Chapter 1

Hearts Still Beating

"Bang" That was the sound that had left the gun she was holding in her shaking hand. "Shit what the shit" Negan shouted at the top of his lungs the anger clearly audible. Rosita Espinosa was knocked down in an instant by Arat and a knife immediately met her throat. "You just you tried to kill me?! You shot Lucille". "She got in the way" She retorted showing no signs of backing down at all it was to late for that anyways.

Negan walked in a circle trying to calm himself down he stopped staring at the shell of the bullet that was just fired at him, bending down and picking it up. "What is this"? he asked inspecting it as if it was something he never seen before "What is this, This little bad boy made from scratch"? Look at those crimps this was homade. Now you may be stupid, darlin', but you showed some real ingenuity here". he was impressed but there was no way in hell she could've made this but he was sure gonna find out who.

"Arat hold that knife up out on that girl's face, Lucille's beautiful smooth surface is never gonna look the same so why should yours" he hissed at her. Rosita bit her tongue she was already on thin ice why cause more problems? Negan raised his voice again holding up the the shell looking at her "Unless you tell me who made this". "It was me" she said quickly she wasn't gonna give out Eugene, if she gets killed it's on her she caused it but if he get killed she couldn't live with that type of blood on her hands "I made it" . "You see, now I just think you're lying and you lying to me Now"?! he shouted she was really starting to piss him off "Such a shame Arat's gonna have to cut up that pretty face, one more try". She answered the same way she did the last time pick her face up getting a scar on her cheek.

Negan started to chuckle admiring her commitment now she was a fighter. "Oh You are such a badass" the amusement audible in his voice "fine, have it your way arat kill somebody". Wasting no time Arat pulled gun aiming it at Olivia and pulling the trigger, killing her and ignored Rosita's shouts. Getting up from her position on the ground Rosita sat up trying to process what happened. 'What the hell did I just cause' she thought to herself.

"We had an agreement" she heard Ricks voice say angrily looking up to see his figure walking up to Negan."Rick, look everybody, it's Rick" Negan croaked out "Your people are making me loose my voice doing all this yelling". "Rick... How about a thank you"? Rick staring at him with disbelief made him realize he needed to give an explanation.

"I mean look I know we started this relationship with me beating the holy fucking shit out of your friends, and because of that we are never gonna sit around and braid each other's hair or share our deepest darkest secrets, but how about a little credit"? I just bent over backwards to show you how reasonable I am". Pointing up at Carl on the porch " Your kid he hid in one of my trucks and machine gunned a bunch of my men down, and I brought him him safe and sound". Ricks head immediately looked at Carl and if looks could kill carl would be long gone. " and I fed him spaghetti".

"Another one of your people well, he wanted me to kill you and put him in charge, I took him out for you". He said pointing at Spencer's corpse." And Another one, here she shot Lucille trying to kill me just now, so I gave you one less mouth to feed and by looking at her that mouth did some major damage, Now personally, I wouldn't have picked her to be the one to go but Arat I don't know didn't trust her".

Rick closed his eyes and took a deep breath obviously pissed off, opening his eyes he stepped closer and hissed out "Your shits waiting for you at the gate just go". With a Cheshire grin plastered on his face Negan stepped closer to Rick "Sure thing Rick right after I find the guy or gal who made this bullet" staring down at Rosita his grin seemed to widen " Better yet sweetheart tell me who made this for you"? pointing Lucille in her face. When she didn't speak up he rolled his eyes and let out a frustrated sigh "Arat"?.

Once again Arat immediately did what she was told and point her weapon at Aaron and Eric with her finger one the trigger. "No" Rosita shouted and soon after Tara shouted "it was me" and closed her eyes as soon as Arat pointed the gun at her. " No it wasn't". Eugene spoke up on the background sobbing. Rosita slowly look up at Eugene with disbelief. "It was me, It was only me".

Negan walked up to him and stared at him for a couple of seconds studying him "you"? he asked than looked down at Rosita who he locked eyes with before he broke their contact to look at Eugene again. "It requires a one spent casing, one four-holed turret reloader, powder, one funnel for the powder-" " Shut up" Negan said cutting him of and looking back down at Rosita who was staring at Eugene he than leaned in towards Eugene spoke up "I believe you".

Negan walked away and drew in a deep breath "Lucille, give me strength, I will be relieving you of your bullet maker, Rick that and whatever you left for me at the front gate. His eyes switched from Rick to Rosita and then back at Rick. "And Her I'll be taking Her too". Rosita head snapped to Negan and she can feel her blood boiling "I am not going anywhere with you" she hissed. Negan made a funny face "Oh yes you are" he challenged. "Rosita" Rick spoke up knowing she wasn't going to back down.

"And I hope you know however much you scavenged, it's not enough, because you're still in a serious, serious hole after today". he said to Rick with a serious expression on his face. "Let's move out, and keep Rosita to me" He pointed at her. As the Saviors started to move and some grab Eugene, Rosita cried and plead "No no no just take me please just me".

"Rick I ain't gonna lie your kitchen is a damn mess" and With that he turned and pulled Rosita off the ground by her arm "Let's go to your brand new home"