Trapped (Carl Grimes fanfic)

Part six

"I know you don't agree with it but I promise she's not going to get hurt, it's only for leverage" he argues

Carl chuckles and stands up

"Yeah well it's too late, she's gone and I don't know where she is. You're going to have to find someone else to use" Carl says to his father

"What do you mean she's gone?" Rick says

"I mean that she left. She left the saviors and she left by herself. So even if I wanted to go through with your plan, there's no finding her now" Carl smirks and shrugs 

"In a way I'm glad I can't find her. That way you can't use her to get to Negan. That girl deserves better. She's been through hell because of you and now you want me to kidnap her, use her, then throw her in a cell?" Carl glares at his father

"Carl I know what happened all those years ago was wrong, but she survived only to beat our friends to death. If I had known what she was going to become— what she was going to do to our family. I would have made sure she really did die that day" Rick says coldly

"Wow, so this is what it's about. You blame her for what happened and I get that, I do but you don't even know the half of what she's been through. You need to remember that she's just a kid dad we've all done things that we aren't proud of. We are all monsters one way or another. I shot that kid without even blinking all those years ago, you wanna tell me that his family should have left me to die surrounded by walkers?" Carl argues

"That was different Carl" Rick sighs

"No. It wasn't, you only see it that way because I'm your son. Because you only see the good in me. Yes Angelina has done bad things but I see the good in her and trust me there's a lot more of it than you think" Carl says and walk past Rick

............

Rick and his people step into the gates of Hilltop and go to negotiate with Gregory about ending the war

"No, no, no my answer is no I am not going to put my people at risk. We play by the savior's rules and that it what keeps us alive"

Carl watches as Enid rolls her eyes and walks out of the room. Rick then speaks up

"Gregory we already started this"-

"You started this" Gregory interrupts

"This how you wanna live? Stuck under their boot killing your people?" Ricks replies

"What are you gonna do? Start a platoon of farmers? Because that's what we got. They grow things, they can't fight" Gregory spits back

"You do know you're talking about your own people right asshole?" Carl shoots at the man

"Whatever I don't want to hear anymore of this. Ever" he says

"Would we be better off without the saviors yes or no?" Rick says

"Yeah. Sure. Okay." Gregory replies

"Besides who would train these people?" He continues

"I will"