bed.

The two were silent for a moment, but Maggie broke the silence after a few minutes.

"It could have been you" she said silently.

"Hmm?"

"I said it could have been you! You said you were going with Eugene on that run, but he took ya place!" she said, a little louder.

"Maggie, I…" Gareth tried to say something, but she didn't let him finish his sentence.

"You would have died and I would have lost you in bad terms! Don't ya get it? The last time I would have seen ya would have been while we had some fuckin' argument about something that I could give a fuckin' shit about!" she continued, getting tears in he pulled her in an embrace and kissed her neck, trying to calm her down.

"Shhh…I'm still here, baby, I'm not dead" Gareth into her ear while her head was resting on his shoulder.

"Baby…" she muttered silently. "We're never gonna get a chance to make one, right?"

"What do you mean? Of course we're gonna have a chance" Gareth replied.

"No, we're not" she replied. "Even if we'll beat this thing, these saviors, there will be always something. Walkers, people, diseases, you really want a baby in the middle of this shit?"

"Maggie…" Gareth once again tried, but like usually she interrupted his sentence once again.

"No, please don't" she said. "Don't try to chance my mind, please"

"Okay, Maggie, okay" he whispered into her ear. "I don't need a baby to prove that I love you. Your opinion is my priority and I won't force you into anything"

Gareth kissed gently on the lips. Maggie replied into to it passionately and pulled him with her on the bed. The way she kissed him showed him that she wanted to go a little further. He broke off.

"Maggie, you just said that you don't want to make a baby so why should we take the risk?" he asked her.

"Gareth, eat my pussy or fuck my ass in that case! I love both of the variants and neither one of them makes me pregnant! Now get my jeans down before I chance my mind!"

Gareth clearly didn't need a second invitation. With the saviors being a much larger threat than they thought, they should enjoy these moments so long they had and not get into stupid arguments about how they saw the world.