"Are we sure this is a good idea?" Jace asked, turning to his right where Carl and Eloise stood beside him on the watch tower.

Carl and Eloise slowly turned to Jace, Carl shrugging as Eloise huffed. "Best plan we've got."

"Rosita, Jasper. Get into position. I'll signal you. And the wall's gonna hold?" Rick asked, looking down from the watch post to look at Rosita and Jasper who nodded. "It'll hold." Rosita yelled as a voice rang through the distance.

"All points are covered. Every contingency is already met."

Lou's head shot up at the familiar voice. Eugene being the one talking. "What the hell?" Eloise mumbled as Eugene continued.

"I come armed with two barrels of the truth. A test is upon you, and I'm giving out the cheat sheet. H-hello. I come salved with the hope that it is my dropped knowledge that you heed. Options are zero to none. Compliance and fealty are your only escape. Bottom-lining it... you may thrive, or you may die. I sincerely wish for the former for everyone's sake. The jig is up and in full effect. Will you comply, Rick?" Eugene voiced as Eloise gripped her gun tighter, shaking her head.

"Where's Negan?" Rick snarled and Eugene lifted his head higher. "I'm Negan."

Eloise looked down to Rosita and Jasper. Jasper looked up to Eloise, nodding his head as Rosita pressed the bottom to the explosive. Eloise squeezed her eyes shut in anticipation but nothing happened.

Suddenly, she felt a cold metal on the back of her head and the click of a gun. She slowly turned her head and saw one the Scavengers pointing their gun at Carl and she could see the legs of one of them behind her, making her curse under her breath.

"You ever hear the one about the stupid little prick named Rick who thought he knew shit but didn't know shit and got everyone he that gave a shit about killed? It's about you. You're all gonna wanna put your guns down now." Negan called out and Rick immediately shakes his head.

"No one drops anything. We had a deal." Rick said, turning to Jadis for his last sentence who just shrugged. "Tamiel came for the boat things. Followed ones who took. Made a better deal."

Eloise could hear Negan's chuckle. "You push me, and you push me. And you push me, Rick. You just tried to blow us up, right? I mean, I get me, my people. But Eugene? He's one of yours."

Eloise bit her lip angrily as he continued. "And after what he did- he stepped up. You people... are animals. Universe gives you a sign, and you just shove your finger right up its ass. Dwight, Simon, chop-chop."

Eloise heard rustling, she looked down at Jasper and Rosita and grew worried at their wide eyes. "So, you don't like Eugene anymore. You guys gotta like Sasha. I do, too." Negan said and Eloise froze.

"Got her right here packaged for your convenience, alive and well. Now, I brought her so I wouldn't have to kill all of you, and not killing all of you could get complicated." Negan yelled and Carl slowly stood up, making Eloise and Jace follow after him.

Jace froze at the coffin as Negan patted it. "See, I know there's a lot of firepower left in there, Rick. So I'm gonna make this simple. I want all the guns you've managed to scrape up. Yep, I know about those, too. I want every last grain of lemonade you got left. I want a person of your own choosing... For Lucille."

Negan turned down and smirked, pointing at Daryl in the crowd of people on the ground. "Daryl- ooh, I gotta get me my Daryl back."

"And the pool table and all the pool cues and chalk. And I want it now or Sasha dies, and then all of you. Probably." Negan chuckled and Eloise glared, clenching her jaw.

"C'mon, Rick. Just because I brought her in a casket doesn't mean she has to leave in it." Negan sighed, bringing a hand to his face as he chuckled. "You know what? You suck ass, Rick. You really do. I don't want to have to kill her, but that's exactly what you're gonna make me do!"

"Let me see her." Rick announced and Negan hummed. "Oh. All right. Just give me a second. I might have to get her up to speed. You can't hear shit inside this thing."

Negan turned to the casket, knocking on it with Lucille. "Sash. You're not gonna believe this crap."

Eloise felt a lump form in throat as a zombified Sasha stumbled out of the coffin. In an instant, Eloise, Carl and Jace spun around and shot the scavengers behind them.

After they got all the scavengers on the watch tower with them, the three teens climbed down and helped shoot the Saviors from the ground.

Three Saviors came up behind the teens, trapping them in their arms. The three teens tried to fight out of the mens grip as they pulled them to the center of Alexandria where Negan now stood, Lucille thrown over his shoulder.

Eloise grunted as she tried to rip herself out of the Saviors grip as Rick got pulled to kneel beside Carl. "Well, shit, Rick. You just couldn't stick with us, huh? You had to go with these filthy garbage people? No offense." Negan said, his last sentence towards Jadis who just glared. "Deal is for 12, yes?"

"Ten. People are a resource." Negan corrected and Jadis shook her head. "Tweleve." Negan tilted his head at her words, slightly swinging Lucille making her pull her lips into a line. "Ten."

Negan chuckled, turning back to the Grimes'. "Rick. This is just gonna make you sad. Broken. You're gonna wish you were dead. I like having fun. I do. But maybe you think that the guy that did what he did to your friends wasn't me, like that was some sort of a put-on, like I'm not the guy with the bat- I'm just the guy that makes your kid spaghetti."

Eloise tried anyway to elbow the man that was holding her down but she couldn't. Negan looked to Jace and Eloise and chuckled. "Oh. Oh, shit. Maybe this is on me. Maybe this is all on me. I gotta make it right. I guess I gotta start all over again."

Negan sighed, shaking his head. "I gotta tell you, Rick, if I had a kid, I'd want him to be just like your kid, which makes this so much harder."

"You're not gonna win." Carl grumbled, making Negan turn to him. "Carl. It is over. Why don't you point your one ball up the street there and take it all in?"

Suddenly, a blood curdling scream came from the houses and Eloise could faintly see someone falling from one of the houses. Negan looked at the three teens and Rick's faces and sighed. "Oh. Wow. You just lost somebody important to you right now- like, just now. Jesus. That is timing. Well, Rick... You chose this. I truly don't know what more I could've done to warn you. And this isn't a warning. This is punishment. I'm gonna kill Carl now."

Eloise and Jace tried to push out of the mens grip harder as Lou's throat grew raw, trying to silence any noise from coming out of her.

"I'm gonna make it one nice, hard swing, try to do it in one because I like him and there are children watching." Negan said, turning to Eloise and Jace at the end of his sentence.

"I just want you to put that in your brain and roll it around for a minute. I'm gonna kill Carl, and then Lucille here, she's gonna take your hands." Negan whispered to Rick as Jace gritted his teeth and Rick shook his head. "You can do it right in front of me. You can take my hands. I told you already- I'm gonna kill you. All of you. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow... But nothing is gonna change that. Nothing. You're all already dead."

Negan looked at Rick with wide eyes, chuckling. "Damn. Wow, Rick. Okay." Negan stood up, taking the hat off of Carl's head and turned to Eloise. "You want it kiddo. As a souvenir of this joyous day?" Negan asked, a big smirk on his face. Eloise glared at him, her nose scrunching in anger as he tossed the hat to her before turning back to Rick. "You said I could do it."

Eloise watched almost as if in slow-mo as Negan raised Lucille. Eloise screamed just as he was bringing his bat down but just before it could hit Carl, Shiva jumped on one of the Saviors.

Saviors immediately let go of Jace and Eloise, running away. The two teens ran to Rick and Carl, helping them up. Eloise placed Carl's hat on his head as Ezekiel ran to the center of Alexandria. "End these saviors and their accomplices! Alexandria will not fall, not on this day!"

Saviors came running up to the four. Eloise, who had lost her gun to the Saviors, quickly reached for her knife in her holster. She threw it, the knife landing in the Saviors neck as a bullet went into his head. Eloise turned her head to see who shot him and immediately smiled at Carol who ran up beside Ezekiel with Maggie, Enid and the rest of Hilltop coming behind them.

Eloise stood up, running to one of the dead Saviors, taking his gun and running out of the open area when she felt a sharp pain in her shoulder. She groaned in pain, stopping in her tracks before she continued running, her steps slower than before but kept going, hiding behind one of the house, shooting the passing Saviors and Scavengers.

She felt a person lean up against the wall beside her and turned her head, sending a relieved smile to Jasper.

Once the people passing by started to die down, the siblings ran out from their hiding spot and ran towards the rest of the group. "They're falling back." Rick muttered as Maggie turned to the people of Hilltop. "Eduardo, bertie, between the houses- cover the gate! Let's go."

"Now we finish this!" Ezekiel screamed, everyone running back to the gates of Alexandria.

As they got closer and closer to the gate, they could see the Saviors and Scavengers running away. They all quickly shot at them as Negan drove by, flipping them all off. As soon as the last truck drove out of the community, they ran to the gate, closing it.

Eloise let out a shaky breath as she leaned up against the wall, her hand going to her shoulder and quickly, her eyes went wide at her soaked shirt. She slowly looked down at winced at the sight of her shoulder, a bullet in it. "Oh, shit."

She felt her eyelids grow heavy and suddenly, everything grew dark as she started to fall.

—Soooo isn't this... fun😀
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