MAKE A DEAL WITH GOD, AND GET HIM TO SWAP OUR PLACES, part one-081
A/n: don't hate me.
THE NEXT DAY
Maria was locked in the cell since last night after Matilda had tried to attack her. The pregnant woman had swiped Rosie's knife, trying to kill her biological mother who she honestly thought was dead.
It been a while since the governor had attacked them at the prison and when Philip had motioned Maria had ran off. Matilda assumed that the woman was dead, hoped her biological mother was dead.
But the monster never leaves.
They had trusted Dwight, letting him go last night with some of the group still iffy on the man. Matilda didn't really trust the man, but she trusted her husband.
The Scavengers pulled into the gates of Alexandria in garbage trucks and on bikes. Daryl, Rosie, Rosita, and Aaron were setting up a bomb to explode when the Saviors were here.
As everyone get in their position, Matilda was on the ground with her oldest brother, her husband, and few of the other members of her group, along with the trash people.
She looked over at Lee, who held a machine rifle in his arms as he looked wearily. Moving closer to him, Lee looked at towards her, she could see the purple bags under his eyes and the run down expression.
"Hey, you okay?" She whispered as their father talked with Rosita.
"Yeah, just anxious." Lee replied, looking at her. "What if this doesn't work? How do you know we can trust those trash people?"
"I don't know. Dad seems to trust them."
Lee sighed. "Yeah, but some of the people he trusted turned on him. Shane, the people who ate humans, Gabriel at one point, gave a reason for dad not to trust him. How are those people any different? They could be leading us in a trap and we have no clue."
Matilda knew her brother had a point. The scavengers could be leading them into a trap and they have no clue. Her father did have a track record of trusting the wrong people, and her brother was right about that.
"If it is a trap, we can't do anything about it. There's no time. All we can do is trust dad and Michonne, and if this goes south, then we fight. For our people." Tilly said, glancing at the trash people near them.
"What if one of us dies?" Lee asked as Vehicles engines was heard coming down the road.
Matilda grabbed his hand and squeezed it. "Then we die trying to save our people. Our world."
"Rule the world." The teen boy said.
"Yeah, we're gonna rule the world." She nodded.
"I love you."
"I love you, Lee."
The siblings let go of their hands, looking towards the gate where Saviors were standing outside.
Eugene stood on the back of one of the trucks with a megaphone in his hand. "All points are covered. Every contingency is already met. I come armed with two barrels of the truth. A text is upon you, and I'm giving out the cheat sheet."
Matilda glanced at Rosita who looked betrayed by her once friend as he spoke again.
"H-Hello. I come salved with the hope that it is my dropped knowledge that you heed. Options are zero to none. Compliance and fealty are your only escape. Bottom-lining it—you may thrive, or you may die. I sincere wish for the former for everyone's sake. The jig is up and in full effect. Will you comply, Rick?"
Matilda glanced at her father, then over to her baby brother before back to Eugene as her father spoke. "Where's Negan?"
"I'm Negan." Eugene said making his former leader sigh in frustration.
Rick looked over to Rosita, giving her signal to set off the explosives in the truck, her, Daryl, Rosie, and Aaron planted. Everyone get ready for them explosion, but nothing happened.
Suddenly the scavengers pointed Matilda and her group at gun point. She lowered her gun as Brion opened the main gate.
Lee was right.
"Told you." The teen muttered towards his sister. "We shouldn't have trusted them."
"You ever hear the one about the stupid little prick named Rick who thought he knew shit but didn't know shit." Negan spoke as he stood in front of the gate, looking up at her father. "And got everyone he gave a shit about killed? It's about you. You're all gonna wanna put your guns down now."
"No one drops anything. We had a deal." Rick sneered, glancing at Jadis.
"Tamiel came for the boat things. Followed ones who took. Made a better deal." Jadis said making the blue eyed man shook his head in frustration.
"You pushed me, and you pushed me. And you pushed me, Rick. You just tried to blow us up, right? I mean, I get me, my people. But Eugene? He's one of yours. And after what he did—he stepped up. You people...are animals. Universe gives you a sign, and you just shove your finger right up its ass. Dwight, Simon, chop-chop."
Simon and Dwight climbed into the truck, untried a casket and set it upright. Negan stood next to it with a smile.
"You don't like Eugene anymore. You guys gotta like Sasha. I do, too. Got here right here packages for your convenience, alive and well. Now, I brought her so I wouldn't have to kill all of you, and not killing all of you could get complicated. See, I know there's a lot of firepower left in there, Rick. So I'm gonna make this simple. I want all the guns you manage to scrape up. Yup, I know about those too. I want every last grain of lemonade you got left. I want a person of your own choosing for Lucille. Daryl—ooh, I gotta get me my Daryl back. And Rosie, you stole my kid, so I killed your precious Luna. Shame, she was really great in bed. And the pool table and all the pool cues and chalk. And I want it now or Sasha dies, and then all of you. Probably. C'mon, Rick. Just because I brought her in a casket doesn't mean she has to leave in it. You know what? You suck ass, Rick. You really do. I don't want to have to kill her, but that's exactly what you're gonna make me do."
"Let me see her." Rick asked, looking at the casket.
Negan chuckled. "Oh. Alright. Just give me a second. I might have to get her up to speed. You can't hear shit inside this thing." He knocked on the casket with Lucille. "Sash. You're not gonna believe this crap."
The devil opened the casket, Matilda gasped when she saw Sasha had turned into a Walker and tackle Negan off the truck.
She was dead.
Matilda and her group started shooting the scavengers, she shot a few of the people before wrapping an arm around her brother's shoulder and ran for cover behind the RV.
Her and Lee took out some of the trash people before hurting down the street, away from the main gate. As they were running, someone tackled Lee, pulling him from his sister as a barrel of a gun rested against her head.
"Follow me." Dwight said, giving the woman a pleading look. "Grab the boy."
Dwight and another Saviors pulled their siblings towards an opening in the field, where they saw Carl kneeling on the ground with a large group of Saviors surrounding him.
The blonde man placed her behind her baby brother with Lee next to her as their father was hold at gun point by Jadis. The woman shoved Rick down in front of his oldest son, a hand pressed against his gun shot wound.
Negan strolled out from behind Dwight and Simon with a maniacal grin. "Hello again. Well, shit, Rick. You just couldn't stick with us, huh? You had to go with these filthy garbage people? Non offense."
"Deal is for twelve, yes?" Jadis asked, looking at the devil.
"Ten. People are a resource."
"Twelve." Jadis countered before sighing. "Ten."
"Rick. This is just gonna make me sad. Broken. You're gonna wish you were dead. I like having fun." Negan said as he paced around the four Grimes. Matilda's heart was beating in chest at a rapid rate. "I do. But maybe you think that the guy that did what he did to your friends wasn't me, like that was some sort of a put-on, like I'm not the guy with the bat—I'm just the guy that your kids spaghetti. Oh. Oh shit. Maybe this is on me. Maybe this is all on me. I gotta make it right. I guess I gotta start all over again. I gotta tell you, Rick, if my kid doesn't turn out like your three kids, which makes this so much harder."
"You're not gonna win." Carl sneered, looking at the bat wheeling man.
"Carl. It is over. Why don't you point your one ball up the street there and take it all in?"
Matilda snapped her head towards the sound of a a woman screaming and saw a body fall from the balcony where Michonne and a scavenger were.
Her mouth parted, tears welled up in her tears as Negan chuckled and kneeled down in front of her father.
"Ohh. Wow. You just lost somebody important to you right now—like, just now. Jesus. That is timing. Well, Rick...you chose this. I truly don't know what more I couldn't done to warn you. And this isn't a warning. This is punishment. I'm gonna kill Carl, Lee, and Matilda now. I'm gonna the swings one nice hard shot, try to do it in one because I like them. I just want to put that in your brain and roll it around for a minute. I'm gonna kill your children, and Lucille here, she's gonna takes your hands."
A tears fall from Rick's eyes as he looked the devil in his face. "You can do it right in front of me. You can take my hands. I told you already—I'm gonna kill you. All of you. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but nothing is gonna change that—nothing. You're all already dead."
Negan chuckled. "Damn. Wow, Rick. Okay. Put a gun to Lee's head."
A Savior placed the barrel of his gun on Lee's head, his body stiffen as tears streamed down his face. His dark eyes stared at his father as his sister's body shook with sobs while his brother clutched his eye shut.
Matilda's chest raised and fall rapid as panic coursed through her veins as a familiar tiger roared and tackled the Savior who held her oldest brother at gunpoint.
Bang!
Her blood ran cold, her eyes widen as Lee's body kneeled sideways in front of her. A bullet hole was printed in her brother's forehead, blood pouring out of the hole as Matilda's world stopped.
Lee was dead.
A agony filled sob ripped through her throat as gunfire irrupt around her as she gathered her brother's body in her arms. Matilda dragged his body across the street and behind a car for cover, bullets hit the ground next to her.
She leaned against the car that was hidden relatively good, her brother's body sat against her chest as she sobbed. Lee's head was resting against her shoulder, his blood soaked her shirt as smoke clouded the sky.
Max looked around for his mother, holding his gun as the whole group meet up. He stood next to his father as his grandfather spoke.
"They're falling back."
"Eduardo, Bertie, between the houses—cover the gate!" Maggie ordered.
"Where's mom!?" Max croaked, loudly.
Daryl, Rick, and Carl looked at each other before a woman from the Kingdom spoke. "I saw her dragging a body behind a car. I'm pretty sure she's still there."
"I'll find her." Max said before running off with the woman towards the car his mother was at.
Once at the car, the boy heard quite sobs coming from behind the car. The woman motioned for him to go, telling him that she will cover him.
Max hurried over to the car, holding his gun at the ready and around the car. He lowered his gun when he saw his mother clutching the dead body of Lee, crying with her head resting against his head.
The boy kneeled down next to his mother, placing a hand on her arm and whispered. "Mom."
Matilda's eyes snapped towards the sound of her son's voice as the gunfire stopped and the air become silent.
"He's dead." She said, her voice breaking. "My baby brother is dead."
The smoked cleared, Max stood up and looked around to see Saviors and Scavengers had flee.
He kneeled down again with his own tears in his eyes. "Mom, it's over. They all left. We've got to meet up with the group. Dad will be worried."
"I can't." His mother whispered so quietly that he could barely hear. "I-I can't, Maxie."
"I'll leave you. I'll tell everyone you need to time." Max said, wiping away tears. "I'll be soon. I love you."
"I love you, too."