Hello fellow fanfiction writers and readers, here is another chapter of this story that I hope you guys will enjoy. As usual I own nothing except new characters and ideas, I make no money from writing, and all rights go to the rightful owners. Thanks for reading, please leave a review. Just a fyi, Rick's people have been in Alexandria for six -seven months in case any think things have moved fast. The time line will be explained in chapter 9, thank you.

I am dirty and tired but here we all are putting bodies into the bed of the ford to be driven far from us, the other women pour boiling water on to the blood-stained streets cleaning the blood and making it look pretty normal. But everyone here knows this has changed them, many died because they didn't fight back, in fact they didn't even hide.

I groaned, "For now this is the best we can do, Deanna. Spencer should drive these up to the fork, then head left he should reach the large ditch about two minutes after. I think it be the best place to leave the bodies. For now, we have Tobin and his crew working on the hole, while Carter takes Carl and Enid to show him every weak point since they are able to get out without us taking notice."

Maggie was with them taking notes since all this had to be maintained and fixed, we are nearly finished with the land behind my house which will mean room for animals, more land to farm as well. We cleared the walkers thanks to Big Red, then evened out the land and started the massive fence around the entire few acres, we are making Alexandria better than ever. I move closer to Tobin as he covered for Abraham, he and his crew work together, this was days' worth of work not a single day.

Judith was sitting in the small park with Oliva, as her and Jesse's son Sam played, he was a snotty little ass.

Deanna spoke, "This was a harsh wake-up call for these folks."

"Yeah, it was. Now you lead them in the right direction, they're scared and with every right."

That is when we hear the screaming, it is Rick, we know his voice.

"OPEN THE GATE!"

I stand with Maggie and Deanna as it opens, Michonne, Aaron, and Rick walk in looking frantic as they see the damage, as they see the truck filled with the dead.

Rick makes sure every surviving towns member is in hearing range as his words reach us. "A massive horde of walkers is making its way here, what we have to do now is keep any light and noise as low as possible. You all understand me?"

I cut in, "Where is Daryl? Where is Glenn? Aaron where is Daryl?"

Aaron started to give small sob's as Eric wrapped is arm around him trying to give him comfort. "Daryl went with Abraham and Sasha, same with Glenn and Nick. This is all my fault, a week ago I lost my pack with photos of us here, those lead the Wolves here to attack." I watched as each person started to look defeated by a simple mistake.

"Oh, like you folks ain't never made a mistake, Aaron they would have found us no matter what people like them kill for pleasure. I understand not wanting to acknowledge how things are, but that fighting is the new reality we all must live with." my words touching each one as some understand, most do.

Night comes, and we learn Rick was given full leadership as Deanna stepped down, the wall was done but it needed to be re-enforced.

Two days have passed, I tend to my duties but stay with Maggie as Rick has forbid us to venture out and find the boys, the horde was surrounding us now. Rick assesses the damage from the Wolves' attack, and finds a section of wall were the blood is dribbling from, and starts working to re-enforce it, we are aware his hammering is luring more walkers to the walls. Tobin joins Rick to the repairs, admitting to Rick that their group brought a lot of changes to Alexandria but the remainder of them are adapting and thankful for their help. Maggie and I, also help hearing Tobin talking to Rick, we have to get this wall fixed.

After everything is said and done, Maggie and I wait on the lookout tower together, our eyes glued to the landscape searching for a sign of Glenn or Daryl, she is having his baby so he has to come home. Father Gabriel posts a sign for a prayer circle. Rick shreds it as he strides by Father Gabriel, who patiently replaces it with a new sign. We see in the distance by their home that Rick and Carl are teaching Ron how to use a gun, that was not the brightest idea, that kid is a ticking time bomb. He blames Rick and Jesse, his own mom, for his father's death.

"Not the best idea."

Maggie nods, "No it isn't, but look now." we see the scene behind us has changed, Carol and Michonne are with Rick and Morgan who look to be arguing. All we could do was watch them, it looks heated as I give Maggie a look.

I say with a long sigh, "I will be back."

Rosita, bless her, is giving machete lessons to my fellow Alexandrians, some look like they could be doing well. Eugene, well he was scared, he was the person people bullied. He was smart and that was valuable.

"Death is easy… its watching your friends die around you because you're too scared." I watched as he strode far away from her, but we all knew he really liked her as well.

"We need to saw some more wood, Tobin. Got to get the wall supported." my tone low, but Tobin and Rick just get to work, as do I, doing this means my hands are busy, doing this means my head is not filled with worry for Daryl.

Tobin says, "Some of us folks have been reluctant to change, but now we see you have been right all along." He sighed. "Don't give up on us." Tobin urges.

I hug Tara even as Rick is tearing into her, "ENOUGH!" my voice angry. "She did what she felt right, and for that Spencer owes her his life. You have a saving people thing too, Rick, so don't cast stones."

Walking off towards the towers to re-join Maggie, when Carol stops me. She is worried. "Morgan is up to something, I am going to follow him but I saw you first. He will come home to you, I have seen you fight, have watched as you worried but continued to help where you could, he would be proud."

I tried to smile as the tears welled up, "I am so worried."

Carol left to do her stalker shit with Morgan as I headed to my destination when I see Maggie screaming. "Those balloons, its Glenn." she is all but crying her smile so brilliant. I just smiled and clapped alongside Rick when old church tower, which had been deteriorating through the time we have been fixing the wall, topples onto the wall segment that Rick, Tobin, and I were trying to enforce, crashing through it and allowing walkers to flood into Alexandria.

"It has smashed through three panels." I gasped my body going ridged.

I watched in absolute terror, as maybe hundreds of walkers pour into the streets as Rick yells over the noise. "GET INSIDE, LOCK YOUR DOORS."

Everything happened so fast, I fired alongside Rick and Deanna who try and thin it out as much as possible while everyone flees as fast as they can, and to where ever they can. Maggie is struck in the leg by a stay bullet but with a struggle she makes it back up the ladder before the walkers can grasp at her ankles. I am going to run out of bullets very soon, we needed to get to a house fast.

Rick was being over run but I was fairing no better as I fired again, out of the corner of my eye I can see Deanna fall but she must not be seriously hurt since Rick is carrying her as we make an escape. I move with them firing as Carl, Father Gabriel, and Michonne all join in, we keep them back as we take refuge in Jesse's place, the first floor is going to be over run so we slip up to the second where Jesse and Sam are waiting for us.

I looked back, "Where is Enid and Judith?"

Carl produces his sister, "Enid went outside the wall."

Jesse is trying to get Sam to be as brave as he can, but he is broken down in fear even as his cocky brother stands by. I sit on the bed checking on Deanna who refuses the offer for me or Rick to go find Denise, she lays there her wound much worse than we thought, the saw blade ripped into her.

I held her hand, "Deanna, come on let me go get Denise."

"No, she was taking care of Scott last I checked and he needs her more than me." her face was pale though her words are firm and unyielding. But there it is on her side, she couldn't be saved.

"Rick grab Michonne and come here." my voice as low as possible but they heard me just fine. Together they walked in "She has been bitten." the bite mark was fresh as blood and mucus oozed from the wound.

"Well, shit." Deanna says.

Rick walks from us with a plan to raid the armory using flares to lure the walkers away from Alexandria, plus in the armory there are more guns, we need those now more than ever.

Michonne and I clean her wound, "I want to continue what you started, you had great plans for Alexandria."

"What do you both want for yourselves?" her voice growing weaker and weaker as time marched on.

Michonne answered first, "I want my family to be safe, I may not be his real mother, but I love Carl and Judith as if they were my own. My goal, my happiness, is to have us all safe."

"I want our community to grow and succeed beyond what we think possible, I want Daryl." in my heart so much more could have been said as I have grown close to Rick's group.

I left after a few more moments as Deanna took a small nap.

"Where is Carl?" I asked, he was nowhere in sight as Michonne took the baby from Jesse, Sam was still just in a state of shock.

The sound of glass breaking is heard from below us, "What the hell was that?" Rick looked to be leaning on the edge of a break down.

"Jesse get some sheets, Michonne we need to kill two walkers and use them to camouflage ourselves to make it out and passed the horde to the armory."

We kill and gut two walkers, each sheet covered in guts, Father Gabriel in his own sheet walks from Deanna's room, "She is staying, she will take her own life when the time is right."

I wanted to go back in a rip her a new one, but Rick and Michonne stopped me "Let her be, we need to get out of here now."

I had no choice, I take the sheet and cover myself like the rest Sam and Ron look so hesitant but right now this was our way out. I smile at Carl, "You got this?" all he did was smile.

"This is not my first time being covered in guts, doubt it will be my last."

Glad he could joke about this, because I was dead scared. I stay with Michonne as we start to make our way from the top of the stairs, being silent when Father Gabriel speaks up. "I'm not stopping." insinuating he was not going to stop to help us if our cover was blown, I doubt this; he was changing, we are all. We move through the walkers that have made their way inside the house, the air is crisp as we make our way to the front porch before we continue on having no time to stop. Clasping hands we move along with the horde it seems like everything is going so well, but then that little shit starts.

"Mom." it is a weak call, but he doesn't stop. It grew louder, "Mom." we tried to hush him up, but it was not happening he is scared, and he needs his mother.

The walkers are becoming aware of us now as Michonne lets my hand drop, I hold tight to Carl incase we have to bolt.

Rick knows it might be a bust, "I need to get to the trucks, I can get the herd away from us that way."

I was not shocked, "Let me take Judith, Rick. I will take her to the church and protect her, I promise." Judith held such a spot in all our hearts, I watched Rick un-cover his baby girl and hand her to a man who once condemned them. His hand on Father Gabriel's arm then he was slowly walking away since Sam refused to go.

We move like a snake all holding hands, Carl smiles at me with a small nod and a squeeze of hands, just to remind me we are never alone. I see a boy of maybe ten who has turned, this was the first child walker I have ever seen, I choked back a sob trying to tear my eyes away from the sight of his little body decomposing, large open nasty wounds.

"MOM!" Sam's eyes are wide in fear seeing the same little boy that I did, he doesn't move, we try but he is now in shock his body tense and frozen. His fear of being a walker was seen in that other little one, I cry but don't scream but walkers start tearing into his flesh ripping and tearing the blood spurts hitting us; the sound, the sight would haunt my every dream, no matter what he was a little boy.

Loud anguished sobbing as Jesse watched her son being killed, not able to help him a mother's worse fear was playing in front of us all. She just sobs over and over "No." all the while watched Sam, who is dead now, but the walkers continue to eat him and now her, she still does nothing to stop them even as they bite and tear into her.

I yank on Carl since Jesse has his other arm as she is dinner for them walkers. "Rick, she ain't letting him go." trying to be silent, but Jesse is dead with her hand clamped down on Carl.

I yank as Rick use's his small hatchet to sever her arm, it was the only way to get Carl free, his body slammed into mine as a gun went off, Ron shot at Rick, he waited and took his chance. But Michonne impaled Ron with her katana, making him miss, for a split second I was happy until Carl's grip slacked, and he swayed on the spot. I held him up as his words hit us. "Dad."

Ron is now being snacked on and this time him being a kid meant nothing to me, he deserved it.

I held Carl as Rick turned, Carl had been shot, I just held him as blood poured from the wound in his right eye. Rick was on us as he had no hesitation picking his boy up and running for Denise's house.

Michonne and I cleared the path, her katana and my hunting knife slashing as many walkers as we could until we are safe in the house, I can't look to see if Carl is alive, it hurt so bad. But Denise is working, I can hear her. Heath, Spencer, and Aaron are hiding out here as well.

"Wait for me." I barely see Rick walking from the front door, I call out to him knowing what he is about to do. I wanted to help so I followed along with Michonne we three walk from the house where Carl is being worked on, none of us able to take seeing him when there is a horde right outside the door.

I know that I might die but others can still be saved, I take my only weapon the hunting knife and just lose it. My mind going blank as I saw dead eyes staring at me every time I stuck the blade in to the hilt, I move on so it again, it was on repeat. I took notice that Heath, Spencer, and Aaron are now helping Rick, Michonne, and I each killing any walker in their path.

Eric, Olivia, Bruce, Francine, Kent, and Barbara venture out and join the fight. "We can beat them!" Rick cries as we all do just that, we fight. I am in the same clothes as two days ago, I was dirty, bloody, with dirty ass tear streaks running down my face.

But there she is, Enid along with Glenn, who is carrying Maggie to Denise's as Enid fires killing another, she sticks close to me, but she needs to go now. "Get to Carl, Ron shot him hunnie. You go and hold that boys hand." the look on her face was filled with fear.

She takes off as I give her enough cover when the sound of machine guns, a large fuel truck comes through the gate, Sasha herself was driving as every walker around me started to fall to the hail of bullets hitting them.

Big Red and Daryl stand atop the tanker firing down bullets, it was like a bowling ball hit me in the chest seeing him alive. Daryl just looked at me as Sasha was dumping some fuel by the smell of it into the small pond in the middle of the town, I looked away going back to killing but my eyes found him as he had some very large gun on his shoulder, it fired something into the pond.

An impressive ball of fire shoots into the dark sky, but we can't stop; now the walkers are flocking to the fire, burning with no way out.

Daryl is barreling towards me and I don't hesitate for a second before I tackle him, my legs wrapped around him as we hugged, he was hurt but nothing bad. I let out a sob for the first time as everything hit me, he just held tight saying nothing.

"I missed you." it still came out as a whimpering sob.

"God damnit, I fuckin leave and…I missed you too." whatever he wanted to say he thought better of it, but something was lingering on his mind. We all talked at Denise's, Daryl and Rick in a corner as Carl was now laying on a spare bed with Enid holding his hand.

"We did a small sweep they're dead, we have the truck blocking the entrance and another the back. My crew and I will have the gate back to better than new in three days' time." Big Red, well I knew Abraham hated when I called him as such but not like I cared much.

"Sasha let people know, they need sleep, a group calling themselves Wolves attacked first they're the ones who caused the damage to the wall, after we were trying to fix the wall it fell and the horde entered. Daryl, she has not slept a damn wink in over sixty-hours, get her home. She was something else, I am so proud of you Cami, she even put me in my place." I blushed but Daryl said nothing he just hauled me from the house, the streets leading to my home are now littered with rotted bodies.

I needed a shower something fierce, and that was my goal not to pass out before a shower. The chicks are sleeping and healthy, tomorrow I had to harvest some things, my yard stayed untouched. The house was dark the only sound was him locking the door as I set the basket away, I had emptied it a day ago when I had a few minutes. He is still silent but right now the shower and my bed, his bed, just a damn bed was screaming bloody murder for me to just pass out.

I turned the water on setting my tattered shorts and Metallica tee on my bed along with undies, my filthy clothes in the basket that would need to be washed tomorrow as well. The water was amazing it pooled at my feet; red, brown, black, and so many other filthy colors, the smell was gone now at least. My body was sore, bruises and cuts, littered me after the dirt was removed.

I felt cold air hit my back side "It's just me." his rough tone was welcome, it was his body that scared me, and him seeing mine. I was pretty, but I wasn't skinny like Rosita, I wasn't heavy set like Oliva I had curves, a big butt and boobs like my mama.

His arms turned me, he was just as dirty as I had been so I just handed him the luffa and soap, trying to keep my eyes on his and now where else. I was clean and after a few tries so was he, in the shower he just held me and it was very new to me, the way he stroked my wet hair.

"I don't ever want to lose you, and that scares me now more than anything. I leave and an attack happens, then a shit ton of walkers comes, when we drove in seeing it all you were the only one I was thinking about. There you were the girl killing walkers, you were amazing, maybe I just wish I knew you before all this shit happened you're not like any girl I have ever met."

Now I was crying, "I wish the same, but now we make the most of what we have in the here and now."