Daryl Dixon's Family

Chapter 46

~~~Third persons view~~~

The group is traveling through the woods after their escape from Terminus. Later that night, Daryl and Carol are on guard duty for the camp, when Daryl senses that someone is watching them. The next day, the group hears a man screaming for help. They run towards his screams and save him from a group of walkers that had surrounded him and forced him to climb a rock to survive. The man reveals he is a pastor named Gabriel who has lived in solitude, and he leads them to his church. Gabriel then explains that he has survived through luck, eating canned food collected for a food drive and scavenging for other materials. Rick expresses distrust of Gabriel and tells his son Carl that he should never let his guard down.

Gabriel notifies the group of a food bank not too far away that has supplies but is overrun by walkers; Rick, Michonne, Bob and Sasha get Gabriel to take them there. On the way there, Bob advises Rick to accept Abraham's proposal to head to Washington; he then asserts that the world they are living in is not the real world, saying, "This is a nightmare, and nightmares end". Once they arrive, they find walkers in a flooded basement, which they dispatch while gathering canned foods. While doing so, Gabriel seems to submit himself before an approaching walker, which Rick kills before it can reach him. While fighting, Bob is attacked by a walker, and Sasha saves him. On the way out of the food bank, Rick realizes Gabriel knew the walker who almost killed him. Once back at the church, Carl shows Rick deep scratches near a window and a message that reads, "You'll burn for this".

Meanwhile, Glenn, Maggie, and Tara search a nearby gun store, finding three firearm silencers in the freezer. Daryl and Carol walk down a road, discover a working car, and decide to save it as "backup".

Ava's P. O. V

That night, when the groups get back from there runs, we celebrate sanctuary with the newly recovered food and Gabriel's communion wine, though it's only me, Hunter, Carl, Crystal and Carol who are not drinking the wine, but are drinking water, Abraham then gets up and toasts to their safety and attempts to convince everyone to venture to Washington, D.C, so Eugene can vet to work on a cure for the outbreak. Which gives me hope that this virus can be cured, Eugene also claimed there is also hardened infrastructure in Washington to get a hand-up on the restart, "that could be good for when Venus comes" I say to Daryl who is sitting next to me. Rick then shows his approval, and the rest of the us responds enthusiastically, making me smile and grab Daryl's hand in mine.

~~~Third persons view~~~

Alone in his office, Father Gabriel looks sorrowfully at a picture of him and the young woman who, as a walker, tried to kill him at the food bank.

Meanwhile, Carol distances herself from the group, still affected by her actions while she was exiled, she and Tyreese both refusing to discuss what happened. Ava just stopped remembering what happened while they were at that house, in her eyes Carol did what needed to be done. Carol returns to the car she found, which is now running, when she is discovered by Daryl. They see another car driving by, and Daryl observes that it has the same white cross as the car he saw the night Beth was kidnapped. And he and Carol jump in their car and give chase.

Later, Bob steps outside the church alone and begins to weep. While doing so, he is knocked unconscious by a hooded figure. When he awakens, he is face to face with Gareth and a still-alive Martin,

as well as three other former Terminus residents, all of them angry with Rick & his people over the destruction of Terminus. Gareth explains that he and his group were once but devolved into "hunters". It is then revealed that Gareth's group cut off Bob's left leg in order to eat it. Gareth casually says, "If it makes you feel any better, you taste much better than we thought you would".

Done sorry it's sort an I might have mistakes etc 😜🎈

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