What Happens Next

All Over Again

I lowered my gun seeing the face in front of me. I took deep breaths and a hard gulp that could've been a dagger. "Do you remember me..?" The man said looking at me, "yes, yes of course I do, I just.. can't believe it," I say looking at him faking a bit of a smile as I took a deep breath and let it out, "wow, Jessica. You've changed, a lot," he says looking around at me, "so have you," I say. I kept my gun in my hand as we stared at each other, "you still hold you gun, yet you know who I am," he says looking down at my hand and then up at me, "we may have known each other once, but we may not know each other now,"
"How could you say that?"
"Lucas, the last time we saw each other was a year ago."
"Nothing between us can ever change Jess," he caressed my cheek.
"Everything can change between us. It just depends on how much this world changed us."
"Jessica, you haven't changed at all."
"That is such a lie!"
"Don't you ever raise your voice to me!" He removed his hand from my cheek and slapped it against my face. I gasped a little as I looked to the side. I took a deep breath remembering his abuse, hoping that had changed from him.

I looked at him, "you need to go Lucas." I say softly looking at him, "don't ever, come back here, and if I see you, you better pray I don't kill you." His glare to me was just as sharp as mine was to his. He pinned me up against a tree gripping my wrists tight as I turned my head looking to the side taking deep breaths, "don't you ever, say something like that to me you little bitch. You don't control me. Now, you're gonna bring me into those walls, bring me to your house, we're gonna stay the night there, and when your leader gets back, I'm gonna meet him, we're gonna be a happy couple again, and live happily ever after. Right?" His voice was raspy in my ear showing his anger towards me. I closed my eyes as I opened them back up looking at a tree taking deep breaths, "well?", "Ok, I'll bring you in, you can stay in my house, you will meet the leader tomorrow when he returns, and they'll let you stay here with me," I say taking deep breaths, "good," he simply says getting off of me and letting me go. I leaned off the tree and felt around my arms getting rid of bark off of my arms.

We walked to the gates going inside with Gabriel on the top of the wall keeping watched and looked down at me and the strange man to him, "Jessica, who's that? Does Rick know about him," he asks, "no, actually, this is my boyfriend, we were split up a while ago, we uh, we just found each other," I say as me and Lucas held hands. Gabriel nodded believing me as we started walking to my house as we went inside. I brought him to my room as he laid down, "lay with me Jessica," he says, "I will, I'm just going to real quickly stop and the infirmary to make sure my arm doesn't get infected, it got cut while we were out there," I say as I left the house and quickly ran to Carl's house banging on the door.

After a little, Carl opened the door as I let myself in taking deep breaths with my arms around myself, "Jessica? Are you ok? If it's about Glenn-" he says as I interrupted, "no, that's not it," I say with tears in my eyes, "what happened?"
"My ex, he found me, he's in my house."
"what do you mean?!"
"My ex Lucas, I tried killing him after something he did to me, I didn't I thought I did. He was abusive and controlling, I don't want him." I cried looking at Carl. He looked at me and headed to the door when I stopped him pulling him to me.
"No, you can't, not yet."
"What do you mean by not yet?! He can't hurt you..!"
"I know, but I need you to go along with it with me for a little bit."
"Not if that means him hurting you."
"I just need you to go along with it for me, please, just for a couple of days, I'm gonna go on a run with him and on it, I'm gonna kill him. But I might not come back."
"I'll go with you."
"No. You can't."
"Why?!"
"Because, I need to find something out."
"Like what?"
"I can't say it."
"Why!?"
"I don't want you to think of me differently!"
He looked at me becoming quiet, worried, "why would I..?"
"Because, I need to know if this Negan guy is my dad.."
"Jessica, you're nothing like him from that I've heard. I would never see you any differently than as my friend." His face showed me sincere care, he's the fourth person who's ever shown me that face, the third to in this world. A tear managed to come from my eyes as he pulled me into a tight hug and laid my head on his shoulder. He cared for me for about a half hour when I told him I had to go before Lucas got suspicious.

I left Carl's house and walked back to mine. I locked the down stairs doors and walks up the stairs. I opened the bedroom door when I heard the sound of a cocking gun up to my head as I stopped in my tracks. My eyes widened as I looked at the wall as I looked to the side seeing Lucas holding a gun with a silencer on it, "go along with everything I say, and do as I tell you, if you disagree or make the slightest sound, I'll kill you."