The walking dead Fanfic: The Estate

Takeover Final

Mason sits at the table eyeing the empty chairs and watches people come in. He watches Lewis come in and stand by his seat. Mason smiles and after some time he watches Evan, Konnor and Presley come in. Slowly they all come up beside a chair and stand. Mason remains quiet staring down at his food and hears a door open. Miya comes in and takes a seat by Mason's side and the rest of the group remain standing. Mason side glances at Miya and turns back to the group. nodding.

"please, sit."

They all sit slowly into their chairs and Mason glances around studying the group. He shifts in his chair and picks up his fork again pushing around his food and sits quietly in silence with the rest of the group.  He finally puts his fork down and glances to Miya and stares out at his group and smiles to himself.

"so tell me, what have i missed?"

He reaches out placing his hand on Miya's and she stares down at it remaining quiet. Mason stares her over and glances to Lewis who nods to him. Mason slowly removes his hand and pushes around his food on his plate staring down at it as he hears Lewis.

"we thought you were dead."

Mason nods his head staring into his food as he replies.

"that's understandable, its been a few months."

Miya interupts asking.

"what happened to Negan?"

Mason nods his had as he pats Miya's hand.

"you don't have to worry about that"

Miya smirks and Mason turns his head sideways as he asks again.

"so what did i miss?"

He puts down his fork and Miya motions to the food.

"aren't you hungry?"

Mason stares down his food and glances up to Miya and nods his head.

"i am starving but caution is important. Not everyone is trusted so to be safe we all should take precautions."

Mason whistles and a few kids come into the room and stand in a line. Miya glances over the kids and smiles to them and turns back to Mason as he nods to her.

"safety is very important to me. My own and of course all of ours. Without leadership our community will fall apart."

Mason waves one of the kids over and places his arm around the kid and motions down to the food.

"are you hungry?"

The kid nods his head and Mason pats the child on his back and holds out his fork.

"go ahead."

The child takes the fork and presses it into a piece of meat and Miya watches as the child goes to the lift the meat to his mouth but Miya swats his hand away making the kid drop the meat. Mason turns his head sideways and the kid looks to mason asking.

"did i do something wrong?"

Mason shakes his head and motions to one of the boys standing by the door with a gun.

"take the children to the cafeteria get them all a good dinner."

The boy nods and motions to the kids and they all walk out in a line and the boy holding a gun walks out shutting the door behind him. Mason glances back to Miya and turns his head sideways as he grins.

"worried for the kids?"

Miya looks to Mason's plate and mason pushes it towards her.

"i am sure you as my wife would take the risk?"

She stares down at the plate and watches Mason pick up the fork and hold it out to her. She stares it down and Mason turns his head sideways and asks.

"is there something wrong?"

Miya grips the fork looks at the fork and then stares to Mason's hand placed firmly on the table. She glances up into his eyes, grips the fork and jams it into Mason's hand. He flinches but seems unaffected by the pain in his hand and Miya stands up placing a gun to his head as she yells.

"your not in charge anymore!"

Mason grins wide as he stares at the fork stuck into his hand. He wiggles his fingers and turns his head sideways as he asks Miya.

"are you sure you know what your doing?"

She holds the gun to his head and nods as she demands.

"you can leave and never come back. I'll spare you Mason but you can't stay here."

Mason glances around the table at everyone staring in silence and asks.

"has the group voted?"

Everyone remains quiet and mason smiles to himself as he reaches over and pulls the fork out of his hand. He eyes the blood on the fork and laughs to himself. Miya holds the gun up to Mason's head and Mason leans into it as he asks nicely.

"are you sure about this?"

Miya grins and pushes the gun to his head.

"everyone supports me. you have no one mason leave while you can and don't come back."

Mason stands up and Miya keeps her gun pointing at him as she motions to the door.

"just walk out and keep going to the exit."

Mason gets to the door and stares at the wood and smiles to himself. He turns back and Miya keeps her gun up as he nods to her. He steps forward and she shakes her head as he smiles and leans down making eye contact.

"how do you think I knew that the food was poison?"

Miya goes to turn back and is punched in the face by Lewis and Mason laughs looking down at Miya. He leans down and takes her gun as he turns it sideways and opens the clip. he notices its empty and looks up to lewis who nods to him.

"i made sure to empty her clip when she slept. she's never had a loaded gun since you left."

Mason smiles to himself and tucks the empty gun into his belt. He kneels down beside his wife and whispers to her.

"my best friend. did you really think he'd betray me? he was with me from the start but you Miya your replaceable."

Konnor walks up behind Mason and looks down to his sister and Mason glances up as Konnor nods to him.

"what is your plan Mace?"

Mason runs his hand through Miya's hair and motions to Konnor.

"all acts have consequences she will need to be held accountable."

Mason gets up off the floor and motions down to Miya.

"take her to the basement. I'll deal with her personally."