The Replacement

Part Thirty

Warning: violence, death, swearing, little bit of angst

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Thousands of rockets are fired directly at Negan and Maggie then, hitting Walkers and then exploding on impact as they attempt to take cover amongst them.

They managed to escape but not without injury, Negan and Elijah manage to meet back up with Maggie, inside one the building and they head toward the infirmary.

Maggie grabs medical supplies, heading toward the entrance of a secret room then, Negan followed behind her whilst supporting an extremely Elijah.

"Ok, what now?" Negan enquires once they were locked inside the secret room.

"Wait till dawn... hunt 'em down" Maggie comments, staring through a peep hole in the wall.

Exhaling heavily, exhausted and in pain; Negan suggests then.

"Or we just take the food and go?"

"I wanna walk out here with our arms full..." Maggie states, scowling at his words.

"As long as we walk outta here, yeah..." Negan remarks.

"Unless chow ain't the only thing we're here for?"

"I'm not leaving Daryl and Gabriel" Maggie responds.

"And I won't risk being followed home."

The conversation comes to an end when a Reaper enters the infirmary in search for them, his radio goes off then and the group silently listens to the order to kill every one of them he comes across.

Upon hearing the order, Maggie looks to Negan with a 'I-told-you-so' face. With squinted eyes, he's forced to admit that she was right; they had to take all of them out if they ever wanted to make it back to Alexandria alive. 

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The group had cornered the Reaper in a corridor; Maggie and Elijah in front of him and Negan at his back.

Smirking at Negan, he turns to Maggie then.

"Well, I gotta say thanks for this... was getting tired of all the searching."

Tired of him running his mouth, Negan goes at him with an iron pipe, but he manages to dodge it; elbowing Negan in the back and shoving him into the others.

It instantly becomes a full-out battle then as Maggie, Elijah and Negan attempt to take the Reaper down. Things weren't looking too good for them though; with Elijah and Negan both being injured it seemed that the Reaper was getting the upper hand on them.

Maggie and Elijah were more-or-less down for the count while a winded Negan attempted to catch his breath, and that's when he notices the perfect weapon right in front of him.

While the Reaper was distracted, with a plan in mind, Negan slips out the exit.

Maggie and Elijah were both taken down by the Reaper then, and just as he was about to finish Maggie off; back entered Negan.

"Hey..." Negan calls out at him, a huge brass bell in his hand.

"Over here, shit-dick."

"This should be fun..." the Reaper smirks stalking toward him.

Elijah takes the opportunity then to launch his weapon at the Reaper; distracting him, giving Negan the opening to throw a handful of dust in his face and knocking him out cold with one swing of the brass bell.

"Well-ding-ding..." Negan remarks, turning to look at Elijah.

"Thanks, kid."

An extremely wounded Maggie gets up; silently staring Negan in the eye as they both attempt to even their breathing.