A/N/ Sorry about the long wait I still don't have an Internet connection at my new house, I apologize for all the grammar errors I quickly had to do it on my phone. I hope you all enjoy though :)

Chapter 36

The sun was now low in the winter sky, nightfall was only a few hours away and the scouts looking for somewhere for Lexi and Daryl to hide out still hadn t returned. The entire settlement was full of doubt and fear, no one wanted their head on the chopping block for hiding two fugitives and with the day nearly gone it only meant that Negan's arrival was fast approaching.

"Rick this was a mistake, I should have left with Ali." Lexi said following Rick past the walls of Alexandria to check for the arrival of the scouting group.

"You have to trust me Alex, we will find somewhere for you and Daryl." Replied Rick confidently. "Once all this is over you ll look back and think it was all worth it."

Lexi didn't doubt that with Negan over powered her life, and the lives of many others, would become a lot easier but that didn't mean he'd go down with out a fight. In the time Lexi had known Negan the most striking trait he had was his inability to lose, in fact Lexi had never even witnessed him losing and she was almost certain that if he felt the power slipping from him that he would take everyone down with him.

"Rick, there s nothing!" A man leading a small group of people yelled from the edge of the woods, his voice cracking through the evening quiet. "Nothing that isn t completely obvious, I don t know what to suggest."

The truth of the situation hung in the air. Doomed. Every single person in Alexandria was now doomed because Daryl and Lexi were there and the inescapable fear of what was to come for Lexi clung to her chest. "Rick I need to leave, I won t have innocent people die because I m here." She couldn't hide the fear from her voice and the look on Rick's face showed he was finally registering the severity of the situation.

"Best place 't hide is in plain sight." Daryl mumbled from behind them, he'd followed them out of the gates worried Lexi was planning on running off into the woods alone. "Attic would be best bet."

"This is insane!" Lexi hissed setting into a jog to keep up with the two men as the made their way back into Alexandria. The so called plan was a joke, hide in Alexandria, that wasn t a plan that was suicide. "Don t you think he ll be searching all these houses top to bottom?!"

Daryl continued up the main road of Alexandria but Rick stopped and took Lexi s hands in his. "Daryl knows what he s doing. Trust him and trust me. Negan will not find you."

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Lucille hit down rhythmically onto the metal hood of the silver car, the clang of metal echoing through the quiet air. The hits stopped when Lucille was met by soft sun kissed skin.

"Sugar tits you are in a whole heap of trouble." Negan spoke with a smirk, his day had started as one hell of a shit storm but was ending on some what of a high note. "My men inform me that Lexi isn t with you," Leaning in close to Alison s face he grasped her throat tightly in his strong grip and forced her to look at him. "That leads me to believe she s with that fucker Rick, but why would you leave her there?"

Alison s dark eyes stayed locked on Negan s, her face devoid of any emotion. "I don t know where she is we split up the second we escaped." Her head snapped to the right the strength of the blow splitting her lip. "You think Rick would be alive if I had been there? Go see for your self he s alive."

The predatory look on Negan s face reminded Alison of a wolf who was guarding it s kill from other animals, he wasn t a stupid man she knew that and if he did actually go and check that Rick was alive she prayed that Lexi had left already. Negan remained silent, but the wide smirk held firmly on his handsome features. Reaching into his jean pocket he pulled a walkie talkie and brought it up to his lips. "D, collection at outpost six. Mickey has a new neighbor." Placing the walkie talkie back in its previous position, Negan turned his attention back to Alison. "We are gunna have some fucking fun together sweetheart." Clicking his fingers, Negan s men obediently loaded Alison into his RV and tied her to the passenger seat tightly. "You see hotness, I always fucking win. One way or the other."

The dark trees outside whizzed past the window as the RV shot down the roads which ultimately led to Sanctuary; Alison stared at the dark blurs entranced, who would have thought it would have been her that would get caught not Lexi but how was she supposed to know he had an outpost so far north of Sanctuary. She wouldn t be making the same mistake again, she wouldn t under estimate Negan again. "Why do you want her back?" The ride had been completely silent so far and Alison didn t see the harm in asking, it couldn t get much worse from this point.
A deep laugh rumbled from Negan s chest. "If a child misbehaves you fucking crack the whip right? Well that s what I ll be doing."

"It s a control thing, I get it." Alison couldn t hide the laughter from her voice, it was all a power trip to Negan he couldn t stand Lexi doing something he didn t give the go ahead to. "My mom was exactly the same as you. You a drinker?"

Negan s espresso eyes shot over to where Alison sat, then settled back onto the road ahead. "Parents were useless shits then, explains a lot. You and I have the same goals, you didn t have to fuck it all up."

"I should have just submitted to you and watched you toy with Rick, instead of actually killing him? I want the job done in the near future thanks."

Negan s hold on the steering wheel tightened for a moment, he wasn t used to be spoken to with such disrespect and he did not like it. "Oh boy are you in for a rough ride hotness." His forearm muscles flexed as his grip loosened and re-tightened, he wanted nothing more than to wipe the smug smirk off of her face with Lucille but he needed Alison for the bigger picture. "Tell me why are you making your life more fucking difficult to help that little junkie? You strike me as a woman who doesn t fuck about for people who mean nothing to her."

The question was difficult for Alison to answer because she wasn t entirely sure. Before Shane had died Alison had been a much warmer person but the events of the fateful night had changed her, possibly for the worse. Lexi reminded Alison of her younger sister and for the first time in years she felt like maybe she had someone again, someone to share things with, someone to make each day a little easier. "I m not protecting her, we escaped together that s it. Is it really surprising she ran away?"

"Lexi wouldn t have had the balls to run if she hadn t met you, fuck knows what you said to her-"

"I didn t say anything, she probably realized that she didn t have to put up with the bullshit way you treat her." Alison interrupt her gaze fixed on the side of Negan s face. "You re one of the most pathetic men I ve ever met. You bullied and abused a young girl because you wanted to get your leg over her."

Abruptly the RV swerved violently and then came to a screeching halt. Fire burned in Negan s eyes as he ripped Alison s restraints away and lifted her up by her blonde locks. "I m not a man who believes in the abuse of women, rape is punishable by death in my kingdom." An animalistic grin pulled at the corners of his mouth. "But we re not at Sanctuary now, and I know there s a few men out there who d kill for a chance on you."

As she was dragged from the truck, Alison switched her mind off in the hope it would all pass quicker. Again she had underestimated Negan, when men had come to the cage she d been kept in at Sanctuary apart from the beating she d given them Negan had killed them when he found out, this was not a torture she d been expecting.

"We are making a fucking pit stop!"

Negan shouting was the last thing Alison s mind registered before she began playing memories in her mind like a movie. Shane. Shane was all that could get her through this.

The loose navy tee shirt was still warm from Shane s body and Alison found herself hugging it closer to her body. It smelt strongly of his musky scent, inhaling deeply she sighed at the comfort the smell gave her. In all the madness of the world, losing her sister, being in a foreign country, Alison never thought she would have found some one to love and who loved her.

"Legs what are yeh thinkin' 'bout?" Shane s deep voice asked as he climbed back into the tent and lay down beside Alison. "Can hear yeh brain tickin'."

Snuggling closer to Shane s warm body, Alison didn t think she d ever felt safer or more at home than she did in his arms. "Are you sure you want to leave here? I mean it s safe here and we re settle. I know-"

Shane cut her off placing one of his tanned fingers over her lips. "Ali, I only need you. These people don' want me around no more, an' I don' wanna be here no more. Me an' you, we can start a new life. Together."