We stand in Gregory's office and I have my arms crossed beside pop and he says "oh you were very brave staying in here while maggie and Sasha saved this place your courage was inspiring". I snicker from beside him and maggie hits my arm with her shoulder and Gregory says to him "hey, don't you work for me? aren't we friends?". I roll my eyes and I say "no I wouldn't even use that word for you I would call you a coward". Tara turns to me and sends me a smile as rick tries to talk with Gregory and I just tune everyone out and then I hear Gregory say "sometimes Ricky you have to count the blessings you have".
I push my hand through my long brown hair it's about time for a haircut I am about ready to force my knife down Gregory's throat. My bed and breakfast manner is about done and over with and maggie says "how many people can we spare? how many people here can fight?". I feel pop wrap an arm around my shoulders and Gregory says to maggie "we? I don't even know how many people we have, Margaret". I scoff and roll my eyes at Gregory as we try to talk with him with this argument it's an endless cycle like a figure eight.
I turn to tara when I hear her speak up "you're wrong when people have a chance to do something right, they usually step up I mean people just-" Gregory cuts her off "let me stop you before you break into song, okay?". I growl at him and threaten "cut her off again and I'll throw my knife at ye and I don't miss Gary". I feel pop pat my back which is his way of telling me to calm down. I see tara smiling from beside my dad at me I turn when I hear rick start to get mad "would we be better off without the saviors, yes or no?".
Michonne steps in front of him trying to calm him down and I don't fight the smile that formed that was sweet and cute. "Yeah. Sure. Okay" I run my hand through my hair and I see dad getting angrier and angrier out of the corner of my eye. I bite my lower lip as I hear Gregory say "I didn't say we had a problem. You did"
I roll my eyes at him and I growl from still beside maggie and pop and Gregory continues "and what happens outside of my purview is outside of my purview". I scoff and I hear my dad speak up for the first time since we came in here "what the hell, man?". I see tara look down at her feet and I move from maggie and over to my dad and she whispers "let him say his piece, dally". I relax under her hand and my dad says "you're either with us or you ain't you're sitting over there talking out of both sides of your mouth."
I smile at what my dad said and Gregory says goodbye to us and he tells us to leave and we all walk out and I growl when I hear Sasha say "I wanna knock that idiots teeth out". Tara still hasn't let go of my hand but I notice my dad looking at us so I let her hand go and she looks sad that I let her hand go and we all walk outside and we see a group of people with Bertie at the front. I smile at enid and Chrissy makes her way to me and stands behind me and places her hands on my shoulders. I lean against her and I hear dad say "well, we find the right stuff, then maybe we don't need the numbers to blow em up burn em to the ground".
I nodd at him and I say "yeah dad's right maybe if we go further out like go to army bases and they're probably cleared out because the army and everyone were on the front lines of this when it happened they could have extra ammo or guns there". Carl nodded in agreement and so does Chrissy "she's right dad maybe we could send out a group and just hope they don't run into the saviors". I run my hand through my hair and rick says "we'll think about that we need more hands, another group negan has outposts". We continue to walk to the gate and we stop at the front and he says "the geography, the distance works against us we gotta get back if they come looking for daryl we need to be there".
We stop when we hear pop say "you don't have to get back" I turn around and I feel tara's gaze once again on me and pop continues "not yet" he brings out a walkie talkie "it's one of their's, long-range". I cross my arms over my chest and he continues as I see enid and carl holding hands I smile at them awww how cute young love "we can listen in, keep track of them". I smile at him and I ask "so, if we're not going back, what are we doing, pop?" he sends me a smile and he says "I think it's time we introduced you to Ezekiel". A bright smile crosses my face and he says "King Ezekiel" I fist bump "yes I've been wanting to meet him for a while".
