All Nightmare Long

Chapter 549

Author's Note: We are getting closer to getting everyone reunited and ready to kick some butt. Negan's to be exact. I'm going to skip the part where Tara finds the dr. bobble head, she'll have it but won't be showing her finding it. Please review.

Tara and Quinn's POV:

Tara, Quinn and Cyndie looked over the walker's that were milling around the car. "There's more right?" Cyndie questioned.

"Yeah, a lot," Tara answered.

"We lost Heath near here, the walkers took us by surprise. They won't this time," Quinn answered.

"We'll use the cars as cover until we can't anymore," Tara explained as she tied her shoes.

"Then what?" Cyndie asked.

"We run," both Quinn and Tara said at the same time.

"I love to run, it's my favorite thing," Tara answered.

"If it gets us home alive and we find Heath, it's worth it," Quinn added.

"You'll never make it," Cyndie told them.

"Yeah we will," Tara told her.

"Let me help you," Cyndie answered.

"You helped us enough, your grandmother isn't going to be happy that you did this much," Quinn told her.

"She's right, go back. Just tell them I attacked you," Tara told her.

"They know you Tara," Cyndie pointed out.

"Tell them you killed us," Tara said.

"They know me," Cyndie said. "You know I'm not going anywhere until you get to the other side. Safe. Both of you," she informed them. "I've got my rifle, I've got ammo. I didn't get the two of you here just to watch you die. So let's just get this over with," she told them. "Kathy, Beatrice and Abby, they know we were coming here, they're coming."

"What will they do to you when they find you?" Quinn asked.

"Nothing like you're thinking. Gramma will be disappointed and Abby, well she'll be pissed. But she's always pissed now a days, so that isn't going to be a big change," Cyndie answered.

"Why aren't you like the rest of them? After everything that's happened?" Tara questioned as Cyndie loaded her weapon.

"Why aren't you?" Cyndie questioned back.

Tara nodded. "OK," she said as she looked at Quinn. "You ready?"

"As ready as I'll ever be," Quinn answered.

Tara nodded and held her hand up for a fist bump with Cyndie as she grabbed her things. Cyndie fist bumped her as she looked back.

Tara, Quinn and Cyndie all three went down and followed one walker as they were being quiet. Tara approached it from behind and put her spear through it's neck. A walker, who was sitting in a car, grabbed Cyndie by the arm, both Tara and Quinn stabbed at it, killing it. Two walkers turned and started approaching them, before a canvas fell releasing tons more.

Cyndie looked at them. "Okay, up on that side. Go!" she told them as the two other women jumped on the cars. Cyndie jumped on the cars on the other side, Quinn following Tara on her side. Tara and Quinn kept a car between them as a walker reached for them. Tara looked back at Quinn who nodded. Tara jumped off the cars and started killing walkers as Quinn did the same. Both looked back at Cyndie who had her weapon out and started shooting, running out of rounds as Tara took out the last walker. Tara and Quinn both looked back at Cyndie as they ran. Cyndie let out the breath she was holding.

Quinn and Tara both stopped to catch their breath, looking down at the walker that Heath had killed to save Tara.

"He's not here," Quinn answered. "I need to find him…I can't leave him as one of those. I can't tell his mother and aunt that he's one of them."

"We don't know that he is," Tara said as they ran back to check on Cyndie both turning there heads at the sound of walkers, one coming straight toward Tara, both fighting toward them. They turned at the site of a walker with dreads who was recently turned, both taking a relieved breath as they saw it was a woman. Tara held up her finger at Quinn as she looked through the cracks of the container seeing Cyndie being dragged away by Abby, Beatrice and Kathy.

"Tara, look," Quinn said as she pointed down at crushed glasses and track marks.

Tara walked over to the tracks. "Maybe that was you," she said as she bent down and picked up a card with PPP on it. "I hope that was you," she said. "He wasn't one of them, maybe he's already back home."

"Maybe," Quinn said. "I'm ready to go home."

"Let's go," Tara said.

Alexandria:

Tara and Quinn both walked toward the gates of Alexandria the next morning, being greeted by Eugene who had been crying. Both of them stopped.

"Who?" Quinn asked.

Eugene didn't answer but looked at Tara.

"Denise….Tara, I'm so sorry," Quinn said as she went to hug her.

"Mom!" Brianna yelled as she saw her mother, her and Chloe both running toward her.

"Go, it's OK," Tara said as she walked toward the infirmary.

"Hey you two, I missed you both," Quinn said as she hugged them. "Let's go see Gus, then I need to see Miss. Geraldine and Miss. Noreen," she told the girls as she led them away.

"Glenn and Abraham died too," Eugene managed to tell her.

"What? How? You know what, I'll find out later," Quinn said as she looked at Tara.

Tara sat down in the infirmary, looking at the bubble head.

"Sorry Tara," Rosita said.

"I'm sorry too," Tara answered.

"We don't have to just sit here," Rosita told her. "Guns, ammunition, you don't have any leads?" Tara looked up at her, as Rosita walked close to her. "Anything, anywhere. I don't care how dangerous it looked, tell me a place, I'll go. There's got to be somewhere," Rosita told her. "We can square this, we can make this right. We have too."

"We can't," Tara said. "We didn't see anything like that out there," she said as she looked at her.

Quinn's POV:

"You two go home and tell Gus I'm here, I want to go talk to Miss. Geraldine and Miss. Noreen about Heath," Quinn stated as she looked at the two teens. "It's better to tell them right away then hide it."

"Is he dead? Like my brother?" Chloe asked.

"No, he's not dead, we didn't find him as one of those," Quinn assured them as she sent them on their way.

"Well, look whose home, the prodigal sister," Spencer said as he leaned on the wall of there parent's house. "You weren't going to stop and say hello?"

"I literally just walked in the gate 5 minutes ago. I have to go talk to Heath's family. Are you OK?" Quinn asked.

"Am I Ok? Do you know what has been going on since you've been gone?" Spencer asked as he stepped off the steps.

"Literally walked through the gates 5 minutes ago," Quinn said. "I've found out that Glenn, Denise and Abraham are dead, but besides that, no."

"Your pal Rick, he got them killed," Spencer said.

"Excuse me?" Quinn asked.

"He got them killed. You all attacked an outpost of his and Negan took revenge. He came here and took more than half of our stuff, and your pal came into my house and took guns," Spenser told her.

"Guns you had hidden, guns that if we didn't come up with he was going to kill Olivia," Gus told him as he came up from behind Quinn. "Welcome home," he said as he kissed her. "If you feel like tattling, tell the truth, not bits and pieces."

"You know what, Spenc, I made that decision with Rick, so everything's that happened is as much as my fault as his. Now we can discuss this later, but I really need to go," Quinn said as she squeezed Gus's hand.