Lovely Nightmare (Carl Grimes FanFic)

Chapter 9

"Gosh Emma I do not understand why you have to be such a bitch" He gets up and leaves.

He is right. I am a bitch. I hate myself, I think to myself and look down at my wrists which are scarred with chains marks. There is something else there too, faded away so nobody can see. Cuts. Not from the apocalypse, but from myself.

I decide to go back to my cell. I walk back in and everyone says hi to me. As soon as I try to take a step I feel immediately get light headed and stumble backwards.

"Woah, Emma. Are you okay?" someone asks me.

"Yeah I'm fine" I say and turn around to discover it was Rick who had asked me.

He helps me up by grabbing my wrists, he notices the strange texture and looks down and sees the chain marks.

"What happened" he asks concerned.

I feel tears welling up in my eyes. No crying. Crying is for the weak. But I cannot help it anymore. I start crying and run away to my cell.

Carl's POV

I start to walk into the main room where I can see everyone is.

"Hey Carl" my dad says, "We are about to send Daryl up to ask Emma about marks on her wrists".

They can't do that. It'll destroy her.

"No" I say.

"Excuse me?" he asks.

"No I will not let you" I say again.

Then we all hear a voice coming from upstairs.

"Just tell them Carl, it has to come out eventually" Emma's croaking voice states.

Emma's POV

I hear Carl start telling them about Gunnar. There are gasps when he said he beat me every day and had me on chains.

I can hear their conversation.

"What the heck. What kind of sick person would do that" Rick says tenaciously.

I can hear Daryl kicking the wall. Im pretty sure Maggie and Beth are crying. Glenn and Rick are discussing on how disgusting it is.

It was getting dark so I decided to get some sleep.

-next morning-

I wake up and go down stairs for breakfest, can everyone is up. Oh shit.

"Emma how was your sleep" Maggie asks me.

"Fine I guess" I say.

"We heard you sleep talking" Carl says, and Rick hits his arm.

Oh shit.

"Hm. Interesting." I say, "Well I'm gonna take watch" I say and quickly run out of the room.

I go up to the guard tower and sit. Sit and think.

Then I hear someone come in, its Carl. He sits down right beside me.

"Do you feel safe here Emma?" he asks.

"no" I say.

"We all just talked and we want you to know how you should feel safe because we will protect you, especially Daryl... and me, I will protect you." He says making my cheeks turn red. The way he told me he would protect me sent shivers up my spine.

"okay thanks" I say and look the other direction.

He puts a hand on my shoulder.

"How many times do I have to tell you not to touch me" I say.

He jokingly puts his hands up in surrender, and leaves.