a few days went by since the line up, faye had temporarily moved in with the grimes' since daryl was gone and rick didn't want faye alone knowing what dark places her mind had gone to before.
faye had stayed up all night, sat upright besides carl who slept soundly. she ran her fingers through his hair as her mind got lost in imagining what was going on with her dad. was he still alive?
she could hear someone walking around in the hallway, probably michonne or rick checking on judith.
an hour past and now everyone was awake. faye sat at the kitchen island along with carl, both of their attention on judith who babbled about nonsense. they admired her innocence, she had no idea about what was going on outside the walls.
as they left the house, faye spotted negan and his men by the gates talking to rick. her heart sank to stomach as she made eyes with her dad, he had an orange 'A' spray painted onto the beige sweatshirt he was wearing.
"come with me." faye mumbled as she she dragged his hand towards the infirmary and armoury. "watch out for them, theyre definitely not sticking to the deal so this is just incase." she explained as she pulled back a floor plank, revealing a secret crawl space, where she placed some medicine in a backpack and into the crawl space.
she stood up, stamping on the loose floorboard to make sure nothing looked out of the ordinary. soon enough, some of negans men entered and began to stuff bags with the medicine, more than they negotiated.
carl shot the window besides them. "put some back or the next one goes in you." he threatened them.
"kid.. what do you think happens next?" the man chuckled.
"you die." carl glared at him.
"carl, carl.. put it down." rick frantically gestured to put his gun down.
"no. he's taking all our medicine. they said only half our stuff."
negan chuckled, standing infront of rick. "really kid?"
"and you should go. before you find out how dangerous we all are." carl told him firmly.
"well, pardon me young man. excuse the shit out of my goddamn french but did you just threaten me?" he raised his brows.
"look, i get threatening davey here.. but i can't have it not him, not me.."
"carl, just put it down!" rick spoke in a hushed tone.
"don't be rude rick! we are having a conversation here." negan interrupted rick, his eyes never leaving carls.
"now, boy.. where were we? oh yeah! your giant, man-sized balls. no threatening us."
faye leant against the wall, watching the interaction between negan and carl. it took everything in her not to pull out her gun and kill negan and his two men. sure, maybe she'd end up dead too but atleast negan would be dead.
negan soon got bored and ordered rick to take him to the armoury. asoon as the door to the infirmary slammed, faye let out a sigh.
"i hate him." she sighed with annoyance.
"he's an asshole." carl agreed, glaring out the window at the man and his men heading for the armoury.
around an hour had passed and word spread that they were missing some guns and they needed to find them unless negan would kill someone else.
carl and faye watched from the distance as a man questioned enid about some green balloons, why she was so desperate to keep them was beyond them but that didn't matter. she was visibly uncomfortable with the way he caressed her face and rubbed his finger over her cheek.
"absolute creep." faye muttered under her breath.
"they'll be gone soon." rick whispered.
faye huffed, looking over at her dad. she knew it was no use trying to talk to him, negan had done something to force him to go mute. his appearance made her sick to her stomach, she wanted to cry for him, she wanted to hug him and never let go again.
that evening the house was quiet, there wasn't the usual laughter in the kitchen and the happy squeals from judith as michonne and rick cooked dinner. just the sounds of the trees rustling outside amongst the dark skies.
"cozy" faye sarcastically remarked as she finished setting up carl and her makeshift bed since negan took all the mattresses.
"we've slept on worse" carl shrugged trying to be open minded.
"barn floor, tiny tents, prison bunks.." she listed off the most uncomfortable places they'd slept in their 3 years of the apocalypse.
"storage units." carl laughed as they reminisced on the time.
carl held her tightly as they both tried to fall asleep, the day taking a toll on them and knocking them fast asleep faster than usual.
the next morning, rick wanted to go on a few supply runs. carl refused, he wanted to stay back and protect alexandria.
"you should come." rick told his son, watching as carl threw another dart at the board.
"someone's gotta be here for judith." carl retorted, pulling the dart out the door.
"there's people who want to help. we'll only be gone for a few days at most. we need supplies, they're gonna be back soon." rick tried to convince his son to come with.
"is this how it's gonna be from now on?" carl raised his voice, turning around to make eye contact with his dad.
"yes." rick retorted.
carl sighed, walking up to the dart board and removed all of the darts. "see you in a few days."
faye was on a temporary ban from going on missions, her mind wasn't in the right place and one wrong move could cause the group to be in terrible danger. she sighed, pushing off the wall and holding her hand out for the darts.
"why didn't you go with my dad?" carl asked michonnes she returned into carls bedroom.
"i have to figure some things out." michonne slung her katana over her torso.
"what is there to figure out?" carl followed her into the kitchen.
"how we can do this. if we can." she replied as she packed her bag.
"we can't. not like this." faye chimed in.
"rick thinks differently." she placed two bottles of water in her bag.
"he's wrong, you know it!" carl spat.
"even if i think he is.. i don't know." michonne stated before walking out the door.
faye spent the day with judith as carl said he had some sort of work to do with gabriel. she held the little girls hand as they walked through the streets of alexandria.
"faye have you seen carl?" gabriel called out to her from the church.
"uh not since this morning.. why?" she furrowed her brows.
"he was meant to come help me earlier and didn't show up." gabriel explained, placing his hands on his hip.
"oh, uh.. if he shows up i'll let you know." faye nodded as she lifted judith up onto her hip.
back in the grimes' house lay a note on the kitchen counter.
"gone on a mission. be back soon. - carl."
"i'm gonna kill him." faye muttered under her breath, throwing the note back down onto the counter.
RIRIS NOTES
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FATHERS RIFLE • C.Grimes
Hayran Kurgu"𝑰 𝑺𝑯𝑶𝑻 𝑨𝑵 𝑨𝑵𝑮𝑬𝑳 𝑾𝑰𝑻𝑯 𝑴𝒀 𝑭𝑨𝑻𝑯𝑬𝑹𝑺 𝑹𝑰𝑭𝑳𝑬" carl grimes x oc I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE PLOT, ONLY MY OC AND HER STORYLINE!!!
