They entered the nursery to hear children crying and screaming.
"This way," Negan grabbed her arm as they ran through the building, taking out the few lingering walkers.
"This door came on." Theo looked at the locked door.
Negan began to push against the door as Theo barricaded the door between the walkers and the door to her children.
Finally, he entered the room, crashing inside with a loud bang.
Theo burst into tears as she ran towards her two children, who were sitting with one another, holding on tightly to each other.
They were crying.
And it broke Theo.
She held her children tightly as Negan blocked the set of doors, giving them double the time.
"I'm sorry. Okay. Mommies here. I've got you," she cried as she picked them both up, kissing them over before falling to the ground. Negan made his way over and kneeled in front of her.
"Sweetheart, we need to go" Negan smiled at the kids as Theo cried, nodding at Negan.
"Okay," she nodded with hesitation before handing over CJ.
"Let's go" Negan nodded as they headed back the way they came, but looking out of the room, he noticed the walkers making their way through the double doors to the hallway; they couldn't leave the way they came in.
"Back!" Negan yelled as they walked back into the nursery, blocking the door with anything they could find.
"This won't hold T. We have to go!" Negan warned her as she looked frantically around the room.
"The window" Theo pointed up at the small window in the corner of the room, holding on tightly to Libbie.
"Stand back," Negan warned, passing CJ back to her.
Negan grabbed a small chair and threw it through the window.
"You can pull yourself up. I hand you my kids, and then you will pull me up. Okay, now go!" Theo yelled, and Negan didn't argue. He pulled himself up and through the window before leaning back down to take Libbie first, quickly taking CJ.
Theo looked between her way out and her way to help Negan get her kids back to Daryl safely.
"Theo!" Negan called after her.
"Come on, your mother fuckers" She screamed as she began sprinting down the hallway with walkers hot on her tail.
Negan looked around angrily before looking for a safe place to put Libbie and CJ, knowing he had to go and save Theo.
Negan sprinted to the lookout, where Maggie was loading up a lorry with the others.
"Maggie, take them. I need to go back and save Theo. Take them now!" Negan yelled as he closed the distance between himself and the group.
"Where is she?" Maggie panicked as Ezekiel took Libbie and Maggie took CJ.
"There's no time to explain; stick to the plan," Negan yelled before running back to where he had come from.
Theo was exhausted, but she kept going. She ran and took out as many walkers as possible but met a dead end.
The door was locked as she couldn't break through.
The door on her right was locked, but the one to her left was open.
She sprinted through, pushing against the door as a walker fought against her.
"Get fucked!" She yelled before giving it everything she had.
The door closed as she quickly locked it, pushing a chair and broken furniture in front of it, but the walkers didn't stop trying.
She turned around and saw a small window like the one Negan left through.
She used her weapon to smash the glass, but she was too short to reach it, and the only thing she could use to get through was the chair barricading the door.
She took a deep breath...
"Okay, Theo. You've got this," she said to herself before running to the door, removing the chair and placing it against the wall.
She began to push herself through when she slipped.
The adrenaline was wearing off.
The walkers broke through with a snarl just as her foot slipped, and she panicked.
She was almost lunch when someone grabbed her hand, pulling her through.'
"Fuck!" She yelled out in pain as she cut herself on the broken glass, and Negan pulled her through with seconds to spare, collapsing into his arms as they both fell to the ground.
"You alright?" He held her tightly as she took deep breaths.
"Yeah, I cut myself on the glass" She winced as she picked her shirt up.
Negan regained his breath before looking at her; she was facing away from him.
"Theo?" He asked as she stood slowly.
She looked at him with tears falling from her eyes.
He looked at her stomach, where her cut was bleeding from.
"No," Negan cried. "No. No. No. Theo" He walked to her with tears.
She wasn't cut.
She was bitten...
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5. The Steeple
FanfictionThe fifth and final book. Theodora has come a long way since the world ended, but she is challenged with new problems that have a whole new reason for her to live. Daryl and Theodora are stronger than ever, but is what to come going to weaken that?
