@daddy-is-in continued from here
The moment had been quick, quicker than Negan had wanted it. If he had the chance to go back, he would have made the others death dragged out. David didn’t deserve the quick death he got.
There were a couple of events that had to lead up to David being dead in the center of the Sanctuary yard with his head slammed in, but they all had one connecting person.
It had started with David looking at the other from time to time. With Daryl being stuck at Negan’s side, he had started to take notice, but let the glances slide. What started to get under the other’s skin was the comments, little comments about how the man looked or how well he listened.
Of course, Negan shut that sit down real fast whenever the comments were made around him, but it was seeing what he saw in the center of the Sanctuary that broken his patients.
He had been doing his rounds with Simon in the trading area when he had heard some noise followed by a loud slam. The people around the area had stopped working and were instead watching the event unfold.
“Look at you! Breaking shit—why does the boss even keep you around?” As Negan and Simon got closer to the show the former coach saw Daryl and David, the rounder man getting in the others face, “I mean look at you. Maybe he keeps you because he likes having a pet.” David had a twisted smirk going, his tongue dragging against his bottom lip, “Or maybe—he keeps you around for a good fuck. Is that is Daryl? Be a shame if he kept it all to himself right?”
Just like that, the moment the man reached out to grab Daryl, Negan moved. He took long strides and found himself swinging Lucille as hard as he could, the anger in him collecting in his movements as the bat made contact with David’s head. He didn’t stop with one go, he let his anger leak out of him as he hit David over and over again.
Negan didn’t stop until the others head was scrambled on the grey concrete ground, the disgusting man’s blood splattered on his face. When he finished, he let himself pant and look around at the workers who were looking at him in horror. He then laid his eyes on Daryl, keeping the contact for only a moment before standing up straight and pointed the bat at the small crowd, “If anyone touches my shit again— your fucking head will end up like his.”
It had been sudden and it left Daryl startled and with blood splattered on his face from the attack. Negan had flown in so quick, and just in time and Daryl couldn’t have been more grateful. Negan kept surprising him in good ways lately and this just topped everything.
It was a clear rule that sexual assault was against the rules at the Sanctuary and that had been a good sign to Daryl, more than he could say for the Claimers. Besides, the fact he’d become Negan’s shadow meant there were few times the Saviors got to be alone with him to try anything. The joke of him being Negan’s pet, his bitch, his new ‘wife’ had been circulating for a while but they held their tongues when Negan was in earshot. Up until then, it’d only been leers and lewd comments and after being put in place by Negan for reacting, he just ignored them. He didn’t know what he was to Negan but he certainly wasn’t a ‘wife’.
David has been a little different, his comments and looks were stranger, not mocking but almost appreciative, like something about Daryl had really interested him. It was creepy but it’d remained at a distance, until today.
Daryl had been tasked with moving some things around for Negan that afternoon while Negan attended to other things, not unusual so he’d done as he was told. It was going well until he was tripped, dropping a crate of glass bottles, some of them shattering. Picking himself up, he’d looked around for what he’d fallen over and David was suddenly right beside him screaming in his face and insulting him. Daryl’s hands clenched into fists at his side but he reined in his temper even as things took a darker, more sexual turn. “He doesn’t fuck me.” he defended, voice a low growl.
Then David was on him, pinning him to a wall, one hand around Daryl’s throat, the other cupping him between the legs. Eyes going wide, Daryl snarled and shoved him away, just then Negan broke in and stopped the assault before it could even get started. It was a brutal beating as bad as the one Negan had given Abraham and Glenn, but instead of sick glee this was sheer rage, it rolled off Negan in waves and Daryl stepped away to escape the splattering blood and flying bits of skull and brain matter. He was trembling as he watched both livid and terrified by what had almost happened, the beating was the least traumatic part of all of it.
After only a few minutes, David’s skull was just a bloody pulp on the floor and Daryl took a deep breath to calm himself but only smelled the metallic tang of blood in the air. When Negan stared at him, Daryl just nodded, confirming he was alright. The assault hadn’t gotten too far, thank God. If anyone touches my shit again… Daryl didn’t know what had happened that he was now considered to be Negan’s but in that moment he couldn’t have been happier to be Negan’s.