Dixon or Grimes

Chapter 18

Sitting next to rick we watch judith play with my shoelaces, his hand moves from my leg to my hand his fingers locking with mine. "Hey everyone, this is aaron" maggie calls out, grabbing judith I stand behind rick "We met him outside he's by himself, we took his weapons and we took his gear" maggie informs while daryl pats him down. His eyes fall to rick standing in the middle of everyone "Hi" he says calmly, bouncing my arms I walk out from behind rick her crying stopping when we stand next to him.

Aaron takes a step forward holding his hand out "It's nice to meet you" the group raises there guns, ricks body slightly moving to shield judith and me "You said he had a weapon" rick rasps. Maggie moves forward handing rick a small revolver, checking the bullets he puts it in his belt not taking his eyes off him. "There something you need" rick asks "He has a camp nearby, he wants us to audition for membership"  sasha explains. Readjusting judith in my arms I shift my weight "I, wish there was another word audition makes it sound like we're some kind of a dance troup, that's only on friday nights" he says his voice mellow and an awkward smile on his lips.

"It-its not a camp it's a community I think you all would make valuable additions. But it's not my call, my job is to convince you all to follow me back home" I move back slightly his words reminding me of terminus. "I know if I we're you I wouldn't go either, not until I knew exactly what I was getting into. Sasha can you hand rick my pack" sasha looks at him a second before walking over and taking the bag off her back. "Front pocket there's an envelope" rick kneels down and opens the pocket.

"There's no way I could convince you to come with me just by talking about our community, that's why I brought those now I apologize in advance for the picture quality we just found an ol-" "Nobody gives a shit" daryl cuts him off. "Absolutely one hundred percent right" aaron agrees warily looking back at daryl, taking a step forward I look over ricks shoulder to the blurry black and white photo of a wall with beams against it. "That's the first picture I wanted to show you because nothing in our community will matter unless you know you'll be safe, if you join us you will be. Each panel in that wall is a fifteen foot high twelve foot wide slab of solid steel framed by cold rolled steel beams and square tubing nothing alive or dead gets through without our say so" he explains the picture.

"Like I said security is obviously important infact there's only one resource more critical to are communities survival, the people, together we're strong. You can make us even stronger." I look towards rick his eyes already on mine his jaw ticking before looking at aaron "The next picture, you'll see inside the gates. Our community was first constru-" rick walks forward punching him in the face and knocking him out. "Was that necessary" I sigh taking a step back and watching him walk towards me "We gotta secure him dump the bag let's see who this guy really is" he orders pointing to carl.

Huffing I lay my head back "Everybody else we need eyes in every direction they're coming for us, we might not know how or when but they are" rick announces the group dispersing. I lean against a wooden beam watching daryl and carol tie his hands "Me and sasha we didn't see him if he had wanted to hurt us he could've" maggie tries "Anybody see anything" rick questions ignoring her "Just a lot of places to hide" glenn answers "Alright keep looking." Moving over to carl dumping the bag I stand beside him my body swaying from side to side "What you find" rick inquires walking over. Carl hands him an orange flare gun "Never seen a gun like that before."

Rick opens it revealing and empty  barrel, looking past my shoulder he walks back towards aaron. Turning around I keep a few feet away from him "That's a hellova right cross there rick" aaron says from the ground "Sit him up." Maggie looks back "I think it's better if h-" "It's okay" he cuts her off opening his mouth and moving his jaw around "He's fine sit him up." Michonne pulls him up "You're being cautious I completely understand tha-" "How many of your people are out there" rick questions. Aaron stays silent, rick pulls out the flare gun "You have a flare gun you use it to signal to your people, how many of them are there" he echos.