"Melanie!" Maggie's voice was faint to Melanie as she began to awaken. She sat up feeling herself and looked around, seeing Negan sitting in the front seat driving.

"Morning sweetness." Negan chuckled looking back at Melanie. He had a big cut going down from his right eye down to his chin. It had stopped bleeding, but looked horrible.

Melanie sat up. "Maggie?" She asked as she looked around, and seen Ford sleeping on a blanket, she sighed in relief

"I grabbed this truck after taking down Dan - He turned." He sighed. "Got that one tied up, along with that one." He grinned pointing to Daryl, who was awake and fighting the restraints. "Are you okay sweetness? I didn't mean to...hit you with Lu." He sighed.

"I'm fine. Just a good sized goose-egg." Melanie smiled softly, and leaned over the seat and kissed him on his injured cheek. "All is forgiven. Are you ok?"

"Right as rain sugar." Negan said kissing her back.

"Mel…" Maggie groaned rolling onto her side

Maggie was breathing hard, and groaned softly. Melanie took her hand, "It's okay." She put her other hand on Maggie's stomach again and felt as she was having contractions.

"R...really close." Maggie sighed breathing softly.

"Has your water broke?"

Maggie shook her head. "A while ago." She looked up at Daryl and over at Negan then back at Melanie again. "You've been out a while."

"It'll be okay." Melanie promised. "First babies usually take forever."

"I've been feeling awful all day, since this morning.." Maggie groaned softly, gripping on Melanie's hand. She knew it would he painful - but didn't expect this.

"Negan how far away are we from hilltop?"

Negan raised a brow. "Nowhere close.. Sanctuary is still a good half days drive away, this shit of a vehicle probably won't make it though."

"Negan she's in labor." Melanie sighed softly, watching him for a reaction.

"Shit." He frowned. "This the lady who's hubby's brains i smashed?"

Melanie nodded and sighed. "Yeah."

"You know her…" Negan said frowning.

Maggie groaned out louder gripping onto Melanie's hand. "Damn it!"

"Breathe Maggie." Melanie said holding her hand, and looking up at Negan into the mirror. "Negan, they are getting closer. Her water broke earlier."

Negan growled out in frustration and anger. " Mel you had a baby you can deliver it."

"I could i know the basic stuff - But you're the one who was a Medic." She snapped back at him. "Besides, if you hadn't taken her with us. She wouldn't be in labor in a damn truck!"

Negan growled slightly, he was going down through an old town. "There's a clinic here." He sighed, he knew she was right, he wanted to use Maggie and the baby as leverage to get back at Rick, along with Daryl. "We will find somewhere to stay."

"Hell no!" Maggie groaned. "He is not touching me!" She said smacking Melanie.

Negan turned around and grabbed Maggie's hand and gripped onto it tightly. "I'd suggest not biting the hand that is feeding you - Darlin." He let go of her and started driving to the clinic.

Melanie held Maggie's hand. "I'll figure something out." She whispered. "Let's get you safe first."

Negan grabbed Lucille, he looked at Melanie. "Get your ass out and help me." He growled walking up to the door, didn't see any walkers in sight. He took a crowbar and managed to break the door open. Melanie didn't say anything and went with him.

"So. Where you apart of the ambush?" Negan asked not looking at her, he was gripping hard onto Lucille though.

" I didn't know about the ambush." Melanie said grabbing supplies off the shelves. "I knew about Maggie being alive.." She admitted. "Along with Daryl." She sighed. "Paul is the one who found me. Maggie is hilltops leader." She turned around to look at him.

"We will discuss your part later." Negan said clenching his jaw, as he grabbed some IV solution, and IV supplies, tossing them in the bag. They walked back to the truck and got in, Melanie sat in the back with Maggie.

Negan didn't say anything, he started driving. "Tell me if they get any closer." He said gently, after driving more. He knew she was right.

Melanie helped Maggie through it all. "Sher. You used to be a nurse?"

Sherry shook her head. " I worked in Hospice. It's been years since I seen a birth. My kids were all born by Cesarean.." She said, looking down at Ford.

Maggie kept breathing to keep up with the contractions. " Nnnnnn." she groaned softly.

Melanie had Maggie roll onto her side and applied pressure to her lower back. "Keep going, You're doing great. Feel any pressure or urge to push?"

" Slightly. I've been fighting it though.." Maggie answered, glancing up at her and then looking at Daryl.

Melanie sighed and looked over the seat and leaned over to touch Negan's shoulder. "Negan. She's feeling the urges to push."

Negan tapped his fingers on the steering wheel, thinking.

"The one thing i remember from nursing school…Mainly because i disliked doing it.." Sherry sighed. "Is checking dilation. "

Melanie nodded listening, she remembered Negan doing that and it hurt like hell. "I remember that."

"Well. Mel." Negan sighed. He talked her through it and what the sizing was using condiment containers lids. "If you can't feel anything after that point, she's fully dilated."

"Can't believe he knows this shit." Maggie groaned breathing hard, trying to focus on the silver handle on the door.

"Wish we were in a more sterile environment." Mel sighed, looking at Negan. "Like when we were at the cabin."

"Mel." Negan warned.

"It's secluded. Nobody knows where it is, and it's closer.."

"NO." Negan snapped, glaring at her in the mirror.

"Negan! At least everything is there still - I hope." Mel said jumping slightly. "Thats where I had Ford at."

Negan groaned, he hated that cabin. He had a lot of reasons in doing so. Hell broke loose there.

Melanie moved forward and leaned over the seat wrapping her arms around him. "Please." She whispered. "The past is horrible, and we swore we would never go back there but things are different now." She paused and smiled slightly. "I'll do uhm… that think you like when we get some time alone.."

Negan let out a growl and rolled his eyes. "Fine." He quickly turned off into the woods down a unknown rabbit trail. He moved his right hand and stroked her hair slightly and continued driving.

Melanie kissed his cheek "Thank you." She smiled and hugged him again.

"You owe me." He smirked slightly. He drove some more down the off trail and about 25 miles later he came upon a cabin, after going through some more secluded woods. The sun was beginning to rise. It looked beautiful. There was a small pond not far off. During their first stay there they fenced it off around the lake and enclosed the cabin around inside it also. He got out and opened the gate. He drove in and then had Mel run out and shut it and lock it.

Sherry gasped slightly, seeing it. "Wow… I forgot about this place." She smiled softly. "Seems like an eternity…"

"It does." Mel smiled softly, grabbing the gun and doing a perimeter check and checking the inside. She came running out. "It's still stocked." She smiled.

Negan drove the truck to the garage and backed it in. He shut the door and turned off the truck. He got out and had Mel run inside getting lights going.

Mel came out moments later and opened the back door. Negan came around and grabbed Daryl and threw him on the ground.

Maggie started crying, as Negan moved to her. "No!" She groaned.

Negan growled slightly and put her down on her feet. "Try it." He said watching.

Maggie tried walking, but was in a lot of pain, and feeling more pressure. "Oh!" She tried catching herself.

Negan grabbed her, picking her up bridal style, held her close and carried her inside. Melanie helped Daryl up as Sherry carried Ford on her hip and the bag also.

Maggie was taken aback by this kindness, that Negan showed her.. She kept her eyes closed and groaned.

"Keep breathing and keep that kid in. I'm not ruining my boots." He said gruff carrying Maggie inside and into the master bedroom. "Mel did you look in all the closets and basement?"

Melanie cracked a slight smile, "Never got tired of hearing that line Negan.". She nodded. " I did. All clear. All locked, sir."

"Good." He said laying Maggie on the bed. "Get the supplies laid out on the table. Get the fire going also, and water." He said walking into the bathroom and shutting the door.

Melanie nodded putting Daryl in the corner in a chair and tying him to it. "Sorry Daryl." she whispered. He nodded.

Melanie ran to the kitchen and used the hand pump and got water out after a few minutes. She got the fire roaring and put the water over the fireplace in the bedroom. She ran to the linen closet and grabbed towels along with blankets. She ran and checked on the garage door and double checked all the windows and doors. She put Lucille on the mantle on the fireplace after washing her up.

Melanie stopped and looked at herself in the mirror. She took the hair tie out and threw her long light brown/ red chair up in a bun. Then she took off her leather jacket, and shirt stipping down to just a spaghetti top. She went into the kitchen and washed up.

Sherry took Ford into the living room and cuddled with him on the sofa humming him a soft lullaby.

Melanie came back into the bedroom and took the bedding off the bed, rolling Maggie side to side, and placing a towel under her bottom, and helping remove her pants. She took off Maggie's jacket and stripping her top down to just a tank top and panties. She covered her with a towel. She grabbed two bowls of water; one for soap and one for rising; along with a washcloth and some old bar of dial soap. "Feel nice to get slightly cleaned up. We can do a bath after you have the baby."

Maggie panted hard listening to her, and nodded. "Ooooh" She groaned, louder. It was getting more painful and harder to talk She let Melanie clean her up and put her in a fresh shirt, removed her underwear and covered her with a blanket.

Mel dumped the water and cleaned it and washed her hands again.

"Keep breathing. Find an object to focus on." Melanie said sitting on the bed beside her and held her hand.

Negan came out, he had taken off his jacket and washed it in the bathroom, along with stripping down to his clean t-shirt and cleaned jeans. He washed the wound on his face but didn't tend to it. "How she doing?" He asked looking a Melanie, and glancing down at Maggie.

"Good but having hard time focusing." Mel said softly. She was starting to get sick to her stomach, she didn't think being back here would bother her this much. She could only imagion how it made Negan feel.

"Good. Alright lets see." He said scrubbing his hands then drying them and putting on gloves.

"Hell you are!" Daryl cussed trying to get up but knocked the chair over, aying on his side tied to the chair, he landed on his injured arm, and groaned in pain.

"Shut it. Or I'll tie you to the hook in the closet." Negan ordered, then let out a laugh. "He looks like a fucking horseshoe crab trapped." He said watching him.

Melanie rolled her eyes. "Yeah he does love." She said picked Darly back up to make him sit. Then walked over and shut the door.

Maggie let out a loud scream from the bed. Melanie walked over in a hurry. Maggie was kicking at Negan refusing him to be anywhere near her, along with being in the middle of a hard contraction.

"Maggie. Calm down," Melanie said going over and holding her hands. "Shhhh." She said trying to block her view of Negan. "Look at me." She ordered Maggie.

Maggie laid her head back and cried. She looked over at Melanie, and squeezed the hell out of her hands.

"Shhh...I know it hurts like hell. As much as you hate him for what he did to your family. He's got the medical experience, as much as he is an asshole." She paused seeing Negan frown, then grin smugly. " Hell he's got more experience than me and I shoved a kid out of my vagina in the middle of the first winter of this hell hole."

She said stroking Maggie's face calming her down "I know it's not the situation you wanted. But it happened since…" She sighed. "It's going to be okay. But, you need to breathe and try relaxing." Melanie put a cool rag on her forehead. Then did some calming breathing with her. "Shhh…Close your eyes if it helps. I'm right here." She promised.

Maggie cried listening to Melanie and tried calming down, keeping a good grip on her hands, and doing the breathing with her. "O..Okay." She groaned.

Negan watched and kept quiet, the first time he's been quiet in a while really listening to his youngest - First - Wife speak. He looked over at Lucille on the mantle, and closed his eyes. He looked back at Melanie and nodded hearing Maggie okay it. "I need to check you Maggie." He said gently.

Maggie nodded and breathed moving her legs apart.

"Deep breathes. Going to be pressure, and some pain." He said moving the blanket back and put two fingers inside her to check.

Maggie groaned and breathed feeling a lot of pressure during a hard contraction and pressure from his hand. "Nnnnnn" She breathed harder and squeezed Mel's hand, keepin her eyes closed.

"Doing good." Mel smiled, watching Maggie and then Negan.

Negan pressed in more,he sighed slightly. "You're at a 9. I can really feel the baby's head." He said moving his hand back and out.

Maggie nodded listening, she took a deep breath and moved onto her side.

Melanie rubbed Maggie's back and watched her.

Negan moved back and sat on a stool and watched Daryl.

Maggie groaned more, trying to keep quiet, She felt like she wanted to throw up. Melanie grabbed the trashcan and handed it to her, rubbing her back as she threw up. Maggie let out a cry after cleaning up herself and laid her head on the pillow.

"Doing good.." Melanie said rubbing her back more.

Maggie really started crying, "I...wish...glenn was here." She said softly.

Mel nodded. " I know." She seen Negan walk out of the room. "Tell me about him." She said gently, rubbing her back more, helping her with it.

Maggie breathed and told her about Glenn, and everything else. She really relaxed and calmed down. Daryl had hidden his face into his good hand, having a hard time hearing all this. Maggie stopped groaning loudly trying to shift around, moving onto her back again. "Oh." She laid her head back. "That feels weird."

Melanie watched her and looked as Negan walked back in the room, shutting the door.

Negan strolled over to Melanie and grabbed a clean glove. "Good?"

Mel nodded, "Yeah." She answered helping Maggie.

Negan moved down to the bed, and moved the blankets. Maggie started protesting again. "Like hell. You're going to help me." She groaned

Negan growled. "Then you can deliver it yourself." He said getting up and grabbing Melanie and dragging Daryl by the shirt.

Maggie groaned, "Please." She said trying to move, she couldn't believe she was reduced to this. "Please help me." Maggie watched him, she really hated that man. She let out a scream feeling more pressure.

Negan stopped, holding the door open, he looked at Daryl, then at Melanie. He closed his eyes hearing her scream. He turned around and kicked the door shut. He let go of Melanie, and pushed Daryl to the bed. "Do anything stupid. I will kill you." He warned taking his knife and cutting the rope. Negan grabbed some gloves and moved Maggie's blanket off her completely, she was still in a tank top, he sat down on the stool and took one leg and gave it to Daryl, and the other he had Melanie hold it. "Push if you feel it."

Maggie breathed and pushed, groaning softly.

Daryl and Melanie held onto Maggie's legs. Melanie left one hand down for Maggie to hold. Daryl just looked at the floor, not wanting to watch.

Maggie groaned and screamed pushing again.

"Doin good Maggie. I can see the head." Negan said watching. "Screamin will tire you out. Ask that one." He shot Melanie a look.

Melanie rolled her eyes. "It hurt!" She snapped, and shook her head watching. "Oh gosh..Maggie." She smiled. " Full head of hair."

Maggie panted taking a break. "It does?" She smiled slightly. Melanie nodded. Maggie started crying, but tried calming down. "Melanie….I'm still scared." She breathed and gave in pushing again.

"It's okay. You're almost done. You got this hon." She smiled rubbing her hand.

Maggie panted more and caught Daryl looking at her, and then away. She had forgiven him for standing up to Negan and getting Glenn killed. She had kissed him days ago, when they first spent the night together. He had grown really protective over her, and she in return. She groaned and pushed, she managed to put her hand on top of Daryl's and held it.

Daryl looked at her, and tried giving her a smile. He didn't care he was in pain at the moment from a broken arm.

Negan kept watching. "Crowning."

Maggie groaned loudly, and really felt it. "Oh god." She screamed.

"Pant through it Maggie." Negan said watching, and allowed Mel to put a warm rag on her to help her stretch.

"Noo." Maggie groaned and pushed instead of panting, She really screamed then.

"Maggie, breathe through it." Negan said trying to apply pressure to her, as the baby's head came out.

"Oww!" Maggie cried and pushed harder ignoring him, as he spoke to her. She let out a groan as she laid back to take a break.

Negan cleaned out the baby's mouth and nose, holding onto the head. He looked up at Maggie. "Good?"

Maggie nodded, breathed, and pushed.

Negan watched and didn't see any movement, he pushed a hand in and tried getting the shoulder unstuck. "Stop." He glanced at Mel. "Get behind her and help her up more."

Melanie helped Maggie up squatting slightly. She looked at Negan. "The baby is -"

"Yes. Maggie Push." He said cutting her off.

Maggie groaned and pushed, she let out a scream, tensing up.

"Maggie. Your Baby is stuck. Come on. Push!" Negan ordered, gently moving the baby's shoulder.

Maggie panicked slightly, and pushed harder, cried.

Daryl let out a sob, watching. Hell he never cried but it killed him seeing her like that.

Negan helped get the baby unstuck. He unwrapped the cord and caught the baby with the next push, and started rubbing the baby's back and getting the baby to cry.

Melanie helped Maggie lay back down, then Negan plopped the baby on Maggie's chest. He smiled slightly hearing it cry, relieved.

"It's…" Maggie started sobbing. "A boy…" She held him close, and cried. "T….Thank you…" she said softly, not believing she said that to him.

Negan nodded and didn't say anything. He got back to work helping her deliver the after birth when she was ready.