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ThEndymam: I'm glad you liked it. I'm looking forward to write "No Way Out" as it is my favourite episode in the entire show :)
Darth krayt1: I don't want to spoil anything to you. You'll have to wait and see :)
Brendan: You'll have to wait and see to find out what happened with Geoff, Alejandro and Brody. My TDxRE:V crossover is still on my mind and I still remember most of the stuff I came up for it but the possibility of me writing it right now is unlikely, because I want to focus the stories I'm writing right now such as my MHA Villain OC insert story and my TWDxTD crossover.
Fan: One of them will appear in this story. We are still far, far away from their introduction, though.
Deanna climbed up the ladder leading to the lookout post close to the main gate of Alexandria. She slowly made her way to the edge of it and looked down at the small sign her her husbands initials on it. She reached down and ran her hand along it. She let out a soft sigh. Words couldn't describe how much she missed her husband and how much she wished he was still alive.
"The town was overrun. He split off with Nicholas. He had this idea that... if he lit a fire, it would stop the walkers from coming here. I tried to go instead. I wanted to. The fire never got lit. We had to keep going. I'm sorry." Michonne's voice brought her out of her thoughts. She looked over to the source of it and saw Michonne talking with Maggie, Heather and Bridgette. After returning to Alexandria, Chris went to the house Betsy was living in to deliver her the last message from David as Sky and Heath took Scott to the clinic to make sure Scott will get the medical attention he needs.
"What about Geoff, Alejandro and Brody?" Bridgette asked in worry for the said three as Heather nodded at her question. Not too far from them, Tobin, Bruce, Chet and Rock were collecting bodies of the deceased Alexandrians. One of those bodies was Spud, much to Rock's dismay.
"They split up from the rest of us when the walkers entered the town. They wanted to make some of the herd follow them." Michonne replied, "The last time I saw them was when the ran into an alley on the opposite side of the street."
"Open the gate!" A voice echoed on the other side of the gate. Deanna quickly shifted her attention to it and froze in her spot as she saw Rick and Chef running away from a large herd of the undead, "Open the gate!"
"Hurry!" Chef added, "We don't have much time!"
Deanna remained where she stood, her breathing becoming unstable as she continued to look at the huge herd of walkers with fear in her eyes. Rick and Chef continued to scream to her to open the gate, but their words fell deaf on her ears. She was broke out of her thoughts a second later as someone quickly opened the gate, seeing it was Michonne, Bridgette, Maggie and Heather who opened the gate.
She quickly climbed down from the lookout post and ran up to the gate as Chef and Rick quickly made their way to safety. Morgan, Tobin, Bruce, Rock and Chet quickly arrived at the scene as Michonne, Bridgette, Maggie and Heather closed the gate right before the undead reached it. The undead quickly started slamming themselves against the gate, trying to reach to the people standing on the other side of it as everyone else could only watch in horror how the walkers started to surround the walls.
A lot of terrified Alexandrians gathered close to the main gate of Alexandria, having become allerted by all the noise the walkers were making while trying to make themselves reach the other side of the fence. A lot of Alexandria felt how fear overcame their entire bodies the moment they saw or heard how many walkers were surrounding their home, knowing how much trouble they found themselves in right now.
"You can hear it." Rick began to explain their current situation to them, making sure everyone had their eyes on him, "Some of you saw it. They got back here, half of them. Still enough to surround us 20 deep. Look, I know you're scared. You haven't seen anything like this. You haven't been through anything like this. But we're safe for now. The panel the truck hit seems intact. We reinforced it just in case. Either way, the wall's gonna hold together. Can you? The others, they're gonna be back."
Rosita nodded in agreement, "They're gonna be back."
"Daryl, Duncan, Harold, Abraham, Sasha and Sanders, they have vehicles." Rick continued his speech to Alexandrians, "They're gonna lead 'em away, just like the others. And Glenn, Geoff, Alejandro, Brody and Nicholas are gonna walk back through the front gate after. They know what they're doing, and we know what we need to do. We keep noise to a minimum. Pull our blinds at night. Even better, keep the lights out. We'll try to make this place as quiet as a graveyard, see if they move on."
"This place is a graveyard." Dakota pointed out with a depressed look on her face, earning a few nods of agreement from her fellow Alexandrians as she had her eyes set on the ground. Rick set his eyes on her, staying silent.
"...The quarry broke open and those walkers were heading this way." Brick broke the silence as he stepped forward, making sure everyone had their attention on him "All of them. The plan that Rick put into place stopped that from happening. He got half of them away. I was out there recruiting with Aaron, Brick and Daryl. I and Aaron wanted to try to get into a cannery and scavenge, and Daryl and Duncan wanted to keep looking for people." He paused for a moment to let out a deep sigh, still feeling guilty about what happened, despise Jo telling him it wasn't his fault, "We did what I and Aaron wanted... and we wound up in a trap set by those people. And I lost my pack. They must've followed our tracks." Aaron looked at him in suprise, beginning to feel guilty about it as much as Brick was feeling guilty about it now as Jo sighed after seeing how Brick still thought it was his fault, "Those people who attacked us... they found their way back here because of me."
Deanna shook her head and started to walk away from everyone as Rick spoke up to Alexandrians again, "There'll be more to talk about."
"Deanna?" Tobin called out for Deanna as Deanna continued to walk away from them, "Deanna?"
"Where are you going?" Kitty asked as Deanna ignored their callings and continued to walk along the street, away from them.
A lot of Alexandrians made their way to the pantry after learning more about their current situation from Rick to get some food for either themselves or their families. Olivia handed the supplies to them and it unfortunely wasn't enough. The Alexandrians were insisting on getting more food to each other as Olivia did hest best to convince them it was enough. Dakota was present there too, but wasn't doing her job as she was too depressed about Sam's death to do anything.
"I can't even make two meals out of this." A woman named Barbara pointed out.
"The soups and sauces can be stretched out with some extra water." Olivia tried to convince them she handed out enough supplies for everyone.
"What difference does that make if we'll be dead tomorrow?" Zoey asked with a saddened look on her face as B silently nodded in agreement. The death of Cameron was not leaving their minds ever since Rick's group got rid of the attackers.
Olivia shook her head, "We have to ration now."
"I can't." Bruce stepped forward, "I can't spend whatever time I have left watching my family starve."
"Wait." Olivia said as Bruce walked past her.
Bruce gave her a quick apologetic look, "I'm sorry."
"Just let them, Olivia." Dakota said as the rest of Alexandrians followed Bruce into the pantry. Deanna just arrived at the scene and watched everything in silence. Olivia gave her a look after seeing how Deanna was doing nothing to stop it from happening, "I just don't see the point."
"Hey. Hey!" Spencer shouted to everyone in the pantry the moment he arrived at the scene. Everyone stopped what they were doing and set their eyes on him, "Stop. Right now, stop it. This stuff is for everyone. We need to make it last if we're gonna survive."
"Why don't you go make sure the gate's closed, Spencer?" Bruce retorted.
"Yeah. That was me. I did that." Spencer admitted his fault, "But that truck outside the walls, it'd be inside if it wasn't for me. I did that, too. If I didn't, maybe we wouldn't be talking right now. Where were all of you?"
"I was trying to do Rick's plan while my best friend was being slaughtered by those people with W on their foreheads." Rock replied, his voice void of any hope.
"I'm sorry about Spud, Rock. I truly am." Spencer offered Rock his condolences, "Doing this will start us down a road where nothing matters. Where no one else matters. And then we'll all look back at this moment right now as when we destroyed this place."
Upon hearing Spencer's words, everyone started to put everything back on the shelves as Deanna looked at her son proudly.
Jessie dragged the body of a woman she killed to protect herself and her family back when Alexandria was attacked and took it to the graveyard where she was planning to bury it. She placed on the body on the ground and titled her head to the side, seeing the pile of bodies of many other attackers who were killed by either Carol or Heather during the attack. She could tell those were the bodies of the attackers as she couldn't recognize any of these people and because they weren't covered by sheets, just like the bodies of her neighbours who met their end in the attack were.
She turned away from it a second later and picked up a shovel which was laying nearby. She started to dig a hole, intending to dig a quick grave for the unknown woman and get this over with as quickly as she could as she didn't want to give this unknown man anymore of her time. She shifted her attention from the place she was digging a grave and saw Rick walk into the graveyard, holding a sheet covered body on his shoulder.
"Don't." He told her, seeing she was digging a grave for one of the attackers. He grunted as he took the body off his shoulder and placed it on the ground, "We don't bury killers inside the walls."
Jessie sighed, "We aren't going out there. So what do we do?"
"We wait." Rick replied as Jessie nodded at him.
Lorenzo climbed up the ladder leading to the lookout post close to the main gate of Alexandria, intending to take a look at the herd surrounding his home right now. After reaching the top of the lookout post, he slowly walked to the edge of it and took a good look around himself, seeing how many walkers were trying to get inside his home right now.
He felt a small dose of fear go through his body at the view of so many walkers, like it always did whenever he found himself in a place with so many walkers at the same time, but he did his best to make this feeling go away, leaving the expression on his face blank. He didn't want to feel it anymore as it already caused him so many problems. He let out a sigh as he continued to stare at the herd nearby the main gate with a blank look on his face.
"Lorenzo?" A voice echoed behind him, taking his attention off the walkers. He titled his head to look who it was and saw Emma climbing up the wall, "What are you doing here?"
Lorenzo looked away from her to look back at the herd, "I felt like I had to take a look at this so I am here right now. What about you?"
"Same here." Emma replied as she stopped next to Lorenzo and set her eyes on the walkers on the other side of the wall. She let out a sigh as she eyed all the walkers nearby the main gate, feeling like a fool. In the end, Noah was right about everything, "I can't believe how stupid I was for all this time."
"I can't stop thinking about all the people that have died because I was a coward ever since I woke up." Lorenzo admitted, "I'm thinking about Nicholas and Aiden too. All of them died and yet I am still here." He held up his hand stump to clarify his point, "I lost my hand because of how big of a coward I am. I wasn't paying attention to my surroundings back when we were on this one supply run and only cared about finding a way out of the place. To be honest I wouldn't even hesitate to leave Alejandro behind if it would ensure my survival if I wasn't bitten." He clenched his hand in his good hand, "I'm done being with the person I was for all this time. I will no longer a coward people will have to die for."
"Me too." Emma nodded in agreement, "I don't know if you know but I had to kill someone to save Kitty from the attackers. I still have my bloody footprints in the corridor on the upper floor of my house. After what happened with Pete and after we were attacked…I woke up, things aren't going to get better just because we want them to. They aren't going to get better just because we're pretending like the world isn't what it is. There is no room left for being afraid anymore. We have to do things we hate to make it now. Sometimes that might mean killing someone else to ensure someone we care about will survive."
Lorenzo silently nodded his head in agreement, unsure of how he should reply to her words.
Emma shifted her attention frim him and the herd to the ladder a few seconds later, "I will get going. I and Kitty asked Izzy and Noah to train us personally and I don't want to be late on our first training session. Brick and Jo and a few people from Rick's group will train everyone else. Perharps you should ask them to let you join them. This way you could improve yourself."
"Maybe. I'll think about it." Lorenzo replied as Emma climbed down the ladder and left the lookout post, leaving him alone. He muttered to himself a few seconds, shaking his head, "I just hope I won't be an inconvenience to them, because I have one hand. I don't want to be a burden to everyone around me anymore."
Aaron and Brick walked together through the streets of Alexandria. They didn't exchange many words with each other after they started walking together, having only talked about the pictures which lead the attackers to their home. Aaron stopped in his tracks for a moment and Brick followed his example a second later after seeing this. He looked in the direction Brick was looking at and saw Maggie, Heather and Bridgette.
The three women were working on something as Heather rigged a flashlight to a rod. The three of them stopped what they were doing a few seconds later after realizing they were being watched. They looked at Brick and Aaron, exchanging glances with them. Brick and Aaron stared at them for a few seconds, not saying anything to them, before starting to walk along the street again.
They stopped in their tracks a moment later as something ahead of them caught their attention. They saw a few Alexandrians painting the names of the deceased on a memorial section of the wall. The list included names of Glenn, Geoff, Alejandro, Brody and Nicholas at the bottom of it. Brick elbowed Aaron and Aaron titled his head to look at him with a questioning look on his face.
Brick pointed at one place in the distance, the very same place where the two of them saw Maggie, Heather and Bridgette. They saw the three women running up the hill, heading somewhere. Realizing what they were planning to do and where they were heading right now, Aaron and Brick quickly turned around and started to make their way towards where they thought they will find the three women.
They found them in the armory a few moments later. They stopped in the doorway as the three women were unaware of their arrival at the armory, because they were too busy putting bullets into the magazines for whatever they were planning to do.
"You're going out?" Aaron asked as Heather, Bridgette and Maggie looked at him and Brick, "The flashlights, the rebar, the rope. You lower them off the wall a good distance apart, maybe spin them. That way, the walkers are drawn to each one and you open up a path. Now you're gearing up. Just waiting for dark, right?"
Brick stepped closer to them as Bridgette, Heather and Maggie remained silent and focused on their task, "What happens when you twist an ankle jumping down? Hmm? Bridgette may be a doctor, but I don't think she will be able to patch you up in time. Or you just get slowed down by one of them and then you have to deal with all of them? Or if you will be separated from each other by the herd?" I can't let you do this."
"You can't stop me." Maggie replied.
"People we love are still out there and we ain'g going to wait for them to return." Heather added.
"Exactly." Bridgette nodded in agreement, "My baby is going to need their father."
Aaron sighed, "I'm going to help you. And I know a safer way out."
"I can vouch for Aaron." Brick added, "He showed me it shorty after I and Jo started living in Alexandria."
Deanna rested her head on her right hand as she had her eyes set on the wedding ring of Reg, having lost the count of how long she was doing this and nothing else after arriving back at her house. It was when she felt something hit her. She snapped herself out of the daze she was in ever since she saw Rick and Chef running away from the herd of the walkers.
She quickly got up from her seat, placing Reg's wedding ring on the table and moved to her right to grab a map on a pencil from the other table in the room. She quickly placed the map on the table and unrolled it, giving herself a perfectly good view on everything her community had to offer at the moment. She picked up the pencil and started excitedly drawing out plans for an expansion of the community.
Many of her plans regarding the future of Alexandria included forward-looking notes like, "crops", 'education' and 'exploration', having made plans to built buildings which were going to allow them do such things. At the bottom of the plans she wrote down the Latin motto "DOLOR HIC TIBI PRODERIT OLIM" which meant "Someday this pain will be useful to you".
A small smile grew on her face, feeling a tiny bit of hope regarding the future of Alexandria growing inside her. Unfortunely her smile didn't last long. It was she heard something, most likely either a glass or a plate, break in the kitchen. She walked out of the room and made her way into the kitchen, wanting to know what was responsible for making this noise.
She saw Spencer kneeling over a broken glass in the kitchen. She stopped in her tracks and leaned against the doorway as Spencer started putting the broken parts of the glass into the unkroken part of it. Her eyes widened, having realized the state her son was in. He was drunk.
Spencer let out a snort, "My bad."
Deanna stepped closer to him, "Are you drunk?"
"Getting there." Spencer replied as he got up from the floor and put the ruined glass in the sink.
Deanna set her eyes on the basket on the counter, seeing all of the food there came from the pantry, "This came from the pantry. You- you stole it?"
"I wouldn't call it that." Spencer replied, pouring himself another glass of Whiskey.
"So what you told everyone... that was just bullshit?" Deanna asked.
"No. If they all went in and raided the pantry and everyone knew it, saw it, then that would be the end." Spencer replied, "But one person? One person, and no one ever would know. So, why not me? I stopped that little run at the bank. I deserve a reward. One last celebration. Because they were right, Mom, and you know it. We're all gonna be dead real soon."
Deanna looked at him with a dissappointed look on her face, "Damn it, Spencer!"
"Me? Now that is some bullshit!" Spencer snapped, throwing the glass on the floor as he stepped closer to his mother, "You're the reason we're so screwed. You made us this way. We were never safe here. But you didn't want to see that. You didn't want us to see that. You just wanted to dream. What happened to Dad, to Aiden, that's all you."
Deanna stared at Spencer in shock before slowly turning away from him to the basket of stolen supplies. Spencer stared at her for a few seconds before storming out of the kitchen as Deanna started to place the supplies back into the basket.
The door to the clinic was opened and Tara walked into it. The first thing she saw upon entering was Denise. Denise was sitting on the floor with a few medical book surrounding her. She saw Scott too. Scott was laying on the medical bed with his eyes closed. From what she was seeing right now, he seemed to be in a stable condition. Bridgette must have patched him up after Heath and Sky brought him into the clinic before leaving the place to do her own thing.
Denise closed the book she was reading in frustation and slided it across the floor away from her. Tara stopped it with her boot, making her presence known to Denise as Denise sniffed, "Sorry. Got away from me."
"You're still here?" Denise asked, "I thought you and Bridgette already patched up Scott's wound."
Denise shook her head, "Don't."
"'Kay." Tara replied as she grabbed a nearby chair and sat down on it, "Won't tell you you're being brave, either."
"He hasn't woken up. His wound would get infected if it wasn't for Bridgette." Denise replied.
"It's good, right?" Tara asked, "You prevented his condition from getting worse."
"Bridgette stopped. Not me." Denise pointed out, "She did everything and I just stood in the background and watched everything. I didn't know what the hell to do. So it doesn't really matter what I'm being. Why are you here?"
"My head hurts." Tara replied.
"On a scale of one to 10, how bad?" Denise questioned.
"I'm lying." Tara responded, "I'm just checking on you."
"Well... here I am." Denise let out a humorless chuckle, "Clueless on the floor."
"You patched people up without Bridgette having to help while doing so." Tara pointed out, "You're helping make things better."
"I'm sure he would die if it wasn't for Bridgette." Denise stated, gesturing towards Scott, "I shouldn't be here. I'm just an inconvenience to her."
"You know Bridgette wouldn't think like that." Tara said, "She's just too good a person to think of anyone he considers her friend this way."
"Did she tell you that she wanted me to deliver her child?" Denise asked, "She trusts me with the task of delivering her child, even though I have no idea what I am doing for most of the time. I just want him to live and for the roamers to go away. And for a doctor, someone actually capable of being Bridgette's assistant, to show up at the gates so I can go back to my apartment and keep reading "War and Peace." But here comes the end of the world."
Tara got up from the chair and placed it back where it was before walking to the exit from the clinic, "I don't know about that. It's not like I don't feel it. You know, being afraid sucks."
She kicked the medical book closer to Denise as Denise caught it with her hand before it could slam into her. Tara walked out of the clinic, leaving Denise all alone there with her thoughts.
Chris walked silently through the streets of Alexandira, wanting to check on Betsy. He delivered her David's finale letter earlier today and left her in her house after she asked him if he could leave her alone. He complied to her wish as he knew she deserved some privacy while reading the last letter from her late husband. He nodded his head to himself after Betsy's house appeared in his view, knowing he was getting closer to it.
He reached his destination a few moments later. He started to make his way up the stairs onto the porch as Jessie walked past him, carrying a bag with something in her right hand. He froze in his tracks a second later as a hand banged against the front window of the house. Alarmed by him suddenly stopping in his tracks, Jessie looked at the house next to her and saw walker Betsy trying to free itself from the house.
Chris shook his head, having realized what Betsy did to herself after seeing how much blood she had on her right hand, "Oh, no."
A shocked and terrified gasp echoed behind him. He looked over his shoulder and saw Barbara watching everything from the street with her hand over her mouth, clearly terrified by her discovery of Betsy's walker. Bruce, Tobin, Rock, Chet, Zoey, B and a few other Alexandrians arrived at the scene after hearing Barbara's terrified gasp, seeing the walker Betsy inside her house.
Knowing there was something he had to do about it, Chris pulled out his knife and walked closer to the door. He slowly opened the door as walker Betsy walked over to it, sticking her head out of the house. He slowly stabbed her in the middle of the forehead, killing her for good. He pulled his knife out of her forehead as walker Betsy fell on the ground, dead.
"At least you're with David, right now." He whispered to himself, sheathing his knife. He turned away from her and saw the looks everyone aside from Jessie were giving him right now.
"I used to not want to see..." Jessie spoke up for him before he could say anything to the people watching him as she turned around to face everyone gathered around Betsy's house, "The way things are. It's not that I couldn't. It's that I- I didn't want to. But this is what life looks like now. We have to see it. We have to fight it. If we don't fight, we die."
"She's right." Chris walked down the steps of the porch, "I used to be in your shoes. There was a time when I was barely able to kill a walker and it almost got me killed one night before I realized what has become of the world around us. The saying I was lucky enough to grab a rock when it happened would be quite the understatement. You have to fight to keep yourself alive these days otherwise you won't last long."
"What made you realize it?" Zoey asked.
"I had to kill a bandit to keep my group from danger." Chris gave her an honest answer, recalling the events of the night where he, Chef, Rick and Glenn left Hershel's farm to look for Hershel and DJ after the entire fiasco with the barn.
After leaving the armory with all the necessary equipment, Aaron and Brick lead Maggie, Bridgette and Heather through Alexandria to one place which they could use to get themselves on the other side of the wall without having to deal with the herd surrounding Alexandria in the process. Maggie, Heather and Bridgette stared at the wall ahead of them, thinking Brick and Aaron would help them climb it up. It confused them a bit as Brick and Aaron told them they weren't going to climb over the walls.
"I thought you said we weren't going over." Maggie pointed out.
"We're not." Aaron replied, kneeling down in front of the sewage gate, "We're going under."
"This leads to a sewer that was part of the old neighborhood that was here before they built this up." Brick explained as he crouched down to help Aaron with the sewage gate, "It'll take us under the wall..." He paused for a moment to lift up the gate after Aaron unscrewed it, "...and hopefully past the walkers."
"Thanks... but we will be going out there without you two." Maggie said as Bridgette and Heather nodded in agreement.
"Maggie..." Aaron said, "I can't- I can't watch more names go up on that wall."
"Let us help you." Brick added, "Please."
Knowing they won't be able to convince Brick and Aaron to not go with them into the sewers, Maggie, Bridgette and Heather agreed to their help. The group of five slowly climbed down into the sewers. Once all of them were underground, the group of five started to walk forward themselves through the sewers. Aaron and Brick walked in front of Maggie, Heather and Bridgette, trying to find a way out of the sewers
"If they're alive." Maggie broke the silence that formed between them after all of them climbed down into the sewers.
Brick looked over his shoulder at her with a questioning look on his face, "If?"
"He told Michonne he would've found some way to signal us if he got out." Maggie explained, "If he's alive or he's hurt or trapped, maybe taken. If he's alive, he needs my help. That's why I'm doing this. And if he's dead, I don't want to be waiting on him."
"Geoff and Alejandro told Michonne they will try to lead the herd away from them after Glenn and Nicholas' plan to cause an explosion failed." Bridgette explained her reasons for coming with Maggie and Heather, "I have to come find him and see if he's alive or not. My baby is going to need their father to grow up in a world like this. I want to find Alejandro, Glenn and Brody too, because they're my friends."
"I just want to see if Alejandro is okay." Heather explained herself, "I know he can handle himself out there but I have to make sure. I can't lose him."
"None of this is your fault." Maggie told Brick and Aaron, realizing why they wanted to help them, "You don't need to do this."
"You're right." Brick said, "Aaron doesn't need to do this, because it wasn't his fault. He didn't lose his pack, unlike me."
"Don't shift the blame on just yourself." Aaron said, "If we both agreed with Daryl and Duncan, then you wouldn't lose your pack while getting away from the walkers. I'm as much guilty in this sitaution as you are. People are dead. I was a part of that as much you did and I have to live with that."
The group of five continued to make their way through the sewer for a few more minutes until Brick and Aaron stopped in their tracks, which caused Maggie, Heather and Bridgette to stop in their tracks too. Aaron shined his flashlight at one spot in the part of the sewers they have just entered and saw there wasn't a ladder there, just like he hoped it would.
"I haven't been down here since I showed Brick and Jo this place. This ladder must've fallen a long time ago." He said.
Brick nodded in agreement, "I recall it was barely holding itself together when you took me and Jo down here."
Heather moved closer to the blocked path in front of them, "Let's try and get it out of here."
"Yeah." Aaron nodded in agreement, getting himself ready to unblock the path in front of them, "On three, ready?" Heather nodded at him, "One, two, three..."
Aaron and Heather began pulling something closer to themselves, trying to unblock the path in front them as Brick, Bridgette and Maggie waited for them to get this over with. Unfortunely something went wrong pretty quickly as the part Aaron was holding couldn't take it anymore and had broken off from the rest. Aaron was hit in the head with the part he was trying to pull away and stumbled backwards. He landed against the wall and slided down it, landing on his butt with some blood coming out of his forehead.
"Aaron!" Heather shouted in worry for him as Aaron winced in pain.
Bridgette looked at him in worry, "Are you okay?"
"I'm okay." Aaron replied, "The ladder caught me."
His eyes widened as he heard snarling in front of him. He flashed his flashlight in the direction of the snarling, allowing himself and his group to take a look at a walker. The undead was crawling out of the sewage much. It looked horrible. It looked more like a green skeleton than a walker. It must have been here for a long time. Heather pulled out her knife and was about to get rid of it.
It was when a second walker walked into her view, taking her by suprise. The walker shoved itself towards her as Maggie came in her aid and stabbed the walker right int he head, killing it. The crawling walker continued to crawl itself out of the sewage muck, trying to reach the people in front of it as Bridgette stabbed it in the head with her knfe, getting rid of it as Brick helped Aaron up.
"You okay?" Maggie asked Heather.
"Yeah. It just took me by suprise. Thanks." Heather replied with a grateful look on her face.
Bridgette pointed at Aaron's bloodied forehead in worry, "Aaron... your head. Come here." Aaron did as instructed, allowing Bridgette to take a look at his forehead. He winced at her touch, "This could need stitches. Brick take Aaron back to Alexandria. Denise will patch him up."
"No. Just lead the way. Please?" Aaron replied as Maggie, Bridgette and Heather reluctantly took the lead of the group, walking further in the sewer.
Tara sat all by herself on the steps leading up to the porch of some random house, sharpening her knife as she had nothing else to do right now. She paused for a moment in her activity as she heard someone stop in front of her and saw Denise standing in front of her with a smile on her face. A completely different mood from the mood she saw in her when she paid her a visit in the clinic.
"How are you doing? Are you better?" She asked.
Denise's smile grew wider as she put her hands on Tara's cheeks and moved her head closer to her, pressing her lips against hers. Tara was suprised by her action for a second but slowly melted into the kiss and kissed her back. The kiss lasted a few more seconds before Denise released Tara from the kiss as Tara looked up at her with a suprised look on her face.
Denise sat down next to her as Tara titled her head to the side to look at her, "What is it?"
"It's the end of the world." Denise replied.
Tara shook her head, "No, it's not."
"Yeah." Denise nodded, "Being afraid sucks."
Tara nodded back at her with a smile slowly growing on her face.
Bridgette, Heather, Maggie, Aaron and Brick continued to walk through the sewage tunnel for a few more minutes, despise Bridgette trying to convince Brick and Aaron to return to Alexandria until they reached the end of the sewage tunnel. Unfortunely they couldn't walk out of the sewers right away as it was blocked by a gate. Brick and Aaron moved towards the gate, trying to get it open as Maggie, Heather and Bridgette took a look outside, seeing how many walkers was there right now.
Maggie pointed at the walkers close to the exit from the tunnel, "We're still too close."
"We just have to get through a few of them, then we're gone." Aaron replied.
Brick nodded in agreement, "We're gonna make it."
Maggie shook her head, "No."
"It's too risky." Bridgette stated as Heather nodded in agreement.
Ignoring their doubts, Aaron asked, "You ready?"
"No, we can't." Bridgette shook her head.
"You can stay." Brick replied, "I and Aaron will go."
"No!" Maggie snapped, "It's over!" The volume of her voice allerted the walkers outside a few of them made their way to the gate, beginning to slam themselves against it in an attempt to reach them. Maggie, Heather, Bridgette, Brick and Aaron backed away from the gate, watching how the walkers formed a group around it, "I burned his last picture of him because I said I wasn't gonna need it anymore. Because I was never gonna be away from him again." She began to tear up, "I'm pregnant."
Heather looked at her with a shocked look on her face, "What?"
"You too?" Bridgette asked in shock.
Maggie gave them a tearful nod in response as she continued, "He didn't want me to go out there and I said yes. And if I would've gone... if I was with him, maybe I could've helped him. I don't know if he's alive. He would've shown me by now. That's what Michonne said."
"Remember how Rick asked Geoff to go with Abraham, Sasha and Harold and he told him to put someone else for this job because he wanted to be close to me during my pregnancy?" Bridgette asked, beginning to tear up herself, "I just couldn't help but wonder what would happen if he didn't ask Rick to put him somewhere else for my sake. Perharps if he went with Abraham, Sashan and Harold, then maybe he wouldn't be lost right now. I just want to know if he's alright."
Maggie moved towards her and embraced her in a tight comforting hug, feeling like the two of the needed it right now. Brick, Heather and Aaron slowly followed her example and joined the hug. The group of five continued their group hug for a few more moments, paying no attention to the walkers which were trying to get the gate in front of them open.
Jessie sat down on the steps leading up to the upper floor of her house with a tray of cookies on her knees. Darren hadn't come out of his room for a long time and she thought or rather hoped she will be able to get him to come out of his room after preparing him his favourite snack.
"Darren." She called out for her youngest son, "I made you some cookies."
Darren opened the door to his room and walked over to the railing, "Could you bring them up here, please?"
"No, Darren." Jessie shook her head at him as Darren sat down on the floor, leaning his back against the wall next to him, "Why don't you wanna come downstairs?"
"I just don't wanna go down there." Darren responded.
"Why?" Jessie wanted to know.
"I just... it didn't change up here." Darren gave her an honest answer.
Jessie sighed and cleared her throat, "Well, I'm more than halfway up, so technically I'm upstairs. You can come here and you won't be downstairs."
"No, it's okay, then." Darren replied as he got up from the floor and returned to his room, making Jessie sigh.
Jessie came down the stairs and was about to take the cookies she prepared back to the kitchen, but changed her mind after a few seconds. She made her way to the upper floor of her house and stopped in front of the door to Darren's room. She placed the tray in front of the closed door and and knocked on the door a few times before turning away and making her way back to the lower floor of her house.
It was night and Deanna was on her way to tha pantry to return the supplies Spencer had stolen from there. She stopped in her tracks in front of one house, overhearing the conversation the people were having inside it or rather hearing it only in her mind before she was forced to set her attention someplace else. It was when a walker of one of the attackers attacked her from behind.
She screamed in fear as she dropped the basket on the ground. She moved to the side out of the walkers' way as the walker tripped over the basket and fell to the ground. Deanna looked at the walker with fear evident on her face and in her eyes as the walker slowly got itself back on it's feet. She snapped herself out the daze she was in ever since her argument with Spencer and picked up a broken bottle from the ground.
"Come on, you son of a bitch." She said as the walkers continued to advance towards her.
She stabbed the walker in the chest the moment it got close to her and proceeded to repeat this action over and over again, covering her face and her clothes in it's blood. She managed to bring the walker down the ground after a few more stabs to the chest and immediately used it to her advantage. She grabbed the walker by it's shirt and stabbed it in the chest several more times, covering herself in even more blood before Rick ran out of the darkness and arrived at the scene. He stabbed the walker in the head the moment he got close to it and Deanna, finishing it off for good.
"Carol said she and Heather got one of them, but she couldn't find the body. He must have been under there." Rick stated as he pointed towards where the walker came from. He set his eyes on Deanna a second later as Deanna started to bring herself back on her feet. Rick helped her up a bit as the two of them continued to stare at each other in silence.
"...I want to live." Deanna spoke up to him after staying silent for a few moments, "I want this place to stay standing. You need to lead them. They don't need me, Rick. What they need is you."
She turned away from Rick and walked away from him to clean herself from the blood as Rick watched her walk away from him for a few moments.
Maggie, Heather and Bridgette were gathered in front of the memorial wall with the names of the deceased members of Alexandria, their eyes set on the names of Geoff, Glenn, Brody, Nicholas and Alejandro. The three of them exchanged glances with each other and nodded, knowing what they had to do next. They quickly started wiping their names off the memorial walls. Geoff, Glenn, Alejandro, Brody and Nicholas could have still been alive and they weren't going to have their names on the wall unless they will be sure about it.
It was when Brick and Aaron arrived at the memorial wall, the latter now having a dressing on the spot where he had hit his forehead back in the sewers. The two them joined Maggie, Bridgette and Heather in what they were doing right now, wanting to have them get this over with faster. The five of them remained silent for a few moment as they continued to wipe the names off the memorial wall.
"When they gets back, it's worth mentioning that Aaron, Erin, works for a boy or a girl, depending on the spelling." Aaron broke the silence between them as he referred to Geoff and Glenn coming back with the rest, causing everyone to stop what they were doing to look at him.
"The same goes for Jo." Brick added with a slight smile growing his face, "This name is pretty nice and it works perfectly for both genders."
"I can't say my or Alejandro's name works for both genders, but they are nice names. Don't you agree?" Heather allowed herself to form a grin on her face as Bridgette and Maggie stared at her, Aaron and Brick for a few seconds before grins formed on their faces.
The group of five stared at each other for a few seconds before all of them chuckled at the conversation they were having right now.
Bridgette took her right hand away from the memorial wall and placed it on her belly. She smiled at Maggie, "At least my and Geoff's child will have a friend their age while growing up."
Maggie smiled back at her, "I can say the same for my and Glenn's child."
Jessie was in her garage all by herself, getting something done inside it before her attention was brought to the opened front entrance of it as she heard someone walk into the garage. She saw Rick enter the garage, setting her entire attention on him. The two of them stared at each other in silence for a few seconds before Rick broke the silence between them.
"Those bodies by the graveyard..." Rick brought up the conversation they had earlier today to her, "The reason I wanted to wait was... was Glenn, Geoff and Alejandro. We don't know if they're still out there. And Daryl, Duncan, Harold Sasha, Abraham and Sanders. I wanted them back by now. I wanted those things gone. I just wanted to wait."
Jessie nodded at him before pointing out to him, "You said it could go on a while."
"I did." Rick admitted with a nod of his head, "And it could."
"Rick, it already has." Jessie stated, "They could still be alive. We're not moving past that. You know, it's just- right here, in this moment... this is it, this is what it is."
"This is what life looks like now." Rick brought up Jessie's words from earlier, having heard about it from Chris.
"You heard about that?" Jessie asked.
"I did." Rick nodded in confirmation, "From Chris."
"I wasn't saying there wasn't a future. There's gotta be." Jessie replied as Rick stared at her in silence, "Tell me there's more."
Rick slowly moved towards her and placed his hand on her left cheek. He leaned closer to her and pressed his lips against hers in a kiss. Jessie kissed him back, quickly melting into the kiss and the two of them continued their kiss, managing to forget about the situation they found themselves in for a brief moment.
Welp, The Walking Dead has come to an end. Despise it's ups and downs, I am definitely going to miss this show and to be honest it's kinda hard saying goodbye to to it as has been a part of my life for about ten years now. I was tearing up during the last section of the episode showing the world one year after the events of season 11. All I cay say right now is thank you The Walking Dead for being a part of my life for so many years. Don't even get me started on the last scene with a certain character. A large grin spread over my face as soon as I heard his voice :)
Finally watched Spy x Family and what can I say about this anime? It's so wholesome. I love the family dynamic between Loid, Yor and Anya. I binged the entire thing in two days.
Hope it wasn't that bad. See you in another chapter.