Survive// Reader × Carl Grimes

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"What the hell?" I say to myself as I see Daryl and Abe run across the lawn, I follow and watch as they run inside Rick's house, I enter and see them raise their guns up at Jesus, the inmate Rick and Daryl brought back from their run. We only talked once but it was a split second, they wouldn't let me near him because of the suspicion they had towards the man.

"I-its okay" Michonne tells us and they hesitantly lower their wepons. Carl looks at me and puts his away too.

"You said we needed to talk so let's talk" Rick says as he puts on a shirt.

"Lets talk" Jesus says standing up to walk down stairs, he sees me and gives me a smile then continues down his path.

"Why are you here?" Carl asks and I give him a look.

"That's none of your business" I say and he glares at me until he walks away.

"Why are you here? You should be alseep" Daryl says and I sigh.

"The baby, it's kicking. It's very hard too sleep" I say to him before turning on my heels to follow Rick into the dining room where we would all sit down and talk.

"So how did you get out?" Rick asks him.

"One guard can't cover two exits with third floor windows, knots untie, locks get picked" Jesus says and I shift in my seat. "I checked out your arsenal. I haven't seen anything like that in a long time. Your well equipped but your provisions are low, very low for the people you have. 54?"

"More than that" Maggie corrects him

"Well I appreciate the cookie, compliments to the chef"

"She ain't here" Daryl says

"Look we got off on a bad start but we're on the same side. The living side, you and Rick had every reason to leave me out there but you didn't. I'm from a place a lot like this one, part of my job is too serch other sedalments to trade with. I took your truck because my community needs things and both of you look like trouble" Jesus tells Rick and Daryl "I was wrong. Your good people and this is a good place, I think our communities may be in a place to help each other"

"You have food?"

"We started to raise livestock" he says "we scavage and we grow, everything to tomatoes to squash"

"Tell us why we should trust you?"

"I'll show you, we can take a car and I'll get you their within a day and we can all show you each other who we are and what we can offer"

"Wait your looking for more settlements? You mean your already trading with other groups?" I ask and they look at me.

"Your world is about to get a whole lot bigger" he says and I raise an eyebrow.

"Fine, you take us but if you try anything-"

"Trust me I won't" Jesus says

"Daryl get the RV ready" Rick tells him and he nods. We all get up and go our separate ways.