Survive// Reader × Carl Grimes

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We were surrounded, no way out, the whistling didn't stop until a man came towards us. Simon, the man who kept changing our route to Hilltop, the man who lead us here.

"You made it, welcome to where you're goin'" he says and I glare at him as he gets closer to us. "We'll take your weapons" we all stay still as he takes out his gun and points it at us as we still don't budge "now!"

"We can talk about this." Rick says trying to negotiate with him, I look to my side and see Eugene beaten, he looks at me with sadness in his eyes and I look away unable to see him like that.

"We're done talkin' " he says "time to listen!" I look at Maggie who's still in misery, I stare at her until I feel hands go on my ass, I look at the person touching me and punched him in the face leading a dozen guns pointing at me. "Feisty one! Guns down, let the boss take care of this one" they do as they're told and I glare at Simon. "Alright let's get her down and y'all on your knees!"

"We'll take her down" Rick says as they set the gurney down, Abraham and I help Maggie down and place her near Eugene.

"You're okay" I whisper to her and she nods, I see the sweat increase so I grab her wrist and feel her pulse was slowly decreasing causing me to start worrying. "you'll be fine."

"Get on your knees" we look at Rick and he nods, I get down and glance at Carl who is next to me.
"Dwight bring them out!" I look at the man with a scarred face and blond hair who comes out of the crowd and walks to a van, he opens the doors and I hold in a gasp as I see Daryl come out beaten and bruised.

"Come on, you got new people to meet" Dwight says, Daryl and I immediately lock eyes and his face is full of emotions but mostly worry.

"Maggie?" Glenn says seeing his pregnant wife across from him causing her to start tearing up, he's pushed onto the floor but doesn't stop "Maggie!" I get a sick feeling in my stomach as I watch him try to fight but they continue to hold him down. I look away and see Eugene on the verge of sobbing, I look back at Daryl who's still looking at me worried.

Is this it?

"Alright we have a full boat!" Simon says backing up to see all of us, he goes to our RV we made Eugene operate so that we had a chance to escape. "Let's meet the man!" he knocks on the door and it opens up. I look down and feel the baby moving around my stomach making me want to start sobbing not knowing if this was it..

"Pissin' our pants yet?" The boss asks, I stare down at the floor and listen. "Boy do I have a feeling we're getting close" I hear his feet against the gravel walking towards us. "Yup y'all are going to be pissin' your pants real soon" he stops walking.
"Which one of you pricks is the leader?"

his voice, his voice, why does it sound so familiar? As if I've heard it since birth?

"It's this one" Simon says probably pointing at Rick "this guy" I feel my jaw clench. The guy in charge walks up to him and sighs.

"Hi, you're Rick right?"

"I'm Negan and I don't appreciate you killing my men" he says and my eyes widen.

No, no it- i-it can't be him.

"-also when I sent my people to kill your people you killed more of my people. Not cool!" He says "you have no idea how uncool that shit is...you're going to regret crossing me in a few minutes.." I hear him say more stuff but I stop listening as I'm too caught up with my own thoughts.

This can't be Negan, Negan died in an accident when I turned two, with aunt Luci. Right?

"-You work for me now, you have shit? Give it to me! That's your job, I know that's a big nasty pill to swallow but swallow it- this is your way of life now-" I start feeling so dizzy that I begin tuning in and out of his damn speech. "You didn't actually think you were going to get out of this without being punished did you?" I look at Carl who showed no fear. "I didn't want to kill you people, I want you to work for me, you can't do that if you're dead now can you? I'm not growing a garden but you killed my people, a whole damn lot of them, more than I'm comfortable with and for that I'm going to beat the holy hell out of one of you " my throat closes up and I feel my heart beat fast as I see a bat with barbwire in it. "This, this is Lucille and she. Is. Awesome!" I finally look up with my eyes tearing up. "So who's going to have the honor?" he walks over to Abraham and takes in a shaky breath, I look down as I see him walk towards us..more specifically Carl.

"You have one of our guns" he tells Carl and I can't help but glare at Carl. "You have a lot of our guns." he kneels down and I take a glance up and I'm unable to speak causing me to look back down.

Holy shit.

"Leave her alone!" Carl says and I look up at him. I see his eyes slightly widen but he walks away acting as if he was seeing things.

"Oh sweetheart you look shitty, I should probably put you out of your misery" He says to Maggie while tossing his stupid but yet intimidating bat in his hand.

"NO! NO!" Glenn says trying to tackle Negan but fails as he gets tackled to the ground by his men.

"STOP!" Maggie yells

"Get him back in line" he says and they kick him back into the line. Glenn groans and gets back onto his knees.

"No! please don't" he begs making Negan laugh.

"Alright all of you listen, don't you ever do that again, I will shut that shit down no exceptions! First one's free, it's emotional, I get it" he says and I shake my head knowing something was going to happen. "Sucks don it? Not knowing what's going to happen next" I feel the sweat and stray tears fall down my face "but somebody has to die" he begins to whistle while walking down "I simply can not decide" I swallow. "If anybody says anything cut the boy's other eye out and feed it to his father" I hear him go down the row. "Eenie, meenie, miney, moe, Catch a tiger by the toe. If he hollers. Let him go. My mother said to pick the very best one
And. You. Are. It." I look at Rosita's bloodshot eyes then at Sasha who begins breaking down as Negan stops at Abraham "you can breath, you can lick, hell-" He raises up the bat and swings down, I let out a screech and watch as Abe falls but gets back up
"oh would you look at that TAKING IT LIKE A CHAMP!" My eyes widen in absolute horror.

"Suck. My. Nuts." Abraham says and Negan hits him again and again, with every hit I hear his skull crack and there's absolutely nothing I could do causing me to break down into tears and look away.

"He said suck my nuts" Negan says laughing "guys look at this, he made my girl dirty" he flings the bat making blood hit my face. "Oh did you two have something?" I look at Rosita to see her staring in complete shock. "Look at this" she doesn't look instead she stares down at the floor "LOOK AT IT!" I feel a poke in my stomach and I look down to notice the weapon in my pocket.

"LEAVE HER ALONE!" Daryl says getting up and punching Negan in the face, he's immediately shoved back onto the floor and I watch as Dwight points the crossbow in his face.

"Want me to put him down?" Dwight asks Negan and as I try to intervene, I couldn't find the words. It was as if my mouth was glued shut.

"No we have a very important job to do with Daryl." Negan smirks and looks back at Abraham's now deceased body.

"Get Daryl back in line" Negan tells Dwight and he does as he's told "I let the first time go but I said the second one isn't and I'm a man of my word." he turns to Glenn and strikes him making Maggie and I scream.

"NO!" I yell sobbing. Glenn gets up with blood running down his face. Maggie begins sobbing. Glenn tries to say something but gets hit again.

"NEGAN! STOP" he doesn't.

A guy grabs Carl because I spoke and as he does I grab the knife that I had in my pocket and stab him in the stomach making him let go off Carl, I slit his and another guards neck before I get tackled to the floor causing the knife to drop, I push the scrawny guy off of me and quickly grab his machete out of his hand and slightly decapitating him until I'm placed in a choke hold which they then force me to watch Glenn get beaten by a bat.

"YOU SON OF A BITCH-" I yell with tears streaming from my eyes as Negan comes up to me. He looks at me in shock again then lets out a chuckles.

"Y/n" he says and I swallow "give me a hug!" I glare at him "oh shit! look at that you got knocked up!" I see Glenn and Abraham's blood on the bat making my anger rise. "Was that your baby daddy?" I try to attack him but I'm restrained back. "Get her into the van."

"Negan stop! D-don't kill them!" I plead as a guy begins dragging me away.
"NEGAN! NEGAN STOP THIS!" I'm pushed inside and the last thing I see is him grabbing Rick by the back of his jacket. "NEGAN!"

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