𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝐿𝒾𝓉𝓉𝓁𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝑅𝑜𝓈𝑒

"Life hurts a lot more than death."

fleurmcrte {indie selective TWD OC} penned by Kylee - est. 2016/reworked 2024

His smile grew as she spoke those last few sentences. HAPPY AS SHIT would have been an honest to God understatement to describe him in that moment.

They'd come such a long way from that first meeting in his cell, and really? It was pretty damn hard to believe someone like her would harbor romantic feelings for a guy like him.

He wasn't exactly what most people would describe as a ' good man ', not by ANY means-- even though he really was trying to be. And if he was being honest? Negan liked her from day one, but there were about a million reasons he believed bringing it up would be a bad idea.

Trysta watched his face nervously, checking his reaction before her smile started to grow along with his. It was almost infectious, that smile. Everytime his lips turned upwards, hers couldn't help but follow.

She'd been terrifed to tell him, worried that it would ruin their friendship and she would have no one left in Alexandria to talk to, or even spend time with. Then she'd have to go back to the Kingdom, where she was basically an outlier now for even talking to Negan, since some of the folks there still had it out for him even though he was truly trying his best.

Honestly, she was shocked at how quickly her feelings for him had grown but he was just so likable, he had a personality that just made him real charming when he wanted to be.

inspired by the infamous "i want the k" meme by deactivated tumblr user tastcful. send 🎲 to generate a kiss! potential suggestive/nsf.w themes may appear

A kiss on the cheek

A kiss on the nose

A kiss on the forehead

A kiss to the top of the head

A firm kiss

A gentle peck

A romantic kiss

A platonic kiss

A kiss to the eyelid

A kiss along the jawline

A kiss to the neck

A kiss along the collar bone

A kiss on the chest

A kiss to the stomach

A kiss along the hips

A kiss in the rain

An upside-down "Spider-Man" kiss

A kiss while laughing

A kiss underwater

A rough kiss

WILDCARD! Dealer's choice :)

A french kiss/kiss with tongue

A kiss influenced by alcohol/other substances

A sleepy kiss

A kiss that's an accident

A kiss while one or both parties are crying

A kiss in greeting

A kiss in parting

A kiss to the back of the hand

A kiss to the palm of the hand

A kiss to the inner thigh

A kiss while someone watches

A kiss to a scar, birthmark, injury, or other marking

A kiss after a bite

A kiss against a wall

A kiss to the shoulder

A kiss to the back of the neck

A kiss while one party is carried

A tentative kiss

An impulsive kiss

A kiss out of spite

A clumsy kiss

Well, that added a whole new level to the confidence he needed to ask the next question on his mind.

❝ God damn. No other reason, huh? ❞ A deep chuckle left him as he tossed another small wooden plank into the fire.

❝ Lemme ask you somethin' else, Trys. You and me? Safe to say we've become pretty damn close over the past few years. Hell, if we're bein' honest, you're probably one of the only people on this planet that can stand my ass, and I'm glad as shit for it, but--

“Yep. No other reason. I betcha feel special now.” Shaking her head with a laugh, she leaned back and watched the fire for a moment. Trysta’s head nodded in agreement as she listened to Negan talk until he finished.

Scooting closer to him, she hummed, as though she were deep in thought. “No beating around the bush with you, is there?”

Trysta twirled a few strands of hair around her finger, taking another pause to make sure her words came out properly. “I didn’t want to say anything, because I didn’t want to ruin the friendship we had. It’s not like I’ve been super subtle, but.. you never said anythin’ and I wasn’t going to be the first one to bring it up.”

¹⁾ “you should leave.”

²⁾ “you should know better by now!”

³⁾ “you should never have trusted them.”

⁴⁾ “you should see this, boss.”

⁵⁾ “you should let me take over, you’ve been driving for hours now.”

⁶⁾ “you should quit while you’re ahead.”

⁷⁾ “you should get some rest, kid.”

⁸⁾ “you should know better than to think i could ever stop caring for you.”

⁹⁾ “you should wear the red one tonight.”

¹⁰⁾ “you should trust me by now. what’s stopping you?”

¹¹⁾ “you should stop coming around here.”

¹²⁾ “you should change out of those wet clothes before you catch a cold.”

¹³⁾ “you should have left when you had the chance.”

¹⁴⁾ “you should go on the date. really, i mean it.”

¹⁵⁾ “you should try and get some sleep. i won’t let anything happen to you, i swear it.”

¹⁶⁾ “you should give them a break- you of all people know what they’ve been through.”

¹⁷⁾ “you should dump that idiot.”

¹⁸⁾ “you should let the medic check you out before you leave.”

¹⁹⁾ “you should have let this fucking go! look at where it’s gotten us- all because you thought you were entitled to your stupid grudge!”

²⁰⁾ “you should come out with us more often.”

²¹⁾ “you should apologise.”

²²⁾ “you should have told me sooner. i could’ve helped- could’ve prevented all of this.”

²³⁾ “you should stop believing that everyone’s out to get you.”

²⁴⁾ “you should be the one getting the credit for this, not that wanker.”

²⁵⁾ “you should go home. work’s still gonna be here in the morning, trust me.”

²⁶⁾ “you should have asked me, dammit!”

²⁷⁾ “you should turn back and forget you ever saw this.”

²⁸⁾ “you should trust your instincts.”

²⁹⁾ “you should be out doing the things everyone else your age is, but instead you’re here. with me.”

And her being offered a proper house within Alexandria's walls was a good thing too, but Negan knew it would be quite some time before the settlement was fully repaired after the damage done by the Whisperers.

Hell, even Negan himself hadn't been offered a home within Alexandria. It was understandable, of course, ( even though he was PROMISED otherwise ) that they'd placed him in that abandoned cottage on the outskirts, but he would always remain hopeful his banishment would be lifted.

"Y'know, you don't have to flatter me too. All you had to say was that you wanted me to say, and I woulda said yes to their offer."

Trysta leaned over and nudged him lightly with her shoulder. "You can throw me a one man house party when I fully move in, it'll be fun." She rubbed the back of her neck nervously, her eyes flicking between him and the fire.

"I'm glad you want me to stay though. I probably would've said no otherwise. No other reason I'd stay."

@thelittlestrcse : ❛ 21 . a kiss on the cheek . / trysta & sandor

𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐄-𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐓𝐇 𝐏𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐒 𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐃𝐆𝐄𝐒 of his being. it's all shock when he feels her lips upon his cheeks. he , some pet of the crown , and her — some sacred FLOWER in its gardens. the two only mix sorely.

sandor jerks back , half in preservation of himself and half for her. perhaps he might have the last name of some lord and perhaps he might be some candidate of marriage and yet for all the years of his youth and into his twenties , he has not felt the pressure of any such prodding. marrying into the sliver of casterly rock gold his family might have some stake in has never tempted the likes of a woman so far before. though he supposes the present isn't too soon for such an action. and yet the future twin of the crown might be too far a reach. and his existence remains an enigma. what is he here for?

Trysta's eyes twinkled with mirth as she looked upon Sandor, taking a step back to give him the space he so clearly wanted. "I'm not after anything, ser. An urge just came upon me and I had to act upon it."

Truthfully, she didn't know what had come upon her. She'd seen him standing there, all tall and imposing, and she decided then and there that he deserved a peck on the cheek, for all his hard work. "Don't be so crass, your scars don't frighten me. You just happened to be facing in the opposite direction, and so what choice did I have but to kiss the other side, hm?"

❝ Well-- it's been a little over two weeks that you've been in Alexandria. Now, don't get me wrong here, darlin', I am glad as shit you've stayed as long as you have, but usually? You take off after a couple of days.

Trysta's eyes widened, her smile almost frozen on her face. She hadn't thought he would notice, truthfully. Going back to the Kingdom was the last thing on her mind lately, and they'd offered her a permanent place in Alexandria if she'd wanted it. She hadn't agreed to it yet, but she was thinking about it for sure, especially when she had someone there that she enjoyed seeing.

"I never took you for so much of an overthinker, but I guess I learn somethin' new everyday." Pausing, she struggled for a moment to think of how to word her next sentence. "Well, see. The thing is.. I enjoy spending time in Alexandria, and I.. like spending time with you, especially." Trysta mumbled out the last bit, cheeks starting to turn red.

episodes: s01e01 - s01e04

❛ There are stories out there that need to be told. ❜

❛ Mortality beats a heavy drum. ❜

❛ Things didn't end well the last time, so forgive me if I'm a little nervous. ❜

❛ Do you not know your value? Do you suffer these indignities for some larger purpose? ❜

❛ Let the tale seduce you. Just as I was seduced. ❜

❛ Stop! Don't do that shit here! ❜

❛ Dishonesty breeds dishonesty. ❜

❛ It ain't easy, the work I do. Nothing but broken souls around me, and the ones that ain't broke are greedy. ❜

❛ The Earth's a savage garden. ❜

❛ How do you do that? Get in my head like that. ❜

❛ I had no room for feelings like these in my life. ❜

❛ I have seen death over and over and over and over again. It's boring. ❜

❛ Easy prey for the discerning predator. ❜

❛ And rather than fix it like a man should, I run like a coward. I run to the bottle. I run to the grift. I run to bad beds. ❜

❛ I laid down with the Devil. And he has roots in me, all his spindly roots in me, and I can't think nothin' anymore but his voice and his words! ❜

❛ I'm not the Devil. You were wrong about that. But I can give you death. ❜

❛ What rage you must feel as you choke on your sorrow. ❜

❛ I can swap this life of shame, swap it out for a dark gift and a power you can't begin to imagine. You just have to ask me for it. ❜

❛ For the first time in my life, I was seen. ❜

❛ Be my companion. Be all the beautiful things you are, and be them without apology. For all eternity. ❜

❛ Memory is a monster. We forget, it doesn't. ❜

❛ We live off the blood of the living. Lap up the blood of the deceased and it'll suck you right down into death, along with your victim. ❜

❛ You have the power to subdue anyone you want, but sometimes restraint is your most powerful weapon. ❜

❛ This is your home now. ❜

❛ The sun gives life to everything but us. ❜

❛ The life of a vampire has its challenges and its rewards... ❜

❛ Do you contemplate the life of the rabbit before you cut it? Or do you simply cut?❜

❛ These are nightmares I'm having, not dreams. ❜

❛ One might think the ability to read a mind a most useful gift, but, in reality, it's quite mundane. ❜

❛ Every human thought boils down to three things..."I want food", "I want sex", "I want to go home". ❜

❛ You chase after phantoms of your former self. I'll break you of it. ❜

❛ You hide from me this long again, I'll hunt you down and slap you sideways. ❜

❛ I had powers now and decades of rage to process, and it was both random and unfortunate, the man picked that night to dabble in fuckery. ❜

❛ You are a library of confusion. ❜

❛ I don't like sleeping angry. ❜

❛ For the record, if disrespect was done to you, I would have killed him myself. ❜

❛ If you love your family, as I know you do, spare them all the pain that you are causing them. ❜

❛ I ain't never gon' have a family of my own, am I? No sons, no daughters. ❜

❛ I'm your family. ❜

❛ I've been neglectful of our romance. ❜

❛ He was my murderer, my mentor, my lover, and my maker… all of those things at once. ❜

❛ There is one thing about being a vampire that I most fear above all else... and that is loneliness. You can't imagine the emptiness, a void stretching out for decades at a time. ❜

❛ We must stay together and take precaution and never part. ❜

❛ Well, I don't say that you have to enjoy it! Kill them swiftly if you have to, but do it! Embrace what you are! You are a killer! ❜

❛ Come now, love, let's get you to the couch to die. ❜

❛ If you'd listen to me, if you finally submit to your nature, you will be filled, with all the life you can hold. ❜

❛ You will see death in all its beauty, life as it is only known at the very point of the death. You alone, of all creatures, can see death with that impunity. ❜

❛ You alone, under the rising moon, can strike like the hand of God. ❜

❛ Do you ever think that we, that's to say, our kind...were put on Earth for a larger purpose? ❜

❛ I put you on this earth. Your purpose is to enjoy yourself. ❜

❛ I desire blood as much as you do. But I wonder, should we be more selective? ❜

❛ Hunting is pure instinct. Reason is a set of leg irons. ❜

❛ Every one of them is capable of abomination, even the ones worthy of admiration. ❜

❛ Don't mind the shaking. I've snapped his spine. It's merely his nerves spasming. ❜

❛ I don't wanna kill people anymore. ❜

❛ So much of that year was a blur. And you can imagine what time's inevitable hammer does to the minute details. ❜

❛ This is the odyssey of recollection. ❜

❛ Oh, come now. I don't bite. ❜

❛ Aren't I enough? ❜

❛ We'll be together ten thousand nights, a hundred thousand.  ❜

❛ What we're doing is hard. Anything that wards off the dungs of the everlasting road we walk. ❜

❛ There. I said it. We're communicating so much better now, no? ❜

❛ You ever think about those old days when we were kids? ❜

❛ You wanna come around, you come around when people are awake. ❜

❛ Well, I thought we could have an orgy. You can fuck them, and I can eat them. ❜

❛ What can I say? I'm a lot. I'm not perfect. ❜

❛ I heard your hearts dancing! ❜

❛ You watched the whole thing like some creeper! ❜

❛ This is not a life! ❜

❛ Am I from the Devil? Is my very nature that of the Devil? ❜

❛ Take a black man in America, make him a vampire, fuck with that vampire, and see what comes of it. ❜

❛ You're here to threaten me, I suppose. ❜

❛ Why is your heart beatin' so fast? ❜

❛ Did you not smile when he begged? Did you not feel pleasure as you carved him up? ❜

❛ You did what you did because it gave you pleasure. ❜

❛ We should make this our anniversary. ❜

❛ That's why you and me ain't never gon' work. That's why you're always gonna be alone. ❜

❛ You were ready to abandon our home. Now you want a third. ❜

❛ I'm not human no more, am I? ❜

❛ I'll teach you, but not if we're going to have family secrets. ❜

❛ We're a family? ❜

❛ You're not a girl. You're a devil. ❜

❛ Hungry? You just ate a man twice your size. You can't possibly be… ❜

❛ I'm so hungry. I think I'm gon' die. Is that how vampires die? From starvation? ❜

❛ If you made me and you made [name], who made you? ❜

❛ When I'm tired, I'm not so kind. ❜

❛ Fighting sounds funny in French. ❜

❛ A girl vampire needs her own space if she's gonna find herself in this no-day world. ❜

❛ He got secrets. He don't give good answers to questions, sits on the truth like it's his chair or somethin'. ❜

❛ I thought we weren't supposed to keep secrets. ❜

❛ Sometimes, old people don't like talkin' much about the past. ❜

❛ For a killing machine, I kinda like her. ❜

❛ You wouldn't believe how time flies when there's people to eat and money to spend. ❜

❛ We do like mortals do. We fight, we eat, we laugh, we sleep, we love. ❜

❛ Never seen a dead one look so peaceful. You know what her last words were? ❜

❛ Wakes were invented in places where it snows. ❜

❛ You've been too sheltered, my belladonnic beauty. ❜

❛ You must be most ferocious, hmm? ❜

❛ There's something back there, something evil. ❜

❛ Yeah, I'm surprised your fancy parents let you out at night. ❜

❛ I finally got a few secrets of my own. ❜

❛ You're an angel. ❜

❛ This is why we never get close to mortals. Because sooner or later, they end up dead. ❜

❛ I had a daughter. ❜

Negan stopped what he was doing to turn and look at her, admittedly a bit shocked that she was being so open with her compliments on his appearance.

His ego certainly didn't need any help when it came to his looks, but he'd gladly take her compliments.

"Flatterer." Walking over towards him, Trysta felt her face heat up and a tinge of red appeared on her cheeks. "You sure know how to make a girl feel good about herself, as always."

Eyeing him up and down, she made a small humming noise under her breath. "But really, I swear I see you chopping wood more often than the others, and it's gotta be because of the way you look doin' it. No other explanation."