Save Me

77. How It Will Be

Molly and Carol decide Alpha's fate while back at home, the war with the whisperers is raging. Negan makes Molly a bold proposal as Lydia comes to terms with the idea of 'family'.

Molly's POV//

Negan tossed me Lucille and said 'no exceptions' as he smiled sinisterly.

I returned that smile as Daryl and Negan held down Alpha.

'You betrayed me!' Alpha said to Negan as they forced her to kneel.

I had an enraged look in my eye as I swung Lucille in my hand and said 'no exceptions'.

I smiled up at Negan and Lucille came crashing down against Alpha's stomach.

She took such a blow that blood started gushing out of her mouth.

I smiled down at her as I was filled with vengeance.

'That's for my sister, you bitch!' I screamed as I whacked her over and over again.

I didn't finish her off though, I left that to Carol.

I dropped the bloodied bat on the ground and took a step back while Carol moved forward and took out a piece of thin wire.

'I want you to look at me while I take everything from you' she whispered to the woman as she wrapped the wire tightly around her neck and pulled.

We all heard a loud snap and blood gushed down Carol's hands and she pulled tighter and tighter, cutting her own hands on the wire but she didn't care.

Carol screamed on the last pull, snapping Alpha's head clean off her shoulders as it rolled in front of her.

Daryl held Carol to make sure she was okay after all that and put the head into a bag while Negan ran over to me.

'Molly, what she said...' he started to say frantically.

I shook my head and said in a daze, 'it doesn't matter, it's finally all over now'.

'The whisperers are still at Hilltop and Alexandria, c'mon we have leave, now' I said as Negan supported me as we walked away from the bloodied camp.

Once we got back to Alexandria, Carol held up Alpha's head to the whisperers and said 'it's over, your leader is dead, Beta is dead. Leave and never come back, or we will kill every last one of you'.

The whisperers hesitantly stopped fighting and dispersed in different directions.

They no longer had a leader, so they no longer were a group, just a bunch of mask wearing people with no cause.

They had seen our lifestyle and what civilisation was like and could be, so people like Gamma (Mary) who'd helped us, could live with us, but the rest left.

After Aaron had thanked her for her help, Mary went to live at Hilltop, where she could see her nephew Adam and be closer to her family.

As we walked through the gates, I saw Maggie standing next to Michonne as she waited for us to arrive.

Maggie looked startled and angry when she saw Negan but that somewhat changed when Daryl told her of the situation and how he'd helped kill Alpha for us.

Daryl wanted to put the head on a spike outside our gates but Maggie and I agreed that we just wanted her gone from our lives, no memory at all.

I looked at Maggie and saw her eyes firmly on Lucille which was held limply in my hands.

I turned to Negan and gave it back to him silently, more forcefully than I intended because I was angry and then walked over and hugged Maggie and Herschel who was now about nine years old.