After Negan Smith became mostly a better man, after Rick took him down, after he was let go from the cell after years, he left and went far, up to the deep forest with no small towns or people around for hours. He built his own cabin. Grew his own farm , hunted his own food in the woods with traps. He was living alone. Peaceful. He never wanted kids.

Late one night he hears something in the woods. Footsteps. Weak and shuffling. To quiet to be a walker. He looked around for a while. Finding… you