Author note: I personally do not see Negan as he is portrayed on the show, he is evil, if you're willing to bash a mans head in, kill men just for their wives you will do much more. So, yes starting next chapter Negan is EVIL/BAD/HORRIABLE so if that is a turn off I suggest you end it here at this chapter. I own nothing and make no money from writing, because it blows.

It had been weeks now, without another pillaging they already took seventy-five percent from us leaving us high and dry. Well that would be hard since we stashed so much before they could come, Maggie and Glenn are heading Hilltop after Georgy was killed by Jesus, not something we wanted to happen, but it did and now we make the best of it.

It is dark in my room, a small candle lit as I write my brothers a note.

'Boys-

Stay far from Alexandria, we are being overrun by a group called the Saviors, they will take over you as well if they find you. Secure and kill, I am sending Judith to you to protect; when we are safe I will come get her.

-Cami'

Short and blunt. I sent a picture inside just so they knew it was me who sent it and not some freak, I also gave Michonne private details on each brother that only I would know.

Michonne and Rosita are taking her soon, better to leave in the dead of night when there are no watchful eyes.

I tried not to look at his door as I make my way down the stairs to the front door, seeing Rick just hugging his baby girl as Carl and the girls watched.

His eyes touch on mine. "You sure she will be safe?"

"Safer there than here, my brothers will assume she is mine and I have said nothing to hinder this, they will protect her with their lives." it was true.

Abby would care for her like her own until I come to get her. He just gives me a nod before handing his daughter to Carl who hugged her as Rick spoke. "Judith, you're going to go see some friends, daddy needs you to be good for them. You will be safe there." she would too but the heart break in his voice could make anyone tear up.

"Michonne, you will be taken; you must tell them you are coming from here and need to speak to Frank, Brice, Ricky, Kyle, Bobby, and Mark. Try not to tell them I am in as much danger as I really am, I want them to be safe from the Saviors."

That was three days ago, Michonne and Rosita arrived back, Eugene was happy about this. I heard she got on well with Mark while they rested there.

Michonne alerted me my brothers are in a fury.

No word on Daryl, they came and took what we had until maybe forty percent is left.

Another week goes by when the loud pounding on the gates interrupts our daily life. When the gates open it is merely a few Saviors, Arat is leading them into the safe-zone.

She is grating on my nerves.

Rick is gone with Aaron on a supply run along with Spencer, Eugene, and Rosita. Tara and Heath have been gone for a week already. "We have come with a proposition." she smiled in such a way as Michonne and Enid stood with me, Carl was watching from his window he was being watched so he could not try and leave the safe-zone.

Michonne was not one to mess with. "And?" with the small wave of her hand she urged the Savior to get it said and done.

Arat let her smile drop as she judged the woman in front of her "We take one of your own and in exchange we give you back Daryl. You will see him walk from us as we take…her." with a renewed smile and her gun pointed at me.

Enid snapped. "NO!"

I gave her a firm look. "How do I know Daryl will be let go?"

"You will watch him walk to a car they leave, he will not know it is you that was exchanged for him." this was their only chance to get Daryl, he was needed, he was a fighter.

I turned looking at all my friends. "I will pack a bag, I will go."

Arat smiled yet again. "We will be back tomorrow to get you, here is the location you'll drop a car off and wait here for him."

It was settled.

Enid and Carl milled around my room while I packed a small bag with just a few things. "You two are the only ones able to tend to my garden with Tara, I can try and kill him while I am there. You make sure my animals and garden are safe and well taken care of. I will give you a letter for Daryl, get it to him asap."

I knew they would fight tooth and nail for me to stay but logic was I go and try and kill him, Daryl could help them start this war, they needed the advantage and with Rick, Aaron, and Daryl they would be able to get the upper hand. I could hold until everything went down, I was not a damsel in distress.

Carl and Enid slept in my room with me, but how could I even sleep when in some mere hours I was going to be far from them, far from him, my garden, and my animals with only Tara, Enid, and Carl for company. I stand moving to the desk, so I can write him my note, in private. Or, well, as private as it can get with two teens behind me spooning.

'Daryl-

I know how pissed you will be that I am the one they took in exchange for you, I assume they couldn't break you and needed an excuse to take another from here. Negan knew I would go if that meant you would live and be free to help Rick. You saw their place, so you will have some information, the Hilltop will side with us now that Maggie and Glenn have taken over with Jesus, Georgy is gone. I love you, I hope you know that and understand you are needed here while Rick plans to take them out. All this is just a passing problem; one we will overcome. I will see you again, this not our final goodbye. You gave me all of you and now I can do this, so you can be free to take them out. I assume Negan has plans to kill you before you reach that car, he will want me to watch, but I know how strong you are. Love you dearly.

Always yours, Cami'

The sun was up, all I could do was leave the kids behind me as they are, sleeping peacefully as I take my bag in hand walking from my home. Michonne is at the gate with Rosita as I make it to them, both looked grim.

Rosita spoke. "I am going to go leave the car and wait down the road for him." she could not even make eye contact.

"They're going to try and kill him, no way they will just let him go unharmed, that would be out of character for this group. All I have done is study them and their predictably. He used mental and physical war far, so his movements are the same always. Tear them down by killing someone in a brutal way then tear them down mentally, then they will do your biding."

Michonne gives me such a mothering look. "I don't want you to go, but seems you have made your choice. Find out any information, I have already been working on a plan to get you out so be ready." her arms are strong as she just holds me, I was scared, life there was an unknown. They came with this offer with the soul reason to get me. Negan could do so much better than a chubby country girl.

Maybe I reminded him of a girl, a girl who he loved either before the outbreak or after, but it seems it is before, maybe she died in a way that killed him, he was probably a shitty husband but loved her. At least this is my guess and no way to prove it until I was there and was willing to risk my own life to do as such.

Rosita was gone with a final hug. "I will come back, you take care of dad he is not going to be happy when he returns. Carl and Enid need to check and feed my animals, fruit and veggies picked as they ripen, Tara knows the days so she needs to talk to them as well." I am tired but this was going to be how they survive, Daryl knows my codes, so as she looks at me I debate on telling her as a just in case.

I give in. "On the smaller black remote in the front den, enter 0601 if you run out of food or weapons. Carl, Enid, and Daryl know what's in them. Have no one on the house, this stays between us." now she was giving me a side eye trying to figure out what I have really done.

But our time is done as Arat has arrived, she looked like a rat too, so befitting for her name. I was not hurled into the back of the van but I was helped into it, a seat was waiting, there was no time for goodbyes they made sure of such things. Three others including Wade and Simon are in the van along with Arat and another female I have not seen before; she looked depressed even being here. I watched as Michonne faded from view as the gate closed with Eugene waving until he vanished from sight. Lush green landscape passed us by. The woman in front of me was petite with shoulder length brown hair, she wore a tight black dress with black heels, I watched her as she looked at me with such an immense amount of pity.

She smiled, it was fake. Very, very fake; it hurt just to see it. "My name is Sherri, I will be your sister wife. I am married to Negan, by being one of his wife's you have nothing to fear; you will be protected and loved." her tone was filled with uneasiness.

With a scoff my retort sounded like sass and sarcasm. "Oh yeah, look Sherri we can be friends but in no way will I fake marry that walking piece of shit. I don't need protection." the way she watched me was like she was trying to put a complex puzzle together.

We started to slow down now, we passed Rosita who was sitting on an electrical box her eyes on the van as it passed. I just pressed my hand to the glass as she hoped down, her hand up. I see the car she drove off in lying in wait as the van stopped next to another. "Let him go." this was it, I know I will not be able to get out so I would settle for this, just seeing him go.

Arat was out watching as two-face dragged Daryl from the van next to us, a black bag over his head but after a few feet two-face pulled it off. Sherri and I, watched as Daryl squinted his eyes walking with his hands tied but dropped down his front, they walked to the car when I noticed two-face had a knife pulled out and with a swift move it struck Daryl in his exposed lower back, a wound he wouldn't live from.

Shock tore through me as I stared at the man walking back to the van with blood on his hands, he was smiling as they all patted his back, Simon and Wade out laughing.

"Looks can be deceiving, that man is my husband. He is not dead or even hurt, but Dwight had to make it look as real as possible." her voice so low I had to strain to even hear it.

But I had to try and believe her, this had to be a nightmare but soon we drive off both vans together, I just watch until the car and his body are gone from my sight.

Arat just had to talk, her voice husky like a mans but she was a girl. But like I once said the worst of the worst will survive the outbreak, human nature reverts to the primal instinct to survive.

"Your old man is dead, you're Negan."

"Name is Cameron James, not Negan. I am not his girl and will never be that, he can threaten and do whatever but I will not cave into him." I saw red, she was smiling about Daryl, in her eyes he is dead and she was happy about it.

They never checked me for a weapon, not very smart. We are there, a three-rowed chain link fence protected the factory and main houses of their compound.

God placed the single most important life supply a few millimeters below the most exposed part of the body. It was now or never. I tackled Arat, making sure the blade was wedged into the left side of her neck. I was speaking of the corotated artery in her neck. I only needed to puncture it, and by the flow of dark red my mission was accomplished, her hands fumbling as she tried to stem the flow of blood.

I was yanked backwards, and my blade removed from my hands as Sherri was looking at her husband, her real husband, with some un-said words as Negan walked up looking at the scene laid out in front of him.

Sherri spoke, "Arat, was goading her the entire way, she also didn't check the girl for a weapon." Negan gave her a nod as Wade took her away, not in a brutal way but leading her back to the main house.

Negan was staring at me. "So, glad you could join us sweetheart. Now, now, you already made a huge mistake by killing one of my favorite saviors."

"Tit for tat you sadist ass with a messiah complex, you had two-face kill him."

"Right you are, now come on for your grand tour. You will be my wife, I will keep the others but just as a show of power not for pleasuring purpose. You will have a person with you always, to help. You will dress how I like, but instead of black you'll wear a red dress to show your standing with the others."

"You're insane, I will not be your wife." my voice firm as he just stared me down, his bat nestled to his shoulder.

"You already are."