Hey, so I hope you like this one, it was much easier to write and much more enjoyable than a previous one and I can say I am really happy with this chapter, I wish I could write only chapters like this, because I love to write chapters like this (no, I am not a psycho, my mother got me tested, then my father again, just to be on a safe side) but every story needs a development. They told me so.
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For one quote more: "Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan." -Abraham Lincoln
They were lead to the garage when the door slid opened, a bit larger woman was waiting for them on the other side, holding a notebook, she introduced herself as Olivia and lead them to the armory, Alice started to follow after Daryl when Negan called for her.
"Alice, doll, where the fuck are you going?"
"To help them, boss."
"Oh don't worry, Arat will take care of that, come, let's enjoy this fine day and pleasant company, oh yeah, and Rick just so you know, we won't touch any of your food today, we need you strong and healthy so you can get us more shit. It seems like a slim picking anyway and while we're at it I can't be the only one to see that you got a fat woman taking care of your rations. I am not pointing figures or anything, just saying man," he placed his arm around Alice's shoulder and lead them outside.
Negan was watching his man while they were loading weapons into the truck when he saw a silver Desert Eagle resting on the top of the pile Daryl was carrying.
"Hold up… Fuck, look at this beauty here. Let's see have you been taking care of my guns," he was looking at Rick while aiming at passing Daryl, then turned to Alice who was scanning everyone around them like a Cheetah ready to jump on any sign of threat.
"Alice doll, do me the honors, shoot at whatever your heart wants," she took a gun from him, holding it up in her hand and feeling it's weight.
"Fuck, this one is a beauty, " she smiled, looking like she just met her long lost friend.
"I know doll, I always had a great taste. Now shoot at something I want to hear it."
She was looking him in the eyes, while pointing the gun up and firing it, when the shot was heard and glass shattered, her entire face lighten up as she started to laugh, looking at the gun in her hand. Negan wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her close to him, placing one long kiss on her lips
"It is yours now."
"Really?",she looked at him, barely sustain herself from jumping like a little girl.
"Yeah, it suits you better than that old piece of shit you've been using."
"Thank you, boss."
"I take care of my people, doll," he was looking at Rick, who was standing with them holding Lucile and looking at their interaction, he was about to say something when Arat came, pushing Olivia in front of her
"Damn it Arat, and when I want us to get rough you just turn me down," Alice was smirking, a woman just glanced at her with a second long smile on her face, then turned to Negan.
"Arat we don't do that unless they do something to deserve it or in the case mentioned here ask for it."
"Yeah, we went through the Inventory, we are two guns short Glock 9 and 20bob'n cap"
Negan's smile fell in the moment, turning to Alice who was already holding Rick on point with her Eagle, ready to shoot at his command.
"Is that truth?", he looked at Olivia now, who was nervously shifting her weight from one leg to another, looking at the ground and nodding.
"We asked some people to leave town those guns must be with them," Rick intervene.
"Speak when spoken to," Alice growled at him, still keeping her gun up.
"So you are saying Olivia sucks at her job?", Negan asked him.
"No..I am not"
"Then shut the fuck up," Negan told him while turning to speak to Olivia again.
"There should be full account here, top to bottom, am I right?!"
"No…I mean yes, the inventory is correct," Olivia finally spoke
"Alice, doll, hold this book for me will you?", Alice took the notebook from Negan, flipping it open with her free hand and looking at the list.
"Holy shit this is a lot of weapons," she whispered to herself, with Arat at her side.
"And they didn't even list the ones they took from our outpost," Arat told her, with a smile on her face.
"Oh, sweetheart I love it when you talk dirty to me," she winked at Arat with a smile on her face, wishing her dad was with her, for him this truck would be heaven on earth.
"I don't enjoy killing women, men I can waste them all the live long," Negan was now standing closer to Olivia.
"Alice, doll, come make it easier on me," Alice now shifted her weapon from Rick to Olivia, slowly circling around her and putting it on her template.
"We can work this out," Rick spoke again.
"Oh, we can and I am going to," Negan was inches away from Olivia's face making her whimper, she felt caged, with Alice standing behind her and Negan in front.
"On the end of the day my dear, this was your responsibility and you screwed it up, I mean keeping track of guns, that shit is life or death. Alice, take her with us for a little walk. Rick find those guns or my doll here will practice her aim on Olivia."
Negan was sitting on the bench with Olivia's, while Alice was pacing around, holding her hands locked behind her neck.
"Will you stop walking in fucking circles, you are making me dizzy doll."
She dropped her hands, sighing and looking at Olivia, she just wanted to go home and this setback was getting on her nerves.
"How the hell did you lose two guns?", a woman looked up at her still crying.
"Oh, c'mon stop crying, you're making my head hurt," Alice rubbed her templates leaning on the wall close to the bench.
Negan stood up, walking close to her, taking her chin in his hand and lifting her head up,"are you ok doll?", he asked her with a concerned written all over his face, Alice just nodded, looking him in the eyes.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, boss, I am fine, this day just keeps getting more and more crazy. I mean priest made me almost piss my pants just before a kid started waving a gun around like a mad man and now we are two guns short and no one knows where they are."
"hahaha, yes this place is a shitshow."
"And us with a front row tickets. I swear I am going to kiss one of those walkers on the fences when we get home."
"I wouldn't recommend that."
"Ok, then I will kiss Simon."
"Really doll, those are your options?"
"Well, basically yes, all the others I could kiss are here."
"Go with the walker, doll, go with the walker," he patted her shoulder while going to sit back beside Olivia resting his arm across her shoulders making her jump in her seat a little.
"She is really afraid of me doll," Negan was tugging the woman closer to himself with a big smile spreading across his face.
"Don't scare her, you big bad wolf," Alice told him with a fake voice of disapproval, sounding like a mother trying to make her child behave. Olivia glances at her, with eyes puffed with tears, Alice cooked her head to her side, pouting her lips.
"Oh, don't worry dear, he doesn't bite. Well unless you ask him to, I don't know, what kind of kinky shit you are into."
Negan started to laugh like an idiot, hugging Olivia tighter with one of his hand while whipping the tears of laughter with the other.
"She is actually cute, doll, all scared and shit. Hm, I think I want to keep her, make her one of my wives if Rick doesn't find me those guns or you know if you want to no matter what," he was not talking to Olivia who was confusingly looking at him.
"Wives, like plural?"
"Yes, sweetheart, plural, I mean that would be much more fun than having to kill you. What do you say doll?"
Alice was smiling at the scene, with her arms crossed on her chest, "hey, whatever floats your boat boss."
Olivia was now squinting at her like she was trying to understand are they serious or playing with her, they looked like two lunatics who just escaped from Asylum.
"You, are one of his wives?", she asked Alice who was now cocking her eyebrow at her with a big smile on her face.
"Hell, no. This doll is a love of the rest of my life," Negan answered, "she is way more important than my wives."
Alice turned red and for the first time in her life was left speechless, thankfully at that moment, Rick called for them with the news that their little meeting is over and didn't go as planned.
"Hey, sweetheart, you can go with us, you don't have to die. Just say the word," Negan was looking at Olivia while Alice pushed her to walk in front of them with her gun aimed at her nape.
They were standing near the truck, where Negan's men were still unloading the rest of the guns, waiting for the time they gave Rick to expire when Alice heard a man and girl talking from side of the truck
"Say please, little girl."
"Please"
She looked at the direction where the voices were coming from, to see one of their man touching the face of a girl that didn't look over fifteen, Alice tensed, she looked at Negan who nodded at her, giving her permission to intervene.
"One more time."
"Please," Alice said standing behind him, playing with one of her knives, with a wide smile on her face, talking with high pitched voice.
"Please, big, old, greasy man, please give me my balloons back, later I can suck your little, wilted dick in gratitude. Did I get it right? Oh, tell me I got it right."
Man, looked at her like he just saw a ghost, she came closer standing between him and the girl extending her hand to him, waiting for the balloons.
"This is none of your business, dog."
"Tch, tch, tch, c'mon don't make this easy one me, this is now how we play this game."
"And how do we play it, whore?", he was now standing right in front of her face, with eyes wide opened, growling, he was pissed someone interrupted him while playing around with his prey.
"You give me the balloons back, and I don't say Negan what I just saw," she smiled, looking over his should to see Negan watching them.
"I can do whatever I want to do, dog."
"Oh really, you can. You can scare, little girls, you can touch them? Boss, what do you say about that?"
Negan was now standing right beside them, looking at the scared girl, with his men making a full circle around them,
"Are those your balloons?", he asked the girl
She just nodded, "Yes..I….I just asked him to I have them back."
"Hm, is that so?", Negan was running his hand through his beard looking at the man that now had a blade resting on his throat with Alice all up into his face, smiling like a maniac.
"And what did this mean man said to you?"
"He told me to say please," she was looking at the ground and started to cry. Negan placed his arm around her, hugging her, then placed his hands on her shoulder and crouching down so he can be at her eye level, extending his gloved hand to the man gesturing him to hand over whatever it is, he was holding.
In a second the man gave up, giving him a handful of green balloons, Negan looked at his hand frowning.
"What is your name girl?"
"Enid"
"Ok, Enid, is this what this all fuss is about? Tell me, why are these things so important to you?"
Enid looked at him and then at the man whose face was now turning read, "I…. They just are."
"No good enough kid. Now tell me why?"
"They…they just remind me of someone who is gone, that's all. Now can I please have them back," she pleaded.
Negan look at her, "Yes you can. But first tell me kid did this man touch you, even just to hold your hand?"
Enid was looking at the ground again not wanting to face any of them, Negan placed his index finger on her chin slowly lifting her head to look at him, "don't be scared of us girl, we don't hurt kids, just tell me, did this man touch you?"
"Yes..yes he did," she nodded, letting her eyes fall to the floor again. Negan stood up, sighing, handing the balloons back to her.
"You know the rules people. Doll, take care of this will ya."
"With pleasure boss. Bye, bye, pedophile"
And with one swift move she was behind the man, cutting his throat and making the blood flow all around him, she was holding his head as he was falling on his knees, not letting go, watching him take his final breath, with the same smile on her face, looking at some point in the distance, feeling his body twitch underneath her hold, only when he was not making any more sound she let go of him, letting his limp body it fall on the ground, planting her machete in his skull, making sure he doesn't come back.
"Sleep well you sick bastard," she spat at him while turning around and going at Negan's side.
Rick and Carl were standing there looking at the dead man, and then at Enid who was still looking at the balloons in her hand.
"I don't have all day Rick, did you found my guns?", Negan called for him.
Rick snapped out of it, handing the black linen bag to him, "well would you look at that, they were here all along, funny how some 'holy shit someone going to die' lights a fire under everyone's ass. Now tell me Rick which one of yours fine folks almost cost Olivia the rest of her days"
"It doesn't matter anymore?"
"Oh, but it matters. See you need to get everybody on board, everybody, or we just go back to square one. Do I make myself clear?"
Rick just nodded as Negan turned to Alice, who was still breathing heavily of all the adrenaline from a few minutes ago, "c'mon doll lets go home, I don't want to overstay our welcome"
They were at the gates of Alexandria when Alice turned around and saw a black woman with dreadlocks, she remembered from the woods, standing in one of the abandoned houses outside the compound, looking at them. She came closer to Negan tugging him to turn around, he and Ricked, looked at the direction she was pointing.
"I'll take care of this, just give me a minute", Rick told them while jogging towards the house.
Not long after a woman came carrying a deer, with Rick at her tail bringing a gun and giving it to Negan. Alice was sitting on the hood of a car with Daryl standing right beside her watching as Dwight was straddling around 'his' new bike.
"You can have it back just say the words," he was now standing near Daryl smirking in his face.
"Go away Dwight," Alice told him while keeping her eyes fixed at Negan and Rick.
"I wanted to ask you something, now that we showed you we can play by your rules will you let Daryl stay?", Rick asked Negan, Alice straightened her back, leaning a bit forward waiting for an answer.
"Not happening," Negan told him, "I would never break my dolls heart and separate her from her new best friend."
Rick's face fell, looking at the place where Alice and Daryl were, trying to figure out what is actually going on there. The woman freaked him out, there was no question about it, what he saw her do today made him think she is worse than Negan, but at the same time, the way she was leaning towards Daryl looked like she was trying to protect him of every look that was not directed towards the two.
At that moment Negan's voice broke him out of his thoughts, "you know what, I don't know, maybe Daryl can plead his case; maybe Daryl can sway me… Daryl?", Negan was now looking at Daryl as well, leaning closer to Rick, knowing exactly what he will get just waiting to see the reaction of everyone else from Alexandria when he gets it.
Daryl just looked down, leaning closer to where Alice was sitting, avoiding the eyes of everyone around him.
That made Negan laugh, his doll was delivering more than he expected, "well you tried. now what you got to do is get over that tall wall of yours and try harder out there, earn for me, because we are coming back soon and when we do you better have something interesting for us or Lucile, she going to have her way. Arta, grab that deer, it's getting late, let's go home."
The woman that came from the woods just let the deer fall from her shoulders on the ground, and walked away looking at the spot where Alice and Daryl were.
"Man, I love the gal who buys me a dinner and doesn't expect me to put out. Alice doll lets go"
They were about to leave when Negan turned around to Rick again, "see, nobody died, well at least not one of your own, see we can be reasonable and good people, once you get to know us. Now I think a little 'Thank you' is at hand"
Rick looked at him, trying to pull the words out of his mouth like the dentist trying to pull the tooth
"Thank you."
"I didn't hear you, what did you say?"
"Thank you," Negan started to laugh again, leaning backward and throwing his head, then took one long step and was in Ricks face again, "in case you haven't caught on, I just slick my dick down your throat and you thanked me for it"
Alice was already in the driver seat when Negan came, closing the door behind him and blowing the kiss in Ricks direction when the truck started to move.
Alice was watching him in the review mirror, smiling to herself.
"Damn, he looks miserable. But I don't think he looks miserable enough to make up for thirty dead people."
"Oh, we're getting there doll, we're getting there. "
When they came to Sanctuary, Simon was already waiting for them, looking at the things they brought, when someone tackled him, jumping in his arms.
"I told you to go with the walker, doll," he heard Negan's voice and laughter, "you pray to God I lose this bet, I am not bailing you out of that mess," that was the last thing he heard Negan shout before his face was overwhelmed with kisses. Before he could even figure out that it was Alice, she took his head in her hands and pulled it down to place a kiss on the top of it.
He had to grab her by her upper arms to make her calm down, she was looking at him with wide eyes and even wider smile.
"Damn it, mustache man, I missed you. I can't to shit without my sidekick."
"What the fuck happened to you psycho? Is that blood?"
"Oh, you got to hear this man," she grabbed him by his arm and lead him to the direction where Negan was standing and starting to talk so fast he had to pretend he understood half the shit she was saying just so she doesn't start all over again.