What Happens Next

The Beginning

What I learned while at The Kingdom was not something I was ready to know. I lied there awake in my bed. The clock on my dresser read half past midnight and the warm body of Carl was next to me, sleeping the night away. I looked down at my self and then back up. 'When would be a good time'. I asked myself as I eventually slept the night away.

While at The Kingdom, what we didn't know until we got back, that Rosita and Sasha snuck to my father's camp, in hope to kill him. Sasha left Rosita behind and snuck inside. While on her way back, Rosita ran into one of my father's people, Dwight, had went against him and wanted to be on our team. His wife, who my father took from him, ran away, possibly dead when he realized what he wanted to do, he wanted to kill my dad and get back at him for what he had done to him. Dwight would be our secret spy.

The next morning, I had gotten dressed in light blue jeans, a dirty grey tank top and a flannel to got over. Carl laid in my bed as I wrote down a note saying I went outside. I left the house and saw people walking around outside as the gates were open, letting in another group. I walked over towards Rick and Michonne, "where's Carl?" Rick asks softly, "he's still asleep," I say looking at them. They nodded as I looked to the woman and then back to Rick, "you should stay inside, you're still not feeling good," Michonne says looking down a me, "I know what it is, I'll be alright," I smile faintly as I walked away and went back into my house and started eating some food.

"Hey," Carl smiles coming down stairs, "hey," I smile a bit as I went to him and hugged him, "you feeling better, you haven't thrown up today have you?" He asks softly, "I'll be fine, I have something I want to talk to you about later, ok?" I say softly, "yeah, ok," he nods looking down at me.

Later on, I stood on the watch stand as Rick came up, "Rosita, get into position, I'll signal you," Rick says as he came up from behind me and put his hand on my shoulder, "I still think there's a better way Rick," I say softly, "I know, but we're doing what we need to for our people, I'm sorry Jess," he says looking down to me, "don't worry about it," I say as I walk to the side on the watch stand and looked to Carl as trucks started to drive up.

"All points are covered. Every contingency is all met. I come armed with two barrels of the truth. The test is upon you, and I'm giving out the cheat sheet." Eugene says pulling up on a truck, as it pulled over with sheets on top of some kind of box hooked on the back. I looked over to Rick and then Eugene, how could he have gone against us like this?

"H-hello. I come salved with the hope that it is my dropped knowledge that you heed. Options are zero to none. Compliance and featly are your only escape. Bottom lining it-- You may thrive or you may die. I sincerely wish for the former. For everyone's sake. The jig is up and in full effect. Will you comply, Rick?" Eugene says. Silence fell for a minute as I looked to Rick, "where's Negan?!" Rick says staring down at Eugene. I looked to him for hope, "I'm Negan," Eugene says as I close my eyes and look down.

Rick turned a bit toward Rosita and then back to Eugene and back to Rosita and nodded a bit. I looked over and saw her press a button. I got down with Rick waiting for an explosion as nothing happens as I look back over to Rick.

When nothing happened, I saw Rick got to get up when guns were then held to all of us. I closed my eyes taking a deep breath feeling a tip of a gun get pressed against my head.

It was quiet as I looked around at Carl as I looked down closing my eyes tightly.

I looked over seeing Rick stand up, "You ever hear the one about the stupid little prick named Rick, who thought he knew shit but didn't know shit, and got all the people he gave a shit about killed? It's about you. You're all gonna want to put your guns down now." I hear my dad's voice on the other side of the wall, "No one drops anything. We had a deal," Rick says looking to the woman who held the gun.