Unexpected (Carl Grimes x Reader)

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Scooting over a little I showed him my leg, having him put in on his lap. He opened the kit and got out some medicine and bandages for my wound. Untying the cloth slowly my cut was visible. It looked deep, a bit of blood still threating to flow out. Opening the anti-bacterial medicine, he looked at me. "This is gonna burn a little."

And with that, he poured some in a clean cloth and placed it down on my open wound. I winced hard, shutting my eyes as I cursed under my breath. "A little?? More like a lot!" I angrily said.

"Sorry. We can't risk having it get infected," he spoke as he started to bandage my leg carefully. He's right, I can't risk that. It'll be too much on me already.

I took this as an opportunity to get to know him. "So what's your name? You didn't mention it back there."

Keeping his attention towards my injury he answered, "Carl. Carl Grimes. You?"

"I'm (Y/N) (L/N). Nice to meet you. Hey, how old are you? You look around my age."

"17," he answered again.

"Wow, really? I knew you were my age," you said, sounding happy.

Carl smiled a bit. "Sounds like you're happy about meeting someone your age?"

"Well yes. I haven't met any kids in a long time. It's nice to finally get to talk to someone that's your age."

Carl nodded, finally finishing up on my leg. "Do you have a place you stay? Not that I'm saying you should leave, just asking. Maybe you'll need help getting back."

I looked away a bit. I feel stupid for feeling embarrassed about my living situation right now. But I shouldn't, it's the damn zombie apocalypse, though places like this still exist.. I wish I lived here too..

"I live with my dad back a few miles from here in a run down grocery store. We've been place to place, we don't usually stay in one area for this long," I finally spoke.

"I see," Carl replied. "Do you have any siblings?"

Thinking for a moment I shook my head. "I was an only child. You? Did you have any siblings?"

Carl smiled a bit. "Yeah. I have a baby sis-" Before he could finish a baby started crying in the other room. Carl stood up and looked at me. "Stay here and stay quiet, I have to go take care of my baby sister. I don't want my dad finding out you're here." And with that, he left me alone once again.

I continued to sit on the bed, keeping my thoughts to myself as the crying soon stopped and people started talking. I heard Carl and I'm guessing his dad talking. It didn't sound like arguing, but just talking. After the talking stopped he came back into the room, this time holding his baby sister.

"This is Judith. My baby sister," He said with a smile.

Judith was a cute baby, having pretty short blonde hair, resting her head on her big brothers shoulder as she stared at me.

"She's really cute," I smiled. It's been forever since I've seen a baby.

Carl laughed a bit. "Yeah. Did you wanna hold her?"

"Oh. Uh, sure."