Chapter 101: You could've said goodbye.

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(12-261 AV --- 4,641 AV) We had a difficult couple of weeks after my last entry. Last I wrote was right before we went to a military base for food. That trip went okay, at least without people getting hurt. It was what followed that turned sour.

We were still struggling for food, so Maggie told us about her old camp where a decent amount of food would be. The issue was that a group called the Reapers had taken over the place, and they were dangerous. 14 of us left for that trip. 6 returned. We lost Roy, Gage, Cole, Duncan, Agatha, Frost, and Alden. And Negan left when it was over. To sum it up, Negan and Maggie were at each other's throats for most of the trip, we ended up going through a train station to avoid bad weather, Negan left Maggie to die, and of course, she lived, and more fighting ensued. Maggie and I struggled to find a balance for a lot of it. And after we were out of the tunnels, we headed for a house Maggie had planted emergency supplies. That was the first attack the Reaper's made. Roy, Cole, and Gage were dead before any of us could even blink. Most, nearly all of us, were injured as we split up and ran for our lives. I got cut on my arm pretty bad.

Negan and I ended up finding each other and Alden and we took off. Ended up running into Maggie in a mall, but two of the Reapers came after us. We managed to kill one but the other got away and took the body with him. Alden was pretty hurt at this point, but we couldn't stop moving. We eventually caught up with Agatha and Duncan, but Duncan was covered in wounds and died before we could do anything about it. We took to the woods, and Agatha died when we got swarmed. Maggie might've, too, because she was hellbent on saving Agatha even though she was already bitten. Negan managed to pull her away. We walked for a while and stopped at a church when Alden couldn't keep going. We fought about leaving him there and blocking the door so it wouldn't slow us down. Maggie didn't like that idea, but in the end, it was the two of us and Negan left alone for the night and next day.

We made it to the safe house, but my arm quickly got worse and we suspected I might've been infected. Of course, I've lived this long and it's healed so that wasn't the case. It had me pretty sick for a good while, though. We ended up finding Gabe and Elijah, too, and the next morning, the Reapers showed up at the house and we hid in the basement. We could hear them talking through the floorboards and were able to confirm Daryl and Shane were fine. They were doing some kind of ploy and pretending not to be with us, which the Reapers somehow bought, likely because Daryl had dated the one girl with them, Leah, during the time I was at the hospital. We ended up running off and the next day, in the woods, Negan and Maggie struck a deal so that if Negan helped us finish our mission, Maggie wouldn't kill him or threaten him anymore. They even shook on it.

We used some Whisperer tactics against the Reapers and reunited with Shane before heading out to activate our plan. We surrounded the place with walkers but they were prepared. There were landmines all over the place. Some of us got hurt in it. Shane went running into the camp to rescue Daryl, assuming he'd be found out soon. Leah was stood on a roof with a shit-ton of missiles she used to blow up the horde. I ran in to go after her and ended up crossing paths with Daryl. We took down one of the Reapers and managed to escape before Leah found us. We found most of the others in a fight with Carver, who had nearly won three-on-one. Daryl saved him from Maggie's wrath in order to use him as leverage. We met with Leah and tried to work a deal so no one else died, though Maggie and I decided long before that to kill them all. Gabriel took out one of the snipers and gave us the upper-hand, but Leah pulled out a new card and revealed she had captured Shane. By the end of it, we killed them all and I left Leah with a bullet hole in her shoulder. Maggie went to get Alden after we loaded up the food. Negan went after her, and later, when she came back, we learned Alden was dead and Negan had left on his own to make things right for everyone.

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