Confide in Fear | DARYL DIXON •1

15. The Road Ahead

Alex's *POV*

We walked across the train tracks, following wherever it was taking us. It was cold out, and I didn't have a jacket. All I had was my long sleeves, long jeans, boots and my knife. Trees were moving, birds were chirping and the breeze moved harshly every now and then. We eventually came to a stop when Rick walked off the tracks and stared at a big, wooden board that was attached to an abandoned train cart.

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"There's a map." Rick says, his hands resting on his waist as he observed it.

"What do you think?" Michonne asks, walking to his side.

"Let's go." He said, turning around

"A while back... when we were at the prison. On a run, Daryl turned the radio on. We heard a voice, a woman talking about a place." I say.

"I remember that." Michonne speaks. "It must've been about this place."

"So that settles it. We go."

"I think we got about a day's worth of water left." Rick said, as we continued walking on the rail road, leading us to terminus. "We're lucky it's cooled off a little bit, but..." I was walking behind Rick, looking at the rocks while walking until I bumped into Rick and looked up.

"Sorry." I laughed, as Rick shakes his head smiling as he turns to look at me.

"What are you doing?" Rick asked, looking behind me. I turned and saw Carl and Michonne balancing on the metal railroad track and laughing, enjoying this walk.

"Winning a bet." Carl chuckled.

"In your dreams." Michonne said. Rick and I laughed and continued to watch them.

"I'm still on it!" Carl said to Michonne.

Michonne laughed, "You spoke too soon, wise guy." Carl began to lose his balance but caught it and regained it.

"This might go on a while." Rick said, walking towards them. "Maybe we can speed this up." Rick added.

"Rick, one of them is eventually going to lose. Leave them be."

"Shouldn't be fooling around. We should probably- Carl!" Michonne surprised Carl, but instead making him fall off, she did.

"I win." Carl said. "Pay up." I smiled at Carl and then at Rick. Michonne went into her bag and took out to Candy bars. "Is that really the last Big Cat?" Carl asked.

"Oh c'mon!" Michonne said, wincing at Carl taking the last Big Cat out of her hands, leaving her with another candy bar.

"Hey, but you said winners choice." Carl whined.

"Go ahead, take it. It's yours." Michonne gave up before trying. I laughed and Rick smiled. "You won it, fair and square." Michonne sighed.

"C'mon, we always share." Carl said, giving half of the Candy bar to Michonne. Rick and I picked up the pace, walking along the tracks, side by side.

"He's a sweet kid." I told Rick.

"Yeah, he is." Rick smiled.

"You doing okay?"

"Much better than days ago. Thank you." He answered.

"No problem." I said. There was silence between us and more laughter from Carl and Michonne. "Do you think they'll be there? Daryl and Glenn. Everyone." I asked Rick, wondering if the people at the prison saw the terminus sign, and if they even got out.

"They could." Rick responded. "Maybe."

"We just gotta hope, right?"

Rick turned his head to me, but still walked. "Hope is all we can do, right now. Even if it does take a long time, we just need to hope."

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