The start

Grid Five

The next morning I woke up to the sound people arguing and fighting. My eyes open wide as I peak out the tent. People were gathered around in a circle arguing.

"Daryl, somethings wrong." I wake him up as he puts his vest on. We climb out of the tent and reach high ground to see over the crowd.

"They'll work it out." Daryl shrugs his shoulders as I watched the circle. People were pushing and shoving each other. I noticed Justin's body was laying down. I guess leaving at night was a poor choice.

"Guess they're gonna execute every last one of us! Just like Justin!" Jed yells. He was from the saviors.

"Not if we have guns, too." Regina yells. All the saviors started to get worked up as they started pushing and shoving again. They were about to fight each other. Rosita, Arat and Laura were trying to break up the fight. Alden steps in holds the group back.

"Hey! Hey! Stop this shit! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! We're gonna find out who did this, and we're gonna make sure it never happens to us again, alright?" Alden shouts for everyones attention.

"Us? You're not one of us anymore." Jed scoffed.

"Us means all of us." Alden tells him.

"Go shovel that horse shit to whoever killed Justin!" Jed reaches up and punches Alden in the face. He goes again as Carol steps in hold her hand on the gun.

"I thought you were supposed to be our leader." Jed asked watching her carefully.

"Enough. Turn around, all of you." Carol orders them.

"No can do, C. Why don't you go ahead and yank that Roscoe, pop me right here? It's better than worrying about getting it in the back." Jed tries to test Carol as she whips out her gun. Oceanside and a few other behind her grab their weapons out.

"We don't want this. Hey, we just need to protect ourselves." Laura says as she tries to pull Jed back.

"No guns!" Daryl shouts as everyone turns to face us.

"That 'cause you're the one took out Justin?" DJ asked.

"Nah. My money's on garbage lady." Another savior suggest.

"Revenge for Simon's play, sure. Or maybe it was Harley. Maybe her wires are loose. Shes gone rogue." Regina smirked at me as I cut my eyes to her. She never liked me. That was because I was Negan's favorite.

"No. It's him. Finishing what he started." DJ says as he walks to a tree and picks up the ax. A few other saviors do the same.

"Hey, stop. It's gonna go too far." Arat tries to stop them.

"Nah. It won't." Daryl says as he adjust his crossbow.

"Maybe it's all of them. Come on." DJ says as the saviors started walking toward us weapons ready. Daryl pulls me behind him. I reach in my pockets and grab my knives. I don't want to do this.  A lot of people are going to get killed.

"Everyone back off! Right now!" Rick charges in with the horse. Rick walks back and forth with the horse trying the divide the camp.

"Alright, we are not doing this. Let it go." Laura says as she takes the weapon away from Jed. I sigh in relief.

"I'll talk to Rick. I'll try and find a way to make everybody feel safe, alright?" Alden tries to reason with them.

"Start the redirect. Pair off to work the grid." Rick orders as he hops off the horse. Everyone scatters and gets into their groups. Daryl and I walk back to our tent.

"They're going to come after us. They think we did it." I said as I put my knives back in my pocket.

"They can try." Daryl grumbled as he pulls out his hunting knife and starts sharpening it. Rick was making his way over to us.

"Harley, you mind if I talk to Daryl? Alone." Rick asked as he held his hands on his hips. He didn't trust us anymore. I look at Daryl as he nods his head.

"Sure. I'll check out the bridge. See how the progress is going." I mumbled.

"Actually, its best if you stay close. Maybe go see Carol or Maggie. I know you can take care of yourself but seems like the saviors are blaming you. They might go after you. We don't need anymore fighting." Rick said.

"I didn't take out Justin. He's way to big. I would have more defensive wounds on me. I'm not going to fight, Rick. But if they are trying to kill me I will protect myself." I scoffed and walked away. I was a bit taken back that Rick was being cautious. I go to our tent and grab our water canteens and head straight for the lake.  After filling up the canteens I head back to our tent and see Rick walking away. I set the water canteens inside the tent and go up to Daryl.

"Lets go work the grid. You and me." Daryl says as he grabs his crossbow and puts his knife away. I grab my knives and the radio. We hop on his bike as held the map.

"Call it out." Rick tells us from the walkie that was strapped to Daryls vest.

"Grid one. Clear so far." Jerry says.

"Grid two is clear." Daryl says as we finished up.

"Three is clear." Rick says.

"Grid four is clear." Maggie echoed.

"Grid five clear." Arat says.

"Piper one, anything up top?" Rick asked.

"We're good. Nothing moving our way." Dianne from the kingdom response.

"Stay sharp, eyes open. We still got missing people out here." Rick warns us.

"Got activity nearby. Gonna go check it out." Maggie says.

We're headed your way. Grid five, do the same." Rick tells them. Grid five didn't respond. Minutes had passed.

"Grid five, do you copy?" Rick asked but only static came through.

"This is grid two, we're heading over there." I said as we ride over to Maggie's grid. We meet up with Rick and Rosita and take out the walkers.

"You alright?" Daryl asked Cyndie from oceanside. She was hold her hand close to her chest.

"Yeah. Just opened it back up." Cyndie says.

"What happened to grid five? Should've been here before us." Rosita asked. Rick shakes his head and pulls out his walkie.

"Grid five, what's your status?" Rick asked but no one answered.

"Alright lets head over to their grid and check it out." Rick says as he hooks the walkie back up to his belt loops. We make our way to grid five to only find the oceanside girl on the ground. No Arat.

"Bea. Bea, wake up." Cyndie check the girls pulse and shook her awake. Bea woke up looking around. She was covered in dirt head to toe.

"You okay?" Rick asked her as she sat up slowly. 

"Yeah. Yeah, I think so." She mumbled.

"What happened?" Rick asked her as we watched the area for walkers or other people.

"Arat called in the all clear, and we headed towards the road, and then, I don't know. I think something hit me from behind."

"And Arat?" Rick asked as they help the girl up from the ground.

"I don't know." Bea shook her head. Something didn't sit right with me. She was too calm and collective for someone that got ambushed and knocked out. I would want to know who did it. Daryl picks up her weapon and hands it to her.

"Thanks." She says as she takes it back into her possession. Interesting. 

"Whoever did this took her." Maggie says as we look over at her. She held the walkie and Arat's weapons. Great.

"What do we do now?" I asked as everyone stares back at Rick. For the first time in a while Rick was just as confused and not sure what to do like the rest of us. We just want to know what the hell was going on.