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Hello world and my wonderful readers! Sorry this chapter is a shorty, a little nervous for my mom's biopsy tomorrow. I'm staying positive though! The next chapter is going to be much longer and hopefully will be posted later in the week! We definitely see kind of a dark side of Delilah in this chapter. I hope nobody gets too upset over her decision! I'm not sure why I picked this name for the chapter,perhaps because of the tough Breaking Bad vibe I instilled and how Delilah ultimately wants to break Christine, I thought it sounded unique and kind of cool in a way.
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DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NOR HAVE ANY AFFILIATIONS WITH THE WALKING DEAD FRANCHISE OR BREAKING BAD. ALL PROPERTIES OWNED BY FRANK DARABONT AND AMC (TELEVISION SERIES), ROBERT KIRKMAN AND TONY MOORE (COMIC BOOK SERIES), AND VINCE GILLIGAN, RESPECTIVELY. I ONLY OWN MY OWN ORIGINAL IDEAS AND CHARACTERS.
Chapter Forty One: Breaking Spite
"I've thought about it and you can stay. All of you." Delilah glanced over at Billy and Christine.
Rick and the others were baffled upon hearing her words, then slightly panicked, even Billy and Christine were surprised. Her verdict had rendered them all speechless.
"Delilah." Rick turned her around as Madison, Glenn, and Maggie followed him. "Are you sure about this?"
"Yeah, Christine is an attempted murderer." Glenn said.
"She makes Charles Manson look like Mickey Mouse and Jigsaw look like Gumby." Madison added.
"How can you trust her?" Maggie asked.
Delilah had braced herself for their inquisitions, it was only natural. "Honestly? I can't, she's a Black Mamba. At the same time, those kids are my nephew and niece. They're my family now, just like all of you are, and I couldn't live with myself if I let them go back out there. I have an idea though, one that will work. You just have to trust me on this." She turned back to her sister and Billy. "Like I said, you two can stay."
"Don't be doing us a favor-"
"Christine!" Billy hissed, glaring at her before turning back to Delilah. "Thank you so much."
She let out a sarcastic laugh. "Oh, don't thank me yet. I shouldn't be doing this at all, I should be telling the two of you to go fuck yourselves, but I'm not. This won't be like last time, because this isn't Fitzgerald Caledonia Estates or Steverson Ranch, this is Jellbany. This," She held her arms out to the sides and her hands up as the tone of her voice darkened and her eyes narrowed. "is all mine. I'm the boss in charge, and it's all by my rules. Oh yeah, I'm the Heisenberg now, bitch. You thought it was dangerous out there, well guess the fuck what? I am the danger, and your best course would be to tread lightly." Delilah could literally hear the Breaking Bad theme tune in her head as she watched their faces and had to do everything she could to conceal a smirk whilst the others looked on. Rick had never seen this dark side of her before. It left him concerned, but it was also kind of sexy at the same time.
"What is she talking about?" Glenn leaned in and whispered to the others.
"It's a Breaking Bad thing. She's laying down the law." Tara replied with a smirk, they were all impressed with Delilah's toughness. To some, she may have sounded asinine, but she meant business. Both Billy and Christine read between the lines. Don't fuck with me or I'm gonna fuck your shit up.
"All of you will be staying on the fourth floor. I'm not saying this because of Billy and Christine, that was the plan all along. This is going to be a trial run. With that being said, I will be putting the most grunt work on the two of them. Carl." She glanced over at him. "Your punishment has been lifted two weeks early." She turned back to Billy and Christine. "These two will be taking over where you left off. You can fill them in, right?"
Carl nodded. "I sure can."
"Fantastic. Daryl," Delilah glanced over at him. "Carol is your responsibility. Consider yourself her parole officer of sorts. Is that going to be a problem?"
He shook his head. "No."
"Carol?"
"No, it won't. I understand." While Carol still felt a bit uncomfortable, she didn't dare question Delilah. If this was what she thought was necessary, than so be it. I'll do what I can to prove myself to her and the others.
"Good, I'm glad. Scott, you said you have a background in psychology?"
He nodded. "Yes, m'am."
Delilah turned back to Billy and Christine. "Congratulations, you've got your first three patients." Billy gave her a questioning look. "It's obvious that we all have a lot going on in our heads and need to get it out more than we did today. I am recommending separate hour long sessions with Dr. Scott, five times a week. As for you, Vampire LeStat," Delilah turned to Christine. "You'll be under constant supervision from when the day starts at 9 in the morning to 11 at night. You'll also be turning in your weapons to be locked up, I'll decide if and when you can have them back. Do you understand everything that I've just said?"
Christine scoffed. "Are you fucking kidding me? I'm not gonna follow your rules! Did you forget I'm the older sister? Besides, this isn't prison!"
"It's either in here or out there, take your pick. Except you're such an opportunist, I know you won't leave. Look on the bright side: If you make a positive change, I'll be a little more lenient on you, but you have to demonstrate that. I will break you, Chrissy, so don't even try and test me otherwise." Nobody could believe what Delilah was doing, either she was really a saint or she was really insane, but maybe there was a method to her madness somehow. Christine just rolled her eyes.
"Fine, whatever you say. I'm only doing this for the well being of my children. Here." She whipped out her gun and meat cleaver, turned the safety on the gun, and handed them to Rick. "I'd trust Sheriff Andy Taylor with these over you any day."
Delilah nodded. "That's fine, whatever works." She turned to Billy next. "I'm sorry, Bill. I have to ask the same of you."
"I understand." Billy pulled out his Walther PPK silencer, a night stick, and Nunchucks from his backpack and handed them to Rick.
"Alright. Now that that's settled, let me give you the rundown on how things are around here. The property is divided into three sections. The one we were in before is called Inventory Range, which houses the surplus and where the council holds their meetings. The second building is Leisure Zone, where the kids have their lessons and where we eat. This third section that we're in now is Home Base, where we sleep and shower. The building is five floors and surrounded by driveway alarms. The first floor is mostly used for storage with the extra office desks and chairs. If the toiletries here aren't what you need, you can get some in Inventory Range, you have to sign out what you took and how much. Every room and floor has a mini stockpile of electronics, weapons, and medical supplies on hand, as do the other buildings. Except now, thanks to Christine, the weapons will also be locked up. The elevators still work, but we don't like to use them too often in case somebody gets stuck. Each office has a makeshift bed with an air mattress or regular mattress, a bathroom with a shower, and a closet. You're on your own as far as cribs go, Judith has the last one. Showers have to be under ten minutes, every day starts at 9:45, bedtime for the kids is 8:00 pm and for the adults and kids over thirteen it's 11:00 pm." She heavily exhaled, clearly exhausted from this entire ordeal. "Madison, I'm drained. Would you mind showing the group around?"
"Not at all."
"Thank you. Also, you'll be supervising Christine."
"WHAT?!" Christine knew her face had become pale as she watched the cow girl grinning from ear to ear. "Delilah, you can't be serious."
She raised an eyebrow at her sister and folded her arms across her chest. "Oh, but I am. If you think I'm bad, Madison is worse."
"Ooo, I am gonna have fun getting my kicks in with this one." Madison cackled a little, walking over as she cracked her neck, knuckles, and wrists. She stood in front of Christine, giving her a menacing look. "Boo."
"AHHH!" Christine nearly jumped out of her skin and clung onto Billy, who gently pushed her off and stepped away.
The whole thing made Madison heartily cackle, Daryl and Avery had a good laugh while Delilah and the others were trying not to pour salt into the wounds by laughing also. "Bitch, you're just too easy! Cross me one time and you'll taste your teeth." She turned back to Delilah. "I'll make ya proud, Lila Loo."
Delilah chuckled. "I know you will. Any questions, comments, concerns before I go?"
Billy spoke up. "Yes, there's one more thing." He walked over and unzipped his backpack. Delilah hadn't noticed he had a backpack, he must have set it down while she was crying into Rick's shirt when they walked in. Billy pulled out a large walnut wooden box and walked over to her. "Here, these are Jennifer's ashes." He handed her the heavy square and watched her examine it.
It was a rotating picture cube with a single photograph on all four outside squares. The center picture was of Jennifer on her brother Christopher's wedding day, wearing a strapless peach colored gown and a gold bow necklace, her hair was pinned back in a bun and a proud smile on her face as she stood with her parents, her brother, and his bride. The left picture was Jennifer sitting on the grass and holding her black Scottish Terrier named Benedict outwards to the side as he licked her face while she laughed. The right picture was a newspaper clipping of Jennifer's volleyball teammates hoisting her up as she triumphantly beamed and held a massive trophy after having just won the state volleyball championship. The last picture was of Jennifer and Delilah wearing matching outfits consisting of red vinyl just above knee high rain boots, a rainbow mosaic pair of parachute pants, an oversized black double breasted suit jacket with gold buttons, and a pair of black Ray Ban sunglasses, standing with one leg crossed in front of the other and both their arms raised at a half way angle, the famous MC Hammer pose, while their hands were in fists to show off the massive amount of bling that graced their fingers and around their necks. They looked both ridiculous and adorable at the same time, Delilah couldn't help but laugh.
"Oh, my gosh, I completely forgot about this! "U Can't Touch This Super Freak"! I remember, we had some time to kill before going to see Rocky Horror Picture Show in Santa Monica, so we went in one of the cheesy 24/7 boutiques. I was blasting "Super Freak" and "U Can't Touch This" on the way there, so we decided to just go crazy, combine the outfits, and bust out the moves to see which one was better." She pointed to the picture, showing Rick, who also let out a small smile. "We were always doing crazy stuff like this." Delilah looked over at Billy. "Where did you-"
"They were in her wallet, she always carried them around. There was even a picture of you and me in there. Dr. Scott had a box of these picture cube urns."
"I got some more at a personalization store in Atlanta in case anything were to happen." Dr. Scott added. Delilah gave him a friendly nod
"Good to know. Thank you."
"Read the top, Delilah." Billy tapped the top of the box, causing her to look down at the hand written inscription with two hearts below Jennifer's name.
"Jennifer Jocelyn Woodley
Our Beloved
We Love and Miss You Dearly
03.08.1985-04.01.2012"
Delilah recognized that it was Billy's handwriting. As she looked at the cube, it fully set in that Jennifer really was dead and gone, that Delilah was holding her cremated body, and it made her want to cry. While Christine had no qualms about it, even going as far as stomping on her dead face, Delilah was sure that this had all traumatized Billy to some extent. He had been too late to stop walkers from savagely biting into her, watched her bleed out, and didn't even get to finish saying good bye because of Christine. Delilah looked up at Billy.
"It's beautiful, Bill."
"Thanks. She'd want you to have them. I know she would."
She gave him a small but weak smile. "Thank you, I'll take good care of them. Is there anything else?"
He shook his head. "No, not that I can think of."
"Ok. I'll see you around." Delilah glanced over at Rick. "You coming, babe?"
He nodded. "Yeah. Yeah, I'll come up with you." They walked off and just as everybody was about to go their separate ways, a voice stopped them.
"Actually, there is one thing."
Delilah and Rick turned around. "Yes, Christine. What is it?"
Christine folded her arms across her chest and glared at Delilah. She knew her demand was going to send her baby sister into a tailspin, but she didn't care because she would stop at nothing to get this desired object.
"I want your engagement ring."
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