Negan, Lucille and Athena

Chapter 6

Athena's POV:

I'm 8!! Me and Carl are still best friends. We always hang out. But that doesn't stop me from doing my runs with dad and going swimming. The best thing is that he doesn't do the tough coach scenario with me - he encourages me but he doesn't put me through boot camp like his students.

Dad's at work. Mom always lets me go walk to the school to meet dad as he finishes work - as long as I've finished my homework. I always do homework straight away.

"I'm off to meet dad, mom!" I shouted. "Ok baby, be careful." Mom shouted through the kitchen.

I got outside and it was a bit icy but I was careful. I met Carl on the way. "Hey Carl, I'm going to meet dad from work. Wanna come with?" "Yeah sure." Me and Carl walked towards the high school where dad works. We were both sliding on the ice. I slid too much because I ended up falling, hitting my head on the ice and I heard a snap - which I think was my ankle. "Athena are you ok?" Carl ran over panicked. "I think I just broke my ankle." I cried in pain and then I puked in shock. "C-Carl we're right near dad's work. Go get him please." Mom and dad are gonna be so angry. "I'm not leaving you on your own." Carl told me panicked. He gently lifted me up and started to carry me. "Don't drop me." I cried in pain but tried to laugh. We got to the school and I saw one of dad's students, Monica. "Hey Athena, What happened?" "She slipped on the ice and she's broken her ankle." Carl answered for me. "Yikes. I'll take you guys to your dad's office."

We got to dad's office and Monica knocked on the door. "Come in." Carl followed Monica in. "Hey coach." Monica said nervously. "Hey Monica. What's-" dad looked up from marking work and saw Carl carrying me. "Athena darling what's happened?" He asked really panicked. "She slipped and hit her head on the ice and we think she's broken her ankle." Carl said for me. I was in agony. "My poor baby. Thanks for helping Monica." Monica smiled and left dads office.

Dad put me on his chair and took my shoe off. "Fuck darling your ankle is extremely swollen. And you're really pale. We're gonna have to take you to the infirmary." I sobbed in pain. "I'm gonna call mom, then I'll take you to the infirmary." Dad told me.

Dad carried me all the way back to our house so that we could drop Carl off, then mom met us outside and we went to the infirmary. "I told you to be careful Athena darling." Mom said. "I'm sorry mommy." I sobbed like crazy. "It's ok darling. Let's just get you sorted." Mom smiled and wiped my tears.

Negan's POV:

My poor baby. We've been sat in the infirmary for two hours and we haven't been called through. Athena sat on my knee and she had her foot rested on Lucille. "My head and ankle really hurt daddy." Athena cried. "I know baby. I know." I kissed the top of her head. She was shivering like crazy. "Are you cold darling?" Lucille asked, Athena nodded her head. I gently took off my leather jacket and put it over her. "There we are baby." "Thanks daddy."

After about twenty minutes, Athena got her foot x-rayed. The doctors confirmed it was broken so they put a cast on her leg and we got told she had to take it easy.

When we got home the three of us got into our pyjamas, Lucille helped Athena. "I think we should have some ice cream." Lucille said. "I couldn't agree more." I chuckled as Athena cuddled up to me on the sofa. We put Mary Poppins on - it's not one of my 'go to' movies but my baby girl loves it so if it makes my little girl happy it does me too. Whilst eating our ice cream Athena asked "I won't be able to run with you for a while will I Daddy?" She looked quite upset. "No baby. Let's get your ankle better first." I wrapped my arm around her. "My head really hurts." She groaned in pain. Lucille gave her some medicine to help with the pain. About ten minutes later, Athena fell asleep bless her.

I carried Athena upstairs - me and Lucille thought it'd be best if she stayed in our room tonight so we can keep an eye on her. I gently put her in the middle of the bed. Lucille got some cushions to raise Athena's leg up to help with her pain. I gently raised Athena's leg but she woke up screaming in pain. "Fuck fuck fuck. I'm sorry baby."  I could feel tears rolling down my face. Lucille looked angry. "Be careful Negan." Athena sat up and cuddled me. "Mommy it was an accident, daddy didn't mean to." She leaned up and kissed my cheek. Lucille calmed after seeing that and she got into bed. The three of us laid down and Athena snuggled close to my chest. We fell asleep pretty quick.

Time skip:

Athena's finally got her cast off. She's over the moon to have it off but she's still got to take it a bit easy still. So that she doesn't miss out on runs, I've been taking her with me but we've only been doing one circuit instead of two and we've walked. She'd usually get tired after half a circuit so I'd carry her the remainder. She looked disheartened that she couldn't run bless her but I told her it'll take some time.

After about two weeks, on our usual run Athena decided to try and run, we started off slowly but we ended up speeding up. We did the circuit and I pulled Athena into a hug. "You did it baby!" She wrapped her arms around me. "I did it daddy! Thank you for helping me." She gave me a kiss. "I love you daddy!" "I love you too baby girl."

That's chapter 6 guys. I hope you like it.