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CHAPTER 15 : LETS GO TO WAR!
Rick woke up and looked over to Beth's side of the bed only to see that she was not there. He quickly amused the worse and Jumped out of bed put on some clothes and run
out of the room door as he was about to run down the stairs when Carl came out of his room and said " Dad ? what's wrong?" Rick looked at his son and said " have you seen
your mother?" Carl nodded and said "She went to walk around and didn't want to wake you" Rick calmed down and smiled at his son as he said " Carl When we win this war I
want you by my side no more being on the sidelines your a man now Carl and it's time I start to treat you that way." Carl walked over to his father and wrapped him in a hug.
Rick hugged him back and said " I love you Carl" Carl nodded against Rick and Said " I love you to dad and thank you for beliveing me." Carl pulled away as he saw Beth
coming in the door and she put her finger to her lips to Silence Carl. She walked up behind Rick and hugged his waist from behind and said "Good morning Babe." Rick turned
around so he was facing her and wrapped his good arm around her waist as she repostioned arms around his neck. Rick kissed her and said " Good morning beautiful." Carl
looked at his dad and the woman who has become his mom. He realized his dad wasn't even this happy with his real mom maybe for awhile before the walkers
but a little while before and after he wasn't happy with her but Beth made him smile every time she was around. Carl was happy his dad had found love again. He was scared
of losing his dad for awhile there after the prison the thing's he did to Joe and his men and to the Termuins people. Beth brought Rick back from his crazy state of mind and
brought back his dad he knew before the walkers and he made a mental note to thank her. Rick and Beth turned to Carl as Rick spoke " Carl your mother and I are going to
see if Ezekiel has decided if he is going to help us." Carl nodded and went back upstaris as Rick and Beth walked out the door and towards Ezekiel's throne building. Once they
arrived Jerry who greeted them by saying " The King is waiting for you." Jerry lead them into the building and into the throne room where Ezkiel was sitting with Shiva. He
Greeted them and said " Ah Rick Grimes and his lovley lady Good Morning how did you two sleep? I hope you were comfortable." Rick steps forward as he speaks " We slept
good thank you look Ezekiel we need an answer today if you are gonna fight with us as we need to return home to our commuity and our baby so I ask again do you wanna
help us bring down Negan?" Ezekiel stood up and said " Rick The Kingdom stands with you against Negan." He step on the stage and walks over to Rick with his hand out for
Rick to shake. Rick takes his hand as he says " with you on our side we can't lose. Does Negan know about the tiger ?" Ezkekiel smiles and says " No Negan has never Seen
My Shiva why do you ask ?" Rick smiles as says " I just can't wait to see the look on that assholes face when he sees her for the first time." Beth looks to the tiger and says "
How did you end up with her ?" Ezekiel walks back to the stage and sits on the throne and pats Shiva as he says " I was a ZooKeeper and I practially raised her from a cub
and when the Dead started to walk I was at home alone I never married and had no family around so I set out on my own and when I came to the zoo most of the animals
had died from not being taken care of. Expect Shiva she was in her enclosure that had a mout going threw it and she had fallen over the edge of the mout and broke her leg
so I run in and she snapped at me but she saw who I was and let me patch her up. I found this chain and put it on her and we set out. The werid thing is that she actually
listens to me she could yank my arm off and eat everyone but she acts like any old house cat." Beth smiled with a hit of a frown as she said " Before he died My dad used to
be a vet and he told my sister ,my brother and me a story of a guy that came in with a fully grown wolf and the man had said he had saved the wolf has pup but this wolf
acted like a normal dog. Daddy said that it meant the animal has undieing care and love for the owner because he saved the wolf as a pup." Ezekiel smiles as he pats Shiva as
he said " Your father sounds like he was he great man may I ask how he died ?" Rick looked to Beth who had tears in her eyes. He grabbed her hand and gave it a squeezed it
she looked at him and then turned to Ezekiel as she said " Well we lived in a prison and a little ways from the prison was this town named Woodbury it was ran by a man
called The Governer. He had kiddnapped my sister and her husband so Rick and few others went to get them back so he declined all of us terrorists and he attacked our
prison we fought him off the first time and then a group went back to Woodbury to kill him but he was gone so we took everyone back to the prison with us. Everything was
fine for awhile and one day he came up to the fence with an army and tank and two hostages one was my dad. He called Rick down to the fence and demaned we all leave
the prison so Rick suggested we all try to live togother and The Governer didn't like it so he grabbed a sword that belonged to the other hostage our friend Michonne and cut
his head off right in front of everyone." she finally finished with tears streaming down her and turned to Rick's who instantly wrapped his Good arm around her. Ezekiel now
frowning said "I am so sorry Ms. Greene no one should have to witness that." Rick still hugging her spoke to Ezekiel and said " We should start to head home now I don't want
something to happen and us not be there." The King nodded and said " I will have Morgan escrot you back as I am told you two are old friends." Rick nodded and said " I
wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for him he saved me when this hole this started." Ezekiel nodds and says " Yes I know Morgan told the story of how you met." He turns to
Jerry and asks " Jerry may you go and get Morgan tell him to meet us at the gate." Jerry nods and says " Yes my king." Jerry walks off to get Morgan as Ezekiel gets out of his
throne and says "I will let you two go and gather your people and let me know what is going on I will see you at the gate in 30 mintues." Exactly thrity mintues later everyone
is at the gate just as Ezekiel walks over to Rick put out to him and Rick puts his only hand in The King and says " We are gonna win this Negan is finished." Ezekiel smiles and
says "I believe in You Rick Grimes have safe travels my go to war" Rick nodds and everyone walks out of the gate led by Morgan on horse they all get into the van
and drive off back to Alexandria.
Alexandrina an hour before Rick and the group get back.
Sasha is on watch as a man she saw with Negan when he came here she drew her rifle and said " Stop right there what do you want I know you are part of Negan's group
what do you want ?" the man put his hands up and said " My names is Dwight and I would like to speak to Rick I have a way to help you take down Negan." Sasha with her
gun still drawn nodded to Euegene to open the gate and two men she didn't know the name and went patted him down and brought him inside she spoke " Rick is not here
right now so We are going to put you in holding until he gets back if you try anything we will kill you." Dwight nodded and said " Thank you and I can asure I am here to
help." Sasha sighed as she thinks about a crazy life has become from being on the road to Woodbury and the Prison and now Negan she wishes things would just die down for
a little while but she knows that unlikey until Negan is dead.
Finally How much I love you is back and I am so exicted for what is coming up and where this story will be going. I just wanna once again say how sorry I
am for taking forever on updated my stories but sometimes personal life gets in the way of the things we wanna do but everything is better now so expect a
lot more updates for both of my stories and a new one coming soon! thank you so much for reading.
TROY GRIMES
