Blessed By Reedus | Prequel to Claimed By Reedus

|Chapter Twenty One|

(Few days later)

"He loves you, I can tell when I look at him but the real question is..do you love him?" Me and my brother, Carlos were just chatting about random things when we decide to talk about mine and Norman's relationship. If you can call it that at the moment. "Of course I love that guy Carlito, I can't do anything without him and I mean it." I reply back, he smiles and shakes his head. "That's that then. Now let me check out your wounds, not going to let them get infected now are we?" he replies, I grunt in annoyance as I don't take to well to pain and which Carlos laughs at me. "You really need to get over this, I can't stop laughing at you though" Carlos says which I give him the evils and then punch in his arm meaning to hurt him. "Damn! That hurt!" he complains and I burst out laughing, "So much for being Thor. You deserve that though, for laughing at me" I say back teasing which he exchanges looks with me before smirking.

"What?" I say with a laugh, "You just wait Missy" "You won't be able to catch me!" I tease. Carlos chokes on his drink, which makes me laugh hard over because this guy is such a goof it's that funny. I head out to the yard (I sound more American than British) and sit at the edge of the pool with my feet in the water, "Let me check your wounds and then I will have to go and pack from tonight" Carlos says from behind me, I look behind me and smile slightly. "You really have to go?" I ask sounding hurt, I don't want him to leave me to be honest because I don't really want him to leave after everything that has happened recently. He nods his head as he crouches down and looks at me like he is feeling my pain.

"I do unfortunately otherwise I would have stayed with you" he replies, I look away from him and into water. "I don't want you to leave though, I don't feel safe and I only feel safe -" "When you're around me, I understand but I have to work and earn money you know" he cuts me off and I continue looking at my legs as I splash them in the water. I sigh heavily and then get up and head inside, I just want to curl up right now. I grab my phone of the couch and then look at my schedule to see what I have over the next week, Friday: Interview on Ellen, Monday: TWD filming all week 6:30am - 23:00pm.

I sigh and then lock my phone and throw it on the couch again before turning around to my baby brother who is leaning the door frame watching me. "Can't you delay your flight? Until the end of tomorrow?" I beg him but he doesn't move or say a thing, "I have to be on set by 5:00am, I leave at 5:00pm and get in London at 2:30 am tomorrow morning" he finally replies, I throw my hands up in the air as defeat. "Alright, I guess I will have to get the flight tomorrow after my interview on Ellen" I say, slightly in defeat. Carlos cocks his eyebrow at me and I giggle, "Silly, I'm going to come to London with you but I will have to come after my interview tomorrow afternoon" I explain to him but he doesn't look to happy. 

"You can't travel in your condition Gemma!" he warns me slightly, I do feel intimidated by his tones sometimes but I guess he is trying to protect me like he has recently. I can't thank him enough though for what he did otherwise I would either be in a coma or dead, "Carl! I'm old enough to handle myself and if I can't then I will be dead!" I have only just found a name to call him when I'm pissed with him and yeah you can laugh because of Carl from the walking dead (I'm laughing so hard on the inside)

Carlos just looks at me with a pissed face but I have been around people like this before and I'm not backing down. "I'm not allowing you to travel over seas in the conditions you are in" he says plainly but you can still hear the anger in his voice, "Carlos please! I'm begging you, I don't want to stay here on my own, knowing that some other mental asshole could come back and do the same! and I won't have you around this time when it happens, you will hate yourself if that happens" I try and reason with him and in his expression you can see that part of him was feeling the exact same way as I was at the moment.