"Fucked Up Sweethearts." (TWDG Marlon Fanfiction)

Chapter 7

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So much emotion was running through my body right now. Marlon had just murdered Brody, and Clem was going to be next.

"What the hell is wrong with you?!" I yelled as I quickly stood up from the ground and charged at Marlon, shoving him as hard as I could.

"She could die down there! I'm letting her out!" I yelled as I quickly ran over to the cellar doors to unlock it, but was quickly stopped by Marlon as he grabbed my arm and pulled me back.

"You can't, Aubrey! She could tell everyone about what happened to Brody and the truth about Tenn's sisters. You don't understand what would happen if that got out."

"So you lock Clem down there with Brody to die? It should be you down there!" I yelled. I was so angry and upset. I felt betrayed by Marlon. I explained how the same thing that happened to Sophie and Minerva was going to happen to me by someone I loved, and he also had the same plans for me.

"I'm so sorry Aubrey. I know you probably hate me right now, but you have to trust me. The others will be up any minute, and I'm sure they'll be wondering what we're both doing up right now. Just go back to your room, and once I clear out everyone's questions about Brody and Clem, we'll talk about this. Okay?"

Everything he had just said confused me.

Was he going to lie to everyone about what happened to them?

What would I say if people started asking me questions?

I wasn't in the mood to argue with Marlon or question him for that matter, so all I did was shake my head and turn away from him, heading back into the school.

I made my way back to Mitch's room, slowly opening the door and seeing Mitch sleeping soundly in his bed. At least he wasn't awake yet.

As I made my way to my bed and got settled into it, I couldn't help but think about what Marlon was doing if he wasn't going back to his room as well.

As I sat on my bed and pulled the blanket up over my legs, something felt off inside of my body. It was almost like a gut feeling. I always trusted my gut feelings, but in this situation, I knew that it was best if I let Marlon deal with everything. I was new here, and if they knew that I was there when everything happened with Brody and Clem, they would most likely assume things and then kick me out, and I didn't want that. Not when Marlon and I were connected like we are.

I layed down in my bed, closing my eyes and trying to get myself to fall asleep, though that was hard to do considering everything that was running through my mind right now. Surprisingly though, it didn't take long for me to finally fall asleep once again.

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I wasn't asleep for very long, but I was awaken but the sound of yelling coming from outside. My eyes opened slowly, and it took a moment for my vision to focus, but when it did and I looked around the room, I noticed that Mitch was no longer in his bed.

I quickly sat up and looked around once more, listening to the yelling coming outside. One of the voices was very recognizable. It was Marlon. My heart rate quickened, and I began to get anxious. What if they found out about Brody? What's going to happen to Marlon?

I quickly got up from my bed, put on my shoes and left my room. I practically ran down the halls of the school to get to the campus before anything extremely horrible happened.

"Shut your fucking mouth! I made the right call. I saved the lives of everyone in this fucking school! If they came back, I'd do it again!"

I heard Marlon yelling from outside as I walked out the front door. I was a bit confused as to what he meant by 'If they came back, I'd do it again.', but as I listened more to what was being said, I understood what he had meant.

As I looked around at everyone who was outside, I almost immediately noticed that Marlon had a gun pointed at Clementine.

'Holy fuck...she's not dead.' I thought to myself as I laid eyes on her. I was a little bit relieved, but I was still extremely anxious and nervous since Marlon was holding Clem at gunpoint for whatever reason.

"You told me they died!" Tenn yelled, stepping out from the small group of kids as he looked at Marlon.

"I had to save the rest of you, okay?" Marlon said back to Tenn.

"You gave my sisters away. Why would you do something like that?" Tenn said, sobbing a bit as he walked closer to Marlon.

I looked away from the rest of the group as I thought about what to do. I wanted to say something to protect Marlon from whatever punishment was coming his way, but I didn't exactly know what. All I knew was, I was going to stick up for him.

I looked back up, and Clementine was looking directly at me. She must've knew I had something planned, because she slowly shook her head at me as she kept her guard up with the gun still being pointed at her, but then, Marlon's hand slowly lowered.

"I wanted to get them, stage some kind of rescue. Honest Tenn, but I just couldn't. I was...I was too afraid." Marlon said, looking down in shame.

"You killed Brody because she knew?"

"I didn't mean to." Marlon said, and I could practically hear the tears rising up in his voice.

"I didn't want this." He continued. "I wanted to save all of you! Sophie, Minerva." He said through his sobs.

Seeing Marlon cry like this, it made me feel bad for him. It almost made me feel exactly how he was feeling right now. But these feelings that I had right now, it confirmed something. I did have feelings for Marlon. And maybe I liked him a lot more than I knew, but I also knew that I couldn't be thinking about all of that stuff with everything going on right now.

"We can still fix this, Marlon." Clementine finally said, also stepping closer to Marlon. As much as I wanted to say something as well, I knew that I couldn't. I was scared that if I did, they'd also ask me questions about what happened, and I wouldn't be able to handle that.

"We'll help you. We're all family here. The only one any of us has left." Louis said. Everyone began stepping closer to Marlon, trying to assure him that things would be alright, and also trying to get him to drop the gun, which he did right after Louis had said that.

Heavy weight lifted off of my shoulders as that happened, and I softly smiled to myself. He was going to be alright.

I figured that I should probably head back to bed before any of them notice me, but as I turned to head back inside of the school, something stopped me. I didn't know what it was, but deep down I still had a feeling that something was off.

I turned back around and looked at everyone else, and that's when I noticed it.

Somehow, A.J. had managed to speak past everyone and pick up the gun that Marlon was holding, and had it pointed directly at Marlon's head.

This caused an adrenaline rush in me, and I bolted towards Marlon.

"Marlon! Look out!" I yelled, immediately tackling Marlon to the ground right when a gunshot rang out.

I landed on top of Marlon, and I hugged my body into his as the shot rang out. I let the ringing in my ears fade out before I opened my eyes hesitantly.

I was very relieved when I opened my eyes and seen Marlon looking back at me, eyes wide as he was breathing heavily from what had just happened.

I looked directly back into his eyes, and I felt the same connection that I had felt when I first laid eyes at him.

Our moment was quickly interrupted though by the sound of the others yelling and screaming. This caused me to get up off of Marlon to figure out what they were screaming about, and as I stood up and looked down at the ground, there was the cause.

There was Clementine, spread flat on her back on the ground, eyes and mouth wide open, with a bullet hole in her head.

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