~Ashley's Pov~

It's been a few days, The rest aren't back and I'm sure we lost people... Hopefully not many. Right now i was with Carl. We were sitting down on the stairs of his home. In the shade. In hopes of our people to come back. I rested my head on his shoulder. I've been staying with him, Not really wanting to be alone, he didn't want to be alone either. He misses his dad and I miss Daryl. Although he had Michonne, I stayed with him. 

"We should go outside" He said. "Why?" i asked. We had no reason to go. "Try to find that man again. We've already gone a few times" he said. Carl and I went out a few times looking for that man that we saw at the gas station. "we haven't found anything Carl" I said. He nodded. "I know, but we can try. Try and bring him back here, we need the numbers" He said. 

"He didn't have a weapon, and we don't know anything about this man." i said taking my head off his shoulder. He looked at me. "i know, but-" He stopped himself and looked away. "We don't what he's done, we don't know what will happen as soon as he steps through the doors." I said. "Okay. Okay i get it." He said looking at me, a little angry. I nodded a bit. "Let's just go out. One more time." He said shaking his head. "That's all I'm asking. If you don't want to go, i'll go alone." He said. I shook my head. "that's stupid." I said.

He stood up and put his hat on. "I know. Are you gonna let me be stupid alone?" He asked holding out his hand. "Maybe." I said taking it and pulling me up from the stairs "really?" He asked. I stumbled a bit causing me to laugh at myself. He grabbed me and laughed. "Whoa- Are you okay?" he asked holding me so I won't fall, but his hat fell off his head. "I guess i'm the stupid one here tripping over my own feet." I said laughing a little and resting my forehead on his. 

He smiled and i leaned in and kissed him. He kissed back and we pulled away. He leaned down and grabbed his hat and put it on. "cmon." he said. We walked to the front. I sighed a bit. "Alright. When do you want to go back out" I said. He shrugged. "By the way. If anything happens because of him. It's gonna be on me. I'm the one who's gonna bring him in. Not you" he said looking at me. "okay?" he asked. I looked at him and nodded a bit. "okay" i said softly. He nodded. 

We walked to the gates, just in case... we're waiting hopefully for the rest to come back. "It's a bad idea.. I'm just sayin' " I said shaking my head a bit. He shrugged. "maybe. I fell bad though. He was just asking for food and my dad scared him off. By shooting at him." He said. I nodded. "Yeah" i said. "He didn't look like a bad guy though. He would have hurt us if he was.." He said. I nodded, He had a point but we don't know what these people did to get here. Out group has done some bad things to get to where we are now.

"okay.. we'll go but just for a little while" I said. He nodded. We we got to the gates, we heard vehicles. "Is that them?" Carl asked rushing to the door. "yes." Michonne said. She was still healing. She got beat up pretty bad. Carl opened the gates, I stepped aside as cars started coming in. We got letters from Tara and another man. They were letters from The Hilltop and The Kingdom. Carl and Michonne opened them. The letter said that we were winning. 

But it was a horrible fight. I was right. I looked over and i saw a truck load of dead people. Our people. They were wrapped up in white sheets. We lost a lot of people. The letter from The Kingdom said that Carol, Ezekiel and Jerry were the only ones left standing... Shiva was dead too. The sanctuary was done, they were surrounded by walkers and they had no where to go, and we had to go back to The Sanctuary to finish this... all of us. But i don't know if we'll be going, Rick and Daryl didn't let Carl and I go. 

We had to stay behind and keep this place in check. We had some people here that could fight. Just in case anything happened here. "Daryl's coming by the way, He told me to tell you. He's fine." Tara said. I looked at her and nodded smiling a little. Relieved. "Your dad went out on another run." She said looking at Carl. He gave the letter to Michonne.  After a while of us looking around, looking at all the bodies on the floor. A whole lot of our people dead... We were winning but we're losing a lot of people. 

And we were going to lose more. Negan was still alive. I heard Daryl's motorcycle causing me to smile. I looked over to the gates to see one of the guys opening the gates. "Go" Carl said. Daryl pulled in and turned off his bike. Once he was off i ran to him. He smiled and i got to him. I hugged my big brother smiling. He was smiling too. I'm so glad he's okay... I was so worried. 

"Are you okay?" i asked kissing his cheek. "I'm alright. How about you?" Any trouble?" He asked kissing my head. We pulled away. I shook my head. "No" i said. "Good." he said putting a hand on my shoulder. "how's Maggie? Is she okay?" I asked. He nodded. "yeah. She kicked ass." He said taking the keys off his bike. I smiled. "Good." I said. They were back. Rick wasn't but we still had to go back and get rid of Negan. We have to finish what we started. 

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GUYS YES I'M SO HAPPY!!! Can i just say, Carl looked really good yesss :)))))) Also I'm posting another chapter in a bit, Since they took so long to get back to Alexandria. And hopefully it wont be that short, If it is, I'll just add it back to this part. But for now, Enjoy the chapter :)