Michonne & Rick have been friends since high school, they've done everything together, anything you can think of they've done. Lately Rick has fell on hard times and he doesn't have enough money to feed his children Carl & Judith. Here's what happens.
It’s 11:36pm at the Grimes residence and there’s a knock at the door, Carl calls out “Who is it”, jumping at the peep hole he gets a quick smeared vision of dreads. Not just anybody’s dreads.
“AUNTY CHONNE!”, both kids shot up
Carl quickly unlocks the locks and hungs at Michonne’s waist, a little late behind Judith follows suit. She was cool from the winters of Atlanta, holding a hot box of dominos pizza.
“Hey my loves, I missed you nuggets”, Michonne stopped and looked at Carl. ”you gotta tell me all about Science camp! How was Frankie’s homemade volcano?”, Michonne took her coat off almost hitting Carls head, then swinging it on the rack. ”watch out baby”
”Oh you couldn't believe it Michy, the entire thing blew up on Mrs.Ruby’s face, I couldn’t tell if her face was actually red or was she just angry”, Carl had a hearty chuckle.
Michonne smirked at the young 13 year old unconsciously taking the eye boogers out of his eyes like a mother would do as he spoke. ”So much for Pinterest DIY projects huh ?”
“I won 1st place with my small ecosystem, Mrs.Ruby said I have the best representation all day”
”Whaat? That's what I'm talking about little w Grimes!”, Michonne flashed a big smile and gave him a high five. Judith had checked out of the conversation and was focused more on the pizza at that point. Just then Rick had appeared from in the kitchen with a stressed look on his face holding lots of mail.
”Riiick What's going on baby” Michonne jokingly spat sitting the pizza down so the kids could help themselves. ”oh Michonne” Rick said into her shoulder as they had a big hug, as they broke apart Michonne sat her keys on the kitchen bar and Rick went back into the kitchen. Watching Michonne settle in and relax Rick notices something new. ”Michonne you look so fresh and new”, he said with his hands.
”just had my dreads retwisted, it was time”, Michonne says setting her forearms on the bar and leaning against it. ”So what was the rush to come over and buy pizza?”, Michonne says looking down at the mail in his hands then back up at him.
”Damn Shelley keeps cutting my hours at work, something about budget cuts? I'm completely stressed, there's no more food left and I'm backed up on every bill imaginable, I'm trying my hardest to not show the kids but I feel like the worst dad on the planet”, Rick whispered with crinkles digging into his forehead.
Michonne had never seen Rick so upset and so bothered. She knew Rick would do anything come hell or high waters for his kids so she understood his frustration. Michonne marched into the living room where Carl and Judith both were watching satellite TV.
”Carl take a look through my bag I have 5 movies it there pick which one you'd think I’d the most”
Carl hopped right up excited to pick a movie.
”Judith! I wonder if you could separate all the forks and spoons... Hm never mind I don't think you can-..”
” no no no! i can do it! i can do it Michy!!!”
Michonne smirked knowing those kids SO WELL, Rick looked at Michonne it shock, she placed a friendly hand on his shoulder and lead him to the hallway where the kids couldn’t hear them. Michonne crosses her head and leaned on the wall with her head propped on the wall.
“Rick do you remember in high school when you guys were done 25-43 and you pulled 17 points out the crack of your ass? What about the time I lost Prom Queen to Maggie Rhee ? You made me a fake wooden crown ?”, Rick broke a smile at the remembrance of Michonne in blue 90’s eyeshadow and the wooden crown that took hours to finish.
“What about the time you took on the role of being a single father and raised the almost amazingly smart, beautiful and talented kids ?”, Michonne’s words shot Rick in the chest and when his emotions caught up to him.
“Rick you are a damn good father, so I don’t ever wanna hear that come out your mouth again, you took charge when Lori left, you scarficed for those kids and did everything in your power to take care of those babies, I’ve you seen give up everything and that’s what makes you the best father ever Rick. You’re their hero.... Rick you’re my hero.” Michonne said strongly.
Rick took a look at Michonne and realized how much it really meant to him that she was always there for him, took his kids in like they were her own when he was going through that divorce with Lori, how she was always loyal and always had his back even when he was wrong. No matter what Michonne was always there. All in that moment Rick had a surplus of emotions, feelings and memories run through his head.
“Look. I can give you half the rent and a bit for groceries but you have to come up with the other half and with my next check I’ll see what I can do about maybe taking us all out to eat? How’s that sound?”
Rick stood there speechless and unable to show how incredibly grateful he was of her. “Sounds amazing”, Rick said still taken back at how she handled that. “Alright good. Now let’s go watch a movie”, Michonne said beginning to walk past him when Rick gently grabbed at her elbow.
“Thank you Michonne, I-I’m so grateful to have to you in my life, e-everythi-“
Michonne stopped him there
“Hey don’t mention it”, Michonne winks slyly “How much you wanna bet he picked Interstellar?”
“ALRIGHT WHOS READY FOR A MOV-”
Rick and Michonne past back around the corner to see Carl and Judith both sound asleep on the couch. Rick and Michonne shared a look with each other and giggled to themselves.
After they put them to bed Rick and Michonne shared the last few slices of pizza on Rick’s bed. Michonne slid her heels off to jump on the bed and her heels hit the floor loudly which caused attention to Rick.
“Heels ? When does Michonne Hawthorne EVER wear heels ? Hell must’ve frozen over”, Rick said biting into the 30 min old pizza. Quickly before Michonne could responds Rick remembers
“ Oh you had that date when Morgan Jones from the Auto Repair store, how did that go? I know he’s been barking up that tree since you moved to Atlanta”, Rick said expecting the average answer from Michonne.
I hated it , he was too ___ for me. It was always the same. She dated around for a few weeks and dropped them like flies. It’s been that way for 15 years after she broke up with Mike for cheating on her. In HIGHSCHOOL. She never trusted anyone again.
“It was actually pretty amazing”, Rick’s eyes shot up at Michonne as she gleamed about her date with Morgan. “ He took me on his fathers boat and sung me Arthea Franklin while I was served lobster, I’ve never been wine and dined like that”, Michonne said smiling from ear to ear. Rick surprised at this, he put his pizza back down into the box.
“Really ? A boat ? I thought you hated that fancy crap” Rick spat seeming defensive because he thought he knew that about Michonne.
“Well everyone hates fancy crap until they’re fed lobster on a boat and being serenaded by a handsome man”, Michonne said slightly bitting her lip. She laid flat on her stomach on the bed with her legs crossed. Rick laughed at bit at her exaggeration. Handsome? He thought.
“So the question is.. do you like him?”, Rick said, he was sure he had her now.
“Yes. I had so many amazing conversations with him he’s extremely smart for a man that works that auto parts” Michonne laughed at her own joke. “I’m looking forward to seeing him again”, Michonne said staring straight up at the ceiling. Rick felt struck by Michonne’s words, and the way she said them. Like she was in love or something, he was happy for her but not all the way happy. She was too glee about this man.
“Well I hope you finally have your happily ever after”, Rick said through his teeth, but the truth is he wanted the complete opposite, maybe he didn’t want to lose his friend? it felt right but that wasn’t quite the reason why he was upset. He didn’t know either.
“We’ll see. Well I think it’s time to hit the sack, I have work at 9am sharp or Joe’s gonna give me another strike”, Michonne said pulling herself off the bed and putting her shoes back on.
“Wait haven’t you had your 6th strike by now ?”
“Who knows? I lost count.”, Michonne said exiting his bedroom with Rick on her trail. He watched as she walked into the kids room that they shared split down the middle. She kissed them to sleep and slid $5 under both their pillow. 5 1’s for Judith.
She gathered her things and whipped her coat back around her shoulders. Rick took care of her hair being caught in the coat. She turned back around to Rick and put a dread behind her ear.
“Thanks for coming and doing this so last minute, I know you were busy with your Mr.Fix it ass guy”, Rick said slightly aggressively.
Michonne laughed at Rick’s sharp banter.
“Alright Rick I’ll text you tomorrow”, reaching for a hug over his shoulders. Rick wrapped his arms around her small waist. He could smell her perfume and the shampoo in her hair. He sat there for a moment enjoying the embrace of a woman.
“I’ll always take care of you Rick. No questions asked”, she said muffled into Rick’s neck. Michonne broke the hug and Rick still had both hands on her waist. Michonne looked up at him wondering what the hold up was. Where she was met with a gaze she’s never seen before on Rick, a look that gave her a weird feeling in her stomach. She instantly pulled away afraid of what would happen next. She quickly unlocked the door and opened it putting her body halfway through the doorway.
“Bye text me when you g-“
Michonne shuts the door quickly trying her best to successfully get AWAY from Rick before something happened they both regretted in the morning.
“get ..home”, Rick said scarfing. What the hell was that Rick ? He thought to himself. How dumb was I to come on to her ? We’re just friends. He said that last part out loud. It was just a moment of weakness, he’d never do that in his right frame of mind.
Rick went into his empty kitchen where he poured himself the last shot of scotch he had in his cabinet. He took it to the head and slowly walked out the kitchen where he found that Michonne left her keys sitting on the bar. He grabbed them and started for the door when he heard a knock. He smiled to himself and raced to the door.
Rick held on to the keys a bit longer before she could snatch them and run away.
“I’m sorry Michonne” he silently said to her.
She nodded her head before taking the keys and walking away from his house, without another word.
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