now back to stiles...
stiles could not believe he had his father back and he sat in bed listing to the camp fall asleep and once he could hear the snores of many around him he focuse on his father's tent..
lori was begging rick to have sex with her and he started to before something happen then the moaning stop....
....
the next morning stiles woken early and sat by the woman doing laundry when he spotted his father.
Rick look around to see an omega doing laundry, while some cook breakfast, as betas and alphas made sure the women and children are safe .
" I did your laundry " a small timid voice said.
" you did" Rick ask
The omega nodded her head she had some bruising on the left side of her face ,
" thank you, " he told her " have a good day. "
he was about to wave his older pup over when a hand was place on his should and the smell of former mate hit him , Rick push her hand away and growl.
" dont touch me " He said walking way he walk to stiles and motion to the food tent and once half way there , a high pitch scream and chirp of several pup hit their ears, stiles growl and took of in the direction of his brother, his chirping fell short and he hug him.
" what are you an omega " lori ask Carl " my pups will not chirp or be an omega!"
rick growl out at her , and follow the other pushing carl into his brother arms " take him to the Rv " rick said.
rick watch as carl scent his older brother and open the RV door and shut it behind him.
" what the fuck , " an alpha said.. rick look at what they where look for and see a deer two arrows In its side and one in its eye , but that not what scared the pups it the Walker chewing on the deer's face. Morales take his shove and decapitate it as it head rolled a few feet from us to 2 set of boots.
"Mother fucker, that was my deer "
one carl was asleep stiles made his way out the door and to the spot he left his father in... only to see an hot alpha.. stiles was an omega.. not that he would tell people he kept it from liam and the others of their pack and only peter knew....
stiles stood near Dale..
Dale breathes out a quiet "Oh, Jesus." While everyone lowers their weapons. Then the man sees the Walker and gnawed deer.
"Son of a bitch." He says coming around the group, "That's my deer! I've been tracking this deer for miles." He kicks the carcass of the Walker a few times, then pulls his arrows from the dead deer, "Gonna drag it back to camp, cook us up some venison. What do you think? Do you think we can cut around this chewed up part right here?"
Rick watches the man silently. There was something about the way the man moved, the way he talked that triggered something in Rick. Shane, as the appointed Alpha that this man knew, sighs "I would not risk that."
The man sighs looking at the deer. "That's a damn shame. I got some squirrel... about a dozen or so. That'll have to do."
The group moves back to the camp. Glenn comes up next to Rick and points at the man with the crossbow, providing his Alpha with the information he knew the new guy was missing, "That's Daryl Dixon, alpha, Merle little brother."
If Glenn hadn't told him that Rick would have still connect the two together base on the fact that once they were clear of the trees the man started shouting, "Merle! Merle! I got us some squirrel!"
Rick rubs the back of Glenn's neck in acknowledgement and thanks, spreading even more of his scent. Glenn purrs low in his chest at the action, happy that his prime Alpha was acknowledging him. If Merle hadn't told rick he was an omega , the man was sure he wouldn't have ever found out. Merle acts to much like a beta to think otherwise, even smells like one. The two Alphas watch Shane walks up to the alpha and calls out to him, "Daryl... I need to talk to you."
Daryl stops and looks at the other man who was circling around to his other side, blocking him from going any further, "About what?"
"About Merle. There was a problem in Atlanta." Shane replies. Daryl looks at Shane, then the women in front of the RV, then the other guys that had stopped behind him.
Daryl starts to pace slightly, a classic sign of nervousness found in alpha and a defensive move animal make when they are scared or feel threatened. Rick recognizes the move ... Daryl was feeling cornered, and he would lash out if he feels threatened. Rick stays back and watches Daryl's squirrels moving from his shoulder to balled in his hand, "He dead?"
Shane sighs. "We're not sure."
Daryl snaps at Shane. "He either is or he ain't!"
Rick walks up on the other side on Daryl quickly, but he stops far from the other man, careful to not coral him and leaving room for him to escape if need be. Daryl's attention snaps to him and the pacing stops, just like Rick wanted. 'Give them something to focus on, and they feel more secure.'
"No easy way to say this, so I'll just say it."
"Who are you?" Daryl scowls in confusion, having never seen the Alpha in the camp before. The thought of another Alpha in the camp unnerves the alpha, especially since there are now two of them circling him.
"Rick Grimes."
"Rick Grimes," the alpha mocks, stepping closer to Rick, "you got something you want to tell me?"
Rick decides to go about this like a cop and just bluntly say the first thing that came to mind, defusing the situation. He had a feeling that it would be better than beating around the bush, especially with this alpha, "Your brother was a danger to us all, so I handcuffed him on a roof, hooked him to a piece of metal. He's still there."
"Hold on." Daryl starts to pace again, faster, his voice getting louder until he was shouting, "Let me process this. You're saying you handcuffed my brother to a roof... and you left him there?!"
"Yeah."
Daryl bite his lip and waits a second, then throws the squirrels at Rick to distract him. As he runs at Rick, Shane smacks into him, knocking him into the ground.
Daryl pulled his knife out, slashing at Rick blindly. Rick grabs Daryl's wrist and twist it quick and gentle so he doesn't break his wrist, but makes him drop the knife which the Alpha kicks out of the way. At the same time Shane comes up behind Daryl and put him in a chokehold, pulling him down to the ground.
"You'd best let me go!" Daryl screams. The alpha kicks out, trying to get away from the Alpha holding him. Rick can see the fear in his eyes even as he glares at him. The alpha was a fighter, one who had learned the hard way to never show fear. Rick and Shane had seen these kinds of alphas and omegas before, the ones born in Traditional homes but also raised around New-School communities.
Shane just holds him still, squeezing and rumbling deep in his throat. "Nah, I think it's better if I don't."
Daryl growls, his eyes flashing, "Choke hold's illegal."
The Alpha just laughs. "You can file a complaint."
Rick kneels in front of the hunter, waiting until he caught his eye before holding it there, "I'd like to have a calm discussion on this topic. Do you think we can manage that?"
Shane squeezes a little. "Hmm?"
Daryl scowls but relaxes. "Yeah."
Shane waits until Rick gives him a nod. The Alpha squeezes a little more, choking the alpha. Daryl doesn't make a sound, but his breathing becomes shallow and his eyes tighten. Still looking at Rick the alpha hisses through his teeth. To Rick it sounds like a whine. Rick's eyes shoot up to Shane, the other Alpha bares his teeth in a smile. Rick shows his teeth and hardens his gaze. Shane huffs then lets the alpha go, showing his neck to Rick briefly. Daryl sits on the ground for a moment, catching his breath, pointing one accusing finger at Shane.
Rick, still kneeling next to the man, looks him in the eye again. "What I did was not on a whim. Your brother does not work and play well with others."
T-Dog chimes in, wanting to come clean as well, "It's not Rick's fault. I had the key, I dropped it. Well, I dropped it in a drain."
"If it's supposed to make me feel better, it don't." Daryl gets up and throws some rocks at the Beta's feet, pacing again.
"Well, maybe this will." T-Dog says moving around the younger Dixon, keeping him away from his back like he was scare the other man would jump him if he did, "Look, I chained the door to the roof... So, the geeks couldn't get at him... With a padlock."
"It's gotta count for something." Rick's voice draws Daryl's attention.
"Hell with all y'all! Just tell me where he is so that I can go get him." Daryl wipes the sweat from his eyes, a waver in his voice was the only indication on how bad the other man was taking the news. In Rick's ears it sounded like the alpha was going to start crying. No one else seemed to hear the tremor in his voice though, and that concerned Rick. Merle might be a piece of shit, but this man was clearly nothing like his brother, yet everyone was treating him the same as the older Dixon. Merle was his omega brother and Daryl was protective of him and it was causing this alpha pain to know his omega brother could be dead....
"He'll show you." Lori says, hidden disgust and anger in her voice as she talks to her husband, "Isn't that right?"
Rick sighs as he looks at everyone, catching Glenn, T-Dog, Shane, and Lori's eyes, before looking at Daryl. "I'm going back."
Lori scowls and rolls her eyes with a huff, walking into the RV and slamming the door. Daryl stares at Rick, like he's calculating his words before he nods and walks off, going to gut the squirrels and clean his arrows.
.....
Stiles wasn't plaining to lose his father right after he got him back and he stood by Daryl...
Later, Rick comes out of the Grimes tent with his police uniform on. He walks past Shane who seems intent on telling Rick just how pissed off he is that the other Alpha was planning on leaving camp.
"So that's it, huh?" He scowls, matching Ricks pace, "You're just gonna walk off? Just to hell with everybody else?"
Rick sighs as he finishes buttoning his shirt, "I'm not saying to hell with anybody..."
Shane sighs, desperate to understand, "Could you just... Could you throw me a bone here, man? Could you just tell me why? Why would you risk your life for a douche bag like Merle Dixon?"
Daryl looks up from where he's cleaning his arrows. "Hey, choose your words more carefully."
"No, I did. Douche bag's what I meant." The Alpha turns back to Rick muttering under his breath, "Merle Dixon...The guy wouldn't give you a glass of water if you were dying of thirst."
Rick, fed up with everyone's attitude about the Dixons, growls back, "What he would or wouldn't do doesn't interest me. I can't let a man die of thirst... me. Thirst and exposure. We left him like an animal caught in a trap. That's no way for anything to die, let alone a human being."
The whole camp was watching the exchange between the two Alphas, worried. Shane was the Prime Alpha as far as they were concerned, and the man had put the other Alphas and a few Betas in their place. Rick was the new Alpha and yet it seems as if the man had come and claimed the Prime's mate and pup and was giving the Prime Alpha orders too. Noticing the exchange as well, Lori looks up from where the mothers and their kids were working on school work. "So, you and Daryl, that's your big plan?"
"Oh, come on." Glenn understands instantly when his Alpha turns to him. While he was happy that his Alpha wanted him along, Glenn really didn't want to come.
"You know the way. 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 nods towards Lori, who rolls her eyes. "You don't have to come... but I'm asking."
"Ok." Glenn nods. His Alpha had given him a way out, had allowed him to decide if he wanted to come. He didn't demand that he go into the city like Shane had. He hadn't used his Alpha position to force Glenn's hand. That was the only reason that the Asian Alpha had agreed to go; that and he knew that Shane would hurt him for Rick's actions. Shane was a Traditional Alpha where Rick was a New-School. In Shane's mind, Glenn had abandoned one Pack for another, and Shane would feel the need to reclaim him while the new Pack bonds were weak.
Shane grits his teeth at seeing Glenn agree, realizing Rick scent on the runt Alpha, and the situation that places on the group.
T-Dog stands up. "I'm goin' too."
"Why you?" Daryl asks, genuinely curious.
"You wouldn't even begin to understand. Your people don't speak my language." The Beta huffs looking away. Daryl's eyes go dark and he bits his lip, a deep sigh through his nose seems to release all the tension draining from his body. Numb, he goes back to setting up his crossbow for the journey with a rumble in his chest. Rick hears it and is surprised; most Omegas will purr or whine. To hear one rumble like an Alpha or Beta was shocking and fascinating.
"That's five." Dale chimes in.
"It's not just four." Shane gets in Rick's face, challenging him, "You're putting every single one of us at risk. That Walker was here; it was in camp. They come back, we need every able body we've got. We need 'em to protect camp."
Rick steps back and places his hand on his gun, eyes narrow and chin raised, "It seems to me what you really need most here are more guns."
"Right, the guns." Glenn smiles in realization at his Alpha's plan.
Shane, seeing the look that Glenn gives Rick questions, "Wait. What guns?"
"I cleaned out the cage back at the station before I left. I dropped the bag in Atlanta when I got swarmed. It's just sitting there on the street, waiting to be picked up."
"Ammo?" Shane bites his lip, considering and forgetting the challenge for a moment.
Rick nods "700 rounds, assorted."
"You went through hell to find us." Lori speaks up, pissed that her lover was listening to her husband, willing to let him leave, "You just got here and you're gonna turn around and leave?"
Carl bites his lip, "Dad, I don't want you to go."
Rick stops for a minute to calm down, upset that Lori and Shane are fighting him and now Carl thinks he was abandoning them... again. A rumble leaves him, making Shane and Glenn lower their head and step back, to the amazement of the camp. Lori continues, unaware of what she was causing.
"To hell with the guns. Shane is right. Merle Dixon? He's not worth one of your lives, even with guns thrown in." Lori stands up as Rick walks over to her, "Tell me. Make me understand."
Rick ignores the look she gives him, like she wants him to yell at her and argue. It was a look that she had given him every day for the last couple of years causing many nights sleeping on the couch when he would just do as she told him instead of fighting her. He remembers the last time he had seen her, before he was shot, and what she had said to him, 'Maybe you don't care about us at all.'
Shaking his head, Rick replies to his Mate in a calm voice as usual in their fights, "I owe a debt to the Alpha I met and his pup."
Lori, wide eye and panting, goes to gesture to their son, ready to bring him into another one of their fights, but Rick stops her, "Lori, if they hadn't taken me in, I'd have died. It's because of them that I made it back to you at all. They said they'd follow me to Atlanta. They'll walk into the same trap I did if I don't warn him."
Lori glares at the Rick's shirt, not able to be mad at him for this and hating it, "What's stopping you?"
"The walkie-talkie, the one in the bag I dropped. He's got the other one. Our plan was to connect when they got closer." Rick says, seeing his Mate calm down somewhat at the explanation.
Shane groans. "These are our walkies?"
Rick, knowing where the Alpha's thoughts are, sighs, "Yeah."
"So, use the CB. What's wrong with that?" Andrea asks.
Shane sighs. "The CB's fine. It's the walkies, they don't match any other bandwidth... Not even the scanners in our cars."
Rick looks at Lori as she scowls at the ground. "I need that bag. Okay? Not just for the walkie."
At his Mate's scowl and nod, like she expected him to explain himself without her asking, Rick sighs, "I had some other supplies. I was able to find Suppressants: Alpha and Omega kinds."
The group freezes. Shane's head snaps up in interest, a few of the Omegas whisper in excitement. Daryl had frozen, his crossbow and arrow forgotten as Rick glances at him. Lori follows his gaze, but only sees the chatting Omega women, Daryl quick to go back to what he was doing and ignoring everyone.
Rick continues. "If we run into another group they will be useful, especially for the Omegas. We can avoid fighting if we have those pills. What will happen if one of them goes into heat, Lori? If we run into another group with one of them in heat... they could kill us all to get ahold of them. I can't let that happen if I can prevent it. I won't put my family and this group in that kind of danger."
Lori huffs, knowing there was nothing she could say. "All right I just don't see why you have to go."
Rick ignores her as well as he can and approaches Carl and ask if that was Okay? Carl nods knowing that his dad was right; it wasn't fair to the man who saved his dad. And it wasn't fair to the alpha either.
Stiles wave to his brother and followed behind his father.