The Other Dixon || c.g

•nineteen• strangers

*Addison POV*

I could feel my legs start to shake, I've been leading the herd of walkers away for 20 minutes now and I'm not a good long distance runner. If I don't find a railroad track or somewhere to hide soon then the undead are going to eventually catch up to me; I'm 20 meters ahead of them but the shits are doing a good job at keeping up. I slowed down to a fast walk, that's it I can't run anymore. Their growls got louder when they saw me slow down, I was about to turn and run in a different direction when I saw a clearing up ahead. As I jogged up closer I saw it was one of the tracks, it had to lead to Terminus. A walker was a few feet ahead of me just outside the cover of the tree line and I pulled my knife out ready to put it down when someone did it for me. She looked up at me, happy to see me and was about to speak when I put my finger up to my lips to silence her. She looked around me and saw the herd of walkers. She indicated for me to follow her and that's what I did, I sprinted as fast as I could with her and jumped behind a huge rock she led me to hide from the walkers. I didn't take my eyes off them until I knew every single one had passed and I knew it was safe.

"Carol" I breathed out and turned to pull her into my arms hugging her tight. 

"I missed you too" She laughed into my hair. It was only until I pulled away did I notice the other two people that were with us already hiding behind the rock.

"Judith?" I said with tears coming to my eyes, the man holding her passed her to me and I pulled her little body into a big bear hug. "It's Tyreese right? The one that always went on runs with Daryl and Rick?" I sniffled; trying to hold back my emotions on finding out Judith was alive.

"That's me, you're Daryl's little sister." He said with a smile and I nodded.

"Have you been alone this whole time?" Carol asked me.

"No I was with Carl, Rick, Michonne and Daryl half an hour ago but we were separated by that herd I was running from. We were heading to Terminus" I kissed Judith's forehead as she played with the collar of Carl's shirt I put on last night after Brett ripped my last shirt in two pieces.

"That's where we're going" Tyreese said as he helped Carol and I off the rock. "Hopefully they assume that's where you'll be going still and we'll meet them there." He continued.

"We need to get there soon, we're running out of water" Carol said as she got back on the track and we started following her.

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"How did you two get out of the prison?" I asked as I took an almost clean shirt from Carol to put over Judith's head to shield her from the sun as she slept on my shoulder, we have been walking for a while now and hopefully we'll get there soon.

"I saw Judith with Lizzie and Mika by themselves, grabbed the girls and got out of there. Carol found me in the forest after that and we've been heading to Terminus since we found out about it" Tyreese answered for the both of them.

"Look at that, over there" I was about to tell them how I got out when I saw a car and a cabin a few feet away from the track.

"There's a man there near the car, maybe he's from Terminus?" Tyreese suggested and started walking over in the direction of him.

"Stop" Carol whisper shouted to him. "We need to find out who he is first" She said moving to the tree line to blend in and I followed her with Tyreese behind me. If there was anytime I wanted Judith to stay asleep, now would be the time. We snuck up behind the car and heard him talking to a woman on a radio.

"Alex didn't get it see, I told him that chick with the sword was bad news; that's like a weapon with a weapon." He chuckled; we couldn't hear what the chick on the other end of the walkie talkie was saying. "Yeah, I told Albert I want the kid's hat once they bleed him out" Once the man mentioned Michonne, Carol was already getting up from around the car to ambush him.

They have them, Terminus has my family captured and they're going to kill them. That was the first thought that ran through my head before I pushed it away and got up with Judith still sleeping in my arms and went to stand behind Tyreese who was already behind Carol ready to back her up. Carol put her hand gun to the back of his head, he only noticed she was there when she took the safety off which made him freeze in his spot.

"Keep your finger off the button and drop it" Carol said referring to the walkie talkie and he did as he was told.

"Listen, you don't have to do this; we got a place where everyone is welcome-"

"Shut up" Tyreese cut him off.

"We're friends with the chick with the sword and the kid in the hat" Carol said bluntly.

"Get up" I said aggressively as Tyreese went to go bind his hands and pull him off the ground.

"Take him into the cabin over there" Carol said still aiming the gun at the man's head.

"Look you don't have to do this-" He tried defending himself until I cut him off.

"Don't speak" I growled. I was furious; first we were held hostages by Brett's dad and now they're being held at some fake safe haven. Once I get them back we trust no one. Once we got inside Tyreese shoved him to sit on the floor and pushed his back against the back wall so the only way out was past us through the front door, not that he would try though since his weapons were outside and his hands were confined.

"They attacked us, we're just holding them" He tried to make excuses but he didn't care, the way he sat, the way he talked and acted; he didn't care, he was just a cocky son of a bitch. "I don't believe you" Carol said, with her bag of guns on the table and she was sorting through them.

"I'm coming with you to Terminus" I spoke up.

"No, you not; you're going to stay here and protect Judith with Tyreese" She said as she packed some easy to carry guns that were going to help her get them out.

"But I want to help get them out, you need me-" She put her hand up to stop me from talking.

"Addison I need you here, the best way you can help is by staying here with Judith and Tyreese in case something happens and waiting for when we get back. I promise I will bring back Carl and Daryl" She said calmly and I nodded my head, she was right. I put what shirts Carol had in a little eski that was in the cabin, making a cot-like bed and putting the sleeping Judith into it.

"Who else do you have, do you know their names?" Tyreese asked the man.

"We just have the boy and the samurai, that's it" He said shrugging his shoulders.

"You're full of bullshit, Daryl and Rick was with them too and I know they wouldn't just separate from each other" I said, my anger growing and he just smirked.

"You know, you have a lot of confidence for someone who's throat I could slit easily at any moment" I said moving closer to him until Tyreese pulled me back. "That's enough" Carol said when she got to the door of the cabin.

"I'll bring them back just try not to kill anyone while I'm gone" She directed the statement at me and I rolled my eyes sitting on the windowsill staring outside and watching her while she walked away. Tyreese closed the door after her.

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"She got a name?" The bogan asked Tyreese as he tucked a shirt around Judith as a blanket.

"Judith" Tyreese answered after a long pause.

"Is she your daughter?" The man asked another question trying to start a conversation.

"No, she's a friend" Tyreese said, putting it bluntly.

"I don't have any friends, I mean I know people but there just assholes to stay alive with. The other ones your friend? The woman that just left and this angry princess right here?" He nodded in my direction giving me a smirk, trying to make me angrier and I ignored him looking out the window again.

"That's none of your business" Tyreese said, Their conversation went on but I payed no attention to it until I heard the man cross the line.

"That's why you're going to die today, that's why the baby is going to die" The man said. I stood up.

"Shut your mouth, you don't know shit and you sure as hell don't know how capable we are. Terminus will be taken down and you'll have no home and no 'assholes to stay alive with'" I said with venom dripping from my voice but keeping my anger controlled.