The following day we packed up and said our goodbyes and headed off back to the commonwealth.
It was another lovely day and we took it in turns to stear the was another lovely day and we took it in turns to steer the horses. Daryl had the horn half way back and he tried to make me stop and do bits.
"what if someone comes along and sees or try's to rob us?" I asked.
"Don't be stupid and anyway I can be quick" he laughed. So we pulled over and had a quicky in the back of the cart. After we set off again I kept laughing and getting embarrassed.
"Live a little" Daryl said.
"I know it's just funny isn't it, acting like a couple of teenagers" I laughed.
We eventually got to the border of the commonwealth and transferred everything over to the big carriage that Mercer was waiting with. Daryl and I were like kids in the carriage doing bits on the sly so Mercer couldn't see.
I had to keep really quiet but it was hard. We got back to our house just before dusk, and as soon as we pulled up Judith and RJ came running up the street. I bent down and embraced them both.
"I love you two so much" I said kissing them.
Daryl picked them both up and gave them a kiss.
"We have prezzies" Daryl said.
"Yayyyy" RJ said grinning.
"Come on lets get inside, Uncle Daryl and Mercer can bring them in I want to hear all about your weekend" I said. Carol and The king were walking towards the house so I decided to put the kettle on. I sat cuddling the kids on the sofa telling them how much I had missed them and kissing them.
Carol made the drinks whilst we showed the kids their gifts. They both loved them so much. Mercer and the king put coco's gift out in the summer house in the back garden and took Judith's desk to her room. Rj was already out in the garden practising with Daryl.
When everyone had left and the boys were outside I sat with Judith letting her brush my hair.
"Judith I wanted to talk to you about something" I said.
"Yeah sure" she replied.
"So you know Daryl and I love you and RJ so much don't you?" I asked.
"Yeah and we love you" She replied.
"And you know that you are the most important people in the world to us and that is never going to change no matter what happens" I said.
"Yes of course" she laughed.
"So If Uncle Daryl and I had a baby, would that upset you two?" I asked.
"No we would love that" she squealed, "Are you pregnant?"
"No, no not yet. It's just after people get married the next step is they tend to have a baby. We have been talking about it, but we didn't want you two to feel like we didn't care about you and we were pushing you out" I said.
"No I want you to have a baby we can help you look after her and if Mom and Dad come home you and Uncle Daryl won't be lonely" she said beginning to brush my hair again.
"Well then maybe in the future we will have a baby" I smiled.
She put her arm's around my neck and kissed my temple.
"You are the best to us and you will be the best parents" she said. I squeezed her arm and kissed her back.
"That is why you are one of my favourite human's in the whole wide world" I smiled.
Daryl had some chicken that he grilled with corn and potato's on the outdoor grill for dinner, and as it was a warm night we ate out in the garden having the best time.
We all had an early night ready for the beginning of the week.
The week was slow and by Wednesday Max and I had finally finished up the filing. Our next move was to sort out the rest of the room's to make the building the town hall. We had a long road a head but it would be worth it in the end. On Thursday Carol who had been doing some digging around in the buildings that Hornsby and the others had been using for the uprising, had found something that may help us with the search for Rick. She was coming to speak with Daryl and I once the kids were in bed.
I was talking to Judith about her science project and we had decided on showing the effects of Global warming and how since all this had happened the rate of the ozone layer deteriorating had slowed down dramatically.
She was really excited about it because no one had even thought of it in her class not even her teachers had mentioned it in class.
"See I'm not as thick as you thought" I laughed.
"I knew you weren't I just thought it was bit hard seeing as you are trying to get this place up and running" she replied.
We got the kids bathed and ready for bed, and did the usual story telling from Daryl about how we lived before we found Alexandria.
Carol came round not many minutes after we put the kids to bed.
She handed us a file that told us pretty much the same as what was said in the file we had already found in the town hall but this one had a passage written by Rick saying he had been taken via helicopter by an organisation called the CRM (Civic Republic Military) they were the law enforcement of the Civic republic. He said that he was fairly high up and he wasn't happy how they treated people and they were corrupt.
"So what does this mean?" I asked.
"I don't know but the only person who will know is Sebastian and we are still searching for him" Carol said.
"There is a possibility that this CRM have taken Rick. We need to find Sebastian he is the key to all this" Daryl said.
"So then we find the prick and he will lead us to this CRM and then we find Rick" I said closing the file.
"I will look into it more and visit a few people who I think may know about this CRM" Carol said.
"We will help you anyway we can" I said to Carol.
"Mercer doesn't know about this CRM?" I asked.
"Well we will soon see tomorrow" Daryl replied.
Carol left shortly after and Daryl and I went and locked the file up in our study.
"I just want this to be sorted" I sighed.
"Me too babe" He replied.
We sat and cuddled for a while. We had come across a box set of the entire back catalogue of friends and we had been watching a few episodes a day for the last week.
We went to bed and Daryl got all frisky.
"You literally can't keep your hands off me" I said.
"I know I can't help it you are the love of my life and I find you just too sexy" he laughed.
We ended up having sex, because I just couldn't say no when he kissed my neck. I fell asleep not long after. I was woken by a sound at around 3 am. I shot up and reached for my gun that I kept in my bedside draw.
Daryl shot up "what's wrong?" he asked.
"Someone is on the porch" I whispered.
"How do you know?" he asked.
"I know okay" I said jumping out of bed. I always made sure I slept in something just in case something went down. Daryl always thought I was strange but who was laughing now he was in his birthday suit and I was ready to fight. I slipped my shoes on and headed down the stairs as Daryl rummaged around in the dark looking for clothes.
"Will you wait" he whispered so loud that he may as well have just shouted. I ignored him and walked to the bottom. I stood still listening for a few seconds, but couldn't hear anything. I walked slowly to the front door and peered through the hole. I couldn't see anything so I proceeded to check all around the the house through the curtains. As I got to the kitchen I heard it again. I flung open the back door and was about to shoot when I realised it was Dog. She had been out with Mercer for the last few days doing some training, he must have got back late and she had escaped as usual to come home. She jumped up me knocking me flying and proceeded to lick me all over. I was laughing so much. Daryl eventually came to see what the noise was and she bounded over me to get to him.
"Great husband you are, I'd be dead by now" I said getting to my feet.
"I told you to wait" he said.
I locked the back door and gave Dog a treat. We then went back to bed and she slept between us soundly all night.
I loved our little family and I couldn't wait for it to grow. I had nightmares about Sebastian that it was him at the back door and he had blamed me for his mothers death and he was trying to kill me. My alarm went off and it woke me in a panic.
"Hey hey what's up?" Daryl asked grabbing me and putting me in a bear hug.
"I had a horrible dream that Sebastian was trying to kill me" I said.
"Whilst I still have breath in my lungs No one and I mean NO ONE will ever hurt you" he said kissing my cheek.
"I hope so" I sighed snuggling into him.
