Negan takes Carl as insurance policy till Rick brings him more stuff. There one of the saviors tries to rape Carl but Negan stops him, later Carl feeling so depressed and getting flashbacks from previous attack cuts his wrist but Negan finds him in time and takes him to Carlson
WARNING: CUTTING, SELF HARM, DEPRESSION, SUICIDE, SUICIDE ATTEMPT, RAPE
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“No!” Rick yells, tears swelling in his eyes. “You can’t take my boy! Please, I’ll get you whatever you want just please don’t take him!”
“I gave your a chance,” Negan says, a huge smile on his lips as he sees how much this is hurting Rick. “I don’t want to take him, but I can’t show you that I’m suddenly going soft. I’m taking him for insurance that you do give me what I want. He’ll be taken good care of.”
Carl sits on the edge of a freshly made bed and stares down at the ground. The last time he was here it was because he had wanted to be here and he had a mission; to kill Negan. Now he’s here because Rick couldn’t deliver what Negan wanted. He was insurance.
There’s nothing to keep him busy or anything for him to do, so he just sits on the bed day after day until someone comes to collect him or Negan swings buy to come and talk to him. He promised that he would because he likes to talk to him or something like that. Carl hadn’t been paying much attention. There was too much anger, sadness, and one hundred other emotions coursing through his veins to pay attention to anything he had to say.
There’s the sound of footsteps outside. Carl looks up, thinking it’s Negan here or one of the wives coming to check on him--they do that often. However, the person who opens the door is not familiar except maybe he’s seen him when walking around the base. Carl gives them a questioning look as he closes and locks, the door.
“What are you doing?” he asks, but doesn’t get an answer. The man advances on him and he tries his best to get away. When that doesn’t work, he starts to scream and hope that someone, anyone, can hear. He’s thrown around and flashbacks of last time on the road with Michonne and Rick begin to resurface quickly.
“Hey!” Negan yells what seems like an eternity later. “Get the fuck away from him right now!” Carl is thrown down and stays there. Wrapping his arms around his body and rubbing spots where he was grabbed to the point of her knows he’s going to have deep bruises there. “Kid.” Negan reaches down, but Carl scoots away from him. He stares down at the cowering boy below him. It’s something that Negan never thought he would see from how confident he always seems.
More people show up, but Negan shoos them away except for a few who he tells to go get certain wives to help. He imagines that they could help Carl better than him. Or at least just keep him company while he deals with the man who is currently knocked out in the corner.
They come quickly and crowd around Carl, letting him cry on their shoulder. It’s easier to be emotionally in front of people who, the past few days, have been like mothers to him. They all offer to stay with him through the night, just to keep an eye on him and make sure that he’s okay. Carl refuses and yells at them until they get out of his room.
Carl’s mind takes him many places. To times before the attack and before Negan or when they were in the prison during the small bit of happiness. His mind even traveled back before everything. He missed school and coming back home to see him mom and helping her out with things around the house. Even getting in trouble back then isn’t nearly is bad as now. He’d take that over this any day.
Everything becomes too much for him and in a fit of anger he stands up and punches a wall. He hisses and holds his hand, watching as a small bit of blood begin to appear in little droplets along the knuckles. He sits back down on the bed and lays back.
I can’t take this anymore, Carl thinks. I can’t stand this world or this place or anything like that. I can’t take it! I hate this feeling of his hands all over me, I want it to stop! Carls shoots up off the bed and anxiously paces around the room, looking for anything. He pulls open cabinets and drawers. Suddenly he finds what he’s looking for.
The blade is sharp and, when he applies pressure, it cuts deep into his arm. The blood is thick and warm. The pain is horrible at first, but then it dies as the whole earth begins to spin and grow.
“Carl!” a far away voice sounds. Someone grabs him and picks him up, carrying somewhere he doesn’t know. It doesn’t matter, though, because he’s out before he ever gets there.
Carl groans as he begins to stir. He’s sitting on a bed in the infirmary. His arm hurts more than he could ever describe. After a few moments he gets the courage to look over at his arm. It’s wrapped up with white bandages with small bits of red popping up here and there.
“Ah, I was starting to think you might not wake up,” says a voice. He looks over and see Carlson. He walks over to him and checks out his arm, replacing the bandages and putting on fresh ones. “Negan’s been coming to check on you since you....--”
“Since I cut up my arm?” Carl finishes for him. Carlson nods.
“Yes. I’ll tell him you’re awake.” Carl wants to tell him not to, but there’s no stopping him. “And it’s been two days or so. Maybe three. In case you wanted to know.” Carl nods and lays back down on the bed, not wanting to look at his arm anymore than he has to . What had he been thinking? Soon he’ll be back with Judith, Rick, and Michonne. Back with everyone. And he almost ruined it. What would Rick say? There’s no way of not noticing.
His thoughts are disrupted when he hears the sound of heavy boots slamming down in the hallway outside. Carl already knows who it is; Negan. He comes bursting in the room, his face laced with anger, hiding any other emotions.
“You’re not allowed to die or hurt yourself like that ever again, you hear me?” Negan says while staring at Carl, his eyes wide and showing that he means what he says. “I said, did you hear me?” Carl nods.
“Good.” Carl doesn’t understand why Negan would care so much. He’d threatened to kill him the first time that they saw each other. What’s with this caring thing now? If you could even call it caring. Carl doesn’t think much about it. He stares up at the ceiling and begins to think again, letting it go wherever it wants.