- E I G H T -

The Walking Dead
(season 1-11)

'I never thought I would
ever love someone because
they were incapable to love me
and here i found you.'

by @everm0res
———————————

- A R G U M E N T S -

"So you and Daryl that's your big plan?" Lori asked Rick.

Rick was planning to go with Daryl to find Merle, who was supposedly still handcuffed to the roof.

Rick sighs and looks over to Glenn who quickly takes the hint.

"Oh, come on." Glenn groans before Rick speaks again. "You know the way. You've been there before." Rick explained.

Glenn took off his baseball cap and sighed.

"In and out, no problem. You said so yourself." Glenn run a hand through his hair and looked to his right where Maia, Luna and Anthony were perched on a log.

Maia was brushing Luna's hair and Anthony was just sitting there for company.

"It's not fair of me to ask, I know that, but i'd feel a lot better with you along. I know she would too." Rick pointed to Lori who tilted her head.

Rick then turned to Maia who was focusing on her little sister in front of her she didn't realize she was being looked at.

Luna saw Rick looking Maia's way and then tapped Maia's hand.

"Hm?" Maia looked up and she had a bored expression and Rick gave her a look and she looked between him and Daryl.

"Oh hell no," Maia scoffed when she realized. "I'm not wasting my time on saving a dickhead because you can't handle the fact that some people aren't meant to be alive."

"I'd choose my words goddamn wisely, if I were you." Daryl piped up as if it was a threat. "You don't scare me, fire away." Maia tilted her head and rolled her eyes before Anthony gave her look.

"Look i'm not going, I would love to help, trust me," Maia trailed off and giving Daryl a look. "But I'd rather be with my family."

Lori gave her husband a look almost as if she was agreeing with Maia's statement.

"That's fair, I respect that." Rick nodded and Maia nodded in return.

Glenn was giving Maia these constant glances she always felt, scanning over her features.

Maia narrowed her eyes slightly at Glenn as if she was trying to figure something out before Shane piped up.

"That's just great. Now you're gonna risk three men, huh?" Shane scoffs.

"Four." T-Dog states and everyone around looks at him.

Anthony inhaled now making a bold decision.

"Five." Anthony stated standing up, both Maia and Luna looked towards him.

Maia had a look on her face as if she was asking if Anthony was crazy.

"The hell you mean, Five?" Maia stood up and looked at Anthony.

This action gained a lot of attention.

"I am gonna go with whether you like it or not." Anthony spoke annoyed at his sisters response. "You're going with?" Luna asked worriedly, she held her cow teddy bear in her lap.

"Well sorry, but no the fuck you're not." Maia replied and Daryl scoffed.

"My day just gets better and better, don't it?" Daryl wiped down his arrows and Maia gave Anthony a look which he returned.

"At least we're actually gonna help." Anthony spoke to Daryl with an unimpressed look due to Daryl's comment.

"You see anybody else here stepping up to you brothers ass?" T-Dog asked Daryl. "Why you?" Daryl inquired.

"You wouldn't even begin to understand." T-Dog started. "You don't speak my language." T-Dog spoke lowly.

"That's Five." Dale sighed and Maia spoke up. "It's four." Maia pushed Anthony to sit down however he just stood back up.

"It's not just five. You're putting every single one of us at risk." Shane spoke giving Maia look.

"Just know that, Rick. Come on, you saw that walker. It was here. It was in camp." Shane spoke distressed.

"They're moving out of the cities. They come back, we need every able body we've got." He stepped closer to Rick.

"We need 'em here. We need 'em to protect camp." Shane raised his voice slightly and Maias jaw clenched as Anthony tried to move away and she pulled him by his shirt.

"It seems to me what you really need most here are more guns." Rick stated and Shane went to speak again before getting interrupted.

"Right, the guns." Glenn spoke walking forward slowly. "Wait, what guns?" Shane asked and Maia slowly realized.

"Wait, the guns in that bag outside the tank?"  Maia asked Rick who gave her nod in reply.

"Six shotguns, two high-powered rifles, over a dozen handguns. I cleaned out the cage back at the station before I left." Rick explained to Shane, everyone's attention was focused upon the conversation in front of them.

"I dropped the bag in Atlanta when I got swarmed. It's just sitting there on the street, waiting to be picked up." Rick explained himself and Shane looked towards the ground.

"Ammo?" Shane asked lowly.

"700 rounds, assorted."  Rick replied and Lori spoke up.

"You went through hell to find us. You just got here and you're gonna turn around and leave?" Lori sounded upset, she had the right to be.

Maia agreed with Lori, Rick looked for his family everywhere, he asked her himself if she could help him find them.

"Dad, I don't want you to go." Carl, Ricks son spoke softly and Maia's hardened gaze softened at the little boys response.

"To hell with the guns. Shane is right. Merle Dixon?" Lori raised her voice at the thought. "He's not worth one of your lives, even with the guns thrown in." Lori stood up and Rick walked over to her.

"Tell me. Make me understand." Lori spoke to her husband. Giselle, Izarella and Rosalyn walking through the trees and slowing down to be quiet as they listened to the conversation.

Izarella walked up to Maia and whispered.

"What's happening?" Izarella asked, she had a basket in her hand. "They're thinking of going back to the city, get a bag of guns and saving the piece of shit off the roof." Maia sighed and whispered back, Daryl giving her glare in which she returned.

"Are you going with?" Izarella asked in a whisper and Maia sighed. "No but this dipshit wants to go, which is not happening." Maia turned to Anthony who glared at her.

"I owe a debt to a man I met and his little boy." Lori looked at Rick as if he was crazy. "Lori, if they hadn't taken me in, I'd have died." Rick stated trying to reason with his wife.

"It's because of them that I made it back to you at all." Rick explained and Lori's gaze softened.

"They said they'd follow me to Atlanta. They'll walk into the same trap I did if I don't warn him." Rick spoke.

"What's stopping you?" Lori's voice was softer now. "The walker-talkie, the one in the bag I dropped." Rick explained.

He looked away for a second before back to Lori.

"He's got the other one. Our plan was to connect when they got closer." Rick spoke.

"These are our walkies?" Shane sat on the front of his truck.

"Yeah." Rick sighed.

"So use the CB. what's wrong with that?" Andrea piped up and everyone turned to look at her.

"The CB's fine. It's the walkies that suck. They're crap." Shane leaned forward. "Date back to the '70s, don't match any other bandwidth, not even the scanners in our cars." Shane explained.

Lori averted Rick's gaze and he tilted his head.

"I need that bag." Rick spoke softly and Lori didn't reply. Rick then walked towards Carl and kneeled in front of him.

"Okay?" Rick went to his son for approval and Carl nodded in return. "All right." Rick muttered and put a hand on Carls head.

———————

"Mai, I'm going. I'm helping them, doing something to help." Anthony tried to reason as he got himself ready and Maia hit his arm.

"No you're not. You're not leaving." Maia stated, she never liked showing her vulnerability but she was obviously worried, she stood by Anthony with a motherly stance.

"Yes I am and so is Izzy, she's going with to help us. She negotiated with Shane alright?" Anthony got his handgun.

"That's all you're taking, a handgun?" Maia looked at Anthony like he was crazy.

"Yeah, I don't have anything else." Anthony spoke up and tried pushing past Maia and she stopped him.

"If I'm letting you go now, you're going to take my knife, and it better come back with you alive and I want zero goddamn scratches." Maia sighed finally giving in to allowing him to go.

"If you get back here and there's a scratch, even the smallest goddamn thing on your scrawny body, or so help me god, I will bury you alive, understand me?" Maia spoke with a stern and threatening tone before getting her knife out of the tent.

"I understand now move so I can go." Anthony spoke before Maia stood in front of him. "Take it, and go." Maia had her jaw clenched and Anthony looked down at the knife and took it.

Luna was playing with Rosalyn while they waited.

Luna looked so innocent.

Glenn walked past the two silently before Anthony walked past Glenn.

"You ready?" Anthony asked Glenn. "Yeah, just getting my gun." Glenn nodded before Anthony made his way to the others.

Maia stood biting the inside of her cheek, it was clear she was annoyed as it was displayed all over her expression.

Glenn took the liberty to walk up to her as she sighed heavily.

"He'll be fine, i'll make sure of it." Glenn spoke to Maia and caught her attention.

"Thanks but you don't need to." Maia sighed and gave him a weak smile for his offer. "I'll do it either way, he'll be back with not a scratch." Glenn nodded and Maia but her lip and put her hand on her forehead.

"Thanks." Maia gave him a tight lipped smile and he had nodded in return.

"See you later." Glenn nodded and Maia sighed.

"Yeah, good luck." Maia nodded at Glenn who stood there for a second. "Oh uh, I'm just gonna fetch my gun." He quickly remembered why he was there in the first place and headed for his tent.

Maia stood in the same position she was and crossed her arms over her chest.

"See you Maia." Glenn spoke and walked towards the others.

"See you." Maia replied and nodded watching him walk away.

She couldn't help but feel something different towards Glenn, it wasn't high school anymore. He was a lot more confident than when he was back then.

He was taller but he still had a similar style, this feeling that Maia was currently experiencing was something that felt...off.

————————

jada speaks!!
hello lovely readers!!
this is chapter eight! also a bit of a filler but Daryl and Maia have their beef.
Maia is starting to gain these weird little feelings and her protectiveness over her twin brother is so sweet she's so passive aggressive i love her.
Glenn is my bae, such a cutie.
anyways this was kinda ass, hope you enjoyed it!
- tags: l0vedbyjaja