YEARNING - Daryl Dixon

SIXTY FOUR.

"HEY, you alright?"

Bonnie walked out of the room that everyone was taking turns showering in and spotted Rick standing over by the rail.

With a sigh, Bonnie walked over and stood beside Rick "I haven't been feeling the best the past couple of days, I'm worried my side hasn't fully healed."

Bonnie let her hand run over her shirt where the scar was and she heard Rick sigh "Get it checked out here before we leave, just to be sure." Bonnie nodded her head and the two slowly walked down the stairs.

"How are you and Daryl?" Rick asked, running his hand through his damp curls.

"We're good, I think." She responded with a small smile.

"You're both good for each other." He added, and Bonnie looked up at him "He's too good for any of us." She responded and Rick nodded his head in agreement.

"How did the talk with Gregory and Maggie go?" The blonde asked as the two joined the others down in the foyer.

"He bein' a prick is how it went." Daryl told her as Rick and Bonnie took a seat in front of him, and the heavy footsteps of Jesus caught everyone's attention.

"We want to generate trade, Gregory does, but ammo isn't something we urgently need."

Bonnie rubbed her forehead with a sigh "Surely there is something we can trade, I mean we have barely enough food to last us the next month." Bonnie looked from Maggie, to Rick and then back to Jesus.

"The walls hold, we just brought in more medicine. Gregory just wants the best deal possible." She felt Daryl pacing behind her before he added "Yeah, well we want things too."

Bonnie nodded in agreement.

"We need food, we came all this way and we're gonna get it." Rick spoke lowly, looking intently at Jesus "I'll talk to him, we will work something out." the long haired man assured.

Bonnie pursed her lips, this needed to work.

"Give me a few days and I'll work something out with him." Jesus pleaded and Bonnie looked over to Rick who seemed less then impressed.

"We can." Michonne spoke up.

The opening of the front door and the doors to Gregory's office pulled open, as a man walked in causing Bonnie and Rick to stand up on instinct.

"What's wrong?" Bonnie heard Gregory ask as she looked past the man to outside, where three people were entering the gates.

"They're back." The man exhaled, and the group followed Gregory outside wearily.

Bonnie was stood beside Jesus as the group came to a halt behind Gregory, the blonde eyed the trio.

"Nathan, what happened to everybody else? Tim? Marsha?" Gregory asked and the man, Nathan stomped over with an angered look "They're dead." He replied coming to a halt in front of the Hilltop leader.

"Negan?" Gregory asked and Bonnie furrowed her brows at the name.

Nathan nodded his head "Yeah."

Bonnie could cut the tension between the two men with a knife.

"But we had a deal." Gregory cocked his head to the side in confusion, stringing his hands on his hips.

"He said it wasn't enough, was the drop light?" The other man stood behind the woman spoke up in a condescending tone and Bonnie had to hold her scoff in.

"No." Gregory replied as the woman spoke up "They still have Craig."

"He said they'd keep him alive, return him to us," Nathan paused and walked closer to Gregory and Bonnie took a half step forward, resting her hand on her pistol situated in the waistband of her cargo pants.

"if I deliver a message to you." Nathan finished as he was now stood directly in front of Gregory.

"So tell me." Gregory exclaimed and before the group knew it, all hell broke loose.

Nathan stabbed Gregory who now lay on the ground with Jesus and Maggie by his side, while Rick tackled Nathan to the ground, and Abraham attacked the other man.

Glenn and Bonnie sprung into action, going after Nathan who had Rick pinned to the ground, while Daryl helped Abraham.

"Hey!" Glenn exclaimed as Nathan held a knife to Rick's throat, and Bonnie aimed her pistol at Nathan's head.

"Stay back, anybody who tries to stop me is killing my brother." Nathan yelled looking frantically between Glenn and Bonnie.

All eyes were on them three, as Glenn slowly dropped his hand by his side.

Though Bonnie, she was hungry.

"Hey asshole." The blonde growled, Nathan looked over at her and before she knew it, he was dead.

The recoil of the pistol in her hands brought her back to life, as she seen blood spilling down onto Rick underneath the man.

Glenn looked over at the Australian in shock, not fully comprehending that she had just shot the man, while Rick had stabbed him in the throat.

Rick was now stood up on his feet, the whole of Hilltop now looking over at the commotion.

Bonnie dropped her arms, slipping her gun away.

"He's done!" The man yelled from the ground over beside Daryl, clutching his arm "You killed him!"

Rick looked down at the man, lifting his arm and pointing over a5 Gregory "He tried to kill Gregory, than me." Rick was cut off by the girl walking over, punching him square in the jaw.

Bonnie felt on edge now, like any next move she made would cause great consequences.

So she turned and walked away, needing a minute to calm down.

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