Mi Amor ~ Daryl Dixon

Chapter Eighteen

"Okay let's get the other car in. Park them in the west entry of the yard." Adrianna says as Rick pulls a truck inside the gates.

"Good with our vehicles parked out there it looks like a giant vacancy sign." Daryl jokes.

"After that, we need to load up these corpses so we can burn them."

"Gonna be a long day." T-dog sighs.

"Where's Glenn and Maggie? We could use some help." Carol asks.

"Up in the guard tower."

"The guard tower? They were just up there last night." Rick asks shocked.

"Glenn! Maggie!" Daryl yells up to the tower.

A messy headed Glenn and Maggie pop up and come outside. "Hey! What's up guys?"

"You coming?" Daryl asks confusing the boy.

"What?!" Glenn asks wide eyed making the group laugh at him.

"You coming? Come on we could use a hand."

"Yeah we'll be right down." He says walking back in.

The group walks away giggling like children.

"Hey Rick." T-dog calls everyone's attention to the inmates standing at the gate.

"Come with me." Rick motions for them to come with him. "That's close enough. We had an agreement." He says approaching them.

"Please mister we know that. We made a deal, but you gotta understand. We can't live in that place another minute, you follow me? All the bodies, people we knew, blood, brains everywhere. There's ghosts." Axels cries out.

"Why don't you take the bodies out?" Daryl asks.

"You should be burning them." Adrianna adds.

"We tried. We did."

"Fences down on the far side of the prison. Everytime we drag a body out, those things just line up. We drop the body and just run back inside." Oscar explains.

Axels looks distressed before speaking. "Look we had nothing to do with Tomas and Andrew. Nothing. You trying to prove a point? You proved it bro. We'll do whatever it takes to be apart of your group, just please! Don't make us live in that place." He pleads.

"Our deal is non negotiable. You either live in your cellblock or you leave." Rick wastes no time.

"I told you this was a waste of time. They ain't no different then the pricks who shot up our boys. You know how many of our friends corpses we had to drag out this week? Just threw them out like nothing. These were good guys. Now we've all made mistakes to get in here chief, and I'm not gonna pretend to be a saint. But believe me, we paid our due. Enough that we would rather hit the road then go back in that shit hole." Oscar tell them.

Adrianna looks to Rick, seems like they made their decision.

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"Come on guys." Axel pleaded as Adrianna and Daryl locked the gate behind them.

"Said you would rather leave." Adrianna shrugged and walked away.

"Are you serious? You want them living in a cell next to you?" Rick asks in shock as the pair approaches. "They'll just be waiting for a chance to grab our weapons. You wanna go back to sleeping with one eye open?"

"I never stopped." T-dog replied. "Bring them into the fold, but if we send them off packing we might as well just be executing them ourselves." He explains.