Chasing Cars - Carl Grimes
Request: could you do a Carl Grimes imagine where its 7x1 and the reader gets picked at the lineup and its based off of the song Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol?
Warning(s): the reader death, swearing, major angst (IAM SO SORRY)
Authors Note: im cryin this was too much im getting Greys Anatomy flashbacks
words in bold are the song lyrics and words in italics are flashbacks. this might get confusing, but i tried my best to mark everything.
we’ll do it all
everything
on our own.
“Well well well, what do we have here?” Negan paused in front of you, the barbed wire bat coming dangerously close to your face.Your breath hitched in your throat as you looked up through the strands of hair that fell in your face. You heard Carl also breath out heavily from beside you.
Carl meant something big to you, you two had been best friends since the beginning. You two grew up together, you watched each other grow up ever since you and your family showed up at the Atlanta Camp. It was almost yesterday that the two of you met, you remember it so vividly.
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“Whats your name?” The boy asked as he walked up to you. He looked to be your age, he had blue eyes that reminded you of the ocean, and his hair was a dark blonde color. He had a slight grin on his face as he looked at you in the eyes.
“Y/N L/N,” you mumbled to the boy, clutching onto your moms arm, but she brushed you off. She wanted you to make some friends.
“I’m Carl, Carl Grimes,” he replied back to you, reaching out his hand for you to shake it.
Hesitantly, you reached out a clutched onto his, moving it up and down in a shaking motion before retracting your hand back as he did too.
“Nice to meet you Y/N, I bet we can become great friends.”
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we don’t need
anything
or anyone
“Whats your name?” Negan asked abruptly, leaning down and placing his finger under your chin and lifting it up.
“Don’t touch her!” Carl screamed from next to you.
Negan looked over at Carl and then back at you with a smirk on his face. He started to laugh, it was a mockery laugh. He ran this show, he could do whatever he wanted, you knew that Carl needed to shut up or Negan would hurt both of you.
“Oh, you two are a thing aren’t you? I get it, don’t want me popping her cherry so you can do it, I get it, I get it,” Negan started,”but I think she could be a good edition to my collection, my wives I mean.” Negan looked at Carl and swung it at his face jokingly. “I forgot that you don’t scare easily, I was just trying to scare ya.”
“Just please, don’t hurt her please, shes a lady, you cant do that,” Carl pleaded, his tone was softer this time so that he didn't anger the man with the barbed wire baseball bat.
“Who said i was going to hurt her?” Negan asked Carl in a cocky tone.
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You were sitting in the more secluded area of the Prison Yard, it was darker now because the sun had gone down. You thought that everyone had gone to sleep, but you were wrong. Soon enough, you heard footsteps coming your way.
On instinct without even thinking, you took your knife out of your belt and held it in the direction where the footsteps were coming from.
“Woah, who said I was going to hurt you?” A kids voice asked, making you relax once yo realized that it was Carl. So, you shrugged and laid back down on the ground, looking up at the stars. Surprisingly, he laid back down next to you and looked at the stars.
“They’re so pretty,” he mumbled softly after about five minutes, “it makes me forget that walkers own the world now.”
“The walkers don’t own the world, there’s still a chance that the human race could come back from this,” you said, though your tone wasn't very convincing. You just needed to be hopeful, and you needed to make sure that everyone else was hopeful too. Because without hope you knew that you were most likely going to die in this world. And the last thing you wanted to do was die.
You were too young to die, you were only about 13. This world was cruel, throwing humans into basically an apocalyptic world with no escape or no lead on where to go. You didn't even really know your age, the only thing you knew is that you were 10 when this happened, and it had to be at least three years since this happened. It has been three years since your parents died.
“They do though, they are the dominant race now,” Carl said from beside you.
Suddenly tears were welling up in your eyes, you didn't know where they were coming from. Carl must've looked over at you because he leaned up and wiped them away with his hand.
“Hey, whats wrong Y/N?” He asked.
“I just don’t want to die like my parents, I don’t want to die Carl,” it was cheesy and you probably sounding like a wimp, though you had to say it. You had been keeping it in for such a long time that it was basically threatening to pour it out.
“I’m not going to let anything happen to you Y/N, I promise,” Carl said.
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if i lay here
if i just lay here
would you lie with me
and just forget the world?
Tears were falling down your face but you didn't have Carl or anyone to wipe them away from your face. You just let them fall, making sure that Negan didn't see that you were crying too much.
Negans hand came down and wiped one tear away from one side and then did the other side with the same motion.
“I said don’t touch her!” Carl screamed again, struggling to get out of one of Negans mens hands.
“Boy! I swear I will kill you if you keep screaming at me like that!” Negan screamed back.
“Don’t kill him, if you're going to kill someone, kill me,” you said to Negan. It was the first thing that you ever said to the man Negan, and you really hoped that it wasn't going to be your last.
Negan pretended to look shocked as he leaned down to look at you in the face, he gasped as he lifted your chin up again.
“If you say so, I have to kill someone anyway and I think that lover boys lover would be the greatest first choice.”
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forget what we’re told
before we get too old.
show me a garden
that’s bursting into life.
“C’mon Y/N, we wont be gone long,” Carl said, helping you get up onto the guard tower in Alexandria. It was very steep, and reminded you of the towers at the prison.
“Okay, I just don’t want to get into trouble,” you stated, looking out the window and smiling at the sight, it was beautiful.
Carls hand went to your waist and spun you around. The smile on your face didn't fade and you looked up at him, nearing closer as you put your hand on his chest.
“You know I love you right Y/N?” He asked, putting his forehead on yours. It was such a simple gesture but it really did show his love for you, and you couldn't have been happier.
“Yes Carl, and I love you too,” you leaned up and kissed him softly.
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You didn't have time to react when Negans bat was hit right into the side of your face, there was a ringing in your ears. You heard people gasping, though you couldn't see very well either. Pain enveloped you, it was all you could feel
“Go to hell,” you mumbled, feeling another hit to the head. Out of the corner of your eye, you could see some of your hair and blood that had been seeping out of your head.
“No! Y/N!” Carls voice screamed. “Y/N! I love you! I love you Y/N! Ill see you again, i swear to it!”
“Aww how cute,” Negans head bashed into your head again and you were thrusted into a sea of darkness, you couldn't hear Carls voice anymore as you took your last breath.
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“I swear i wont let anything happen to you Y/N, this Negan man wont do anything to you or us,” Carl said.
lets waste time
chasing cars
around our heads.
if i lay here
if i just lay here
would you lie with me
and just forget the world?
