The answer to 'who' came through the portal, lay within the realm of Alexandria.

Hannah McKay eyed the man with the walker skin mask, take her half finished tray away from her cell. Rosita and the others had pounced on her the moment Negan's helicopter flew out of here. Some would say that he had left her here stranded. Yes and no.

Her goal had always been to be here in Alexandria. But with Maggie. Negan had messed up her plans, so now, she had to find a way to get back to Mount Falls, or wait for Maggie to be returned here.

Hannah decided on the latter. And now that she had come to that decision and made peace with it, she now had time to study her surroundings. Half of the people here looked like normal people. Then there were others that walked around in 'walker skin'. Starting with this tall guy that peered at her for long moments through his eye holes. Hannah decided to strike up a conversation…

"So," Hannah began, tucking her legs underneath her on her cot, "how did you end up here? And what's with the mask?"

The man looked at her for a long moment, before he set down her tray and took off his mask. There was no one here at Alexandria any longer, that would have recognized Shane Walsh on sight. Except for Maggie and Rick. And neither of them were here.

He had come through the portal, deciding to see for himself what had been so fascinating about this hell hole of a world, that had brought his Michonne here, along with two Rick's, Dexter, Rita, Morgan and Miguel. Michonne and Morgan had come back with some half assed story about a lot of nonsense. Shane had decided he was tired of all of it. Nonsense, and Michonne and Morgan making a fool of him. He would have killed the Dexter from his world, long ago, if he had been able to find the right opportunity.

He was here not only to see what this new world was like, but because he was also on the run, in his own way. He had killed his Michonne and Morgan, when he caught them screwing in his and Michonne's home. He knew it had happened before there, but something in him just snapped. The fact that everyone went through the portal, even though as Sheriff and true leader of their community, they should've listened to him when he told them not to. And if he had aligned himself with that group of people, in the end, he would've ended up as dead as everyone else.

Shane Walsh did not know if he could stay in this festering, rotted out world. But he knew he could not leave without meeting the Michonne from THIS world. The fact that his Michonne had hated her with a passion, made him all that more curious about her.

But he couldn't quite gauge where he was when he arrived here. Shane had fended off the walkers that had been placed on the other side of the portal, sensing that it had been a trap set by someone. Someone who didn't want anyone coming from their world.

It didn't take long before he ran into The Whisperers. And easing himself into their group was no easy task and he found himself struck by what people did, and how they acted, as they survived what was clearly the end of civilization. The sight of them alone, should have been enough to send him running back for the portal. But he saw someone. Someone that he knew he had to stay for.

Lydia. Lydia, who was his daughter by Abby(she calls herself Alpha here) in the other universe. Abby had sort of been a one night stand that resulted in Lydia. And he had been drunk as hell when it happened. He had been upset over Rick's then wife, Lori, and had tried to convince her to leave Rick. He swore he would raise Carl right. Anyway, Lori went back to that bastard and he got drunk and did Abby, who at the time, had been a clerical worker over at the local high school.

Abby had had a husband at the time, who died from something, Shane couldn't remember what, but he always supported Lydia financially.

Then, when Shane married Michonne, Abby stopped letting him see her. She took his money, but refused to let him see his little girl. Michonne could've cared less about Lydia and maybe HE would've cared less, if Michonne could've been bothered to give him a child of their own.

None of that mattered now. Shane had made a clean break of that other world and now, he wanted what was in this one. He could see that Abby…Alpha, was too enamored with Rick's 'leadership' and other things, to pay proper attention to their daughter. So he stuck close by, if for no other reason, to keep an eye on her. And to watch Rick slobber over a version of HIS wife! He had lost Lori to him once. And he strongly suspected that the original Rick he knew, had slept with his Michonne as well. Shane was here to put things right. And even if the Rick that was their leader, was not the one that ruined everyone's lives in the other world, no version of Rick Grimes was going to be happy with ANY version of Michonne. Not as long as he had breath within him.

Shane pulled his head out of the past and answered Hannah's question.

"I don't think you need to be worried about me, now do you?" was his response.

"You're not like the others." Hannah said, tilting her head at him.

"What makes you say that?"

"Because the others, don't take off their masks. You did. I didn't even ask you to. You're not really one of them, are you?"

Shane said nothing to that. Instead, he moved closer to her cell.

"Tell me why Negan left you here?"

"Because he knew this is where I needed to be." was Hannah's reply.

Shane frowned but took that to mean that there was something, or someone here, that she needed to be near. He understood that, thinking of Lydia. Hannah smiled at him.

"There is more that you want to know, isn't there? Don't be shy. I apparently have all the time in the world."

"I wouldn't bet on that," Shane said matter-of-factly, "word is that you're some kind of killer. You might not be around for long."

"Who isn't a killer these days?"

"Hmmm." was all Shane said to that, eyeing her. He wanted to ask her about the Michonne of this universe, but he didn't want to give himself away. If she had been with Negan in Mount Falls, then she had to have met her. But he sensed that maybe this woman wasn't the one to get the information out of. He picked up her tray and walked out of the prison basement door. He hurried up the steps and noticed more than a few people looking at him. Now that he had the mask off, people were wondering who the hell he was.

Rosita was one of the people that noticed him. She realized he had to be one of Alpha's people, since they were assigned to feed prisoners and such. This guy had to have been wearing one of those skin masks this whole time, and probably took it off just to get some air or something. Rosita walked over to him and Shane nodded to her.

"Rosita, right?"

"Yeah," Rosita said, eyeing him, "you're…."

Shane decided that a fictitious name would be safer.

"Frank."

"Hi, Frank. I see you came from the cells. How is our prisoner? Not that I care."

"She's a cold one. She hinted that Negan left her here because he knew this was where she wanted to be."

Rosita nodded, crossing her arms.

"She's dangerous to Maggie. Aaron and Laura went to the prison to tell Rick about Negan's demands. I'm scared for Maggie. Negan wants Michonne back and Rick is not going to compromise."

"I thought Rick had children with Michonne?"

"He does."

"Okay, well Rick seems level headed. If he wants his kids then he needs to turn Michonne over to Negan."

"What needs to happen is that Negan needs to die. We need to get Maggie back and Negan needs to die. And if Michonne gets in the way, so be it. There would have been a time when I would have never said anything like that about her. But she has changed. Negan changed her and Rick leaving…being kidnapped or whatever, changed her as well. I worry that if and when we do kill Negan, will that make Michonne come back to her senses? Or will she try and avenge him?"

"I'm sure Rick and Alpha will make sure everything works out." Shane said, trying to make sense of what Rosita had told him. Lydia, and walking around here in front of Rick's face and his not knowing who he was, were the only joys he got out of any of this. But he had heard that Rick might not be coming back to Alexandria. That he might want to stay at this prison with Michonne and their children. Whatever happened, he needed to be wherever this Michonne was. He suspected that if his Michonne had hated this world's Michonne, that much, it was because she was vastly different from her in some way that was insulting.

And…there was a part of him that wanted to just see, and be, with a version of his wife that had been nurturing and caring. Because despite all that was being said, she had two children that she appeared to care for. His Michonne had cared for nothing and no one. Shane Walsh needed to be with a different Michonne. And if things worked out, he would take her back to his own universe—for good.

RED RIVER CREEK PRISON-

Aaron and Laura had arrived at the prison, thinking that the worst thing they could tell Rick, was that Maggie had been kidnapped by Negan, and that he expected Michonne to be exchanged for her.

But when they heard about Rick's 'portal trap' and that someone from that world was here, and clearly not revealing themselves, obviously, that added to their problems…

"You have no idea who this could be?" Aaron asked, his eyes darting around the prison grounds. Rick has met them at the gate and the three of them stood by the guard's booth.

"No. Though if I had to guess, I'd say it's the other Michonne. She was here awhile before anyone caught on. Whoever this is, hasn't revealed themselves because they're sneaking around, doing God knows what." Rick said. Laura shook her head.

"Maybe. But unless she's living in the woods or left the state, someone around here would recognize her as either Michonne or that other woman she was pretending to be, when Dexter and Maggie knew her."

"I think her name was Amanda." Aaron said.

Rick clenched his jaw.

"I'm not even sure now that it was just one person. It would have taken a batshit crazy person to kill all of those walkers, or an army of people, that knew that they were there. We'll deal with that later. We need to get a note to Negan about the exchange." he said.

"We're actually going to exchange Michonne for Maggie? After all of the trouble you went through?" Aaron asked.

"No." Rick said, looking around, just to make sure they weren't overheard. "You get a message to him saying I'll go along with it. We have the exchange happen here. I don't want Judith or RJ seeing what is going to happen."

"What is going to happen, Rick?" Laura asked. But God help her, she knew…

"We're going to do things Alpha's way." Rick said quietly. Aaron shook his head…

"Aaron, Laura, I hate it too! But it's the only way. I need as many of you as possible, to dress like walkers. There are woods outside of Mount Falls. We get Nick to make sure the entrance is unlocked…" Rick began.

"Yeah, that's another thing," Aaron interrupted, "Rosita said that Negan killed Nick. We literally have no one that can get back inside of Mount Falls and let walkers in. Even fake ones."

Rick looked at them both.

"Actually we do." he told them, thinking of Father John.

Meanwhile, Michonne and Father John watched as Siddiq patched up Crazy Alpha at the house. Or at least that's the name Michonne called her in her mind. Alpha had asked Siddiq not to give her any pain killers, because the wound was a 'war one'. Michonne had rolled her eyes at that and Siddiq had to repair the wound, while not being freaked out by the fact that Negan had a twin brother that was a priest.

Father John pulled Michonne into a corner of the room.

"You know the layout of this prison, right?"

Michonne nodded.

"Let's go now. Let's escape while Rick is gone and Alpha there is indisposed. If we wait for my brother to do whatever it is he plans on doing, there will be bloodshed. I suspect there probably has been some already."

That thought had occurred to Michonne but she wanted to think that Negan had grown some, since Abraham and Glenn. But she suspected that Lucille might have been used on someone, just to get her location.

"Okay but…" Michonne was about to agree, when the sound of a helicopter…no, helicopters, drowned out her words! Alpha struggled to stand as Siddiq hurried away from her and joined Michonne and Father John at a window.

Those helicopters belonged to Mount Falls. And no one had any doubt that Negan was in one of them

Meanwhile, Negan sat calmly as Victor hovered over the prison. Actually as the helicopter hovered over Rick, Aaron and Laura. He had his trusty machine gun and megaphone, while the other helicopter, which was being flown by some fucker that Alicia or someone knew, named John something. He wore a cowboy hat and wouldn't shut the fuck up to save his life, which is why Deke was flying with him. Negan's nerves were shot! He had decided he didn't want to wait to get Chonnie back and why the fuck should he? He knew where she was, they had fire and airpower and Rick Grimes could shove it up his ass if he didn't like it.

And he wouldn't.

Negan opened the helicopter door and took out his megaphone. He grinned down at Rick, Aaron and Laura, who were backing away.

"Mr. Grimes, I want you to bring me Chonnie and I want you to surrender your fucking self to me! Are we clear?"

Rick said nothing and just stared up at him. Every hateful moment that he had had in this man's presence, came flooding back. Negan told Victor to land the helicopter and when it was on the ground, Negan got out with his machine gun and walked up to the three of them, pointing it.

"Let's go! Go and get her!"

"There's supposed to be an exchange, remember?" Rick asked calmly.

"Oh I changed my mind," Negan said in a fake, apologetic tone, "Maggie is staying with me. I figured she'd make a nice housekeeper for Chonnie. And you know something else?"

"No, what?" Rick asked wryly.

"I'm going to find that woman a husband! A proper one so she'll stay out of my fucking business. Laura," Negan said, addressing his former Savior, "go get Chonnie—NOW!"

Rick stood in front of Laura.

"So is Michonne the only person you want?"

Negan gave Rick a WTF look.

"What the hell are you driving at, Grimes?"

"Well your twin brother is here as well. With Michonne. He seems very concerned about her. VERY." Rick stressed and then refrained from smiling. The reaction he had hoped to get out of this bastard, showed in his eyes.

"My brother is here?" Negan asked calmly.

"Yes. One would almost think, Negan, that he was the father of her child, you know, with how protective he is of her."

Back at the house, Michonne didn't like the looks of the Negan/Rick conversation, and decided to cut it short!

"I'm gong to them. You should come too." Michonne said to Father John.

But Father John thought it might be better if he stayed put. Rick Grimes was not a man to be trifled with. And even if Michonne left this prison, he felt it was almost a certainty, that she would be back. With the kids. And then, he could get to know her well enough, that he could get her to leave with him in search of his family. But that would never happen if he returned to Mount Falls with her. Negan would always be hovering.

"I'm going to stay, Michonne." he said quietly and Siddiq looked over at him. Michonne shook her head!

"No, John! You can't! I know Negan and you have your problems, but he would not want you to stay here."

"Michonne," he said quietly, "you might find that in the end, Mount Falls, and my brother, are not what you need or want."

Siddiq was listening in, suspecting that Negan's twin brother was not cock blocking Negan, for Rick's sake. But he said nothing and looked out of the window again. Negan and Rick were on their way towards the house. Siddiq turned to check in on Alpha and found that she was gone!

"Where did Alpha go?" Siddiq asked, his voice starting to rise. Father John and Michonne turned and noticed her absence. How the hell had she been able to get up after a wound like that?

"'l'll help the doctor find Alpha. You deal with my brother." Father John told Michonne, before giving her a quick hug. He and Siddiq then began looking through the house, just as Negan and Rick entered. Michonne ran into Negan's arms, unable to help herself! Ordinarily, she would not have been so inconsiderate in front of Rick, but she just couldn't help it. She didn't like not being on firm ground here. This prison, that had once been a home away from home with Ezekiel, had been overrun with strangers. Rick, despite her time with him, was a stranger now. And all she could think about now, was how to explain all of this to Judith and RJ.

Negan smirked at Rick as he held Michonne, then he gently set her away from him.

"Where's my brother? How come he didn't try to bring you back?"

"Someone was hurt. Siddiq and him are off looking for her. I think you should help them while I talk to Rick."

"I don't think that…" Negan began but Michonne put a finger over his lips.

"I'm leaving with you. Just go and find Siddiq and Father John." she whispered before Negan kissed her quickly. He then turned and leisurely began looking around for whoever this was, that wasn't Siddiq or his bastard brother! He decided to look for his twin and give him a nice talking to.

As soon as Negan left the room, Michonne turned to Rick, who was looking at her in a way she couldn't quite read.

"I'm sorry. I will do everything to ensure that Judith and RJ are in your life…"

"My children will not be raised by that man. He kidnapped Maggie and is holding her at Mount Falls. Rosita had the privilege of watching him murder Nick Clark, the same way he killed Glenn and Abraham. I can't make you see that he's brainwashed you, Michonne. I can't make you see that it's me you really love. But my kids are not going to live with that animal."

Michonne said nothing to that. At first.

Then words formed.

"How do you propose to keep them from living with me?" she asked, giving him a no nonsense look.

"Are you challenging my parental rights?" Rick asked, giving her the same no-nonsense look in return. "I'm just supposed to let Judith and RJ grow up to be people that would smash someone else's head in, just to get what they want?"

"I will make sure that Maggie's returned. I will deal with what happened to Nick. But our children need to know how to survive."

Rick sensed she was trying to say something that he really wouldn't like hearing! But he decided to be patient and let her get it out.

"Meaning?"

"Meaning, this thing you have with these 'Whisperers' is messed up, Rick! You would actually expect our children to be around people that walked around like that? And I'm not stupid. Any human would think that they were just some normal, hoard of walkers. Meaning they would fire or stab at their heads. A human person would not expect a 'walker' to stab them back or have a gun on them themselves. How many innocent people have Alpha and her crew, murdered before you took them in?"

"Michonne…"

"You know I'm right and what they are pulling…"

"Probably pulling. I don't know that her people did anything like that to anyone."

"Okay, Rick. We're going to agree to disagree about that. Or at least we'll pretend to." Michonne said, her eyes probing his. "But you cannot expect me to live here or at Alexandria with you and the kids, when you have less than we do."

"The only reason you have all you have, is because that other version of me was stealing from the other world. I could do that too. I'm the only one that knows where that portal is and eventually, what was brought into Mount Falls will get used up."

"I think six years went by and it's too late to go back." Michonne said sadly, moving to give him a goodbye kiss. She then pulled away and walked off in the direction that she saw Negan leave in. But Rick was not finished.

"This isn't over, Michonne. And we're not over. We're married now!" he called after her as he heard a back door open and close. Rick could not believe what had just happened! He could not believe that Michonne was going back to Mount Falls with Negan. His mind, oddly, went back to the time when he found out about Lori's betrayal with Shane. She too had thought he was dead and had taken up with Shane. Though Michonne took a lot longer to let someone in than Lori had. But it was because of what happened with Lori, that he couldn't let Michonne go. He had never made things right before Lori died. He should've forgiven her. Truly forgiven her.

Rick folded his arms. Negan and Michonne were not going to work out. All he had to do was sit back and watch it fall apart. But, there was also nothing wrong with his giving things a little push in that direction.

Negan found Alpha in another building that housed a cafeteria and a kitchen. He saw the bandages on her throat and surmised that she was the person that Michonne had been talking about. He whistled as he walked up to her and noticed she seemed to be washing a wig of some sort, in the kitchen sink. Only the wig looked odd. Negan tore his eyes off of it and addressed the woman, who was now pretending as if she didn't know he was there. He leaned around her at the sink, so that he could see her face. Alpha turned off the water and stared at him.

"You're Negan."

"I am indeed. People are looking for you. So I suggest you go find Siddiq and get that wound taken care of."

Alpha gave him her full attention.

"Michonne did this to me."

Negan shrugged.

"And?" he asked, annoyed. He still needed to find his damned brother and give him a piece of his mind! But this…whatever…was bothering him about some shit Michonne supposedly did…

"It doesn't bother you that she would stab someone in the throat?"

"You probably had it coming." Negan answered, his eyes falling on the wet wig in the sink. Alpha noticed and smiled but said nothing about it.

"Your brother is fond of Michonne." she noted.

"Yeah. You haven't seen him around, have you?" Negan said, his eyes darting around.

"No, Mr. Negan. I haven't. But I think we could be of some use to one another."

Negan's eyes focused on her.

"In what way?" he asked, looking her up and down.

"Michonne doesn't belong at Rick's side. We could both make them understand that. We could also make them understand that Alexandria and Mount Falls, should keep their distance from one another." Alpha said in a soft voice.

"You're fucking Rick then, right? Is that what you're trying to tell me? You're fucking Rick but for some reason, you aren't laying it on him like you should be, and he's with Michonne."

"I would not have put it like that…"

But Alpha was cut off when Negan grabbed her by the throat and pressed her wound—hard! Alpha began flailing every which way but Negan did not let go until he made his meaning clear!

"What happened at the 'wedding', was your fucking fault! Start doing Mr. Grimes right, so that he doesn't come looking for what's mine. If he keeps coming back around, looking for Michonne or my children, I'll make sure you don't live long enough to wear that fucked up wig that's supposed to be Chonnie's hair, are we clear?"

Negan didn't wait for her to respond and he shoved her away from him! The pressure he had put on her throat, reopened the knife wounds and blood was visible through the bandages. It was then that Father John came in and guessed something was amiss.

"Negan, you found Alpha, thank God and…"

Father John's words were halted, when Negan took the wet wig out of the sink and slammed it into his brother's face! Father John went stumbling back, sputtering and Negan followed him until he had him backed up against a wall.

"This wig, is all of Michonne you will ever get! I don't know what the fuck you were doing, sneaking off without telling me that you knew where she was, but I'm on to you! I've always been on to you." Negan said coolly.

Father John let the wig fall to the floor and he kicked it away. Oddly, Alpha let out a muffled scream when Father John's foot touched the wig and they both looked at her briefly, before resuming their argument.

"There was no time to get you!" Father John yelled. "Otherwise I would have lost their trail! But I always planned on bringing her back to Mount Falls."

"And you watched the wedding? The wedding between Michonne and Rick?"

"I heard about it, but no, I was not present." Father John replied. Negan eyed him, not believing him. He suspected his priest brother was hotter for Michonne than ever, now that he'd seen her naked. He suspected he was at the wedding and just allowed Rick to do what he did, without interruption. Negan would ask Chonnie about it later.

Michonne and Siddiq entered the cafeteria and Siddiq immediately ran to Alpha, who was standing next to the sink, bleeding through her wounds. Alpha gave Michonne a dirty look and watched as she ran to get in between the two brothers!

"Negan, we all need to leave here! Let's just go and talk to the kids, okay?" Michonne suggested.

But Father John had another 'suggestion'. One that didn't sound that great.

"You know, I think that Rick and Alpha should come and stay in Mount Falls. For a week. Then Rick can see that the kids are in good hands and Alpha can see that Michonne is no threat to her and Rick." Father John said.

Siddiq looked at him, while he tried to examine Alpha's wounds. He then spoke to Alpha.

"You could find out how Maggie is doing. Apparently she was kidnapped from Alexandria." he said, eyeing Negan. Michonne suddenly felt tired and wished for a time machine. Things were simpler when it was just Rick and Carl, back at the prison and the Governor was all they had to worry about.

Negan suddenly smiled. Yes, that was a good idea. He would get Rick in Mount Falls, reveal him to be a child perv and hang him in the middle of the square. Of course, Chonnie might not like that. Michonne looked at him, puzzled.

"What?" she asked. "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Negan wrapped an arm around her waist.

"I think that's the first good idea the good Father has had in a long while. Yes, let's keep this civil. We'll show Rick and Alice over there, that we can care for the kids and people in general, better than they can."

"My name is Alpha." Alpha said in a nasty sounding whisper.

"Nobody gives a fuck!" Negan snapped and pulled Michonne away from Father John and the others.

"I've been hearing some talk about a 'raw fucking' that took place during some half assed wedding ceremony, Chonnie? Now I'm hurt as fuck here!"

"Negan, I was tied up and it was a moment. He got Father Gabriel to marry the two of us and people were watching. Honestly, I think they were there to keep me from escaping. I'm not going to pretend like I didn't feel something then. But when it was over and I saw the kind of life Rick wanted to have with me…I just don't see it working. Too much has happened. I have told him. I have told him I am with you." Michonne told him firmly.

"I want to see this cell that you were molested in! Shit, if you were tied up that makes this whole thing seem completely different!"

"Negan," Michonne said softly, "let's just go home. I've had enough of this prison for a lifetime. And we're taking Father John with us."

"Was he there? At this 'wedding'?" Negan demanded to know.

"No. He showed up the next day."

Negan nodded, slightly mollified. At least his brother didn't watch anything dirty. But still…

"I don't like the fact that Grimes thought it was okay to have sex with you while you're pregnant with MY child! Chonnie, you are going to have to let me have some kind of revenge here. It's not right."

"Let's not think about that right now, okay? Let's just go home. I heard the helicopters. Let's go home and deal with other things." she said knowingly and Negan knew she knew about Nick.

Negan nodded in agreement. Or he pretended to. But he was tired of Rick Grimes. Tired of him thinking he could once again, take what was his. He had taken what he had built with the Saviors once. He was not about to let him destroy his new home and family. Not again.