Idyllic - Glenn Rhee

•Twenty One•

I was sat with Glenn in the common area waiting on Rick, Carl and Michonne returning from their run.

I was sitting at one of the small round tables eating my dinner and reading a book, it wasn't often we got time to just relax like this and it felt so good when we did. I looked up from my book to see Glenn staring at me from the other side of the table.

"What?" I questioned smirking.

"What?" He questioned back.

"Why are you staring at me?" I laughed.

"I was just thinking about how peaceful it is sitting here with you eating dinner... It almost feels normal." He stated grabbing my hand.

"You know once all this Governor stuff is over with we can start making a life for ourselves here. It's all gonna work out, I know it is." I moved over to sit next to him, he gently cupped my face and placed his lips against mine.

"I love you" He said, before softly placing a kiss on my forehead.

I heard a door squeaking and looked over to see Carl, Rick and Michonne had arrived back.

"Wow looks like you guys hit the jackpot." I smiled seeing them bringing in a few bags of what I assumed were guns.

"Yeah, I got something just for you." Rick announced placing a bag on the table in front of Glenn and I. He unzipped the bag and pulled out a bow along with a quiver filled with arrows. "I know you lost yours when Merle took you guys."

"Thank you... So much." I replied taking the bow and examining it before giving him a soft smile.

***

"Hey, you awake?"I heard a voice call from my cell door.

"Now I am." I groaned moving Glenn's arm so I could get up and talk to Rick. "What's up?"

"We're heading out to meet with the Governor, see if we can make some kinda deal. Things may not go as planned... I could really use you out there." He looked at me with pleading eyes.

"Rick, you know I'd do anything to help but I can't do this. Not if he's going to be there, sorry." I replied giving him a small smile. "My leg's still pretty messed up too, I don't want to cause anymore damage to it."

"No, I get it. No apology needed. Can you just keep an eye on things here? watch out for Carl and Judith?" He asked.

"Sure." I replied before walking into the common area to plan out the day.

***

I set out all our new gear on the table's and called everyone through to familiarise themselves.

"Hey, Beth put these up on the catwalk." I asked handing her a few boxes of ammo. "If anyone gets pinned down we need to make sure you'll have plenty of ammo." I added.

"What we should be doing is loading this fire power up and heading to the the Governor right now. I mean, we know where he is." Merle announced causing me to glare at him.

"What,  so you're suggesting that we just go in and kill him?" Glenn questioned also glaring.

"Uh, yeah." He replied.

"We promised Rick that we'd stay put." Michonne argued.

"Yeah well I've changed my mind. Being on the sidelines with my baby brother out there doesn't sit right with me." Merle said.

"We're not going anywhere. Rick, Hershel and Daryl are right in the middle of it. Anything could happen, they could be taken hostage or even killed. A thousand things could go wrong." I sternly told Merle.