This chapter is slow. Heads up lol
"What's with the get up?" Daryl asked he was currently working on his bike, he saw Carol coming around the corner, she was acting strange since the group had made it to Alexandria.
"Cover." Carol stated. "What are you up to?"
"Just fixn' up this bike." He reached for his pack of cigarettes, lighting one in the process. "You want one?" Daryl extended the pack towards her and Carol took one.
"Have you noticed anything strange about Rick since we got here? Since being at that barn?" Carol didn't want to believe she was the only one who was catching on to what she was seeing between Rick and Michonne.
"Nah, why?" Daryl knew Carol could always be paranoid, thinking of the worst case scenarios, now he wondered what was wrong this time.
"Nothing," Carol said puffing out some smoke, "what's wrong with your bike?"
"Just tryna get it to run smoothly," Daryl was focused. "Aaron said he found it while scavenging," Carol nodded her head, Daryl seemed to be warming up nicely to Aaron and his boyfriend in such a short time.
"What do you think about Michonne?" Carol asked, she tried making her voice sound innocently as possible.
"She don't seem to be no problem," Daryl responded.
"She's been out there for alone all this time, she may not be a problem now but who knows? You know how it is, what this world can do to you, it's know telling what she can do," Carol said.
"That's true," Daryl said, he was looking at her now.
"So we need to watch her, if we take this place, if these people are as weak as we think they are, she may stand with them. And she won't go down without a fight."
"We just gotta wait, ain't no reason to accuse someone of somethin' if they ain't done nothin' yet," Daryl stated. They hadn't even been there a day and she was already trying to kill someone, Daryl thought.
Carol let out a puff, "Fine, but I'm still gonna keep an eye on her," She said, as she threw the cigarette on the ground and smashed it under her feet, straightening out her sweater, she went back into susie-homemaker mode.
"Dinner will be ready at seven, don't be late," Carol said before leaving. Daryl grunted in response.
Carol was making her way back to her group's house now, she needed to get dinner started, for the most part everything was working smoothly, except for the Michonne situation. She had greeted some of the residents as she passed by, many were friendly, some were on edge from there arrival.
Bump. Carol was knocked off balance.
"Sorry," Carol looked down to see a young kid,staring at the young kid.
"You should watch where you're going," Carol was practically chastising him, "What's your name?" Carol asked.
"Sam Anderson," Sam said shyly.
"Well, Sam be careful," Carol still said condescendingly.
"Yes ma'am," Sam said. Carol saw a woman come up.
"Oh sorry! Did Sam do something wrong," Jessie came running out of her house, "You know you aren't supposed to be outside without asking me," Jessie said talking to Sam.
"Sorry mom," Sam said lowering his head.
"It's ok sweetie, go on inside," Jessie kissed the top of his head before he went inside.
"Sorry about that, I try to keep an eye out for him," Jessie was now facing Carol, "I'm Jessie by the way."
"Carol, and it's fine boys will be boys," Carol said, she really didn't mean it, there were no boys in this world, no girls, just the living and the dead.
"How are you liking it, so far?"
"It's a lovely place." Carol responded. "We really do appreciate the hospitality."
"Oh, no problem," Jessie said, smiling, "I actually talked to Rick earlier, he seems to be a really nice guy." Carol how she looked when she brought up Rick. The same look Rick gave Michonne when they first met.
"Yes, Rick is a great leader, he's a great father to if I might add," Carol, said and Jessie began to blush to herself. Perfect, Carol thought, apparently Rick had a secret admirer, "Hey, why don't you and Sam come over sometime and we can all have dinner?"Carol asked.
"That sounds great! I'll ask my husband and my other son Ron, if they would be up for it," Jessie said.
Carol didn't know she was married, that was strange that she would be talking about Rick the way she was.
"Great! I'll talk to you later," Carol waved and went on her way.
"How many did you kill?"
"A lot." Carl responded.
"Did you eat anyone?"
"Maybe," Carl rubbed his chin the other teens looked at him in shock, "No, but we did meet some people who were trying to eat us though," Everyone eyes got bigger.
Carl liked that he was the coolest one amongst his peers, he didn't particularly like the circumstances but it was still cool. He had met up them soon after his Dad left for Deanna's. So far Carl knows Ron, Jake, Kelly, there was another girl named Enid who didn't like to talk. They went over to the lake and sat.
"Wow, so what happened to them?" Kelly asked.
"We killed them," Carl said.
"Did you kill anyone?" Ron asked, he seemed intimidated once Carl said that.
"Yeah, I had too, if you don't you will die out there," Carl stated.
"Can we change the subject, guys?" Jake asked.
"Stop being a bitch," Kelly said, staring daggers at Jake now, "So do you know how to use a gun then?"
"Yeah, I do." Carl said, he blushed, Kelly was a character.
"Well could you teach us, how to use one? Enid doesn't have time, apparently." Carl looked over at Enid who averted her eyes back to her book, once she saw Carl look her way.
"I barely know how to use one," Enid finally spoke up.
"Kelly just leave her alone." Ron said.
"Whatever, so Carl could you teach us?" Kelly asked one last time.
"Uh...yeah, how about tomorrow? The only thing is that we don't have a gun, and we can't get outside of the walls."
"I can get the guns," Ron said.
"And I know how to get out of the walls," Enid said. Carl knew this wasn't a good idea, but he figured that it will be quick and he was sure there wasn't enough walkers out there to actually harm them.
The group had finally all sat down for dinner, everyone had set out on there on adventures for the day and were currently giving a description of what happened. Rick and Carol listened intently, getting all information that they could.
"Carl what did you do today?" Rick looked over towards him.
"Nothing, just met some other kids," Carl wasn't going to tell him what he had store for tomorrow.
"Did you make any friends," Rick was happy that Carl was actually around others his age, being out there is something no kid should go through.
"Yeah, we're hanging out tomorrow actually," Carl said. Rick smiled
"Remember that, school starts in couple of days," Rick said. He was bouncing Judith on his leg while feeding her.
Carl let out a huff, "Do I really have to go?" Carl asked pleading with his Dad.
"Yes, we are going to be apart of this place then we have to all contribute," Rick was looking at everyone at the table. He was keeping what him, Carol, Glenn and Daryl, were working up from everyone.
"That's right, but remember family first, don't ever forget that." Carol said, from across the table looking straight at Rick.
"Right, family first," Rick was looking back at Carol now, he knew something was wrong with her but decided to leave it alone for now.
"Have any of you talked to Michonne?" Maggie asked, "I haven't seen her since we gotten here." Rick put his head down.
"Oh, my Dad was over at Deanna's house with her." Carl said, he was so oblivious to his Dad's avoidance of the conversation.
"Why were you guy's at Deanna's?" Glenn asked.
"Uh...she wanted to talk to us, about our jobs here actually.."Rick couldn't tell them that he really was at Deanna's just because she was there, he couldn't even explain it to himself.
"Oh so you know what you are doing here?"
"Yeah, me and Michonne are going to be constables," Rick said, Carl looked confused, "We're going to be the police, basically."
"So do you need your sheriffs hat back?" Carl asked teasing his Dad.
"No," Rick said chuckling, "It's not that big a deal, we just keep watch over everyone,"
"How does Michonne feel about that?" Carol asked, she wasn't happy that her and Rick would be working together.
"She's cool about it, we're actually starting tomorrow morning," Rick was mentally smiling from there exchange that occurred earlier today with her.
"That's good, you can actually get to know her better." Maggie said, Carl nodded along with her.
"Just so you know that she's really funny Dad," Carl said.
"Oh she is?" Rick asked he already knew the answer to it. Carl grinned as a conformation.
"I invited Jessie, and her family over for dinner sometime," Carol interjected on there conversation.
"Who?" Rick asked, everyone turned to her, as she basically ruined the father son moment that was occuring.
"The lady that came over earlier today," Carol said, jogging Ricks memory.
"Why?" Rick asked.
"She and her kid seemed nice," Carol said, "and besides we need to get to know the people here better."
Rick let out a breath, "I'm headed to bed, gotta be up in the morning," Rick got up and left. Everyone soon followed after.
It was now late and Michonne was walking again to clear her mind. The moon was as beautiful as ever and gave Michonne a sense of calmness. She passed by Rick's house and saw his family enjoying a meal together, she was still amazed that they all found each other in this.
Michonne kept walking, the whole community was quiet not much activity taking place.
"Hey!" Michonne turned to see a man sitting on his porch drinking whiskey. "Nice night out?" he slurred his words.
"Yeah it is," Michonne knew he was becoming incoherent and wanted to end this conversation.
"Pete Anderson," Pete smiled.
"Michonne"
"Pretty name, for a pretty girl." Pete said flirtingly.
Michonne didn't respond.
"You know it's rude not to say thank you after giving someone a compliment," Pete said cockingly. .
"Nice meeting you," Michonne said and continued walking.
"You're welcome, baby, I'll be seeing you around." Pete yelled out.
Michonne kept walking in fear of killing him.
This is a slow chapter I know lol.
Tell me what yall think?
I wrote Pete like this to change some things up. How do you think Pete's and Jessie's weird affections for Michonne and Rick will play out?