Okay, quick word of warning.

Hina isn't doing to Aladdin what was mentioned in prior chapters. He asked, and due to the world of the Walking Dead being a dying world with few people- she accepted.

I'm still leaning towards either a Rick or Daryl pairing with her later on. So I don't want anyone saying that he's abusing her or anything due to her age and stuff.

He isn't.

Despite Aladdin's physical age, she's actually centuries old. Her body just hasn't caught up yet. So- let's see what happens before anyone flips out on me.

The moment that Sin heard the front door creak shut, he then turned his attention to Rick and his group and said in response to the former question asked of him, "Alex and several of the others were with me at the time that I was bitten and were debating on whether to leave me behind or not when Ali told them to pick me up and run. She apparently had calculated the odds of saving me against the odds of losing me, and felt that saving me was the better option."

"When we got here, Ali and one of the other's in our group who is a healer began working on me. I was stitched up, bandaged and had some odd herbal concoction poured down my throat for several hours- maybe longer. The herbal concoction was to help fight off fever and infection while allowing me to sleep without feeling any pain and recuperate as I should have. It took me several days to wake up, but once I did-" Sin fell silent as he was suddenly cut off.

"You were just as much a pain in our butts as you are now," Jareth cut in before then tacking on, "The truth of the matter, Mr. Grimes is that Ali is well versed with medicines and other things. She even has knowledge of how to preform surgeries for trauma to the head, heart, lungs, liver, kidney. Including how to even fix up a severed artery or two. We even have several rooms upstairs where she spends most of her time reading and memorizing medical texts, and going over our supplies, most days. One of us will show all of you where it is in a little while if you want."

"In fact, now that I think of it- we have some stuff that we can use to inoculate each of you against various illnesses and diseases that you may have been exposed to before coming here. We can take care of that, and also give each of you a physical exam while we are at it."

"We'll also need to take note of your blood types- just in case there is an accident and someone needs blood- and we also need to take note of any food or medicine allergies that anyone may have," Jareth said as he awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck before saying, "I know that asking these things is a bit much for your group- but it is one of the requirements of staying."

Rick and several others in his group all looked mildly shocked. But not in a bad way, which led the man and many of the others to agree that he and everyone else would do as they were asked and get inoculated, and have themselves checked over- if it would put the foreigners more at ease.

Though Sin thought that the man pretty much only agreed because he wanted to check out their make shift medical facilities and see if they were lacking anything, and couldn't help the- what was it Ali called his grin now? She had read a book from this world a while back and picked up a phrase or two from it and sometimes applied them to him and his expressions.

Ah yes, that's what she called his grin now- the Cheshire grin. Whatever the hell that meant. He must have been wearing one of those at the moment since Ren walked over to stand next to him and elbowed him sharply in the ribs and hissed, "Wipe that weird look off of your face, Sinbad."

"Hn? Oh sorry." Sinbad said in an slightly amused tone as he absently rubbed at the area that he'd been elbowed in as Jareth motioned for everyone done eating to follow him.

Ali backed herself against the trunk of a tree and stared at Hinahoho for a moment, more than a little bit shocked and startled by his confession.

In truth the two of them had been working on getting her to no longer fear being touched for a while now. Possibly eight months or longer. About a little longer than when she had been bitten by one of those plague riddled walking corpses. And yeah, they had been making progress and stuff.

She no longer threw people into trees, or punched them where it really, really hurt, or locked herself in her bedroom and cried and disappeared for days upon days or even a week or more at a time and had to be dragged back kicking and screaming like a lunatic.

And yes, she had gone into this particular arrangement totally aware of what could happen and what likely would happen eventually. Especially with Hina as her partner. So his confession- couldn't have, and shouldn't have startled her like it had. And yet it still did.

Maybe because she was worried about what would happen if she allowed him to do as he confessed to wanting. Not that she could wholly blame him or anything. He was now not only the last of his family, but his ancient tribe as well and as such his instinct to procreate were probably eating away at him.

It was natural that he desired to have some of what he had lost again. Even if he was hoping somewhat that she would be the one to give it to him due to the natural shortage of available females that may accept him.

She wouldn't lie, he didn't offer her marriage. He would never offer such a thing to anyone ever again no matter how much he cared about them. It wasn't that he couldn't, but because he was still hung up on the feels of affection that he had once shared with his late wife.

He would never love her.

Not in the same way that he had loved his late wife. And she knew that, and could accept it.

He did however promise that he would never hurt her.

He would always protect her and do what was best for her and 'their' child if she decided to agree with the arrangement moving forward and allowing him to breed her.

This of course meant that if at any time, things became strained between them or, god forbid, he messed things up with her- then he would leave the group for a while and return after a month or so to test and see if she could stand to be around him again.

He refused to push her like others in their group might inevitably do.

After all, he knew that Sinbad had had his eye on her from the beginning. Kouen, wanted her mostly for her knowledge. He even respected her in his own roundabout way, and had even grown to be as protective of her as Alibaba and the rest of them.

Hina had no doubt that his feelings towards her would inevitably come into play.

And then there was Ja-far- the way that he watched her was a little bit unnerving to the man. Though Hina knew deep down that Ja-far wouldn't do anything to hurt her physically, there were many different kinds of hurt that could cause her to unravel. And Hina would be damned if he allowed the little bratling to undo all of his and Aladdin's hard work. She had far too many good qualities that would leave the world just a bit more bereft if anything ever happened to her. It was partially for this reason, among others, that Hina decided that Aladdin would be an excellent mother to his child.

But again it was her decision.

If she wasn't yet ready for such a thing to occur, then he would leave her be and not ask again until she was older.

He was a proud man and warrior. And though he could not deny that he cared for Aladdin in some small way- both as a good friend and a comrade- he longed for some small piece of himself to continue existing, even in this world... He would not beg or bully the girl.

It would be cruel to do so.

So instead he stood there waiting for her to respond to what he had said, watching her expression carefully for any signs of panic or the need to flee from him in abject terror.

He was only moderately happy that she didn't seem to feel the need for either one since he didn't exactly feel like hunting her down and dragging her back home and then explaining things to Sin and the others. Though she did seem to be thinking things over fairly hard.

Perhaps he shouldn't have said anything just yet but he hadn't been able to help it. The instinct to breed her had risen within him more and more of late and he'd wanted to give her a fair warning that their next session could wind up with the two of them being far more intimate than she may want to be right now.

Sighing softly, he shifted from foot to foot in an uncomfortable manner when she finally spoke up.

"I-I'll do it." Causing him to glance down at her so quickly that the world practically spun. His icy blue eyes stared into her deep violet for a moment before he slowly nodded and moved to sit himself down on the ground and set his spear aside and then held his hand out to her and waited patiently for her to take it so that he could pull her close to him and settle her so that she was straddling his hips.

It took several moments, but once she was settled over his lap, he rested a large hand on one of her hips and let out a pleased sounding ruble from deep in his chest as he used his fingertips to tilt her head back so that he could kiss her lips.

It was the first time that he'd ever kissed her somewhere aside from where she had been injured when she had been taken by those lunatics before. And usually when he kissed her in those other places, he didn't stop until he tasted her and brought her to climax several times, crying and writhing, before she passed out from full sensory overload.

"H-How are we going to do this?" Aladdin asked awkwardly as Hina began lightly sucking on the tender skin of her collarbone as he slipped one of his hands underneath her shirt to cup her breast as another pleased rumble escaped him before he replied.

"We'll do this like it's just another session. I want you soaked and fully prepared before I do anything more to you. Otherwise it will hurt you. Possibly more than having a large piece of broken glass shoved up inside of you," He noted her expression as he gave his metaphor and could have kicked himself for scaring her, truly he could. But he was merely being honest with her, as he had always been. "Sorry," He said apologetically before going on to say. "I probably shouldn't have used that metaphor. But truth is truth, Aladdin. And this will hurt you far more than it should if I do not prepare you enough."

"O-Oh..." Aladdin said and then hissed in discomfort as he ripped her bra off of her and held it up in front of her eyes for a moment, before chucking it over his shoulder and then using one hand to hold her in place against him, shifted their position so that she was underneath him on the leaf covered ground and began the somewhat irksome work of divesting her of her clothing, with the exception of her shirt.

He knew how much she hated being completely naked and vulnerable to him. So he usually let her keep her shirt on just in case she freaked out on him.

Today wouldn't really be all that different yet he couldn't help but feel excited at the prospect of her letting him breed her. She was giving him a great gift, something of himself and his people to keep living for and keep fighting for should everyone else fall.

He was so grateful to her that he doubted that he would ever be able to repay her even if he managed to live a million years. Leaning over the young girl, he placed another, slightly more heated kiss against her lips and breathed in a reverent tone, "Thank you Aladdin." And then pulled back so that he could see her nod her head, knowing that the next few hours would probably put her body through the ringer.

Hina smiled down at her as his eyes started glowing a faint violent-red color as he slowly removed his clothing and set everything aside. Apparently he was in no hurry to get things over with despite his eagerness.

"T-This won't hurt right?" Aladdin suddenly asked, giving him pause as he noted the slight tremble in her voice. His eyes changed back to their normal calm, icy blue for a moment as he reached out and gently cupped her cheek in his large hand and softly used his thumb to stroke the skin there tenderly.

"I won't lie Aladdin, even with my prepping you- you may feel more than a little bit of pain and discomfort due to your size. You are so much smaller than I...I often times during our sessions fear that I may wind up breaking you with my hands alone. But even if it does hurt or feel uncomfortable, you can back out at any time- and if you decide not to back out and still get hurt, then I'll let Alibaba and Morgiana hold me down so that you can kick my ass. Sound like a plan?"

Aladdin chewed her bottom lip for a moment and then asked, "Will you please stop when I pass out and take me back to the house?"

"You know that I will do anything that you ask."

"O-Okay. Let's do this then." Aladdin said and twitched slightly when he skimmed his lips along the shell of her ear. He was already ahead of her.

Way, way, way ahead of her.