A New Beginning

Hatred

Tyler's POV

He sits there, in a dark room staring at a window with his wife on the other side with their hands pressed against the glass. "It's gonna be okay, baby, I'll get you out of there." Tyler says confidently. Alexis stares into his eyes and begins to cry. "Don't cry, hon. Everything will be okay." He tries to cheer her up. Tyler and Alexis just sit there with their hands pressed against the glass, waiting for someone to enter inside.

AJ's POV

AJ and Derek are sitting on the hood of the car thinking. "How are we gonna go this?" Derek questions with his finger on his chin. "If everything goes right, we won't have to plan anything, but if something goes wrong." He pauses. "We may have to get ready for a war." AJ finishes. Derek glances over at AJ. "Knowing the situation we were just in, it's gonna be a war." Derek responds. "We got out of it. The Commonwealth is a strong community and can withstand anything. They got the numbers, the guns, and definitely the brains. It wouldn't be smart to just think about war all of a sudden." AJ replies. "It's something we have to accept, AJ." Derek comments. AJ glances over at Derek. "I know that it's a possibility, I do, but we shouldn't focus on it now. We should focus on going back there and settling this peacefully." Derek nods. "Alvin, you there?" A voice calls from the walkie. AJ picks the walkie up and sets it close to his mouth. "Alvin here." He responds. "It's time." The voice replies. "Who is this?" AJ questions. The walkie loses signal. Derek and AJ hop off of the hood and get inside the car and begin driving to the Commonwealth.

Tyler's POV

Tyler and Alexis sit in the chairs. Their arms are placed behind them with rope tied on their hands. Tyler and Alexis stare at each other as he notices tears falling off of her cheek. "It's okay, baby, just keep looking at me." Tyler says. A man enters the room where Alexis is in and slowly approaches her from behind. He stares at her and then glances at Tyler. Another man enters inside the room where Tyler is placed and approaches behind him. "I love you." She says crying. Tyler looks behind him and notices the man has a wooden baseball bat in his hands. "Get it over with." Tyler responds. The men look at each other and grin. The man throws the bat on the ground, confusing Tyler. Alexis helplessly watches from the window as she begins screaming. The man places duct tape on her mouth to stop her from screaming. "Don't you fucking touch her!" Tyler yells getting up. The man behind him throws him back down on the chair and Tyler stares at him. "Fucking cowardly assholes." Tyler snarls. The man smiles and hits Tyler with a hard punch. Alexis screams. Tyler sets his head up again and looks at his wife. The man begins beating Tyler repeatedly. The fists impact to Tyler's face causes Tyler to bleed with every punch. The man stops hitting Tyler and sets the chair he's in back up and takes three steps back. Tyler, now brutally beaten, stares at his wife. The man behind her looks at Tyler then back down at his wife. He approaches her and places his hands on her neck and snaps it, making a horrible cracking sound. Tyler begins screaming at the man. Alexis's body fell back into the chair. The two men leave the room with Tyler screaming as he stares at his wife's broken neck.

AJ's POV

AJ and Derek finally arrive at the front gate of the Commonwealth. The guards aim their automatic weapons at the two and they get out of the car, raising their hands. "Stay right where you are!" A guard yells. AJ and Derek stay where they stand with their hands raised. "I was informed that I could come back!" AJ calls out. "By who?!" A guard yells. The gate opens. "By me." A woman's voice is heard as the guards look down. "Michonne?" AJ says shocked. "Lower your weapons! Now!" She orders. The guards oblige and lower their guns. "Come on, walk with me." She says. AJ and Derek approach her and enter inside with the gate closing behind them.

Tyler's POV

Ten minutes have passed by and he has not taken his eyes off of his deceased wife. He then notices her twitching. She sits up and growls at Tyler who's on the other side. He watches as he is completely devastated and begins breaking down. The man who killed her enters again with a silenced pistol and shoots her in the head, causing blood to splatter all over the window in front of Tyler. He screams again with the tape covering his mouth. The man who beat on him enters the room he's in with a knife. He nods to Alexis's killer and he exits. The man removes the tape off of Tyler's mouth. "I'm going to fucking kill you." Tyler says in a dark tone. The man smiles and begins rubbing the blade of the knife on Tyler's face. "Feels good, doesn't it?" The man questions. He then places the blade under Tyler's chin, as he raises his head allowing the tip of the blade to slowly insert inside. A little puddle of blood exits his chin. The man pulls the knife away and grabs Tyler's face as he digs the knife into Tyler's right eye. Tyler screams in pain as the man continues to dig until he finally cuts the eye out of its socket. Tyler sits there, blood continuously dropping from his severe wound, passes out. The man leaves the room and closes the door behind him as he begins wiping Tyler's blood off of his blade with his sleeve.