Don't Fear The Reaper (R. Grimes & D. Dixon)

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Over the past month, the communities had formed a little village of designated tents. The few times she had been there, it made her chuckle. she always avoided the sanctuary area though some of the ladies she knew were former saviors tried to be friendly with kit, but she couldn't do it. Every time she saw Arat, she saw Olivia and Laura; she had never personally seen kill someone, but she was always there too. It just left a bad taste in her mouth, so she figured it was better to avoid them altogether, to avoid the possibility of snaping.

Kit walked through the kingdom section and headed towards the bridge to check on the progress sharing a smile with jerry and Nadia as they passed each other. a body slammed into her side unexpectedly "gotcha!" henry cheered, laughing

"Yes, it seems I'm lacking my cat-like reflexes today," kit chuckled 

"Or you're just getting old," he snorted, 

she gasped "you take that back, little hen," he laughed, trying to escape her onslaught of tickles. 

"Mom, leave the poor kid alone. We are supposed to be packing to head back today." Jody chuckled, his voice much deeper, walking up to them with Ben at his side. 

"He started it. Calling me old," she scoffed as henry ran off, feeling victorious.

She took in her oldest it's only been a month and a half since she last saw him since he moved in with ben a couple of months ago. However, it felt like years. he had his own guard gear on, his hair was to his shoulders still, but he now had much more prominent stubble. "Mom are you ok?" he caught her attention again.

"Yeah, sorry I just missed you," she said, hugging him and then moving to hug ben. "I think you've both grown. I don't like it."

"Before you get all sappy like last time, what are you doing here, mom? You know Rick didn't want you here, given the missing ex-saviors. Everyone knows you would be suspect number one. And dad isn't giving anyone the best impression either." Jody whispered

 Kit rolled her eyes. Of course, they would suspect her and Daryl. "I wanted to check out the bridge progress, and then I have to get Siddiq to give me a hand in Alexandria. There's this flu going around right now, and I can't put my finger on what it is." 

"We'll tell him, we're going that way anyway. You can go check out the bridge." Ben offered

"That would be great, thank you." 

"Behave, mom," Jody called as he walked away with ben

"I love you!" she waved her arms in disbelief

"Love you!" they called back, laughing. Kit shook her head as she continued on her way to the bridge, easily making out Daryl in the crowd and little hen giving out water. Or at least he was till a man with longer hair shoved him to the ground and took the water jug from him. Kit almost broke out into a sprint until she saw henry use the trick, she had shown him and swept the legs, the man crashed to the ground, and henry grabbed the jug and rushed towards her as another man started making fun of the man who henry knocked down. the man jumped up, charging towards them with his eyes on henry. "I suggest you slow your fucking role. and stay the hell away from the kid." Kit said  

The man stopped just in front of her, only looking momentarily surprised. " The hell you gonna do about it, Reaper. That's what they called you, right. I bet it's you killing everyone."

"Sweetheart, if it was me, I sure as shit wouldn't hide it." she cooed, a sinister taunt in her tone just from hearing that damn nickname again.

Daryl yanked the man's arm back turning him " back off. get back to work." he growled