The Replacement - Part thirty-eight
Negan Masterlist
Series Masterlist
Pt 37
Warning: violence, angst, threat of murder, and something satisfying at the end.
Negan begrudgingly leaves your side after an hour and you find yourself alone in the bedroom now in a kind of solitary confinement with a guard at the door, in completely different house than the kids. You were grasping at straws, feeling yourself going stir-crazy at not knowing what the hell was going on outside. You weren't sure where the kids were, whether they were safe, weren't sure if your husband was doing well, and what made it even worse was not knowing the whereabouts of your daughter.
Negan himself wasn't faring so well either, Ezekiel had chewed his ass out majorly over the loss of the map; making sure to drill it into Negan's mind exactly what he thought of him. Knowing he had fucked up and that it had cost them dearly, Negan could only think of one direction in which the situation could be save and he knew it wasn't going to be one you would approve of.
Whilst the two of you were battling the inner turmoil against yourselves, unbeknownst to all, Darly, Connie, Carol and Maggie were secretly making their way into Alexandria via the sewerage tunnels.
"So...", the Warden remarks with an arche brow as he stands up from behind his desk. "You gotta name for me...?"
Negan silently stares at him for a moment, finally a broad smirk crosses his lips. "Yes...", he remarks flashing him a toothy grin.
You slowly stirred awake at the loud commotion sounding from outside when suddenly a guard burst into your room. "Get up!", he commands abruptly.
"What's happen?", you scowl as he roughly pulls your arms behind your back to bind them and begins directing you out of the room.
"Don't ask questions just move!", he growls, pushing you to move faster. As you exited the building, that's when you notice that everyone was being dragged out of their sleep and marched towards the windmill.
"Y/N...?!", Ezekiel calls out, attempting to pull free himself when noticing you were restrained and being led by two guards in the same direction.
Nearing the windmill, everyone was near blinded by spotlights being turned on directly onto them. One the lights moves away and the Warden steps out into it, "there's a traitor in our midst...!", he loudly declares, stopping dead in front of Ezekiel. "Someone who thinks his above the rules."
For a split second, you thought he was referring to Ezekiel. That was until he turns to look to the side, and your heart instantly drop to your stomach when a restrained Negan was being led in front of everyone.
"This prisoner admitted to spearheading a rebellion", the Warden remarks, staring in Negan's direction now. Turning his attention back toward crowd, he continues, "any co-conspirators will be given the benefit of the doubt..." Heart racing, you stood helpless as he loudly read out what was clearly your husband's dead sentence. "I trust they were not acting of their own freewill. So, only he...", the Warden points in Negan's direction, "will be punished!"
Negan regards the Warden with a stoic look, spitting out the blood that had been pooling in his mouth at the Warden's feet in a last act of defiance. "But it's important that you're all here to see...", the Warden continues unfazed. "To remember...!"
"No! This is not happening! You could not lose your husband! Your daughter could not lose her father!"
Managing to break loose, you run forward as you cry out pleadingly, "Negan!" You don't make it far unfortunately as the guards intercepts you before reaching him.
"Hey. Hey... its ok...", Negan calls out to you assuringly as you helplessly sobbed at what was about to happen. Negan and you silently stare at one another as you continue to struggle with the guards, tears streaming down your cheeks at the thought of losing your husband. Giving you a look of content, Negan finally speaks, "I love you..."
"Get him on his knees!", the Warden orders.
"No!", you scream out, refusing to stop attempting to break free but your cries are ignored as they lead Negan to the base of the windmill.
"This is what happens when you forget your place", the Warden declare loudly. "Take your positions!", he commands as they place your husband on his knees a firing squad lines up in front of him.
"No!", you cry out, trying with all your strength to get to him. "Don't let him do this! No!", you plead with all your might, "Ezekiel, help him!"
Everyone remained exactly where they were, none of them even attempting to speak up. "Was this really what it had come to? You had lived with these people for years, helped provide for them, protected them, even considered some of them friends, and this was how they were repaying you? Standing silently by, refusing to heed your pleas for help as they slaughtered your husband and the father of your newborn child right in front them."
You were so lost in anguish that you don't notice Negan flashing the Warden a triumphant smirk. The Warden stares at Negan in realization then, "there are no martyrs here", he remarks, walking up and grabbing you.
"No. No!", Negan screams out at the Warden as he drags you forward to kneel beside your husband. "That wasn't our deal!", Negan attempts to get up and stop what was happening. "Take me. Take me!", he pleads whilst struggling to protect you, but he's forced back down.
"You will feel this punishment!", the Warden mercilessly remarks to Negan as everyone stood in utter shock that you were to be executed alongside your husband.
"That is not what you said!", Negan screams out as the Warden steps aside. "No! You take me! Just me!" Negan helplessly stares at the guards lined up to execute you, one gives an obnoxious smirk, the second is completely stoic and the third one eyes were glazed with a bit of pity.
"Ready...", the Warden calls out and they raise their weapons.
"You...", Negan calls out to the fourth guard, he had been the one who Negan had escorted Negan to the Warden and then to you earlier. "You have a family...", Negan pleads with him. "Don't do this. Please...!"
The guard seemed to second think the situation as his weapon lowers slight. "I said, ready!", the Warden growls out, but Negan continues to plead with the guard.
"Leave her! Take me! Just take me!", Negan presses. "Our baby needs her mother. Please...!"
Ignoring Negan's words, "aim...", the Warden calls out and the guards do so. Taking one last look at Negan, you give him faint smile as he stares back at you, utterly gutted that couldn't at least save you. With silent tears, you turn to look forward and await your fate, when suddenly Ezekiel steps out in front of the two of you.
"What are you doing?", a shocked Negan whispers at him.
"I don't know", Ezekiel responds with raised hands, turning to face the firing squad. Soon, Magna, Kelly and a few others join him.
Negan, you and the guards all look on astonished. "I admire your bravery...", the Warden remarks in amusement, turning toward the guards, "shoot them all." Some of them reluctantly raise their weapons as the crowd begin to loudly remark in protest.
The group surrounding Negan and you, take a step backward to enclose around you. "You don't have to do this", Ezekiel pleads with them. "This world is broken, but we don't have to be."
The first reluctant/fourth guard silently lowers his weapon, tears forming in his eyes as he turns to his fellow guards. One by one, they all lower their weapons, except for obnoxious guy. Realizing what was happening, he does lower it but only for a second; aiming it at 'fourth guard', when he raises his weapon in the Warden's direction. 'Fourth guard', manages to shoot him first, giving the Warden the opportunity to grab Kelly during the distraction. Placing a gun against Kelly's head and using her as human-shield in an attempt to escape. Everyone rushes forward to stop him as slowly backup away with a sobbing Kelly, distracting him from the fact that Daryl and Connie were right behind him.
Once free, Negan throws a now injured Warden facedown onto the ground, raising a rock in the air in preparation to bash his brains. "Negan!", someone yells out for him to stop. Pausing mid-air, Negan turns to see Rosita and Gabriel hastily approaching. "Don't kill him", Rosita instructs as Gabriel turns him onto his back. "Where's my daughter?", Rosita demands grabbing hold of him.
"He knows where Coco is?", you anxiously rush forward to stand over beside Rosita. "Then he must know what happen to my baby?"
The Warden looks at both you and Rosita, breathlessly chuckling at your desperation to find your children. "Where are they?!", Rosita screams in his face, yet he still refuses to respond. Fed-up with his bullshit, Rosita decks him hard in the face. Noticing the now reanimated dead guard attempting to stand up, she drags him over and you step back as far as possible as she dangles the Walker over his face. "Where are they?!", Rosita demands as you watched with pleasure. "Tell us where they are?!"
He flashes her cocky grin, "you will lose everything...", are the words he utters out. Rosita's gazed shoots toward you, to confirm if you had heard his words. With a huge scowl on your face; you tilt your head to the side, silently responding with a high arched brow. Acknowledging it with one of her own, Rosita shoves the Walker direction into his face to devour him, briskly storming out thereafter.
As entertaining as you would have found the scene, you decide to forgo it; following Rosita instead, as finding your children was most important on both your list.