Struggles In The Dark (A Carl Grimes Fanfiction)

Plan For Revenge

Carl's P.O.V
Cleaning the common room has to be one of the worst jobs they make me do. It's disgusting, people literally rake food off of their plates and let it fall to the floor if they're full or its cold or something. These people are slobs.

By almost dinner time, I finally get all of the mess cleaned up. Which is unfortunate because now it's about time for everyone to come back in and make another big mess.

They're back.

Dwight, Derek, and a few other guys come running into the common room carrying one of their guys.

"Carl, get Holly! She's the nurse! The new community spotted us and fired at us!" Dwight yells.

Derek runs up the stairs to fetch Negan from his room. I run as fast as I can to the infirmary, get Holly, and we both come running back carrying arms full of medical supplies. When we get back, Negan is already there with Derek discussing about a plan to retaliate. Supposedly, a resident or authority figure of the community fired the bullet that hit this guy in the middle of the stomach. We have reason to believe it was the leader.

"He's lost too much blood. And even if he hadn't lost so much blood, I still wouldn't be able to do anything. The shot is fatal," Holly says.

"Dammit!" Negan yells, "Throw his body to the undead."

"You can go away now, Holly," Negan says.

"Yes sir," Holly says gathering the medical supplies.

"I'm getting my revenge. We're having a meeting right now! That community is going to pay for killing one of my men. I'm going to make sure they cease to fucking exist. Dwight, Derek, Carl; I wanna talk to you three first."

"Me?" I ask surprised.

"Yes. I need all the hands as I can get. Once we form a solid plan, I'll call a meeting with the other men and inform them of it. But for now, it's just us."

Negan, Dwight, Derek, and I sit at a table in the common room and discuss the attack.

"The community has tall walls surrounding it. The walls look pretty sturdy too. I say we get our trucks and space them out evenly around the community. When we get set up, we start firing shots at them. They'll have nowhere to escape too. It'll be an easy kill." Derek says.

"We have bombs. I doubt they do. We do like Derek said and use some of the bombs as well as our gun power. Then when we feel comfortable enough, we go inside and get the leader, if he hadn't been killed already. I want every single living thing in that community dead." Negan states.

"You said the walls are tall. How would we fire bullets over it?" I ask.

"We stand on the trucks. That should give us some advantage, not too much though." Dwight answers.

"The walls stand taller than you will on a truck. I say we calmly drive up to the gate and demand for them to open up. If they don't, we blow the walls down with the bombs and slaughter some of them, not all. We don't exactly need the community destroyed, what use would that be? But if we feel the need to destroy it... and them, so be it. If they choose to cooperate, we take the man that killed our guy and kill him in front of his people to prove a point. We might need to kill more of his people if the point doesn't get across clearly. Fine by me. They might have resources we could use. We need to get them under our control like The Hilltop and the other communities," Derek says.

"That plan sounds smart. It saves lives. Not everybody needs to be punished because of the leader's mistake," I add.

"I'm not worried about innocent people dying. I couldn't care less. I want blood and that's what I'm going to get," Negan says harshly.

"Okay, so we take all of our man power to that community, we surround them, then ask them to open the gates and let us in. If they refuse, we blow the walls down using some of the bombs and enter anyway, killing everyone in there," Dwight confirms.

"Did you not hear a word I said? They might have shit we need, they could be an asset," Derek says.

"I'll call a meeting tomorrow. None of them survive this," Negan says, "You're dismissed."

Negan stands up, looks each of us in the eyes and walks up to his bedroom. Derek returns back outside to unload the truck he took. Dwight and I are the only two left in the room.

"This community..they have tall walls. What else do they have?" I ask.

"There's a tower near a section of the wall. That'd be a good spot for them to keep a snipper."

"Yeah.. Do you know the name of this community?"

"No, I don't they have one."

"Oh, okay."

"Why?"

"I was just wondering."

"When I found you and Luke, you two were alone. Right?"

"Yes."

"Where did you come from? Did you run away from something?"

"Um.. Yes."

"Where?"

"We ran away from a camp. A small camp. Luke was worried we weren't very protected after losing my eye, I agreed, obviously. The camp had strict rules, which is why we had to run away. They wanted us only for manpower. So, we couldn't just simply leave. We left in the middle of the night. We weren't worried about being found, we knew they wouldn't search for us. The man in charge, Brian, only kept us around because our parents lived there with us. My parents committed suicide, Luke's parents were eaten on a supply run."

Dwight eyes me suspiciously.

"You're talking too much. I didn't ask for your story. I'm kinda concerned why you'd feel the need to tell me all of that when I just asked where you ran away from."

"I just.."

"Carl, if I find out you're lying to me, I'll have you killed. Do you understand?"

I nod my head.

"I gotta go get ready to serve dinner," I say walking away.

My head is full of thoughts flying every which way in my brain. It's becoming over whelming. What if this place is Alexandria? I can't let them die because my dad killed one of Negan's men. No, it can't be Alexandria. We're too far away for it to be Alexandria.

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"Go get some sleep," Negan tells me as I serve him his food.

"Okay," I say.

"On the couch. I don't feel up to it tonight, I'm exhausted."

Thank God. I finally get to have a full night's rest.