Mi Amor ~ Daryl Dixon

Chapter Fourty-Six

It's been four days since the meeting occurred.

The night of Reg and Pete's death, the towns people scattered away from sight and hid in their houses from the main group. The town was quiet and scared. They had never seen something so cruel and gruesome happen to the people they truly cared about.

The days after were awkward. Tension was held high in the air between the groups. Adrianna had got patched up with Daryl as they talked about his journey back. He had explained to her that him and Aaron found a factory that still had all the trucks loaded up, Daryl wanted to leave and keep looking for someone he had seen but Aaron convinced him to stay and search. When they opened the back of the trucks, walkers came pouring out and it was a close call. He then told her how he found Morgan and how the man was looking for Rick, Morgan also told Daryl how he ran into some living people who had a W carved into their head like they had seen previously before. When he was done telling her what happened his anger grew as he connected the dots between the injured Adrianna and the beaten up Nicholas. She told him the full story, starting with the run with Aiden up until he showed up. Adrianna also found it best to keep that from the group, she didn't know why but she did know her group was smart and some others were bound to find out if they hadn't already.

Of course, another threat became present to Alexandria. When Rick and Morgan went out to bury Pete beyond the community, they came across a horde of walkers that were trapped in a quarry. They were blocked off by a few trucks but with the amount of dead, it was bound to fall any day. When Rick found out, he informed the people immediately and called a meeting. Diana had given Rick and Adrianna full authority to start making calls. Her mindset changed tremendously after her husbands death, she was finally understanding the real dangers of the world and that they couldn't hide forever. Like always the Alexandria people were scared, the plan was to lead them East and away from the community and many disagreed. Their ideal plan to deal with the walkers was to ignore it, they believed if they built up the walls and looked away then the walkers would leave. After a lot of convincing and arguing, they formed multiple groups to lead the walkers away from Alexandria and to build a path for the dead to follow.

That brings everybody to now.

"I know this sounds insane, but this is an insane world." Adrianna's voice was loud and steady as she spoke to the large group in front of her. "We have to come for them before they come for us, it's that simple. This is where it all starts tomorrow."

The scared people of Alexandria took a glance behind her to the massive horde that filled up the quarry. The groans of all the dead echoed out and filled the air. Rick and her shared a nod before he started to explain positions. "Tobin gets in the truck, opens the exit and we're off. He hops out, catches up with his team at red staying on west side of the road. Adrianna and Daryl get on his bike." A rumbling behind him made everyone's attention turn back to the quarry. The main truck that was blocking off the walkers from escaping was starting to give. The rock below the tires crumbled quickly and the truck dropped down allowing room for the horse to start moving out.

Adrianna, Daryl, and Rick exchanged a worried glance before taking action. "It's open! We have to do this now!" Adrianna yelled out as some people started to run to their positions.

"Tobins group, get moving, go!" Rick ordered and the scared man attempted to stop the leading pair.
"No Rick, we're not ready." He cried back and the pair waved him off.

"Sasha, Abraham." Adrianna called. "Damn straight." Abraham replies as him and Sasha walk over to the car they were going to use. "You guys meet us at red. Let us take them through the gauntlet." Adrianna explained to them as Sasha hopped into the car and nodded in agreement.

"Hey, I'll hit the tractor place." Glenn offers up.

Adrianna nods. "Okay, who else?" She asks the remaining group in front of her. A hand reached out and grabbed her arm lightly. "I'm here, let me help." She quickly shrugged his hand off and shook her head. "No." She replied sternly. Nicholas shot her an apologetic and pleading look. "I'm here." He repeated and the lady argued with herself in her head. She knew this probably wasn't a good idea but they were running low on time and options, it was gonna have to work. "Do everything Glenn says." She orders the man and gives him a slight push towards Glenn. He gave her a reassuring nod and Glenn took a small group away from the quarry.