All Nightmare Long

Chapter 521

Author's Note: Ah, Jewel and Negan have such a love hate relationship and I love it! Rick may feel like killing Jewel for not backing down on Negan, but he'll appreciate it in a while. We aren't done with Mitch yet, Negan is going to push. Plus we have Carl to deal with. Carl, Carl, Carl. Stay in the dang house! Please review.

Carl, Lexi, Mika POV:

Lexi looked up as Carl came into the kitchen as she was trying to get Judith to eat. "She knows something is going on, she won't eat."

"You should take her upstairs," Carl told her as he checked his gun.

Lexi handed Judith a piece of toast. "Come on big girl, eat a little. Aren't you going to come upstairs with us?"

Carl shook his head. "I'm going to go see what's going on."

"Carl, that's not what Rick and Jewel want. They want us to stay here, help Mika and Mitch with Hope and Judith and the other little ones. That's our job," Lexi told her

"Are you telling me that you are happy to stay in here and do nothing while they are doing God knows what?" Carl asked.

"I'm not doing nothing, neither are you. We are taking care of Jenny, Judy, Hope. We have Liam who is worried about his Aunt being out there with them. They can't take care of themselves, so we have to. Your dad has it handled, he always does," Lexi reminded him.

"Like he had it handled when Abraham and Glenn were killed? Or when they took Daryl? Or when Maggie was in pain? Or Summer almost passing out from a wound in her hand? Is that what you call handled?" Carl questioned.

"He was in an impossible situation, Carl, we all were. Negan was going to make your dad cut off your arm. He was threatening to kill all of us. I know that you are worried about Summer, I'm worried about my sister too, and Maggie and Beth. But I don't want to have to worry about you too. If you go out there, Rick and Jewel have you to be worried about, they have enough to worry about," Lexi pleaded with him.

Carl looked over at Judith and was starting to say something before Mika came down stairs.

"Have you seen Mitch?" Mika asked.

"He's not upstairs with you?" Carl questioned her.

"No, he said he was going to come down here and get some food before they came into the house, but he never came back upstairs. And his knives and gun are gone," she told the older two teens.

"How long ago was that?" Carl asked her.

"I don't know, I was busy with Hope, and Jenny was helping me. I just noticed he wasn't back," Mika answered honestly.

Lexi and Carl exchanged looks. "Did he see Daryl?" Lexi asked.

"He was looking out the window. He did come downstairs right after that," Mika admitted.

Carl nodded. "I'll go look for him."

Lexi sighed as she picked up Judith. "Be careful," she said as she kissed Carl's cheek. "Come on Mika, let's get upstairs."

Carl watched them go upstairs as he walked outside.

Jes and Mitch POV:

Jes opened the door to a car and nodded at Mitch. "In," she ordered.

Mitch looked at her before going in. She slammed the door shut and went to the other side and got in and locked it. "Where are we going?" he asked.

"Nowhere. You and I need to talk and going back to the house isn't an option with Negan's men around. What were you thinking?" Jes questioned him.

"It doesn't matter," Mitch said as he looked out the window.

"Bull shit. It does matter, Mitch. Do you realize how much more trouble you just caused for your dad? For Jewel? For Rick?" Jes questioned. "Hey, look at me," she ordered him.

Mitch looked at her and sighed. "I saw dad out the window, and I had to do something….he looks horrible."

Jes nodded. "Yeah, he does."

"So why isn't anyone doing anything?" Mitch asked.

"There's a time to act and there's a time to sit back and learn your enemy. Look around kid, we are heavily outnumbered and out gunned. We try anything right now, and someone else dies. Could be you, could be me, could be your dad, could be anyone. Jewel told you to stay in the house because she knew what could happen. Negan is the kind of man who will use things against people. Just like he used Carl to get to Rick, he can use you to get to your dad. And, as you saw, Jewel just put herself in the line of danger to get you out of there. That's the problem with caring, you use your heart and not your brain," Jes told him.

"You care," Mitch accused her.

Jes sighed. "Yeah, I do, I shouldn't but I do," she told him. "You need to go back to the house, lay low, help with the little ones. Don't think we're giving up on your dad, we're not, never gonna happen. He's family, and we don't abandon family," she said as she unlocked the door her head turning toward a shot.

"Was that a gun shot?" Mitch asked.

"House now," Jes ordered as she got out of the car.

Carl POV:

Carl noticed Jes and Mitch talking in the car and turned his attention to the medical clinic seeing people come in and out with boxes. He took out his gun and walked into the infirmary. He fired a shot and looked at the two men. "Put some back, or the next one goes in you."

The savior laughed. "Kid what do you think happens next?"

"You die," Carl said as Jes walked in.

"Or I beat the shit out of you for threatening a kid," Jes told him as she walked in. "Carl, what are you doing?"

"They are taking more than half," Carl told her.

Jes glanced at the men. "They're bullies, that's what they do."

"Hey watch your mouth," the savior said.

"What can't handle the truth?" Jes asked. "Carl, you need to put down the gun and go home," she warned as Jewel and Rick came in with Negan.

"Carl, Carl, put it down," Rick said as his voice shook.

"No, he's taking all our medicine, they said only half our stuff," Carl said.

"Carl, I need you to put down that gun alright? Let your dad and I handle it. Please," Jewel begged as Negan walked in front of Carl.

Negan gave a small laugh. "Of course. Really kid?" he asked.

"You should go, before you find out how dangerous we all are," Carl told him.

"Well pardon me young man, excuse the shit out of my goddamn French, but did you just threaten me?" Negan asked.

Jewel stepped closer to Carl. "Just let him go home, Negan. He trusted you when you said half of our stuff, just like we did. He's just trying to protect his home, that's all."

Negan looked at Jewel. "I've been patient, Jewel but right now, Carl and I are having a conversation," he told the woman. "Look I get threatening Davey here, but I can't have it. Not him, not me," he told Carl.

"Carl, just put it down," Rick whispered.

Negan pointed a finger at Rick. "Don't be rude, Rick, we are having a conversation. Just like I told Jewel, this is between us. Now boy where were we," he said as he looked at Carl.

Jes glanced at Jewel and gently shook her head at her to make her stop from interfering.

"Now boy where were we. Oh yeah, your giant man sized balls. No threatening us. Look I like you, hell I like your mother and your sister. And see that look on your mother's face, she's about ready to step in between us and rip me apart, but she's restraining herself, and it's taking all she has. I don't want to go hard proving a point here, you don't want that. I said half your shit, and half is what I say it is. Now, I was even so nice as to give a little because momma bear over there doesn't want to traumatize any little kids. So, see I can be nice, but not if you're going to wave a gun in my guys face and threaten people. So I'm serious, do you want me to prove how serious I am again?" Negan asked.

Jewel and Rick both held their breaths while Jes was ready to move in between Negan and Carl if needed.

Carl signed as he put down the gun handing Rick the gun.

Negan turned and took it out of Rick's hand.

"You know Rick this reminds me that you have a lot of guns. There's all the guns that you took from my outpost when you wasted all my people with a shit ton of your own guns, and I'm betting there's even more, which adds up to an absolute….ass load of guns, and this little emotional outburst just made it clear that I can't allow that. They're all mine now," Negan told him.

Jes stepped up. "You're leaving us without guns? So how are we supposed to get stuff for you? You're going to sign death warrants."

"Well, aren't you the one that said you didn't like guns cause you were running out of ammo?" Negan asked.

"I'm just worried about other people," Jes said.

Negan looked at her then at Rick. "So Rick where are my guns?"

TBC