Abusive | Carl Grimes

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"Carl?"

"Yeah?" He asks.

I raise my eyebrows in surprise. "Wow you actually listened to me this time"

He nods and goes back to sharpen his knife.

I walk up to him and sit next to him against the wall.

I grab his chin and turn his head over to me.

He looks surprised with the usual hatred look on his face.

I reach my hand up to his face and skim my fingers on the badge on his eye.

He winces and I remove my hand from his face.

"What happened there?.." I asked.

He sighs and goes back to sharpening his knife.

"I got shot" He says.

"By this fucking asshole that didn't deserve life and should've died a long fucking time ago but I was too stupid not to kill him before he made me messed up physically."

With every word he sharpens the knife faster and faster until he accidentally cut himself.

"Fuck"

He drops the knife and hisses, holding his hand.

"H-Here..." I get up and grab a bandage, wrapping it around his hand.

He stares at his hand then at me as I'm wrapping his hand.

I look at him and stop wrapping his hand.

There's a small moment of silence and we just stare at each other.

He reaches his hand up to my cheek and slowly pressed his lips on top of mine.

I lean back a little and he leans his head forward.

We pull away and there's another moment of silence.

I look at him and he's already looking at me, I continue wrapping his hand and bite my lip.

"You gotta stop doing that, major turn-on" he growls and I cut the badge.

"Sorry.." I mutter

"There.." I put the bandage away.

As I get up from the floor, he grabs my wrist and pulls me back a little.

"Ariana" he says and I look at him.

"Y-Yeah?" I sit back down.

"Do you like me?.." He asks and I sigh.

"I-I.. Well.." I stutter.

"Ugh I don't know!" I stand up.

"I just have no clue! You always hurt me and I-"

"Listen," he cuts me off "I already told you how I am.. A-And I can't do anything about it.." He yells and walks out the door, slamming it behind him.

I sigh angrily and plop down on the couch, that's when Rick comes in.

"He told you didn't he?" He asks

"All he told me is that he can't like anyone.." I look at the bruises on my arms.

"Well," he sits next to me. "He's.. I guess you can call it bipolar?" He shrugs.

"That explains a lot, but he's rarely nice. He's just mean all the time"

"Just-... Try to make him happy." He sighs and he gets up from the couch.

"Go get him." He says and I get up.

"Okay.." I walk out the door and close it behind me.

I look around but I don't see him. "Carl!" I yell down the street.

Nothing

I walk down to the stop sign and look around again.

I sigh and start walking back, all of a sudden I get tackled to the ground by a walker.

I kick it off but it grabs my leg.

Bang!

The Walker falls to the floor.

I pant, looking at the Walker in shock.

All of a sudden, someone grabs me from under my arms and pulls me up off the ground.

I turn around and see Carl, "you're not suppose to be out here" he growls and starts dragging me down the road.

"Carl.." I whimper and pull my arm away.

He turns around swiftly, "don't do that-"

"Carl I-I can't do this anymore.." I cut him off.

"What do you mean?" He asks and looks at my bruised wrist.

"I want to leave" I say and back up from him.

"A-Ariana... Please don't. Y-you're the only person-"

"I know but Carl I can't bear all of this anymore." I say, we're now about 5 feet away from eachother.

He walks up to me and puts his hands on either sides of my cheeks.

I look up at him, "n-no one's ever neared with me for this long except for my dad.."

"My girlfriend.. She killed herself." He says and my eyes widen.

"J-just please.. I can't control it!" He removes his hands from my face and turns around, pulling on the roots of his hair under his hat.

I turn him around and crash my lips onto his.

He wraps his arm around my waist and pulls me closer.

He forcefully kisses me harder.

When we pull away he picks me up and slings me over his shoulder.

"Carl!" I yell and he chuckles.

I don't know why, but it makes me happy to hear him laugh.

"Let's go home" he says and walks home with me over his shoulder.