Save Me

5. Bow and Scrape

This paradise had slowly become a living hell. We were broken, fractious, bursting from the seams. People going hungry, angry and restless. We were left with no choice but to make a deal with the Devil.

With Denise gone everything felt painful, to look at, to touch.

How on earth would I ever begin to tell Tara?

With the Saviours killing Denise and capturing Maggie and Carol for hours before we got to them, we thought that things couldn't get any worse.

We were very wrong.

Daryl was a great tracker and had followed the Saviour's movements all the way to a compound.

He radioed Rick and all of us met him there.

When we found Maggie and Carol, we also found a Saviour outpost which we thought at the time was their main compound.

We fired on them while they slept and killed everyone inside, thinking that was the end of the Saviours, we headed out back onto the road with all of us together again.

Rick found Negan and killed him, so we were finally in the clear.

With Maggie's pregnancy came a few complications.

Because we weren't able to go see Dr Carson at Hilltop as much as Maggie needed because of the long journey, Maggie was more susceptible to illnesses and she got sick really quick so Glenn was really worried.

So, once we managed to scavenge some fuel from abandoned cars near by, we had enough to drive our RV to Hilltop.

So that was it, we were all packed up and ready to leave.

I left a flower at Denise's grave for Tara and I, took a moment, a few deep breaths and we left.

It felt like an hour had gone by when we were suddenly ambushed on the road.

It was like the assholes that came when it was just me, Sasha and Abraham.

I noticed Dwight standing in the middle and I knew this wouldn't be good for any of us.

Daryl hopped out first about to fire at him when I held him back with a hand to his chest.

'We talk first, remember? We can't lose anybody else' I whispered to him.

Daryl backed down slowly while the others jumped out, Glenn staying inside with Maggie.

Rick looked suspiciously at them, wondering if they would kill us for the outpost fiasco.

Dwight and his guys must have been the last of the Saviours so we were confident we could take them.

'Dwight, what do you want?' I asked.

Dwight looked sternly at all of us, until Rick lined up next to me with Michonne.

'Who's the leader?' Dwight asked surveying all of us.

Rick paused for a second before saying 'that would be me'.

'Well, I would've thought that would've been Mollykins over there, looks like she has more balls than you do'.

I rolled my eyes at that comment and the nickname.

Rick cocked his head slightly before putting his tongue to his teeth in a frustrated manner.

'If you don't tell us what you want, we'll kill all of you, like we did to your friends back there' Rick said confidently.

Dwight's smile at teasing Rick suddenly dropped completely.