Surviving the Dead
"When I first met him Jesus said that my world was gonna get a whole lot bigger." Rick tells all of us as him, King Ezekiel and Maggie stand on the back of a truck, I look at Jesus who smiles at me and kissed my head while holding my hand running his finger across my ring, he gave it to me a few days after our battle with the Saviors then the next day we got married. We had Father Gabriel preform it and had it at Alexandria, I married the man who saved me almost a year ago, who was my best friend, that was the best day of my life, "Well, we found that world. We found each other. That"bigger world" is ours by right. That we've come together for it, all of us it's that much more true - it's ours by right. Any person who would live in peace and fairness, who would find common ground it's their right, too. But those who use and take and kill to carve out the world and make it theirs alone - we end them. We don't celebrate it. We don't have shame about it, either. There's only one person who has to die and I will kill him myself. I will. I will. But if it's the others the others who prop him up, stand by his side, even those who just look the other way - so be it. Then we keep making the world bigger. Together."
"Together. Bound forever! To quote The Bard, "For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." Ezekiel says putting his hand on Rick's shoulder, "For she today my sister." He does the same to Maggie and Shiva roars, I look over at her and smile.
"We've practiced. We've been through it over and over again. We all know the plan doesn't end this morning. That we may have to live in uncertainty for days, maybe more. That we have to keep our faith in each other. If we can hold on to that with everything we have, the future is ours. The world is ours." Maggie finishes
"You up to this?" Rick asked Maggie as we stand in a field surrounded by the armored cars we made
"I got the Hilltop to stand against the Saviors. I need to be there. At least for the first part. They say you can wage war through the second trimester. I've been fighting since the farm. Can't stop now." She says and I wrap my arm around her shoulder and she smiled at me
"How about tomorrow?" Rick asked her
"You been thinking about what that looks like?"
"Yes, I have. I don't know if I can wait for it." He says and I look at Jesus who smiles at me
"Just one more fight. And I'm gonna be there. At least for the first part."
"I'm told the Hilltop lost their doctor. An obstetrician, no less" Ezekiel mentioned
"Samantha's been learning what she can from the books Carson has, she's been doing what she can to help" Jesus tells him and I smile at him, it was true, since Dr. Carson got taken by the Saviors I spent almost every night in the medical trailer reading what was there, practiced a C-Section on a few walkers just in case like Carol did for Lori.
"We have a doctor in the Kingdom. A woman of talent. Join us."
"We'll get ours back." Jesus adds, not gonna lie, I would love to be the one to bring my godchild into the world but I was terrified, I actually did hope that we would get Carson back
"Yes, Jesus. Yes, you will. As sure as the day defeats the night. And on this day, we begin to reshape this world for your child" Ezekiel says to Maggie and looked at me, "and the children to come." He tells me and I looked down trying to hide a smile as Jesus put his arm around my waist and pulled me to him, "So let's get started."
We drive up to the sanctuary by the place where they keep the walkers, parking our cars with the homemade armor facing the building, I looked at Jesus who leaned over and kissed me then we got out, once we all lined up against the cars Maggie raised her hand signaling us to raise our guns then put her hand down and we started firing just a few single shots
"Well shit." I hear Negan say, "I'm sorry, I was in a meeting. I see you got your little mudflaps with you. So I'm not exactly feelin' a reason for us to try throwin' lead at each other. I care about my people. I don't want to just march them into the line of fire because I want play "my dick is bigger than yours". It is. We both know it. But I'm also comfortable enough to accept the fact if it wasn't. I'm certainly not gonna let my people die over that shit like you're about to. So, Rick, what the hell can I do for you?"
"Dwight." Rick says pointing at them, "Your name's Simon. You're Gavin. And you"
"Regina." She answered
"Rick, I'd feel remiss if-" Eugene started to say but Rick cut him off
"No. I know who you are. Listen, you five. The Saviors inside. All of you have a chance to survive here. To survive this. You all can live if you surrender. Can't guarantee it any time but now. Right now.
"So they surrender and you and your little piss patrol doesn't kill them. That sounds like a good deal! What about me, Rick?" Negan asked him
"I told you. Twice. You know what's going to happen."
"I do. I do know what's gonna happen. You don't. You have no idea the shit that's about to go down. Let me ask you something, Rick - Do you think you have the numbers for this fight? You don't. Simon?" Negan tells him and I peak through watching him go into the building then come out, with Gregory, Maggie turns and looks at both me and Maggie
"Of course that's where he went." Jesus pointed out and I tighten the grip on my gun
"What do you have to say to the Rick and the piss patrol, Gregory?"
"The Hilltop stands with Negan and the Saviors. Any resident of the Hilltop who takes up arms or who supports this ultimatum against the Sanctuary or any of the Saviors, for that matter - they will no longer be welcome in the colony." He says and I clench my jaw
"And?" Negan asks
"Their families will be thrown out and will be left to fend for themselves."
"And?" Negan asked again
"Go home now. Or you won't have a home to go back to."
I see a lot of our residents look at Maggie, "You do what you need to do." She tells everyone
"All I have at the Hilltop are a bunch of books and an old lobster bib" Jesus says and looked at me, "All I need is my wife" I smiled at him and he put his hand on mine telling me to loosen my grip, I do so and he smiles
"I just need you...and my bike" I said and he chuckled
"You heard the man. Go back to separating wheat and shit or whatever the hell it is you people do.
"Doesn't look like anyone's goin', does it?" Maggie asked Negan
"Hilltop stands with-"
"The Hilltop stands with Maggie!" Jesus says cutting Gregory off
"I feel like I invested a lot in you, and I am very, very disappointed." Simon tells Gregory backing him up then pushing him down the stairs then suddenly we hear and explosion in the distance.
"Sounds like shit is goin' down, Rick.
"You "lieutenants" you're gonna have to make up your minds.
"Maybe we can take a time-out here-" Gavin started to say but Negan cut him off
"No."
"This has to happen now. This is the only way." Rick says and Negan stays quiet, "You're gonna make me count. "Okay. Okay. I'm counting. 10! 9! 8! 7!" He cocked his gun and started firing and we all followed shooting at the windows.
"Now!" Maggie yells and we start moving backwards getting in the cars and drive away
"I don't want to wait for it anymore. You don't either." Rick tells us getting off the truck," - Yeah, I know. So we don't have to wait for it. If we start tomorrow right now with everything we've beaten, everything we've endured, everything we've risen above, everything we've become If we start tomorrow right now no matter what comes next we've won. We've already won." He says and we all cheer
That night we returned to the Hilltop just to rest before we hit more outposts tomorrow, I was in my trailer, well mine and Jesus's now, getting changed when he walked in.
"Hold on, there's something wrong with this picture." He says and I face him
"What is?"
He walked over to me and put his hands on my hips, "You have clothes on" He says and I roll my eyes smiling and he kissed me then moved his lips to my neck lightly biting it
"Mmm" I lightly moaned biting my lip, "What are your intentions with me mister?"
"Well, I have a very sexy wife who I plan on showing exactly how much I love her, and tell her how hot she looked today."
"Mmm I love it when you say wife." I tell him and kissed him, he backed us over to the bed and laid me down while not breaking the kiss.
"I love saying it," He says and removes my shirt throwing it onto the floor, I unbuttoned his shirt taking it off of him and he kissed me sliding his tongue into my mouth, I moaned fisting my hands into his hair and he worked on taking off my pants moving his mouth from mine down my jaw to my neck kissing and biting at it then moved down to my breasts kissing the tops of them while squeezing them
"Oh Jesus" I moaned and he moved down to my stomach running his hands up my sides then moved further down, "What are you..." I started to ask but threw my head back when I felt his mouth and tongue run along my thighs before he started attacking my center with his mouth, "Oh god Jesus!" I moaned putting my fingers in his hair again biting my lip, I bucked my hips against him when I felt him insert two fingers and started pumping them while still licking and sucking my center, I grabbed a pillow and put it over my mouth because the walls of this trailer are kind of thin, "Oh God!" I moaned into it as I orgasm, I started panting as he kissed his way back up before wiping his mouth.
I moved my hands down and unbuckled his belt undoing his pants then slid them down and he positioned himself between my legs propping one of them on his arm and pushed into me then started moving his hips going slow at first but then picked up the pace, I squeezed my eyes shut and bit my lip as he started kissing my neck. Next thing I knew he pulled out of me and turned me around so I was on my stomach and he lifted my hips and he entered me again, I couldn't believe how turned on I was right now seeing this side of him
"Oh Samantha" He moaned picking up the pace and I gripped my hands into my pillow
"Oh god! Oh...OHH!" I moaned as I hit my peak again and after a few more thrusts and grunts Jesus finished as well. I laid down and he laid down next to me, we were both panting pretty hard trying to catch our breath, "Wow, just...wow" I said and he chuckled before pulling me to him
"I told you I was gonna show you how much I love you, and you looked incredibly hot today."
I giggle and kissed, "You always tell me that"
"I know, I only say it because I still can't believe someone so beautiful, strong, and amazing ended up with a guy like me.
I move myself propping on my elbow looking at him, "You're amazing, and wonderful. I would have fell for you even if the world didn't end up like this."
He kissed me and when I pulled back I thought I'd tease him so I lightly bit his bottom
"Mmm don't you dare do that because I don't think I have the strength for another round."
I moved so I was hovering over him and smiled, "Who said you were gonna do the work this time?" I asked him and kissed his lips then chest and worked my way down
"What are you talk..." He started to say but stopped as soon as I put lips around his member, "Oh my god Samantha."
"Looks like they made themselves a moat." Jesus tells me, Morgan, Diane, Tara and a few other people as we stand outside another outpost, "I guess we shouldn't be surprised, considering."
"We can do this. We did before." Tara says to him and cocked her gun
"Yeah. That's what I was considering."
"I wasn't here before. Just need a clear shot. Right, Dianne?" Morgan asked her
"Just a few seconds."
"So we just need to time it right." Morgan points out
"They see us, they fire a gun, we're not getting in." I mention
"Don't let them fire a gun, Dianne." Morgan tells her
"Morgan, do you need us to cover you or something?" Andy asked him
"I do not."
"Hey, we're here to help. It shouldn't just be you." Freddie tells him
"I don't die."
We make our way into the out post after Diane takes out the guards, as we make our way down Jesus shoots a guy who came around the corner, then we both raised our guns taking out the two at the end of the hall. We look at each other then at Morgan, after a moment of silence he signals Dianne who signals the others to come in. Me, Tara, Jesus and Diane head down one hallway while the others go down the one the guards were at, we get down another set of halls and a couple people take a door, me and Tara are standing next to one that says "Tom says 'Kill the Bitches'" I roll my eyes then see Jesus signal to everyone to hold, Tara grabs the door knob of the one we're by, after a long pause Jesus drops his hand and everyone busts open their doors and started shooting. Tara opens our and we make our way in with Jesus following us, then we hear whimpering come from the closet, me and Tara move over keeping our guns aimed at it while Jesus stands in between, I look at him and he nods his head, I lift my foot up and kicked the door open.
"Please! Please don't shoot me! Please don't." The guy begs raising his hands
"Huh. Oh, look, you pissed your pants." Tara points out
"I-I'm not one of them. Uh, m-my name's Dean."
"Why are you still talking?" Tara asked him keeping her gun raised
"Tara, wait. Just wait." Jesus says to her trying to get her to back down
"For what?"
"He has his hands up, Tara." I point out to her
"We have a job to do."
"We all have jobs to do" I hear Hershel's voice in my head then there's rapid gunfire in the distance
"You want to go check that out?" Jesus asked her and she sighed then left, Jesus aimed his gun at the guy and I followed
"We're missing some people from the other team." I hear one of our people tell Tara as she opened the door
"Morgan?"
"Come out." Jesus gestured to Dean and he gets up moving out of the closet
"Just stay in there. We're on top of each other here. We'll signal you when it's clear. Just be ready." Dianne tells her
"I got it, Jesus, Sam. Step aside." Tara says to us walking back over pointing her gun at the guy
"Tara." I warned her
"There's a firefight outside. We don't even know if Morgan's alive."
"Please, lady. I'm not one of them." He pleads to her but something doesn't feel right
"You're here. You had a gun. You are one of them."
"I'm not. I'm not. You got to believe me." He tell us
"Then what are you doing here?" I asked him
"I'm just a worker. They brought me from the Sanctuary to cook, clean, whatever. They did not give me a choice. They made me leave my wife and kids. Your people do this to the Sanctuary, too? The families okay?" He asked
"We don't want to hurt the workers. We're not going to." Jesus says
"You believe him?" Tara asked
"It's not about him. I'm not gonna shoot someone with their hands up, and I'm not letting you." Jesus argued
"These medical supplies-they're the Hilltop's, right? Maggie's prenatals. They took them because they could, because they don't give a shit. So why should we?" Tara asked
"I know they killed your girlfriend.." Jesus started to tell her
"Jesus-
"That you loved her. And believe me when I say I would want revenge to if I lost Sam but this isn't you." He finished and I looked at him
"It is now."
"We're not here for revenge. It can't be about that." I tell her
"It can."
Suddenly a gunshot hit the door window, Jesus ducked giving the guy the chance to grab Jesus's arm and push him into a shelf, then he picks him up holding a gun to his head, me and Tara both raised ours and I looked at my husband.
"I wouldn't. You know what's funny? Normally I'd peg you as the softie, not pretty boy. You know how hard it is to piss yourself on purpose? I-It's like your dick knows you're wearing pants." He says to us and smashed the bottle of prenatals, "Aw, hell, look that. Well, that shit is ruined. Well, looks like that dumb bitch Maggie and her kid are just gonna die, anyway, Just like you two." He said and I tightened my grip and pointed it at his head
"Samantha" I hear Jesus say and he lightly shook his head
"I'm gonna kill you." I said through my teeth
"Oh, honey, no, you're not."
"Then someone else will. There's too many of us." Tara adds
"See, that's where we differ. If I take the three of you with me, then I've got one hell of an insurance policy. So why don't you put that thing down unless you're gonna shoot through this beautiful man here. I'm not gonna ask you again."
"I think my wife's gonna shoot you." Jesus tells him
"I am."
"Yeah. She is." Jesus points out
"Shut up!" Dean tells Jesus
"Samantha-"
"I can do it." I cut him off, I'm not losing my husband, not today
"Samantha, he has a gun to my head."
"Not for long." I tell him
"Wait. Wait. Wait a second."
"Go to hell." Tara says to Dean
"Okay. So you really wanna risk it, huh? Me for him? Well, I can tell you right now that I am not worth it. We can work this out. I-I may talk a big game like I'm a tough guy, but I'm not. I really just want to" He points his gun at me and Jesus moves his arm up then hits the guy in the gut and knocks him to the ground.
"You're not gonna do it. Not you."
"It's not about revenge. It's about getting it done." Tara tells him, Jesus knocks him out then grabs some rope, "What the hell are you doing? He tried to kill us." Tara asked him
"I told you - it's not about him."
"So he gets to live? What about Abraham? Glenn? Denise?"
"This is different."
"You're not Rick. You're not Maggie." Tara pointed out to him
"Tara" I said in a warning tone
"No. But she'll hear what I have to say."
"Evac Sat 1! Evac Sat 1!" We hear someone say over the guys radio
"Jesus! Sam! Tara!" We hear Dianne yell and we open the door moving behind her "They're falling back!"
"Go! Go! Go!" We hear someone yell as we look down the hall
"There another way out of here?" Dianne asked
"Yeah. Follow my lead." Jesus tells her and we head back the way we came.
"Circle the door, wide, at least 20 feet." Jesus tells everyone as we make our way behind the building where they used to keep their cars, "Guns up, but hold your fire."
"What?" Tara asked him
"They're gonna give up. We only fire if they fire first."
"They fire first, one of us dies." Dianne tells him
"Then let's hope, for my sake, that they don't." He says and looked at Tara, "You can try to stop me." Just then the drop slides open, "Drop your weapon! Drop your weapon and surrender." Jesus warns the guy standing there
"Living sounds good to me." The guy says putting his gun down, "We're surrounded. Don't be as dumb as they think we are. Put your guns down."
"It's okay. We can do it the hard way. Because even if Maggie listens to you, Rick will listen to me." Tara tells Jesus and we look at her, then the rest of the Saviors put their guns down.
We all stand there keeping our guns on the group of Saviors when I look and see Morgan walk out, "Shit. I know you." A Savior says to him and Morgan walks over. "You get transferred, too?" He asked and Morgan raised his gun
Morgan!" I yelled running over to him putting my hand on his shoulder, "Lower your gun."
"We came here to kill them. We're supposed to."
"They surrendered. It's not what we do." I tell him and he takes his gun away from the guys chest
"Then what do we do, huh?" He asked me and walked away
"What do we do?" I asked Jesus and he put his hand on my shoulder
"We'll figure it out"