We walked what felt like hours and hours passing by and we had to stop for a short break to put the pregnant woman called Maggie on the stretcher they got for her down. The sun was already on its way down getting darker by every minute. After about a 30 minutes break we started to march again. The sun set and as soon as it did I heard a whistle not so far away from everyone else.
More whistles around us appeared and we started to walk as fast as possible with Maggie on the stretcher. All out of sudden we were out of the woods and bright lights turned on around us blinding me for a moment until my eyes adapted to the brightness of the car lights. Around 20 to 30 gunned man stood around us pointing their weapons our group. Two men called Abraham and Aaron put Maggie down and slowly put their hands up completely defenseless. A man with a mustache and a machine gun in his hand looked at the group and then simply said: "on your knees".
I looked at Rick not sure whether I should do what the stranger said or not but Rick simply nodded at me saying I should kneel so I got down. And here we were; Rick, his son Carl, Daryl, Abraham, Aaron, Eugene, Glenn, the sick Maggie, Tara, Rosita, Sasha, Michonne and me. I've only been at Alexandria for a day and probably would already be dead.
The man from before walked up to a camper and then knocked at the door. "Alright, we got a full boat. Let's meet the man!" he said stepping a few steps away. A few seconds later a door slammed open and someone walked out. I was too nervous to even glaze at the person so I just looked at the floor. A pair of boots stopped in front of me and I looked up.
In front of me stood a man around the age of 40, a black and greyish beard, black hair, a white shirt and a black leather jacket together with a red scarf, beige jeans and biker boots. After I checked him out I noticed a bat wrapped with barbed wire in his hand swinging it around while walking.
The man finally spoke up: "Pissin' your pants yet?" He looked at everyone from our group and smiled. "Uhh boy do I have a feeling we're getting close." He walked around again and then looked at me again saying: "Yep...gonna be pee pee pants city here real soon." He smirked and then turned away from me.
"Now which one of you pricks is the leader?" The man looked at everyone and looked at the other stranger from before who seemed to be his left hand. "It's this one….he's the guy," he said pointing at Rick. I looked at Rick and saw pure fear in his eyes which concerned me. I was kneeling next to Abraham and Michonne and they also looked pretty nervous and scared. "Hi, you're Rick, right? I'm Negan. And I do not appreciate you killing my men."
Negan...I had heard of that name before and the story's about him didn't include a happy ending. I stared at Negan hoping deeply no one would get hurt.
Negan continued: "Also when I send my people to kill your people for killing my people,...you killed more of my people. Not cool, not. fucking. cool. You have no fucking idea how not fucking cool that shit is. BUT you'll be up to speed shortly." He started to walk up and down again totally enjoying the moment.
"Yeah, you're so gonna regret crossing me in a few minutes." I shifted to another world in my mind wanting everything to be normal and peaceful again. Where I could hang out with Melissa and talk about other men and doing silly things. I knew that that world could never exist anymore. When I focused on the current situation again I saw Negan pointing his bat towards Rick and getting down at his level. "Give me your shit or I will kill you." He said that he wanted half of our stuff and asked him if we thought that we'd get through this without being punished.
Without noticing I felt a tear running down my cheek...a tear full of fear what would happen next. I looked around and heard Negan say something so I focused on him again. "But you killed my people, a whole damn lot of them. More than I am comfortable with and for that….for that you gonna pay." We all looked at each other and I already knew how we had to pay for it. He was gonna kill one of us.
"So now," he continued, "I'm gonna beat the holy hell out of one of you." He swung his bat around again telling us that its name was Lucille and that the bat was awesome which I hardly doubted. As soon as he said that Maggie looked shitty and that he should put her out of her misery Glenn jumped up trying to stop Negan but another man stopped him before he reached Negan and put him on the floor his crossbow focusing on Glenn's face.
Negan said that we should never ever do this again or he would shut us down. "The first one is for free...it's an emotional moment I get it," he said pointing at Glenn who was back in the row on his knees begging. Negan started to walk up and down again whistling like a psycho.
"I simply can not decide," he said laughing. "Oh...I got an idea." and I knew that his idea is going to end deadly for one of us. Although I hadn't known the others for a long time they still took me in and saved my life and I was completely thankful for that and now one of them...or I was going to die.
"Just kill me!" I said kind of regretting it as soon as those words left my mouth.
Negan turned around and walked up to me. "Now why would I do that sweetheart?" He bends down to me and I had to think about a good and fast answer. "I killed your people, it was my idea." he looked at me and got back up again.
"You know, I somehow don't quite believe you. You have to know I always know whether someone is lying or telling the truth and as much as I want to believe that you've got that big balls to do that... I simply don't."
I looked down at the floor because I knew that my lie was going to have consequences. "After I killed one of you and I hope it is not going to be you, sweetie," he said winking at me, "I'll take you back to my place." I had to gulp thinking what would happen if he took me with him.
"And now...back to my brilliant idea." Negan walked towards Rick pointing his bat at him "Eeny" he walked over to Maggie; "Meeny" over to Abraham, "Miney" he walked to me with a dirty smirk on his face. He said "Moo" still with that smile on. Next up was Michonne and on and on. I got more nervous by every second; the last word was coming up and he stopped right by my side pointing it at Abraham.
"It….Anybody moves anybody says anything cut the boys other eye out and feed it to his father and then we'll start."
Negan looked around making sure everyone understood him. "You can breathe, you can blink, you can cry, hell you're all gonna be doin' that!" Before I could even look around Negan hit Abraham with Lucille and everyone started to cry including me. "Woow look at that! Taking it in like a champ!"
He kept hitting Abraham until he was on the ground and not much of his head was left. Negan didn't stop laughing and I was too paralyzed to move. I was covered with Abraham's blood and I had to focus not to throw up at this scenery. "Now look at my dirty girl" Negan began swinging Lucille around covering others with blood and a piece of flesh hanging from the bat. He looked at me and started to laugh again. "Looks like Lucille isn't the only girl that got dirty! Simon let's get her to the camper and make sure she gets clean and comfy."
Before I could even move I was lifted on my feet and dragged to the camper. I kicked around with all my strength but I was still too weak to actually accomplish anything. The man Negan called Simon shoved me into the camper and into the shower.
"Take a shower and get dressed and don't try anything funny or you'll regret it pretty fast." I tried to breathe and stop sobbing and I slowly got out of my clothes and into the tiny shower. It was a wonder that the shower even worked but as soon as I turned it on cold water came out and the blood started to wash away from my body.
Right before I was about to turn off the water I heard screams again and thought of the worst. Negan killed another one. I dried myself and put some clothes on Simon gave me and luckily they were my size. I got out and saw Simon waiting on the sofa for me. "You look much better." he simply said getting back up and coming towards me. "And now be a good girl and sit down there and give me your hands." I was confused about his demand but I did as he said and sat down stretching my arms towards him.
He picked up a duct-tape that was on the table and started to duct-tape me. Once again I started to cry because I was too afraid of what had happened outside and most importantly what was going to happen to me. "Oh come on now dearie no reason to cry." Simon looked down at me and wiped my tears away. "And now just wait here until the boss shows up and once again, don't do anything you're gonna regret." He left and as soon as I heard the door shut I couldn't hold back my tears and I started to cry and almost screaming in despair. When I heard footsteps again I hid my face behind my arms. I saw Negan coming in and dragging Rick behind him. I just sat there observing the situation. And what came next wasn't gonna be fun for me or Rick.