Once

The Dark Truth

Chapter 3

Glenn POV
I was talking to Maggie and trying to get her to calm down and I took the baby away from her and held onto her with my free arm. I was leading her away from everyone and back to our cell until Rick decided to bring up a topic that hurt Maggie to no extent.

I felt her body tense at the mention of 'children' and before I could stop her she turned around and started towards Rick. When she was done yelling at him Rick looked like a deer caught in headlights. "Maggie I didn't know. I'm sorry that I sai-"

He was cut off when Maggie started yelling again; this time with tears streaming down her face. " No Rick. I have been through too damn much for you to even imagine. I have been beaten, tortured and told that I was useless too many times to count. I miss my baby everyday and it is my fault that he is not here right now. I was forced to let him go with his dad or else he would have done.... things to me and made him watch. I did it to protect him and do you want to guess how many mothers day cards I have gotten? None."

She looked back at me and then ran into the cell while crying. I ran after her down the hall and into our cell. She was violently crying on the bed in the corner in a small ball.

I set the now sleeping baby into the makeshift crib for her in our cell and lie down beside her and rubbing her back.

Maggie POV
I look up at Glenn and I can see the hurt on his face. I can't keep this to myself any longer and he deserves to know. I just hope that he doesn't leave me once I tell him about why I am the way I am. I sigh and take his face in my hands. I sit up and he does the same.

I take a deep breathe and start."Glenn I know that you won't want to be around me after I tell you but you deserve to know."

He looks at me confused and says," I would never leave you Maggie. No matter what I will always be here for you okay?"

I nod my head and start." Well when I was younger my real dad would beat on me and one day when I was fourteen I hit him back. I ran away and I would try anything to make extra money. When I was sixteen, I found out the only way to make money was to sell myself to older men and then I met Colin. He took me in and he was nice for the first couple weeks then he started to act strange and would force me into sex and he would tell me that I am worthless and beat me. When I told him that I was pregnant he kicked me out in the middle of the winter with nothing but the clothes that I had on. I struggled through the blizzard and made my way towards the nearest womens shelter. Me being only eighteen at the time I didn't know the first thing about taking care of a baby." I paused for a moment and Glenn was now crying into my chest and repeating 'sorry' over and over again.

"I was nineteen when my son was born." I paused and smiled and looked down at Glenn. "After he was born I started working and got a place for me and him. After about two years of it just being me and my son, Logan ;he was absolutely the best thing that I have ever done. Colin showed up again and I didn't want him near my son but he wouldn't have it. He forced himself on me and I just let it continue for a year and by then I had miscarried twice and when he told me that he wanted to take Logan away from me or else he would rape me in front of him. Kill me and then kill him slowly. I had to think about him. When I left them I didn't even know I was pregnant until I got into a car crash and the doctor told me that they tried to save the baby but couldn't. That was the third baby I lost. The doctor was Hershel and he took me in after I told him that I had nowhere to go. I lived with him for a couple years then everything went down. Then I found you." I smiled and hugged Glenn tightly and he just looked up at me and smiled weakly.

We just laid in each other's arms until the baby started to fuss and he got up to get her. He brought her back to the bed and I took her. "Hi peanut. Did you have a good sleep?" She cooed and i giggled. "You know that I called Logan peanut when I looked at his ultrasound pictures." I let a sad smile play on the coroner of my mouth and let a tear slip down my cheek. I hug onto the baby and softly sob into Glenns shoulder. "I just want to see him. I miss him so bad."

"I know baby everything works out the way it is suposed to and maybe one day you can introduce me to him."

She smiled and said," Glenn he would have loved you so much I just know it."

We snuggled on the bed with the baby in between us and fell asleep and let the worlds problems fade away from our consciousness.

AN/ This gets me right in the feels😣😭😭. Does anybody else feel bad for poor Maggie?