"dan?" cora muttered under her breathe in disbelief.

negan snapped his head towards her. "what was that? you're going to have to speak up now."

cora slowly rose to her feet. "dan. what the fuck," she said, louder this time, angrier.

"cora," he warned.

"no. how could you," she said to him. beyond her better judgment, cora charged at dan. before she could get to him, one of the saviors got to her first. he whacked the back of her knee with his gun, making her collapse down to the ground in pain. he grabbed her by the arms and drug her back to her spot by rick.

"cora," rick whispered. he put his hand on her back to help her back to her knees.

"im okay," she assured him. the truth was, she wasn't. an icy hot pain was coursing through her leg starting from her knee. kneeling on the ground was not helping as cora fought back tears. she didn't want to seem weak.

"we've got some lovebird's here, don't we," negan announced. cora glanced up at dan whose jaw was clenched and whose hand was in a fist. "now, back to beating the hell out of one of you." negan went around, threatening each of them. cora couldn't focus on what he was saying. when he got to maggie, glenn lunged for negan but a savior was there in a second to hold him back.

negan proceeded to taunt them. he walked up and down the line, pointing his bat at each of them. cora stared straight, not giving negan the satisfaction of her attention.

the ringing started in her ears when the pain became almost unbearable. out of the corner of her eye, cora saw negan's bat fly through the air, coming down on someone's head. she didn't want to look. she couldn't look. time went on. saviors started talking. cora couldn't make out who or what was being said.

"....resistance deserves punishment..." cora made out negan saying. again, she say the bat fly down from the air. thats two people. he only said one. resistance. it was cora's fault. slowly, cora turned her head in the direction of negan.

glenn. glenn was the second one killed. cora was the cause of glenn's death. she couldn't do it anymore. cora finally gave into the pain and let the tears fall. soon enough she was sobbing. from the pain in her leg  but mostly, from the pain of her brothers death.

negan walked over to cora and pointed his bat in her face. "you don't look to good, sweetheart," he said with a smirk. negan crouched down to cora's eye level. "dwight," he said to someone while maintaining eye contact with cora. "take her."  cora's heart stopped yet again. take her? to where? to her death?

dwight, the man with the burned face, and another savior (dan, she realized) came up behind cora and each grabbed an arm. they started dragging her back towards their vehicles, specifically a van. cora tried fighting back but with one leg not working, it was useless. "no!" she heard rick scream. "take me instead!" cora didn't hear anything else once she got locked inside the van. it was dark and her ears were still ringing. there was nothing left to do but wait.

minutes later, the van started moving. she was being kidnapped. probably taken to her death.

minutes after that, cora gave into the pain and lost consciousness.

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a/n
what a crazy wild ride we are about to go on