Beautiful Mistakes~ A Rick Grimes Love Story

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Author's Note:

Enjoy a YouTube video I made for this chapter! It's a short clip. Enjoy :)
Link: https://youtu.be/-MIjiqonlM0

I also added the video above!!

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"How'd it go?" Rick asks, pulling me to the side for a private conversation.

"He doesn't want to make the trade. He says we don't have anything to offer him, other than our bodies." I say.

"What?" he asks.

"He wanted Maggie and I to sleep with him for a deal." I say.

"I'm gonna kill him." Rick says, reaching for his gun.

"No... no. Stop. Think about this... we can convince him. I know it. We have to." I say, sliding my hand down his arm, then intertwining my fingers into his.

"We want to generate trade. Gregory does. But ammo isn't something we urgently need." Jesus says.

"Well, how's that?" Rick asks.

"The walls hold. We just brought in more medicine. Gregory wants the best deal possible." Jesus says.

"Yeah, well we want things, too." Daryl says.

"We need food. We came all this way, we're gonna get it." Rick says, not in the most polite way, but it was still charming to me.

"I will talk to him and we will work this out. Circumstances change. We're doing well now, and you will next. I will make him understand that. Can you give me a few days?" Jesus asks Rick and I.

"Yes, we can. For your sake, you better make this happen." I say, stern but also nicely. I look to Rick. He didn't like it. I could see him clenching his jaw. He wasn't happy, but Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither will Alexandria. It's just gonna take time... something we weren't used to having.

"Yeah." Rick says, agreeing with me.

A man rushes inside. Gregory comes out of his office.

"What's wrong?" Gregory asks.

"They're back." the man says. Gregory nods and heads out the door. We follow after them to see what was going on.

"Ethan, what happened to everybody else? Where's Tim and Marsha?" Gregory asks.

Ethan responds. "They're dead."

"Negan?" Gregory asks. That name seemed so familiar to me... like it was from a children's book I just couldn't put my name on... I shrugged it off.

"Yeah." Ethan says.

"We had a deal." Gregory says, putting his hands on his hips.

"He said it wasn't enough. Was the drop light?" another man says.

"No." Gregory says.

"They still have Craig." a woman says.

"They said they'd keep him alive, return him to us, if I deliver a message to you." Ethan says.

"So, tell me." Gregory says.

Ethan grabs Gregory's shoulder. "I'm sorry." he says. He takes a knife and stabs it into Gregory's abdomen. Maggie and Jesus rush to his side.

Rick and I grab the man's arms.

"Get off of me! I had to!" Ethan yells. I try to get him under control, but his grip loosens. He takes the back of his palm and swings it across my cheek, knocking me off my balance.