The next day, Glenn decided to talk to Nicolas. He couldn't spend another night in limbo. He knew himself well enough to know that if he didn't confront the source, it would just drain on him. Glenn knew he couldn't fix what had happened, but he could make damn sure that he would do anything in his power to keep it from happening again to any one of his people. They were all family now, after all. And he would not give Nicolas the power to hurt anyone he loved with his cowardice or stupidity. He was going to personally make sure that Nicolas never put anyone in danger again.
Maggie was worried about Glenn. She knew that grieving was a process, and that he would just have to go through it at his own pace, just like the rest of them. She knew all too well. She had grieved for her mother and for her family when Shane opened that barn. Maggie had started to understand the walkers a little before that so she had known her mother was gone before her father really grieved. The governor had killed her father. She had assumed Beth had been caught in the crossfire. But the governor was dead. Then Beth died again for her, at the hospital, killed by that guard. The guard had also been killed. She thought about the fact that the people that she had blamed for the deaths of her family were already dead themselves. That wasn't true for Noah. Nicolas had caused his death and he was still alive and protected.
"Are you sure you want to talk with him alone?" she asked. She knew Glenn wasn't sleeping well and taking a lot of the blame for what happened to Noah on himself. She wanted to make sure he would be ok.
"Yeah. It's only me and him that really know what he did that day and I want what's said to stay between us," Glenn said. "I just hope that he'll be alone when I find him."
Glenn had known what he wanted to say to Nicolas since last night. After his talk with Rick, he went back to bed with his head clear and knew. Nicolas was never, ever to leave the walls of Alexandria again. Glenn was going spell out exactly what he did to Noah and to Aiden. He was going to tell him what kind of person he was; that he was not supposed to survive in this world. He was going to tell him that he was lucky and in order to stay lucky, he would never go for runs or group up with anyone in his family again. And he was going to do all of this for his own benefit.
Glenn thought back to what Rick had said the previous night. He never really kept anything from Maggie; he never saw a reason to. He wanted her to know about Pete and who he was, even though now he was helping was to save their friend.
"Maggie, Pete is hurting Jesse. Rick told me last night."
Shocked, Maggie cupped her hands to her face. "What's he going to do?"
"I don't know, but he'll think of something. I just hope whatever it is; it doesn't cause more problems between them and us. Deanna doesn't want to do anything about it because he's the doctor."
"And he's treating Tara."
"Exactly. It's a tough situation. But Rick isn't stupid, he'll figure something out." Glenn didn't know if he was trying to convince Maggie or himself. He had seen the look on Rick's face when he talked about Pete. He hoped Rick could channel that rage and find a solution best for everyone. Glenn was glad that he wasn't the one needing to make that call. He just needed to take care of his own issue.
It didn't take him long to find Nicolas. He laid everything out for him, exactly what he had planned to say. Nicolas was taken aback at first but then tried to counter. But Glenn just stayed steady, he knew he was right in this and he held on to that.
"Who the hell do you think you are?" Nicolas did not like that Glenn was talking to him this way.
"I'm someone who knows who you are. I know what you did. And it's not going to happen again…. Don't forget what I said."
"Are you threatening me?"
Glenn snickered, "No, I'm saving you." The funny part was that he wasn't just saving Nicolas from the danger of the outside; he was saving Nicolas from Glenn himself.
Both Glenn and Nicolas heard it at the same time: the sound of a fight, coming from the direction of Pete's house. Oh no, Glenn thought. Rick hadn't been as tactful as Glenn would have hoped. Glenn ran as fast as he could with Nicolas running at his tail. He didn't know what he could do to help the situation, but he hoped he could do something.
