Survive// Reader × Carl Grimes

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"Kinsie and David have been infected" Jake says from outside my door.

not suprised.

"Well no suprise there." I say and he scoffs. "How are you?"

"Good, just keeping my distance" he says and I nod before letting out a sigh.

"I'm sorry" I say "for everything, especially for that time I killed your goldfish" I hear him chuckle then put his head against the door.

"I knew it was you! but anyways, I have to go"

"Okay, be safe, I love you." I say and with that I heard the front door open than close.

I hear Carl snicker from the corner and I glare at him. "What are you snickering at?"

"Goldfish killer" he says and I rolled my eyes

Of course the gods would set us up in the same room.

Silence came over us quickly making me bored.

"I wish I was in love but I don't wanna cause any pain" I sing softly to myself.

"You have a beautiful voice." Carl says making me jump a little forgetting that I wasn't alone.
"Better than Beth"

"Umm" was all I could say, my face turns red, embarrassed, nobody has never heard me sing
"T-Thanks"

"Continue" he says and I shake my head. "Come on, we're going to be stuck in here for awhile and I can't listen to music" I sigh and think it out.

"Fine " I say huffing, I close my eyes and try to remember the lyrics until I felt something warm against my lips making my heart rush, I open my eyes and see Carl.

Holy shit.

I smirk and close my eyes again then felt the warmth of his callused hands go up my shirt, he picks me up and places me on the desk.

'Stuart'

I push him away. "I-ho- what the hell?!" He rolls his eyes. "I'm with-"

"But you wish you weren't" he says interrupting me. "If you did, you wouldn't have let it go so far" I glare at him, I hated how he knew me. "Everybody can see that-"

"If I didn't like him I would of broken up with him. I love him" the words were like vomit to me.

"That's why you tried to kill him?" I clenched my jaw.

How the hell does he know?!

I shook my head.

"H-How do you know about that?"

"I'm a very light sleeper"

"Just break up with him." He says and I sigh.

Wow why didn't I think of that. I roll my eyes and he comes up to me.

"I've already tried." I say in a whisper and he puts his head against mind. "I can't. He threatened to hurt you and Jake and-"

"Like I've told you before....nobody is gonna to hurt you or anyone as long as I'm around."

"How do you know that?" I ask and as if it was an insult to his manhood, he glares at me before scoffing and sliding his arms across the desk causing everything on it to fall onto the floor, I flich as he does.
"Look, Carl I didn't mean it like that! You know for remainder of the time can we just-" he walks out and I sigh as he does, I run a hand through my hair then close my eyes.

You idiot. You should of kept it going.

As night fell Carl came back inside for awhile before walking out of the office without me noticing and being the pain in the ass I was I came out of the office room and walk outside, feeling the fresh, cold, crisp air hit me. I close my eyes and take a deep breath in and as I open my eyes I see the walkers taking down the gates.

My god!

I run down and see just Rick and Carl, Rick sees me and nods accepting my help.

"Got it?" He asks handing me an assault rifle "the mag does in-"

"Rick...I know this." I say interrupting him and he nods, he looks at Carl and I then back at the walkers who were about to break down the fence at any second.

"You shoot or you run" he says and I nod watching as the walkers come and we begin shooting one by one until I hear gun shots going off from inside the prison. "Eyes on the walkers y/n!"
I turn my attention back toward the dead.

"Carl cover me!" I say reloading my gun, he runs in front of me and as he does I slam the mag into the chamber then come up from behind him and shoot, it felt like we were straight out of an action movie.
When it came down to the last walker Carl shoots it and we let out a breath knowing that the prison stood for another day, I set the gun down and turn around to see that the gates had been opened up and a car comes through.
Bob, Michonne, Daryl, and Tyreese.