A few months later. At the beach.

The winter was gone. Thank god. We were all at the beach. And walkers were coming out of the ocean. Some of them had gills, some were wrapped in ocean plants. oh lord.

we had formed a militia in order to train the several residents of the communities to fight against future threats. Well, i hope that the future threats will be walkers and not people who think they can rule the world.

Daryl and i were learning ASL to communicate better with Connie. She told me that she liked how Daryl is when he is around me. She said that he isn't grumpy when he is around me and that he actually smiles. She's really happy for us. She's the best.

We walked to the old rusty boat that was on the shore. Ezekiel knocked against the door to wake up the walkers that were in there. Then he opened the door, some water walkers came our way. God were they ugly. Aaron was on the first line of 7. The front was holding shields.The archers were in the back aiming.

Aaron "Archers, regroup."

The walkers fell to the ground.

Aaron "March"

more walkers came out.

Aaron "Spears. "

Alden and his line started to kill the walkers.

Even more walkers came out.

Aaron "And halt. "

Michonne "Open ranks. "

She, Magna and Luke came forward through the shields and killed the other half of the walkers. Daryl and i were standing at the side, watching.

Michonne " Back up. Back up. It's about to get real, y'all. Everyone, steady. "

Out of nowhere dozens of hunters walked out of the boat.

Michonne „Hey, stay in your formations! Remember your trainin'! "

We all started to kill walkers.

-----

Daryl and i were walking through the camp.

Me "training was worth the trip. "

Daryl "Yeah, they did well. Tara would've been proud. "

I nodded "Hm. Hope so. It's good to bring the kids also, let 'em see the ocean for the first time. "

Daryl nodded "Yeah, I know one idiot that would've loved this."

I shoved him a little, amused "shut up"

--

The kids had found a walker mask at the beach. i cannot believe this.

Aaron was talking to Gabriel through the radio "Kids found it by the estuary. River must've carried it down. -"

Gabriel " What does it mean? Are they back? "

Aaron "We don't know. But Alexandria should go on lockdown just in case. "

Michonne "Hold on. We don't have evidence to justify that. My official recommendation is that everyone should stay on alert until further notice. Eyes and ears open. That's it.

"Gabriel "Copy that. Over and out. "

Michonne " Sounds good. Over and out. I appreciate your caution, and I get it, but we do not need to start a panic."

Yumiko " A lot of stuff washed up ashore from the recent storm. Th-This might not mean anything. "

Aaron "Or it might mean something. Look, no one saw Alpha's herd move out, so maybe no one saw them move back in. But if there's a mask, maybe there are other signs of them out there. We owe it to our people to be sure."

Michonne " I'll gather a group. We'll leave in five. "

Daryl grabbed me "we'll -a hang back for a bit. we'll catch up."

Michonne nodded, amused "okay"

--

Daryl and i were on his bike driving around

.Me "go faster. "

Daryl "Hang on. "

He started to drive faster

--

I saw a walker coming our way. Daryl saw him too. I took my knife out and aimed at him.

Daryl shot it in the head with his crossbow.

I pouted "that was mine "

Daryl" Well, you're supposed to call it."

I shook my head „You didn't call it. "

Daryl "Don't wanna play with you anymore - if you cheat every time. - "

I giggled „I'm not cheating. "

Suddenly we heard growl.

A pair of walkers walked to us.

Daryl „Watch their hands. "

Then we killed them.

--

Daryl shot at a deer and it ran away. We followed the blood trail. The deer stumbled up the hill before falling to the ground.

I was going to walk up the hill but Daryl grabbed me "Stop."

Me "Why?"

Daryl „It's one of her borders. "

Me "They're walkers. We can still get the deer. "

Daryl shook his head "No, it's too late. "

Me "Why are we still respecting borders we never agreed to when Alpha isn't even here? - Can we just forget about them already? "

Daryl "It's too late. "

Walkers started to feed on the door.

I looked at Daryl annoyed "That deer could've fed people, D."

--

Daryl was standing by the bike.

I walked to him.

Daryl „I'm sorry I pissed you off. "

Me "I'm sorry you pissed me off, too. "

Daryl "Well, there's no reason to start shit if we don't gotta, babe. After the storm, we all agreed to that. "

I grabbed my water bottle "D."

Daryl sat down on a fallen tree "yeah?"

I sat down next to him " "You ever wonder if this is all there is? Just run into people, kill each other until whoever's left says enough? "

Daryl "Sometimes I think we're just survivin' one fight to the next."

Me " It was like that for you and me before all this. "

Daryl nodded "Yep. There's got to be people out there like us. Right? I get what Maggie's doin' with Georgie. I do. "

I sighed "why don't we grab one of those boats and leave. "

Daryl asked amused "Just run away together? "

Me "Be pirates. Heck yeah. "

Daryl shook his head "Nah. Cooped up in those little cabins all day? That's not me. "

I asked amused "so you're saying no to have sex all day long? "

Daryl froze, rethinking his choices.

I smiled at him amused.

Daryl shrugged "well, if you put it like that.."

I nodded "okay. Screw the boat. We'll take your bike and go out on the road."

Daryl nodded "Better. "

Me "Head out West. "

Daryl "New Mexico. "

I asked confused "the hell's in New Mexico? "

Daryl shook his head "No more fightin'. Just get on the bike and go, see who's left. "

I nodded "i'd love that"

Daryl nodded.

Suddenly we heard an explosion and looked up. We stood up.

A meteor shower?

Night.

The camp was on fire.

Magna "This is crazy. We can't do this. "

Luke "We don't have a choice. "

Yumiko "If we get caught on their side of the border, - that's it, that's war. - It's a fire. "

Dianne "Fires spread. - It could burn through our hunting grounds. "

Yumiko "Or take out Oceanside. "

Aaron "Michonne, are we doin' this? "

Carol " We gotta go now. "

Daryl "Let's go. Come on"

We ran away from the fire straight through the borders. Our way got cut off by fire.

Yumiko " We start on the outside, push in."

We were trying to kill the fire. Walkers were slowly coming to us and we still had no luck with killing the fire.

Morning.

We were still trying to kill the fire.

Suddenly we heard someone yell "Hey Walkers coming in! "

We grabbed our weapons.

Daryl and i started to kill the first two.

Suddenly dozens showed up.

I breathed out annoyed "oh fuck me"

The fire behind us and walker sin front of us. Daryl grabbed an ax and started to smash in some walker skulls.

Suddenly we heard Eugene yell " Everyone, stay clear of that tree! It's gonna fall any minuto! "

We moved away. Daryl threw the ax at the breaking tree and it fell to the ground hitting some walkers.

On a cliff.

Everyone was clearing out the spot were the fire had died down. Daryl was showing me what Alpha had shown him the night ...the night our friends were piked.I looked at the field bellow us. Walkers. Thousands.

My jaw dropped, shocked "oh my fucking god"

Daryl "You still wanna run away together? "

I nodded "please. right now. "

Daryl sighed "Look, I need you to stay. Stop talking about leaving me on those shitty boats"

I looked at him.

Daryl "Otherwise, I'm gonna have to punch holes in all them boats"

I smirked at him.