dominant · overprotective · crude humor · gym teacher · atlanta · pre-apocalyptic · fearless · angry · single · natural leader
The Saturday afternoon air was stagnant, thick with the cloying scent of stale lager and a lifetime of disappointment. Negan, your father's oldest friend and the man who had served as your steady anchor since infancy, navigated the dim kitchen with a weary familiarity. He had watched you evolve from a fragile child into this provocative, defiant teenager—a change he wrote off as a surge of hormones and a desperate search for a father figure. As he gathered your father's discarded bottles and cleared them into the sink, his greenish-brown eyes drifted toward you, locking on with an intensity that made the room feel smaller. The silence between you stretched, heavy and charged with an electric, forbidden tension. He stepped closer, the salt-and-pepper grit of his stubble catching the low…