Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to characters from Twilight or TWD. Those rights are reserved for Stephanie Myer and Robert Kirkman. I do own the rights to original characters created for the storyline. Please support the official release.

Writers notes: Thank you all for your patience and support! I am behind on updates but don't fret I will always finish stories and we still have a while on this one! Don't forget to follow, favorite and review!

[1 Month Later]

Settling in at Alexandria was healthy for everyone. The kids were safe and they were safe, so that is what mattered the most. Rick was an amazing father and man. Everything he did, he did for Bella and his family. The people in the town were friendly as well and after a few weeks, you couldn't tell that Bella and her group were the new arrivals. Everything was woven and integrated the best it could be.

Jasper was good at construction, so he spent a lot of time with Reg, Deanna's husband, working on expanding the wall. They wanted to grow crops and they had the perfect spot for it outside the wall.

Bella was the police force, along with Rick. They were breaking up just backyard brawls or drunk and disorderly, but there wasn't too much that they had to do. Bella was also a surgeon, which pissed off only one of the town's civilians. That would be Pete Anderson.

Bella looked at her watch. Glenn was out with T Dogg, Maggie, Aiden and a guy name Nicholas on a run looking for whatever supplies. They had to keep the food pantry stocked with supplies, but they also needed other things that everyone had come to need, like towels, clothes, blankets, etc. The sun would be going down soon and that always worried Bella.

"Hey, they'll be back soon." Denise said as she walked up to Bella. Bella was standing in the clinic house that was established. Denise was so kind. Her dark blonde hair was always pulled back out of her face in a ponytail and she wore wire framed glasses that covered her blue eyes. She was a bit on the heavier side, but she had a youthful appearance to her despite being nearly forty.

Bella smiled at Denise. "Thanks Denise." She said and then blew out a breath. "Where's Pete?"

"Same as always." Denise said, her smile falling a little.

Bella sighed. "Alright. I'll check inventory. I'm making a run to the hospital in DC soon and I want to be sure we have stuff. Come on." She said and they walked into the supply room and started taking inventory.

Bella rotated her shoulders and looked at her watch seeing that it was midnight already. She sighed and looked over at Denise. "Alright. Let's call it. We've got it nearly completed."

"Yeah, let's just finish." Denise said with a small smile.

Bella smiled at Denise. She liked Denise a lot. Suddenly she heard shouting outside that made Bella spring into action. She ran out of the clinic and met Rick at the gates when they opened and Spencer was helping Glenn and Maggie carry a severely injured T Dogg.

"Move! MOVE!" Bella yelled and pushed through people that were starting to gather. "Get him to the clinic. Rick, grab the other side. Spencer-"

"Where's Aiden?" Spencer asked, his blue eyes searching, but he was missing. Nicholas looked like he was ready to puke and Glenn actually looked pissed off for once.

Rick moved to help Glenn by replacing Maggie, and Maggie shoved Nicholas back, her temper flaring.

Bella looked at Jasper as he approached quickly. "Help Maggie." She called out before she followed with Rick and Glenn into the clinic with Denise right behind them. "Lay him on the table." She ordered and Rick and Glenn got him laying down. She immediately went to assessing the damage. "Glenn, explain."

"Fucking Nicholas is what happened." Glenn growled out.

Rick moved to the cabinets and started grabbing things that he knew that Bella would ask for.

Bella ripped open T Dogg's shirt. "Glenn, he's got bites all over him." She said her blue-green eyes moving up to look at Glenn.

"I know." Glenn said, his jaw clenched.

Rick paused, his arms full of supplies. "What?" His blue eyes going to T Dogg's unconscious form on the table.

Bella shook her head. "Okay, give me the suturing packs. I'll close the wounds, grab the alcohol, quickly come on." She said and Rick and Glenn moved again, going into action while Denise helped with gathering supplies that Rick and Glenn didn't grab.

Maggie and Jasper were in the clinic now, tears in Maggie's eyes as she watched Bella fix T Dogg up. "He's going to die."

"Mags, he was bitten six times." Bella said as she worked fast. T Dogg was still breathing, his heart beating, but he was passed out, likely from the pain. Her tone was short, but she wasn't upset with Maggie, she was upset that one of her friends was dying and there was nothing she could do about it.

Denise put a hand on Maggie's shoulder. "Hey, why don't you sit down and I'll get you some water."

Jasper moved to help Bella, washing his hands and grabbing another suturing pack to help sew T Dogg. He did this in silence. After what Maggie just told him about Nicholas, he just needed to focus on something other than Nicholas being the coward who got T Dogg killed.

After an hour, Bella and Jasper got everything sutured and got T Dogg cleaned up. It was one in the morning now and Bella felt the ache in her shoulders all the way down to her wrists. She just wanted to lay down and close her eyes, the fatigue wanting to take hold of her.

"He's still fever free." Jasper finally spoke. Rick left a bit ago to go back and check on Aya and Carl. Glenn took Maggie back home to get her cleaned up and in bed, so it was just her, Jasper and Denise right now.

Bella sighed. "I know." She said and looked over at Denise. "Denise, you can go on home. There's nothing else to do here."

"I know. I'll stay with him tomorrow while you're on the run. Well… today."

Bella closed her eyes. The hospital run was important. She nodded. "Okay. Thank you Denise." She said and looked down at T Dogg's sleeping face. "Put restraints on him Jazz."

Jasper frowned. "You're thinking he might die in his sleep and come back?"

"Yeah."

"He has no fever."

"Doesn't matter." Bella said and her blue-green eyes looking at Jasper, studying him. "We just make him comfortable until he wakes up, if he wakes up. Then we talk to him. If we can."

"I can hear you." T Dogg said, his eyes still closed.

Bella's eyes snapped back down to T Dogg. "T? Are you in any pain?"

"No, but you probably used lidocaine."

Bella nodded. "Yeah. What we had to, at least. How are you feeling?"

"I feel normal. Just tired." T Dogg said and opened his dark eyes. "I don't have the urge to bite people."

Bella snorted a little. "Not how it works." She said and then sat on the edge of the table and put her hand over his chest. "T…"

"Listen. I'm a dead man Bella. We know that once you're bit… there's no coming back from that." T Dogg said, his eyes serious.

Bella nodded. "I know, but I want you to go on your terms T. Right now, there's no fever. Usually a fever presents in an hour, but… you're still fever free."

"And when the fever starts?" T Dogg asked.

"Then we'll talk." Bella said and patted his chest gently. "Get rest. We're gonna put the restraints on."

T Dogg nodded. "I understand." He said and Jasper moved to slide the restraints on him. "Thanks Jazz."

Jasper just nodded. "Get some sleep." He repeated Bella. He paused a moment before he left the clinic.

Denise looked at Bella. "Go on. I'll clean up here." She reassured and Bella just nodded then left, going outside, finding Jasper.

"What happened?" Bella asked, her hands perched on her hips now.

"Nicholas got Aiden killed. A whole herd started filling into the department store that they were scouting and Nicholas trapped T Dogg in the turn around doors. He was stuck with Maggie." Jasper said and swallowed. "T Dogg broke the glass to turn the door so Maggie could get free and biters took some chunks out of him. Instead of leaving him behind… Glenn and Maggie were able to pull him free and run to catch up to Nicholas, who was trying to start the van without them, but Glenn had the keys. So… in total. Nicholas is a coward that got Aiden and T Dogg killed and tried to leave Glenn and Maggie behind." It was clear that he was angry.

Bella was pissed off too. "He doesn't go outside these walls again. He doesn't get to go on runs."

"He's lucky the only thing he got was a fist to the face." Jasper muttered. "Maggie punched him."

"Good for her." Bella said and blew out a breath. "We need to rest before we have to head out on the run in…"she looked at her watch. "Four hours."

Jasper was going with Bella along with Daryl and Jake to the hospital in DC to scout some supplies they needed. Medications that would be useful, machines. The plan to build the clinic into something they could use in the event surgery was necessary was important.

"Same goes for you. Go get some rest." Jasper said and then he wandered back inside the clinic to check on Denise before going home.

Bella sighed and then started walking back towards the house that she had been living in the last month. She glanced over at Jessie and Pete Anderson's house and heard commotion and Jessie's cries and so she rushed, kicking in the door to find Pete on top of Jessie hitting her. She pulled Pete off of her and he fought against Bella, but she slammed her elbow into his face, knocking him out cold. She shifted, moving over to Jessie to assess any wounds since she saw blood.

"I'm okay." Jessie tried to say.

"You're not okay." Bella said and saw the cut on her hand. "Come on, we're going to the clinic." She said as she helped Jessie to her feet and guided her towards the door when she saw Ron appear. Ron was sixteen and was taller than Bella. "Ron, watch Sam." She said with a nod and Ron just nodded and watched Bella take his mom out of the house.

Bella saw Jasper walking her way. "Get Rick, tell him to cuff Pete and put him in the armory locked in the front room." She ordered and Jasper nodded and jogged past her into the house.

"He didn't mean it." Jessie cried, clutched her hand to her chest as Bella walked her to the clinic.

Bella felt anger inside. Seeing Pete beat on Jessie like that made her think about Edward again, and she had done good to not think about him in the last couple months. But for now, she would try to push through it and focus on Jessie and fixing her hand.