Penance
"…and I pick you."
I starred at the end of that barbed wire wrapped bat. I could see the scars in it. I knew my life was over as he, Negan, began his first swing.
'Maybe this is what I deserve. This is how I need to end, as penance. But if I take it, well, maybe I'll miss burning in Hell for eternity. I killed a man. I mean, I killed a man cold-bloodedly. He was sleeping. I didn't even give him a chance to fight. I just drove a knife through his eye to the back of his skull.
I tried to hold onto my humanity. I tried to be the man Dale would have wanted me to be. But, Lord, I'm not sorry I tried to wipe these people out. I tried to save my family from this man, these people. But, I guess I became a monster, too. I only ask that I be allowed to be with Maggie when her time has come. That's all I want now.'
And the bat tore into the crown of his head and the world blurred. With the second hit, the world went dark. Maybe the third hit registered, somewhere deep in his autonomic system, but then, that stopped, too.
End
A/N: I want to think I've gotten it out of my system now. If Glenn dies in S7 Epi1, or lives through to another season before the pre-series finale, I'm good now. I'll be okay.