Fighting for our Future {TWD Daryl Dixon}

88: Under New Management

Daryl's POV:

Rick, Michonne, Gwendolyn, and King Ezekiel came back to the Sanctuary with Merle, Jane and I. I'm guessing Siddiq was supposed to come here too but after Seb got bit, he went to the Hilltop to continued treating him.

I wanted to stay at the Hilltop. My wife, my babies, and my son are all there, and Sebastian might not even live to see tomorrow. I should have stayed there, but I didn't. Rick wants me here at the Sanctuary to lead this place, even though it's doomed.

When we entered the Sanctuary, Merle and Jane immediately separated from us, and we made our way into the biggest room here. Once the Saviors saw Rick, they all started going crazy. Almost as if Rick was a celebrity. 

"That's the man that ended the war." I heard someone say before he turned to Rick and spoke directly to him. "Is Negan suffering? I hope he damn well is."

Negan ain't suffering one bit. He should be, but he's not.

Eugene then came up to me and started speaking. "All was well in your absence, other than a certain cabal of Saviors slingin' me some serious stink eye," I'll be slingin' more than a serious stink eye if he doesn't get to the damn point. "but I've compiled a list of items that need your semi-immediate attention."

"Not now man." I told him as calmly as I possibly could. We just lost someone out on the road, and I could have possibly lost my son too. I need a moment to process everything.

"I checked out the supplies." Laura spoke as she started walking towards me "It's a pretty good haul. You should let people know."

"I ain't gettin' up on a stage, and givin' a damn speech like him." I turned to her irritatedly. I then calmed down a little when I saw her reaction to my harsh tone. "It's bad timing. We just lost someone out there, and my son was bit."

"Sebastian?" She questioned and I slowly nodded my head. "Well where is he? I can go to him and try to help."

I shook my head. "He ain't here. He's at Hilltop with his Ma."

"I'm sorry." She told me somberly. "If there's anything you need just ask me, okay?"

I grunted at her offer and walked away. But as I was walking away, Michonne called my name. I turned around and walked towards her and she pointed out some new graffiti on the wall that said 'SAVIORS SAVE US! WE ARE STILL NEGAN!'

"Does this happen often?"

"More and more since the crops been dyin'." I answered.

The messages on the wall actually started when Mae left. I was the 'man in charge' here after everything went down, but it was actually her that did everything. The people respected her, liked her even. But I told her to leave. She couldn't stay here anymore.

"Eugene, Jerry!" I called out. And when they came up to me I asked them, "You know who did that?"

"Don't know, man." Jerry answered.

"That would be a negative." Eugene replied.

I groaned and shook my head before calling to Justin. "Clean that shit up."

"How?"

"What do ya mean, 'how'? Paint over it." 

"We just used up all the paint." He told me while leaning back in his chair.

I narrowed my eyes at him and snapped at him. "Figure it out!" I then continued staring at him until he finally got off his ass to do something about his friends artwork on the wall. There's no way in hell that he isn't in on this whole 'We're still Negan' thing.