A few hours later…
The RV jerked to a stop in Chumash as a newly turned walker ran at Merle, Carly and Johnny running out after Carly grabbed Daryl's pickaxe and chopped a walker's head in two as Johnny shot a second one with his Sawn Off shotgun and Merle stabbed the last one through the neck with his bayonet.
"Saved my ass, violet." Merle says as he tried not to fall, Carly helping steady him.
"You okay?" Carly asks, Merle nodding.
But the second that everyone heard the metal door slam open and saw Trevor run out and to one of the dead, Carly recognised the three walkers as what were left of Ron, Chef and Wade… and Trevor turned angry.
"You bitch! First you let Johnny shove it in you and then you kill my friends?!" Trevor yells.
"Friends?! The second they turned into those things, they stopped being human, Trevor! I didn't want to kill them but what was I supposed to do, let them get to the others?! To your kids, your sister and hers and Packie's kids?! I'm sorry that Ron, Wade and Chef couldn't outrun them but I'm not sorry for protecting the ones I care about! Unlike you, it seems." Carly says, struggling to contain her anger.
"My god! You a bigger asshole than I thought you were!" Amber says.
Carly shoved past Trevor and stumbled into the house, Johnny following her and helping her sit down on the couch as Zero walked downstairs and ran to them.
"Z, could you head upstairs and make sure there's enough first aid supplies?" Johnny asks.
"Did that earlier. Carly, you look terrible, what happened?" Zero says.
"Just a disagreement that got out of hand." Carly says, Zero pulling Carly's tank top up halfway and seeing the patched up stab wound and knowing it was Trevor… but before she could yell, Rick walked in with Judith in his arms and Carl following them.
"Take her upstairs." Zero says, Rick doing so and Johnny picking Carly up in his arms and heading upstairs with her before setting her on their bed and pulling her boots, socks and clothes off.
Carly and Johnny kissed and Carly pulled herself up, pulling her bra and underwear off after walking into the bathroom. She cleaned her makeup off, carefully pulled the gauze off of the stitches and got into the shower, starting the water.
"Hey, how is she?" Ashley asks after walking upstairs and into the room.
"Hurting… fucking Trevor. Asshole went and stabbed her, then left her to die." Johnny says, muttering the last part.
"It's times like this I wish Brad was still alive." Ashley says.
"Be truthful, would Brad flip out at me over being with Carly?" Johnny asks.
Before Ashley could answer, they heard Trevor scream outside.
"Get this fucking mutt off my leg!" Trevor yells.
"Which one got him?" Sam asks, having been unable to tell Shadow apart from Banjo.
"Shadow, let go of him, who knows what he's got!" Amber says, Shadow growling at Trevor before taking his teeth out of Trevor's left leg and running to Amber.
After getting cleaned off, dried off and changed into some pajamas, Carly pulled her damp hair into a messy ponytail and stretched out next to Johnny as he wrapped his arms around her.
"Why didn't we just let Trevor get eaten up to begin with?" Carly mutters, her and Johnny kissing.
"Amber said that the next time that happens, she's not going to call them off." Johnny says.
"I can't blame her… the guy is fucked up in the head from all those years of huffing gasoline." Carly says as Johnny turned the Tv on and both heard Courage say "The things I do for love!" and Carly smiling slightly. "There are times I've said that catchphrase." She says as Amber walked upstairs with Shadow and Banjo.
"Shadow has quite a bit of blood on his teeth." Johnny says, Amber looking closely at Shadow's teeth.
"Took a chunk of flesh too." Amber says, Shadow whimpering. "It's okay, boy. I'm glad you taught him a lesson." She says, kissing Shadow on his head.
Shadow barked in response, Amber finding some toothpaste and a spare toothbrush and Shadow letting out a confused sound.
"Just open up boy, I promise this won't hurt." Amber says.
Shadow opened his mouth, Amber brushing the blood away and Shadow spitting into a bucket before jumping up on the bed and nuzzling Carly's hand, Carly petting Shadow. Banjo was the next to run in and jump up, lying at Carly's and Johnny's feet.
"Come here, boy." Johnny says, Banjo walking over and Johnny petting him as Shadow whimpered when he saw Carly's stitched up wound.
A half hour later…
"Stop your grouching, Shadow bit you for a damn good reason!" Glenn says after quickly bandaging Trevor's leg. "Now off with you!" He says, Trevor refusing to leave.
"Why should I leave?!" Trevor yells.
"You locked Merle out of the house to get eaten and if that wasn't bad enough, what did Carly ever do to you?!" Glenn says.
"Buddy, how about in the future, you keep your nose out of the business of people you don't know, hey?! You and the group you came here with, if it were up to me, you'd all fucking leave this instant!" Trevor says.
Footsteps were heard and before Trevor or Glenn could see who it was, Carly kicked Trevor right in the jaw.
"They're staying! You can fuck off because you're not turning away a group that has a teenager and an infant with them!" Carly says angrily, Trevor rubbing his aching jaw. "I've had it with your bullshit, Trevor! If it weren't for what little self restraint I still have, you would've been dead long ago!" She says, once again slamming her left foot into Trevor's jaw and knocking him onto his back as blood gushed from his mouth and the skin below it.
Carly closed the door after she walked back into the house and Johnny grabbed the tweezers, helping Carly sit down and pulling Trevor's lateral incisor out of Carly's foot.
"I'll admit, that felt damn good to do that." Carly says as Johnny patched up her foot.
Outside, K8lynn was shocked at what was unfolding.
"What in the…" K8lynn tries to ask after getting out of her Sandking XL and helping Trevor up.
"He threatens to kick a group who has kids with them out of a safe place, he gets fucked up by someone half his size." Glenn says.
"This is all out of context!" Trevor says through his pain.
"How old are the kids?" K8lynn asks.
"Carl is 14 and Judith is only 10 months old." Glenn says, K8lynn glaring at Trevor.
"And did I forget to mention the savage dogs that one of the group members own?!" Trevor demands.
"Savage? Cause right now, one has climbed up in Carly's lap and is acting like a puppy." K8lynn says, her and Trevor seeing Banjo on Carly's lap as she petted him.
"They are savage! That black one tried to tear my leg off!" Trevor yells, pointing to Shadow.
"Only savage is you, stabbing Carly and leaving her for dead! So she got closer to the one she loves, so fucking what? People who are in love do that." Glenn says, Trevor turning angrier.
"They're not in love! Johnny just wants her so he's got something to shove it into!" Trevor yells.
"You're one to fucking talk! Compared to us, they actually do love each other! You just hate that he helped her when you weren't there to and you feel threatened because you no longer have that place in her heart that you used to! But you know what?! You and you alone fucked that up by beating and stabbing Juana so badly that she ended up comatose and then you carelessly bragged about it when Carly was nearby!" K8lynn says, shouting halfway through.
K8lynn and Glenn walked back in after Glenn shoved Trevor into traffic, Carly leaning sleepily against Johnny and his left arm around her slim shoulders.
"Safe to come downstairs, Rick." Glenn says, Rick walking downstairs with Judith in his arms and the second Judith saw Carly, she reached out to her.
Carly tensed up slightly for a few seconds but calmed down when Judith rested her head on Carly's right shoulder as Amber walked downstairs.
"Haven't held a child before?" Amber asks.
"Not in a long time." Carly says, Judith babbling at her. Amber smiled a little but Carly could see a tiny bit of sadness in Amber's eyes.
'Something must've happened to her in the past.' Carly thought… she also began to wonder where Judith's and Carl's mother was but Amber retrieved a picture of Lori from her pocket and handed it to Carly. "Did… did she die?" She asks.
"She put Judith's life before her own." Amber says.
Carly kissed Judith on her forehead, Amber seeing K8lynn blink tears away.
"You lost your mom too?" Amber asks.
"In childbirth… then my dad died about 2 years ago." K8lynn says.
"You don't… didn't have anyone else around after that except for…" Amber says, K8lynn nodding. "Did he save your life?" She asks.
"I was… I'm immune to something, I've never been able to figure it out… but it let me survive a lethal injection, Trevor was the only person I could go to… and him and Sam took me right in." K8lynn says.
"We all tried to find some way to get along… but…" Carly says, thinking back.
Yesterday night…
Carly bolted up out of her sleep and pulled the bed sheet around her as Trevor barged in and saw the blood dried into the white sheets.
"Now I'm only gonna say this once… don't act without-" Carly says, cut off by Trevor grabbing her by her throat and yanking her out of the bed, Carly letting out a strangled scream as Trevor repeatedly slammed her against the wall.
Carly raked her nails across Trevor's eyes as Trevor screamed in rage at Merle and K8lynn pulling him off of Carly and Johnny taking his jacket off and putting it on her.
"What happened to trying to accept it?! Those things are out there killing people and you pull this?!" K8lynn yells.
"That's Trevor fuckin Philips for you, it's all... about his sick need for control, never once does what someone else want cross his damaged mind!" Carly manages to say as Johnny helped her up.
"First aftermath was similar in some ways… but it was the guy that my dad dragged out and kicked out, he didn't slam me against the wall repeatedly!" K8lynn says.
"She let him shove it in her like the little whore she is!" Trevor shouts, Merle dragging him outside as Carly held Johnny's leather jacket close to her tiny frame to cover it.
If Trevor wasn't dealt with soon, things would only get crazier.