Dexter drove to the spot that Deb, Michonne, Negan and himself had found Ezekiel's head and Angel's headless corpse riding on horseback. Carol was still out of it so he had time to set up the RV as a 'kill room'. He pulled over on the wrong side of the road(like it mattered anymore), turned off the vehicle and made it a point to take the keys with him. He glanced back at the passed out Carol before getting out of the RV to look around a bit in the dark. He took a lighter with him to see in the darkness.

Before he killed anyone, he usually had a photograph of one or several of their victims. But Dexter didn't have pictures of King Ezekiel or even Angel. But if he could find Ezekiel's head and something of Angel's, that would suffice. Finding his lighter to be semi-useless, Dexter waited until daylight(Carol was still out) and then began to walk through the wooded path that he and the others, had been on before. It did not take him long to find the telltale tree trunk where Ezekiel's head had been found. It was still there but in an almost advanced state of decomposition—meaning there were ants on his half eaten face. Dexter rated a brow. He could not bring the head into the RV. Well, he could wipe off the ants and bring it in, yes, but he sensed that was not the right play here.

The sound of hooves racing down the path, got Dexter's attention and he spotted Angel's horse again! But this time his body was not on it. Dexter looked in the direction that Michonne had said the prison was in. It seemed odd that none of the other Kingdom residents that were helping to fix up the prison, had not noticed the horse.

Or maybe they had. Maybe that's why Angel was no longer on it.

Then again, Angel's body could have just fallen off. But now there were too many possibilities for discovery. Dexter was going to just wait until Carol awoke, kill her and leave her body to the elements. He shook his head as he headed for the RV, disgusted and disappointed that his ceremonial kill would be without ceremony. But as he approached the RV, he stopped short.

The door was wide open!

Dexter ran to the RV and looked inside! Carol was nowhere to be found! He ran to the road, looking in both directions before his eyes stayed on the woods across the street from him. He would have known if Carol had come in on his side of the woods. Or would he?

"CAROL!" he called out, pulling a knife from a belt he had around his waist. "COME OUT NOW! YOU AREN'T WELL!"

Nothing. Which was understandable. After all, if Carol responded then he would discover her hiding place.

"CAROL, IF YOU DON'T COME OUT IT WILL WORRY MAGGIE! YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THAT! SHE'LL COME OUT HERE LOOKING FOR YOU!"

Still nothing.

Dexter decided to get a rise out of her. He had heard gossip that Darryl used to have a crush on Carol, or Carol had had a crush on Darryl, or they were an item…something! He was hedging his bets that Carol knew nothing about Darryl and Maggie.

"DARRYL WILL BE FORCED TO COME OUT TOO! YOU DON'T WANT HIM TO RISK HIMSELF, DO YOU? HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN THAT DARRYL AND MAGGIE HAVE BEEN FUCKING, CAROL? HOW LONG?"

That did get a rise out of her, though it wasn't quite what Dexter expected, word wise.

"SO IS THIS WHY YOU'RE TRYING TO KILL ME, DEXTER? BECAUSE MAGGIE IS CHEATING ON YOU WITH DARRYL? IT'S MY FAULT?" Carol yelled back. Dexter perked his ears and was about to actually head into the woods he had actually left, when he stopped short again.

Carol was there. And she was not alone.

Carol was standing on the wooded path, surrounded by at least twenty men on horses, wearing the Kingdom colors! Dexter slowly put down his knife in the middle of the street. Two men got off of horses and hurried over to him! One picked up his knife, while the other grabbed ahold of him and shoved him back towards Carol and the others!

Carol did not smile. But her eyes did. She walked up to him.

"I am now the ruling Queen of the Kingdom. And you tried to kill me after you murdered King Ezekiel and Angel."

Dexter rolled his eyes!

"Oh come on, Carol! You know that's not true!" he said and looked around at the men. "Hey, guys, THE QUEEN here beheaded Ezekiel and Angel because she found out about Michonne. You all knew about her and the King, didn't you?"

Dexter noticed a few men looked at one another. He smiled. He could see they now had doubts about Carol's story. Carol turned to look at a few of the men. She could see it as well.

"He killed King Ezekiel! Take him back to the prison and I will ride back to Alexandria to inform them of what's happened."

But Jerry rode his horse forward to rest near her.

"We will both go. We will keep him, but there will have be a trial. We are not The Sanctuary. King Ezekiel would have wanted a fair hearing for everyone." he said solemnly. Carol nodded reluctantly. Two other men got into the RV to drive it back to the prison. It would be looked over for evidence to support Queen Carol's story. Or not.

"Of course." Carol replied to Jerry statement.

"Be careful," Dexter told Jerry, "you could end up headless like your king and Angel. She can't let you get back to Alexandria and tell them that she is a suspect as well!"

"Shut up!" Carol snapped. "What will come out is that not only are you a liar, but chances are you were a murderer before the whole world went to hell and back!"

"She tried to kill Michonne in Alexandria as well. Be careful!" Dexter called out as the men put him on a horse and rode off with him to the Red River Creek Correctional Facility. He could not help but note the irony of his being detained in a prison.

Meanwhile, Jerry and another 'knight' named Gus, watched Carol carefully as she got on a horse. Together, the three of them rode uneasily back to Alexandria.

Negan had awakened where he had wanted to wake up, for a long time now.

He had taken the time to let his hands explore Michonne's naked body lying next to him, before he got up, put on some clothes and left the house. The idea being he would go to the bar, bring some more of his hidden stash of food and some of his things, to the house, so that he could settle in to his new home. It was as he was putting stuff in boxes, that Deb hurried in! He eyed her.

"Hey, Deb. What's up?" he asked casually, as he looked around for a toenail clipper that he couldn't seem to find.

"What's up is that Carol is at the fucking gate!" Deb rasped. "And she's with some of those Kingdom soldiers!"

Negan stopped looking, or even thinking about that toenail clipper!

"What the fuck?!" he snapped. "Where the hell is Dexter?"

"I don't know and I'm scared shitless!" Deb admitted. "Dexter can handle himself. MORE than handle himself but maybe he underestimated Carol! Jesus, she beheaded two fucking people!"

"Okay, calm down. Let's just casually walk to the gate and act like we don't know what the fuck is going on." Negan told her. Deb nodded and they both left the bar, then walked over towards the gate. Maggie, Darryl and Aaron were already there. Father Gabriel was pulling open the gate.

"Fuck!" Deb swore and looked over at Maggie's house. Harrison and Herschel weren't up yet. What the hell was she going to tell Harrison?

"What's going on?" Negan asked casually. Maggie pretended like he wasn't there and Darryl stared at Carol with confusion.

"What the hell, Carol? I thought you were in the infirmary?" he asked.

"I was." Carol said, getting of of her horse, "until Dexter drugged and kidnapped me."

Maggie folded her arms. Oh no.

"What are you talking about?" she asked, as if she had never heard the concept of Dexter doing anything, to anyone.

Carol walked up to her and stared accusingly, something Darryl noticed.

"What's going on, Carol? Why are you looking like that?" he asked, not liking Carol's expression. Carol looked from Maggie to Darryl.

"I was in the infirmary last night. Then I wasn't. I awoke in one of the RV's and got out and ran for help. I found it and we are holding Dexter at the the new Kingdom facility."

"What?!" Maggie snapped. "You're not making any sense, Carol! Why would Dexter have taken you out of here in the RV?"

Carol looked over at Jerry and Gus, who were staring at her hard. She then looked at Maggie again.

"Dexter seems to think that I was the one that tried to burn down Negan's bar. He thinks I killed my own husband and Angel, because I was angry over the affair Ezekiel and Michonne were having."

More people in Alexandria were up and and had joined the crowd to listen. Negan looked at Deb, who stepped forward.

"This is bullshit! You are full of bullshit, Carol!" Deb snapped.

"Oh so you were in on this as well?" Carol asked coolly.

"I found your wedding ring in the tunnels, next to cans of gasoline. Dexter said you saw him with the ring so you ID'd yourself as the arsonist."

Darryl clenched his jaw.

"Carol wouldn't fucking burn anyone up. Even if they had it coming." he said, locking eyes with Negan. Negan grinned!

"You're not hearing Deb, Darryl! She's not saying Carol burned down my bar to kill me. She did it to kill Michonne. Over Ezekiel." Negan said.

Maggie folded her arms.

"Carol, you're wrong about that, okay? Michonne would never hurt you that way."

"Like she wouldn't hurt you by sleeping with this piece of filth that murdered Glenn and Abraham!" Carol snapped back. Negan stepped up to her.

"Since Carol has put our business in the streets, literally, yeah, Michonne and I are together but it is not the ugly way that "Murdering Carol' here is making it sound! It's never occurred to anyone here, that I might actually care for Michonne, Judith and RJ? Huh? Has it ever?" Negan asked and forced his eyes to become shiny with tears…

Father Gabriel was the first to see Negan tearing up! He hurried over to him.

"Come now, Negan. No one meant anything by that. I have sensed that you had feelings for Michonne for some time now."

"Oh please!" Darryl snapped. "Cut the shit, why don't you, Negan? What did you find an old bottle of eye drops to make yourself cry like that? You want what Rick had. You always have and you want to run this place!"

"And the only way you were going to do that was to seduce Michonne!" Carol yelled.

But Maggie interrupted.

"I don't know about Michonne and Negan, but I do know Dexter. And I want to see him and hear his side of things. You have no business keeping him against his will someplace." Maggie told her. Deb spoke again.

"I think my brother was jus trying to protect the children here in Alexandria from a threat. You tried to kill the leader of Alexandria. You also killed our friend, Angel. He was probably…"

"I don't want to hear it!" Carol yelled. "I didn't even know anything about Michonne and Ezekiel until Dexter said something today! Just like I didn't know anything about Maggie and Darryl…until today!"

Deb looked at Maggie. As did everyone else. Negan wiped his eyes and refrained from grinning! Miss Perfect was going to keep her fucking mouth shut about him, now that she was cheating on her own damned husband! But he did wonder about Dexter's reaction to his wife's cheating ways. He had kept that inside this whole time? Negan could tell by the expression on Darryl and Maggie's faces, that they were shocked that Dexter knew anything.

Maybe, Dexter had been planning to come back here and take care of them, AFTER Carol, Negan thought.

Jerry looked at Gus, then spoke.

"We need to see Lady Michonne. She was with us, side by side some days, as we worked to build the New Kingdom. We want to hear what she thinks of all of this." Jerry said. Gus nodded as well. Everyone looked at one another at hearing Michonne referred to by that title and Carol could barely keep from wincing, something Deb noticed. Negan turned as she saw Michonne come out of the house, down the steps and walk towards them. Negan backed away from the others and hurried over to run interference!

"I see Carol is here." Michonne said quietly.

"Something happened and Carol knows Dexter tried to kill her. They're holding him at that fancy new prison. But Dexter must have said something, because they aren't so convinced that Carol is telling the truth." Negan said in a hushed tone. 'They want to talk to you."

Michonne looked from the crowd, many who were now beginning to notice her, to Negan.

"I don't want to lie about this anymore. I also don't want the whole town here to know. Take the kids to your bar to help clean and I'll have a talk with Carol and Maggie at my place."

Negan said nothing to that and Michonne could see he didn't agree.

"Negan, what?"

"Why do you feel like you have to take this on alone? Let me have your back. Let's have Deb watch the kids at the bar and I'll be with you when you talk to Carol and Maggie."

"I don't think that's a good idea."

"It's not a good idea? Or you don't want people to see that we're together?" Negan asked directly.

"Negan, I started this with Ezekiel. I need to deal with it alone."

Negan said nothing but nodded. Michonne knew he was having doubts about her motives and decided to do something that would placate him. She pulled him to her and kissed him! Hard!

"Sonofabitch!" Darryl swore. Maggie just stared. Was she really in a position to say anything anymore? And she could feel Deb's eyes on her…

Meanwhile, Michonne had to break off the kiss, forcefully, since Negan was getting just a bit overheated!

"Okay, everyone sees we're together. Now will you let me do this?" Michonne asked softly.

"I just don't want anything to happen to you. We've all killed. But what she did was different. And dangerous." he warned.

"I can look after myself."

"You shouldn't have to. But I get what you're trying to do. I'll get the kids. Deb and I will get the kids and you do what you have to do." Negan said unhappily. He glanced behind him at Deb. She didn't look too happy about that Maggie/Darryl reveal.

Meanwhile, Deb stepped in front of Maggie.

"Is it true?" she asked, looking from her to Darryl. Darryl looked from Deb to Carol, just as Negan and Michonne walked up. Michonne looked at Carol and Maggie.

"We need to talk. At my house. Jerry, Gus, you two can come along as well." she said and Negan felt a bit better that the goddamned knights, or whatever they were called, would be there too.

"Negan, Deb, myself agreed to have Dexter take you out of here to kill you." Michonne said when the three of them were alone in her home. Maggie gaped at Michonne, then looked at Carol, who was staring down Michonne.

"Wow. I have no words." was her response.

"You have none? Really, Carol? You tried to kill me instead of just confronting me about Ezekiel? Or was burning me alive your way of confronting me?" Michonne argued.

"I did not try and kill anyone, Michonne, nor did I murder my own husband and one of his men! You just agreed to let Maggie's psycho husband do away with me, without asking me about this?"

"Meaning how your wedding ring conveniently ended up next to the gasoline cans used to burn down the bar?" Michonne asked sarcastically. Maggie glanced over at Gus and Jerry, who were standing guard at the front door.

"I would like to know how and why Negan and yourself partnered up with my husband and sister-in-law, to come to such a decision? Why didn't you come to me with your concerns, Michonne? You involved my husband in some scheme…"

Michonne gave Maggie a hard glance.

"Dexter came up with this idea all on his own. We went along with it but it was 'funny' how easy he made it seem to do. I guess Carol proved him wrong." Michonne replied, looking from Maggie to Carol.

"We're getting nowhere here. I don't know you, Michonne. Not anymore. You lose Rick and then you decide sleep with my husband and that murdering bastard, Negan….when you couldn't sleep with Ezekiel." Carol stated accusingly.

Michonne didn't even flinch.

"I'm not going to debate my sex life with you. Ezekiel was feeling dejected over the fact that the Kingdom was not doing as well as Alexandria or The Hilltop. He was determined not to go down. He was determined not to have to beg from other communities. I just happened to run into him on a scavenge and we found that prison. But he didn't feel as if you supported moving your community or trying to make it better or anything. So he kept what he was trying to do secret. And one secret created other secrets. Now, Carol, you could end all of this by just telling us what happened the other day. WHO did you see behead Ezekiel and Angel? Just tell us that and we can all go out and look for this person."

"I've told you all that it happened so fast! I didn't even get a glimpse." she replied. Maggie noted that Jerry and Gus looked skeptical. She spoke up again.

"Look, we have a couple of problems here: one, Rosita and Eugene are locked up, remember? They're hiding a helicopter, something this community could desperately use. Second, my husband is being kept prisoner in a literal prison, for something that he thought was right. In his own way. Third and lastly, Carol, you are going to have to come up with a better explanation than that. If you can't, then I want my husband released. And I don't want to see you back here. Ever." she said firmly.

Jerry stepped forward.

"We cannot let this go. Our King was slain and someone has to answer for it." he said bluntly. Carol looked at him.

"I hope you are not suggesting it was me, Jerry?"

Gus spoke.

"You were the only one there, Your Majesty. You had to have seen someone." he said.

"I didn't." Carol said in a tight voice. "And I can't believe you two are doubting me. I don't like any of this anymore than you do. But we might just have to go along with this and leave. For good. We will find a way to move on."

Michonne didn't like it either. That is, the idea of Carol getting away with murdering Ezekiel and Angel. She realized on some level, she needed to hear Carol admit to the deed. She turned to Jerry and Gus.

"We're going to keep Carol here in our jails. You keep Dexter until we find out what happened." she told them. Maggie stepped in front of Michonne.

"Michonne!" she exclaimed. She then noted how easily Jerry and Gus took orders from Michonne, as they grabbed a protesting Carol and took her out of the house. Michonne looked at Maggie.

"I'm going with them. We'll talk later."

"I want Dexter released! You were in on this as much as he was!" Maggie countered.

"He will be. He will be when we can prove that Carol is a murderer."

"We're all murderers on some level, aren't we, Michonne?"

Michonne was about to leave, then turned back to Maggie.

"King Ezekiel was the leader of one of our sister communities. His people considered him royalty. I won't let that go. Now either Carol comes up with the name of a killer—either herself or someone, or she is not leaving here."

"Which means Dexter isn't leaving THERE!"

"I think once Dexter is heard, he'll be let go. Once Carol is locked up, we're going to follow Jerry and Gus back to the prison. We'll get this taken care of." Michonne told her. Maggie nodded, slightly mollified by the compromise, as Michonne closed the door.

"Oh. My. God." Rosita said softly, as Carol was brought into their cell space, pushed gently into one and then locked away like her and Eugene were. Eugene recognized the men as Kingdom guards.

"What's going on?" he asked, as Michonne entered the room. She nodded to Jerry and Gus and they left. Rosita just shook her head with disgust!

"You've lost your mind! First Eugene and I, and now Carol? What did she do? Help us hide the helicopter?" she asked sarcastically. But Eugene was uneasy. Something was going on here and he wanted to know WHY Carol was here!

"What has happened?" Eugene asked in a low voice. Rosita noticed his tone and suddenly looked over at Carol curiously.

"Carol? What's going on?"

Michonne answered.

"King Ezekiel and his guard, Angel, were murdered when they left Alexandria the other day. Carol survived and it was discovered that she was the one that set fire to Negan's bar. We also think that she killed Ezekiel and Angel."

"The 'We' being herself, Negan, Dexter and Deb. Four geniuses." Carol said sarcastically. "I was recovering in the infirmary when Dexter injected me with something and I awoke in one of the RV's. He was going to kill me outside of these gates and Michonne here was fine with that!"

Eugene raised a brow and eyed Michonne.

"What reason did you have to believe that Carol killed her husband and the guard?"

"And why would she have burned down Negan's bar? You were in there too." Rosita noted, before something clicked. She suddenly moved away from Carol's adjoining cell bars.

"I was having an affair with Ezekiel. Carol found out and planned to kill both Ezekiel and myself. She was only successful in murdering Ezekiel." Michonne said, locking eyes with Carol.

"You were sleeping with King Zeke?" Rosita asked. "What about Negan?"

"She's sleeping with him too!" Carol snapped. "This is crap! I was attacked too! And I didn't see who killed my husband and Angel! That's my only crime!"

"They were beheaded, Carol!" Michonne suddenly yelled. "How do you not see who did that? Huh? How?"

"Probably the same way you can't see that Negan is a piece of shit!" was her response. But Eugene had more questions.

"So you got away from Dexter? Where is he?" he asked.

"We're holding him at the Kingdom. The New Kingdom." Carol said firmly, looking at Michonne. "I have responsibilities. My people at the original Kingdom don't know what's happened! You have to let me out of here."

Michonne turned and walked out of the room, closing and locking the door to the cell block, behind her. Rosita stared over at Carol, uneasy as hell! Michonne couldn't have done this without Maggie and Darryl's okay. She looked over at Eugene who was deep in thought. Maybe it was time to reveal the location of their helicopter. Such a device could help get the word out to the communities about what happened to King Zeke and maybe, if there was some weirdo running loose beheading people, make such a person could be seen from the air.

He looked at Rosita.

"We need to tell everyone where the helicopter is." he told her. Carol stared over at them for a moment, before sitting down on a cot and staring off into space.

Harrison was helping Judith and RJ clean up at the bar. He had heard about Maggie and Darryl and that had caused him to get into a fight with Herschel. He was angry and scared for his father. Deb told him not to worry, that they'd get him back. Well right now, Harrison wanted to be around his only family and other people that had agreed with what his father did. That Carol woman was the reason they were cleaning up this raggedy bar in the first place, Harrison thought! His father had just been trying to keep people from getting hurt!

Negan, who was cleaning glasses, eyed Deb, who was drinking bourbon. He had not mentioned payment, because she was Dexter's sister and they had a sex past. But she was only getting one glass…

"We'll get Dexter back, okay?" Negan said, holding a glass up to the light.

"She's craftier than hell," Deb said, shaking her head, "I feel like I should have known it sooner."

"Michonne didn't even know it! Listen, did you know about Darryl and Maggie?" Negan asked with a sly grin. Deb glared at him!

"Hell no! And yet that shit about Darryl living in the basement should have been a clue!"

Negan was about to ask about that, when Deke and Laura walked in. Deke moved to sit down next to Deb.

"So what was that last night, Deb? You fuck me in the guard tower so your crazy brother could kidnap someone?"

"Shut up, Deke!" Laura snapped. "Dexter was doing us a favor. I'm not buying that Carol didn't see who cut off the heads of two people. Especially now that we know about Ezekiel and Michonne."

Deb didn't even look at Deke but started talking.

"We thought it was the best play here. Sorry if I hurt your feelings, Deke, okay? But I didn't think you'd go along with it if you knew."

"We didn't think any of you would." Negan spoke. "I mean, Christ, there's children living here. And she's spending the night in people's houses and shit. We just figured we'd get her out of here quietly and people would assume a walker had taken care of her. Look at what she did to Earl. He's never going to be right again being burned like that. Carol did that."

No one said anything after that. Michonne suddenly walked in and everyone looked at her. She closed the door behind her.

"How's it going? Where are the kids?" she asked, looking around.

"In the back sweeping up." Negan said. "What's going on? How did things go?"

"Jerry and Gus are going to stay the night in one of the vacant houses. Carol is locked up in our jails with Rosita and Eugene. I never thought we'd have more than one person down there at a time." she said forlornly. Deb eyed her with surprise.

"So what about getting Dexter out of her prison?" Deb asked.

"I'm going with Maggie to the Red River Creek facility. I think I can persuade the people to let him out."

"How?" Laura asked.

"I'm not proud of this, but the people there seemed more interested in my being there with Ezekiel than Carol. I could see it even now with Jerry and Gus. I'm going to tell them flat out that Carol is a murderer and that Dexter is innocent in all of this."

"Okay," Deb said, "but there are some people that do still see Carol as their queen. I don't know…"

"i don't see any other play here, Deb. We have to convince the Kingdom that Carol murdered their King and one of his soldiers, one of THEM, in cold blood. We're also going to have to explain that Dexter was just trying to help. And yes, I think i can do this. Maggie wants to be by her husband's side so we're leaving tomorrow."

Harrison, Judith and RJ had come out of the back and listened to what Michonne had to say as well. Negan noticed them and walked over to them.

"You all heard what she said. We're going to have to hold down the fort while your Momma and Maggie try and get Dexter back. That means watching the jail to make sure Carol doesn't try anything." he said. The three kids nodded. Deke got up.

"I'll just pay a visit over to the jail to make sure everything is secure." he said and left. Laura eyed Michonne.

"What about Siddiq? He didn't see anything in her injuries that implied that she could have killed Ezekiel and Angel?"

"Besides the fact that she's alive and they aren't?" Deb asked. "He seemed to think that this could have happened the way Carol said it did."

"Carol didn't actually say what happened. That's the problem here." Michonne said and walked over to the kids, who were still with Negan.

"I need you all to stay here with your Uncle Negan and Deb. I'm going to get Harrison's father back here and I'll be traveling with your Aunt Maggie."

"You should let me come too, Momma." Judith said firmly. "In case there's trouble along the way."

"Maggie will help me if there's trouble. I want you all to stay another hour and then come back home for lunch, okay?"

RJ nodded and hugged her. Harrison snifffed.

"Can I come over for lunch?" he asked pitifully. Michonne smiled at him.

"Of course. Don't worry. By tomorrow this time, we'll be on our way back here with your father." Michonne said and nodded to Negan to join her outside. He followed her and closed the door behind him.

"Negan, there is going to be a faction here that isn't going to like any of this. I need for you to gather allies here and keep the peace. And not in the way you used to." she said knowingly.

"I have another idea: why don't we all go to this prison?"

"What do you mean by 'all'?" Michonne asked, confused.

"I mean, we get ourselves in one of the RV's and take Judith, RJ, Harrison and Deb with us. Let's just go there and see what the fuck is really going on."

Michonne said nothing to that.

"What?" Negan asked.

"I know you want to see this prison so that you can take supplies or whatever…"

"I'm hurt, Chonnie that you'd think that! I was thinking that those kids need to see this world outside of these gates."

Michonne shook her head.

"Maggie is coming. if I take Harrison then she'd want to bring Herschel and the three of you cannot be locked in the same vehicle for any extended amount of time."

"Okay. Alternate plan: the two of us go to get Dexter, you convince Maggie that since we were in on this thing, we're the ones that should get Dex out of it. Deb can stay in our house and watch the kids."

"I can handle…"

"I heard what you said, and I heard what you think you've got going on with the Kingdom people. But things are different now and you really don't know what you'll be walking into there." he said firmly.

Michonne thought about it and nodded.

"Okay. I'll talk to Maggie and see if she goes along with it."

"Why wouldn't she? After all, she's got Darryl to comfort her while she waits for Dex to return." Negan smiled, giving Michonne a quick kiss before heading back to the bar. Michonne stared after Negan for a bit before turning to walk towards Maggie's house. She could not shake the idea that Negan had designs on that prison for himself, someway, somehow. And if he did, she was not going to let that happen. For Ezekiel.

Michonne could not help but think that when Maggie actually agreed to the plan that Negan had suggested(she did not say anything about it being Negan's plan), because of Darryl. She was no one to judge what was going on between the two of them, but considering what had happened because of herself and King Ezekiel, she didn't want a repeat of that around here!

The next thing on her mind(and there were many), was how to explain to Judith and RJ that Negan was going to become a permanent part of their household. There was a part of Michonne that didn't think she really had to explain anything. They expected to see him everyday anyway. It couldn't really be done tonight, however, because Harrison was spending the night with them. He was pissed off at Maggie, and her affair with Darryl had breached the friendship the young boy had struck up with his step=brother, Herschel.

Deb, who would be staying in their house while her and Negan went to get Dexter out of that prison, had went home—probably to make sure that Darryl didn't spend the night! But Michonne did not envy Maggie her 'alone time' with her sister-in-law.

Meanwhile, Negan put in 'Jurassic Park' for the kids down in the TV room and left them with snacks, before locking up the house and looking out of the windows. He couldn't help but think that Carol was slicker than she looked. The woman had somehow managed to get the jump on two men, that were much bigger than her and cut their heads off. And she got the jump on Dexter. For all he knew, she could slip out of her jail cell and do God knows what over here.

He made his way upstairs and found Michonne sitting in front of a dressing table, in a black teddy, slathering some sort of creme on her legs. Negan sighed with contentment, before closing the door and taking off all of this clothes. He had thought about this moment, when they could be truly alone and shut out all of the shit that was happening in this community, all, damned day!

Michonne glanced over at him as he walked into the bathroom to shower. The door half closed and she turned back to the mirror. She then glanced over at the Rick and Negan action figures, before looking in the mirror again. She had been re-thinking the rescue of Dexter. It would be better if none of those people saw Negan. More importantly, it was important that none of the Kingdom people, that had been familiar with her affair with Ezekiel, suspected that she was with him now.

Negan toweled off, hung it up and padded back into the bedroom, naked. He climbed into bed and smiled over at her lasciviously. Michonne met his gaze in the mirror and turned around. She stood up.

"I want to talk about something."

Negan's manhood was now bulging with a vengeance and he really didn't want to 'talk'. Unless it was about what they were going to do right now. And all night.

"Chonnie, can we talk later? Like in the morning or something."

Michonne said on the edge of the bed.

"I want you to stay here with Deb. I'll go alone tomorrow. I need for the Kingdom people to see me as the woman that had Ezekiel's back. Too many of them remember you. They might even get the idea in their head that you're the killer. So, I think that would be best, okay?" she said, removing her teddy and climbing into bed with him. She kissed him and said goodnight, before turning her back to him to go to sleep. She then prayed that would be enough and he would indeed go to sleep…

"Hell no." Negan said in a low voice that dashed her hopes. Michonne turned to face him.

"I need to do this…"

"I know! Alone, right? You want to do everything alone. In this version, you don't even take Maggie with you. No. We're leaving together, tomorrow. And no one is going to think that I'm the fucking killer! We were together when that happened."

"I can't tell them that, Negan! I just don't…"

"You can't tell them that?! Why? Who the fuck are they? Carol is their queen, not you!"

Michonne grabbed his face and held it.

"I just want to get Dexter out of there. I don't want this to drag on. Because whether we like it or not, Dexter was out there with Carol to kill her. And there are some people at the Kingdom that aren't going to be happy about that. There will be some that won't be happy with me." Michonne said, sliding her hands off of his face. Negan pulled her to him and wrapped his arms around her.

"Tomorrow, the two of us will head over there and get Dex out of this situation. We'll make it extra clear that Carol is the killer and have them come here and get her. Dexter is a smart man. He'll help us come up with a way to make them believe what we're saying. And it's not going to matter whether I'm there or not." Negan said, as his hands began to roam up and down her body.

Michonne could feel his fingers working magic on her and her mind struggled to stay clear. She was sure HER way was the right course of action here, and she needed for Negan to understand that he needed to stay in Alexandria. She started to say something else but he moved on top of her and stilled any further words from her by covering her lips with his own in a demanding, intense kiss.

Michonne felt him enter her gently and deeply, invading her depths. A searing warmth filled her belly at just how much he filled her and she already knew that she had lost her argument with him. He moved slowly within her and then moved faster and faster, until his thrusts were nothing short of dizzying and jolting. Michonne found herself wrapping her legs around his hips tightly, almost as if to bind them together before they entered a realm of fiery delights.

After, Michonne glanced over at the action figures, before falling asleep. But Negan was wide awake. He gently pulled out of his embrace with Michonne, got up and walked over to the action figures. He picked up the Rick one, opened a window and threw it out! He then closed the window and looked around for his robe. Now was the time to strike.

Yes, he was going with Michonne to this prison. And if Dexter was rescued or killed, he could care less or give a fuck.

He wanted a place of his own again. A place he could RUN on his own again and he didn't appreciate the drama that came with being in Alexandria. Michonne could not give herself to their relationship the way he wanted her to, if she was feeling guilty about the past. If she didn't have to see the past anymore, then things would be easier.

What Negan really wanted, was to take Michonne and the kids, out of here. And if he thought the Red River Creek Correctional Facility was a better place than here, then the Kingdom people were going to follow HIM. The Kingdom people and anyone else he could get to see his way.

Finding his robe, he left the room and headed downstairs. He would see how long the kids had left to watch that dinosaur movie, and then they were going to bed. He briefly thought about Dexter Morgan. Yes, he thought he was serial killer crazy, possibly. But that might work at the New Kingdom. The one HE planned to run.