The following day I took the kids to school as usual. They were excited to find Auntie Carol and The King were having them for the weekend. I got back to the house and packed a small bag of clothes up for each of them.

Daryl had a few things to do before we had the weekend to ourselves. I went to Carols house and dropped off the bags.

"How's things?" she asked.

"Good I'm just about to clean up the house and wait for Daryl to see what he has install for me for the weekend" I smiled.

"Oh yeah, how come you aren't doing the hunt for Rick?" she asked.

"Daryl said we deserved a break and Aaron a few of the others from Alexandria said they would take over when ever we wanted" I replied.

"It's true you have had a lot on recently, plus you haven't had a proper honeymoon or anything" She said.

"Who has honeymoons these days" I laughed.

"Well you know things are getting back to normal now aren't they" Carol said, "You two out of everyone deserve to have some time away from all this"

"You know something don't you" I said looking at her sheepishly.

"My lips are sealed" she laughed.

I laughed and left. I got back to the house and started doing my work out when there was a knock on the door. I jumped out of my skin, I wasn't used to it still and I was always on edge. I had a gun a knife and a baseball bat that I had at hand always still. I went to the door and looked through the spy hole to see it was Mercer.

I got on with him and I saw him most days, but he never came round for a social call unless he was with Princess or Max.

I opened the door and smiled.

"Morning" I said.

"Yeah I just wanted to tell you that I am picking you up in an hour" he smiled.

"what do you mean?" I asked.

"I have been instructed by Dixon to come and collect you and your bags in an hour" he replied with his smile getting bigger.

"Okay" I said feeling really confused.

"So I will be seeing you then" he said walking off down the porch.

"Yeah see you in an hour" I waved.

I quickly ran upstairs and jumped in the shower. I had washed my hair the night before so I only had to style it. When I got into my dressing room I could see there were two bags packed, which upon inspection was for Daryl and I. I did my make up, which took the most amount of time. I straightened my hair before the enormous task of finding what to wear. I had become more conservative since being the first lady but I knew this weekend was going to be our weekend to be ourselves so I wanted to be my normal self. I wore leggings a black vest top a denim jacket and my black hightops. I didn't want to get to dressy because Daryl wasn't like that, and I also wanted to be prepared in case we left the commonwealth. I added Jewellery to make me look a bit more fancy. I sprayed my perfume and put my makeup in my bag, then carried them down stairs. I had a little look to what he had packed for me and there was one nice dress and heels. There was not a chance in hell that Daryl had packed this bag. I quickly ran upstairs and grabbed my curlers and hairspray to put in my bag. I heard the door go as I was just finishing in the toilet.

Mercer was outside with a horse and carriage at the end of our path.

"Your carriage awaits" he laughed. Taking the bags from me and escorting me to the carriage. He went to open the door and I moved his hand. "Don't start all that" I scowled.

"Sorry Mia" he said looking embarrassed.

"It's okay just don't do it again" I said winking. I climbed up into it and settled down.

"We travelled up to the training grounds where we picked up Daryl. He looked as handsome as ever. He jumped in the back with me and gave me a kiss.

"What is all this about?" I asked.

"If I can't treat my wife then there's something seriously wrong" he grinned.

"Can you tell me where we are going?" I asked.

"Not a chance" he laughed.

"you are a shit" I said sticking my fingers up at him.

"You look stunning by the way" he said kissing me again.

"Thank you babe" I said grabbing his hand.

We travelled for a while right up to the edge of the walls on the south end of the commonwealth. There was another horse and cart waiting for us that had been organised by the little settlement out there. Mercer bid us a goodbye and we got in the horse and cart with our bags and left the Commonwealth.

"where are we going please?" I asked.

"Just wait" he said.

We travelled talking and I was sunning myself as it was a red hot day. We had gotten married just before Alexandria fell. It was a beautiful little ceremony and literally the whole of the community partied afterwards. I wore a beautiful dress that had been made by one of the girls who lived in Alexandria. Daryl even wore a suit and did his hair. Carol did our cake and Gabrielle preformed the ceremony in the church we had built. I loved Alexandria and when it fell because of Alpha and her dickhead crew I was absolutely gutted. The church was burnt to the ground and our house was ruined. The only comfort was that we all got out alive and it was beginning to be re built now Daryl was in charge. We had left Aaron there to over see things and we had left Maggie at Hilltop doing the exact same thing there. The Kingdom had no chance and everyone had moved to either Alexandria or Hilltop. Before the uprising Maggie had point blank refused to join the commonwealth, but now we were in charge she had agreed and we had contracted people to go over and re build for them.

After over an hour of travelling we came to a road I was very familiar with.

"Are we going to Alexandria?" I asked.

"Just wait and see" he said.

"Oh my God I hope so I miss it so bad" I said getting emotional.

"Hey come here" he said, putting his one arm around me and squeezing me.

"I can't help it, that was the first proper place we had after everything we went through, and obviously we lost Glenn and Abe there. Plus we got married there. Its just home isn't it" I sighed.

"I know what you mean, and believe me babe once we have sorted the commonwealth out and that we can move back, I promise" he said.

"I want to grow old there, have our own family there and be with our people" I said, wiping my eyes.

"And that is what we shall do" he grinned.

"I love you" I said.

"love you more" he said kissing the side of my head.

After awhile the familiar sight of the Alexandrian gate and walls came into view. I was so happy and I couldn't wait to see everyone. When we got to the gates I heard them say "they're here" and then the gate opened.

There was Aaron and Grace (Aaron's daughter) She came running to us and gave us the biggest of hugs.

"I have missed you two so much" she said.

"we have missed you too" Daryl said picking her up and giving her the biggest hug and kiss.

"You wait for your surprise" Grace said.

"what surprise is that?" I asked.

"You will see" she giggled.

Aaron gave me a hug and a kiss, and I held him so tight. I pulled away to see he was emotional as well as me.

"I have missed you so much" he said.

"Same, how long as it been?" I asked.

"2 and a half months" he replied.

"Gosh that is the longest we have ever been apart since the day I met you" I said.

"I know we have really missed you" he said rubbing Grace's hair.

Him and Daryl hugged before someone came and helped us in with the horses. As I walked through the gates I was so taken aback with how they had progressed with the rebuild.

"oh Aaron it looks amazing" I said rubbing his back.

"You haven't seen anything yet" He grinned.

We walked towards the lake when I saw the house in the distance. When I say house I mean our house. We walked right up to it and it looked amazing pretty much the same as it was before. I literally burst into tears.

"Do you not like it?" Grace asked.

"I love it" I replied, "these are happy tears"

Daryl handed me the keys and I went and unlocked the front door. When I opened it I was in total shock. They had decorated it beautifully and right on the wall as you walked in was a large painting of all of the originals. Daryl, me, Aaron, Eugene,Abe,Rosita, Gabe, Sadiq, Maggie,Glenn Michonne,Carl,Rick,Tara, Carol, The King, Jerry, Negan, Sasha, and Jesus.

It was all over then I was sobbing. I went all around the house looking at all the trinkets and meaningful things. In Judith's bedroom there was the piece of wood with her and Carls handprints on the wall in some artwork. In our room there was a picture of us together on our wedding day and also pictures of the kids and all our family that Aaron had taken and got developed.

It was stunning and I was so overwelmed.

"Do you love it?" Daryl asked.

"I adore it, this is exactly what I wanted and more. It is perfect" I said kissing him.

"Well we have one more surprise for you" Daryl said looking at Aaron.

"What's that?" I asked.

"Come with us" Grace said, grabbing my hand. We walked out of the house and down passed the lake into the far end of Alexandria, to see stood in all its glory the church.

"OH MY GOD" I said clasping my hand to my mouth, It was exactly how it was before, even down to the stained glass that had been made. It was absolutely amazing and I was speechless.

We went inside and saw how amazing it truly was. "I can't believe how incredible it looks" I said, holding Daryls hand.

"We decided that we would wait for you to name it" Aaron said.

"What?" I asked.

"We wanted you to name the church" Aaron said again.

"Why me?" I asked looking confused.

"Because you guys made the biggest impact on this community and you are the leaders of the commonwealth now so who better to name it" Aaron smiled.

"Well Daryl, would be the better choice" I said.

"You know that I am no good at anything like that" He laughed.

"Well I will need sometime to think" I said.

"No rush" Aaron grinned.

"Anyway we better get on" Daryl said.

"Why what are we doing now?" I asked.

"Just shut up and come on" he said grabbing my hand.

We walked through the streets and spoke to people that we hadn't seen for ages. Jerry came out on his porch and all his kids came running to us. We gave them all hugs and kisses before speaking to Jerry.

"Hey hows things?" he asked gripping me in a big bear hug.

"Good, I can't believe how amazing this place looks" I said.

"I know it's great isn't it" he replied. We chatted for a while and asked when he was coming back to the commonwealth as he was only there to help re build Alexandria.

"Nabila and the kids are due to come back in two weeks, and then I am back the following week, in time for Halloween" he said.

"I can't wait to have you back" I smiled.

We left Jerry and the kids and headed back to the house. Daryl picked me up and carried me over the thresh hold.

"You are one crazy fool" I laughed.

He placed me down on the sofa, he began kissing me passionatly and trying to get me naked.

"Daryl, I didn't bring my pills and I don't have any condoms" I said.

"So one time will be okay and you only missed one pill chill" he laughed.

We ended up having sex with no pretection, but he was right, surely my pill was still in my system from yesterday.

We had a shower together and Daryl told me that we needed to get ready for another surprise.

So I curled my hair and did my makeup and wore the beautiful dress and heels that someone had packed for me. Once I was ready I went down stairs and Daryl was stood there with a beautiful bunch of roses.

"Oh you are just the cutest" I said taking them from him and kissing him.

"Come on we need to go" he said grabbing my hand.

We walked down towards the lake and behind the houses I saw it.

The Gazebo that was burnt down, where I used to sit with carl and where Daryl and I would have most of our secret dates before everyone knew we were together.

The Gazebo was lit up with fairy lights and I could see a table dressed for dinner.

"You know you Mr Dixon, to say you weren't a very relationship kind of guy you are very romantic" I laughed, fighting back tears.

"What can I say I fell in love with a weirdo and she changed my whole outlook on life" he said kissing me.