You're Mine

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I was on my knees, my hands were on the ground, I could feel how cold and dry the ground was. All I could hear was the sound of my heart beating. It was so loud I thought everyone else could hear it. I was brought out of my thoughts by someone else talking.

"All right! We got a full boat." He said like he was amazed. "Let's meet the man." He knocked twice on the door and walked over to the side looking over at everyone and dropping a gun in front of Carl. There were a few moments of silence, it was painful. I looked over to my left to see Glenn and Rosita, then I looked to my right to see Daryl, Michonne, Abraham, Maggie, Rick, Sasha, Aaron, Carl, and finally Eugine. Everyone looked terrified. No one looked like they had any more hope. I heard a squeaking noise, I looked up to see the door of the camper opening, my body went cold as I saw the man's shoes hit the dry dirt. I was too scared to look up at him. I just kept staring at his shoes.

"Pissin our pants yet?" 

He said like he was intrigued. He leaned back slightly and started walking forward. "Boy, do I have a feeling we're getting close." I could hear him say it with a smile. He walked to the left. I still couldn't look anywhere but at the ground below me. I couldn't move. "Yep." He said as he began to walk closer to me. "It's gonna be pee-pee pants city here real soon." I could see his shadow out of the corner of my eye come to a stop. He held up his hand point at us one by one, looking down at us. "Which one of you pricks is the leader?" He looked in my direction and then the other direction.

"It's this one." The same man as before said pointing over to Rick. I slowly moved my head over to look at Rick getting the man properly in my full view. He was tall and held a bat covered in barbed wire over his left shoulder, and kind of attractive. "He's the guy." The man said with a slight smirk. He looked down at Rick like a predator lurking on his prey and sighed. He walked closer to Rick. I watched his bat hoping he wouldn't hurt Rick.

"Hi. You're Rick right?" 

He said, pointing at him for a second. "I'm Negan. And I do not appreciate you killing my men." I looked down at Rick seeing him look up at Negan. He was pale, his mouth was slightly open, he was frozen in terror. "Also, when I sent my people to kill your people, to kill your people for killing my people," He paused for a second pointing at Rick. "you killed more of my people." He put his arm back down beside him. Rick looked at him blankly. There was no emotion in his eyes. "Not cool." He said softly. "Not cool." He said again but with more emotion looking back in my direction for a quick second and then looking back at Rick. "You have no idea how not cool that shit is." Rick looked back from the ground and up at Negan trembling slightly. "But I think you're going to be up to speed shortly." Rick was looking around, the only thing that was moving was his eyes. They had met mine but for only a brief moment. "Yeah." Negan said trailing off. "You are so gonna regret crossing me in a few minutes." Negan smiled. "Yes, you are." Negan took a breath and started to turn in my direction but stopped still looking down at Rick. "You see, Rick whatever you do," He licked his lips. "No matter what, you don't mess with the new world order. And the new world order is this, and it's really very simple. So, even if you're stupid, which you very may well be," He says very enthusiastically. "You can understand it." Rick slightly nods and looks off in the distance at Carl for a second and then back in Negans direction. "You ready? Here goes. Pay attention." Negan takes his bat off his shoulder making me flinch slightly. He quickly brings it to his side and then right next to Rick's face. He smiles and bends down slightly. "Give me your shit... or I will kill you." He smiles standing back up. "Today was career day." He starts to walk towards me putting his left hand in his pocket waving his bat around in everyone's faces. "We invested a lot so you would know who I am and what I can do." He stops in front of Michonne pointing his bat at Rick. "You work for me now." He puts his bat next to him again. "You have shit, you give it to me. That's your job." He points at himself. Rick looks up at him breathing quickly. "Now, I know that is a mighty big, nasty pill to swallow," I look over at Daryl who is looking up through his hair at Negan and then at the ground. Abraham is looking straightforward. "but swallow it you most certainly will." Negan points his bat at Rick once more and walks in front of Rick again. "You ruled the roost. You built something." Rick looks at Negan's bat and then back up at him. "You thought you were safe. I get it." I look at Maggie. She looks ten times worse than she already did before. "But the word is out." Negan takes a step closer to Rick. "You are not safe. Not even close. In fact, you are pegged," He says and starts wiggling his bat around in Ricks's face. "more pegged if you don't do what I want. And what I want is half of your shit. And if that's too much you can make, find, or steal more, and it'll even out sooner or later." He walks back towards the RV he emerged out of and turns to face us once more holding his hands up in glory. "This is your way of life now. The more you fight back, the harder it will be." He puts his hands down and starts to walk in my direction again looking down at me. "So, if someone knocks on your door..." He stops in front of Daryl looking in the other direction, chuckling. "...you let us in. We own that door. You try to stop us," He walks back up to Rick putting the bat in his face for a moment. "and we will knock it down." Rick looks over in my direction, his eyes are watery and he is trembling more. "You understand?" Rick doesn't answer. Negan leans forward putting his hand up to his ear and whispers. "What, no answer?"