Iris (Glenn Rhee x reader)

25| Danger

Y/n POV

"So we're clear, that look wasn't a let's attack that man look. It was, a he seems like an okay guy to me look." Michonne said to Rick after Rick walked back from knocking the man out.

"We got to secure him. Dump his pack. Let's see what this guy really is" Rick said as he looked to all of us.

"Rick" Michonne said, I had to agree with her Rick was acting out of hand. The guy seemed really harmless.

"Everybody else we need eyes and every direction. They're coming for us. We might not know how or when but they are." Rick said as he scanned the room.

Daryl, Carol and Maggie were kneeling by Aaron's body. Making sure he was okay while Carl was looking through his bag.

"Sasha' and I didn't see him. If he had wanted to hurt us, he could've." I said as I looked at Rick, who seemed to be in a totally different headspace.

"Anybody see anything?" Rick asked as he completely ignored me.

"Just a lot of places to hide" Glenn said as he peeked outside.

"All right, keep looking" Rick instructed. I rolled my eyes this was completely useless at this point.

"That's a hell of a right cross there, Rick" Aaron said as it seemed to be he was just waking up.

"Sit him up" Rick instructed as he stood right in the middle of the room.

"I think it's better if-" I tried to say before I was cut off. Sitting up could make his head hurt worse if Rick didn't even damage anything.

"It's okay" Aaron said as he looked at me. Aaron was moving his jaw as he was tied up on his side.

"He's fine. Sit him up" Rick said as he looked at Michonne. Michonne rolled her eyes and she sat up Aaron who groaned.

"You're being cautious. I completely understand." Aaron said, as he was trying to make Rick calm and seem like he wasn't a threat.

"How many of your people are out there?" Rick asked Aaron not even bothering to listen to anything he said. "You have a flare gun.You have it to signal your people. How many of them are there?" Rick asked as he held up the orange gun.

"Does it matter?" Aaron as he looked up at Rick.

"Yes" Rick said. "Yes, it does." He didn't want to put this group in harms way anymore.

"I mean, of course, It matters how many people are actually out there, but doesn't matter how many people I tell you are out there? Because I'm pretty sure no matter what number I say, eight, 32, 444, zero. No matter what I say you're not going to trust me." Aaron said as it looked like he was pretty shaken up by everything that has happened.

"Well, it's hard to trust anyone who smiles after getting punched in the face" Rick said as he looked down at Aaron.

"How about a guy who leaves bottles of water for you in the road?" Aaron asked as he looked back at Rick, I looked to my side in the few bottles of water that were left were standing on a trunk. It all makes sense now he was the one that left. The water was trying to help us. He had also been watching us for a while then.

"How long have you people been following us?" Daryl ass says he took a step forward looking down at Aaron.

"Long enough to see that you practically ignore a pack of roomers on your trail. Long enough to see that despite a lack of food and water, you never turned on each other. You're survivors and you're people. Like I said, and I hope you won't punch me for saying it again, that is the most important resource in the world." Aaron said as Rick took a step forward.

"How many others are out there?" Rick asked Aaron once again.

"One" Aaron said. "I knew you wouldn't believe me. If it's not words if it's not pictures, what would it take to convince you that this is for real? What if I drove you to the community? All of you? We leave now will get there by lunch." Aaron asked as he looked around at us.

"I'm not sure how the 15th of us are going to fit in the car you're one friend drove down here in." Rick asked as he looked down at the group.

"We drove separately. If we found a group, we wanted to be able to bring them all home. There's enough room for all of us." Aaron said as he looked at Rick. He had the type of look on his face that you knew you could trust him.

"And your park just a couple miles away, right?" Carol asked Aaron.

"East on Ridge Road just after you hit Route 16. We wanted to get them closer, but then the storm came, block the road we couldn't clear it." Aaron said honestly as he looked around.

"Yeah, you've really thought this through." Rick said sarcastically.

"Rick, if I wanted to ambush you, I do it here. You know the barn on fire while you slept, you ran out the exit. You can trust me" Aaron said as he looked at all of us.

"I'll check out the cars" Michonne said as she looked at Rick.

"There aren't any cars." Rick said as his eyes didn't leave Aaron's.

"There's only one way to find out." Michonne said as she looked over.

"We don't need to find out" Rick told her as he finally looked at her.

"We do" Michonne pushed. "You know what you know and you sure of it, but I'm not." Michonne said as she put her foot down.

"Me either" I said as I looked at Rick. I felt like I could trust Aaron.

"Your way is dangerous. Mine isn't." Rick said as he looked at us.

"Passing up someplace where we can live? Where Judith and Evie can live? That's pretty dangerous. We need to find out what this is. We can handle ourselves. So that's what we're gonna do" I said as I looked at Rick.

"Then I will too" Glenn said as he looked over at me and then back at Rick. "I'll go"

"Abraham" Rick called back.

"Yeah? I'll walk with them." Abraham said.

"Rosita?" Rick asked her.

"Okay" Rosita said as she put her gun away.

"If there's trouble, you got enough fire power?" Rick asked Glenn.

"We got what we got" Glenn said as he looked at Rick.

"The walkie are out of juice. You're not back in 60 minutes we'll come." Rick said as he looked over at us. "Which might be just what they want. If we're all in here, we're a target." Rick said, that was the last thing we heard as the group of us left to go check this out,