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

39- Please

With a storm rolling in they needed a place to set up camp for the night and ride the storm out. There was only one place in the nearby area where they could go. Only one was large enough to protect all those people from the blizzard. Sanctuary.

It had been abandoned for years and was slowly falling apart. No one knew what they'd find inside so they sent the fighters in first. They burst into the main hall through the front door and fawned out, ready to fight whatever was inside. But there was nothing there. It was just empty, cold and dark. Some trash and other left behind items were scattered around the large empty damp hall.

"People actually used to live here?" Magna asked with a disgusted frown on her face.

"Yes, I did," Alden replied with an annoyed grumble, tapping the bottom of his spear on the ground. "It looked better then. A little."

"Welcome to Sanctuary," Michonne sighed. "Alden?"

"Yeah, working on it," he mumbled under his breath as he walked further into the hellhole he once called home. He went up the stairs, to the living quarters. A lot of furniture had been left behind when it was abandoned. He would need something to hack it to bits with. He needed some sort of an ax.

He walked down the hallway further. If he remembered right there was a fire axe around here somewhere that no one had bothered to get. He found it still encased in his red metal case mounted on the wall. He only needed to break the thin pane of glass to get it. He cracked a smile, that would do nicely. He smashed his hand through the glass because it was protected by a glove anyway. He pulled the large axe out. He went back to the first room at the beginning of the hallway and smashed it down on the wooden wardrobe inside.

Getting to destroy something felt right. It felt like a release. With a couple of blows he had it splintered and moved onto the chairs, table and cabinets inside the same room. He was well aware that it wasn't the best wood to burn. The only way they could get their hands on other wood to burn was if they went out into the woods, which wasn't safe at the moment with the storm. So the highly processed wood was all they had for now. Maggie showed up, Yumiko and Magna trailing behind her, and they carried the chopped up pieces down stairs.

They had their camp set up inside Sanctuary in about two hours. Alden and Maggie sat wrapped up in the same old blanket, huddled close together for warmth by one of the fires. Yumiko and Magna sat across from them, leaning against each other. Jesus and Aaron were there too. Jesus had nestled himself against Aaron's chest, wrapped up in his arm.

They knew they couldn't stay here for longer than one night. It would only get worse from here on out. They'd starve before they froze. There was enough wood to keep the fires going for days but there wasn't enough food to wait out the storm.

"I have to tell you something," Jesus began seriously. He pushed himself off of Aaron's chest. Maggie gave him a nod to continue. "I'm not going back to Hilltop. I'm moving to Alexandria for a while."

Maggie smiled, "of course. As long as I can still count on you when it all goes wrong."

"Always," he nodded. He looked up at Aaron with a smile and he looked down at him with a matching smile. With a slight movement they gave each other a kiss and then Jesus settled himself back against Aaron's broad chest.

Not much later Michonne walked up to their campfire with Ezekiel. "We have to talk about all this snow," she started.

"We're screwed, we know," Alden replied as he stood up with a heavy sigh. They went out back with a couple others to talk in private.

"The snow might last for days, but we won't. Not here. We don't have enough," Ezekiel began as Michonne unfolded the map and placed it down.

"We can send a team to the next waystation and bring back supplies, but even then there's a risk," Maggie opted.