Heartless ➳ TWD² [COMPLETED]

Chapter V ➳ Astray

• TESS'S P.O.V. •

SOMEHOW, she convinced me to go back, but we didn't immediately leave, either. I still wanted just a little more time to myself before we go back while she sat back and let me do what I wanted to do, so we stayed another day.

I didn't ever tell her about Dwight, that he was here and that we made love. I didn't tell her that she was wrong about he and I, and even if he still loved Sherry or not. Everything that I ever needed to know about Dwight and my relationship spoke louder than words last night.

I didn't know if we would ever see Alexandria in its whole again, but I really was hoping for Carl's desired future to become a reality.

It was dark when we left Alexandria on one of our cars that wasn't thankfully destroyed in all the chaos. Brie was steadily driving as I looked in the mirror, until I noticed something up ahead. I saw lights and, as I put the window down, I could also hear gunfire.

"Hear that?" I called to Brie, now grabbing my rifle out of the backseat and loading it up. "Gunfire coming from Hilltop! It's gotta be Negan!"

"Shit," she cursed, now going off the clay-road to find a way in. "How do we go in? Through the front or what?"

"Go around the side of their trucks," I announced, putting the rifle out of the window to aim and shoot. "I'll take out as much as I can on the outside and, then, you can park on the side and we hope the fence!"

"Is it really that easy?" she called back, shaking her head. "Just to hop the fence?"

"Yes," I answered, now looking back out my window with my rifle's telescope. "Now, go! Hurry up!"

She rammed down on the gas and we came speeding ahead, picking up dust and rocks behind our tires. There were some Saviors shooting from their trucks outside the opened gate and, when we came around, I took aim and shot them down as Brie sped passed them. One shot back and the back window shattered, which nearly threw Brie into a total mess out of the sudden shock of it all.

She came up beside the fence and I hopped out, before jumping on the roof and she asked: "What are you doing?!"

"Just follow my lead," I called back, placing my rifle around me and hopping on the fence, pulling myself up with all my power and might. It felt like the fencing was going to cut right into the palms of my hands, which hurt like bloody hell. "Fuck!"

"Help me up," she called when I was up top and I quickly held my hand down to her, which she grabbed and I yanked her up. "What now?"

"Fight," I growled and felt the need to roll my eyes, too. "Duh! Go!"

I jumped down to the ground and was immediately greeted by two Saviors, who I shot down before they could do anything. I ran up to their bodies and grabbed their guns, giving one to Brie and using the other as my back-up.

As I ran off and left Brie in the dust, looking for everyone else, I continued to fight my way through until I heard someone exclaim out: "Tara!"

I halted where I was and looked, seeing Dwight use the crossbow to shoot Tara through the shoulder with a crossbow and took off with Simon before they could see me. Tara fell down to the ground and I ran over to her, with tears freshly in my eyes.