This Is How I Disappear (Negan/OFC)

Chapter 43

——— Negan's POV ———

I walk into my already full meeting room and I'm pleased as fuckin' punch to see that all my maps are already spread out on the table. Just like I told Dwight to do.

"Alright." I set Lucille down in my chair and bend over the table to find the map I want, the one that's the whole entire area. It already has The Sanctuary, Hilltop, and Alexandria circled on it, plus all my outposts. "Someone got a fuckin' marker?"

Simon produces a sharpie out of his shirt pocket and hands it to me.

I start at The Sanctuary, tracing a line north and east a bit, following the river up to Alexandria. I continue the line from there, going southwest and bowing the line out some to include my North and Satellite outposts and down to Hilltop. I finish up by drawing the line back east to The Sanctuary again, making a sorta triangle.

"This here," I cap the marker and tap it on the map, "is my fuckin' domain. Currently. Eventually, I want my land to be fuckin' clear of the dead. Completely fuckin' clear." I straighten up to address my men better. "This won't happen immediately. No. It's gonna take a fuckin' while and be hard as fuck, but we are gonna fuckin' do it anyway." I walk over to my fuckin' chair, pick Lucille up, and sit my ass down.

"Where do you want us to start?" Gavin asks.

"First, we're gonna get more goddamn blockades up around here and all the outposts just to make sure no wayward herds get close to my shit. Just push 'em the fuck back and away from us. I want you guys," I point to one side of the table, "to coordinate with the leaders of the outposts. They should know the land out there and the best fuckin' places to redirect the dead."

The guys nod.

"You guys," I point to the other side of the table, "are gonna get shit done here. We're already pretty protected, but I want some more blockades out further. Extend our safe area just in case."

They nod, too.

I point to the guys at the end of the table. "You guys are headed to Hilltop. Work with our guys already there and extend that perimeter. And you guys," I gesture to the guys standing, "head to Alexandria and work with them. I already got a plan with them to lead biters someplace and wait until winter to take them all out sorta like what we did last year. Work with Rick on that and check out the fuckin' place he has in mind for that shit.

I get some "Yes, sirs" from everyone.

I stand back up and look at the maps again. "When it's safe all around our people, we're gonna start blocking off everything right along these lines I've drawn before winter. It's no fuckin' use to clear shit out if more dead is just gonna come the fuck back in." I run my finger over the map. "We'll see how to block shit when we get out there. Blockades of vehicles, walls, trenches... We'll just have to see what's most fuckin' feasible. Eventually, we'll have fuckin' lookouts along the perimeter making sure no shit can get in. Alive or dead." I stand tall and hold my arms out. "This is stage fuckin' one. Stage two, expansion." I drop my arms. "But we'll fuckin' plan for that when we get to it."

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The next two weeks pass quickly and quietly. Many of Negan's men are off at the outposts, Hilltop, and Alexandria to implement Negan's plan to bolster barricades around the areas. And it's going well. They're getting the job done with few setbacks.

Negan's relationship with Alexandria has been progressing as well, from what Negan has told Chuck. Rick and the Saviors have been working well together and making plans to lead any herds off to a quarry that's about twenty miles northwest from Alexandria. Because Rick and his men have been cooperating so well with the Saviors, Negan has provided some food for the Alexandrians to get them through their lean times, just like he said he would.