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Chapter Two

The few days after arriving at Alexandria, Magnus knew that some of the residents were giving both him and Alex looks as the group worked to get the area as safe as they could. He could tell the difference between those who had lived comfortably in the walls of the safe area since the start of the Biters and those who lived outside it.

Those who lived outside the walls understood why Magnus and Alex didn't feel comfortable being without each other as they choose a house to live in with each other. That being with someone who has had your back for so long that leaving them was unthinkable.

Still it was unnerving to be watched by those who didn't live outside the walls, like they were animals in a zoo. The staring didn't stop until Alex had snapped at one of the groups they were working with to build back up the wall.

"Would you quit staring at us? We didn't travel all this way to be stared at like a bunch of animals." She said with a snappy tone. Her two different coloured eyes held a fire in them that spelt out danger if they didn't do as she asked.

"We aren't staring at you." One of them said back, trying to weakly defend the rest of the group.

"Well you keep staring at the both of us, like we're gonna attack you. Just stop so we can get this wall up. Or we may get to experience another attack if don't." Alex said, moving her attention back to the wall. There was muttering from the others in the group, but they didn't argue with her any further.

They didn't stare so much after that.

Magnus helped put up another part of the wall, feeling the sweat drip down his back, making the tank top he wore stick to him even more. The leader, Rick almost skinned him alive when he caught wearing a hoodie as he worked. Told him that they didn't need anymore people sick or injured when Alexandria needed to be rebuilt so badly.

When Rick left him to continue to work, he could hear Alex's laugh somewhere down the wall from him. A small smile made his way to his face as he heard the laughter as he went on with his work.

As the days continued, the wall and the rest of the community started to pull itself together. The way that Alexandria laid out with all the huge houses and the roads that connected everything reminded Magnus of the house hunting shows where the family wanted to move into a suburban neighborhoods. He found it ironic that sheltures would have something like that playing on their tvs when most of those who were there couldn't even sleep in a house.

Still Alexandria was a small slice of heaven that had managed to survive after so many years in this world. He would rather there be big houses for those to sleep in than have to find a place beyond the walls where it was never a guarantee that it would last long.

Soon the last piece of the wall went up and there was a celebration a few hours after that happened. Alex managed to make him look presentable as they joined one of the few parties going on. While they were known to stick close to each other to the rest of the community, Alex drifted away from him to talk to a few older people who caught his attention.

Magnus drifted around the part for a while, letting Alex have time for himself. Spending so many months with one person on the run with nowhere to go if the other annoyed them made for arguments that got bloody. Magnus remembers the one that almost cost them their lives when a horde of Biters had followed the sound of their shouts.

Stepping outside the house onto the porch, the fresh air made him feel more comfortable than he's felt in a long time. The porch had a few party goers, none that he had recognize really well. With a drink in his hand, Magnus made his way to one of the chairs that were there.

For a few minutes he sat in silence, letting the cool air wash over him. It was rare to have such a peaceful moment in such a world. Then he heard someone sit down next to him.

Looking over, he saw it was Sasha. She didn't have much better clothing than him for the celebration, she still managed to look better than him.

"I guess I should let Alex dress me up every day if you guys have better style than me." Magnus joked. He could see a smile pulling at her lips, like she could see Alex helping him with his terrible fashion sense in her mind.

"If you stay here long enough you'll pick it up. Everyone's into the world is ending look these days." She said back with ease.

"Better hope it does. Don't need to be out of style now." He said with a soft smile. For a moment he remembered Blitzen as he joked about his horrid sense of style. The dwarf probably could make something fashionable yet functional with how the world went down.

Magnus didn't even know if he or Hearthstone were even alive. Either they had died during the first wave of Biters or they had escaped to one of the other nine realms and never came back. He couldn't fault them for that. He would give anything to leave this world if it meant not ever having to deal with another Biter ever again.

"I know we haven't talked since that night with the Walkers, but I wanted to make sure you and Alex were settling in okay." Sasha said, breaking him out of his own thoughts. "Usually Rick does this being the leader of the group. He thought it might be better to have one of us that you met during that whole crisis than him at the moment."

"The both of us are fine with everything here. I'm just glad to have a place to sleep without the fear I usually had when I was on the outside." Magnus said, taking a small sip.

"That's good to know." Was all that was said back to him.

The two sat in a comfortable silence like that, watching the rest of the parties taking place on that road as the moon rose up. The wind softly made itself known, cooling Magnus from a hard day of labour. He closed his eyes as he let the feeling of being safe wash over him.

It was a stranger that Magnus had forgotten with the many things that had happened in his life in such a short time.

It was a long time before he felt a hand on his shoulder. He knew who it was as he opened up his eyes. Two different coloured ones stared down at him, the moonlight making them even more radiant than usual.

"Come on Beantown. I think it's time we got home." Alex said quietly. Magnus groaned at the nickname, but got up just the same.

"Have a good night Magnus. Hopefully we'll see each other more often." Sasha said, as she watched the two of them make their way down the steps.

"I'll make sure he makes friends with some of the people here. He needs for his nickname to spread after all." Alex said. All Magnus could do was blink as he was dragged to their house. He could hear the soft chuckle from Sasha as they left.

Some things were better left as a mystery than to be solved. At least to Magnus.

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