2. Never Tear Us Apart

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A couple hours later the door was opened waking up Daryl and Theo with a fright.

"You alright?" Daryl instantly panicked, making sure she was okay before focusing on anything else around him

She nodded, calming him.

They both stood to see a random stranger with his hands up in surrender, his face was covered in panic.

"Rick, this is Aaron, he has a camp" Sasha explained, looking at a concerned Rick, he was ready to pounce any minute.

"We took his weapons, his gear" Maggie continued but Daryl still patted him down.

"Hi, the reason I am here is because we don't have a camp, we have a gated community." Aaron began, looking around at everyone who were filled with worry.

"A communitinty?" Theo spoke up, walking forward, besides her father.

"Sasha would you give Rick my bag please?" he asked politely, not leaving Ricks eyes.

She walked over and handed it to him,

"In the front pocket there is an envelope, inside are photos, though i must apologise as the camera we found does not print good quality" Aaron smiled, a small laugh leaving his lips.

"No one cares man" Daryl and Theo spoke at the same time, the group looked at the two of them, confused on how they did that but then their focus instantly went back to the stranger in front of them.

"You're right, you're absolutely right," Aaron nodded.

"We have walls, made of steel, food, water and most importantly people" Aaron continued.

However, Rick didn't want to hear it, instead he stormed over punching Aaron in the face, knocking him out cold

"Tie him up" Rick demanded, turning his back to the man.

"Is it necessary?" Theo asked, sighing.

"You believe him?" Rick asked

"Not yet, but if you had let the damn man finish, maybe we would know a little more" Theo snapped, she was tired, fed up.

After a few minutes, Carl had cleared out his bag and Aaron had woken up.

Theo ignored everything and instead looked outside.

"How many people have you got?" Theo asked walking over, keeping her voice low.

"Does it matter?" He replied, shrugging, looking madly over at Rick.

"Yeah. It does" Rick answered as the two stood side by side.

"It doesn't matter how many I say, 10, 45, 444, none. Your not going to believe me" Aaron argued, he just wanted to help these people.

Theo walked over and kneeled down to meet the man.

She looked at him in the eyes, grabbing her gun out.

"You want me to point it at your head, or you're going to save me the energy and just answer?" She asked, she had lost all patients. This could be there chance to have a place to call home, and she wasn't about to just throw that out the window.

As she did this Daryl carefully watched her.

Was she too far gone?

Or was this making the group and him stronger?

"One," Aaron answered, allowing Theo to stand.

"Groups of 2, I want people watching all the time," Rick ordered as people began to move out.