For You // R.G.

Chapter 34

"I can't believe you're doing this." Michonne growled at me as I handed my gun to Martinez. I glared at her

"It's not my first choice either, michonne." I snapped, she looked away.

"We were supposed to leave yesterday." Michonne says, directing it to Andrea who was on the other side of me. Andrea sighed and gave her gun to Martinez.

"This place is safe, michonne. We have shelter, protection, and food. Here, max can learn how to become a surgeon and-"

"You can fuck your boyfriend. Right." Michonne interrupted. Martinez left us in the room all together. Andrea sighed

"Why do you want to be out there so badly?"

"I don't trust him." Michonne says

"You didn't trust me at first, and look where we are now." Andrea says. Michonne looks up, she then looks at me.

"I'm leaving today-" michonne states, I interrupted her

"We are not separating-"

"I will help you find Rick, max." Michonne states. I look at her, I feel my chest contract when I heard his name.

"Max, we don't even know if he is still alive." Andrea tries to reason,

"I don't know," I agree with her, "and until I do, I need to find him. I loved him, Andrea." I say sadly. She looks down, she then looks up at me

"If you stay here you have a sure education... You have food and shelter and people. You can't have a sure way of anything out there."

I then look back at michonne,

"We need to get our weapons back before we leave. We should leave tomorrow at dawn." I stated, michonne nodded, she left the room. I looked back at Andrea,

"Why are you doing this?"

"I already told you... I need to know if he's still out there."

...

Milton nervously poured hot tea into my cup that was in front of me. I glared at the governor the whole time while he sat in front of me across the table. Michonne was to my right and Andrea was to my left. Milton went to his seat and sat next to the governor. Milton was like the governor's bitch.

"Whoever you're looking for out there is probably long gone." He says, I clench my fists underneath the table, trying not to snap.

"Here, we have-"

"Food, shelter, and protection. I've heard the monologue before."

He laughs lightly,

"There's people here too. We are building a community based off our old way of life."

"We don't trust you." Michonne stated coldly. Her stare as cold as ice, her arms folded against her chest. The governor shifted in his seat, knowing michonne was hard to sell to.

"I can't keep you here if you don't want to be here. But until you do leave, I keep your weapons." He says. Our eyes then trail to the curio behind him, which michonne's katana was placed, mocking us.

The two of us burst out of the house, Andrea following behind.

"How do you not trust him?!" Andrea yelled

"He took our weapons- do you think a person who is innocent just takes our weapons out of spite?!" Michonne yells back

"He is a leader of a community-"

"He isn't my leader." Michonne says

..

At night, michonne and I were held up between an alleyway, across from the governor's house where our weapons were. Everyone was going back to their houses because of the curfew. Michonne and I waited for all of the guards to move to the other side of the town. We waited around ten minutes, we were about to dash to his house when someone grabbed my shoulder, holding me back. Michonne was already inside the governor's house and then peeked through the window seeing me held by who I discovered to be Merle when I saw his blade hand

"What are you doin' out, darlin'?" He asked in my ear, I could feel his smile and I cringed.

"I- I was just going to my room." I say, I look at michonne, trying to tell her with my eyes to keep getting the weapons. She disappeared from the window, I kept breathing heavily as he held me

"Sad... I hear you're leavin'."

I gulped, I didn't say anything

"We didn't even get to talk..."

He then raises his blade to my throat, teasing my skin

"Where's my baby brother?" He asks.

"I- I don't know."

"You were with them last... I wanna know where he is." As he asked me, he backed from the alley entrance to make sure no one was watching. We were both cloaked in the dark, I was scared

"I... I haven't seen them in eight months." I say

He gives a small chuckle that makes the hair on my arms prickle up.

"Is he alive?"

I say yes, he lets me go and gives me a hungry stare as I walked away. I go to the back of the governor's building, knowing michonne would come out this way. I waited for minutes then the door opened, it was her. She had her katana strapped around her, she looked relieved when she saw me. She gave me my gun.

"Did he do anything to you?" She asked, looking me up and down. I shook my head

"We knew each other in the beginning... He wanted to know if his brother was alive." I explain. She nodded, not really caring,

"We should leave right now." Michonne says, she leads us behind the buildings. I didn't say anything because I wanted to wait until morning, to say goodbye to Andrea.

"Max?" She asked since I wasn't answering

"We wait until six tomorrow morning, we can't just leave without saying goodbye to Andrea." I say. She looked back at me and I see the sadness in her eyes. She then quickly hid it with coldness

"Fine, you rest and I'll keep watch." She says, we rush over to our building.

...

In the morning, Andrea was walking with us to let us go. Martinez and Merle were there to open the gates for us, I hugged Andrea. Michonne and her didn't hug, still mad at each other. I then see Merle giving me a glare as I started to walk out, I looked forward and kept walking down the littered road with michonne.