Beauty and the Beast. (Negan.)

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so, i decided to go ahead with the negan story. i'm not really sure how it's gonna go, or if it's gonna be good at all. it's going to be in a 3rd person type of thing so please, let me know how you like it, if you like it and don't be afraid to tell me if its shite :)

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When Blake Caldwell thought of the end of the world, she thought about meteors or asteroids striking the Earth. Not that the dead would suddenly start walking and biting. 

And she thought that she'd be long gone. But no, life decided to screw her over just when she was starting to live. 

She was married to a man named Danny. He was her best friend and the two of them had one beautiful red headed daughter, she took after her father, Jennifer and another on the way. 

When shit hit, they decided to get out of Seattle and ran into the military, who directed them to go to Alexandria safe zone, where they would send someone to take them to safety. 

Except they didn't and when the large group of people realised that no one was coming, they decided that they were going to have to make the best of a bad situation so they put up a wall, they started to survive.

Blake gave birth to Emily inside the safe zone, for which she was thankful. If it hadn't been for Pete, the doctor, she might not have made it, neither would her daughter.

However, things weren't always going to be perfect behind those walls. Almost three weeks after the birth of their daughter, Danny, who was now part of the run crew, they ran into some trouble and he sadly lost his life. To say she was devastated was an understatement. She had lost her best friend, her other half. The father of her children. 

She found it hard, that was to be expected but Blake managed to keep a strong face for her girls. She only cried when she was sure that they were asleep. 

Over time, it got easier and soon, Jenn was six and Emily was two. Time inside those walls had flew by and she had done nothing.

That all changed when Rick Grimes and his group showed up. People died. So many people died including the man who had delivered her daughter but his people showed them just how sheltered they had been all this time. 

Rick saw potential in Blake, putting her in the infirmary after Pete's died but after her death, Blake was acting as doctor. Rick felt that the few first aid classes she had taken gave her the right to that roll. 

Then Rick and some others had a run in with someone called Negan. 

She wasn't there that night, she was at home with her girls when they went through that horrifying ordeal but he had told her about it. How he had killed Abraham and Glenn with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, how he had taken Daryl back to wherever he had come from and how Maggie and Sasha were now at the Hilltop and Rick said that they were going to tell Negan that she hadn't made it through her illness. 

Negan had given them a week and then his group was going to come to Alexandria and take half of their stuff.

So that's what Blake was doing now; helping Olivia sort through what little food they had in the pantry into boxes marked for Negan. 

"What do you think he's like?" the dark haired woman asked her, "Do you think he's as bad as they've said he is?" 

"I think so," Blake murmured, "Who else beats two people to death just to prove a point?"

"I guess." Olivia said quietly. 

The two women worked quietly, looking up when Enid ran in. 

"It's Jenn," she breathed, "It's happening again." 

Blake quickly dropped the can of peas into the box and took off after the teen. Everyday that she had to work, Enid had agreed to look after the kids. 

They arrived at the house that the four of them shared and Blake saw her little girl on the floor, Rosita by her side as she clutched her chest. 

This wasn't the first time that this had happened. At first, she thought that her little girl was just experiencing panic attacks. This hadn't happened when Danny was alive and again, at first, she thought that it was just the weight of her daddy's death weighing on the little girl but now, Blake thought it was something else. Sometimes, Jenn would wheeze when she breathed, especially when she was exhaling but she couldn't tell. She wasn't a doctor, no matter how many times Rick said she was. 

"It's okay," she comforted, taking Rosita's place by her daughter, "I'm here, baby. Just breathe." 

A few minutes of laboured breathing passed them by before the six year old started to calm down. 

"I don't like it when that happens, mommy!" she sobbed, wrapping her skinny arms around Blake's neck. 

"I know," she whispered, running a hand through her red locks, "It's okay though." Sighing, she picked her daughter up, placing her on her hip so she could take her to the pantry with her. "Can you just keep an ear out for Emily?" she asked Enid.

"Yeah," she nodded, "Don't worry about it." 

Blake mumbled a thank you and left for the pantry again, finding Olivia talking to Rick. 

"Blake," he nodded as she entered, "Hi Jenn." 

"Hi Mr Grimes." Jenn murmured shyly, tucking her head into her mother's neck. 

"I need to talk to Olivia," Rick said in reply to her unanswered question, "Do you mind?" 

"Of course not," Blake answered, giving her daughter a smile, "We'll go back to mommy's work, huh? You can play with the stethoscope." 

The little girl nodded silently and her mother carried her the whole way there. 

Inside the building, she sat on the one of the stools that were there and watched as her daughter playing on the floor, smiling when she looked up at her but that fell when she heard Rick's voice from outside and the door flew open. 

"He's here."