VIOLENT TENDENCIES-060
Matilda sat on the ground next to her husband as they fixing up the motorcycle. Well it was mostly Daryl, she just sat there handing him the tools he needed. Their son was with her brothers
The dark haired woman admired her husband's beauty, grinning when he glanced at her. Matilda handed Daryl a zip-tie as she heard footsteps coming down from the house. She looked over and saw her father, walking towards them.
"So, is he okay with it?" Daryl asked, glancing up at Rick.
"It was pretty much his idea. He gets it."
"It's got a bed and a bath, but it's still a cage, you know?" Matilda replied, thinking about Morgan, who was in a cell.
"He gets it," Rick says, looking down at the couple. "He told me what happened out there with the trucks."
Daryl climbed to his feet, standing next to Rick as his wife stayed on the ground playing with pebbles. She looked up at her father and husband.
"He tells you about those guys he met? The Ws."
"Like that, we saw, yeah. we need more watchpoints. And I'm gonna tell Deanna we don't go look for people anymore."
Daryl reaching out a hand to his wife, pulling her to her feet as her father spoke.
"You feel different about it?" Rick asked, looking at his son-in-law.
Daryl nodded. "Yeah, I do."
"Well, people out there, they got to take care of themselves, just like us. I'm gonna get him out. Shouldn't leave him in there any longer than we have to." Rick says before leaving the couple alone.
Later that day, Daryl drive slowly down the road as he was leading dozens on dozens on dozens of walkers. He drove slowly as the walkers snarled after him before meeting up with Kelly, Abraham, and Sasha in a car.
After driving further down the road, they got to Redding and Marshall RD before Redding RD as flares shot off, warning away the walkers from the walls that stopped them from going down Marshall RD.
Morgan, Michonne, Lola, and Rick stood behind the wall firing off flares. The flares rattled off the walls made them stop as Lola peered through the wall and saw walkers shoving into the wall as they stumbled by.
Lola made eye contacted with her leader causing both to nod. They continued to fire off flares, making the walkers follow them.
"What is it?" Sasha asked Abraham, who was looking back at something out the window.
"Got some looky-loos taking a little constitutional off the shoulder. They starting a damn walkout."
Kelly looked back at what her friend was looking at. A few walkers decided they wanted to leave the herd and go their own way.
"You want to have Daryl circle back?" She asked, glancing back to the redhead.
"No. Keep moving. I'll catch up."
The blonde watched as her friend jumped out of the car.
"Abraham!"
She turned back towards the back window and watched Abraham ran through the woods, hitting off the escapees.
"Idiot."
"Come on!"
Kelly heard the redhead yell as he ran out of the woods, holding a foil thing.
"This is my ride, Asshole."
He said, hitting the walker before sprinting to the car. As soon as he got in the car, Kelly smacked him up-side the head.
"Ow!"
"You're an idiot," She mumbled, shaking her head. Abraham just smiled at his friend that he became closer with and looked into the car mirror.
"Whoo! Well, look at me. You didn't see Reg the night he got it. That was a mess. And Pete—"
"Got what he deserved," Kelly spat, leaning back in her seat
"His face just...blowing up like Pompeii, right when we were cheek to cheek. I still think I got some of hid brains in my ear." He laughs.
Kelly and Sasha glance at each other before looking at the still laughing man. Abraham grabbed the rearview mirror, seeing that the walkers are all in line.
"Well, look at that. All right. Everything is aces again.
"What the hell are you doing?" Sasha asked, adjusting the mirror.
"I'm just grabbing the bull by the nutsack. I'm living, darling. Just like you and Kelly." He looks back at his friend and giving her a wink before laughing again.
Suddenly the walkers became off track and head into the woods. A loud horn was heard making all the walkers follow in. Lola, Rick, Glenn, Nicholas, Michonne and a bunch of random people all ran in the woods.
***
Matilda wobbled down the road with her siblings and her son when Father Gabrial called out for them.
"Matilda, Max, Lee, Carl."
They turned around, Matilda glanced at the man, anger flooded though her body upon seeing him.
"What?" She spat, angrily.
"You heard what I told Deanna about your group."
"What the hell do you want, Gabriel?"
"It was about me, not you or your group. I know that now. I want to help—" Gabriel started but Tilly cut him off as she stepped towards him.
"You wanna help? Really? That's not what you said to Deanna. We're dangerous, remember. My father, Rick Grimes, he trusted you. He took you in, gave you protection. And how do you repay him...oh yeah, by telling Deanna that we're dangerous and we can't be trusted. My brothers saved you from the walkers that you let in the church, they saved your ass. In my opinion, they shouldn't have. You risked my siblings, my son's, Michonne's and Violet's lives from your stupidity."
She poked the man in the chest and motioned towards her siblings and son.
"Now, why don't you leave me and my group the hell alone because you're not welcome anyone."
With that, Matilda motioned her brothers and son to keep walking. They walked away leaving a shocked Gabriel before stopping when they heard screaming.
"Boys, get them back to the home. Lock the doors and stay there!" Matilda ordered, making brothers and son nod.
As the dark haired woman hurried down the street, she was attacked from behind when a man went to stab her. Matilda swung her crutch, hitting the man in the face as a flash of red came out of nowhere and stabbed the man.
Rosie and Matilda ran to help the others before they all meet on the circle by the main gate. She wobbled over to Lee, leaning on him for support as her knee felt like it was on fire.
"Open the gate!"
Matilda whipped her head towards the gate before she glanced at Michonne who also heard the voice.
"Open the gate now!"
Her and Michonne sprinted towards the gate, started pulling open the gate together. Matilda's eyes widen at the sight of her father, who was running towards the gate with dozens to hundreds of walkers tailing after him.
Matilda pulled out her gun as Deanna, Rosie, and Maggie came behind her. She stepped out of the gate, firing at any of the walkers that were too close to her father. When Rick got to the gate, he pulled his daughter inside the walls.
Once inside the walls, Michonne and Rosie closed the gate as a group formed around it. They all listened to the sound of walkers snarling behind the walls.
"You can hear it. Some of you saw it. They got back here, half of them. Still enough to surround us 20 deep. Look, I know you're scared. You haven't seen anything like this. You haven't been through anything like this." Rick started. He paced, glancing around the crowd. "But we're safe, for now. The panel the truck hit seems intact. We reinforced it just in case. Either way, the wall's gonna hold together. Can you? The others, they're gonna be back."
The people looked unsure and scared. Matilda moved in front of her father looking at the group. "They're gonna be back."
"Daryl, Kelly, Abraham, and Sasha, they have vehicles. They're gonna lead them away, just like the others. And Glenn, Nicholas, and Lola are gonna walk back through the front gate after. They know what they're doing and we know what we need to do. We keep noise to a minimum. Pull our blinds at night. Even better, keep the lights out. We'll try to make this place as quiet as a graveyard, see if they move on." Rick explained.
Rosie looked through the crowd, her green eyes landed on Ron, who had pulled out his gun. She glanced at Carl, who stood next Enid.
"This place is a graveyard."
The redhead's gaze snapped onto a pixie-cut woman before glancing back at Carl. Her brows frowned when Ron and Carl were gone.
"The quarry broke open and those walkers were heading this way," Aaron spoke. The crowd looked at him, as he stepped towards Rick. "All of them. The plan that Rick put into place stopped that from happening. He got half of them away. I was out there recruiting with Daryl. I wanted to try to get into a cannery and scavenge, and we wound up in a trap set by those people- and I lost my pack. They must've followed our tracks. Those people who attacked, they found their way back here because of me."
Rick spoke again. "There'll be more to talk about."
"Deanna?" Tobin called out. "Deanna?"
The crowd looked behind them to see Deanna retreating away.
***
That night, Lee and Violet walked down the quite—expected for the snarling of walker, roads of Alexandria and the only source of light was the moon.
Their hands were intertwined, enjoying the their walk as they neared the main gate. Violet saw a familiar figure banging on the gate, making the walkers growl louder.
"Lee, look."
She pointed towards the person, her boyfriend looked to where she was pointing and saw Deanna. They jogged over.
"Deanna? What the hell are you doing?" Lee asked.
Instead of replying, the crazed woman continued hitting the gate. Lee stepped forwards, grabbing Deanna's arm, gently, trying to pull her back from the gate. But Deanna had other ideas, she ripped her arm away from the teen and pushed him away.
Lee stumbled back in his girlfriend as Deanna turned away from him and walked down the road.
"Deanna!" He called, walking after the woman. Still, Deanna didn't say anything and kept walking. Lee was getting frustrated.
All of a sudden, a man stumbled out from behind the houses. He lunged at Deanna knocking her over with a scream. Lee and Violet spirited towards her with the teen boy grabbed the man by his shoulder, stabbing him in the shoulder.
As Violet pulled tried pulling Deanna back as the man recovered quickly, charging at her boyfriend. He tackled Lee sending him to the ground.
The man went to grab Lee by the neck when Deanna pulled out of the young girl's arms, picking up a broken bottle and stabbed the man.
Lee crawled out from under the man as Deanna continued to stab him in the chest. Blood spattered across her face as the teen boy stood up and stumped the man's head in. Violet grabbed Deanna and pulled her away as Rick ran over.
Rick looked over his son and Vi before looking at Deanna who stared at the dead man. His face was smashed in, with one eye popped out.
"Carol said she got one of them, but she couldn't find the body. He must have been under there." His father explained.
Deanna looked up at Rick as she was helped up by Violet. "I want to live. I want this place to stay standing."
"You need to lead them," Rick says, making Deanna chuckle.
"They don't need me, Rick. What they need is you. Both of you."
Deanna bent down picking up her stuff with Violet helping. "What I wanted for this place, was it really just pie in the sky?"
Lee shacks his head. "No. You dreamt of something and you made it. Just with a few hiccups. But it turned out to be something amazing, somewhere safe."