Lost Too Much 【REDONE】 ║ Daryl/OC or Shane/OC

Chapter 108: We're gonna set this shit right.

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(12-282 AV --- 4,662 AV) Things continue to grow here at Alexandria. I'm leaving for the Commonwealth in a week to visit. Until then, I have more letters to write.

Dear Roy,

We went on one of our most dangerous trips together, but I feel like I didn't really know you. To be honest, I'm not sure which group you were originally with, if you were native to Alexandria or had come from Hilltop or even the Saviors. It's not like it matters now that we all mixed together.

That trip, you were one of the first to go. It all happened so fast, I'm not sure what the sequence of events was. I just know that you were with us one second, dead the next. We had already fought through so much just to get to that point. To see you go in the time it takes to blink was disheartening to all of us. I wish it hadn't been that way. Maybe, if you and Gage had gone home like you planned to, both of you would've lived. None of us knew just how dangerous our mission was. You, like the others we lost that night, suffered for a chance to save our people. I can say confidently that we, at the very least, avenged you.

Dear Gage,

We hadn't gotten off to a good start. You attacked Lydia and that was sort-of our introduction. Even so, I didn't want to see anything bad happen to you. I'm sure you understood that, given the fight Maggie and I had when we were in the train car. She wanted to leave you to die for the sake of protecting ourselves. I refused to let anyone die if I could help it.

Of course, you didn't live much longer. Like Roy, you were gone before anyone could blink. It came in the dead of night. Maybe that made it easier for you. There was no build-up. No fear. You couldn't see it coming, and maybe that was peaceful in a way. As many of the others, you died before we reached our goal, but without you and all of those others, maybe we we'd have died that night and never made it to the food instead. I just hope you know we succeeded and managed to feed our community at the end of it all.

Rest in Peace, Gage and Roy.

-CJ
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We had done as we planned --- trailing the train all night. The sun was now up again as we hid in the tree line at the next train stop, watching the scene patiently. The train hadn't arrived yet, but we knew it would soon.

Daryl looked through a set of binoculars, staring down the handful of soldiers we could see from here. He was getting a head count, letting us know what we were up against out here. Of course, we didn't plan on attacking here. We were just trying to exercise caution.

"There's six of 'em," Daryl told us, still watching to make sure.

Following right after his words, we heard one of the troopers honk the horn on their jeep, which had to be for a reason. No one, not even an idiot, would make that kind of noise for fear of drawing walkers in. I doubted they wanted that.

The reason became clear once we could make out the sound of a train on the tracks, coming closer. We stayed low as it slowed to a stop in front of the six soldiers. Daryl glanced back at the three of us before peering through the binoculars again. I could see, even without the binoculars, the multiple Commonwealth bikes and jeeps the train had brought.

"You think we can follow it without them seeing us?" Carol proposed.

"I think we hang back far enough, we'll be fine," Daryl decided. He had gotten the best look at these guys, so I trusted that.