The walking dead Fanfic: The Estate

The Estate Flashback 7

Mason sits on a couch and listens to Negan.

"so an estate with weapons and food?"

Mason nods his head and Negan smiles to himself.

"and you can get me this estate?"

Mason remains quiet and Negan sits down next to him.

"kid your friend is going to be out of commission for at least a month. His gunshot was pretty terrible lucky we had a doc."

Mason stares forward and Negan leans over.

"you mentioned a school?"

Mason gets up and looks around the room and motions to Negan.

"there's a group there led by a guy called Cole. Some kids from the high school have been locked up there. I need help taking that school Negan."

Negan turns his head sideways and smiles.

"I save your life and your asking me for a favor?"

Negan gets up and grips his bat off the table and presses the tip into Mason's chest pushing him against the wall.

"you know when I saw you pushed against the wall I thought to myself here is one crazy son of a bitch."

Mason looks down at the bat and then back at Negan.

"I think your smart Negan but you also don't have numbers yet. Taking over any society, a well-established one would help you gain resources. I'm providing you with an opportunity. Help me take the school and we can use those numbers to take the estate."

Negan brings his bat down and Mason looks up to him. Negan nods his head.

"Alright, Mace we will play your game. I'll help you take that school but after that, you take me to the estate. deal?"

Negan holds out his hand and Mason hears his father voice.

"every deal has a consequence."

Mason shakes Negan's hand and grins.

"deal Negan."

Negan sits back on the couch and stares down at his bat and smiles to himself. Mason comes over and sits down across from him.

"Negan."

Negan looks up and Mason nods his head.

"I want to help you. so can I say something man to man."

Negan leans back and nods to Mason who begins talking.

"you're going to need people, and numbers mean power. The school has numbers, and the estate has an army."

Negan remains quiet and Mason reaches in his pocket and nods to Negan as he takes out a small piece of paper pushing it towards Negan. Negan picks it up and reads it over and asks.

"what's this?"

Mason smiles and whispers.

"My father was a history major, he studied and enjoyed reading about old societies. He wrote up this plan right before shit went crazy. It is about a society of people built on a barter system with one."

Mason holds up one finger and nods to Negan.

"leader, who called himself the savior."

Negan laughs and throws the paper down on the table

"sounds insane."