𝗕𝗟𝗨𝗘 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 , the walking dead

[55] lovers reunited

LOVERS REUNITED
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THE EMPTINESS OF THE ROOM matched what Kai felt inside himself, his bedroom was completely torn apart of all personality. His bedroom was a reflection of himself, when he was at his highest point it was filled with all sorts of things—now that he's at his lowest, it was bare. It was sad to look at, he didn't even a bed anymore. At least they left him a headboard.

There's a soft knock at the door behind him, Kai didn't even need to glance around to know who it was. When he felt Carl's presence step up beside him, Kai says without even glancing over at him, "I was just getting used to sleeping in a bed."

That's when Carl suggest, "Come move the rest of your stuff over to mine."

Kai turns to look over at Carl, raising a brow as he then forces one little laugh before he says, "Are you asking me to move in with you? Already? Wow, moving a little fast there Grimes, don't ya think?" Kai's words were his usually joking words, but his tone was sadder—more forced.

Carl just raised a brow at him, seeing past his attempt at a joke to brush off the real issue. Kai's been sleeping in an empty house, without Maeve and Louis—he felt like he was living in a haunted house.  They weren't dead, but they weren't here and it was like everywhere he looked it was a constant reminder of that fact.

Enid lived in the house, but she already started sleeping somewhere else—at the Grimes he assumed. Yet, Kai never could bring himself to leave. But maybe he needed to, just temporally, until he could have his family back.

Kai just nodded his head, "Yeah, okay." Accepting that maybe it was better for him to get out of the house, just standing in it made every beat of his heart ache.

"We'll get them back okay? All of them." Carl tried to say reassuringly as he puts a hand on his back, rubbing a small circle as Kai turned and leaned into Carl. Wrapping their arms around each other in a tight embrace, because they both needed it. Carl had been trying to be so strong for the two of them, because Kai needed someone—and Carl still had Rory.

Just then, they hear footsteps approach, making both of them lift their heads to look at the doorway. Where they saw Enid standing, her eyes were glossed over and looking at the boy all sad. Kai and Enid hadn't spoken about it much, but she was hurting too. Maeve and Louis were something more to her than just friends and roommates. They were here family too.

Seeing her like this, saddened both boys further because they should be sad together. Carl and Kai then both simultaneously opened an arm, and when Enid saw this—a tear slipped from her eye as she practically ran towards them.

She wrapped her arms around either of their torso as they trapped her between them seeing as their both taller than her. Kai leaned down and rested his head against her as Carl rested his against Kai's shoulder. IN this moment, they just felt the pain, they just allowed them to be nothing more than kids in this moment.

Broken and afraid kids, who still will always have each other.

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Negan had returned back to the sanctuary and once again with his brother, who clearly wasn't enjoying the fact that he was there. Because he wasn't. Elliott saw this as a death sentence, no way was he going to be coming out of this fight in one piece, either mentally or physically, and if he did—well that would be the worst punishment of them all.

Leaving Alexandria the second time around was worst, because he had to face his family and had to come with terms to the fact that they were all going to hate him. A small price to pay for Kai's safety.

As Negan once again showed Elliott to his room, his perfect room that was better than anything he had in Alexandria with more supplies to last a family. He should feel like he's living in luxury, but in his eyes—this was a prison cell.