Negan slowly started getting out of his wrecked car.

Negan: Fuckin' hell...

Your car was totaled as well. You exited the vehicle, and grabbed the rifle in the passengers' seat. You immediately cocked it back and fired at Negan's car.

BRAKAKAKA!

BRAKAKAKA!

BRAKAKAKA!

Negan took cover behind the car, and began to run inside the abandoned building when you had to reload.

BRAKAKAKA!

BRAKAKAKA!

You kept shooting, then threw aside the rifle and ran into the building as well.

Negan: Hyah!

Negan swung Lucille at you as entered the doorway, but you ducked and slid, avoiding his strike. Negan swung Lucille again at you, but missed. He then bolted towards a hallway.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

You pulled out your handgun and shot in his direction. He kept on running, and you started shooting again.

BANG!

BANG!

You chased him down until he reached a stairwell. He began running up the stairs, and you raised your gun to shoot. Click. You ran out of ammo.

Negan stood on top of the stairwell, laughing.

Negan: Hey, kid. I see you are out of bullets.

You holster your gun, and take out your knife.

Negan: Come on up.

You throw your knife at him, which catches Negan off guard. He dives out of the way, and ends up falling through the bannister of the stairwell. He hangs on as Lucille falls through the hole below.

Negan: Lucille!

You walk up the stairwell, looking at Negan as you climb up each step. You grab your knife from the wall, and walk up to Negan.

Negan: Oh, you asshole.

You strike your knife towards Negan's fingers, but he lets go and falls through the weakened floor into the basement below.

••

You make it down to the basement. It's dark, and you take out a lighter to try and illuminate your surroundings. You call out to Negan through the darkness.

You: You still alive?

Negan: You know me, Y/N. I'm a goddamn cat.

Negan tries to look for Lucille in the darkness. A walker falls through the hole above into the basement, making the room much more dangerous.

You: Where are your people, Negan? The people you tried to act so strong for? We're not that far.

Negan: Oh, they're coming. Just wait.

You keep calling out into the darkness.

You: This is where you die. In the dark...all alone.

Negan: What the hell is your problem, Y/N? Was it my first impression back near the estates? I'm sorry I almost cut your girlfriend's fingers off, okay?

You: You think you're all that, huh? I thought you were a better man than this, Negan.

Negan: I save people. Why couldn't you just let me save you? I saved everybody in the Sanctuary, people in the Hilltop, the Kingdom, they were doing just fine before your friend Rick Grimes showed up.

You kept on walking through the darkness, with Negan doing the same.

Negan: The people, their kids, they were living just fine too...

You chuckle.

You: You don't care, Negan. Your people killed a damn pregnant lady, right in front of me. They killed good people on the road. That's some cowardly bullshit.

Negan was taken back by the fact of Saviors killing a pregnant lady, Rebecca. Negan still kept talking.

Negan: Doing this...trying to fight a war you won't win...isn't smart, Y/N. You're going to fail your people...people you risked your life to free from that asshole Carver.

You: I freed them from Carver, and now I'm going to free them from you.

Negan: It makes me sick, all that wasted potential. You could work with me, kid. Make the Saviors better at...saving. Imagine that...uncle and nephew working side by side for the betterment of the world.

You: Betterment? For once, Negan, please shut the fuck up.

Negan: Look, if you help get Hilltop, Alexandria, Oasis, and Kingdom back in line...our arrangement is back in place. I will even lower my take to 25%! Hot damn!

Negan continues to speak.

Negan: I won't even kill your pal Rick. He'll still have to work for me though, maybe janitorial to start. But the people, they get to live like 75% kings! Now, that is an epic fuckin' Christmas-Hanukkah-Kwanzaa gift rolled up into one, considering how much of a thorn in my asscheek you've all been.

You remember what Rick told you about the Scavengers back at the Hilltop.

You: Why would I trust any deal offered to me, after what you did to Jadis' people? The garbage people?

Negan raises his brow, wondering what you mean. Unbeknownst to him, it was Simon that massacred them all.

Negan: What the hell are you talking about?

You: You killed them, all of them. A whole community wiped out...is that how you save people?

Negan whispers to himself.

Negan: Son of a bitch...

You: It's still just me and you. Looks like your friends aren't coming...the people you expected to look up to you.

You chuckle, as you look down and see Lucille. You pick it up, and start walking through the dark basement.

You: What you had, that was never going to last. Sooner or later, you were going to meet someone like me...like Rick. You can't save us. You can't save anyone because you don't care about anyone.

Negan stands in the darkness, listening.

You: You couldn't save my mom...you couldn't save me...my sister...

Negan: That's not true...

You: What this apocalypse has shown me...is that you don't care about anybody but yourself. You're power hungry...just like him.

You were referring to your stepdad, and Negan knew it. You start pouring lighter fluid on Lucille.

You: All you care about...is this bat. You can't even save that. Here's my deal, I'll let you kiss her goodbye.

Negan: Don't you touch her!

You light Lucille up, flames roaring around the bat. You begin smashing into a barricaded door where you hear walkers inside.

You break through it, but Negan appears and tackles you through the door.

You both land on the ground. Walkers surround the both of you, growling and groaning. You quickly get up, and hit Negan on the shoulder with Lucille. Negan stumbles back, and a walker tries to grab you.

You shove the walker away, and hit it with Lucille.

WACK!

The flames from the bat light up the walker. Negan recovers and faces you.

Negan: Get your hands off of her.

You swing down Lucille at Negan, but he dodges. He starts running the other way. Nearby, the walker on fire has gotten a few others walkers to be on fire as well.

You keep chasing Negan, swinging in his direction, but the spry man keeps on dodging and weaving. The walkers filling the room make it harder to maneuver as well.

Negan: Goddamn psychopath. You're gonna kill us both.

You: Long as it's you first.

Another walker gets near you, and you kill it with Lucille.

WACK!

Negan takes this time to tackle you once more, and you drop Lucille. You push Negan off of you, and try to weave away from the incoming walkers. Negan picks up Lucille, and tries to run away, killing any walkers in his path.

You chase after him, and push him into a window that slightly cracks on impact. He pushes you towards a couple walkers, and you shove them away. You begin stabbing walkers.

SULK!

SULK!

SULK!

You look to where Negan was, and see that he's gone. The window he was at completely shattered. You run towards it, and drop down, leaving the basement.

••

You make it outside the building, smoke from the flames inside seeping through the windows. You take a breath, and rub the sweat from your brow.

Negan got away.