I Need You and Only You (Carl Grimes FanFic/TWD) --(COMPLETED)--Editing

Chapter 22: Found Each Other

Peyton's POV

We woke up the next day and heard gun shots outside. "Mom? What's going on?"

"I don't know." We heard a guy yelling from outside, but he sounded close. 

"Okay now samurai girl."

"My son!" I hear a man yell. That person sounds so familiar. They opened the door and everyone steps in. The people from outside slammed it shut again. Glenn slowly walks up to the people and Maggie and I followed.

"You made it." It was Rick... That means... I looked around him, and my eyes widen. 

"Carl..." I whisper. Maggie looked down at me.

"Go..." Slowly I made my way to him. We faced each other silently. Everyone was silent.

"Carl..." I said again. Tears formed in my eyes.

"Pey." I hugged him, but he stayed still. 

"Carl I'm so sorry.... I really am. I shouldn't have left." He was quiet. "Please say something."

I see him gulp hard and look at me. "Do you seriously love me?" My eyes widen in shock.

"What? Of course I do."

"Then, why did you leave? Didn't you trust what I said?"

"Carl..... I left cause I couldn't think... Even when I found Maggie..." I paused trying to breathe. Tears were falling out again. "When I found Maggie, I didn't even try to talk to her... So, you know what I did?" I asked him. He just stares at me and shrugs. "I said things I wish I never said to her.... I was trying so hard to make her hate me... But she still tried to keep going and make me go with her... Do you know how annoying it was? I just wanted to break down into her arms, hoping nothing would go wrong, and yet here we are... We found Glenn, and Jessie and Jay had to talk me out of leaving again. But you know what I really wished I took back Carl?" I sighed, hoping he would understand. "I wished that I never left you... I though about you everyday. Wishing you were there next to me."

Carl just nods. "You shouldn't have left in the first place." I broke into tears and ran into his arms.

"I'm sorry... Carl I love you, you know that!"

"Don't leave me again." Carl says softly. I nodded. After a while Rick started talking. 

"These people don't know what's coming."

"What do you mean?" Some guys said. Unfortunately he wasn't in our group before so we all knew what Rick was talking about. I smirked and Carl and he nodded.

"They don't know who they just screwed with." Rick finishes.

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I sat with Carl laying my head on his shoulder. "I really am sorry I left..."

"Stop saying sorry. You're saying it to much." I looked up at him.

"What happened to your face?"

"We were attacked, I don't know. That's how we found Daryl though." I touched his face and then his wound. "I couldn't fight back. He was too strong."

"Carl.... I just need you to be alive and with me. That's all that matters." I kissed his cheek and he turned to me.

"I love you." He finally said to me. I smiled.

"Well I really hoped you did... Other wise I wouldn't know what to do without you." He smiles back, and leans in and met my lips. I kissed back. Smiling, I pulled away from him. "I love you too." I peck him on the lips and I lied my head on his shoulder.