What Happens Next

A Long Travel

"I really hope we're close." Carl sighed keeping up with me. "we're just about there." I smiled, ready to get there as I stopped and looked back at Carl, "hey. I hate to ask you, but.. could you stop here?" she sighed asking, "what? Are you kidding?" He asks looking at me, walking up, standing in front of me, "I'm not splitting here from you now." "Please, I want to do this alone. Please.. go to The Hilltop. I'll meet you there, I promise.." I say softly placing my hand on his arm, looking up into his crystal blue eye. "I don't want you getting hurt again. You're still healing from that asshole.." he says softly looking down at me. "I know Carl, just please, I'll meet you there soon, I just want to meet him alone, I want to know how different he is.." she says softly. He sighed softly and nodded. "fine. You better be there by sun set." She nodded as they parted ways.

Jessica got to the tall factory and looked up seeing broken windows and vines growing up the sides of the building. She sighed taking a deep breath, not knowing what to, or how to get in.

"Who are you?! What do you want?!" A male voice yelled out, "my name is Jessica! I was brought here the other day by Simon! I snuck away and decided to come back!" I yelled back to him. It went dead silent when the gate was open and stripped me of my weapons and tied up my hands and started walking me in through the fences. I looked around me and saw walker tied on stakes, slowly falling apart by their flesh.

We got inside as I looked around, seeing tons of people working, looking nearly in poor condition. "Who is this?" A man asks walking up to us, "this is the girl that ran away from Simon the other day. She brought herself back." The man says as we made out way upstairs.

There were thousands of steps, it felt like it took centuries until we got to the floor level we were looking for. The man knocked on a door waiting for an answer, "what do you want? we're in the middle of a meeting." A man says glaring at the man as he looked down at me. I stood there quietly, cuts still across my face, a lip still swollen. I had a weird feeling, it felt like I just had to run away before my father came out and before I see his change, the new and improved Negan.

I stood straight, no fear in my eyes, "this is the girl that ran the other day, who Simon was bringing to Negan." The man said looking at the man in front of us. Hearing his name, Simon came over and laughed a bit, "shit, you realized you fucked up and came crawling back.." Simon laughed, "lets continue this god damn meeting. Tell them I'll take care if their shit when we're done!" A faint yell could be hear from the back of the roomt they were in. The door was shut as we waited about a half hour and all but one person came out, "he's ready for you in there." Simon says coming out and walked away.

I took a deep breath and let out a sigh as I stood up from the floor and walked in, I looked to the window and saw the back of a chair and saw a man who was starring out the window, "now what the hell did you assholes want?" He asked as he turned around and saw me. He looked at me and stood up. I saw him lean his barbwired bat against the table in the center of the room and made his way towards me, "you were eleven when we were separated.. and here you are, my obvious bad ass daughter living to see 16!" He smiled laughed. I still stood there, taking deep breaths not yet smiling, still taking everything in. I saw Negan take out a knife as he stood in front of me and cut my ties on my wrists, red and still rope burnt from two nights ago, "welcome home kiddo." Negan whispered and pulled me into an embrace.