Strength In Darkness// {Carl Grimes}

prologue

{Skye's pov}

I wake up to the sound of screaming. The screams that belong to my mother. I jolted out of bed still in my pajamas. I run down stairs and see my mom lying on the floor bruises forming on her face.

I look around searching for my father. My eyes finally found him drinking a beer. I looked down to his hand and see blood dripping down his knuckles.

Fear and anger race through my body. "What the fuck are you looking at?" My fathers rough southern accent asked me. I shake my head and said "nothing sir."

"Stop your whining and get the hell off my floor." My father said looking down at my mother who was choking on her blood. I felt the tears start to pierce my eyes. I stopped them from falling cause I knew damn well that my father would punish me for acting weak.

I walked over to my moms half dead body an helped her up the stairs. I laid her on my bed and ran to my closet. These types of things happened before. They happen too often. I grabbed my first aid kit that I hid in my hamper of clothes.

I grabbed some bandages and disinfecting wipes and went back to my mom. She began to cry. I wipe the blood that was oozing out of her busted lip. I knew that a black eye was gonna show soon.

I wipe her face clean of blood the only thing showing is a black eye, busted lip and a bruise on the side of her face. I wiped her tears that trailed down her cheek. "I love you mom. I'm sorry he did this to you again."

I finally let the tears slip from my eyes. She sat up and put a hand on the side of my cheek. "Baby girl don't cry okay?" I nodded as she wiped the tears from my eyes.

She stood up and said "you can't be here any longer. you need to get out of here. Pack your bags now. I'll distract him for as long as I can. You need to run as far away as possible, protect your brother, your gonna be the only person he has left."

I shake my head and say "I'm not leaving without you." She holds both hands on each side of my face. "You have to." I can't leave her, she's the only person I have with the exception of my baby brother. I would die without her.

"Mom I'm gonna miss you. I need you. I don't know what to do. Mom I don't know what I'm gonna do." She wipes the tears that can't seem to stop falling. "Fight. For as long as you can. Promise me that you will fight until your last breath and to protect your brother, he's so young and vulnerable, he needs you, he needs someone to fight for him."

I hug her as tight as I can and cry into her shoulder. I have no idea where to go or how to take care of Harvey I have no idea on how to raise someone and to keep them safe. She kisses my cheek and the top of my head and says "I love you and your the best thing I've ever made don't forget that." She walks out of my room.

I grab my school back pack and dump everything out of it and pack a couple pairs of clothes. I change into a pair of ripped jeans, vans and a sweat shirt since it's starting to get chilly.