(Clementines Pov)
I was able to stop violet from hurting Minnie and she shook her head at me.
"No…. no, no, no I'm not gonna let you just stand there and tell me that we will talk about this later Clementine…. I know you want to do what's right but for fuck sake Clem." She said and I looked at her.
"Ok…. Do you want me to tell them?" I asked and she looked at me. She looked confused and angry and I looked at the others and motioned for them to leave us alone. Once alone I looked at her.
"Vi…. Do you want me to tell them?" I asked and she nodded a bit then shook her head.
"I…. I do but then…. I want you to do it on your own time cause it's selfish of me to ask you to." She said and I came up to her and kissed her gently.
"I'll tell them, but I'll also tell them not to do anything to Minnie….. Tenn still needs his sister and I'm not gonna take that moment away from him….. like it was taken from me." I said and she looked up at me and I closed my eye.
"When I was younger…. It was three months into this new world we were just thrown into…. There was this man on my old radio I use to carry around." I said and she looked around a bit and I began to walk her to her office.
"I'd talk to this man a lot… tell him what my group had done, what we did…. What Lee had done….. and in return he'd tell me that my parents were alive and well with him." I said and she looked at me surprised.
"But…. I found out he was lying…. And because of that one small lie…. Everything changed." I said and we got into her office. Once inside I closed the door.
"Because of his lie, I began to hate Lee when he told me we couldn't go find my parents anymore, after he promised me so many times before…. I began to listen to the man, and once we got to savanna, hell broke lose." I said and she just watched me.
"I ended up running away with the strange man, hoping to see my mom and dad again." I said and took off my hat.
"To give my father his hat back, after he said I could borrow it…. To hug my mom and tell her I love her so much….. to tell them both that I loved them so much….. but it was all a lie."
"Clem."
"He lies to me…. Telling me my parents are well, that he was with them, that they wanted to see me….. and Lee….. god, Lee he got bit coming after me…. I was told by Christa and Omid that he got bit… finding my hat." I said and stroked the blood stain on it.
"I found out they were walkers after I shot the man who tried to hurt Lee….. we were walking in a herd of walkers, miles long….. and I saw them…. And they saw me." I said and shook my head a bit.
"I want Tenn…. To have the last bit of family he has left in this world…. Something I couldn't have anymore…. Something I use to dream about until I grew up, till I realized that my parents are gone and they won't come back…. That Lee will never come back…. That I'm not this nine year old little girl anymore who has to rely on others to help her, but instead they rely on me." I said and I felt her hug me.
"Clem…. Your heart is in the right place, I know this but…. I can't trust her near you… AJ…. Even Tenn….. if she was able to do this to you just because you didn't want to join that stupid group as their solider then fuck her…. If she hurts you guys or worse I don't know what I'll do…. With out you." She said and I looked down at her a bit.
"Clem I don't want you or AJ to live in fear or struggle in this world anymore, I want you to stay here with us, to…. To have a home…. But if Minnie is going to make that hard for you… or AJ especially AJ…. She's going to have to leave, and she can suffer out there for all I care." She says.
"Don't say that Violet, deep down you know that's a horrible thing to do."
"No…. deep down I know it's the right thing to do, especially if she tries anything with your boy, he's basically your son and….. I don't want her to hurt your family." She said and I nodded.
"I will make the call for her to leave ok?" I asked and she shakes her head.
"No I will, that's my choice, this is my choice." She says and I know that I can't convince her otherwise and I nod silently.
"Ok…. Your call." I said and she nods and looks down at my shirt.
"How…. How bad is it? The wound…how." She tried to ask again and I cupped her cheek.
"It's fine, Ruby checked it and put some disinfectant on it, though I do have to be careful with the stitching and stuff." I explained and she nods.
"That's why you'll be on planning duty until it gets better, you don't need to strain yourself." She says and I chuckle softly at her.
"Violet, you're talking to me here, the same girl who had a concussion in a car crash and still helped kill walkers once I woke up, I can handle a little work." I said and she looks at me and crosses her arms.
"Come on, just a little work, maybe make some bombs with Willy?" I asked and she looks at me sadly.
"I…. ok yea, but you can't lift up the fertilizer." She says and I nod and do a mock salute to her.
"Roger that." I said and she smiles just a bit and I kiss her then we head to the courtyard where she sees Minnie and glared at her and crosses her arms again once we're near everyone. I really don't want to tell them but I have no choice if I want violet to calm down a bit.
"Ok, so…. Minnie is staying with us, but has some special rules to abide by." I said."Ok?" Louis asked and I breath in a bit."She's not allowed to have any weapons of any kind on her." I said.
"That's bullshit." She says.
"Be lucky you're even staying here you fucking psycho." Violet said and I grabbed her arm.
"Reasons for this is because I have a large injury going from….. my abdomen and upwards……. Along with a large gash on my back." I said.
"WAIT WHAT?!" Aasim and Omar both yell.
"Calm down." I said.
"A gash on your back? Are you fucking kidding me." Violet said and I kept her back before she hurt Minnie once more.
"Vi stop we had an agreement."
"No fuck that I didn't know about this other fucking injury of yours Clem." She said and I got in front of her.
"And now you do, so drop it please." I begged and she looks at me. Sadness and anger.
"Fucking hell, fine your call like always." She says and I look down a bit and then back up.
"Another rule, Minnie is to stay away from AJ and if by Tenn must be watched by one of us, AJ you don't count yet." I said and he nods.
"You're gonna watch me like a hawk?" She asked.
"I've gone days without sleep, don't test me." I said to her.
"Ok any other rules?" Ruby asked.
"….. if she tries anything…. To anyone here…. And I'm not around…. Shoot her." I said and looked at AJ.
"Only if it's serious you understand AJ?" I asked and he nods. I know I'd have to explain it more to him later on tonight.
"I know you guys aren't going to like this at all, but trust me…. It's for the best in my opinion, you can talk to me about it if you want to, so please…. Just talk to me." I said and they all nodded and I looked at Minnie then back to Violet and she began walking to the gate so I followed her.
"You shouldn't give her another chance Clem." She says.
"I know your opinion on this Vi but I've already told you my reason… well one of them, so please for me, drop this until it's a concern that needs to be dealt with."
"It does need to be dealt with, you say there's a gash on your back now, and let me guess she fucking watched them do this to you, didn't she?"
"Yes but let's be honest here if You were in her position would you have jumped and attacked Lilly while she was doing that to me?" I asked.
"I would have done something instead of nothing." She says.
"Vi, I know….. let's drop it ok? Let's just think about what you and I have planned for tonight." I said and she looks at me and I look at her and smile a bit.
"Stargazing with my girlfriend sounds really good right now….. and we could relax a bit." I said.
"I'll work on something for you to get up on the….. on the bell tower." She says and I smile at her gently and I kiss her cheek and she turns a bit red and I smirk.
"Oooh getting embarrassed now are we?" I asked.
"I'm fine…. Anyway, uh… food situation, we need to get some fish later today and Aasim and Louis will go check the traps." She said and I smiled at her and patted her back."You're a great leader Vi."
"Honestly, you'd be a better leader…. Let's both be leaders, that way one of us doesn't get to stressed out….. plus we can both deal with the bullshit and complain to each other about it." She says and I nod.
"Alright, we can do that." I said and I turned to see AJ talking with Willy a bit.
"He's a good kid Clem…. You raised that boy right." She says.
"Sometimes I fear I raised him wrong, I'm just going by what I saw and what I think could be better but…. Sometimes he'd question me a lot about my choices." I said and I walked over to him.
"Clem, look at what I found." He said and showed me a book.
"A book?" I asked and he nods real fast.
"Aasim said it was a history book." He said and I grabbed it gently and remembered Lee.
"Hmmm if only I knew enough history, all I know is that Christopher Columbus sailed to America." I said.
"Hmmm you might want to catch up on your schooling Clem." Violet said and I looked at her as she smiled at me and I smiled back.
"Hey I was in the first grade when all this started." I said and handed the book back to AJ.
"Oh damn you're pretty young than." She said.
"Hmmm if I'm right…. I'm sixteen now….. probably seventeen with it being fall weather right now." I said and we walked a bit. My stomach started to hurt a bit but I didn't show it, I couldn't show it. It would worry Violet more and more.
"You…. You wanna come fishing with me, it might not be the hard work you want but…. It's something right?" Violet asked and I nodded.
"Alright we can go whenever you're ready." I said and she nods a bit.
"In a few…. Clem." She says.
"Yea?"
"I…never mind I'll tell you later." She says and I look to her and I nod. I go and grab what I need and both me and her along with AJ walked to the fishing shack and I look around a bit and see that old truck.
"You know….. I could fix up that truck if I had the right parts." I said.
"Really?" Violet asked and I nodded.
"I might not have been great in school but Kenny….. Kenny taught me how to fix up vehicles even when I was eight….. I just wanted to know how to do it." I said as we walked past it.
"There's and old Howe's store a few miles out north from here, they should have the tools and there's a town so, parts we could try to find." She says and I nod a bit.
"Howe's… didn't we live in one for a while?" AJ asked and I looked at him and nodded.
"Back when Kenny and Jane we're still alive and arguing…. That's how I got this tattoo as well, pretty badass if I do say so myself." I said and looked at AJ's name on my hand.
"Badass indeed." Violet said.
"Kenny didn't like the fact that Jane gave me a tattoo but I begged for it, and I was twelve so I could make my own choices." I said and chuckled a bit.
"And when we had those nights where we all just…. Got along…. It was so peaceful….. so…. Calming and happy, we'd joke and joke and I'd make funny faces at goofball over there." I said as AJ ran ahead of us.
"But then….. Jane hung herself….. I found her in carvers old office just….. swinging and trying to grab at things cause she was a walker….. and Kenny…… he got pissed, started saying Jane was weak and all this bullshit as if he knew her." I said as we walked more, Violet just listening.
"Do you know why she did it?" She asked and I nodded.
"She found out she was pregnant….. she already said she didn't want to bring a child into this world and we didn't have the right supplies to…. Terminate the pregnancy….. she didn't tell us…. She just….. went quietly." I said.
"What about Kenny?" She asked.
"He died a few months later when he was teaching me to drive a manual car….. Something happened to the tires or something and the car spun out of control and then bam….. he flew out the window and….. couldn't feel anything…. It's my fault he died….. I heard him as I ran with AJ." I said and closed my eye remembering that day. Then I opened it.
"Clem it… it wasn't your fault." She said and I nod. But she's wrong, it was my fault he died.
"If only they could see me now…. I wonder what they would think of me." I said.
"They'd probably comment on how much you've grown." She says and I chuckle.
"Ah or make fun of me for wearing my hat…. But I got Kenny back for that." I said and she chuckles.
"Never make fun of the hat, noted, now just never make fun of my jacket and we're even." She said and pulled at her best jacket a bit.
"I'd miss times like these."
"…. Yea anyone would."
"Yea." I said as we got to the shack and AJ had grabbed the spears and we went to our places. Me and violet talked for a while while catching fish, AJ would catch a few and bring them over then run back. It was nice.
"We should head back now, it's getting dark." Violet said and I nodded as I grabbed the bucket and she looked at me.
"It's not that heavy." I said and she nods and goes and gets AJ. As we walk back I look around me a bit, at the trees and everything I could till we got to the school, the same time as Louis and Aasim.
"Well looks like we got here just in time." Louis said and I nodded as we all went in.
