Surviving the Dead
Me, Morgan and Jesus walked with the Saviors we took prisoner back to the Hilltop, one of of them wouldn't stop whistling and it was getting on my nerves until I saw Morgan elbow him then walk up to us, "We're not far. From the Hilltop. We're far from somewhere else, I guess. We made our decision-"
"Nothing's been decided." Morgan tells Jesus cutting him off from behind me as I walked in front of them
"Well, nothing's permanent except impermanence, I guess. In that way, I'll agree. But we are taking these men to the Hilltop. That's where we're going, and that's what we're doing."
"You know how dangerous this is? Who these people are?" Morgan asked him
"No matter what they've done They're people. There's many kinds of danger, many kinds of dying. I kill. I've killed. You do. You have. But we don't execute."
"I have." Morgan tells him
"You okay? Do you need to get in the truck with truck with Tara?" Jesus asked me walking up to me.
"No I'm good" I tell him with a smile and I hear someone do a wolf whistle at me, Jesus groaned and looked back, "Don't" I said to him and he looked at me
"I just don't like them looking at you like that."
"I know hun and neither do I but it's gonna happen. Besides, you're the only one who gets me in your bed at night." I said with a wink and he smiled
"Walkers on the Hill!" Someone sounded and we turned raising our guns up seeing walkers rolling down and we start shooting at the ones that stood up, Jesus walked over and stabbed one then Tara shot another.
"Let's, let's go, let's go!" I hear a Savior shout and they make for the woods and I see Morgan follow
"Morgan!" I shouted after him but he kept going, I looked at Jesus and we followed
"Don't shoot! Please! We give up!" We hear a Savior beg and I see Morgan point his gun back up but Jesus knocked it away, Morgan swung around to hit him with it but he ducked
"Morgan. Stop."
"C'mon. On your feet. Let's go." I warn the Saviors pointing my gun at them and a few people from the Hilltop joined us and took them away
"They ran off to get away. Then what happens after?"
"We stopped them." Jesus tells Morgan
"And they keep trying. Again and again. What? You think they were gonna come back? That they will change? That they will be something else? It doesn't change. It never changes. Once you turn-"
"Morgan. We're gonna find another way. Maggie will find another way." Jesus says cutting him off
"Really think she won't want 'em dead? Every last one? After what they've done? And it isn't just them. 'Cause we're here now, to be this, do the same thing they do, but we go on. You see, we are the same-"
"Morgan." Jesus tried to say
"We're the same. We're the same, so there's no choice. Everybody turns, but w-we w-"
"There's war, and then there's peace. We're gonna have to live with these people after. We're gonna have to find a way to peace." Jesus cuts him off then puts his hand on his shoulder, "Morgan" Morgan looks at him then shoved Jesus backwards then grabs his stick swinging it down but Jesus ducked then stood up and kicked Morgan in the gut, Morgan holds his stick up and they stand there for a moment looking at each other then Morgan swung it down again but Jesus moves and kicks Morgan once more, "Okay, you're having a little trouble." Jesus says but Morgan starts swinging his stick at him but Jesus keeps moving out of the way then punched him, "You wanna stop now?" Jesus asked and Morgan just looked at him, "Maybe not?"
Morgan jabbed his stick into Jesus's stomach then hit him on the arm
"Morgan!" I shouted as he swung the stick but Jesus grabbed it and kicked him, Jesus went to kick him again but Morgan tripped him with his stick then went to stab him but Jesus moved getting up then knocking Morgan to the ground, they continue fighting until Morgan pinned him to the ground then Jesus kicked him and got up, he grabs the stick as Morgan goes to swing it at him again and kicked Morgan backwards still holding the stick.
"Is it over, Morgan?" Jesus asked him and threw the stick back to him and he swung it keeping it at Jesus's neck
"Morgan" I tell him walking over to them "Is it?"
Morgan shifted his eyes then looked at us, "What?" He asked taking his stick away then backed up, "I'm not right. I know that - I'm not right. But that doesn't make me wrong. I can't be a part of this."
"Morgan. You are right." Tara tells him as they walk over, Morgan looked at her then walked away in the other direction stopping to look at the dead savior then continued
I looked at Jesus who put his hand on my face then kissed my head pulling me into a hug.
"We are not letting them in! No way! With what they did? With what they do? They are monsters!" Gregory tells me and Jesus as we stand at the gate
"Gregory-" Jesus started to say
"No! This is not a sanctuary for killers. We'll be putting the safety of everyone in jeopardy! "Get out of here." Maggie warns
"I know what they are. I have stared into the face of th-"
"Gregory! Go." Maggie demanded and he walked away
"He actually came back after all that." I said to her
"And I actually let him in."
"No offense, Jesus, but I kind of agree with that prick." Tara tells him walking up to us
"There are families here. Children. Your wife" Maggie tells him and he looked at me then her
"There's two empty trailers out back. We could lock them up in there with 'round-the-clock guards until this whole thing is over. And go from there."
"You know what they've done to us. What they've taken from us." Maggie says to him
"Of course I do. But they surrendered."
"Jesus-" She started to say while looking at him
"We can't let them go, and we can't kill them. We can't."
I finished cleaning up when Jesus walked in, "Hey"
"Hi" I responded not turning around and I feel him put his hands on my shoulders
"Are you mad at me?"
I sighed and faced him, "It's hard for me to be mad at you, but...even with them outside the gate I still don't feel safe."
He pulled me into a hug, "I know baby, their under guard, it's gonna be ok."
I looked up at him and smiled, "Always mister positive" I tell him and he smiled
"So earlier you mentioned something about me being the only one who gets you in bed," He says and I giggled as he lifted me up and I wrapped my legs around him as he brought us over to the bed then laid me down lifting my shirt up and planting kisses on my stomach before moving up to my mouth, "And that's how it's gonna stay." He tells me and I kissed him flipping him over so I was on top
"It always will be." I said and pulled my shirt off throwing it, I started unbuttoning his shirt and threw it off of him. He flipped me onto my back and undid my pants pulling them off and I did the same to him then I moved my fingers into his hair as he started to lightly rub me down there teasing me, "Don't you dare tease me husband." I groaned at him, he smirked at me and started to insert two fingers. I gasped in surprise and kissed his lips biting the bottom one to contain the scream that threatened to escape my mouth as he curled his fingers and started pumping them faster.
I was feeling so many things at once I couldn't control myself, I moved my free hand down wrapping it around his member, he lets out a growl as he gripped my thighs and moved them so I was wrapped around his waist and he inserted himself in me. I tightened my legs around him as he started to move his hips with a slow pace that quickly picked up. I gripped his shoulders and bit my lip to fight the moan I wanted to let out, Jesus's hand went into my hair and his other arm went around my back and he moved us up so that I was straddling his lap again. I started to rock my hips and he gripped them helping me move, our movements became frantic and needy as we both got closer to reaching our peak. I bit down on his shoulder as my orgasm hit and not to long after I felt Jesus twitch inside me as he gave one last grunt as he rode out his. He laid me back on the bed and got down next to me pulling the blanket over us, we were both trying to catch our breaths and I laid my head on his chest.
"God I have an amazing wife." He tells me kissing the top of my head and I giggled
"Oh stop I'm not that special"
He put his finger under my chin lifting my head to look at him, "You are to me, you're everything to me, and I love you more and more each day."
"I love you too, more then you know." I tell him and kissed him again and we just laid there
"Do you ever think about having kids?" He asked me and I looked at him
"Like now?"
"Not now, but once this is all finished and we can finally catch our breaths." He says
"Oh, I don't know, I mean maybe, I would love to have a child with you. I'm just scared about it being raised in this world."
"Maggie's gonna do it, Rick's doing it, plus the walls here hold and keep us safe. He says and I smile
"You raise a good point Mr. Rovia" I said and he kissed me, "Well when this is all over I would love to start a family."
"Sounds like a plan Mrs. Rovia" I kissed him again and snuggled up to his chest.
Rick POV...
"Here's a plan, and everyone's sticking to it. The plan is working. We're doing this. We're winning. We had a hard fight. We lost people, brave people who gave their lives to make sure we won. By the time it was over, there weren't any Saviors left standing."
Maggie POV...
"We beat 'em, but things got complicated. Jesus took prisoners, brought 'em back home. We're holding 'em outside our gates for now, till we decide what to do. Until I decide."
Carol POV...
"We took the outpost bit by bit. We thought we'd won. We were gathered up in the open when they ambushed us. It was over in seconds. Ezekiel, Jerry, and me, we're the only ones who made it back. Tell Sam that Shiva...Shiva sacrificed herself for Ezekiel."
Samantha POV...
After I read that part of the letter Maggie handed me I felt tears in my eyes, I had a bond with Shiva, ever since I met that wonderful tiger she took a liking to me, but to know she died protecting her protector, made me happy to know her death wasn't in vain.
Rick POV...
"All of it, it's scarier than I thought it'd be, but we're doing it. We have to. Sasha was first, and now there's been more. The sacrifices are real. We need to make it right for them. The rest of the plan's still a go. Tell Sam that Daryl is fine. We're moving on to the next step. I'm headed there now. The Sanctuary's still surrounded. They're trapped, cut off from their supplies. Every hour that goes by, we're makin' 'em weaker. The lookouts are all around the compound. They open a door, we fire. But if they open a door, seems like they'd have bigger problems. We meet at Sanctuary in two days to end this, to win it all. It's not like we haven't fought before. We fought every step of the way to this place, to this moment. The path has led us here, to who we are, to each other, to now. And we're so close. This can be our last fight."
"Sam, have you seen Jesus?" Maggie asked me walking over
"He's um..." I started to say shifting my eyes to the gate and she walked out with Gregory, me and Enid following
"Jesus." Maggie calls when we walk to the outside of the gates where we are keeping the Saviors, "Jesus" She walks up to him
"Hi."
"You're giving away our food." She tells him
"We had a bumper crop of turnips in the root cellar. We couldn't get rid of them. Saviors left them behind after they raided us."
"That cellar is there for a reason. We might have plenty now, but that could change. We got to look after our own." She says to him
"Paul, this is a farce. It's gone on long enough. I mean, build a gallows already. You're handy, Margaret. Save the bullets and be done with it." Gregory says and I roll my eyes
"Gregory" Maggie warned
"What? I'm just saying what everybody inside there is thinking."
"Go inside. Now." She ordered
"Come on, Gregory." Enid said to him and he scoffed
"You know I'm right." He says to Maggie and walked away with Enid
Me, her and Jesus moved away from the Saviors, "You shouldn't have put us in this position." Maggie tells Jesus
"Are you seriously thinking about doing what Gregory said?" He asked her
"Every option's on the table. They have to be."
"What are we fighting for, Maggie?"
"You know." She tells him
"Yeah, I thought I did. That's why they're here."
"We have to end this and Negan." She pointed out
"We will. But when we do, we have to make sure what's left is worth what we lost." He says to her and walked away
"I'm sorry she asked and I.."
"It's okay Samantha," He tells me cutting me off, "I shouldn't have asked you to lie to her" I smile at him then walked away heading back inside
Jesus POV...
Night time fell and I was still outside the gate waiting over the Saviors, I hear hammering going on inside and I peak through the crack
"What are they building?" one of them asked me and I looked at him
"Don't worry about it."
"Did you sign up for this? When you joined your group? I was - I was by myself for a while. Then I found a safe place. Buncha survivors, buncha tough guys, too. Eventually, one of them took over, and another one took over, but I wasn't really paying much attention 'cause, you know, I was gettin' fed. I'm good with my hands. They sent me over to the satellite place to put up a fence. Now here we are. Now my life depends on the lady in charge in there."
"You can stop now." I tell him, "Don't pretend that any of us are innocent."
"What do they call you? Jesus? Well, Jesus, I'm, uh I'm no angel. Never said I was. Ain't no such thing." He says and I sighed, "That other girl, Sam I think her name is, she's uh she's a real nice piece huh?" He asked and I clenched my fists, "She yours?" He asks but I didn't answer, "Yeah, yeah she is well here's the thing, Jesus, um...when this turns bad for you guys and I'm sure it will, I hope you know that there are a lot of us here who would love to take turns with her." He tells and I whipped around looking at him but then stopped myself from storming over there and beating the crap out of him so instead I walk to the gates heading inside to our trailer, I opened the door and walked in seeing my wife asleep with a book in front of her. I smiled then moved the book away from her and pulled the blanket over her then kissed her head. I wasn't gonna let that guy get to me, I wasn't, I'm not that kind of guy and I know that both me and Daryl would kill anyone who tried to harm her, she would too but I would rather die saving her then to see that happen.
Samantha POV...
I walked outside the gate and saw everyone including Jesus look at me, "Maggie says to bring them in." I tell him and we get them up and head inside over to Maggie
"Get them in." Maggie tells him indicating to the handmade cell thing they built
"Come on. Two at a time." Jesus instructed and they walk in
"Starting now, we'll keep the prisoners here. We'll feed them. We won't mistreat them. But we won't stand for anything less than total cooperation." Maggie informed us
"Uh Uh, Margaret, all - all due respect, uh, I'm just straight-shooting here. You can't let people we don't trust run around inside our walls." Gregory tells her and she looked at him
"You're right, Gregory. In fact, I couldn't stop thinking about what you told me yesterday. You see, I grew up on a farm. I know all about sheep and wolves." She tells him then both Kal and Eduardo grab Gregory's arm leading him to the cell
"What are you doing? What are you doing?"
"Come on, Gregory." Kal told him as he struggled
"Let go of me. No. Kal, are you serious? Eduardo? Wait! This - This can't - Wait."
"Calm down." Eduardo told him
"No, don't tell me to calm down. I am not gonna go in there. You can't! Maggie! Look, just - No, wait, stop! Just for a minute! Calm down! No, please, no! No! God! Oh, God. I didn't do anything. I didn't do anything. I-" Gregory begged and started crying as they dragged him in, I see one of them try to go for Dianne's gun and I quickly punched him in the face through the wires knocking him down
"Oh, honey you're gonna get these people killed. Well, you already got some people killed, didn't you." He says to me laughing so I took my rifle and hit his face again with the end of it.
"Hey. Thank you." Another one says to Maggie
"Don't make me regret it. Or you will."
"I keep forgetting he's gone. I have this weight. There's moments when I - I think I'll see him, that I'll, uh be able to talk about how I'm feeling with him. And my mind catches up, and I remember that the pain is about knowing that it will never happen." Aaron tells me, Maggie and Enid as we sit in the study
"I know that feeling." Maggie says holding Gracie, the baby that they got from one of the outposts
"Does it get easier?" He asked her
"No. But it helps to do something about it." She says and Jesus walked in, "How is he?" She asked him
"Gregory's fine. He's trying to suck up to the Saviors now. I just wanted to say, I think you did the right I wanted to thank you."
"Don't." She tells him and Gracie fusses so she stands up bouncing her, "The Saviors in that pen might be bargaining chips. Maybe we'll have to trade them for some of our own people. They're alive 'cause we might need them. Jesus, if we don't we can't let them live." She tells him and I looked at him then Aaron stood up and left.
A few nights later we were driving to meet up with Rick and the others with some of our people following us, I was in the back behind Jesus with Neil next to me while Maggie sat in the passenger seat, I was leaning forward with my arm resting on Jesus's chest and my head resting on his head rest while he held my hand.
"Do you think they'll surrender?" Jesus asked Maggie
"They will. Eventually."
"Not now?" He asked
"Would we give up that quick?" She asked him in response
"No, we wouldn't."
"Damn straight." Neil said from next to me and I chuckled
"They don't surrender today, they will soon. Just need to run out of food, water, choices." She says and paused, "Slow down." She tells him and I lift my head and look out the front
"What is it?" I asked her
"Tree in the road wasn't there before."
"Could've fallen on its own. Trees do that." Jesus tried to reassure her
"It's them. Something happened." She says, Jesus turned the car off and Maggie grabbed her radio, Bertie, turn around." No answer, "Bertie!"
"Maggie." I said to her looking out the back window to see vehicles approaching and one pulled up in front of us
"Oh, shit." Neil says and Jesus gave a comforting squeeze to my hand after kissing it then I leaned back in my seat. I see them pull a ramp out of the truck then I see Jerry get brought out and forced to the ground
"No" I whispered and feel Maggie reach over and grab my hand and they bring over a wooden box propping it up on the car
"Hello, hello, hello!" Simon greets getting out of the truck, "Ahh. What a damn nice night. You all know the drill. Due to your recent decisions, everything has changed. And yet, nothin' has changed. Everyone needs to hand over their guns. Gary, shoot that beautiful bastard if anyone tries anything. Same goes for everyone in the cars." He says walking over to Maggie's window and another walks over to Jesus's, Jesus reaches down and hands his gun out and I reluctantly hand mine to him and he passes it out as well then Maggie gives hers to Simon.
"How'd you get out?" Maggie asked Simon
"Three guesses. Well, let's just say we figured it out."
"What'd you do to the others-" She started to ask
"Oh, yes! That's exactly where I was going next. Right now, Kingdom is getting its innards splayed out for the world to see. And the Saviors will be taking possession of that property, starting tonight. Same with Alexandria." He says and my breath caught in my throat, "As long as they don't make it complicated. But Hilltop? The farmers? The breadbasket of our nascent civilization? It's your lucky day. You've been chosen to keep producing. Gregory made a little bit of a fool out of me in front of the big man, so I am hoping that you are the one to make things right," He says and I hear something in the distance, "You hear that? I need you to shift into active listening. Eugene! Who, by the way, I was admittedly skeptical of, but, man, worked out like gangbusters. He helped us get out of the situation with the masses of the cold and impolite." That bastard, "And now my guys are leading the rest of the herd away. So this can go one of two ways. One, I can kill this likable gent on his knees over there, drag you out of this car, and put you in this box. Hmm? In which you will not suffocate to death like your friend. Sasha." He tells her and I ball my fist up, pissed that he mentioned Sasha and pissed about him wanting to put Maggie in there, I wouldn't care what happened to me at this point, I would rather go down myself then see that happen, "And then we take you to Hilltop, gather everyone up, and kill you in front of the whole place. And then drag you back to Sanctuary and put on the spike in front of HQ. And then my people will lead the walker herd to the Hilltop and pull off the same move that your people tried unsuccessfully at our place. What a pain in the ass for everyone concerned. Hmm? Or two, you turn around, go home, start watering that sorghum, save everyone, and, most importantly, me, a lot of trouble. And, yeah we're gonna have to kill one of your people. But then we're aces," He stands up, Nah, Gary. I got this." Suddenly a gunshot went off next to me and I jumped as glass breaks, I look over and see Neil dead next me and tears fall down my eyes as my body trembles with fear and anger, "I just really needed you to know what I was talkin' about. I need you to smell it. Now tell me I don't got to kill this gent with the lustrous mane. Tell me I don't got to go down the line! Tell me, Maggie! Gary!" He shouts and him and the man cocks his gun
"No!" Maggie yells stopping him, "You don't need to do any of it. I just want to ask you a favor."
"What is that?" He asked her
"I'd like that box. Take Neil home, to bury him in."
"Favor granted." He tells her and moved away from the car, he opens the truck door and they take Neil out, I couldn't stop the tears from falling as they put him in the box.
We get back to the Hilltop and once we got out of the truck Jesus pulled me into a hug and I sniffled, "Are you ok?" He asked putting his hands on my face and I just shook my head then he pulls me into a hug again and we walk over to the cage we have the Saviors in
"Ohh! Margaret, I - I understand you putting me in here, a-a-and message received, but - you know I don't belong in here-"
"Shut up." Maggie says cutting Gregory off
"What happened out there?" Kal asked
"That one. Get him out." Maggie orders and I look at Jesus confused
"He gets out?" Gregory asked and scoffed
"Maggie, what are you doing?" Jesus asked her but she ignored him
"Kal, I need your gun." She tells him and he handed it over, "This one tried to kill you." She points out
"Maggie, you don't wanna do this." The guy says to her
"Shut up, Al! If Cupcake wants to put on a show, let her put on a show." Another Savior tells him and Maggie fired the gun killing him and I looked at her in shock
"You wanna be next?" She asked the other one
"No, I don't."
"Saviors killed one of our own tonight on the road. We aren't even, but that was a start." Maggie tells us
"Maggie." I started to say
"Get more guards on duty. Start fortifying the walls and bury Neil. First light, everybody else starts tending crops."
"I thought we don't give up." I said to her
"No, we don't. Simon said the others are under attack, which means there's no more supplies going in, but there might be people. We have to be ready. Gonna be up to Hilltop to make the last stand." She says to us and walked away towards the house and I looked at Jesus and followed her. When I walked into the house I knocked on the door to the study, I didn't get an answer but I heard crying so I slowly opened it walking in.
"Maggie?"
"Over here." I hear her say after a pause and I looked over at the couch in the room, I walked over to it and sat down next to her, "I had to do it Sam, they..."
"Hey," I cut her off grabbing her hand, "I understand, I do, but...I've never seen this side of you and I'll be honest it scares the shit out of me. I have your back no matter what but I need you to focus on what I'm about to tell you." I say to her and she looked at me, "You're my sister and I love you as well as that little baby in you, and I'm all for revenge, but killing one of them is just gonna add fuel to this fire. I don't want anything happening to you even if I have to throw myself in front of you to save you both," I tell and she gives a small smile, "We will win this but I don't want to watch you lose yourself in the process, you saw what it did to Rick after he lost Lori. I miss Glenn too, and not a day goes by where I don't want to watch Negan on his knees as we all take our turns giving him what he deserves but I have Jesus to keep me grounded and now you have me, always no matter what."
She smiles and sniffles as I pull her into a hug, "Thank you Sam, but there is one more thing I have to do." She walks outside and goes over to the others and tells them to put the Savior in it after they buried Neil then writes on it, I look down at it and see, We have 38 more, STAND DOWN, "Leave it where they'll find it" She tells them and walked away giving my arm a squeeze and I look at Jesus then head into our trailer.
"You okay?" He asked me as I stood there
"No, I'm not," I said and faced him, "I'm pregnant."
A/N: Ahh don't hate me, don't hate me, I'm sorry. So since it's the mid season finale it will be on here too, which BTW I'm so pissed and sad about Carl I mean come on! That's just mean AMC. *sighs* anyways, I hate taking a break but I want to make this as authentic as possible for you and I'm so happy you're enjoying it.
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BookKeeper88: I'm glad you think it's cute and I hope you enjoy all the other cute moments I do :)
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Until the Mid season starts again, TTFN Ta Ta For Now.