The End of a New Beginning // Daryl Dixon

Part 62

Meredith

WE MADE IT back home from Hilltop. Jesus and Andy came back with us. Jesus wanted to come with us because he wanted to fight against Negan and his people with us. And Andy, well, Rick knew that he was right person to get us all the information we needed to know about Negan and his people, where he lives, where to go, where to find the arsenal to get the guns once we've got everything together and going. 

Rick called for a meeting with everyone in Alexandria, asking to meet in the church. He wanted to keep everyone in the known, maybe even get reinforcements to join us. I don't think a lot of people will. I do know the people who will join, are the ones who helped with the plan to get all the walkers away from home. Even then, it's not much since very little people returned. 

After getting all the information and building layout of Negan's home, Daryl and I came together and sat down with Harley to tell him what was going on. 

"Daryl thinks it's a good idea, to escape the chance of getting caught by these people who could potentially kill one of us, own us, give them half of everything they want and we work for them til the day we basically die, or...vise versa." I explain.

"What do you think?" Harley asks me. I glance over to Daryl.

"Well, I was thinking, since Alexandria's lasted this long without getting detected by these people, I think we don't need to start anything. Something is going to happen and we shouldn't do anything right now." I explain. Harley throws me a frown.

"And...So, you don't wanna do anything with these people til we're caught and it might be too late?" He asks me.

"No, I'm saying...we don't even know if they'll ever find us. If they haven't found us this far into this world, how do we know they'll find us today, tomorrow, next week, next month, next year?"

"That's the point of this whole thing, Mer." Daryl says softly. "We don't. So it's better we can take care of the problem. We come for them, before they come for us." 

"I'm with dad on this one." Harley nods his head. "If we have the chance to do something about, it might as well be now or never." He says. Daryl and Harley stand up and head inside the house. I let out an irritated sigh and lean back into my chair. 

I pick up my head to the sound of slow footsteps approaching. I could see a figure emerging from the shadow and find Rosita walking up the stairs. I furrow my brows as I realized she was crying.

"Rosita?" I question, standing up on my feet and walking over to her. "Hey, what is it?" I ask. She inhales deeply and wipes the tears from her face.

"Uh, Abraham...left me." She says. She swallows hard and looks up at the roof. "He packed his things and he left me. Said that I wasn't the only woman left on this earth and that he's got other options now." I furrow my brows at her words.

"Do you have any idea who it is?" I ask her. She let's out a sigh, closing her eyes and shaking her head.

"I don't...I think it's...I don't wanna talk about it at this point." She says. "Is it okay if I crash here for the night? I can't stay in that house." I nodded my head and she heads off inside the house. I follow her inside, seeing her sit down on the couch and prepping herself for bed.

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We pull off on the side of the road, killing the engine to my bike and kicking the kickstand down. I climbed off my bike and see Daryl stepping out of the car behind me. I grab my bow and lay it over my back, turning around and walking over to the RV. I spotted Carol, seeing her standing off to the side in the grass, smoking a cigarette.