Call Signal

Static

Part 1: Rick

Nov.4: 2018

The whirling of the copter blades finally died down and Rick could feel himself being moved.

Opening his eyes, he saw a man looking down at him. He looked familiar. "Rick, don't move alright, we will get you all patched up" the man said half smiling telling Rick he was just trying to make him and himself feel better:

It hit him right then and there. "Shane, is that you? Am I seeing ghosts again?" Rick asked with a raspy voice. The man smiled for real and said "no it's Conner, Shane's twin brother and by the sound of it my brother is no longer with us. I'm going to take good care of you though don't worry".

Rick felt like laughing but couldn't find the energy to do so. After a while though the gurney stopped. Conner and Jadis must have thought he was out because they were having a conversation he was sure he wasn't supposed to hear.

"How could you Jadis? This man is a living hero and you bring him here to these psychos. I would be out of here if I didn't want to help as many people as I can" Conner growled softly. "Hey if I didn't call then your so-called hero would be a dead one" Jadis snapped back. "Just remember Anne Penny Blake, if he never gets back home that's on your conscious" Conner barked back and started towards Rick's bed.

Hearing him move, Rick quickly closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep. Though pretending didn't last long as he fell into a deep sleep wondering what Conner meant about never getting home.

Present Day

"Have you found them?" Rick asked over the walkie as he held position. The collar around his neck itched but he learned early on not to mess with it. He looked over grateful that Conner and his boyfriend, Heath, who everyone thought had died but had become a prisoner like himself, was with him.

The one person he wasn't glad about was Anne. She kept trying to get close to him in more than a friendly way and it was driving him crazy.

"Have you found them yet?" Rick snarled into the walkie when no answer came through. There was static and the Annes voice came over "I'm sorry Rick, they're gone. Both Alexandria and Hilltop are completely destroyed and The Kingdom and Oceanside look like they've been abandoned for many years".

Rick went pale. He thought about Michonne and his baby girl. The tears streamed down his face and he barely felt Conner and Heath wrap their arms around him. "Keep searching" Heath said into the walkie and returned to holding Rick, no one noticing the lack of response from Anne.

Part 2: The safe houses

Negan sat, his back to the front door and watched as Lydia slept. It was the first time in a week that she was fully asleep and he was glad.

He heard the person enter but didn't make any movements. "Finally come to kill me widow?" he asked in his mocking tone of voice. "If you did please make it quiet because Lydia is finally asleep and I don't want her woken".

"How did you know it was me?" Maggie asked interested and pissed off at the same time.

"I know the sound of a badass woman anywhere. And you widow, are the most badass woman here right now" Negan said keeping his attention on the sleeping girl.

Maggie took a deep breath and stepped forward. Just as she was at his back, something moved quickly in front of her eyes and suddenly a young girl had her arms around Negan and was looking up at her.

"Please don't kill him. He's the only family I have" the girl begged, the pain of her past swirling in her eyes and the tears from that pain forming at the edges of her beautiful blue eyes.