Surviving the Dead
"Hey Glenn, it's Sam" I said sitting in between the graves, "I know I haven't come to visit since...but I'm finally sucking it up. I honestly don't even know where to begin, I guess I should start off by saying I miss you...a lot and I'm looking after Maggie for you, and the baby which by the way thank you for making me godmother." I say with a chuckle, "Negan took Daryl after everything had happened but Jesus brought him back, speakin' of Jesus we um...well we're together, and I know what your say "You finally found someone to handle the Dixon attitude?" well yes I did. He...I can't even describe it but if I had to, it's like what you and Maggie had, he'd do anything for me and vice versa. Don't worry about Maggie, I'll do anything to make sure her and the baby stay safe even if I have to sacrifice myself."
"That's never going to happen" I hear Jesus say and I jumped
"How long have you been standing there?" I asked him and he walked over to me
"Long enough to hear you tell him about us, and the last part."
I smile and look down then he pulled me into a hug, I cried a little and he kissed the top of my head, I let out a small laugh and he looked at me confused, "Sorry, I didn't know Abraham very well but I can picture him saying "Get that lovey dovey crap off my grave" and Glenn telling him to shut up"
"You sure are a strange girl"
"But you love me anyways" I tell and he kissed me
"And I'll never stop" He says and I kissed him again, then I hear someone call my name from the gate and I walked over to there seeing Daryl.
"Daryl what the hell are you.."
"I ain't sitting back at the Kingdom when I know you guys need me here." He tells me and I sigh
"What if they find you here? Hmm? How am I suppose to..."
"This ain't open for debate, I'm staying" He said cutting me off and I sighed again
"Fine, lets get you set up in my trailer I guess."
"I'm not gonna kick you out of your trailer." He says
"Well that prick isn't gonna want you in the house, besides I can...stay with Jesus in the house"
"I don't need to know that" He tells me and I punch his arm
"Shut up" He holds his hands up in defeat and we head to my trailer getting him settled in and I bring what I need into the room Jesus has.
Over the next few days we started training people, Sasha trained them on how to use a knife, I trained them on how to throw them, and both me and Jesus trained them on hand to hand combat, although we would get a little distracted when we would show them what to do because he looked so damn hot doing it. Me and Enid both stood in the medical trailer with Maggie as Dr. Carson checked on the baby and we saw him/her on the screen, I was holding Maggie's hand and I smiled at her, the baby really was strong like it's parents. Daryl avoided Maggie, because he still feels guilty for what happened to Glenn, I looked out the trailer when Maggie went out to the little grill we had to get more food, she walked over and set a plate down next to Daryl who didn't even look at her, I saw her walk back and stopped while wiping tears away and I sighed. I sat with Jesus on the bed in their trailer while he drew Sasha a layout of Negan's compound and I was putting together a surprise I had been working on for Maggie. I noticed she was asleep when Jesus stood up walking over to Sasha and I got up draping a blanket over her.
Jesus POV...
"Sorry for taking over your trailer." Maggie says to me as we sit on the steps of the trailer
"Oh. I grew up with a lot of people around. I'm used to it."
"Big family?" She asked
"Uh group home. This isn't like that, though. Not the bad parts, at least. For the first time, I feel like I belong. Trying to make sure you and Sasha became a part of this made me a part of this. When I was first here I was never here. I, um I always found it hard getting close to anyone - neighbors, friends, girlfriends."
"You seem to be doing great with Sam." She tells me and I smile
"She..makes it easy, when I first brought her here she was closed off, didn't talk to anyone, just went out and hunt then stayed in her trailer. I knew it was because she was sad about not knowing if Daryl or any of you were alive or not, finally she began to open up to me and became a valuable member here, she told me that even though she missed you guys it felt like home here and that she hadn't felt that way in her life, even before the world turned into what it is now."
"Her and her brothers didn't have a great life growing up, her and Daryl were always close but her and Merle weren't" She tells me and I nod my head
"I kind of figured that when she would talk about Daryl more then Merle"
"Yeah, she still misses Merle though, she may not show it but I know she does. You're good for her, I can see it, and I'm sure Daryl sees it too" She says and we stand up and start walking away from the trailer, "I'm gonna talk to our blacksmith about making more spears. Maybe we can trade with the Kingdom for some body armor. Thing is, what we really need is riot gear." Maggie points out and we see Sasha and Samantha standing there, Maggie outs her hand on Sasha's shoulder and I grab Samantha's hand giving it a quick kiss as we walk by.
Samantha POV...
Me, Jesus and Enid walk over to their trailer walking in to see Sasha holding a book, "I was looking for something to read the other day."
"You can have the bullets. I didn't know you had a gun." Jesus tells her
"I didn't. I do now."
"Sasha, don't go - not yet." I plead with her and she sighs, "Rosita didn't come here to train people. You're both going after Negan. But you can't do that without people. A lot of people." I tell her
"We've talked about this. I know what you think and I appreciate that. But I'm not gonna change my mind. She's not." She says and looked at Enid, "Does Maggie know Rosita's here yet?"
"Uh, I-I-I don't think so. I didn't...you should tell her. About all of it."
"No. Not yet. Sh- I'm still - I'm still getting ready. And the thing is, Rosita is going, with or without me. So it should be with me." Sasha tells us
"Then I'll go, too." Jesus says to her
"Me, too." I add
"No. The Hilltop has to be ready for what happens after. Maggie needs you."
"She needs you too." Jesus says
"Not anymore. She has everyone else, and they have her."
"You can stay. I know you can. But I know you won't and she won't, but I wish you would. 'Cause it's a long life, and then it isn't. You can take anything else you need. But you and Rosita need to talk to Maggie. You owe her that much." Jesus said to her then walked back over to the counter grabbing a few things and leaving
"Listen Enid Maggie trusts you. You have to protect her, you both do, no matter what. She's the future of this place I know it." Sasha tells me and Enid, "So are you." She tells Enid and reached into her back pocket, "Hold on to this for me. It's for the baby. Maybe you can work on it while I'm gone." She says handing Enid some yarn
"Okay. Sasha" Enid says and Sasha looked at her
"Yeah."
"In 10 minutes, I'm gonna tell Maggie what's going on. It's up to you what you want to do with that. I'm doing what you asked." Enid said and walked out, I looked at Sasha and nodded then followed her
After a few minutes the guy at the gate starts banging some pipes, "The Saviors are coming! The Saviors are coming!" He yells and I book it over to Daryl with Enid
"We have to get Maggie." I tell him as he stands up
"Where is she?" He asked and we ran away over to Maggie
"We'll never make it in time." Maggie tells us and we run towards a cellar opening the door
"Just stay down there. We'll keep them away." I tell them as they get in
"They aren't the same ones who came to Alexandria." Enid says and we shut the door latching it.
"Come on" I tell Enid and we run away, I stop and she looked at me, "Go to the garden and gather up a few things, if anyone goes over there we can try and distract them with that." I tell her and she nods heading over there and I go over to Jesus as we see some Saviors go into the house, I see a Savior head over to over by the cellar and I nod my head at Enid and she follows him. I then see one head over to the trailer their staying in and I look at Jesus then walk over to him, I couldn't have him seeing anything of Maggie and Sasha's in there.
"Can I help you?" I asked him and he smiled at me
"Hey pretty thing, I was just looking around you know, we're looking for someone"
"Well whoever it is your looking for is not in there. That's my trailer." I tell and he smirked at me, I wanted to kick this guy in the nuts so bad right now
"Well hey now, how about you give me the grand tour" He says getting closer to me running his hand on my arm making me want to vomit, and I knew Jesus was watching so I put my hand behind my back telling him not to do anything
"Oh see I would but I'm into girls and I don't think my girlfriend would be to happy about that." I lied, I knew that was a mistake telling him that but he moved away putting his hands up in surrender
"Fair enough, I'll just look elsewhere." He says and walked away, I sigh in relief then turn to look at Jesus who looked like he wanted to rip the guys head off. Just then I see the one Savior guy exit the medical trailer with Dr. Carson following him and they put him in the truck
"Oh crap" I said under my breath, after the Saviors left I walked over to Gregory, "Are you kidding me?" I asked him and he looked at me
"Listen Sandra.."
"Samantha" I corrected
"It was out of my hands, there was nothing I could do."
"What about Maggie? Huh? She needs him and you just let them take him" I tell him
"Maggie is not my concern okay? The people here ar..." I cut him off punching him in the face and he looked at me in shock
"You're only concerned about yourself, not anyone else here." I said and walked away heading to the cellar.
Jesus POV...
I get to Gregory's study and knocked on the door, "Come in"
"Freddie said you wanted to see me?"
"Yes have a seat" Gregory tells me and I sit, "I noticed you've been slacking on your scavenging and recruiting lately. And there are too many people in your trailer. Fire hazard. Plenty of room here at Barrington House for our guests. Speaking of which, I have job assignments for the newcomers. People are gonna stay, they're gonna chip in. No more free rides on the teat." He tells me handing the book over
"You let them take Dr. Carson. Surprised you didn't kneel again. You must be really worried if you're trying to split everyone up."
"Shouldn't talk to me like that. Who knows what might happen with all these Saviors coming around" He says and I look at him
"Did you just threaten me?"
"I was being sarcastic, okay?" He tells me
"No, I think you just threatened me."
"Think what you want. You know, what I'm saying is, I look out for my friends, and I realized we're not friends. But if the Saviors find out who your...girlfriend is, they might try to use her to get to Daryl, you never know" He said and I resisted the urge to jump over that desk and kill him, it's one thing to threaten me, but no one and I mean no one threatens Samantha.
Just then there was a knock at the door, "Come in." He says and Cal walked in holding a bottle, "Ah, wonderful - tequila. Crack that open for me, would you?" He looked at me "You may go now. Show him out, will you, Cal?" He tells him and I walk out heading to the room I now shared with Samantha. I opened the door seeing her sitting on the bed reading and she looked up at me and smiled. I may be in a rage at Gregory right now but she is so beautiful.
"Hey you" She greeted and I walked over to her kissing her, "Well that was unexpected, but enjoyable" She smirked and I sat down in front of her and held her hand, "Jesus what's wrong?"
"Will you marry me?" I blurted out and she looked at me shocked
"What?"
"I'm sorry I didn't to spring it on you I just...you told me life is to short and it's true. I love you and I would die to protect you and I know you would for me, you make me better man and I want to spend this life with you everyday. Will you marry me Samantha Lee Dixon?"
She kissed me then put her hands on my face, "Yes" She said and I smiled then kissed her again, there was a knock on the door, I get up and opened it revealing Daryl
"Everything okay?"
"Where's Sasha and Rosita?" He asked and I looked at Samantha.
The next day me, Jesus and Daryl head to Alexandria and Tara told us some interesting news, "They-They have guns. A lot of them. I saw it."
"What?" Daryl asked her
"That group. Um, the women I met. They have an armory. They have guns."
"Why didn't you tell us before now?" Rick asked her
"I made a promise, Rick"
"Are you ready if this goes south?" He asked
"It won't."
"If it does, you don't need to feel bad." He reassured her
"I do feel bad. I will."
"Tara you don't have to." He says to her then later we head out
Jesus POV...
Me and Daryl hook up the explosives and I get up carrying the box on the other side of him as he unravels the wire, "I should've tried harder to stop Rosita and Sasha. If they'd have just waited one more day"
"Well, Sasha's a good shot, and Rosita knows how to take care of herself. Probably back at Hilltop right now. Least I hope so. We're gonna need 'em. There's a whole lot of people still got to die." He tells me and I look over at Samantha who was keeping a look out for walkers and any other people
"I asked Samantha to marry me" I told him and he looked at me
"What?"
"I know I should've come to you first but...in this world we should we should hold on to the things that matter, to the people who matter to us and...I love her, I want to live out my days with her by my side." I tell him and he nods his head
"Well I approve, you make her happier then I've ever seen her. You got my blessing"
"Thank you" I tell him and we got back to work.
Samantha POV...
"On the ground now." Daryl tells 2 women who were headed to the armory, "Those hands - Put them on your head." one girl gets on her knees but the other stays put
"Please." Jesus begged and she gets down then he goes and ties her wrist while Daryl waved a rag to signal Michonne and we walk them to the other women
"Get down over there. Keep quiet." Daryl tells one woman and the 2 women sit down
"Now, we made a lot of noise. We want to wrap this up quick so you can send people to redirect anything coming this way. Tara said your forests are relatively clear, so we won't take any chances. No one needs to get hurt. This is just about what you have, what we need." Rick tells them and I see Tara coming over with a couple more people and the older lady has Tara at gun point
"Nobody's taking anything. You need to let everyone go and leave right now. Just walk away or this one dies.
"Yeah, we'll leave you alone. But we're taking your weapons with us. That's not gonna change. It's Natania, right? Put the gun down, and let's talk about what we can change." Rick pleads with her
"No. Leave right now."
"Michonne, don't!" Tara yells at her
"We just wanna be left alone." Natania says
"Yeah, we'll leave you alone. Just let go of her. Now. Or we'll kill you. None of us want that." Rick tells her
"They want us to fight The Saviors." the girl next to Tara says to the other women
"We tried that. We lost. Too much. We're not gonna lose anymore - not our guns, not our safety, not after everything we've done to get here." Natania mentioned
"We're gonna win - with your guns, with or without your help." Tara says
"Natania, put the gun down." Rick tells her
"You kill me, and you die. And my people take the guns and nothing changes.
"Maybe we should try." I hear a woman say and I look at her
"Grandma, stop. It's over. Just talk to them, okay?" The girl whispered to Natania
"It's not over! They've forgotten. You've all forgotten. Some of you actually want to fight them? After everything? We can lose our guns, but us leaving this place to fight? After everything? I have to remind you! Yes. I am gonna do this, and then I'm gonna die. But it's that important. This is your life, all of you. Remember what it looks like. Remember what they did to us! You need to see this. Open your eyes!"
"Rick! Walkers!" Michonne yells to us, the girl punches Natania and we turn to see a small heard heading towards us and I raise my gun
"Everybody up! Get the children behind us! They're coming."
"First shift, join them on the line. Knives out. Dead only. Dead only!" A woman instructed and we make a line in front of them
"Everyone, shots within 10 feet of the line. That's it." Rick tells them and I cock my gun and look at Jesus who nods at me as the walkers get closer, "Now!" Rick says and we start shooting, a few of the women start stabbing them and I see a little girl get one and we finish them off. Jesus puts his hand on my shoulder then Natania stands up
"No. We're not fighting them with you. So take your damn guns and go." She says walking away.
After we get back to Alexandria I see Rosita as she opens the gate for us, "Hey, are you okay?" Enid asked her
"Where's Sasha?" I asked
"There's someone here." She tells us and we head to the cell and when she opens it I see Dwight sitting there, I went to move forward clenching my fists but Jesus held me back then suddenly Daryl rushed forward.
"Daryl!" I shouted but Rick stopped him
"Whoa. Whoa, whoa! Slow down. Come on."
"He says he wants to help us." Rosita tells us
"That true? You want to help?" Rick asked him
"I do."
"Okay," Rick says and pulls out his gun cocking it, "Get on your knees."