A/N This chapter is short but significant for Negan.
Vin's gaze is brief. Not only does she take her eyes from me, but she turns her back.
One of the men slide up behind Vin. "Where do you think you're going, honey?"
"Get out of my way," Vin tells him.
This fucking piece of shit takes her by the arm and thrusts his pelvis against her back. "Let's go have some fun-"
That was it for that fat fuck. I lower my gun as he hits the ground. His brains leak out onto the pavement, carried away by blood down the imperfections in the concrete. It isn't until the leader speaks that it breaks my stare. "You," I extend my arm out towards him. "What are you saying exactly? About how it's a whole new world now?"
His eyes shift side to side. "C'mon, man. You know."
"Yeah," I clench my fist. "I think I do." I get right in this fuck's face. "I have to say, I have a real fucking problem with it, too. You should still be aware of the fucking world around you. It's us against them, right? So shouldn't we try to treat us a little better? If you'll do that with a woman, well, maybe you're a little closer to them than I'd like. I mean, you either value a human life or you fucking don't, right?" I don't expect him to put his hands on me, but I end up landing in barbed fucking wire as it slices me in every fucking direction. The worst is to my right side on my ribs. That's gonna fucking scar. I grab for my baseball bat and swing it right across his face. Not once, but twice. Truth be told, I get a little carried away because I smash this fuckers head in.
His group and my group look at me like I've lost my goddamn mind.
But I will not let something like this go unpunished.
After that, people fall in line pretty fucking quick. Fuck, and I'm going to bleed out here. I get my jacket on and search for Vin. I see Niko is still alive. Goddammit. And how the fuck could he allow this to happen to Vin!?
"Excuse me, that's mine." Vin takes her serrated machete that has a brass knuckle grip from one of the fucks in that group.
I chuckle nervously at the weapon and try to break the ice. "That is bad fucking ass, Vin."
"Thanks. I call it Ass Destroyer."
"Uh. Did those men… did they touch you?" It's not any of my business, and I'm not sure if I want to know.
"No, Niko and I were only with them for about an hour..."
My relief sickens me because women were still abused at the expense of those pricks. I'm just protective of Vin's innocence. I want something more for her. I've always wanted something more for her. Things could have been so much worse. Fuck, there goes those disgusting selfish thoughts again.
"...hearing they were selling women was news to us."
I can't believe I found her. Christ, it's like seeing her for the first time. That nervous feeling. Trying to think of some bullshit just as an excuse to talk to her. I come up with nothing, so I decide to extend her an offer. "Vin, we have food. Numbers. A place we're going to clear to-"
"That's great," she condescendingly interrupts. "Now, leave me alone." Those words, however, drip with disdain.
"Vin, wait-"
Niko steps in front of me to keep me from chasing after her. "Look, you might have fifty pounds and five inches on me, but I won't go down easy. You stay the fuck away from her. Especially after everything you put her through. Did you have to listen to her cry? Or ask why she wasn't good enough? Fuck you, Negan. Fuck you."
I want to strangle this fuck until he tells me that I've messed with Vin's self-worth. It fucks me up to the point I have to walk away or I will break.
I sit at the edge of the creek with my knees up and my arms over them. My strength crumbles and I let go. I hang my head and start to sob.
I recall very few times in my life where my character breaks like this. These past few months, fuck. I don't know how much more I can take. This world, and losing Lucille, has definitely changed me. I just wonder how much it's changed Vin. Will she still be the same woman I fell in love with? I guess it doesn't really matter if she wants nothing to do with me…
A/N So do you see what I did there? :)