All Nightmare Long
Chapter 567
Author's Note: Another chapter for you all. Thank you all for reading, or finding the story and reading all 567 chapters, that's commitment! Daryl never really spoke about what happened to him with the Savior's and kept to himself, very Dixon like. I think Mar would at least try. Please review it means a lot.
Daryl and Mar's POV:
Mar walked into the building where Daryl was sitting while Shiva was rubbing against his hand. "I see you're making friends," she teased. "The King set up us in a nice room, it's not Alexandria but it'll work for a short time." She sighed as he just gave her a side glance before looking back at Shiva. "Daryl, look at me," she begged.
Daryl looked at her and waited.
Mar took a step closer to him. "I can't imagine what that bastard put you through. I don't want to think about it, because when I do, I want to kill him, kill them all. And no matter what I could imagine, it probably isn't half of bad what you went through. I know you don't want to be here, that you want to be at Alexandria, with Rick, Jewel, Mitch, everyone. I get that, I want you back with our family too. Alexandria is the first place Negan is going to look for you."
"I know that," Daryl hissed, cutting her off.
"I know you know that, but you need to hear it. And you aren't alone, I'm right here with you, and I'm not going anywhere," Mar said as she reached out her hand. "You aren't allowed to cut yourself off, a typical Dixon response. I'm not letting you do that."
Daryl took her hand and leaned his head on hers. "It's my fault," he whispered.
"What's your fault?" Mar asked.
"Glenn," Daryl responded
Mar shook her head and put her hands on either side of his face. "No, no, that wasn't your fault."
"You weren't there," Daryl told her.
"I didn't have to be there, because I know you. Jewel told me. You were protecting Rosita; you were protecting family. You acted from your heart, like you always do," Mar said.
"I could barley look at Maggie. Glenn's not here because I reacted," Daryl said as he moved her hands from his face. "Whatever they did to me in that place, it wasn't enough."
Mar sighed. "What if I had been in that line up, and what if Glenn made a move to protect Maggie or Rosita and I wound up getting killed, would you have blamed Glenn?"
"It's not the same thing," Daryl stated.
"OK, what if Rick made the move and it was Jewel who was killed. Would you blame Rick for Jewel's death?" Mar questioned. "Any of you could have done the same thing. Hell, Jewel offered to be killed, to protect the rest of you."
"She told you?" Daryl questioned.
"No, but everyone else did. She was trying to protect everyone else, it's a Dixon trait," Mar said as she kissed him.
Rick, Jewel, and other's POV:
Jewel glanced back at Jesus as the radio crackled, with Negan's voice coming through. "Fat Joey was not the most badass sonuvabitch, but he was loyal. He had a great sense of humor. In fact, we were just joking about oral sex with Lucille the other day. Things will not be the same now that he's dead, without Fat Joey, Skinny Joey is just Joey," Negan said with a sigh. "So, it's a Goddamn tragedy. So, let's have a moment of silence," he said.
Jewel rolled her eyes. "Classy," she said as Rick put the brakes on, being blocked by a line of cars.
"Someone's trying to block the way," Jesus said. "Gotto be the Savior's," he said.
"Look, I think that's their base over there," Carl said.
"Yeah that's it," Jesus answered. "Must be making it hard to get to them."
"They're on alert, they know Daryl's escaped," Jewel stated.
"We gotta keep going, then we'll move them back, they don't need to know were here," Rick said, as he shut off the engine.
"Each of us will take turns at the wheels, if they don't start, we'll push them. Michonne take watch," Jewel stated as she got out of the car, each of them going to begin.
Michonne held up the binoculars and looked over at them. "Rick, Jewel, come look at this," she said.
Rick took the binocular's and looked, before handing them to Jewel. He went toward what he saw, the group following. He bent down and looked at the explosives.
"What's all this for?" Michonne asked.
"Wait, while I was hiding in the back of the truck, I heard a couple of them talking about this. This is for a heard," Carl said.
"That's why it's a steel cable, it's not just for one walker, it's for a lot," Rosita said.
Sasha looked up and down the road. "We need these explosives," she said.
"Yeah," both Rick and Jewel said.
"We have to figure out how to disarm it first," Rick said.
Rosita bent down and took a cover off, looking at the explosives.
"Um, OK," Tara said as she put her hand on Lexi's shoulder and moved them both back.
"Backing up is not gonna make a difference if this thing goes off," Rosita stated.
"Well Rosita looks like she knows what she's doing, so she's in charge of this," Jewel said as she nodded toward Rosita.
The radio crackled. "We got a code red situation, I need a search party. See if Daryl ran home like the dumb animal that he is," Negan said.
"On it, be there in time for lunch," Simon responded.
"Turn that sleepy little burg upside down," Negan ordered.
"We got to go," Michonne said. "We got to get there before them, but we need these," Michonne said.
"Some of us could head back, some of us could stay," Lexi offered.
"No, we stay together," Sasha said.
"She's right, we stay together," Jewel said. "We have to clear a path to get through anyway," she said.
Rosita pulled out a black explosive. "First parts done."
"Now what?" Michonne questioned.
"We got to unwrap the secondary explosives, the dynamite, the RPG's, make sure these casings are not messed up and do not mess them up either. This thing could still blow," Rosita said as she barked orders.
"You all heard her, let's go," Rick responded.
They all went to various parts of the roadblock and started to carefully cut the wires, removing the dynamite and RPG's.
"You can load the explosives into the trunk as long as they're in good shape. No dents, no tears. They're not live, they still need to be triggered to be set off," Rosita said as she walked over to look at them. "Not that one, I don't like the way it looks," Rosita said as she took a stick of dynamite and moved it away from the others.
"OK," Tara agreed.
"Dad, mom look," Carl said as he pointed to the road.
"OK, there they are. We still have time," Rick said as he went back to cutting another roll of dynamite off.
"You sure?" Sasha questioned.
"We need these," Rick said as he started to run toward the cars. "And we need to get the cars back in front of the on ramp."
"They'll know they took their explosives, so does it matter?" Jesus questioned.
"Everything matters," Jewel responded as she loaded the car.
"We want that herd to stay on the highway," Rick answered as he handed a roll of dynamite to Tara.
"Why?" Tara questioned.
"We may need it," Rick said.
"OK, Tara, Lexi, Quinn, Carl come on," Rosita ordered as they jumped in the vehicle.
"I'll come, you'll need another driver," Jewel said, as she nodded at Rick.
"Be careful," Rick told her.
"You too," Jewel told him as she ran and got into the van. When they got to cars, Roista and Jewel both got behind the wheels as Carl, Quinn, Tara and Sasha pushed the cars.
Sasha stood up from doing the cable and looked at Rick. "Um Rick," she said to draw his attention to the approaching herd.
"Sasha, Jesus, can you get back to Hilltop on foot?" Rick asked.
"Yeah, can Lex go back to Alexandria with you?" Sasha questioned.
"Yeah, we'll take care of her. Tell Summer and Maggie we aren't giving up yet," Rick said. "Go."
Sasha and Jesus both took off running. "Here," Sasha said as she put down dynamite.
"We need every stick, every RPG," Rick told Michonne.
"Yeah," she said as she looked at the herd. "Rick, they're going to cut them off. Should we just split up?"
"No, the cars," Rick said. "If they run," he started to say as he looked across the road to Jewel and the others.
"We lay on the horn and we start it," Michonne said.
"I'll bring my arm down and we go," Rick said.
"Yes," Michonne said.
"Stay together!" Rick said as he and Michonne went to opposite cars.
"Get to the van, now!" Jewel yelled Tara, Lexi, Quinn, Rosita and Carl. "Come on."
"Damn it," Carl said.
"We'll figure it out," Rosita said as Jewel slammed the door shut.
Jewel looked over at the cars Rick and Michonne was in watching them taking out walkers and them getting out fighting the walkers'. She took a breath as Rick got in the car with Michonne. She kissed him and squeezed Michonne's shoulder. They all looked out the back window as the dynamite Rosita placed on the ground exploded.
"I didn't like the look at that shit at all," Rosita stated.
"I pushed it, I pushed it," Rick said.
"We made it," Michonne said.
"And we're going to continue to make it. We're the ones who make it," Jewel told him as she kissed him and Tara drove back to Alexandria.