Apocalyptic Love

Flashbacks- Chapter 30

It was the middle of the night and Judith was sleeping with Leslie and Carl tonight cause Rick needed to handle some business is what he said. So, Judith woke up in the middle of the night crying, maybe from a nightmare and woke Leslie up quickly. Carl was sleeping and didn't want to wake up. He turned in his sleep and Leslie picked up Judith rocking her. Judith kept on crying, Leslie got a little scared that she would wake everyone up so she started singing You Are My Sunshine. Judith looked up at Leslie and started to calm down. Leslie continued to sing for her, and without Leslie noticing, Carl was watching. Looks like he woke up after all. Judith slowly started to fall asleep, until her eyes were fully closed and she was peacefully asleep. No more crying, and no more whining. Carl smiled and walked over to Leslie, peeking over her shoulder at the sleeping Judith. Leslie blushed, she immediately thought that Carl had heard her singing. Carl whispered "I heard all of it." Leslie blushed even more and placed Judith down on the bed and immediately got back to laying down and covered herself with a blanket. Carl chuckled and then moved Judith to the little crib they have in their room, got in bed with Leslie and wrapped his arm around her, and placed his head on her shoulder and closed his eye. Leslie blushed a little more and closed her eyes. 

Then the next day at around 4 in the afternoon, Leslie and Carl had to get to their positions. The usual position at the front gate. Vanessa had joined them today, and she talked to Leslie mostly about how everyone was treating her, which was well like they should be treating new guests. Vanessa said "I heard about the seizure with Marie. Sorry you had to see that. No one deserves to see such a horrible sight." Leslie nods her head and says "Yeah...It was very horrible to witness...I just wanted to hug her and hope that she would stop..." Vanessa says "All the teens know about it now, they visit her every second of their time. Some of them even stay overnight." Leslie smiles and says "She is so lucky to have so many great people in her life, so many people who care about her health." Vanessa says "She is. They are all your friends too, they all care for you as well. Blake really appreciates you volunteering and keeping him updated on Marie's situation." Leslie smiles and says "I'm glad I could be working there, surely we have to kill people who don't have much time left, but we had to kill this little boy who was sick, luckily I denied it, and they gave him a second chance at living. I was planning on seeing how he was doing one of these days, hopefully better." Vanessa claps smiling "Such a brave and caring young lady. I applaud you." Leslie pretends to take a bow. 

Then they hear a woman crying for help, and then another. Carl kept his guard up and waited until he could clearly see the women. Leslie got her bow ready and Vanessa started searching for the women. Then they appeared out of the bushes, one was pregnant and the other had blood on her, and this weird looking bite. Carl was staring at the woman's bite on her arm, and then Vanessa noticed a weird looking bite on her ankle too. Leslie focused on the pregnant lady, she looked fine, and about 8 months pregnant, she was going to give birth soon. Carl looked at the pregnant lady and immediately thought of his mother. She had a large belly bump like that, when she was pregnant with Judith. Carl hopped down and yelled out "Open the gate!" The pregnant lady immediately said "Oh thank you, thank you!" The other women with the bite marks was staring at the gates in happiness, glad they were going to be let in. Leslie hopped down while Vanessa was opening the gate. Carl slowly lead the pregnant woman inside the gates while Leslie stayed pointing her gun at the other woman. The woman looked at Leslie in pure fear. Leslie asked "Why do you have bite marks?" The woman responded with "T-they are dog bites, we ran into some dogs, one was medium sized and the other was huge!" Leslie started looking at her eyes and how they were changing, changing into a different color. The woman was about 27 or 28, pretty young, medium length hair, about 5"3 to 5"5. The woman just said "Please...let me in...I need help...me and my sister do..." Leslie felt so bad to have to end her life...but Leslie pointed the gun at her and said "I-I'm sorry...but I have to...I don't want to, but I can't let you in, and I know you don't want to become one of them..." The woman smiles and says "Just do it...I know you already know I have been bit...So just end my life..." Leslie started getting teary-eyed and shot the woman, her body fell to the ground and Leslie looked at her, blood leaking from her head. Leslie covered her mouth and ran inside the community. Enid who was watching informed Negan of the bravery and sadness Leslie just went through. 

Meanwhile, Carl and the pregnant lady, whose name was Esmeralda. Carl was looking at her belly bump and just couldn't stop thinking of his mom. Esmeralda says "I see you can't stop looking at my bump. Something on your mind?" Carl nods his head and says "Yeah...I have a baby sister, she is 2..." Esmeralda says "Awwww...You must love her very much..." Carl smiles and nods his head "My mom had died giving birth to her, I was 13, my girlfriend was with me and we had to witness that whole thing...she had to have her stomach cut open...and she died of blood loss, we didn't really have professional doctors and the right medical supplies to deliver a baby, we couldn't even put her on anesthesia...and then...I had to shoot her, but before she had her stomach cut open...she told me that I was going to beat this world...that I was going to survive, I was going to see this all end...and she always told me to protect Leslie...to always keep her safe...I kept my promise for 2 years now and I'm not planning on breaking it any time soon..." Esmeralda got a little teary-eyed and said "She must have been a really good mother to say such things to her child...I'm guessing Leslie is the girl with the long brown hair?" Carl says "Yeah, that's my girlfriend. I have loved her ever since we were 9, in the 4th grade. We started dating when we both become 15..." Esmeralda smiled. Leslie finally caught up to them and hugged Carl tight and says "I-I had to do it...I had to shoot her..." Esmeralda says "I knew you had to..." Carl hugs Leslie back tight. Leslie starts sniffling and tears fall from her eyes. She says "I didn't want to...But I couldn't let her become one of them..." Carl rubs Leslie's head saying "Ssshhh...It's okay, you didn't want to see her suffer, you did the right thing..." Leslie nods her head and starts to calm down. 

THE END 

oof, guys, the next chapter might not be so long or it may be a pretty long chapter because of my idea. My idea is gonna kinda be a good one, I planned it for so long, so I hope you guys will enjoy it, I am not so sure if I will post it today cause it will require a bunch of typing, but I know that today I will be working on it, I will try to post it today because tomorrow I will be hanging with my friends and working on goodie bags for my birthday party. So I will probably be tired and not want to update. But anyways, I will be working on it for now.