The walking dead Fanfic: The Estate

Takeover Part 4

Mason walks down the hallway eyeing the blood and stops eyeing the dead body over. He kneels down eyeing the boy over with his throat slit and smiles to himself as he nods his head. He pats the body and whispers to himself.

"konnor."

He stands up coming to the open door and eyes Konnor sitting on the floor staring at his bloody hands. Mason shakes his head walking into the room and closes the door behind him. Konnor glances up from his blood soaked hands and nods.

"mace."

Mason pushes his back to a wall eyeing over his friend and motions towards the door.

"i take it the corpse is your doing?"

Konnor presses his finger to his lip and licks the blood off and motions to Mason.

"you have some discrepancies in your rank mace, he tried to kill me"

Mason paces in front of Konnor and stops standing still in front of him. Konnor glances up eyeing over his friend and licks the blood off his finger again. Mason leans down making eye contact with Konnor.

"are you lost again?"

Konnor eyes his blood soaked hands and smiles to himself.

"i finally feel alive Mace. When i held him and slit his throat it was refreshing"

Mason nods his head looking over Konnor and asks.

"how much time do you need to get right?"

Konnor laughs to himself and licks his fingers again as he whispers.

"where is that wife of mine? You know the bitch has a friend around here she hit me over the head mace and they locked me up like some animal. I built this place with you, i took this place with you and they still disrespect me."

Mason ignores Konnor and asks again.

"how long do you need Konnor?"

Konnor stares over his  hands and glances up to Mason.

"he came in here mace, he pointed a gun at me. the fucker was stupid. he disrespected me, i built this place, we built this place."

Konnor stops speaking and stares at his hands shaking his head.

"its always there, the blood of every single one of them-"

Mason nods his head and leans forward.

"and you have to live with it, Konnor-"

Konnor stares up to mason and mason nods.

"being a leader isn't some game, you know that. you couldn't handle it then at the community so you washed your hands-"

Konnor looks down at his hands and shakes his head.

"i released that horde. i watched those people die."

Mason shakes his head.

"and you need to get over it."

Konnor places his bloody hands on his face wiping the blood on it and licks his finger.

"I didn't do it because i was weak, or bored. Calvin the guy who ran the place, he owed a debt to Alpha. His pride got the better of him so I did what Alpha asked me to."

Mason grins to himself and whispers.

"like a good little puppet would-"

Konnor glares up at Mason shacking his head.

"we are both weak Mason. You couldn't kill your dad and I can't say no to that psychopathic bitch."

Mason laughs to himself and pulls out a small cloth tossing it to Konnor.

"clean yourself up I'll have some men clean the body up in the hall and we can forget this day."

Konnor wipes his hands with the cloth and looks up to Mason.

"so, what now mace?"

Mason stares over Konnor and leans forward staring him in the eyes.

"your gong to get right. however long it takes, you will. then you make amends for what you've done."

Konnor laughs out and stares over mason.

"I don't regret it mace. it haunts me but I did right by my people."

Mason eyes Konnor's still bloody hands and gets up from leaning over. he walks closer to Konnor and stands by his side. Konnor glances up and Mason stares down at him eyeing Konnor over. Konnor looks away and Mason smiles to himself. 

"you may have done right by Alpha but I know you Konnor. I know at the end of the day your human."

Mason slides down the wall and sits next to Konnor as he keeps speaking.

"we both did fucked up things than. we did what we had to do to survive. i don't judge you for it and you don't judge me. the question you need to ask yourself is how far back do you want to go Konnor? You keep going in that direction and what part of you, the real you, will be left?"

Mason reaches out and places his hand on Konnor's.

"your like my brother I care about your well-being. you've been in this place before struggling but it doesn't have to go this way-"

Konnor pulls his hand away and smiles to himself.

"maybe you should be less worried about me Mace and more worried about your wife."

Mason shifts and Konnor leans towards him.

"she wasn't strong enough to lead here. if you keep trusting her she will destroy this place. it's what she does. at the end of the day she is a twisted bitch-"

Mason smiles and whispers.

"that's why i married her. its the Apocalypse no one can be fully right."

Konnor stares over mason.

"yet you are.  you never let anyone see you falter, you just keep pushing"

Mason stands up and looks down to Konnor.

"I don't have time to falter that's a luxury of a puppet." 

He goes to walk away and Konnor speaks.

" don't trust Miya, people are loyal to her."

Mason nods his head and goes to open the door but Konnor speaks again. 

"mace, ask Presley to come down"

Mason nods his head opening the door and walks out. He turns back shutting it over and eyes the two boys pick up the dead body and walk off with it while another mops up the blood soaked floor. He stares down at the blood for a second lost in his thoughts but hears a voice.

"so how is he?"

He glances back eyeing Presley and nods to her.

"he wants to see you."

Mason walks by Presley and she nods to him walking to the door. When she walks in she feels herself dragged to the right and pushed to a wall. Konnor holds a blade to her neck and smiles to himself.  He puts his lips to her ear and whispers.

"do exactly as I say and maybe I won't kill you."