[saviour ➼ negan]

06.

IT HAD been a few days since the incident. artemis had finally recovered from what she had witnessed. she knew that things had to be done in order to remain intact but that didn't make what happened any less brutal.

"hey, artemis" she stopped walking down the hallway, dwight catching up to her. she liked dwight, he was the nicest person to her, other than negan and he treated her a lot better than simon did.

"yeah?" she asked, confused at what he wanted.

"do you mind going to find negan and tell him that we're going on a run tomorrow at 8am? he wasn't at the meeting today and i've got to go to the fence with simon and fat joey." dwight begged.

"sure, any idea where he will be?" she asked, willing to do anything to get on everyone's good side.

"most likely in his room. thanks for this." he smiled slightly, patting her on the arm before rushing off down the hall.

artemis made her way to negan's room. she had only been once but she remembered the way there well. once she had reached the door, she noticed it was open slightly.

"negan?" she called, pushing the door open. when there was no response she walked into the room, finding it empty. she turned to leave when she heard something from behind his bedroom door.

"negan?" she called again, knocking on the door. she heard some footsteps and a giggle before the door was opened by a half naked negan. artemis blushed at the sight, avoiding eye contact.

she was shocked when a blonde woman walked up behind negan in her underwear. she wrapped her arms around him, placing kisses on his neck. artemis was shocked, she didn't know that negan had a girlfriend, she just assumed he was single due to his flirtatious nature.

"oh, i'm sorry, i-uh didn't mean to interrupt." artemis stuttered, awkwardly turning away from the pair. the blonde girl giggled. "dwight just wanted you to know that you're going on a run at 8am tomorrow." she informed him before awkwardly stumbling away from the pair.

"artemis wa-" negan called after her but she waved him off, rushing out of the room and heading in the direction of the cafeteria.

"negan, are you coming back to bed?" amber asked seductively. negan sighed, unsure of what to do. normally he would just go back to bed with whichever wife he was with, but he couldn't help the nagging feeling that he should go after artemis.

"negan, come join me." she winked. negan groaned. he picked up her dress, throwing it at her. she was shocked at his actions, negan never turned down sex.

"go back to your room, amber." he ordered, beginning to put his clothes back on.

"but neg-" negan quickly cut her off.

"no fuckin' but's, amber, go back to your fucking room, do not fucking test me." he shouted, before walking out the room.

artemis grabbed some food, sitting down at her usual table. she couldn't get the though of an almost naked negan out of her mind. she blushed at her thoughts, feeling bad for thinking like that when he had a girlfriend.

"artemis." she turned around to see negan slightly jogging toward her. she quickly got down to the ground, kneeling like everyone else in the room.

"everyone get up." he ordered to the people in the room, including artemis. he quickly sat down across from her.

"what is it, sir?" she asked. she was unsure to why he was here when only minutes ago she had seen him with another woman.

"i didn't mean for you to see that back there." he admitted. he wasn't sure why he was apologising. he never apologised.

"it's okay. i'm sorry i interrupted you and your girlfriend." she apologised, pushing the food on her plate around with her fork.

"amber? she's not my girlfriend, she's my wife." artemis' head shot up to look at negan.

"you have a wife?" she asked, shocked.

"i have eight wives." he admitted casually.

"wait, what? you have eight wives?" she asked, not comprehending the words that were coming out his mouth. he nodded, stealing a fry from her plate and popping it in his mouth.

"why do you need eight wives?" she questioned.

"a man needs his pleasure. having eight wives means i can get laid whenever i want and with whoever i want." he joked.

"that's disgusting." artemis admitted, pushing her food away from her.

"you wanna watch who you're talking to?" he warned her authoritatively, an eyebrow raised.

"you have eight wives, do you realise how fucking wrong that is." artemis quietly scolded, not caring for her language. "that would have been illegal. and not to mention, women are not fucking objects that you can just pick up and drop whenever you want. you're repulsive!" she stood up from her seat, storming out the room.

negan sat, shocked at her words. everyone in the room was watching him. "get back to whatever you're doing before I bash one of your fuckin' heads in." he ordered, following after artemis.