Author's note: This story takes place about 3 months after episode 6X10 but Hilltop and the Saviors don't exist. Also, I noticed the sad lack of stories with these four powerhouse women together, so I decided to make one. I would've added Rosita and Tara too but I don't think I could do justice to 6 different characters at once. Enjoy.

Michonne gave two quick bursts on the horn as she, Carol, and Sasha waited in the car for Maggie. They had been waiting outside Maggie's house for at least 20 minutes, and the trio was getting antsy. The door was open and they knew Maggie knew they were outside, and yet she still hadn't come out.

"I'll get her" Michonne said to the other two women, as she unbuckled her seat belt. "No" Carol said, already opening her door, "I'll do it".

Carol quickly exited the car and walked up to the house Maggie and Glenn shared. "Maggie!" Carol yelled through the screen door. "I'm comin'!" Maggie yelled back to her. Carol could hear shuffling as though Maggie was looking for something. Carol opened the door and curiously peeked inside. Maggie was furiously rushing around her living room shoving objects into a bag.

"Maggie, we're going to be gone literally four hours. What could you possibly be packing?" Carol asked incredulously.

"I get hungry" she said defensively, "I need to bring snacks, plus it doesn't hurt to be prepared with some blankets and other things… just in case".

Carol sighed. Maggie was three months pregnant and in full cravings mode, but this run was her idea. She wanted to go shopping for baby things and insisted that she go along to pick the baby supplies that she wanted. She also suggested on making it a ladies' afternoon out since she barely got to spend time with just the ladies in the family. The other three women readily agreed to go as it was a rare treat to spend some time together without the men, except for Rosita and Tara who were on guard duty.

Carol walked up to Maggie as she shoved a final object into the already full bag. "Ok" Maggie said, moving some hair from her face, "I'm ready to go". Carol gave an amused sigh and picked up Maggie's bag from the couch. "Thanks" Maggie said as the two of them made their way outside.

"About time" Sasha mumbled, and Michonne smirked at the heavy bag Carol was carrying.

Maggie lowered herself into the front seat as Carol shoved the bag into the trunk and got into the back seat behind Michonne.

"Ok ladies, let's go!" Maggie said enthusiastically.

There was an annoyed silence as Michonne pulled out from Maggie's house. Maggie turned around. "What? I wasn't that long!"

She was met with more silence and Sasha rolled her eyes.

"Hey I am pregnant you know!" Maggie said defensively.

Michonne chuckled. "I hope you brought enough snacks to share" she said quietly.

"But of course" Maggie said with a smile.

They got to the front gate of Alexandria where Abraham, Rick, and Glenn were standing. As they pulled up, the men glanced through the car windows.

"Be safe ladies" Rick called, even though his eyes were staring into Michonne's. He leaned into the car and gave her a kiss on the lips. Abraham reached into the car and stroked Sasha's cheek and she grabbed his hand, holding it against her face. Glenn leaned in to kiss Maggie in the front passenger seat. Carol looked on at the lovebirds and sighed, turning to look out the window. Michonne put the car in gear and Glenn called out "be good!". The women all simultaneously yelled "we won't!" and they then burst out laughing at their unplanned jinx.

As they drove, they all got quiet again, lost in their own thoughts. Maggie glanced over at Michonne who was staring straight ahead as she drove, barely blinking, seemingly day dreaming.

"So… you and Rick. How is everything going?" Maggie asked. The mention of Rick seemed to snap Michonne out of her thoughts. "Hmm? Um… oh… yea fine" she stuttered, utterly lost. Maggie chuckled. "It's that good huh?"

"What?" Michonne asked.

"Must be. She's smiled more in the past few weeks than I've seen her smile in all the time I've known her." Sasha chimed in.

Michonne rolled her eyes but she couldn't contain the smile that crept up the corners of her mouth.

"See? There it goes again" Maggie said, and Michonne couldn't hold back her smile any more. She chuckled. "Yea. It's good."

The women all let out laughs and giggles. "Do tell, for the sake of us who don't have a sex life" Carol said with a hint of bitterness. Sasha looked over at Carol with a twinge of sympathy, but Maggie and Michonne didn't seem to notice.

Michonne was hesitant about revealing private information about she and Rick, but she hadn't had anyone to talk to since their relationship began, and she wanted to share one of the best things in her life.

"It's more than good, it's amazing. I've never felt like this, ever. It's like… it's like we're soulmates. Like we're connecting on a whole other level."

"Wow" Sasha said, "I'm really happy for you Michonne."

"Me too" Maggie added, "that's great. It's not weird or anything? I mean, I know you guys were friends first…"

"That's the thing" Michonne said, her eyes flashing with an excitement that the other women had never seen before. "It's that much better because we were friends. We know each other. We trust each other. So it's just… easy."

"Well it's safe to say our girl is in love" Sasha said, patting Michonne's shoulder. "And she's got it bad."

The women all chuckled, genuinely happy for Michonne. "Speaking of love, you would know" Michonne said, looking at Sasha through the rearview window. "How's things with you and Abraham?"

The other women let out an "Ooooooh" as if they were little girls talking about a crush in the school cafeteria.

Sasha let out a coy smile. "We're uh… we're good" she said cryptically as she glanced out of the window. "Oh come on" Carol said, "If tight lipped Michonne spilled her business, you have to too."

"Hey!" Michonne protested, pretending to be insulted.

"She does have a point Michonne" Maggie said with a smile.

Sasha cracked a smile. "He asked me… if I could have a baby… he told me he could… with me."

Everyone's mouth dropped open. "Wow, now that's commitment" Maggie said.

"I know… I was shocked. I… I didn't know what to say. I mean it's too early anyway. We've only been together for a few months. And Rosita… I know she's forgiven everything that happened, but I feel like a baby would be rubbing it in her face."

"Do you want a baby?" Michonne asked.

Sasha paused to think. "I don't know. I want to think I'll be more ready in a few months maybe? But what if I don't have a few months? I mean… life is short right? Maybe now is the best time."

Everyone was quiet as they thought about Sasha's words.

"What about you Michonne? Do you want a baby?" Sasha asked, and her question completely took Michonne by surprise. Michonne's eyes snapped to the back seat. There was an uncomfortable silence.

"Michonne has Judith, she already has her hands full" Carol said, trying to let Michonne off the hook.

Michonne seemed to gain her composure, but Maggie noticed her eyes were beginning to sheen over with tears.

"Are you ok Michonne?" Maggie asked, and the other women glanced in her direction.

Michonne had never talked about the child she'd lost to anyone but Carl and eventually Rick. But she felt like this was the perfect time to share her loss with these women that she thought of as her sisters.

"Michonne?" Carol asked, concerned.

"I had a son" she confessed.

The other three women were silent and stared at her in shock.

"He… he died… it was walkers" she continued, and a tear ran down her cheek.

"Oh my God" Maggie whispered, unconsciously holding her own belly.

"Michonne… I'm so sorry" Sasha said, feeling guilty that she had asked the question in the first place. Carol was suddenly silent.

"Yea… it was a while ago… but… I don't know if I want to. I don't know if I can again." Michonne said, quickly wiping her tear away with the back of her hand.

There was another long silence and Michonne, feeling badly that she soured the mood of the trip sniffed "way to ruin the fun Sasha". The other women laughed and Sasha shot back "you started it".

"Ok, we haven't heard from Carol yet!" Maggie said, suddenly excited again as she turned around in her seat. Carol had begun staring out the window after Michonne's revelation, and Maggie knew why. She decided to take the woman's mind off of her own daughter.

"So has anyone in Alexandria caught your eye Carol?" Maggie asked.

Carol glanced over at Maggie and chuckled. "Well… I'm not getting laid if that's what you're asking" she admitted bluntly, causing another round of laughter.

"Well is there anyone you would get with?" Sasha asked, genuinely curious.

Carol's face turned a little red. "Maybe…" she said, a smile spreading across her face.

"Lemme guess…" Maggie said. "Daryl!" all three women said in chorus.

Carol's face flushed a deeper shade of red "how do you know?" she asked, "you don't know me!"

"I think even Judith saw that one coming" Michonne joked.

"Well there's nothing to see, there's nothing happening there, and there's definitely no cumming" Carol said rolling her eyes.

"Why not?" Sasha asked, "He's obviously into you too. You guys are always together."

"He will never make the first move Carol, he almost reminds me of Rick. You gotta help him if you wanna be with him" Michonne suggested.

"Help him?" she asked incredulously.

"Yea, nudge him in the right direction. Make it so he can't refuse and he doesn't have a way to back off or run away from you."

"Lingerie always works" Maggie suggested. Everyone turned and looked at her. "What? It does!"

Michonne snorted and Sasha choked a little.

"That would definitely send him running for the hills" Carol said. "I'll think of something. Something simple."

"Yea. Find him a squirrel, that's the way to a hunter's heart" Sasha mumbled.

"And then skin that squirrel in lingerie" Maggie added, causing the women to laugh hysterically.

"You know, we should do this more often" Sasha said, "this is nice, to get away from the testosterone once and a while. How about we make this a monthly thing. A ladies' afternoon out? Or we can even just hang out in someone's house and kick out the men."

"I'd like that" Michonne added. Carol nodded.

"It has been declared, ladies' afternoon out is now a thing!" Maggie said in an official sounding voice.

The four women traveled to the Babies R Us, laughing and talking the entire time. Truly getting to know each other in a way they hadn't gotten a chance to in a long while.

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An hour and a half later, they were inside the store, mostly grabbing baby items at random. Diapers were all gone, but baby lotion and powder was still available, as was all of the larger items. Michonne and Carol carried the crib to the car as Sasha helped Maggie pick out a car seat and stroller.

After the two women maneuvered the heavy box into the trunk, Carol broke their comfortable silence.

"I know what it's like" she started, looking down at the ground. "To lose your baby. To know that the little one you carried inside of you is no longer…" Carol cut her sentence off and sighed. "I know what it's like to wonder what their last moments were like. If they were scared, if they called out for you and you weren't there… I know the guilt of not being there when your baby needed you. When Sofia died, I didn't see the point in living anymore, but there was something inside of me, that kept me living despite everything. Some stubborn part of me that I still don't understand. It kept living even though half of me had died."

Carol suddenly stopped talking and finally looked up into Michonne's eyes. Michonne had tears streaming down her face and her lower lip was trembling, because Carol had described exactly how she felt. Michonne had heard that Carol had once had a daughter, but no one had really talked about what happened to the girl, and Michonne wasn't sure how the girl died. Seeing the way Carol was looking at her, she was sure the girl had died almost the same way Andre had.

"Sometimes I wonder if the rest of the group has forgotten her. If she even existed. They don't talk about her. I… I don't talk about her. But I think about her all the time. Sometimes…" Carol looked away from Michonne to wipe away a tear. "Sometimes when I'm remembering her, I forget all the details in her face. I don't remember how her eyebrows looked, how her chin looked. It's like she's…"

"disappearing…" Michonne answered with a knowing look. Carol shook her head. "Yea."

"I'm so sorry Michonne" Carol said, tears leaving her own eyes as she looked at the only other person in the group who understood exactly how she felt.

Michonne opened her arms and wrapped them around Carol's shoulders as the two women embraced. "Thank you Carol" Michonne said, "I am too."

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"This one is cute" Maggie said, nodding towards the gray and yellow car seat/ stroller set.

"Yea, especially since you don't know what you're having. Plus, it seems sturdy enough to last for baby number two… or three…" Sasha said.

"Yea. Or… I can let my friend borrow it when she has her own little one" Maggie said, moving her eyebrows up and down at Sasha.

"Well… I guess… if it comes to that." Sasha said noncommittedly.

"Was there anything else you needed?" Michonne asked, coming back into the store from loading the trunk, discreetly wiping her eyes.

"Um… since we're here and there's still some room in the car, maybe we can get some things the baby will need when it's a little older? A potty… um… and some of those stuffed animals?"

"So basically anything this child could possibly need for the next 3 years. Got it." Michonne said with a wink as she disappeared down another aisle.

"Ok, I think this gray and yellow one is my choice" Maggie said, lifting the car seat from its display as Sasha dragged out the stroller's box.

"Boy, Glenn is gonna have a field day putting all this stuff together" Sasha said sarcastically. Maggie laughed.

Carol came in from outside. "Ok we only have space in the trunk for a box or two and everything else might have to be tied to the roof."

"I'm done, I've got everything I need" Maggie said as Michonne stepped out of another aisle balancing a box with a potty, multiple baby books, and a giant stuffed bear.

"Man I'm hungry, I think it's time to dip into the goody bag" Maggie said as the women walked out the front door, "Apples anyone?"

As they walked out of the door into the bright sunshine the women were temporarily blinded, but suddenly they all froze in their tracks. They were completely surrounded by ten men armed with guns and knives.

One of the men stepped forward. "Hi! My name is Noah, and I love apples" he said with a smile.