Rick slowly begins the walk down the block to his house replaying the kiss he had just shared with Michonne. At that moment he started thinking about what she afterwards about enjoying what he has been fighting for all this time. While he's walking down the street he sees Karl running up towards him.
"Hey, Dad", Karl says out of breath, "How's Michonne?" Rick smiles at his son, "She's good, Bob and Sasha are taking good care of her." "Oh, good I was just about to go see her." Karl tells him. "Well, why don't you wait a day or two, she was still groggy from the medicine they had to give her", Rick puts his arm around Karl and they begin to walking back down the block, "So what do you miss this morning?" Rick was starting the game that Michonne and Karl had been playing in the mornings. "Let me go first," Rick anxiously says, "I miss the smell of clean clothes coming out of the dryer", He says grinning while smelling the filthy shirt he had on. "Oh, I got one way better than that Dad", Karl says, "Christmas lights". Rick stops walking and looks down at Karl, "Christmas lights? Not Christmas presents?" "Karl looks down at the ground then back up at his father, "Well, the only thing I remember about Christmas presents was that I always got a bunch of toys", Karl shrugs his shoulder, "Now, it seems like toys are for somebody Judith's age so I suppose I don't really care about them anymore". Karl looks back down the block and sees Jane's brothers about to leave, then he looks back up Rick and grins, "But, I really do miss the Christmas lights though." Rick laughs a little, "Yea, I miss Christmas lights too. I guess you win this round." So father and son continue the walk home.
Rick and Karl reach the front porch "Hey Rick, Karl", James says extending his hand to Rick. Rick shakes James's hand then extends his hand to Jimmy. Jimmy quickly shakes Ricks hand as if they were dirty and puts his back in his pocket. "Hey guys, thanks for staying over last night" Rick tells them. "Not a problem, family should always look out for one another." James says walking past father and son.
Jane hears Rick's voice at the front door and comes out of the kitchen toward him, "Hey, your back! Everything alright up there," She says wrapping her arm around his neck and giving him a peck on the cheek. Still, Rick grimaces at Jane's display of affection, again he slides her arm from around his neck, "Ah, yea everything is good", Rick, tells her.
While Jane is trying to exchange fondness with Rick, Karl walks past their awkward moment in to the kitchen looking over his should as Jane tries to display her affection for Rick in the front doorway. When he reaches the kitchen he looks over his shoulder again and sees his father unwrapping Jane's arm from around his neck, Karl shakes his head and giggles at how fixated she is over his father.
"Look, I think I am going to hang around the house today. So I can put Judith down for a nap. You have been cooped up in this house for a while. I'm going to take a shower then I'll take these kids off your hands for the day." He says while going up the stairs. Jane pauses at the bottom of the stairs momentarily bothered by the idea of Rick and the kids hanging around the house without her. But she recalls some other matters that needed her urgent attention. In fact Jane felt that her business would be much easier without any children around for a while. So she walks back in to the kitchen with Karl and Judith.
Once Rick gets out of the shower and changes in to some clean clothes he hears Jane talking to Judith while coming up the stairs, "O.k., you ready to hang out with your Daddy Judith?" Jane looks at Rick grinning and waving Judith's little hand at him. "I tat, toone!" Judith babbles, Rick smiles from ear to ear when Jane passes Judith to him, "Where's Karl?" he asks. "Oh, he's in his room reading some books I found in a closet. I was going to go up the block to visit Michonne to see if she needs anything, but first I'm going to stop by Abe's and give James and Jimmy a haircut and a shave, they're about to resemble the men from duck dynasty", Jane chuckles. "When I come back I can take care of you and Karl if you like?" "Rick looks away from Judith for a moment and smiles, "Yea sure that work."
Jane walks down stairs in to the kitchen. She walks over to the cabinet where she keeps all the sharp objects. Just before opening the cabinet she looks over her shoulder making sure that no one is standing at the entrance. She moves away from the cabinet for a minute and places both hands on the either side of the stove and closes her eyes in an attempt to contain her fury over Rick wanting her to leave for a while.
She begins to grip the stove hard as though she could leave her hand imprint upon it. Her state is broken by the sound of Rick coming down the stairs. "Oh, I thought you had already gone?" Rick says as he looks down helping Judith walk in to the kitchen. "I was just on my way out the door, I just need to get the scissors and a blade", Jane walks over to the two then leans down to look at Judith, "I will see you later cutie." Jane looks at Rick, "See you later?" Rick nods his head yes.
On her way up the street Jane pass by Bob and Sasha's house she glances up at the windows to see if anyone is watching her. She knocks on the door, "Hi", Jane says. Abe looks her up and down, "Hello, gorgeous. What brings you by this morning? Where's Judith?" "Well, Rick has decided to stay home with the kids so I thought that I would come by and give James and Jimmy a good shave and a haircut. They still can't shave themselves that well just yet. I can shave and cut your hair too if you want? She says gleefully. "Well, it would be the highlight of my day." Abe says happily. "But they have already gone off to search for roaming walkers in fields, and Rosita has gone with Maggie to check on the elderly in the block so I guess you can do me first." Jane looks around the room for a moment, O.k. let me get some hot water, ah which room has the best natural light?' She asks walking toward the kitchen. My room has the biggest window." He yells out. "O.k., I will meet you there in a few minutes." She yells back.
The smell of the once boarded up house tinges her nose as she carefully walks up the stairs with a small pot of hot water. Jane can see how old the walls are by how much build up is on the walls from the past couple of years. Clearly it has been so hot in that house that the buildup had melted on the wall paper.
When she gets up stairs to Abe's room she uses the pot to gradually push the partially open door. As she walks in it smells like musty sex. She looks to the right of her and sees Abe sitting in front of a decaying antique mahogany vanity with a large an oval vanity mirror. Abe had pulled the vanity away from the wall so Jane would have the best day light reflection in the mirror.
She places the pot on the floor not wanting to destroy the vanity any more than it already is, "Let me open the windows some, it smell like…tomato sauce in here." "Tomato sauce, what the hell," Abe laughs loudly, "How do you smell tomato sauce in here, I could go for some spaghetti right now for real." Abe laughs again. Jane walks over to the window furthest from the house to the left then looks out at the street,"When I was little whenever I would walk in to my parent's bedroom after they had sex I always thought it smelled like tomato sauce." Jane walk back over to Abe and grabs the clean rag off his shoulder , puts it in the pot and places the blade in there as well. A few seconds later she pulls the hot rag out of the water. Abe notices how much steam is coming off the rag, "Here let me wring that out for you that is way too hot." With one hand Jane gently holds is chest in place so he doesn't get up.
Jane stands straight up and looks in Abrahams eyes then she removes the rubber band in her hair letting down the dark auburn hair so that it fall down around her neck and shoulders. Abe watches her forgetting that his mouth is wide open, a gnat enters his mouth, "Thuh, thuh", he grunts waving his hands in front of his face.
Let me see how I could do this," she says trying to figure out where to start. She glances down at his pants and sees that he likes the way she let down her hair. She looks back up at his eyes and begins to ring out the hot cloth with her hands.
For Abe in his line of work, he could withstand the heat of that hot rag but her hands turn a heavy pink as she wrung the rag out over the pot. She looks at him again tilting her head right and left, then she decides the easiest way to approach this is by sitting on his lap. So she straddles her legs softly sits down on his lap, then she leans down to grab the blade out of the hot water.
Abe is a little nervous as he looks at Jane holding the blade so he says, "I really wanted to see Judith today, after the mess last night." Jane looks at him like a cat examining its prey, "Oh, what happened last night?" she says while lifting his chin up and back. "Well, they decided that they had to get Michonne drunk enough for Bob and …" Jane interrupts him abruptly and looks at him with those now cold dark gray eyes, "Better yet, what happened to the plan a few days ago? Jimmy tells me that Eugene said something to Glenn and Maggie?" she tells him while gently scraping his throat with the blade. Abe doesn't speak until she is finished with the stroke; he exhales slightly and tells her, "Eugene heard the three us talking the night before we attacked her. I told him to keep his mouth shut but you know how much of an idiot he was. It was just a matter of time before something bad happened to him" he tells her. "It doesn't matter anyway, Eugene is out of the picture now", Jane begins another stroke and he waits again until she finishes, "Michonne is wounded it will be easier next time." He says. Jane continues the shave in silence till she is finished. "Next time," she asks sitting harder on his lap feeling his manhood expand.
Jane's lean back some and pulls her shirt off exposing her breasts. Abe looks down at her breasts and instantly gravitates his head toward them but she stops his action, in the voice to that of a young girl, "I thought you said that you wanted me, that you would do anything to have me again", she wines while grabbing his crotch, "I thought that you would help me then I would help you." "I thought you hated Rick and wanted his family after losing your own", She begins to dry hump Abe causing him to moan a little more.
"I thought you wanted to get him back for making you look like an asshole for believing Eugene was an important scientist." Abe is still speechless he wants Jane so badly, "Don't you want me right?" she whispers in his ear. Abe eagerly shakes his head yes.
She stands up quickly and pulls off her pants, then she unzips his pants and puts Abe in side of her causing him to moan. As she starts to grind Abe with every thrust of her body she says, " Come with me Abe just like last time, what are you going to do for me Abe, What are you going to do for me?" She starts to ride him harder and faster, "Oh my God, I'm gonna kill her", he whispers while putting his hands on Jane's hips.
She slows down the ride because she can see he is about to blow. She pulls his head up out of breast by his hair, gets up and puts her clothes back on leaving Abe with a hard on. "What's…what's going on?" Abe says with a confused look on his face. "Once Michonne is out of the picture we will finish this." She says in a serious tone, "And when that happens, I will get rid of Rick for you." As soon as she dresses she walks over to Abe and licks his lips again and whispers "Get it done."
Daryl took Carol's death as well as the attack on Michonne pretty hard. In order to mourn and collect his emotions he has been staying down at the bottom of the block at Michonne's place for the past couple of weeks or so while she has been staying in his room up the block healing from her injuries.
In fact while Rick and Daryl were working on fortifications for the cul de sac during the day they were discussing that maybe Daryl should live at the end of the block and Michonne stay up there with Bob and Sasha permanently. But the both of them knew that that would be a hard, damn near impossible sell when it comes to her. They could tell that over the past couple of months she has been trying to make herself a little more accessible to the group but she still needed her space, alone time and if she didn't get it she may try and go off on a run by herself like she used to do when she'd say she was going out trying to find the Governor.
Daryl decides to go and get some tools out of the room Michonne was currently occupying up the block. "Knock, Knock, Michonne its Daryl are you descent?" he asks. Michonne opens the door, Yea what's up?" "I just need to get some tools out of the dresser." He tells her. Michonne narrows her eyes a bit out of confusion because she looked through those same dresser drawers' weeks ago and there were couple of shirts and some pants in drawers but no tools. "Sure come on in" she says. Daryl wanders in and heads toward the dresser. "So how are you feeling?" Michonne closes the door getting a sense of where this conversation may be going, "Like I got beat up by a brick wall."
Daryl continues to rummage through the drawers while Michonne sits down on the bed. He stops rummaging and says, "You know that Rick told me about what happened to you a few weeks back. I doubt if anyone outside you, me, Rick and Karl know the details." Michonne gets annoyed and slaps her hands on her leg and then winces from the pain it caused in her ribs and thigh. He turns around slightly and says in a low voice, "You knew he would tell me." He looks back down at the dresser, "You know how the three of us roll," then he suddenly looks at her reflection in the cracked dresser mirror, "We Ride or die, right?" Michonne looks at Daryl's reflection in the mirror closes her eyes and shakes her head agreement.
"I understand why you didn't say anything and I appreciate it, because, I would have lost it fo' sho'". He slams the drawers in to the dresser then pauses before saying, "Look, I don't know what you said to Merle that day he was gonna take you to the Governor…what I do know is that my brother never did the right thing his entire life. In that short period of time you were with him he must have grew some type of scruples", he lets out a big sigh and says, "Look, when Merle let you go that day with your sword he knew you were coming back to the prison. He knew you were better for us than him." Daryl turns around, "So when he sent you back he knew you would be filling his spot to me as kin. You're kin to me now. Now that Carol is gone…" Daryl pauses to keep himself from crying, "…you're kin to us, to me Chonne, and I will put a fucking bullet in the head of anybody that tries to hurt my kin."
Michonne is not too shocked by what Daryl is saying. When they would go out on runs back at the prison, she and Daryl bonded on the level of a brother and sister. They didn't exchange many words when out of runs, but they didn't have to they already knew what type of oath it was. That was also the reason why Daryl kept getting pissed off when she would leave for weeks on end looking for the Governor.
The room goes silent for a moment then she says, "Daryl I know what you're saying, I…I just want to hold on to this refuge as long as we can. Believe me, if I knew exactly who was involved I would've told you and Rick by now. But I don't know. And until I do, I don't want to stir everybody up." She says while getting up off the bed. "We have all been through a whole hell of a lot these past couple of weeks." Michonne walks over to one of the walls and starts doing standup push-ups on it.
Michonne pauses her push-ups and considers telling Daryl about what she saw that fateful morning with Jimmy and James. Daryl is looking down at his shoe trying to hold in his anger, "Look, I saw something that day but…" she begins softly. Daryl interrupts her and says in a burst of anger, "Once I find out the bastards that did this to you…well let's just say I doubt if this tiny survivor neighborhood is going to want me living around here anymore."
Michonne stops again and turns her head to look over at Daryl then walks toward him, "I know you're angry. You and Rick are on the war path. If you find out who the punk bitches are…" Michonne shakes her head and reminisces, "It took three of them to hold me down. That's how I knew they were only coming after me… nobody else." She sighs, "The point that I am making is that…Just try to remember what's at stake…and if the survivors in the block don't want you around anymore…" They grip each other's right wrists like a roman centurion handshake, "…we ride or die".
Daryl starts walking toward the door when Michonne looks at him on his way out and says, "What about the tools?" Daryl opens the door and looks at the door knob, "I must have left them somewhere else." Then he walks out the room.