(Violet's Pov)

I looked at the gate of the school for a long while now. I looked around all last night for Clementine just to make sure she was ok but god damn it they fucking took her.

"God fucking damn it." I said and looked over to Willy who was holding Mitch's hands and Ruby had covered his face and I looked over to see AJ also staring at the gate and I went over to him and placed my hand on his shoulder luckily he didn't hit or bite me like he did Marlon and Ruby, he's been doing better at not hitting people, though I wouldn't blame him.

"They took Clem." He said. I could hear the sadness in his voice and god I wanted to cry too, just hours ago we kissed, she admitted to liking me and I told her I liked her back too.

"I know little guy….. but we're gonna get her back." I told him.

"She's strong, I know she is." He said and I nodded a bit and we looked at the gate a bit more.

"God I hope she's ok." I said and he nodded as we went to go help Ruby with the grave. It took less time than Marlon and Brody's graves at least, and we finally put Mitch to rest. I looked over to Willy who was still crying and I just stood near him.

"Even though Mitch was an asshole he always took care of me." He said and I nodded.

"He had his ups and downs." I said and I looked at AJ.

"You ok?" I asked.

"I still don't understand this."

"Understand what?" Ruby asked him as we all looked at him.

"Not to be mean but, when me and Clem saw people die we didn't bury them, she'd always say there wasn't enough time even if were safe." He said and I looked at him.

"Well…. Maybe Clementine just wanted to keep moving, from what I was told y'all didn't really have a stable place to stay like we did." Ruby said.

"Even when we did we didn't bury people." He said.

"There's a reason for everything bud, you can ask Clem when we get her back." Louis said and I looked at him.

"We got Abel tied up in the basement what do we do?" Tenn asked and I sighed.

"Look this is gonna sound really bad but we know he isn't just going to cooperate in a snap…. Maybe threaten him or something, Clem already did a number on him so." I tried to say and rubbed my neck.

"I can help." AJ said and I looked at him. "It's best that you don't." I told him.

"But he knows where Clementine is."

"I know little guy but, Clementine might not want you to see all that, you're still little." Louis said and I nodded.

"Ok…. But take this." AJ said and handed me his gun. I froze up a bit and looked at him.

"I um… saw Clem use a gun once to get answers from someone when I was little it scared him so." He tried to say. I really couldn't imagine all that he had seen in just a short time in his life. I would say I couldn't imagine Clementine doing all this either but she's a bad ass.

"Ok, we'll only use it if we have to." I said and put it away and looked at AJ.

"Um… Tenn, can you go draw a bit with AJ?" I asked and he nodded and I looked at Louis.

"You come with me, just in case he tries something."

"Alright, he shouldn't be able to though, those knots are pretty good." He said and I nodded.

"Let's just play it safe Louis…. Please." I said as we walked to the basement.

"I am being safe, hence why we tied him up." He said and I nodded as we got to the stairs and we walked down. I saw Rosie looking at Abel as he slept and it just pissed me off. So I walked up to him and grabbed the back of his head and slammed it onto the table to wake him up.

"Vi." I heard Louis said but I didn't care.

"No he's not going to sleep after all the shit he put us through, I don't care." I said and glared at Abel as he shook his head to wake up.

"Fucking hell, what a way to wake up." He said and spat on the ground.

"Hmm, last time I was tied up it was with a girl I'd been dating, though I wasn't her prisoner if you know what I mean." He said and I slammed his head on the desk again.

"You can keep your mouth shut until we ask some questions, if you don't I can just keep slamming your head into this desk till I break your damn nose." I said and looked at Louis who looked a bit uneasy. It pissed me off honestly but I could deal with this later.

"You haven't done this before hu? Lilly and them will be back so you best give me the five-star treatment."

"Or what she's gonna slaughter more of us, kidnap us from our home." I stated and glared at him.

"We need people to fight, our home is a good home."

"So the most logical explanation for your god damn kidnapping and killing is because you need teenagers to fight in your god damn stupid war which we want no part of." I stated and he looked at me and laughed.

"You have no idea what's going on, we're at war with others." He said.

"But not us, no one bothered us but your fucking group." I said and slammed his head to the desk again and backed off a bit as he yelled.

"Where are the others?" I asked and he looked at me.

"Like I'd tell you."

"I can do this all day buddy, Lilly ain't coming back for you." I said and I felt Louis move to the side a bit.

"Oh she'll be back, and I'll make sure she has her way with you, just like that other girl Clementine." He said and I felt Louis move up to him and he punched Abel in the face.

"You threaten Violet or Clem's life I won't stand for that now tell us where the hell You're keeping them or so help me god." He said and Abel started to cough a lot and blood started pouring out his mouth as Louis backed off and I felt a bit sick at the sight.

"Oh god… That damn girl pushing me off the roof, something inside me must have burst." Abel said and I watched him.

"Maybe we can." Louis tried to say.

"No, he's not getting any medicine no nothing….. maybe we should let him turn." I said.

"NO! Don't." He cried and I looked at him.

Maybe we can get something out of this.

"Why should we listen to you? You just threatened my life and Clementines life, you brought your group here, killed one of our friends and took three of them away, tell me why the hell we should listen to someone like you?" I asked as he looked at me a bit scared.

"I don't want to turn."

"Neither does anyone at this god damn school you're not special." I said.

"I'll tell you where….. where we have your friends, just don't let me turn…. Don't let my body do this." He cried and I looked at Louis who nods.

"Fine we won't let you turn IF we're satisfied with your answer." I said and he looked at me.

"We, we have a boat by the river huge one, your friends would be there, on the second deck." He said and coughed and I looked at him.

"He doesn't seem to be lying." Louis said and I looked at him and nodded as I grabbed the gun.

"No… I wanna keep my face…. Please." He said and I nodded as I grabbed Clem's knife I had found in my office.

"You should head out Louis." I said and heard footsteps walking away from me and I looked at Abel as I took his head and put the knife through it. Once that was done I left the basement with Rosie and saw Louis.

"So what's the plan?" I heard and looked at everyone.

"Abel said that they're being held on a boat over by the river, so we're gonna scout the area out and see what we could do from there." I said and we all agreed to head out in about two hours, after we fixed up the gate a bit.

"Could I maybe come and help?" Willy asked and I nodded.

"Yea you can, Ruby you think you'll be good here with Tenn?" I asked and she nodded. "Yea we'll be fine, I'll check over the supplies and get everything set up." She said and I nodded as I grabbed my meat cleaver and I saw Louis grab Chairels.

"Here you go." I said as I handed AJ his gun back.

"You know to use it only when you need to right?" I asked and he nodded as he put it in his back pocket and I nodded as we all head out to the river. It was a good distance about an hours walk from our school, I remember we use to come here to swim sometimes when the world wasn't crawling with dead people.

"You know Clementine sometimes hates the water." AJ said and I looked at him.

"Is that so?" I asked and he nodded.

"I know I shouldn't talk about her past but…. I don't know." He said and I nodded understanding.

"Yea it's good to talk things out of random sometimes, not all the time but sometimes." Louis said and we walked some more.

"How you holding Willy?" I asked.

"Fine I suppose."

"Wanna talk things out while you got the chance?" Louis asked.

"Mitch is dead cause of Tenn." He said and I looked at him.

"Will."

"But it's true, he didn't stick to the plan and now Mitch is gone because of him." Willy said and AJ looked a bit upset.

"Well what would you do if someone mentions a person you miss?" AJ asked him. I kept quiet just to see how things would go.

"What do you mean?" Willy asked.

"Well, Tenn hadn't seen his sister in a year right? What would you do if you were told that Mitch was dead but then was told he was alive?" AJ asked.

"I still wouldn't have broken the plan apart just to know."

"Are you sure though?" AJ asked.

"I'm sure."

"People always act different in different situations" AJ said and I looked at him some more.

"How would you know?" Willy asked, he was sounding a bit pissed and I was about to step in.

"Well, I remember bits and pieces of when I was younger, but Clementine acts all big and tuff, but sometimes she's not, when she's near me she acts like my mom, well not my real mom but….. and she's fun and happy around me, but when walkers or bad people come by she puts on a mask, and acts tuff but I know she's scared." AJ explained. I'm quite surprised though especially for a kid his age he has the mindset of an adult sort of.

"But that's different."

"Ok best thing would be is to talk to Clementine about this but she pulled the same thing Tenn had done when she was younger." AJ said and just walked more, he was a bit agitated which I understand so I walked right next to him.

"Hey AJ if you feel agitated just breath a bit." I said.

"Like Clem taught me if I get mad?" He asked.

"Yep, just breath and think, I know what you're trying to do, and that's a good thing, trying to explain certain situations to people, but we never had to really do things like this… like you and Clem, so it's gonna be a bit harder for Willy to understand what you mean." I tried my best to explain, honestly I think I didn't make any sense to him.

"We can teach you though." He said.

"Heh I don't think that's gonna be hard especially the situation we're in now." I said and he looked up at me.

"When we were kicked out, I was really mad."

"I know, I was mad too." I said as we walked more, just me and him.

"But Clem didn't show it, but I think she was more tired than mad." He said and I nodded.

"Well, you guys didn't have a stable place to stay like we did."

"We would find some good place to stay but Clem always said to keep moving… but I think she feels at home at the school, and I want her to be happy." He said.

"For a kid your age you sound wiser than any adult I've known." I said and he smiled.

"Clem said it's good to use your age as an advantage though." He said and I chuckled.

"Oh? And how's that?" I asked, wanting to know what he did.

"Well I haven't had to use it but Clementine has….. I think she should tell you though." He said and I nodded. We got close to the river and we got down low and began scouting the area a bit.

"I see some supplies over there." Willy pointed out and I nodded.

"We should take it." He said and I looked at him then back at the supplies.

"We'll keep that in mind." I said and we looked some more and I saw Clementine being taken to a section of a boat.

"Fuck Clem." I mumbled as I watched her.

"Where are they taking her?" Louis asked.

"Don't know, but at least we know Abel wasn't lying." I said as we watched the boat more.

"They have guards up front so how are we gonna get up there without getting shot." I said.

"Maybe we could use walkers." AJ offered and I looked at him.

"Ok and how would we do that?" Louis asked.

"We could get James to help, and if he doesn't I know how to walk in a herd without getting bit." He said and we looked at him.

"We'll how would we not get bit?" Louis asked.

"We cover our scents."

"How?" Louis asked.

"It's gross." AJ said and I looked at him a bit.

"We'd have to rub walker guts on us." He said.

"That's sick and that can't work." Willy said.

"It does me, and Clem did it so many times, Lee found out before he died." AJ said and I nod.

"I believe him." I said.

"No you can't just." Louis tried to say.

"Louis we never went past those walls if AJ says Clem and him did it then it has to work." I said and he looked at me.

"Fine whatever." He said.

"What is your problem man?" I asked.

"Nothing, look let's just go ok." He said and we began to walk and I saw some movement and so did Louis so we all hid.

"Raider?" Willy asked and we nodded. I slowly walked up and saw that it was Minnie.

"Minerva?" I asked and she turned to me quickly and looked at us.

"Holy shit you're ok." She said and hugged me. It felt awkward a bit.

"You're alive?" I asked and she nodded.

"Of course what do you think happened."

"Marlon said you and Sophie died…. Where is Sophie?" Louis asked.

"She… she died a hero protecting the delta." She said.

"Fuck." I mumbled.

"How's Tenn? And everyone else?" She asked and I rubbed my neck a bit.

"Tenns ok, Marlon and Brody are… dead." I said and she looked a bit mad.

"Mitch died last night." Willy said and I nodded.

"It was Clementine wasn't it?" She asked.

"What?"

"She's the reason they're dead, she killed Marlon didn't she." She stayed more than asked.

"She didn't." I said.

"Don't cover for her, she's been a huge issue with Lilly and us since she's gotten here." She said and I clenched my first.

"I swear to God Minnie if anything happens to Clementine I'm going after you first." I said and she looked at me shocked.

"Why should you care she killed our friends."

"Marlon was waving a gun around at us and at Tennessee, saying that trading you guys was protecting us, Marlon deserved it with all the shit he did, and Marlon killed Brody Clem didn't do anything to them other than when Brody was a walker." I said pissed.

"Ok then who gunned Marlon down then hu?" She asked.

"I did." AJ said and I looked at him and rubbed my head.

"A kid? Seriously why the hell is a kid doing with a gun?"

"It's the fucking apocalypse Minnie what the fuck did you expect? Plus you're making kids fight in a war that we want no part of so what he did shouldn't be questioned by you." I said.

"Look Violet the best thing to do is just get everyone here, if not more people will die, the delta is a great place to be, we have food, water, clothes, electricity, we can make a home, it's a great home." She said to us.

"But we like our home." Willy said.

"This is better…. Look we leave in a few days and we won't be back for two weeks, just get everyone ready to leave, no fighting nothing just… give it a thought is all." She said and then left to the boat and I sighed.

"We should head back." Louis said and I nodded.

"Yea… we can make a plan and get ready for whatever the hell were gonna do." I said and we began walking back to the school.