Born to Die

32

Carl
"Then they shot her and grabbed her when she fell off the fence" I explained it all to Daryl as he examined the blood in front of the gates. "Go get your dad and tell him to get some vehicles and supplies, we're tracking her down" he says and I nod, sprinting back to the cell block.

Alli
(this is happening at different time periods btw it's like a day or 2 later when this is all happening to Alli)
I walk outside of the compound and look around at the courtyard, they had a lot of people here, at least 100 at this one location, apparently they have compounds all over. I stayed quiet as I walked over to Negan in the mix of everyone "so you finally came outside" he grins and I look down "you guys said this was where you ate, I just want some food then I'm going back inside" I explain quietly and he laughs "no, you're staying out for awhile, go meet everyone" he says and I shake my head, I didn't wanna get used to this group, I wasn't one of them, I couldn't be.

I look around and see a guy behind a table, serving out some type of meat so I walk over. I grab a plate and stand in front of him, he looked at me and smiled "you're new here, what's your name?" He asks and I look down "Alli" I mumble. He laughs "I'm Brett, I'm pretty new too, got here like 2 or 3 months ago" he says and I smile "cool". He puts some of the meat on my plate "yeah, I get it, they forced me to join too, but it's not that bad, I actually like it here" he told and I shrug "I just don't wanna turn on my group, these people killed my best friend, I don't wanna be a part of them". He nodded "yeah, they killed my best friend too, but you'll understand I guess, it gets better".

I half smiled at him "I hope so" and started to walk away "oh wait" I heard and turned around "I get off my shift right now, if you want someone to eat with" he offers and I smile "yeah that'd be cool". He grabbed some food then led me inside to what I assume was his room "I'm the only one in here since there's an uneven number of guys in the dorm, so I have the most space" he laughed and I grinned and sat on the chair that was in the room, he sat on his bed.

"Have you ever thought about escaping this place?" I ask him and he shrugs "I used to, but I figured I wouldn't have anything to go back to" he says, taking a bite of the meat "yeah, well I have somewhere to go" I sigh and he shakes his head "you wouldn't get out without being caught, and they know you'd run back to your old place, I assume they know where it is" he tries to talk me out of it and I sigh "I just wanna go home".

He patted my shoulder "you'll like it here, eventually" he said and I looked down "it's not that, it's just my dad's at my old base, my boyfriend, and all of the other people I consider family, I miss them, I'm worried that the saviors will go kill them" I told him and he nodded "well if Negan promised not to, then they won't, they may be awful people, but they do keep promises".

I pick at the food on my plate "I hope so, so how old are you anyway?" I ask and he looks up "probably 18 or 19, I've kinda lost track of the time" he shrugs and I nod "cool, I think I'm 17, but who knows now anyways". I eat a bit, I couldn't stop thinking about Carl, what were they doing? I hope their at least looking for me, these saviors better not go on and kill them, they just can't.

"So, your boyfriend, tell me about him" Brett says and I sigh "there's too much to tell, I'd never be done" I smiled a bit at a memory of us together. Brett laughs "just tell me, at least his name" he pries at me a bit and I look down "Carl, his name is Carl".

Carl
We drove down the road, following Daryl who was tracking on his motorcycle "what do you think they're doing to her?" I asked Glenn quietly and he looked down "I don't know". Daryl put his hand up, signaling for us to slow down. We stopped and he looked around, all of the leaves and pine straw that we had been tracking by was suddenly cleared as if they knew that's how we'd track them, it might've been from something natural, but either way the trail was gone.

Daryl looked around, staring at the blank road as I got out of the car. "The trail's gone, everything" he muttered and I looked around "it can't be gone, it can't just stop here" I said frantically looking for any sort of sign that they were here "they must've thought it through" he sighs "all that we can do now is keep driving and hope that that's the way they went". "They said their base is in Virginia, we need to go there" I say and he nods "Virginia's big, it's gonna be hard to convince everyone else" he grunts and I look at the truck "hopefully they'll understand then, we need to leave the prison, we can't afford the resources to keep going back and forth, we need to start traveling again".

"It's gonna be hard, but it's Alli, and I'm not just leaving my daughter behind, I know you won't leave your girlfriend. We're gonna find her" he says and I nod "damn right". He motions to the truck "lets go tell em". We walk to the door and open it "trails gone, but their base is in Virginia, we need to go back to the prison, get all of our stuff and get on the road again" Daryl says to my dad and he furrows his eyebrows "Daryl we can't just leave every we worked for, after all that happened we can't just leave" my dad says and Daryl huffs "well then I'll go alone, but I'm gonna find her, she's my daughter" he says and my dad looks down.

"I'm going too" I speak up and my dad rubbed his temple "I know that Beth will go" Glenn speaks up "then so will Maggie and Hershel, and if Maggie goes then so do I, you know that most everyone will go" he tells Rick and he looks at me. "Daryl I know she's your daughter-" "are you even questioning this?! What if that was Carl or Judith?! Are you seriously considering just leaving her out there?!" Daryl shouted at Rick and I saw a walker stumble out of the woods "I got it" I mumble and walk over with my knife.

"What if we just send search groups out?"  I heard my dad suggest "that'd take too many resources and people, if half of the group is looking we might as well all go, we have enough supplies to get there, and there's nothing left here, we've been through most of Georgia and there's just not enough places to find supplies, maybe in Virginia there will be". I stabbed the walker in the head and pulled my knife out as it fell to the ground. I stood up then looked at what the walker was wearing "Oswego" I said to myself then spoke up "guys, we have to keep going" I say and my dad starts talking "we're gonna go back and pack then head to Virginia" he explains and I shake my head.

"We need to keep going now, this walker is wearing Alli's jacket, she was wearing it when we were climbing the gate, they must've just been here, they want us to know they have her" I told him and he shook his head "it could just be the same jacket" "no, it's her's, there's a bleach stain right next to the zipper and if I'm right-" I spoke then reached into the pocket, pulling out silver bracelet with a heart charm on it "this was Sarah's, I saw Alli grabbed it from her wrist before those people took us" I explain and Daryl gets back on his bike "no sign of them in the woods, they must've just gone forward, let's go" he says and starts riding again then we get back into the truck, following him.