~Ashley's Pov~ Couple of day's later

This whole week has been overwhelming for all of us. We lost Beth. Tyresee. The whole 'Get Eugene to Washington' was a lie. He lied about having a cure. That he was going to get this world we live in back to normal. Carol was okay. We were on the road again. We met a boy. His name is Noah. He was a friend of Beth's. He said that they tried escaping but only he got out. We were in a barn. A huge storm hit last night. I just woke up. I looked over to see Carl was still sleeping. I sat up and saw that Daryl was sleeping. Maggie and Sasha were gone.

I worried a bit but then saw that they took their weapons with them. I saw Judith was crawling. I furrowed my eyebrows a bit. I looked over at Rick and saw he was passed out. I stood up and grabbed Judith "Cmon" I whispered as I carried her up. I smiled at her. I went back to where I was and sat down. Judith looked at me. I felt so awful for her to grow up in this time.

"Judith?" Rick asked worried. I stood up "She's okay, She's here" I said walking over to him and giving her back to him "She must have slipped" he's said Looking at her. He looked back at me "You alright?" He asked. I nodded a little "Gotta be" I said quietly. I walked back over to Carl and sat down. He was still sleeping. I Looked at him. He's changed so much. I have too. We all have.

Everyone started getting up. I looked at Daryl and saw he was still sleeping. Half of the group was up. the other half was sleeping. I felt someone grab my hand. I looked down to see Carl holding my hand. I looked up. He was looking at me. He gave me that "Are you sure you're okay?' Look. I nodded a little. He nodded and gave my hand a small squeeze before him getting up.

~Next Day~

We met a man. His name is Aaron, and he told us he has a community, with walls and many people. He was the person who left us water bottles and gallons on the road a couple of days back, But we were on the road again, In a rv. I was sitting with Carl. "I have a good feeling about this" He said holding my hand. I rested my head on his shoulder. "Me too" I said quietly. We finally came to a stop and we looked at each other. He smiled a little. I smiled a little at him too.

We got out and realized it this was it.. We were in Alexandria. Finally. The gates opened, was this really a good place for us to stay in? As we walked further, I saw Carl look over from the corner of my eye. He stayed like that for a few seconds, making me finally look over. "Carl? You okay?" I asked looking at him. He looked over at me. "Yeah I- I thought i saw something" He said confused. I looked over and saw there was nothing there. "Hey" Rick said we looked over at Rick "Cmon" He said. We looked at each other and walked in. We saw houses and the tall walls surrounding this place. It looked safe.

Probably the safest place we're seen in a while. "Before we move further in. I'm gonna need you all to turn in your weapons. You stay, You hand them over" The man said looking at all of us. Daryl walked over and stood next to me. Rick walked up, in front of all of us, In front of the man. Looking at him. "We don't know if we want to stay" Rick said. "It's fine, Nicholas" Aaron said looking over at the man. "If we wanted to use them.We would have already started." Rick said looking at Nicholas and Aaron. "Let them talk to Deanna first" Aaron said, "Who's Deanna?" Abraham asked.

We all looked at Aaron, waiting for an answer. "She knows everything you want to know about this place, Rick. Why don't you start" Aaron said. We looked at Rick, waiting for his say in this. He took the chance and he went with Aaron.

~Later that night~

We all ended up speaking with the woman who ran this place, along with her husband and sons, She interviewed us and we stayed. At least for tonight, we didn't know if we were staying yet. This place seemed too good in my opinion... We all slept in the same house, The living room, even though we were offered our one place. But we all just decided to stay together. Like we always do, Right now, we were in the living room of this home. And something was bothering Daryl. I knew something was bothering him. And Daryl knew that i knew, he had a look on his face. I decided to leave him alone, knowing him, he wanted to be alone. Deanna came by to check in on us earlier, she was also surprised we all stayed under the same roof and she told us we needed school and work, just like thing use to be.

Except they weren't.. Nothing is the same. These people were living in a fantasy. I sat down next to Carl, He looked at me. "You okay?" He asked quietly. I nodded a little as i looked at him. "Can't sleep" I said softly as i looked over at Daryl, he was still not use to this, none of us were, even though we just got here. "Sleep here then" He said patting the space next him. I looked at him and nodded a bit, We laid down. Everyone else was asleep. We ended up falling asleep next to each other.

~Next Day~

I woke up early, I looked around to see everyone else was asleep, at least i thought. I looked over to see Daryl was up too. But he wasn't in the house, I looked down and saw Carl still sleeping, I smiled a bit and put my shoes on, I went outside to see Daryl sitting there on the porch. I looked at him and sighed a little. I walked over and sat down next to him. We didn't say nothing to each other for a while. "What's bothering you" I finally asked, breaking the silence. He shook his head. "Is it Beth..." I said hesitantly. I knew that's what was bothering him he was close to her. He sighed, his way of telling me yes. I rested my head on his shoulder. He pulled out a knife and handed it over to me.

I took it out of the pocket it was in. "It was Beth's" He said. I stayed quiet, looking at it. I handed it back to him.

The rest started to wake up. I stayed with Daryl as the rest slowly started leaving in small groups to check out the place. A while later, Maggie, Glenn and Tara stepped. "Cmon" Maggie said looking at me. Rick came out and looked at me and Daryl. I stood up and looked at him. "You go, I'm stayin'" He said. I nodded and went over to Maggie and Glenn. They both looked at me. "How are you feeling about this" Glenn asked wrapping his arm around me, arm resting on my shoulder. "Don't know yet, hopefully this'll turn out okay.." i said nodding. I was in between Maggie and Glenn. They nodded. "I hope so too" Maggie said as we walked.

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I was out on a so called 'Dry Run' with two guys from Alexandria. Tara, Glenn and Noah. Glenn was by my side as we walked through the forest. "You're standing here because we lost four people last month" Aiden said, one of Deanna's sons. "What happened?" Glenn asked. "We were on a run. Roamers came out, They didn't follow the system" He said and turned to look at us. "If you're on this crew. You do as i say" He said. We kept on walking forward, i rolled my eyes a bit. "Son of a bitch!" He said. We walked up to a tree and saw a chain with flesh on it. They tied up a walker. "Help me look for it. Blood is still fresh. It's close." He said. "Look for it? Why it's gone." i said confused. Why do they wanna look for a walker?

The other guy, I think his name is Nicholas, started whistling. "Shh!" Tara called out. Trying to quiet him down. These two were stupid. "Hey. It's gone!" Glenn called out. "No. It's nearby and we're not letting it go" He said. Nicholas started to whistle again. "Shut it!" i called out softly. Suddenly, there was a snarl. We looked over to see a walker. I took my knife out, Just in case. Even though Noah and I were keeping watch for more walkers. They went for the walker but Aiden lost the grip on it. He pushed it. He pushed it towards me and Tara. But hey it decided to go for me. Great. I got it by the neck, Pushing it back. But It was strong, It came back. Tara and Glenn ran over to me, Tara pulled it off me and Glenn killed it.

"What the hell!" He screamed looking at us. "What the hell!? That's all you gotta say to me? You threw a Damn walker at me Asshole." I said looking at him, angry. I looked at my arms covered in blood, wiping myself down, trying to get rid of the blood. "You almost got her killed!!" Glenn yelled walking up to him pissed. "I told you all to stay back! I told you to listen to every word i said! I told you that." He yelled pointing at me. I tensed up and it was visible, both angry and shocked. I backed away from him a little more. "What? Are you scared?!" He yelled inching closer to me. Glenn walked over to me. Glenn knew my story. "Back off man. Don't you dare scream at her." Glenn said getting in between.

He looked at me and Glenn looked at him dead in the eyes. I walked away from them. Not really caring anymore. Noah followed, shortly after, Glenn and Tara joined.

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We got to Alexandria and walked in. I kept on walking. The three of us did. Not looking back at them. Nicholas and Aiden followed us. "You guys need new gigs" Aiden said. "Yeah, Pretty sure you got that backwards" Glenn said pissed. They walked over to us. He walked to Glenn. "We got a way of doing things around here." Aiden said looking at Glenn. "You tied up walkers." Glenn said. Our people and the people from Alexandria were gathering up around us. "I'm not having this conversation." Aiden said and grabbed my arm. "You're never going out again. I don't even know how someone like you survived for this long" He said. I yanked my arm it away from him. "Bite me Asshole. Don't you ever touch me again" I said. Daryl out of nowhere grabbed Aiden and pinned him to the floor. I looked at them both on the ground.

Rick came in and got Daryl. "Daryl let's not do this now." Rick said trying to pull him off. "Don't you ever lay a hand on my sister again. You even look at her wrong you're dead. You hear me?." Daryl said Harshly. "Daryl" I said. He let go and they both stood up. "I want everyone to listen to me. Rick and his people are part of this community now in all ways. Equally. Understood.?" Deanna said. I walked away looking at my arms covered in blood. I heard footsteps behind me. I didn't turn around. The person was next to me. "He hurt you?" Daryl asked. I shook my head, "No" i said softly. "What the hell happened?" He asked looking at my arms. "They tied up a walker to a tree, and when we got there. It was gone so the two idiots called out for it. They lost the grip and they threw the walker toward Tara and I." i said.

"the hell?" he asked confused, "Yeah and we're the wrong ones" i said as we got to our house and went to the sink and started washing all the blood off my arms. "Ugh." i said grossed out. I dried my arms off. I'm taking a shower now.