Jessamine Dixon lives in the apocalypse

The Same Boat

"I'm thinking that's something you want to chat about. Now, we're gonna work this out right now, and it's going our way." The woman said and I looked at Rick.

 I knew he was looking at me for advice since they won't let me talk. I nodded my head.

"They can think it's gonna go there way." I told him and he said something to Glenn and Daryl. The two of them pulled the man off the ground and Daryl held him at gunpoint.

"You can see we have one of yours." Rick said and Glenn pulled his gun out too.

"We'll trade." Rick said and I shook my head.

"We only have one of there's and they have two of ours." I reminded him.

"I'm listening." The woman said and I knew that when it came down to it she was going to think it was a rip-off.

"We need to know that she actually has them and they're not dead." I told Rick without sugar coating it for the rest of them.

"First I want to talk to Maggie and Carol, make sure they're all right." Rick said and it took a minute.

"Rick, it's Carol. I'm--I'm fine, but--" Carol started and then she stopped. I turned towards Rick.

"Rick, it's Maggie. We're both okay. We'll figure thi--" Maggie started but then it stopped.

"They were forced to say something, she stopped them because it wasn't what she directed them to say." I told Rick and most of them were looking at me with wide eyes.

I took a deep breath and turned back towards the fence.

"You have your proof. Let's talk." The woman said and I dropped my shoulders down.

"All right, this is the deal right here. Let em go, you can have your guy back and live." Rick said and this is where it was going to start getting rough.

"Two for one, that's not much of a trade." The woman said and I flared my nostrils. Of course this was going to happen.

"You don't have another choice, or you would've already done something about it already." Rick said and I looked back at him.

"Tell em they can have me, if I get close enough I can kill them all and get back out here. They already know what we did and they probably know about the 20 or more people I just slaughtered with my own two hands.
Or tell them they can come get me and him, they're gonna have to come to us or we won't do it, then we all take them out. There can't be that many of them." I told Rick and he looked down at the walkie.

"Not happening. I'm not letting you go with them, or let them think they can have you." Daryl told me and I shook my head.

"Daryl, this is Carol and Maggie we're talking about." I reminded him and he shook his head.

"I know, but there has to be another way." He said and looked at Rick.

"Jess, you have an injury and you obviously got into a fight with somebody, like always, cause why wouldn't you while you do more work than the rest of us. If we let you go with them, you might not be able to take them out on your own, just because of your arm.
Normally you would be able to, but right now it's not good for you to go in there alone. We don't even know how many are there.
Besides you'd be going in with the enemy who knows you plan. Glenn said and I shook my head.

"Rick, we have to find another way." Daryl told him again.

"We'll find a way that doesn't involve any sacrifice." Rick said.

"This whole thing is a sacrifice, we have no idea who were talking to. No clue." I said and he shook his head.

"There's always another way." Rick said and I sighed before looking back to the horizon.