Abusive | Carl Grimes

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I aim my gun to his head and he leans on the doorframe.

"You gonna shoot me?" He chuckles.

"Not if you give me a reason to, and you did" I glare at him.

"I don't think so" he says.

And with one swift movement, he grabs my gun with one hand and my wrist with the other.

He pulls me close to him harshly, my back hits his chest. He points the gun at my head.

"If you even aim a fucking gun at me again, I will kill you." He growls in my ear and throws my gun on the floor.
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When we get enough supplies, we settle for a house.

We clear it and I take out the first aid kit again.

"Rick, let me help you with your wounds.." I mutter and Rick sits down on the couch.

I clean up all of his wounds and then stand up.

"All you need is some rest." I sigh and Rick lays on the couch.

When he falls asleep, I grab my backpack and load my gun.

I holster it and unlock the front door.

"Where do you think you're going?" I hear from behind me.

I turn around, "I'm leaving, I took care of Rick and that's all I came here for"

And with that, I walk out.

"You're not going anywhere" he grabs my arm and turns me around.

I glare at him and pull my arm away.

"And why is that?" I cross my arms.

"Because you can't just fucking leave like that" he glares back at me.

"Watch me" I say and turn back around and start walking.

He grabs me by my waist and picks me up.

"Get away from me!" I scream and squirm around.

He slaps his hand over my mouth.

"Shh, you'll attract walkers"

I continue to squirm around and accidentally knock the hat off of his head.

"Shit.." He mutters and puts me down.

Idiot

I take that advantage to run. "Come back here Ariana!" He yells and starts running after me.

"Go away!" I yell back and enter the woods.

I dodge a walker and keep running.

I slow down a little to catch my breath and immediately get tackled to the ground.

I land on my back, Carl pins my arms to the side.

I look up at him, panting.

"I'll make a deal with you" he pants and stares down at me.

"When my dad wakes up, you can leave.. Okay?"

I stay silent for a second, then I flip us over, so I'm on top.

He looks at me in surprise. "He's fine. I took care of him." I say.

"Since you didn't seem to care" I mutter.

Just then, he flips us over again and slams my back harder onto the ground.

"You know what? You're right. And that's why you are coming with me" he growls and straddles me.

He leans closer to me and I stare into his cold, unemotional eye.

"I want to make sure my dad wakes up alive. And if he doesn't, I'll kill you" he whispers the last part in my ear.

He gets off of me and holds on to my wrist, dragging me back into the house.
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He drags me upstairs and throws me onto the bed.

"Don't. move." He growls and shuts the door.

I sigh and get off of the bed, heading towards the window.

It doesn't have a lock to open or close it. And if I break it, Carl would hear.

I look at the night sky, at all the stars dancing around the dark moon.

"It was never like this before this all started." I mumbled to myself.

I plop onto the bed and fall asleep in a second.
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I wake up to hear a thud.

"What the hell.." I mumble and rub my eyes.

I stand up and try to open the door but it's locked.

I hear rapid footsteps walking up the stairs.

The door busts open and I stumble back.

Carl runs in and grabs me, dragging me downstairs.

He collapses on the floor next to the couch.

He scoots back and loads his gun, pointing it at my temple.

His back hits the armchair and he pulls me closer to him, pressing the gun harder onto my head.

"Look what you did.." He growls.

Rick was on the ground, his hand reaching towards us.

"Look what you fucking did!" He yells at me.

"C-Carl" I whimper as he tightens his grip onto my arm.

"Carl.." Rick suddenly croaks.

He drops the gun. "D-Dad?.." His grip on my arm goes loose.

I Stand up, "don't do that Carl.." Rick chocked.

I grab his arms and pull him back onto the couch.

"Rick it's okay, he was just scared that you died." I mutter and he falls back asleep.

I run up the stairs, I go into the room and plop on the bed.

I'm done with this shit.

I cover myself with the blankets.

Just then, the door creaks open.

I turn around and sit up, I see Carl walk in.

"Move over" he sighs.

"Why are you here?.." I spit.

But then I remembered that there's only one bedroom.

I sigh and scoot over against the wall.

The bed dips a little, Carl puts his hat on the night stand.

He groans and I turn around, my back facing him.

He shifts around and falls asleep.

I close my eyes and fall asleep as well.