Chapter 91- Search

Morning

Daryl's P.O.V

The sun had started to rise in the air as inside the small cabin, Daryl's head was lying on the bed, and his hand was on top of Alicia's. He opened his eyes when he felt Alicia move her hand. Scrambling up, he looked at her As she groaned and started to move her head.

"Hey," Alicia moaned, trying to sit.

"Hey yourself, how are you feeling?" Daryl asks as he sits up in the chair.

"My stomach's killing me," Alicia says. Daryl nods as he pulls open the nightstand drawer and pulls out a bottle of painkillers. He opens them, holds them out to Alicia, and hands her a water bottle. "Thanks," She says before she swallows the pills, looking around. "Where are we?"

"Some cabin in the woods," Daryl answers. "A woman named Leah helped after that guy attacked us."

"I don't remember much after that, it's all a blur. Have you tried to radio anybody?" She asks him. Daryl nods as he shows her his radio that was broken, causing them both to grimace.

"Must have broken when he attacked me," Daryl says as he sets it down. "I don't know where we are or where Alexandria is or the other communities are."

"You need to go and find them. I'll be fine," Alicia says softly.

"I ain't leaving you," Daryl tells her firmly. "They'll be fine, and they will find us, but right now. I need to stay here with you."

"I'll find them," They both turn and look at Leah leaning against the door frame, watching the duo. "I'll find your people and bring them back here,"

"You've done enough," Daryl tells her, Alicia realizing this was who helped her. "You don't need to put yourself at risk for us."

"I want to," Leah reassured him. "You said she was the mother of your children. How old are they?"

"Twins, their 3, almost four," Daryl answered her.

"I had a son, I lost him." This causes the two to look at her in sympathy as she gathered herself. "I won't make a child go through losing one of their parents when I can help. Who am I looking for?"

"John Dorie or Carl Grimes. They'll be in charge," Daryl tells Leah, who nods as she grabs a map and sets it on the bed.

"Where is your community?" Leah asks Daryl as she holds out a pen to him. He takes it and marks Alexandria. "Okay, is your gun loaded?" Daryl nods. "I'll leave Dog here with you. Don't let him die, do that and we'll be even. I'll be back as soon as I find your people." Leah says before leaving the house.

"We're trusting her?"

"We don't have much of a choice, but she did save you. She helped us even though she didn't know us, so I'll trust her," Daryl said sitting back down after a moment of thought.

"I trust you," Alicia says as she takes his hand. "I love you."

"I love you too."

Badger's P.O.V

Badger walks through Oceanside and walks up to Kathy. "Has Cyndie come out of that trailer yet?"

"No. She said she didn't want to be disturbed." Kathy tells him, stepping back, clearly more then a bit wary of him.

"I don't care, I brought her that Maggie cunt hours ago. If she hasn't gotten anything out of her by now, then we need to try different methods," Badger snarled as he walks towards the trailer with Kathy slowly behind him. After banging on the door to no answer, Badger grabs the handle and throws it open. He jumps back as Cyndie falls out of the trailer. He realized that she had turned, growling and reaching for him "Shit," Badger cursed as he grabs her hair. She tries to catch him, but Kathy grabs her arms as people gather around. "Your leader is dead."

Kathy stares at her best friend as she tries to grab and bite them. She takes a deep breath as she pulls her knife out and slides it into the back of Cyndie's head, killing her walker. The body slumps and Badger drops it to the ground. "I'll get some of my guys to dig a grave, then we talk strategy," Badger tells Kathy without much pity in his voice before he walks away, telling another soldier to radio in if Ava arrived at Alexandria yet as Kathy stays by Cyndie's body as tears start to go down her face.

Charlie's P.O.V

Charlie stood on watch in Alexandria. John, Shane, Madison, Nick, Sherry, Carl, Al, David, Tripp, and Negan had left to look for Daryl, Alicia, and Maggie. Charlie held an A.R in her hands as Rachel climbed up the ladder and stood by her. "How are you doing?" Rachel asks Charlie, knowing her girlfriend was worried about her parents.

"They'll find them. Dad and Mom are two of the most capable survivors out there. They'll be fine. They are probably on their way back right now, they have to be," Charlie muttered as she stares at the woods. Rachel nods as she lays her hand on Charlie's shoulder.

"Yeah, your right-" Rachel stopped as she sees someone coming down the road. "Charlie!" Charlie raises the Ar and looks through the scope.

"It's Maggie," Charlie says as she quickly climbs down the ladder and goes to the gate. She throws the gate open and runs towards Maggie almost tackling her in a hug, who hugs her back. Charlie lets her go and looks at her face, seeing it. "Oh fuck. Who's blood is that?"

"I'll explain later," Maggie says as they walk towards the gate where Gabriel and Jesus were. "Where is everybody?"

"They're out looking for you, Daryl, and Alicia." Jesus tells her as he hugs her. Coming outside, Rachel stood next to Gabriel, the preacher staring bewildered as Rachel gulped.

"Are you okay?" Rachel asks her as she stares at the blood.

"I'm fine. This isn't my blood." She paused for a moment, then said softly "It's Cyndie's."

"What?" Rachel froze, looking at Maggie bug eyed "Whh- no no wh...Cyndie w...what..."

"She's working with Badger. That's how they found out about Alexandria. That's how they found the group in the woods. They were coming here to kill us."

After a moment, Rachel shook her head frantically and ran back inside...causing Maggie to close her eyes "I didn't have a choice."

"We know, we do." Jesus reassured her softly. "But she used to be close with Cyndie. Rachel knows that too. Just give her a minute. Daryl and Alicia, did you see them?"

"Yeah, Alicia was shot through her stomach, Daryl took her. I don't know what happened after," Maggie says. Charlie covers her mouth as she drops the gun. "Hey," Maggie says as she grabs the girl. "Daryl knows what he is doing. He's been through worse, don't go to the worse idea yet. They could still be alive," Charlie nods as Maggie hugs her and Jesus walks away, telling Gabriel to let John's group to know Maggie was back.

Morgan's P.O.V

Morgan was sitting on the stairs to the big cabin watching the kids play with Rick when Lilly came out. "Morgan," Lilly says with worry clear in her voice. Morgan looks at her and motions Rick over, Rick soon coming over to look at Lilly.

"What's wrong?" Rick asks after seeing her face.

"Jesus just radioed, Maggie's back," Lilly tells them, and they let out a sigh of relief.

"What's the bad news?" Rick asks, knowing there was always bad.

"Alicia was shot in the woods, in the stomach. Daryl left with her, and no one has seen them since," Lilly tells the two men. Morgan stays silent as he looks at Ofelia and Merle, who are playing with smiles on their faces, oblivious to what is happening to their parents.

"No one else knows. We keep this to ourselves until we know more." Rick tells her firmly. "Understood?"

"Don't worry, I won't tell anybody," Lilly says as she walks back into the cabin. Rick looks at Morgan.

"Morgan-" Rick tries to say, but Morgan doesn't say anything as he stands up and walks toward his cabin. Rick follows him as fast as he could, grimacing as the speed caused his leg to flare up as he pushes the door open and goes inside. Rick shuts the door as Morgan grabs his staff off the wall. "Morgan wait, what are you doing?"

"I'm going out there," Morgan says. "I can't sit here do nothing. Daryl's my friend, my brother. Right now, it doesn't sound too good for him and Alicia. They need all the help they can get."

"I know believe me, I want to go out there too. I wanna help, but I can't, you shouldn't. Daryl would want you to stay here with Coco and the children, all of them. That's our job and priority. They'll find them, and if they don't soon, we'll help." Rick says as he lays his hand on Morgan's shoulder, in reassurance. "He's my brother too."

After a long moment, Morgan closed his eyes and sighed, he lays his staff down. "One day, and we help."

"One day," Rick promised. "Come on. We should go back out there, don't want to worry anybody."

Morgan nods as he follows Rick outside.

John's P.O.V

John stabs a walker through the head with his knife and drops it to the ground. "He's one of ours. That's Norris." Negan says as he looks at the body.

"I guess they didn't give our people the same kindness we gave theirs." Shane growled as he stabs another walker through the head. "This is Tommy, he's from the Kingdom." John nods as he marks it down, "I'll radio and have some start to clear up the bodies," Shane says.

"John," Jesus called.

"I'm here. What's up?" John asks as he pulls his radio out.

"Maggie's back. She's okay," John waited, cause he knew there would be more. "Alicia was shot in the stomach. Maggie patched her up the best she could, and Daryl took her away. That's all we know. Cyndie was working with Badger. They took Maggie. Maggie killed her."

"Got it, we'll radio when we got something," John says. He puts his radio away and looks at the group. Shane was holding Madison, and Sherry had her hand on Nick's shoulder.

"Cyndie? Jesus Christ." Shane growled.

Nick said, "Well at least we know they're alive."

"What about after? Fuck this, we should just head there after we deal with these fuckers!" Shane turned, snapping at Nick.

"And what? Burn Oceanside down?" Sherry looked at Shane in disbelief "We don't even know if they're all involved with this."

"We should go back," David suddenly says, cutting off Shane and Sherry's growing argument, making the entire group look at him.

"Uh excuse the fuck out of me?." Negan growls. "We're going to find them."

"Your friends are dead," David says. "You don't survive a bullet to the stomach. She could have survived it, but for all, we know Badger found them by now along with these other people! Look in war you lose soldiers, it happens. We head back, regr-" David is cut off by Negan punching him in the face, much to the rest's surprise. Negan knees him in the stomach, throws him to the ground, and pulls out his gun. He kicks David as he tries to stand.

"Negan!" John called out, coming over.

"You ever talk about any of my family like that again, and I will kill you," Negan says as he presses the barrel against his head. "Daryl is the second toughest son of a bitch out of all of us, besides Carl, and he knows what he is doing. You wanna go back, start walking," Negan says as he stands up and holsters his gun. He grabs his mace off the ground and starts to walk. "You guys coming? They ain't dead."

"They aren't," Shane says as he starts to follow him, followed by the rest of the group. David scoffs as he turns around and starts to walk back toward Alexandria.

Thanks for reading. The group now knows the situation and what has happened. They are looking for Daryl and Alicia, and Leah is looking for them. The next chapter will show more of the group's search and the effect of Cyndie's death on Oceanside and Rachel. As always, suggestions, ideas, and feedback are welcomed. Until next time.