Shambles- The Walking Dead [Alden x Maggie] [1/2]

35- Travelers

"Hey, wake up!" Tara beat down on their bedroom door loudly.

Alden and Maggie both shot right up immediately and he looked to the side. "The sun's barely up yet and stuff's already going wrong?" he whined.

"Stay in bed then, it's my job to deal with those messes. You're my accessory," she teased as she climbed out of bed and grabbed the nearest shirt, which just so happened to be Alden's. "Coming!" she yelled so that Tara would stop trying to beat the door down as she slipped on her pants. Then she opened the door. "What's wrong?" she asked.

"Apparently Henry and Rose snuck out last night to go after Lydia. Addy found a note that Henry had left and brought it to Daryl. And instead of telling any of us he decided to lone wolf it, but then Connie joined him and they went after them together," Tara rattled on, speaking incredibly fast.

"Wait, what?" Alden asked, his interest now piqued. "How do you know all of this?" he asked without getting out of bed.

"Oh, he woke up for once," Tara joked. "Addy showed me the note just now and told me she showed it to Daryl. And then I ran into Kelly who told me Connie left with Daryl late last night. Then I wanted to ask Rose if she knew anything about Henry's plan, but she wasn't at the stables. So I checked her trailer and her bow's gone, making me believe she went with him."

"It's not like Rose to run straight into danger, she's careful." Maggie shook her head.

"Well, she's not if it involves people she cares about," Alden countered. Rose had proofed that much when she went out to search for Alden against Maggie's orders. "If Henry asked her to join, or told her what he was planning to do, she would have gone with him."

"What should we do?" Tara asked.

"Daryl is their best option for a rescue," Maggie insisted. "We can't send more people after them, not with the fair coming up. And sending in more people will probably only make it harder to actually get them out of there alive."

Alden nodded, hesitantly. "Agreed, as much as it pains me to say; they know what they got themselves into. Besides no one else can track like Daryl can, we'd basically be walking around blind."

"You sure?" Tara asked. "Sasha and I could go after them."

"Yes, I'm sure." He nodded. "You wouldn't even know where to start and we'd only be risking more lives. And I trust in the fact that they can all handle themselves out there. Rose isn't stupid and Daryl really is their best option for a rescue. If he hadn't left himself already, he would've been the first person I'd ask."

"I could go after them," Jesus insisted as he joined in on the conversation. He'd grown bored of laying around already. "Daryl taught me how to track over the years. Anytime I dropped off supplies, I picked up some new skills."

"Hell no. You're barely back on your feet," Tara shook her head wildly. "You shouldn't even go to the fair and yet you're going because you're being stubborn."

"It's just a flesh wound," he shrugged. "And I thought we all agreed that it would be a good thing for people to see I'm alive and kicking."

"You know Aaron's not going to be there, right?" she teased him, pushing against his arm.

"Yes, I know. Thank you for reminding me." He rolled his eyes. "Anyway, I came to tell you we're getting the convoys ready to leave. The first one can set out in about half an hour. The second one, however, is going to take a couple more hours before it can leave."

"Then we all better get ready to leave too," Maggie insisted. Only Tara would travel in the first convoy. Alden, Maggie and Jesus would follow in the second convoy.