Beautiful Mistakes~ A Rick Grimes Love Story

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LUNA'S POV

We get up the next morning, "check out" our weapons, and leave through the front gate.

"How was your walk last night? I never heard you come back to bed." I say.

"Weird. Pete was giving me a look when I walked past their house. I tried to be quiet, you were sleeping and you looked so beautiful... didn't want to wake ya." he says.

"Pete? Why would he do that?" I ask.

"I think he's got a thing for you. I mean, I can't blame him." Rick says, looking at me with a half grin.

"Oh please. Jessie definitely has a thing for you." I say.

"Really? I didn't notice." he says, smiling at me.

"You definitely have a thing for blondes, huh?" I ask him.

"Only if it's you." he says.

We jump and grab our guns, hearing a walker come towards us. They had gotten much slower since we had last been out here.

I put my finger on the trigger, ready to aim. Rick takes his hand and lowers my gun. "Leave it, for now."

"Damn... I really missed my gun." I tell him. He laughs and says, "Is mine not good enough for you?"

I roll my eyes. "Stop itttttt."

"Don't worry, you'll get to use both later." he says as we approach an old white house where he hid an extra gun in a blender before we entered the gates of Alexandria, just in case.

"Damn it." he sighs. "It's gone." as he throws the blender down on the ground.

A handful of walkers had seen us, and started making our way to us. We put our bags down, and grab our knives.

"It's go time, baby." he says.

"Finally." I say, ready to take out these walkers.

"What the hell?" I say, when I hear a branch snap. We turn around to see Carl and Sage walking next to us.

"What are you doing out here! How'd you even get out here?" Rick scolds them.

"He was following a girl. Enid. I followed him, to keep him out of trouble. Then, we heard the walkers and saw it was you two." Sage says.

"We will talk about this later." Rick says, very pissed off.

"Get ready." Rick says, as we start piercing walker skulls with our blades, taking them out one by one. I see Rick struggling, and another walker grab his ankle.

"No." I say, quickly running over to Rick, taking out the walker in front of him the same time he does.

"Nice. Thanks." he says.

"Likewise." I say, catching my breath.

Rick picks up a sharp piece of metal, and is about to take out the walker that grabbed his ankle.

"Dad...." Carl says, asking to do it instead. Carl takes the metal and stabs it through the walkers skull.

"Carl, Sage... don't you ever come outside these gates ever again. If you do, you better tell us." Rick scolds them.

Carl nods.

"What's it matter? We aren't safe in there. We aren't safe out here. Why do you care! We are just gonna die anyways." Sage says.

"Sage..." I say. Rick gives me a look to stay out of it.

"No! Every place we go, mom almost dies. You can't even protect her. How can you protect these people? They don't know shit about surviving and you know it, Dad." Sage says.