COMMONWEALTH-
Dr. Tomi found Maggie walking back into the hospital through the lobby. He took a deep breath and approached her.
"Maggie? I've been looking for you." Tomi said casually.
"Why? Has Michonne taken a turn for the worse?" Maggie asked with concern.
"No, she's fine. Better than fine. I feel like Joshua is going to be alright." Tomi said sincerely.
"Then what's wrong?" Maggie asked, eyeing him. "And don't tell me there isn't anything, because I can see it in your face. It's Negan, isn't it?"
"No." Tomi lied. "It's about Perlie. I think I can prove that Andre murdered him."
Maggie's eyes widened and she pulled on his arm and moved towards an elevator! The doors to it opened and they entered quickly. They were the only two people inside.
"Well? How? How do you know it was Andre?" Maggie asked him, as Tomi surreptitiously removed a needle from his white lab coat pocket!
"He dropped the letter that Michonne had given to him, when she first arrived here. A nurse handed it back to me, thinking that it belonged to Perlie. It was found on the floor in front of the dresser in the room." Tomi lied.
"I knew it! I just knew it! Andre could not afford to let anyone know that he gassed New Babylon to help Negan…why did you hit four?" Maggie asked, distracted. Tomi was taking them to the wrong floor.
"Well I thought we could look through Perlie's room for more clues." Tomi lied.
"You found Michonne's letter! That's all we need to show Rick and Darryl!" Maggie exclaimed and reached out to press the five…
That was when Dr. Tomichi Okumura, went down a path he had not wanted to go down. But Negan had left him no choice. Tomi grabbed Maggie by the throat and pulled out the telltale needle! He quickly injected her with a drug called Propofol. He had changed his mind about the chloroform, thinking that it was just too crude and risky to use in this case. That and it had an odor that was detectable.
Maggie had no time to react before she dropped to the floor of the elevator! Tomi put the needle back in his pocket and began the process of pulling Maggie up, when the doors opened on four and he found himself staring at his sister, Yumiko!
"Oh my God, Tomi! What happened to her?!" Yumiko cried out.
"Help me with her! She just passed out! I'm going to put her in one of the rooms on this floor. With all that's going on on five with Negan and Pamela, I thought this would be safer." Tomi explained, covering his tracks.
Yumiko didn't respond to that, as she helped her brother with Maggie. Personally, she thought it was a very bad idea for Tomi to bring Maggie to a floor that someone had been smothered on! But then again, the thinking was that Michonne's son, Andre, was most likely the killer. And even though Yumiko knew zip about the teen, she doubted he would return to the scene of the crime to kill someone else.
Tomi and Yumiko lifted Maggie onto a gurney and he rolled her into a room, with Yumiko following closely behind him. He turned to her.
"I'm going to get a nurse. You go down to four and get some of her people up here to be with her."
"Tomi, what do you think is wrong with her? I mean what happened? Did Maggie just pass out in the elevator?" Yumiko asked him.
What was wrong, Tomi thought, was Pamela Milton and Negan Smith!
"If I had to guess, I would say Maggie was suffering from exhaustion. She is so determined to protect Michonne that she isn't taking care of herself properly. Throw in having to look at Negan 24/7 and I would say that this whole situation has gotten to her. Physically."
Yumiko folded her arms and stared down at the passed out Maggie.
"I don't know her very well. I mean she had left the area with Hershel when I arrived with the group I was with. But she's always struck me as strong. Like she could deal with anything." Yumiko admitted.
"Yumiko, I've heard bits of gossip, here and there. Her son is staying at Rick's home. He ran away or something? I think Maggie is just dealing with a lot right now. Now go and get some of her people up here, while I examine her, okay?"
Yumiko nodded and left the room hurriedly! Tomi slowly walked to the door and looked down the hallway in the direction his sister had left in. She had reached the elevator and was now getting inside of it. Tomi waited a few moments until he saw the doors close, before backing back into the room. He then turned and reached for the end of the gurney Maggie was on.
Tomi had no choice but to keep Maggie someplace else, until he got instruction from Negan as to where HE wanted Maggie's unconscious body. He would have to play this very carefully now, for once Yumiko returned with Rick, Darryl or even Ezekiel, and they did not find Maggie here, Tomi would have to make it look as if someone else had taken her.
Tomi pulled on the end of the gurney, before peaking out into the hallway. There was no signs of any hospital staff and yet that would not be case for long. Where was he going to put Maggie? Where?
His eyes fell upon a janitor's closet. That was a place that only the few custodians that worked here, used. But Tomi could not say for sure that one of the people employed in this profession here, would not need some of the supplies inside of it.
Tomi decided to just take a chance that no one would find Maggie inside, before he got to Negan to tell him where she was. And if someone did, Tomi had lain the groundwork with his sister to place the blame on Andre Beale.
Of course, all of this had to take place before Maggie Rhee awakened, and told Rick and Darryl that he was the one that had drugged her and placed her in a janitor's closet for Negan Smith to retrieve. For what purpose, Tomi was clueless. He just knew it was for no damned good, that was for sure!
Andre and Negan arrived at Pamela's hospital room and found only Pamela.
Negan's eyes fell upon the diary that was sitting on her bed tray. That goddamned Rick…
But Negan had been prepared for the possibility that Pamela might hear about the diary before their nuptials. Had he been ready for her to actually read it?
No.
But Negan had an answer for anything Pamela might have already read, or might want to read.
"Mom? Are you alright?" Andre asked, his eyes darting around the room. He pulled out his gun and eased into the adjoining bathroom…
"Darling, Rick Grimes is not in there. He left." Pamela said lightly. She smiled at Andre but when her eyes met Negan's, he saw pure fury in them! He suspected she had already read a couple of the more racier passages. Or maybe Pamela had read about his heartfelt feelings about Gracie?
Negan broke off eye contact with Pamela and looked at Andre.
"Andre, I need for you to go and get Father Gabriel and Stephanie. Stephanie will be your mother's matron of honor. You'll be my best man." Negan grinned at him.
But Andre did not grin back!
"Don't you think I should talk to Mercer about throwing Rick Grimes the hell up out of here? He's upset Mom, and Mom, don't pretend that he didn't! I can tell!" Andre huffed.
Pamela intervened.
"Honey, do as Negan says. There are some things we need to speak about in private. Things concerning how we're going to keep Rick and his people, from causing trouble for the Commonwealth." Pamela said airily.
Andre looked from his mother and over at Negan, who nodded to him.
"Go and get Gabriel so he can marry us. We'll soon be a family that deals with Rick and Alexandria, OUR way." Negan said firmly.
"What about Michonne?" Andre asked.
"What do you mean, dear?" Pamela asked.
"I mean Michonne is part of Alexandria." Andre said.
"She's chosen to be." Pamela said. "You know that, right?"
"Andre, that might change. You never know. Now go and get Gabriel and Stephanie, okay?" Negan repeated.
This time, Andre nodded and left the room. Negan moved to close the door behind him, before turning back to Pamela.
"What is that?" Negan asked, nodding towards the diary with feigned innocence.
Pamela smiled coyly at him!
"I could ask the same about that primitive looking bat you're carrying. Tell me, is that the infamous one I have heard so much about? It's named after some woman?" Pamela asked sarcastically.
"Lucille was not just some woman. She was my wife. And now you're going to be the second, Mrs. Negan Smith."
"And if I die, you'll name a catcher's mitt after me?" Pamela asked snidely.
"Pamela, what is that book there?" Negan asked in response.
"Oh because you don't know?"
"I know it wasn't here, when I was in here before." Negan said.
Pamela reached out to pick up the diary.
"Rick Grimes gave it to me. He said it was yours."
Negan's original plan had been to lie and tell Pamela that the diary was Rick's, and that he had wrote everything it it, when he was kept by the CRM for all of those years!. He had also planned to imply that Rick had lost his shit and thought he was Negan. The lie was lame, but Negan had been pretty sure he could sell it to her.
But then, suddenly, he decided not to lie. Pamela's anger over the diary wouldn't matter after the wedding anyway. Negan leaned Lucille against a wall and pulled up a chair.
"I kept that diary the six something years I was locked up at Alexandria." Negan admitted.
"Yes. Rick alluded to that. He also suggested that I read some of it. I did." Pamela told him.
"And?" Negan asked.
"Your 'Michonne Love Poems' either need work or were plagiarized by a very untalented poet." Pamela snipped.
"Look," Negan said, "that was all some sort of Stockholm Syndrome shit! I snapped out of it and escaped, I swear to God!"
"You didn't escape! According to this, Carol Peletier let you out of your cell so you could go and kill some woman or something!"
"Who?" Negan asked.
"Oh come on, Negan! Carol Peletier…"
"I know who the hell Carol is! I didn't know what her last name was. I just blanked out for a moment." Negan lied.
Pamela stared at him.
"I want you to tell me the truth, Negan. When we came up with this plan to get revenge on Rick and Michonne, were we on the same page here? We were going to come between them and make Rick miserable without his wife, and Michonne miserable without her husband and Andre. If there is something you are not telling me…"
Negan reached for her hand and brought it to his lips for a kiss!
"I'm all in. I always have been. But yes, there is something else. Something you might have missed in the diary. I have a daughter. Her name is Gracie and Rick and Michonne have helped keep her from me since she was a baby. They took her from a safe house I had her in, when I was warring with Rick and his people, and then they just kept her…" Negan's voice faltered.
Pamela slowly sat up and covered her hand with his.
"I didn't see that part. No. Negan, my God, why didn't you tell me?"
"Because I didn't know if you'd accept helping me raise her. I want her here with us. I want her someplace safe. The Commonwealth is safe." Negan said.
"Of course it is!" Pamela cooed and reached over to hand Negan the diary.
"The past doesn't matter anymore. Only you and I, Andre, your little girl and Joshua. By the way, is Annie gone? I can forgive this diary faux pas but I don't want her in the building while we are being married." Pamela sniffed.
"She is as good as gone, darlin'!" Negan crowed and moved to claim her lips with his own.
Rick was headed back to Michonne's room feeling relatively sure that Pamela wouldn't want anything to do with Negan, once she read that diary, when he came upon Joshua Smith's hospital room.
Rick felt his throat go dry as he stared through the room window at Joshua, who looked a lot like RJ probably had, when he had been that same age. Rick swallowed the stab of pain he endured, at having missed knowing his son at Joshua's age. Rick also swallowed the shame he felt, when he thought about how he had not wanted Michonne to help save the boy's life. How could he have ever been that selfish?
Thank God Michonne wasn't.
Annie was with Joshua and she looked up and locked eyes with Rick. Annie smoothed Joshua's hair and said something to him, before walking to the room door and opening it. She stepped out into the hallway with Rick, closing the door behind her.
"How is he?" Rick asked.
"Improving by the hour. Or at least that's how it seems to me. Dr. Tomi will be here in a bit." Annie replied.
Rick looked from Annie and back through the window at Joshua, before facing Annie again.
"I'm not leaving this hospital or Michonne." he said bluntly.
Annie figured Negan's ultimatum was the reason Rick was here with her now. But she had not expected to hear him say that!
"Rick," Annie said carefully, "there isn't much we can do about it. Now Connie and Kelly are coming here to be with Joshua, while Ezekiel and I go to New Babylon. Maybe we can find some survivors to bring here. We'll return tomorrow. I'm assuming you spoke with Ezekiel about our staying at Alexandria?"
"Annie, I'm not leaving!" Rick repeated in a low, urgent tone. "I just came from seeing Pamela Milton. The way to end this is to stop the wedding from happening. You know about Negan's diary, don't you?"
Annie folded her arms.
"I've heard rumors about it. I never saw him writing in any kind of journal, during our time together." she admitted.
"Heard rumors from who?" Rick asked.
"Eugene mentioned that Rosita had told him about it. He was talking to Gabriel about it and I kind of overheard some of what they were saying." Annie admitted.
"I'm curious as to what they said? I mean what part of it were they talking about?" Rick asked.
Annie eyed him.
"About his time posing as a Whisperer. Gabriel especially found it hard to believe that Negan could return to his former ways, after all that he did to help Alexandria win their war against those people. I was just grateful that the people I was with never ran across maniacs pretending to be the undead." she said.
Rick said nothing and Annie took a deep breath before addressing his silence.
"Okay. There is something you obviously want to tell me. Somehow Negan's diary and stopping Pamela from marrying him, are related. And I can just guess what it is." Annie said with a quiet bitterness that Rick picked up on.
"What do you mean?" Rick asked her. Annie looked around before answering.
"Cut the bullshit, Rick! When Governor Pamela Milton reads all about how hot my husband was for YOUR wife, no, she's not going to want to marry Negan. Then again, I wouldn't count him out. He can talk anyone into anything. And I am sure that he's either telling Pamela that you forged something in the diary or he has some explanation for anything that she's read that pissed her off."
Rick said nothing to that and that just served to irritate Annie even more!
"What, Rick? You're going to tell me that none of it bothers you? You're going to tell me that in the six years you were kept by the CRM, you didn't wonder if something was going on between Michonne and Negan?"
Rick burst out laughing! And that was because the very idea of it was laughable!
"Hell no! Hell no I didn't 'wonder' about anything as sick as that! And to be honest, Annie, when I heard about the two of you, I figured you just had the same bad taste in men that you always had!"
"Oh," Annie said with sarcasm, "you mean Shane."
"Yeah, I mean goddamned Shane! Did you know he was after my wife?"
Annie backed back a bit! This conversation had moved in a direction that she had not been expecting! Nor was she interested in pursuing it any further!
"No, Rick. I did not know about Shane and Lorie. And I don't appreciate being blamed for whatever was going on between Michonne and Negan while you were gone."
"Nothing was going on between them!" Rick snapped.
"And yet I bet that journal doesn't match up with your words, does it? And you know what else probably isn't in it? Negan's calling me 'Michonne' during mind blowing sex! I was so horrified that I couldn't stand looking at him! And after it was over, I had to get away from him! I left him with Joshua and went into New Babylon to trade supplies…and got gang raped! That was the biggest mistake of my life!"
Rick refrained from saying anything right away. He could sense Annie's deep pain over this whole thing and his eyes flicked from her, and then back through the room window at Joshua.
"Whatever you think happened between your piece of shit husband and my wife, didn't take place. That diary makes it very clear that his fantasies about her were one sided. Now I will expect you to thank my wife for saving your son, when Michonne is better." Rick told her.
Annie said nothing as Rick walked away from her. Gabriel was coming down the hallway and Rick stopped to speak to him. She felt like an ungrateful cow. Yes, Michonne had saved Joshua but…
Negan was not the type of man to 'fantasize' about women in general. He either gamed them or he didn't. And Michonne was alone for six years…
And yet, Annie had sensed nothing on Michonne's part, towards Negan, the few times they had all been in the same room together. She knew she was being silly.
No. She was being stupid.
The plan had been to leave with Ezekiel for New Babylon but now…well…if Rick wasn't leaving, then maybe she should stay as well. Annie thought about Negan and Pamela's alliance. It was supposedly based on Pamela's hatred for Rick and Michonne…something Pamela probably assumed her and Negan were in agreement on.
Now, Pamela knew that Negan only hated Rick.
Annie turned and went back into her son's room. She wasn't going anywhere if Rick wasn't.
Meanwhile, down the hallway, Rick shook his head at Gabriel!
"You're really going to marry them?! Negan has a wife!" Rick hissed.
"I know about Gracie." Gabriel said quietly. "And he promised to drop that whole thing if I married him and Pamela, and came up with a way to invalidate his marriage to Annie."
"He left that diary lying out in our attic for anyone to see. The kids know that Negan had another child. One that he calls 'Emily'. But they think Negan made her up because he went nuts being locked up. The point is, Gabriel, is that Gracie is now aware of this 'mystery daughter. Negan's not going to keep his word about this." Rick told him.
"Do you think it's true?" Gabriel asked. "I just can't see what he gets out of lying about this?"
"What he gets out of it is revenge. I thought Negan just wanted to come after Michonne and myself. But he's coming after Aaron too. If he married Pamela Milton and becomes in charge of the army she has here, they could come to Alexandria and just take Gracie from Aaron. We can't let that happen." Rick stressed.
"It won't. We won't let it. I have to get to Pamela's room. You should go and catch up with Darryl and Ezekiel." Gabriel counseled.
"Darryl and Ezekiel? Why? What's going on?" Rick asked in confusion. Darryl was sitting with Michonne, wasn't he?"
"They are worried about Maggie. I'm sure it's nothing. I saw her talking with Dr. Tomi from the church window and I told them that. But Darryl seems to think that she could possibly be missing. I don't know quite what is going on, but they could probably use your help." Gabriel told Rick.
Rick hurried off towards the waiting area, where he found Darryl, Ezekiel and Yumiko! Rick walked up on them just as he heard Yumiko telling Darryl and Ezekiel, that Maggie had passed out and was on the floor below, resting In a room!
"What do you mean she 'passed out'? From what?" Darryl asked suspiciously.
"And you saw this?" Ezekiel asked.
"Yes! I came to the hospital to ask my brother some things. There are questions about how long Tomi knew Pamela was a match, and I don't want people thinking that he would ever conspire with that woman." Yumiko huffed.
"And you saw Maggie pass out?" Ezekiel asked again. Rick picked up on that.
"Tomi was bringing her off of the elevator to a room! Yes, Ezekiel, I saw Maggie passed out!" Yumiko repeated.
Rick and Darryl exchanged a glance. What was being asked of Yumiko, was if she saw Maggie pass out in the moment? Rick could feel…something... building up around here. Within this community. Everything that was happening so far, even the small things, seemed to work in Negan's favor.
"So you only saw Maggie out of it, when the elevator doors opened?" Ezekiel asked.
Yumiko was not stupid.
"Tomi did not do anything to her in that elevator! And I resent your inference…."
But Ezekiel interrupted!
"I don't want to think that, Yumiko! I don't want to think that the doctor that saved Joshua's life, twice, could have any part of anything here! But the fact remains that it makes no sense that he didn't tell everyone that Pamela's kidney was a match for Joshua! None!" Ezekiel exclaimed.
"Tomi explained that! And whatever he did, he was right to do, since Pamela's kidney failed Joshua! I'm sorry I said anything at all! Darryl and you were acting as if Maggie had been kidnapped because of some dream of Michonne's…" Yumiko began ranting.
But Rick interrupted!
"What dream? What is she talking about?" Rick asked, now looking at Darryl!
"I was sitting with Michonne and she suddenly woke up, panicked. She said Maggie was in trouble and that we needed to find her. I came out here and ran into Ezekiel. We began looking for her. Then we didn't find her. And you know what? Michonne is right. We can't find her because something is wrong." Darryl said matter-of-factly.
"She's being examined by Tomi on four." Yumiko said coldly. "And maybe when we go down and see her there, you'll stop insinuating that my brother is some kind of creep!"
Darryl walked up to her.
"Michonne told me that Glenn, Maggie's murdered husband, came to her. I don't know if she was dreaming or not, but I believed her. She said Glenn told her Maggie was in danger, and since we can't find her, it looks like he was right, doesn't it?!" Darryl hissed.
Rick touched Darryl's arm.
"The three of you go and find out what's going on. I'm going to go see Michonne and find out what she meant by that." Rick told them. He walked away from them and went back down the hallway towards his wife's room.
When Rick arrived, Michonne was being held down by two orderlies, while Dr. Tomi was attempting to inject something into her!
"What the hell is this?!" Rick snapped.
"Rick!" Michonne cried out. Dr. Tomi nodded to the orderlies, who let go of Michonne and left the room. Rick hurried to her and Michonne held on to him for dear life!
"I saw Glenn! Did Darryl find Maggie?" Michonne asked, sounding half out of it.
Rick turned to look at Tomi, while his arms were still around Michonne.
"Yumiko said that Maggie wasn't feeling well and that you were looking after her on the fourth floor." Rick said, his eyes boring into Tomi's.
"Yes. She passed out and I put her in a room. She said she hadn't eaten but she is being given fluids. Maggie is dehydrated. Probably stress. Now I do not appreciate you coming in here and disrupting my exam! Your wife tore open a stitch over some dream…"
"I didn't 'dream' anything, doctor!" Michonne asked in a now strong sounding tone. "Glenn told me that I almost died on the operating table and that you had to bring me back! Is that true?"
Rick looked from Michonne to Tomi, wearing a horrified expression!
"Did that happen, Dr. Tomi?" Rick asked tersely.
Tomi didn't know what to say to that! Yes, it had happened but there was no way Michonne could know that!
"There was a small problem where you had to be brought back…but everything turned out fine." Tomi told them. Rick let go of Michonne and walked up to Tomi!
"Was that an accident? Or did Pamela tell you to do something to her during the surgery?" Rick asked coldly.
"I don't have to put up with this." Tomi said quietly. "I'm going to go and check in with Joshua."
Tomi turned and left but deep down, he was scared shitless! Maggie was still in that janitorial closet! So when Yumiko, Darryl and Ezekiel, didn't find her…
Or what if they did find Maggie in that closet? Good God…
Tomi regained his composure as he headed towards Joshua's room. But he stopped short as he saw Gabriel emerge from Pamela's room. He walked up to Tomi.
"Well it's done. If you're headed in to look in on Pamela, you can be the first to congratulate the happy couple." Gabriel said, without feeling, as he walked off. He had come up with a church document that he gave to Pamela, where in which Negan would take the last name 'Milton', instead of Pamela taking the name 'Smith'. Pamela had seemed quite satisfied by the 'compromise', and it made her feel as if Annie did not exist—so much.
Tomi had refrained from saying 'Oh God' and nodded to Gabriel as he walked off. Tomi turned and watched Gabriel step into Joshua's room to be with the him and Annie. Tomi rubbed a hand down his face and slowly approached Negan's room. He did not knock but just opened it. He found Negan standing over Pamela, while holding one of her hands. Stephanie was also in the room. She saw Tomi and moved to leave. She did not say anything to either Pamela or Negan, but it was clear to Tomi from the look on her face, that Stephanie had not thought the wedding was a happy occasion.
Pamela was beaming as Tomi stepped inside the room. Negan tore his eyes off of his new wife and looked at Tomi.
"Close the door, doctor. We have some things to discuss." Negan said and let go of Pamela's hand. Pamela reached for her mirror and began to fuss with her hair.
"Congratulations are in order I see." Tomi said. "I would have preferred if you had waited until the Governor was completely well…"
"Yeah and people in hell want ice water, doc! There was no time for that! I am madly and passionately in love with this woman here! I just couldn't wait! I'm damned sorry I have to wait for a proper honeymoon!" Negan announced.
Pamela set down her mirror and gave her new husband a naughty smile! Tomi thought he would be sick! But then things got worse…
"So, I need for you to get Maggie down here into this room. Get Mercer or whoever you have to, to help you. But I need her here and I need for Rick and his people not to find out." Negan said.
Pamela frowned.
"What? Why?" she asked suspiciously. Negan turned from Tomi to her.
"Oh, I didn't want to tell you this, but Mercer found out that Maggie killed poor Perlie. I don't know what the hell that was all about, but I want her to confess that to the both of us, before we execute her." Negan said.
"Uh, darling, do we really have to do that NOW? Just have Mercer lock her up in a cell…" Pamela began but Negan shook his head!
"Well yeah, she will go there after she confesses. Your going to be the Governor again, honey. It will mean more if you hear her confession."
Pamela tilted her head!
"And Mercer found all of this out? I don't understand! What does Dr. Tomi have to do with any of this?" Pamela asked.
Negan looked over at Tomi.
"Well Tomi caught Maggie in the act, suffocating poor Perlie! He then told Mercer and Maggie tried to deny it but well…" Negan trailed off.
"But then what, Negan? I am not especially interested in executing someone for killing a non Commonwealth citizen! Now I need for you to find Andre! He should have been here with us to witness our wedding." Pamela sniffed.
"Sure honey. Whatever you say. I'll go and find him now." Negan said and nodded to Tomi to meet him in the hallway. They stepped out of the room and Negan pulled the door closed behind him!
"Go and get Maggie. Get her here, without anyone seeing, however you have to." Negan said between gritted teeth.
"What is going on, Negan?" Tomi asked.
But Negan didn't answer that.
"I want you to get some medical equipment over to the Governor's…our home. Make sure she has everything that's needed, to recover from donating a kidney." Negan told Tomi.
"Look," Tomi told him, "I just came from Michonne's room. She had some kind of dream about Maggie's husband telling her that Maggie was in danger! And she is! Oh and this ghost/husband told Michonne that she almost died during the surgery…which she did…"
"What?!" Negan snapped. "I hope that wasn't because you were hoping to have your way with her if she died and turned?!"
Tomi felt like grabbing Negan by the throat!
"I have had enough of you. I'm going to go and look in on your son." Tomi said coolly.
"Yeah, that too! And while you're making sure that my son is okay, you get Maggie here. Pronto!" Negan told Tomi, before going back into Pamela's room and closing the door.
Maggie was still out of it from the drug Tomi had given her, when Mercer picked her up off of the floor and put her in the black, commercial laundry cart that Stephanie had corralled from someplace. Stephanie covered Maggie's inert form with laundry and the siblings then left the janitorial closet, and rolled the cart down the hall towards the freight elevator.
Stephanie told a few passerbys about Governor Milton's new marriage and how her laundry was being seen to, personally, to ensure she would have clean things during her recovery. No one seemed to question it or care.
And yet they should have.
Neither Stephanie or Mercer spoke as they headed down to the fourth floor. Maggie Rhee was about to catch hell. And Mercer was of the mind that it was better Maggie than Stephanie. Stephanie told herself that as long as Eugene did not find out about their part in whatever Negan was planning, she was fine with it.
They reached the floor and Mercer and Stephanie got out and pulled the cart out behind them. Mercer stopped a janitor and told him to roll the cart to Pamela Milton's room and leave it outside. The janitor nodded like it was no big deal and took control of the cart, doing as he was told.
Once the janitor left the cart outside of the door, Negan opened it, looked up and down the hallway before quickly hauled the cart inside…
Pamela, who had wondered why Negan had suddenly stepped outside into the hallway, felt herself tense up as her new husband pulled a laundry cart inside the room, before closing the door!
"What is that?" Pamela asked in a no nonsense tone.
Negan smiled patiently at her as he approached the bed. He then sat on the edge of it and looked into her eyes.
"Your FUCKING KIDNEY ALMOST KILLED MY SON!" Negan seethed and quickly pulled a pillow out from underneath Pamela's head! He then proceeded to smother her with it! Pamela flailed and thrashed, the best she could, given her condition and Negan's strength, but she was no match for his brutality!
Once the deed was done, Negan left the pillow over Pamela's face, walked over to the laundry cart, bent over to dig around into it until he found Maggie! He hauled her up and out of the cart, and rested her on the floor. Negan then walked back over to the bed, snatched the pillow off of Pamela's face and returned to Maggie's unconscious form on the floor. He put the pillow in her hands, shoved the cart into the bathroom and closed door.
Negan then took a deep breath and opened the room door. He looked up and down the hallway and saw no one.
That was when he began screaming his head off!
"HELP! SECURITY! MY WIFE HAS BEEN KILLED AND THE FUCKING MURDERER IS STILL IN HERE!"