All Nightmare Long

Chapter 554

Author's Note: It's been a while. With everything going on and changes daily from work, I've hardly had time to breath. Michonne's final episode was awesome but now I really am confused what I should do when I get there since I'm keeping Rick around. Please review.

Jes POV:

Garza crossed his arms and watched as a small group of men and a woman, he guessed Negan's people, load up a truck. He had waited until one of the Alexandrian's had left, before approaching.

"What are you staring at?" The bald headed man asked.

"Just watching," Garza answered. "I wasn't around when you paid your first visit, I was out on a run."

"You bring anything back?" the woman asked.

"Nah, everything is pretty bare you know. I'm Garza," he said as he walked up and extended his hand.

The woman looked at it before taking it. "I'm Laura, that's Gary."

"Negan will be disappointed you didn't bring anything back," Gary said as he shook his hand. "The guy before, he was successful."

"Guess he got lucky. I'll be sure to apologize to Negan if I get the pleasure to meet him," Garza said.

"He may be interested in meeting you, I bet. Hell Alexandria has some good looking guys," Laura said with a smile.

"Well I'm flattered," Garza said with a small smile as he heard footsteps, knowing it was Jes.

"Garza," Jes greeted. "Need you to come with me."

"Can't you see we're talking?" Laura asked, eyeing the woman.

"Yeah, but we all have jobs to do, and it doesn't stop just because you want to flirt. Negan has requested my presence at lunch over at Rick's house. And, since I can't rightly refuse, I need someone to do my duties for me. Now, if you want to go over and tell Negan that I can't attend, because I can't get someone to cover my job, be my guest. But otherwise, I need Garza to come with me," Jes stated as she looked at Laura.

"Let him go," Gary told Laura.

"Thank you," Jes said as she nodded Garza to follow her. She glanced back Laura as they walked, waiting until they got out of site before turning to Garza. "What the hell was that?"

"I was just making conversation," Garza told her. "I had it handled; you didn't need to make any trouble. Now Laura may be gunning for you."

"You had it handled? I told you to stay at the gate, not to draw attention to yourself and you do the exact opposite of what I told you to do," Jes exclaimed. "Saying you'd apologize to Negan if you got the pleasure to meet him? What was that? What would you be apologizing for?"

"I told them that I came up empty on a supply run. That guy Gary said that the other guy had found stuff," Garza explained.

"Spenser. Look I'm serious about having to go have lunch with the head psycho, and I need you to lay low. I'm serious, Garza. I didn't want you here, but you came, and you said that you would listen to me," Jes said as she pulled out a wrench from her pocket. "There's a car in the garage over there that I've been working on. Tell Axel that you're an old friend of mine and you're hiding out there. Get under the damn car and stay there."

"Or I could go with you and do what I'm supposed to do, get a feel for Negan," Garza told her.

Jes let out a frustrated sigh. "Do you see the guys out there that's working for Negan? Now, there's shit ton more of them, and they mostly all are big, intimidating and low on brain cells. And you fit two out of three of those categories. I already have one person I care about in Negan's clutches, I don't need another one," she said as she turned to leave.

"See I knew you cared!" Garza exclaimed.

Jes shot him a the bird. "Go to the garage, be invisible!" she ordered.

Grimes household:

Mika sighed as she went to the table and looked at Joey. "Are we seriously doing this?" she asked.

"Yes, we're seriously doing this," Joey answered as he sat down. He glanced at Negan at the head of the table and took a breath. "Do you want me to take Judith?" he asked Olivia.

"No, she's good, she's almost asleep," Olivia stated as Negan sighed and tapped his fingers on the table.

"I'm not waiting for your parents' anymore. I don't know where the hell they are, but Lucille is hungry," he said as he sat the bat on the table. "And where the hell is Jes? I made it pretty clear that I expected her to be here," he stated.

"I can go find her," Mika said as she started to stand up.

"No need, sorry I'm late," Jes said as she came into the door sitting down touching Judith's head.

Negan put a napkin on as a bib. "Carl, pass the rolls," he said as he looked at him. "Please."

Carl sighed and passed the rolls to him.

Negan glanced at Mika who kept looking at him. "Do I have something on my face kid? You keep staring."

"I'm just thinking," Mika answered.

"Please share your thoughts," Negan told her.

"I was just thinking about how I used to feel sorry for people like you, people that hurt other people, but I was just a kid, I didn't know any better," Mika answered.

Negan laughed. "You're still a kid, kid," he told her amusingly. "So what changed your mind?"

"I met you," Mika said. "I've never met any of the bad people before. I thought that they had to do what they had to do to survive," she said.

"Mika," Carl warned.

"No, let the girl talk. I'm not going to hurt a kid, you should know that. I brought you home, didn't I?" Negan asked. "I did do what I had to do. Your folks attacked my outpost, killed my people, they aren't innocent."

"You're people tried to hurt our family before that," Jes said. "The people who we crispy fried chicken on the road? We didn't know them and they demanded our things. They attacked Summer on her way back here, on YOUR word," she said.

"I won't hurt a kid, but Jes, I may hurt you," Negan said. "Proceed kid."

"Your hurt my family, you killed Abraham and Glenn and you got Daryl captive. Two wrongs don't make a right," Mika said as she stood up. "I'm not hungry," she said as she went to take Judith. "I'll put her down and check on Hope," she said as she left.

"I'll clean up after," Olivia said as she watched Mika go.

Negan laughed. "You sure Jewel didn't give birth to that one? She's got attitude," he said as he ate.