Ricks p.o.v

"Carl!" I shouted.

"I don't want anything to do with this!" He yelled.

"I really need you right now, son."

I tried to contain myself as Michonne scratched and hit at my chest. I still continued to block the door.

Carl stormed down the hall and angrily approached me.

"I have helped you enough. You know how bad it would've been if I didn't take up for her down there?"

"I need you to take my keys and take Andre somewhere nice."

"Why?"

"Carl no!" She yelled.

"If you take him she won't leave without him. So just go. My keys are on the coffee table."

Carl stared for a second.

"Do you want her to leave us?" I grunted.

He nodded and backed away. "Just call when everything is okay."

"No!"

"Michonne I'm doing this cause I love you, we love you."

"If you--"
BAM.
She socked me dead in my nose.

"Go," I yelled at Carl. He scrambled Andre together and eventually they were out the house, Andre crying for his mama.

"Let me go." She growled, tears streaming down her face.

"You're making this a big deal 'chonne. Stop. For the sake of our baby and our damn relationship. Are you crazy? You punched me in the fucking nose."

"You deserved it!" She shouted "if everything was for the sake of our baby and our relationship, would you have taken up for me when your mother said all those bad things?"

She punched my chest and I shoved her back, a little harder this time.

"I am stronger than you and you know that. Don't tempt me." Her eyes full of red.

Michonne is stronger than me, that's true, but the thought of her leaving-- it gave me some kind of unexplainable super power to hold her back and a little closer to me.

"She's my mother! I was not raised to back talk her!" I shouted back.

"You're a coward."

Maybe I am.

I glared at her like we were about to fight to the death. Her hand flew across my face, nearly slapping me senseless.

Now, it took every bone in my body to hold myself back.

Suddenly, my senses changed. I grabbed her shoulders and jacked her against the wall, my face only inches from hers. She sniffled, my nose flared.

"You best stop putting your hands on me M."

"Or what? You'll beat me like Mike did?"

I tightened my grip around her and sighed.

"You know I would never hurt you. Why would you say that?"

"I'm sorry." She whispered.

I let her go and turned my back to let her leave.

"I won't go--" she grabbed my shirt "I won't go if you don't."

"I ain't going no where." I nodded.

I turned back around and wrapped her in my arms, her small body felt comfort among my chest.

"I'm sorry about my mom. You don't have to worry about her anymore."

"What did you say to her?"

"I told her to stay out my life."

And then There was silence.
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