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Chapter 6

We were still in the RV as nightfall surrounded us. Carol was sitting near the window watching the game between Eugene and Maggie. Maggie was also holding a sleeping Judith, somehow Judith didn't wake up from the constant Gabriel, Tara, Carl and Noah were in a heated debate about some superhero. They were trying to educate Father Gabriel on a topic he didn't understand. Rosita was sitting passenger as Abraham was driving the RV. Glenn, Michonne and Rick were driving in the car ahead of us with Aaron. I was sitting on the bed looking out the window taking in the lifeless woods that we were just passing by. Thinking was this place really worth it? Would we lose people? We couldn't lose me people...we lost enough already. We were done fighting battles that couldn't be fought. Our energy was drained from each passing day. The constant struggle of having to search for food that would last a group this big long enough til we find another place. We were losing ourselves and fighting one another. Rick is trying to hold this the group together for as long as he can, but I could tell we're slipping. But just somehow we are still holding on to that last bit of hope. Hope felt like a fish gasping for air, no longer was a word that held a definition.

I heard footsteps come towards me, that broke me out of my thoughts. I looked to see that, it was Daryl. His crossbow was on his back and arms were crossed across his chest. I patted the spot next to me. There was a sheet on the floor and thumbtacks next to it, he covers the entrance with the sheet and putting the two thumbtacks in order to hold it in place. Aaron or his boyfriend must've had it there for more privacy when traveling. He comes to sit down, put an arm around my shoulder and pulled me close. I felt him kiss the top of my head, as he rubs my arm. I closed my eyes, my head on his chest, taking in this moment. The smell of forest and sweat taking over my senses. I come to fall in love with the smell, anyone else would've thought it was gross. I was someone who managed to somehow love it. I felt Daryl put a finger under my chin, to make me look at him. Our eyes locking with one another's. Blue meeting dark brown a conversation that was being said without words. As, I looked into his eyes, I could see answers to the questions I was asking myself. Were we going to be okay when we get to this "home"? Was this a place where we could possibly start a family? Or maybe even get married? Would we live that long to even see those days? Would we have someone terrorize our happiness? His words were….We are gonna be good just gonna take some getting used too in this new place….We haven't talked about a family just yet….Marriage was mentioned once or twice….We would both live to see those days…..We would have each other backs.I believe his words,I nod my head in agreement to the silent promise.

Flashback

We'd just left Terminus and are continuing on the train tracks. Daryl was walking next to me as we were walking to nowhere at the moment. We didn't have to say anything to know that we missed one another. It was a good reunion when I seen him walk into the tran cart back at Terminus. I hugged, kissed and cried with him as he scooped me up into a hug. I missed his sweaty forest scent that I grown used too. I missed everything he'd did and I miss our conversations. We'd knew that we couldn't talk right away, we'd had to fight our way out first. Daryl knew I could handle it, so he didn't feel the need to look over his shoulder during the battle of terminus to make sure I was okay. But I felt his eyes land on me making sure I was still there. I understood completely, he lost his brother who was near and dear to him. He didn't want to lose me as well.

Daryl touched my side, points in the direction of the towards the woods "We're gonna see if we could catch some squirrel. It'll be awhile Rick." Daryl told Rick who nodded his head and sat on the ground. HIs hand on my lower back, we go into the direction he pointed in as the group stops for us.

We walk for a while, as we look into the ground for the squirrel footprints, The silence surrounding us, it was a comfortable silence that didn't phase us. We were used to it, we knew what the other were thinking and how close to sanity or insanity we were. It was kinda crazy how sync we were sometimes. If you would've told me that I was gonna be with Daryl Dixon I wouldn't believe you. Even if this world takes the important things from you, it could possibly give you something in return. I heard Daryl stop and he setted up a trap for the squirrels. I stand behind him watching his every movement setting up the trap. My gun in position just incase a walker or someone comes out of the trees. I highly doubt anyone would but you never know with everything that's going on with us as a group….we're having a bit of bad luck. We didn't know when luck was on our side.

I turned around to check our surroundings when I felt Daryl's hand on my lower back. He points towards a tree for us to sit by as we wait for the squirrels to make their way to the trap. I go over to the tree, sit down in front of it as I put my gun in front of me. Daryl comes to sit next to me, and puts his crossbow in front of him also.

"You'd think we'll find somewhere?' I asked Daryl as I put my hand on the back of his neck and play with his hair.

"That'll be hard Newb. We'd thought therminus was good, look what happened they tried to make us breakfast, lunch and dinner" Daryl replies as he put a hand on my teigh. I put my other hand on top of his, and caress it. I bring then bring it to my lips and place a kiss on it.

"You gotta point" I agreed with him as he put his head onto my chest.

"I can't lose anyone else." Daryl told me as he wrapped his arms around me causing me to slide down the tree a little.

"You won't lose me" I told him as I kissed the top of his head and continued to runs my fingers through his hair. "We will find somewhere soon." We'd stayed in this position for a little while longer. I suddenly felt droll going on my breast. Daryl must've been tired I dont think he even had a proper amount of sleep since we left terminus.

"Daryl wake up….you're drooling." As I move Daryl's head to wake him up. He grunts as I move his head but forces it back onto my chest. I let out a chuckle, once Daryl was asleep there was no way of waking him up, it was like waking up a sleeping bear. Only this sleepy bear would be grumpy, snappy and not talkative. "Daryl c'mon no sleeping on the job" I smirked as I tickled the side of his stomach that was showing a bit

"Leave me alone woman, tryna sleep" Daryl mumbled as he tried to snuggled closer into me.

"Daryl ya gotta wake up and check the trap" I told him as I tried to push him off of me.

"You know how to check it"

"I need you to get up, so I could check it"

"You ughhh" he let go of me as I got up from my stop that I was sitting at. As I walked over to the trap he'd laid himself on the floor and cuddled with my gun. I shaked my head at his antics. I went over to trap to see that there was about six squirrels in the trap. I untied the trap, picked up the bundle of squirrels and back towards Daryl. I tapped him on his shoulder to wake him up, he didn't move or make a noise. I rolled my eyes, put the squirrels onto the ground and laid next to him. I wrap a leg around him and put my face as close as I can to his. I moved my other hand towards his other arm, started to move a finger over his muscles.

"Daryl honey, you gotta get up" I told him in a low voice he slowly stirs.

"No" he mumbles moving his face closer to mine.

I gave his lips a quick peck "C'mon everyone is waiting for us" I hope that would get him up.

"They can wait" There was no way of getting him up.

"Daryl c'mon for me" He opens his eyes to look at me, I gave him my best puppy eyed look. I heard him suck his teeth and then he got up. "You're lucky I love ya woman" He told me as he gets up and holds his hand out to help me up. I took it while, grabbing my gun and handing him his crossbow. He takes his crossbow, puts it over his shoulder onto his back, he reaches down to grab the squirrels.

"Your life would be boring without me" I told him as he wrapped an arm around my waist, and pulled me closer towards him.

"Your right" Daryl says he places a kiss on my lips than turns me around "You better get going." Dary sets the pace and leads the way as we walk back to the group.

He holds onto my left hand. I look at my hand and it felt like it was missing something. For some reason I imagined a ring on my ring finger. Not a big flashy ring but just a ring. Something simple, gold perhaps. Why was I suddenly thinking of this? Was it because of our life or death situations? I truly did love Daryl he's the best thing that has happened to me. We haven't had that talk yet. I remember one time I caught him talking to patrick and he told patrick my name was Sasha Dixon after Patrick had called me , I didn't want to talk to him about it in hopes that he was scared. I know how Daryl was with letting anyone inside his tight circle of family. To Daryl his family was Rick, Michonne, Maggie, Rosita, Abraham, Carl, Judith, Tara, Carol, Eugene, Tyrese, Bob, Glenn, Noah and I. We wouldn't forget his brother Merle who died trying to protect his brother and prison. From what Daryl told me Merle was a good person he just sometimes let his mouth get in the way….he had no filter. Which is a Dixon trait that no filter ran in the family. I wonder how'd would our kids be. Would they have to deal with walkers? Would they have to run in order to stay alive? These questions were suddenly coming to my head for some reason. I think maybe I was ready to settle down but was Daryl? I knew he would possible be afraid of bringing a child into this world. If we could protect Judith, maybe we could protect our child the same way. I know we both could, that child would be our reason to keep going, to never give up.

We reach the group, they put there weapons in position "We'd got dinner" Daryl told them holding out the squirrel.

"We'll eat here then we'll keep moving" Rick told us as Daryl letted go of my hand and went to help Rick skin and cook the squirrel along with Noah and Rosita.

We'd eat the squirrel, knowing this was the best meal we had in awhile. The thoughts from earlier comes back to surface. Would this be our child? Scraping for food in order to survive? Would he or she know the skills Daryl and I have? Will he or she be able to take our weapons into their hands and pass them down generation through generation? Or will our bloodline end with us? We won't know until we have that talk. Right now isn't probably the best time to address this talk. After we ate, we were on the road again. Our feet and Rick leading the way to an unknown destination as long as we'd had each other we were good. Suddenly we heard screams, Carl told Rick we had to check it out. It was a priest on top of a boulder trying to keep the walkers around him from getting him. Daryl, Rick, Rosita and Carol took out the walkers, the priest got of the boulder and thanked us, just as he started to throw up. He told us, he had a church where we could stay, for a while. Rick was hesitant but we knew he had to think of his children to give them a roof over their heads even if it was for a temporary. We went to the church, it was a small white church. It looked big enough fit the group, Abraham didn't think we needed to take a break but Rick and Michonne thought it was for the best. For everyone to rest up so we would have enough energy to move on. The church had glass imagines of different biblical stories as windows, as the light was shining through, leaving a beautiful ray of colors dance around seats and walls. I let a finger linger on the seats of the church and took in tiny church this would be perfect to get married in...if we were to stay here. Father Gabriel was his name told us that there was shelter that was having a fooddrive before an acoclayopse and there was a high chance of food still being in the building. Michonne, Rick, Bob, Father Gabriel and I went to the shetler to the collect the food. We came back with bins of food that would last us months if we rationed it correctly. That night we'd had a feast, it was the best thing that happened to us since the prison or even finding one another. The sound of laughter was a magically, our spirits were not completely broken just yet. It was a moment that I didn't want to ruin or have anyone else ruin. We went to sleep with our bellies filled of food, Daryl and I were sleeping on the floor in between the church seats with his jacket covering me and his vest was covering him. The thoughts from earlier came back alive. Children. Future. Were we ready?

"You're thinking to loud Newbie" Daryl whisper to me as my head was on his chest. He kept his voice low so he couldn't wake anyone in the group. I moved my head to look at him, slightly confused. "Ya forgot I been around you long along enough. When my head starts feel like someone is poking at my temple over and over again...it means ya thinking" Daryl tells me has he massages my head, his fingers rubbing my scalp. I felt my head relax as he was massaging it my thoughts were going away. "So what ya thinking about?" He tells me as I sit up.

"Future. Are we gonna make it?" I asked him looking for reassurance.

"Newbie we are" Daryl answered back taking my hand into his

"Are you sure about that Grumpy?" I saw Daryl roll his eyes in the darkness and the growl comes up from the back of his throat.

Daryl tugs on my hand and puts my closer to him. My hand is on his chest and our eyes meet."Yes I am sure Newbie. I am just as scared as you here but let's get through this first"

"We can be scared together?" I asked causing Daryl to roll his eyes.

"Nah we can be scared badasses together" Daryl tells me as he takes me hand that was on his chest and kisses it. "Yeah, I lost majority of my family Sasha. I would want a family with you but lets wait till we find a place. I don't want our kid to attract walkers every time they cry. Surprisingly Judith is still alive, not tryna say anything. She last longer than most adults, she'll know how to handle this world like Carl does. Our kid will be the same way. They would be able to use the crossbow and your gun. I know they aint gonna be stupid." Daryl admits it was like he was in my head answering those questions "There would be a time where, they will live comfortable not having to worried about food storage. We will pass down our skills to them Newbie. With a mother like you, they will be prepared. And one day not yet though I would make you " Daryl tells me as I tear falls down my face. Daryl wasn't the one to be sappy so for him to say all of this gave me that reassurance that our future together was bright and that we could make a life together. "Just tell me when you're ready" Daryl tells me as I lay back down.

I nod my head and lay my head onto his shoulder, our faces inches away from one another "I will Daryl"

End of Flashback

I felt a tear fall down my face, as our eyes we still locked. Daryl wiped the tear away, and kissed where the tear fell. I put closed my eyes and inhaled deeply, feeling his lips against my cheek. His beard slightly tickling my cheek, I felt Daryl kissing me all over my face lastly kissing my lips. The kiss was a quick peck, our foreheads were touching then I put my fingers into his hair, as I brought our lips together. Daryl pulled me into his lap, so I was straddling him, the kisses become desperate but filled with need. I tugged harder on his hair, he let out a low growl as our tongues fought for dominance, I deepen the kiss as I felt his hands on my waist. He takes my bottom lip, in between his teeth causing me to quietly moan. As I grind against Daryl, his member becoming hard underneath me. Daryl hand move the band of my jeggings, into my underwear. I moaned as I felt his finger against my clit he rubs it, he kisses me to suppress my moans from getting any louder. Daryl starts to kiss my neck, as I threw my head back in pleasure. Daryl starts to move kisses towards my breast kissing them through my shirt, I put my fingers back into hair and brought him back into a kiss.

"Let it out Newbie" Daryl whisper against my lips as he inserts a finger inside me

"Grumpy….Daryl" I moaned as I cummed all over his finger, I feel him bit my neck as I was getting over my high.

Just then we fell off of the bed and onto the floor as if someone was stepping on the brakes to hard. Daryl took his hand out from my pants, and stood up. He adjusted his crossbow and gave me his hand in order to help me up. "You good Newb?" he ask I fix myself.

"Yeah babe" I told him as he gave me a quick peck on the lips.

"Imma go check it out" His hand lingers on my waist as he goes to the front of the RV.

I took down the sheet, avoiding any eyes that was looking in my direction, but when I looked up no one was, thank god. I put the sheet back where it was on the floor and put the to thumbtacks on top of it. I looked back up at the front of RV to see everyone standing up looking out the windows trying to look for someone or something. I walk towards the front, to hear Judith cries,she was awaken from her sleep. She clings to Maggie as Maggie was trying to calm her ,Tara and Carl were getting the guns ready. Noah, Father Gabriel and Eugene were packing up the food that was in the RV….were we gonna have to go through this again? I walk over to Daryl as he was in a heated discussion with Abraham and Rosita. I put my hand on the back of shoulder. He turns to look at me, his eyes filled with fear and confusion. He looked like he was about to jump out of the RV and find a salutation to the problem.

"I can't find them….their car got lost in the horde of walkers" Abraham says out loud to no one.

I slowly take my hand off of Daryl's shoulder….Were we gonna lose people again? I feel myself stepping back and moving to sit onto the couch, I was unaware of what Daryl was telling Abraham. My thoughts were going insane, I wasn't up to lose a member of the family again. Was this it? Was it stupid for Maggie, Michonne and I to persuaded the group to go to this unknown place already knowing what terminus did?

I looked up and saw that we were now in front of a building. Daryl stood in front of me holding his hand out, I grabbed it, let him lead the way. We walked into the building as the whole group was standing there waiting for some type of instruction. It was until Carol came out of the back room along with Maggie "The guy Aaron was telling the truth, he was with another guy. His boyfriend Erick is in the room. Maggie wrapped up his sprained ankle." Carol stats as she moved, stood to Eugene who was next Rosita who was holding sleeping Judith.

"Imma go talk to him" Daryl tells me as we released hands, I didn't want to let him go.

About five minutes later, Daryl comes back with a flare gun "Imma go shot this outside, hopefully Rick, Michonne, Glenn and Aaron sees it." Daryl steps outside and shots the flare gun. He comes back in quickly shutting the door, he waves me over for me to stand on the other side of the door. I can tell he wanted me close, just in case. Just then we heard a whistle Daryl opens the door and whistles again. The whistles was identical to Rick's, Carl flew outside of the door to hug Rick. I can see why he was scared of losing his father to a countless act. Rick, Glenn, Michonne, Carl and Aaron stepped inside the building. We'd hugged them all and it was Aaron who ran into the backroom to go check on his boyfriend. Rick followed him into the room, I can tell Rick was still suspicious of these guys. A few minutes later Aaron and Rick exit the room and come back into the main room. Aaron tells us thank you for finding Aaron and that Alexandria would worth the wait. Rick being the stubborn bull he is tells Aaron he has to "sleep by the door." Glenn being the voice of reason, basically tells Rick to chill and that we would be okay. We fall asleep that night, the morning came too soon. We piled into the RV with Aaron and Eric in the backroom so Eric could relax. In another car behind us was Carl, Michonne, Judith and Rick. Rick wanted to keep his kids close to him for safety precautions. And he knows the other person that would protect him the same way he would is Michonne. Rick needed someone that would keep him sane til we got to Alexandria. This was a long ride from Georgia to Virginia, yeah along the way we lost people but it made us stronger as a group. As a family. A family bond that couldn't be broken in life or death. The Rv starts to breakdown, halfway through our trip towards Alexandria. We climb out of the Rv to stretch our legs. Abraham discovers that the battery is no longer working, Glenn shows him where there would be a second battery and they install it together. As, we wait Daryl comes from the side of the RV and puts a hand on the back of my neck. His hand goes from my neck to my brush against my arm and lastly catching my hand.

Our eyes lock with one another, his eyes asked "I'm here Newb. Don't overthink anything."

Before, I could respond the RV comes back to life, we climb back in. I find my seat on the couch watching Eugene and Tara play a card game that only Eugene would understand. Daryl comes to sit next to me as drive to our new "home". I hope this place doesn't give us false hope in any kind of way. I hope it holds to its potential just like Aaron promised Erick even put in a good word for this community that seemed almost to god to be true.

A couple of hours later we roll up, to the gates. Everyone steps out of the RV, onto the streets that was leading us to the path of the promised land. We'd could always turn our backs right now and don't even step a feet into these walls. The main gate opened as Aaron and Eric led the way into the walls. There stood a guy who looked very confused on why we were here. We heard the sound of leaves rustling, our guns were in position getting ready to shot the intended target hoping to be a walker, it was a possum. Daryl shots it and says "We brought dinner" I rolled my eyes and chuckled, the guy who was still standing at the gate looked like he was about to shit his pants.

Rick leds the way and we walk into the gate, not lowering our guns in case of a potential threat. As, they were closing the gate, the sound of our enemy was coming the gate. "Sasha" Rick didn't have say much on what I had to do. I turned around, shot the walker right in between the eyes. It hits the ground and I turn around, the guy still looks confused as Rick says "Good thing we are here" he leds us deeper into the community.

As I was walking, Daryl comes next to me he puts an arm around my waist and we follow the group to wherever Aaron is leading us. I felt the eyes of the guy from the gate on us, maybe all of us. I can feel the jealousy, envy and confusion rolling off of his body, being projected onto the group. We are in the center of the community when Aaron exclaims to us the rules and that we all had to talk to Deanna. Abraham boisterous voice comes out of nowhere and he asked "Who Deanna?" Aaron explains that she's the leader of Alexandria.

Aaron leads as to a brick house, there was a short middle-aged lady with brown hair and a smile plastered on her face, the smile was so big that it looked like her cheek hurt from the smile she was putting onto her face. Next, to her was a guy who looked to be about 5'9 next to her, he had glasses and silver-white hair that was brightened by the sun. He also had a smile on his face that seemed a little too real for my liking. Behind them was a guy who looked to be about in his early twenties or his late-thirties, his blue eyes and brown eyes made him desirable, but his whole attitude seemed like a one-night stand kinda type. We locked eyes, he smiles showing off his flashy white teeth. I felt Daryl arm wrapped tighter around waist as he was sending a message to this guy to back off..which he better if he knows what's good for him.

"Hello, My name is Deanna Monroe, this is my husband Reggie and this is our son Spencer. Our son Aiden is at the armory so yall would see him walking around here as you guys get settled into your new homes. I will be questioning you guys one-by-one just to get to know y'all better. Welcome to Alexandria." Deanna exclaims as she gave us a smirk, I couldn't figure out if it was a good smirk or a smirk that held a lot of secrets behind it.

There was no turning back now.

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