Candy Shop - Negan -

Chapter 3

Of course it caused an uproar. 

Most of Alexis' people of course didn't understand why she made the deal with Negan. They just lived too far away from reality. Many of them haven't seen a walker in ages, so they surely couldn't get what a war with a Saviors would cost them. 

She stood in front of the farmhouse that was the center of her communities. Every one here lived in RVs, they had countless of them, and the farmhouse was common space. One room was reserved for the doctor, one an meeting room, a former bedroom gave space for a makeshift kindergarten and the huge living room was the place where people got together. Sometimes the gathered and watched a movie from their collection of five DVD's. 

The crowd consisted of fifteen people, the usual people that always annoyed her and questioned her authority, and shouted at her. Oh, how she would've loved to bash all their brains in. Her hand clenched around her bat when she imagined how much of a release it would be, while she blocked their voices out. But unfortunately she couldn't. Not if she wanted to live another day. 

"Do you think they would've let us live if I simply did nothing? Like that they at least don't take all the shit we have from us. From now on we work together in peace with the Saviors. End of story. You guys won't even notice a change. It's me who has to bother with these fucks, so if you could just please stop complaining and do something productive?" 

It's the third 'revolution' in four days they wanted to start and Alexis ran out of patience. Her voice was calm, but her cold eyes bore into every person in front of her. It wouldn't be the last. Alexis pushed through them, when suddenly a guy put a hand on her shoulder to stop her. 

But even more quickly, Alexis rammed her bat harshly into the guy's stomach. He laid on the ground, holding his middle while the female hovered over him. Finally the other people cleared the area around them, finally getting that they shouldn't push her buttons too much. 

"Touch me again, asshole, and I cut you in pieces and feed you to the walkers."

She hissed directly in the guys face. He looked up to her in fear. But that wasn't enough. Alexis grabbed him by his collar und pulled him up. 

"Got it?" 

Eagerly he nodded. 

"I can't hear you." 

Alexis continued to stare her down, his face close to hers. She could feel his unsteady breath and enjoyed it that he finally learnt to fear her. 

"I understand, Alexis." 

"Good." 

Letting him fall back down, she stood up and cleaned her jeans off dust and walked straight to her RV. There was no second glance needed. She knew that look on their faces. They reconsidered that she was ruthless and that she would everything necessary to keep the peace inside and outside their community. 

She took a deep breath when she closed the door behind her. The RV was the only place in this world where she could be herself. Here she could allow herself to be weak for some minutes...and to be the mother of the little girl that currently sat on the bed and played with her doll. 

"Hi mummy!" 

The toothy smile of the three year old girl always made this rough world around her shatter and let Alexis be softer than she was on the outside. Her daughter held her doll up in the air proudly. She was obsessed with the toy, she cherished and valued it. Alexis had found it two weeks ago along with some stuffed animals that she still hid so she could surprise her with it later. It was strange that toys were actually things that were pretty tough to find, considering humans nowadays had trouble finding basic needs. But there were still enough children in this world and  toys were probably one of the few things that could bring them at least parts of their childhood back.