Rick watched, as you all walked out of the door. Daryl gathered all of you up and positioned each group to a certain area. You and Daryl took the main grassland, while the rest walked through the woods.
You and Daryl walked around for a couple of minutes, in a comfortable silence. He stopped dead in his tracks. You mildly panicked. He stood motionless, staring at you. "What is it?" You whispered, thinking there was a walker or something.
He cracked a small smile out of the corner of his mouth, "Thanks."
You walked a little closer to him and nudged his arm, "You fucker. I thought there was something actually wrong." You paused. "For what?"
"For being so blunt with me. Telling me I can't hold it all in." He looked at you, with serious eyes and furrowed his eyebrows.
"You're welcome." You said. holding your head up high. "That's what I do best. Helping people."
He smiled at you, again and the two of you kept the area patrolled.
-
A half hour later, Glenn, Maggie, Michonne, Abraham, and Rosita rolled up in a RV and a white car.
You and Daryl greeted them as they got out of the vehicles. "We got ourselves a mother lode." Abraham said, with a cheeky grin.
Carl and Abraham brought all the canned food into the barn, and sat it on the table. After they sat it down, Rick squatted in front of it, picking up a can. The entire group watched him.
You all knew now that Aaron wasn't lying, and he could possibly be trusted. But, Rick didn't want to take any chances. Rick got up with the can in his hand and approached Aaron, "This, this is ours now."
Aaron nodded his head, "There's more than enough."
"It's ours whether or not we go to your camp," Rick said sternly, turning around.
Carl stepped forward, "What do you mean? Why wouldn't we go?"
"If he were lying or if he wanted to hurt us... but he isn't and he doesn't. We need this. So we're going all of us. Somebody say something if they feel differently." Michonne said, looking around the room.
"I don't know, man. This barn smells like horse shit." Daryl said, sitting between you and Abraham.
Rick looked at Michonne, "Yeah. We're going." He turned around to Aaron, "So where are we going? Where's your camp?"
"Well, every time I've done this, I've been behind the wheel driving recruits back. I believe you're good people. I've bet my life on it. I'm just not ready to bet my friends' lives just yet." Aaron said, as Michonne walked forward.
"You're not driving. So, if you want to get home, you'll have to tell us how." Michonne said, as Rick laid a map on the ground.
Aaron looked over at Rick, "Go north on Route 16." He gulped. "And then?" Michonne encouraged. "I'll tell you when we get there." He looked up at her.
"We'll take 23 north. You'll give us directions from there." Rick said, kneeling before the map.
"That's—I don't know how else to say it—that's a bad idea. We've cleared 16. It'll be faster." Aaron said.
"We'll take 23," Rick restated. "We leave at sundown."
You looked at Daryl and back at Rick, "We're doing this at night?"
"Look, I know it's dangerous. But, it's better than riding up to the gates during the day. If it isn't safe, we need to get gone before they know we're there." Rick told you.
Aaron spoke up, "No one is going to hurt you. You're trying to protect your group, but you're putting them in danger."
"Tell me where the camp is, we'll leave right now." Rick said. Aaron shook his head. Rick nodded and looked back, "it's going to be a long night. Eat. Get some rest if you can." He said, walking out of the barn.
You could tell the whole group was rather pissed at him. Michonne decided it was a good idea to follow him. You watched as she followed him out, and the whole room became less tense.
-
At sundown, you'd loaded up the cars and traveled North 23. The white car with Michonne, Rick, Glenn and Aaron drove ahead of the RV with the rest of the group.
The drive was a very uncomfortable silence. You sat next to Daryl in silence, until you looked ahead. The car had run into a pack of walkers. They slid right into them. Aaron was telling the truth, but as usual, Rick didn't listen.
There was thousands of them. There was no way the RV could get through. "Holy Shit!" Abraham said, slamming on the brakes. He took a sharp U-turn and turned the truck around. "There's no way in hell. We'll just have to take the long way around." He continued.
Rosita took out a map out of the console and opened it up, instructed Abraham, "Take the next left."
He took the next left, and the road was CLEAR, except for a few. He drove down a road, 16, where you should've gone to begin with.
The drive was a little longer, until you saw a flare. "What was that?" Rosita said.
"There could be someone in trouble." Carl stated.
-
You got to a warehouse and there was a man there, Eric, he was hurt. You patched him up and let him rest inside.
Daryl walked outside and kept lookout for the rest of your people while, you stayed with the man.
After a couple of minutes, there was a knock at the door, signaling that the rest of the group had been reunited with you.
"Eric? Eric? ... Eric?" You could hear Aaron's voice, panicked from outside.
You looked at the man, "In here." He shouted to him.
"Eric?" Aaron said, again. "I'm okay. It's like a volleyball injury. It's a broken ankle. At least that's what (Y/N) said. I like her." Eric said, lifting up his hand as you stood up from beside him, walking out of the room.
You saw Rick rush into the room. You placed a hand on Rick's chest. "Calm down." He looked at you and huffed. "Just give them a minute." You continued.
He did as he was told, then you let him go. He walked into the room, and you walked out to find Daryl.
-
"Excuse me. Excuse me. Everyone. Thank you. You saved Eric. I owe you. All of you. And I will make sure that debt is paid in full, when we get to our community. When we get to Alexandria. Now, I'm not sure about you, but I'd rather not do anymore driving tonight. Maybe we can hit the road tomorrow morning." Aaron said, after walking into the room.
"That sounds fine. But, if we're staying here for the night, you're sleeping over there." Rick said behind him.
"You really think we got to do that?" Maggie asked.
"It's the safe play. We don't know you." Rick said, looking at Aaron.
"The only way you're gonna stop me from being with him right now is by shooting me." Aaron said, before a brief silence. He stepped forward, as Glenn stepped forward.
"Rick, he told us where the camp is. And he really was only traveling with one other person. They're both unarmed. One of them's got a broken ankle. I want us to be safe, too. I can:t give up everything else. I know what I said, but it doesn't matter." Glenn told Rick.
Rick took a step back, "Alright," He said to Aaron.
-
The next morning at the literal asscrack of dawn, you hopped into the RV and took the correct route to this New Community.
You had to admit to yourself, you were somewhat nervous. You saw that everyone was too, so it didn't make you feel as bad.
Eugene snapped you out of your thoughts when he said to Maggie, "Seven-card Stud. Stares and Squares. It's aces, cuatros, neeners, and two-eyes jacks."
"So there's 14 wild cards? Are you serious?" Tara asked.
"Serious, as two copulating dogs." Eugene said.
"Abraham. Look. Eyes on the road, champ." Rosita said.
You sat up straight and saw the Washington Monument. It was still standing. They had finally made it to DC, technically.
"How much longer we got?" Abraham said.
"Looks like we're a little over halfway there. Why?" Rosita asked.
Abraham nodded, "We can make it." He huffed. "We can make it."
-
Not even 5 minutes later, the RV started sputtering. "We can make it. Your words, Abraham." You mocked him.
He scoffed at you and got out of the RV. You all walked to the front of the RV, where Glenn was looking at the engine. Abraham punched the vehicle, "Can't win. Might as well paint it red, put a ladder on it."
Glenn stepped away, "All we need is another battery."
"Where the hell are we gonna find another battery?" He shot.
Glenn walked around, and put his hand on Abraham's shoulder, "Right over here."
Glenn lifted up a door in the RV. "How'd you know those were there?" Abraham asked.
He smiled, "Come on."
-
After he fixed the RV, you were on the road again. Within no time, you were already riding up to their gates. Inside you felt a mixture of happy and terrified. You sat beside Daryl in the RV and looked at him. He had the same expression as you did. You grabbed his hand and squeezed it, slightly.
You all got out of your vehicles and walked towards the gate. -
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