"Fucked Up Sweethearts." (TWDG Marlon Fanfiction)

Chapter 14

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"We need to talk." Marlon said as he entered my room, quickly shutting the door behind him as he then sat on the edge of my bed facing me.

I stared at him with wide eyes, not really knowing what to say since I was actually a bit nervous. I didn't know what he would have to say.

Marlon looked into my eyes, searching for the right words to say. As he was doing that, I noticed his eyes getting a bit red and watery, and not even a second later, a tear came strolling down his face. Marlon had broke.

"I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry, Aubrey." He sobbed. My heart broke into pieces. I immediately grabbed Marlon's shoulders and pulled him into me, wrapping my arms around him tightly as he sobbed into my chest.

"I was going to let them come and take you." Marlon admitted, and I immediately assumed he was talking about the raiders.

I felt horrible right now. Part of me felt sympathy for Marlon, and I only felt worse every time he apologized. At the same time, I was hurt. I wanted to hate Marlon for even considering that and even agreeing to it.

I kept silent as I just let Marlon continue to cry, only comforting him with my touch.

"I thought I had this place under control. I thought I could handle being a leader. I thought I'd be okay. But I'm not. I don't know why I do the things I do. It's like so much stress just builds up, and then I just snap. I start having these dark thoughts, I start getting angry, and I just take my anger out on anything or anyone once I've had enough. I don't know how to control it. Aubrey, I'm sorry." Marlon said through his tears.

He buried his face in my neck and held onto me as if he never wanted me to leave. I just stayed in my position, still not knowing what to say or do. I didn't even know how to feel right now.

"You were going to give me away?" I asked him quietly, still not moving or even hugging Marlon back as I just stared straight ahead of me, holding the tears back in my eyes.

Marlon pulled away from me, looking at me with his red and swollen eyes as he nodded.

I looked into his eyes, but the longer I did that, the more hurt I got. I quickly turned away from him and stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind me and leaving Marlon to sulk in my room alone.

I walked out onto the campus, the bright night sky and the fire that was kept lit were lighting up the area. I didn't bother looking at or going to hang with any of the others, I just went straight to the table and sat down, resting my face in my hands as I stool a deep breath.

With each exhale it was getting harder to keep the tears back, that was until I felt the weight of someone sitting down right next to me.

I slowly lifted my head up, looking to the right of me as I made harsh eye contact with Mitch, who was looking unimpressed with my current state right now.

"What's wrong with you?" He asked, crossing his arms across his chest while waiting for me to answer. He didn't take his eyes off me once.

"Nothing." I answered with a bit of an attitude, taking my eyes away from him as I looked down into my hands.

"You can't lie to a liar."

I swiftly looked up at him, my head tilted slightly downwards as I squinted my eyes.

"So you're a liar?"

"I didn't say that."

"You literally just said you can't lie to a liar. What else would that mean?"

Mitch sighed, getting visibly irritated as he changed the subject.

"What's going on?" He asked me.

I stayed silent, looking back into my hands as I didn't even know where to begin, or if I could even trust Mitch with everything that was going on between Marlon and I. I also didn't know how he'd react.

"It's nothing, really."

"Come on, Aubrey. I know we aren't really friends or anything, but it's already depressing enough here without you moping around like your life is so shitty when it isn't."

"My life is shitty. And how dare you even speak on it, you know nothing about me or my life." I said, obviously getting offended by his smartass comment as I went to go stand up from the bench to head back inside.

"Oh, I'm sure. Getting to live in a place where you actually have food and a secure shelter since your people like to go and terrorize other survivors."

"My people?"

"Yeah, your people."

"What the fuck is that supposed to mean?"

"What the fuck do you think it means?" He said back in the same tone that I had said the previous question in.

I just scoffed and shook my head, looking away from him as if I wasn't stressed out enough, I just couldn't deal with any of Mitch's bullshit right now.

"Come on Aubrey, what is going on? Seriously."

Mitch said, practically begging now for me to tell him what was on my mind. But I knew if I told him, it'd only cause more problems then there already were since the only thing that was on my mind was Marlon repeating those words.

"I was going to let them come and take you."

Chills were sent down my spine as those words just played on repeat like a broken record in my head.

"He was going to give me away." I muttered under my breath, looking down into my lap as I felt tears starting to form in my eyes.

"He what?" Mitch said aggressively, standing up from the bench as he looked at me.

This just caused me to break down. I knew I shouldn't have said anything.

I began to silently sob while sitting there, feeling the heat off of Mitch rise as he continued to question me more about it.

"He said he was going to give you away? To those raiders?"

"I don't know. It could've been Henry and his gang, it could've been the people Marlon gave Tenns's sisters to, it could've been anybody." I responded back to him. By this time I was already sobbing, getting louder as Mitch's anger was just rising by the second.

"Are you fucking serious?" Mitch yelled as he then began to rush into the building, I was assuming to find Marlon and start a fight.

"Mitch wait! Don't!" I said as I also stood up, running after him in attempt to stop him.

"What the fuck is wrong with you? Huh?" Mitch said, shoving Marlon as we walked through the door just before Marlon was trying to leave.

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"Oh so now you wanna act stupid? How many more of us were you planning on selling to the raiders?" Mitch yelled, and after that, the whole world went quiet.

I couldn't even look up from the ground, although I could feel Marlon's eyes on me. I knew he was pissed, but so was I. Everything that Marlon has said to me was now in question. Did he really love me? Or did he just love himself? If he does love me, why would he want to give me away? It just didn't even make any sense.

"See? This is what I'm talking about. You act like you're the best leader and no one else could do better than you, but I could. Violet could. Hell, I'm sure even A.J. could." Mitch continued, getting more and more heated by the second.

"I made a deal, okay? I don't have a choice."

"A deal? You're making deals with the people who were practically the reason you killed Brodie? Who took Tenn's sisters? Oh, wait, I forgot, that was all apart of your plan too."

Mitch shoved Marlon once more, causing Marlon to grab Mitch's arms and take him to the ground.

Before I could even tell them to stop, Violet came running in the room with a look of panic and worry on her face.

"Guys stop! They're here!" She yelled, grabbing Marlon by the hair and pulling him off of Mitch.

I looked at her with wide eyes. "What?"

"The raiders. They're here."