Forever and Always

Rain and Beauty

We walked back to the camp hand in hand. The tears on my face were mixing with the rain.
Carl had explained to me that after I had fallen, the man had let me go and gone after him. He had pinned Carl up against the wall just as he had done me. He told me about how he had screamed and fidgeted, but the man didn't give up. He had already had Carl's pants down and was about to do the unthinkable when Carl leaned down and pulled out the knife that was in his belt.
Carl said,"I plunged the knife into hi hand and he let go of me. I pulled out my gun and..."
His voice trailed off.
"Anyway, I pulled up my pants and lifted you up onto the couch."
I sniffled and tried to wipe them away. We had been through the same thing, yet I was the only one crying.
He turned to me and wiped the tears from under my eyes,"It's okay. I cried too. Nobody should ever have to through that. He was a sick bastard and he deserved what he got."
I looked him in the eye and kissed him. We turned and continued on our walk.
I thought about the world. What the hell was going on? First the apocalypse, then the people that survived.
We were all turning into monsters.
I dodged a huge puddle that I was about to step in as we approached the tents.
Carl and I walked over to the tent that held Daryl, Glenn, Judith, and Jacob with our small supply of food.
When we walked in, all we saw were Daryl and Glenn bouncing the babies and they were taking. As soon as they heard us come in, they turned around and Glenn shouted,"What the hell happened to you two?"
I looked at Carl and saw that there were bruises all over his face and arms. There were scratches along his cheeks and neck. He was actually still bleeding too.
I could only imagine what I looked like. I made a mental note to ask Carl later.
"Carl, Jocelyn? What happened?"Daryl asked with a smirk,"You guys got too carried away in your tent?"
Glenn rolled his eyes,"No, they went on a run. What happened?"
Carl explained what had happened. How we hand left to look dirndls and supplies and decided to go into the house. How we had moved to different floors.
"Then this dickface tried to rape Jocelyn." Carl said with a choke in his voice.
Daryl's smirk disappeared and was replaced with a look of hatred,"Where is that son of a bitch now? We need to go after hi-"
Carl cut him off,"It's already done. I killed him after he tried to get me too."
He picked up the small bag of supplies and dug through it until he found rubbing alcohol.
Then he left.

I insisted that Carl and I were okay while Glenn and Daryl continued to make a fuss about it.
"We don't want to think about it anymore, okay? We just want to be alone for a little while, alright?"
The men nodded as I walked out of the tent to go find Carl.
It didn't take long. He was standing in the tent trying to clean the scratches that covered his arms and legs. he didn't seem to be doing a very good job and he seemed to be getting frustrated.
"Why the hell do they make these things with tops that flip if all of it is going to come out anyway?"
He closed the top and threw it across the tent.
I walked after it and picked it up again. I moved over to where he was standing and stood in front of him.
"Would you like me to do it?" I asked.
He shrugged.
"Alright, shirt off."
He pulled off the soaking shirt that had been sticking to every part of his upper body.
His whole torso was covered in scratches. I figured hat since I didn't have any clean cotton, I would just use my hand.
I dabbed some of the alcohol and rubbed it into my palms to sterilize them. Carl watched me as if he had an interest to learn.
I took some of the liquid and told him to lay down. When he did, I rubbed some on the cuts. He ground his teeth together in pain.
When I had finished cleaning all of the cuts, I told him to look at me.
He lifted his hand and slightly stroked my hair with his fingers.
Staring into his face made me think about my mental note.
"Hey Carl, do I have any cuts or bruises on my face?"
He smiled,"Are you worried the it's stunting your beauty?"
I laughed and he kissed me,"Good 'cuz there's no need to."