quiet voices | n.

x. the odd couple.

quiet violence. chapter nine.
SUMMARY ; darcey's father arrives at the sanctuary.

❝ oh, to see without my eyes
the first time that you kissed me ❝
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DARCEY FIDGETED in her spot, as she watched negan wrap a red scarf around his neck, and zip up his leather jacket. he'd handed her lucille when they walked in the room, and she was pretty sure it was the only thing keeping her from running out of the open door behind her. it was something keeping her grounded, lucille was his and she couldn't run off with the bat, and somehow putting it — her — down seemed just as rude. she knew what was going to happen though, she could see it in how negan moved, even just in the way that he pulled the glove out of his pocket and put it on.

there's some old fucker saying we got his kid?

darcey froze in her spot at simon's words, an overwhelming expression of fear crossing over her features as she felt practically paralyzed in her place. negan took one glance at the girl behind him, before he basically growled in anger and slammed the door in simon's face. he rushed to her side, his concern climbing to the highest level it has ever been in a very long time at the sight of the frightened, small girl trying to sink into the chair she was on.

that was him, the man that made her this way. negan wanted nothing more than to beat his head into the ground like he had with the walker that he saved darcey from the other day. that piece of garbage, how he could've ever hurt a hair on that little girl's head was beyond him, he had to have been an evil excuse of a man. negan wouldn't have him there, his focus was darcey feeling safe, to assure her that no one was ever going to hurt her again, that was his main goal. he wouldn't have that monster in her new home.

in the mean time, he tried to keep her distracted in his office, despite the look of complete and utter dread on her face, he was keeping her grounded, asking pointless things like so, what are the rules? come and look at how fucking tedious this paperwork is! here's the last updates of the points, you always gotta check them against the one before it, in case there's a large jump in either direction. now, as he walked back over to her, and took lucille, he kissed her on her forehead, then pushed his fingers into her hair when she didn't move, her face was blank as she looked up at him, seeming to be lost in thought, he wondered if she even felt his lips on her head.

"simon and the group he took scavenging are going to bring them back, but they're not going to say anything. the group will go through intake, have the rules laid out, and you're going to tell me who your father is so i can deal with him." he figured out real fast why darcey didn't think she was safe, they were coming here. he knew there was more too it, but she wouldn't tell him, and once the man was fed to lucille it wouldn't matter anyway. darcey's eyes widened at his words.

what was she supposed to say? should she even do that? wouldn't he just find out anyway? what if she didn't? though her dad had hurt her since she was small, he was still her dad, maybe how he treated her really had been her fault. what if he talked to negan? what if it changed negan's mind about her job would it change his mind about not doing stuff to her? if she told would him, would he even listen to anything her dad had to say? if she didn't, would he be angry enough when he figured it out that he wouldn't care if he had anything to say? it would be wrong... wouldn't it? telling negan she thought it was okay.

darcey's mind overloaded with never ending questions, she couldn't believe simon had somehow ran into her father, she wondered where her mother was, though when there was no mention of her, she assumed she unfortunately wasn't present, and darcey knew that was just her luck, get stuck with the abusive parent, and lose the loving one. darcey's main worry was somehow her father talking to negan, and twisting how he thought about her. she knew that maybe that was crazy to think, negan would probably be really mad at her if he knew she even thought of that, but she truly couldn't help it, the worse case scenario always seemed to happen to her.