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

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As soon as Alden's senses returned to him he shot right up. The fog lifted off of him almost immediately. The sack was no longer over his head and he was inside some sort of dormitory.

"Oh, he woke up." Someone he'd never seen before said. It struck him how cheery she sounded for just being kidnapped.

"Who are you?" He asked, rubbing the sore point in his neck. The cot creaked beneath him any time he shifted his weight. "Where are we?"

"I'm Princess." She replied with a broad smile. "I mean, it's Junita, but everyone just calls me Princess, so..."

"I'll call you Princess." It wasn't any weirder than calling Paul Jesus.

"Believe it or not, but we're in Alexandria." Magna joined in. "You came in later than the rest of us. From what I've gathered something went wrong with your transport. An accident, I think."

"I don't know." He shook his head slightly. "An army showed up at our apartment and I woke up here. They even took the children. Have you seen them?"

They had to be alive, he trusted in that. There was no reason for him to be left alive if his children weren't.

Magna shook her head. "As far as we know they've got all of them, but none of us have seen them. We've been told they're safe and cared for." She sat down on the cot opposite of him, next to Princess. "We're not supposed to talk, at all. We're not even allowed to be here, but some of the troopers here aren't as strict. That's how we managed to get here."

"And why are we here? We didn't do anything."

"Don't know." She sighed. "They're evil sickos, for sure."

"Not all of them." Princess objected like it was something personal. "I think Pamela swept us away silently because she sees us as a threat."

"Threat? Is this because of what Eugene did? He didn't intend for anyone to get harmed. He didn't mean to kill Sebastian." Alden spoke quickly. "And they turned Alexandria into what? A prison camp?"

"Something like that." Magna replied with a sigh. "Besides the children, not everyone is accounted for. We're hoping you know more."

"Maggie?" He asked with a tremble to his voice. He tried to keep himself calm. If there was anyone that would've managed to get away from it; it was her.

"She's one of them, yes." She nodded. "No one has seen Gabriel, Siddiq, Rosita, Daryl, Carol, Yumiko, her brother, Connie, Eugene and everyone from Oceanside."

"I'm sorry." He said. He knew how much Magna cared for Yumiko, even if they had broken up a while ago. "I think we can assume Eugene's still in prison. He's facing the trial of the century."

"We figured the same." She nodded.

"So, how are we going to get out of this?"

"We don't."

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Maggie still stood in the middle of the abandoned dirt road. An unconscious trooper laid at her feet. He was bleeding profusely. Next to him laid the corpse of what had once been a young boy. She felt the strange urge to cradle his small body, to comfort him. Tears pricked at the back of her eyes, this wasn't how it was supposed to go.

Last night she'd managed to escape during transport together with Gabriel and Rosita. She'd lost track of them when she stayed back to try and wake Alden up. She hadn't been able to break through whatever drug kept him under. The truck they were in crashed and she was forced to leave him behind with his hands bound behind his back and a black sack over his head. At least he'd been saved from any serious injury because his body was limp due to being unconscious. But the image of seeing him laying in a pile on the ground with his face completely obstructed was edged into her brain.