Chapter 5

After listening to Michonne, Rick lets Michonne, Glenn, Maggie, Rosita and Abraham go check out Aaron story, to make sure he wasn't lying. Rick told Tara, Noah, Carl, Carol, Eugene, Father Gabriel, Daryl and I to go watch the perimeter of the barn. We walk around till we completely cover the barn, Carol was to my right, Tara was on my left, Daryl was in front of the barn wanting to be near the barn just in case, Rick needed backup.

As I was looking ahead, I felt two pairs of eyes boring into me like I was being experimented for the cure. I don't have to look at Carol or Tara to know that they had questions, about Daryl and I. I finally look at both of them, just to see that they had smirks on their faces, I roll my eyes at them.

"Ask away" I told Tara and Carol who seemed like they were itching to know the details of Daryl and I.

"When did y'all start dating? Who knew?" Tara asked.

"The prison. Beth, Maggie and Glenn found out when they asked Daryl to fix a jewelry box then Carl knew there was something going on between us but it was confirmed when he walked into my cell." I told them now looking ahead, remembering that day.

Flashback

"C'mon Sasha really?" Carl exaserated as I was walking ahead of him, rolling my eyes.

"Carl, I'm not telling you if he asked or not yet...you know he keeps almost everything to himself, I don't wanna jinx it." I exclaimed as I grabbed the gun that was hanging on the gate.

"Sasha, you tell me everything…." trying to sound as innocent has possible

"Yeah i know we do tell each other everything" I exclaimed as I made sure the gun has bullets.

"Exactly my point Sasha." Carl runned next to me and putted a hand on top of mine to stop me from examining the gun "So you're just gonna be going on yall weekly picnic or meetup. Sash I'm not a little kid anymore, you can tell me the truth." I look up too see him giving me his best puppy dog eyed look. I roll my eyes, trying not to give in but I feel like I don't have a choice. I looked at the sky, silently asked the lord "How did I get blessed with these people?"

"Ill let you know what happens, when him and I get back." I told him walking away to the fence before he gets a chance to any other question.

As I walk into the woods, I take in the scenery, the sounds of nature that almost made me forget that we are living in the zombie apocalypse, that our lives aren't sparred in this world, my thoughts running wild as I go to Daryl and I spot. It was like survival of the fittest...what animals have been doing for years but now it's our turn to become survivalist without them like how they survived without us. Thinking about it, my skills that I had has helped me out, being a firefighter I had to be quick on my feet and ready whenever a challenge came my way.

I walked a little longer, till I reached mine and Daryl spot, our usual black and red checkered blanket laid on the ground, and a flashlight was on the blanket so we could walk back at night his back was facing me, while he had his arms crossed across his chest with his crossbow on his back. I didn't want disturb him, so I quietly stepped where there were less leaves. As, I approached him, I noticed he perks his head up...noticing that there was a slight change around him. I sow my steps down, as I looked at the ground making sure I'm quiet, I looked up to see that he was no longer standing there. I stopped to look around, my gun into place in case….Daryl was just here a second ago. I walk a little bit ahead, looking behind trees making sure Daryl isn't trying to hide behind a tree in order to scare me.

I felt an arm wrap around my waist and a hand goes around my mouth. I fight back trying to hit the person to the best of my abilities, then I use my gun and hit that person in the gut. I hear them hit the floor, then I turn around to see that it was Daryl. I bend down to his level, put his head into my lap and stroke his hair. "I'm sorry Grumpy, I thought you were someone else." I kiss his forehead, as he holds his side. His blue eyes meet my brown eyes, I stroke his cheek as he told me "I'm gonna get a bruise later"

"You should've never sneaked up on me, your nickname should be squirrel instead of grumpy since you moved so fast" I exclaimed to him as he rolled his eyes.

"I prefer grumpy." He tells me as he tries to get up, I help him up "Let's go back to our spot."

We walk back to the direction of our spot, we reach our spot in a matter of minutes, I lower him down gently onto the blanket, while he sits up I remove his crossbow, so he could lay down in a better comfortable position. He laid down, waiting for me to join him, I removed my gun off of my back, laid my head on his chest, listening to his heartbeat as he runs his fingers through my hair. I didn't want to put it into a braid or bun. I lifted up Daryl shirt to check on his side, where I hitted him, there was a slight bruise that was starting to form. I ran my hand over the lightly bruised area "I'm sorry grumpy" I looked up at Daryl as I traced the outline of the forming bruise.

"Newbie I said it's okay, I should've thought better than to sneak up on you while you were looking for me" He looks into my eyes "You know I had worst" Daryl stats as he, traces my back with his fingers.

"I know but still" I close my eyes as I hear the beating of his heart going into a slow rhythm. His breathing is steady and slow, indicating that he has fallen asleep.

I open my eyes, to notice that it was nightfall, I sit up to fall Daryl pull me closer, I giggle softly, his tight grip on my waist. His eyes slowly open adjusting to the nighttime, the light that is lunating around us is the light from the moon. We then stare into each other eyes, each of us looking for an answer that we possible already knew...but who was gonna be the one to say ask the question? This world was unpredictable place.

Daryl clearing his throat brought me out of my train of thought "Did you hear me Newbie?"

I looked at him confused "What did you say?"

"Do you want to be my girl?" He asked in such a Daryl way that I had laughed. I started to play with my fingers, I suddenly got nervous even though the flirting, teasing banter, sleeping in each other bunks has led to this moment. It's not the most romantic but it works for me. Daryl and I were similar in some ways, since this world started we had to think about survival, our lives before also built us for this survival. The pain and suffering of losing someone was always fresh because of the unknown that lurks within this world. Was I ready to take this plunge? I was ready.

"Yes I would be your girl Grumpy" I happily told him as I brought my face closer to his whisper along his lips.

Daryl grabs the back of my neck to crash our lips together, our tongues fighting for dominance, this kiss was like a hundred sparks being lit up on the fourth of july. I maneuvered myself so, that I was straddled him, deepening the kiss that would slowly turn the kisses, slow and passionate. We broke apart our foreheads touching, our breathing being the only sound that could be heard.

"C'mon let's get out of here" Daryl getting up with me still in his lap, he putted my feet on the ground. my down as he grabbed our weapons,then the blanket. As, he was folding the blanket, I was running my hand up and down his back getting kinda antsy knowing what's about to happen. We walk hand-in-hand to the prison in silence, sneaking glances at one another as we got closer. We reached the fence, he lets me go first, as I enter through the gate I felt his hand fall from my lower back to my ass and gave it a quick smack, I held my butt ,yelped at the initial shock, while giving him the death glare. He smirks at me then walks a little ahead of me leaving me stunned, I caught up him to effectively, he takes my hand and kisses it, then he puts an arms around my shoulder to bring me closer to him, Daryl wasn't the one to any form of public affection unless we were alone, well we are alone but you know there could be eyes in the watchtower. Entering the courtyard, wa sorta like walking into a graveyard, our steps along the gravel with the noise of the dead in the backyard. I peered over my shoulder to see that there was about two at the gate. Those two would probably roam to another area in the morning or if they hear some kind of noise. We finally reached the gate to the prison, open slowly, slip through, and we head towards C-block. On our way inside I put the gun I used into the bin, Daryl was putting the blanket on the shelves with the other blankets in the lockers. I walk over to C-block door, lightly tugged on it to find it open. As, I was opening the cell door Daryl wrapped his arms around my waist, moved my hair to the side, started to kiss my neck. I moaned lowly, biting my lip trying to wake anyone up. I broke away from him and slipped through the door, my laugh, echoing through the C-block, Daryl put a finger on his lips in order to shush me so I could wake anyone. I stopped at the stairs biting my lips, as I saw Daryl coming towards, he looked like to be a wolf stalking on its prey getting ready to attack.

Daryl picked me up, I wrapped my legs around his waist, my fingers go into his hair, and our lips meet again, our kisses intense but passionate, the sounds of our moans echoing through the cell block. He starts to walk up the stairs, and head towards my cell. When we get to my cell Daryl puts me onto the bed, goes over to the cell door to pull the blanket over the door then to close to cell door, to give someone a bigger hint. I start to take off my shoes, not noticing that Daryl was now near me, I brought my hands to my hair getting ready to put it into a bun until I felt Daryl hand on my wrist "No don't put it up, I love you hair out" he tells me as he ran his fingers through it, then his fingers lightly brushed against my cheek.

I took his hand, pulled him closer to me, I put my hand on the back of his neck, while his hand went to my back, we kissed this time the kiss still intense but passionate as he lower me onto my back, he goes back to kissing my neck as I tug at his shirt for him to take it off. He takes off his shirt, I let my fingers brush against his scars he got as a child, I feel him tense up. I bought one hand to the back of his neck, placed a kiss on his neck, then leaving a trail of kisses from his neck to his ear and whisper into his ear "I got you Grumpy, I'm here, no one is gonna hurt you. Those scars who you are and made you the guy who I fell in love with. The archer and The Sniper. Grumpy and Newbie" I still traced the lines of scars.

"Us against the world Newbie" he kissed my neck as he spoke those words. In his way that was his way of agreeing to us becoming an item. That was his way of reassuring himself that I wasn't going anywhere.

Not to long after that our clothes we ripped off of our bodies, tonight wasn't gonna be rushed, we took our time in the presence of each other, exploring our bodies taking each other to new heights. Daryl looked into my eyes, making sure I was ready, I nodded my head as he filled me, he kissed me to suppress my moans as he started to move, I wrapped my legs around his waist, held him close encouraging him, but quietly we couldn't be as loud, we reached our climax, I whispered his name into his ear I cummed around him, taking every ounce of him, our kisses slow as he pulled out of me, he laid next to me not breaking our kisses. We fell asleep in each other arms that night.

The morning came too fast the following day, I stretched my body looking next to me, seeing a sleeping Daryl, I rolled my side facing him, I moved a couple of strands from his forehead, he stirs slightly but doesn't wake up, out of the corner of my eye, I see a shadow pacing in front of my cell, I slowly get up find a shirt that I believed to Daryl and put it on along with my jeans. I grab a ponytail holder from my dresser to put my hair into a bun.

I go over to the cell and slowly open it not trying to wake up Daryl, then a drew back the sheet to see Carl who now stopped pacing, stand in front of me. His eyes roam my entire, I fidget under his staring eyes.

"So what happened with you and Daryl?" He asked as he crossed his arms across his chest.

"Um we'd talked" I nervously looking back at Daryl to check that he hasn't woken up yet.

"And?"

Just then Daryl starts to yawn, which makes my eyes go big, Carl pushes pass me. His eyes go big like they were trying to not pop out of his head. Daryl was now on his back, had the blanket across his middle section luckily, Carl's was hanging open and closing he wasn't sure what to say. He pointed to me then to Daryl repeating this action for about four times then put his hands in surrender "Next time i'll wait later in the day to find out the info….I need to go find something to burn my brain of those images" Carl now walking out of the cell with his head down.

I followed him out of the cell and told him "This stays between us."

"What stays between us?" He told me with a smirk on his face as he walked away leaving me slightly dumbfounded "Dixon I gotchu" Now he was trying to be funny as ran down the stairs. I knew this was between him and I.

I walk back into my cell to see Daryl awake, he pats the spot next to him for me to lay down, I do as I put my head on his chest. "I woke up and you were gone" Daryl sounding kinda sad but i know he was joking.

"We had a visitor" I looked up at him and kissed his chin.

"Who?" Daryl asked as He put a hand on my waist.

"Carl, he knows about us"

"Hopefully he can keep his mouth shut."

"He will if he knows what's good for him. He called me Dixon"

"Of course he would, he started calling Maggie, Rhee when her and Glenn started to date. We just started dating, I dont want to scare you away with the idea just yet"

"Well it doesn't have to happen just yet, I wouldn't mind being when the time is right" I told him as a took his member into my hands and gave it a few bumps, Daryl put a finger under my chin so I could look at him, and he kisses me. "Maybe I should have you start thinking of the idea" He told me as he maneuvered me onto my back causing me to laugh out loud as his subtle bear brushed against my cheek.

End of Flashback

"Does he make you happy?" Carol asking in a curious tone of voice.

"He does...it's just you know." I look down to the ground and start kicking at the ground with the heel of my shoe, trying to find the rest of the answer, with a large amount of doubt at the back of head . "There's a lot of side that afraid of losing him after losing Tyreese and Bob"

"You won't lose him" Tara and Carol said at the same time.

"Yall dont know that...this world is so uncertain sometimes….anything good that you have, it can be slipped out of fingers"

"Sash, listen to know if you think like that you just might, I know you won't lose him, you say how he protected you from Aaron. Plus, we got the whole family to protect each other. After Terminus, losing Bob and Tyreese, Rick is gonna make sure that's not gonna happen." Carol exclaimed to me as a silent tear, went down my face. Tara wiped away the tear, that was falling. "I'm not tryna scare you Sash but I want you to know that we feel your pain." Carol bringing me into a hug, stroking my hair as I felt Tara hand on my back. "We all lost someone Sash, that pain reminds us to keep going and gives us the reason to keep fighting. Dont shut us out, even Daryl" Carol now taking my face within her hands, she wipes away the remaining tears from my face.

"Now don't worry, we already gave Daryl the talk so he knows if he hurts you he's gonna have to deal with us" Tara wrapping her arms around my waist, putting her chin my shoulder then she kisses my cheek. I pat her head and smile "See I got you to smile" I roll my eyes, let a small chuckle.

"Thank you Tar-Bear" That's when we heard the crinkle of leaves come near us, we turned around to see Daryl standing there with his crossbow on his back.

He walks over to us, Tara till didnt let me go yet as he was walking over to us. "Ya tryna steal my girl" Daryl stopped in front of us with a smirk on his face.

"Well I could if I wanted too but nah, she has your germs" Tara unwrapping her arms from my waist with a disgusted look on her face, I looked at her shocked not knowing what to say "What? You're cute and all but c'mon Daryl has germs." I shake my head at her antics, turn my attention back to Daryl.

"Tara, let's go around the front, lets go check if Carl and Noah didn't kill Eugene or Father Gabriel yet." Carol pushes Tara away as the go around the barn, before she fully goes around the barn, she looks back at us and says "Pookie don't hurt her she's in a fragile state of mind." Then she continues to barn towards the front of the barn.

Daryl then closes the gap between us and pulls me into a hug. The smell of sweat and forest hitted my nose strongly, It wasn't a pleasant smell for anyone else but for Daryl it fitted him. I rest my head, against his chest as I wrapped my arms around his waist. The sound of birds chirping, surrounded us, neither of us making a sound. "Sash when we go to this place that's if we go, know that I still got you I'm not going anywhere" Daryl told me as he stroke my hair, I nodded my head but feel like I couldn't hold onto that promise. Hopefully this place is what they say it is.

"Lovebirds, C'mon they're back" Carol coming back to get us, we let go of one another, Daryl leads away as he takes my hand.

As, we enter the barn Aaron eyes fall to our hands, Daryl puts me behind him as he stares down Aaron. I rub Daryl's arm in order to calm down, so he wouldn't feel threatened while Aaron was here. I looked over Daryl shoulder, behind Rick to see that Aaron was telling the truth, indicating by the amount of cans that would be too much for one person to go on a run. Daryl over to the other side of the barn, next to Abraham, he sits down a bench that was in the barn, and I go to stand next to Michonne, Daryl doesn't see anything wrong with it.

"This is our now" Rick stats to Aaron as he holds the can of food in his hand. I see Michonne roll her eyes at Rick antics, she was getting impatient.

"There's more than enough" Aaron replies back to Rick who was still tied up to the barn column.

"It's our rather or not, we go to our camp" Rick exclaims to Aaron, this side of Rick was the Rick you wouldn't want to mess with.

"What do you mean? Why wouldn't we go?" Carl asked Rick. Sometimes I tend to forget that Carl is still a kid that grew up in the zombie apocalypse. He had stability at the prison, that was broken in the when governor attacked. To him, this place sounded like it could actually be home. To all of us, it sounded promising.

"If he were lying. Or if he wanted to hurt us" MIchonne stats to Carl, she turned her attention back to Rick "But he isn't. And he doesn't. We need this, So we're going all of us. Someone say something if they think differently" Michonne being the voice of reason. Rick doesn't say anything, but nods his head, he lets Michonne take the lead on this.

"I'on know man this barn smells like horseshit" Daryl tells me, as he plays with his fingers, causing me to chuckle. He looks at me and winks, I roll my eyes and shake my head.

"Yeah we're going" Rick says aloud finally giving in to the idea of going to this community, he turn his attention back to Aaron "So where are you going?"

"Everytime, I done this, I've been behind the wheel, driving recruiters back" Aaron answers with nerves in his voice. "I believe your good people...I-I bet my life on it, just not ready to bet my friend life" Aaron starts to stutter as he got nervous again.

Michonne goes towards Aaron and tells him "You're not driving, so you wanna get 'll have to tell us how"

"Go north on route 16" Aaron tells Rick, as he was looking at the map.

"And then?" Michonne asked.

Aaron looks up at Michonne "I'll tell you when we get there"

"We'll take 23 north" Rick tells Aaron, Rick is definitely doing this his way. "Youll give us directions from there"

"Thats, I don't know how to say it but that's a bad idea, we've cleared 16, it'll be faster" aaron tells matter factly.

"We'll take 23" Rick giving Aaron his final choice of the matter. "We leave at sundown"

"We're doing this at night?" I ask Rick, Daryl comes over to me and puts a hand on my lower back as I lower my head and shake it. Night is a bad idea.

"Look I know it's dangerous, but if something was to happen we could, leave before they even know were there" Rick tells me "Its better then to ride up to the gates in the morning" Now he was speaking to the whole group seeing if anyone else would disagree to his idea.

Aaron continues to tell Rick that he was putting us, his family in danger. Rick, has seen enough to know that he wouldn't want to do that but also he was thinking of the easiest way to do this just in case we had to escape. Rick exits the barn with Michonne following after leaving the rest of us to stand there looking over Aaron. A second later, Michonne tells us to stand packing up the RV.

Carl hands Judith to me as he went to grab some of the supplies, and weapons into the RV. Abraham was talking with Glenn on who was gonna drive the RV, effectively it was decided that Abraham would drive and Rosita would be in the passenger sit. Father Gabriel was in the corner praying, and Daryl was watching over Aaron. Noah, Tara, Maggie, Carol load up the RV along with Carl to get the job done faster. Everyone wants to see this "new home", to see if it would really be legit that they weren't lying to us. I have a feeling that we would be seen as the outsiders, that would have to do things their way for awhile, they wouldn't understand why we fight like we do since they been behind the wall for who knows how long. This could be a place where Judith could grow and Carl could make friends. Where many if we wanted to start building families.

I was broken out of my thoughts when Judith started to clap her hands, to get my attention "What Jud-Jud?" I ask the little girl who was playing with the string on my jacket.

"Tia" she points to me and puts a finger on my nose.

I pretend to bite her finger, as she laughs pulling it away from me everytime I try to bite it, "Where's Daryl?" She turns in my arms and points to Daryl "Ummm where's Tara?" She looks around then sees Tara coming into the barn and Points at her. Judith was starting learn who everyone after terminus, Rick figured to teach her, so even if its a vague memory of that person she would remember. We play this game til the RV is ready and packed up to go. Rick takes Aaron into the car along with Michonne and Glenn. While the rest of us go into the RV, I'm the last one to step into the RV with Dary behind me and Judith still in my arms.

As, I sit down with Judith on my lap, Dary sits next to and puts an arm around my shoulder. Judith is making up words that I don't know trying to have a conversation with me. I pretend to know what's she's talking about. I start to think, this is the start of something new. A New Life that is waiting for us as a family.

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