CHAPTER SIX,
tyreese williams.

Aiden had cried enough tears to fill a milk jug. Her, Maggie, and Daryl couldn't get their minds off of the death of Beth.

The group had traveled to Virginia to Noah's home town, "Rick." Aiden pulled him aside, "Payton believes Xavier is still out there. If he is... look for him. Please. We could another familiar face around here. Ya know, one we both knew from before?"

"You're staying here." Rick told he strictly, "and I will look for Xav."

"I know I'm staying here Rick. Look at me." She motioned to her body. "I'm carryin' a fucking kid. And I gotta watch out for Carl and Judy. Gotta keep an eye on Mags and Dare... after Beth."

Rick nodded, "Carol's in charge."

"I'm cool with that."

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Daryl had went off in the woods, Maggie hadn't stopped crying, Judith was sound asleep in Payton's arms, who was also resting. Macy and Nathaniel sat on both sides of him.

Carl was sitting inside of the fire truck. His own tears dry. Aiden was standing on top of said fire truck, she was tired. She wanted to sleep but she knew she couldn't. Every time she closed her eyes, her vision burned with Beth's dead body, her head filled with her own screams of horror.

Eugene and Rosita were sitting together on the road with Tara beside them. Abraham was standing a top the fire truck with Aiden. Sasha was sharpening her knife. Carol looked up at the two on the fire truck.

"What is it?" Aiden asked her.

"It's gone." She simply stated.

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Aiden wandered off into the woods after her husband, she found him maybe fifty yards from the road sitting on a fallen tree. His hands shaking and eyes red and swollen.

His wife crouched down in front of him and grabbed ahold of his hands in her own. Daryl's hair covered his eyes from looking at her. She brushed his hair to the side and he looked at her.

She sighed and pulled him into her. His head rested on her chest. He allowed himself to break down when they were completely alone. Aiden cradled his head to her chest like he was a baby.

Daryl's arms wrapped tightly around her back while her arms went around his head. His small cries and sniffs broke her aching heart. His hands balled up her new shirt. The other one having been thrown out, the one that held a horrid memory.

Aiden stood next to Rick after Beth was buried, her old shirt still on. She looked down at her hands and saw that Beth's blood still stained them. She looked at her shirt and saw Beth's blood on that as well.

"I need it off." She mumbled. Rick looked over at her. "I need a new shirt. I need one now!" She panicked. Immediately, Nathaniel grabbed one of his own and handed it to her. The group gave her the privacy to change. She threw the other shirt as far as she could which wasn't very far with her trembling hands.

Nathaniel's shirt ended mid thigh. She tucked it in, in the front so she could manage her weapons easier. She put her M16 back over her shoulder and acted as if she never freaked out like she did.

Aiden and Daryl cried together for a few minutes before their tears dried up. Both sat in the woods for a little while. Just to isolate themselves from the group for a bit.

Daryl's hand rested on Aiden's stomach while her head laid on his shoulder. Daryl didn't let his guard down at all.

"I was going to kill her." Aiden suddenly spoke, "Dawn." She hissed her name.

"She didn't mean to kill Beth. Rick and I both saw it." Daryl said, "I couldn't help myself. She killed her."

"I don't blame you." Aiden mumbled, "if you hadn't shot her on spot and I wasn't screaming my lungs out. I would've stabbed her in the heart and let her change. It's what she deserved, baby." Aiden grabbed Daryl's hand. He squeezed her hand.

"No one is ever going to hurt you. No one is ever going to hurt this baby. As long as I'm around, Rick, Payton, Nathaniel, Abraham, and Glenn are around. No one will touch y'all."

"Don't forget Aunt Maggie and Aunt Michonne." Aiden laughed half-heartily, "Aunt Carol, of course. Carl, too. Can't forget that menace."

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A couple hours passed until they heard from Rick again, "Carol?"

"It's Aiden. Carol's got Judy right now." Aiden said into the radio.

"Get Sasha and Carl outta there. They don't need to see this."

"What happened?" Aiden asked worriedly.

"It's Tyreese. He's gone." Rick said over the radio. Aiden's stomach dropped and so did the walkie-talkie.

Everyone's attention turned to her once they heard the radio clatter to the cement. "Aiden! Aiden! What is it?" Carol rushed to her with Judith in her arms.

"Ty." She stated in a daze, "he's gone, too."

Carol looked down at her feet before back up at Aiden, "go tell Sasha."

Aiden nodded and walked off towards the woman who had no clue her brother was dead. "Sasha. Can I talk to you?"

She nodded, "um, it's Tyreese. He didn't make it." Aiden tried to put it as lightly as possible. Sasha stared blankly at her.

"You're lying." Sasha said, "you're lying!"

"I'm not. I'm sorry." Aiden said. Aiden was crying along with Carol and Sasha. Everyone soon found out what happened, only causing more tears among the group.

Soon, Rick and his group retuned. The grave for Tyreese had already been dug by Daryl and Abraham.

They laid Tyreese in the grave and laid a sheet over his body. Aiden watched with tear filled eyes as they buried him.

"We look not at what can be seen, but we look at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen it eternal." Aiden walked forward and grabbed the shovel. She let the dirt onto Ty's grave. "For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroy, we have a building from God, a house not made from hands, eternal in the heavens. In the heavens." Gabriel finished and closed the small bible.

"Goodbye Ty." Aiden whispered

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word count: 1,059
episode: what happened and what's going on

and there it is, tyreese's death chapter edited :(.

damn. three deaths six chapters into this book. and so many flipping more to come. some of the saddest in the walking dead history. we all know which ones ☹️.

but rip tyreese. you was a real g 💔.