VILLAINESS [TWD]

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"I'm so sorry," Anna repeats like a mantra. "So, so sorry, Gabe."

"You're all right," Gabriel promises. "You didn't know."

Anna wraps a cloth around Gabriel's wound where she stabbed him and ties it in a knot to stop the bleeding.

"No, I.. I did know."

"What do you mean?"

Anna leans back on her knees. She picks at her dull nails nervously.

"Anna?" Gabriel questions, resting a hand over hers. "Why are you with them? Maggie has been worried sick-"

"Maggie?"

Gabriel blinks in confusion. "She came back to Alexandria.. alone with just Hershel and some members from her group."

"Maggie.. Is with you?" Anna tries to figure it out.

The priest sighs. "What is going on here?"

"So.. Ellie talked me and Josh into joining Georgie. Maggie met up with us a few months after and said that Ellie was supposed to be with us already. But, she didn't show up for us or Maggie."

"Was that after we got into the fight?"

"Fight? The one over Negan?"

"She told you about it?"

"A little. She just said that you and Rosita 'stopped her'."

"Didn't tell you that she said if I tried to stop her that she'd kill me?"

"What?" Anna panics.

"Or that if Rick crossed her that she'd, quote, 'shove her gun so far down his throat he'd choke and she didn't have to waste a bullet'?"

Anna runs her hands through her hair, stressed and overwhelmed.

"Do you know where Ellie is now?" Gabriel wonders.

"Probably back at the-" Anna pauses.

Gabriel tilts his head at her silence.

"Oh.. Oh, shit.." she whispers. "Oh, shit!"

"What? What's wrong?"

"Ellie's with the others. She saw Negan and I think she thinks that you're all on the same side, which.."

Gabriel sighs. "Maggie and Daryl decided to take Negan with us because he knows the city. Maggie's old community was taken over by.."

Anna and Gabriel's eyes widen and Anna blankly points.

"Meridian," Gabriel sighs. "Your people attacked the place."

"It was Maggie's," Anna finishes as she figures it out. "Ellie thought it was Rick and Michonne."

"She's trying to kill her own mother and doesn't even know it."

Anna stands and helps Gabriel to his two feet. "You said Daryl is here, too?"

"Me, Daryl, Maggie, some people from her group, Alden, Gage, and Negan."

"Hell of a crew," Anna scoffs and wraps Gabriel's arm around her shoulder to help him walk. "Wait.. Rosita's not with you? Jesus? Rick? Michonne? Aaron? Enid?"

"You've been gone for a long time," Gabriel swallows.

Anna's throat restricts. People were dead. Of course. But, who?

"I don't want to know," she decides. "Let's just stop this before more people get hurt."

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Ellie stares at Brandon and Gerald as they pour water over Daryl's face- waterboarding him through the bag on his head.