(Violets Pov)

I watched as Clementine walked with AJ, Louis and Aasim over to Omar as he got things ready for dinner. I watched her carefully.

"She's fine Violet, trust me she's gonna have to come to me everyday to make sure she hadn't opened her wounds." I heard Ruby say and I turned to look at her.

"Knowing her she's probably going to be annoyed by it all." I said and she nodded.

"Well she's a tough one, stubborn but tough, looks like you got a lot of work to do." She says and I chuckle.

"I wouldn't change her…" I said as I watched her play with AJ a bit. She's actually acting like a kid.

"Hey Vi, can we talk?" I heard and turned again and glared at Minnie and ruby walks off but she still watches us.

"What for?"

"Just…. Let me explain."

"Let you explain why you hurt Clementine?"

"Jesus why is she so important to you hu?" She asked and I kept quiet as I glared at her.

"Because she doesn't deserve what happened to her…… because she wouldn't join your stupid fucking war, you kidnap her and let her get opened up, you did this to her I don't care if you didn't do it physically you still didn't do anything to help her." I said and glared at her.

"She brought it on herself."

"No she didn't, you're fucking lucky to be alive she didn't have to save your ass but she did, so you best better stay on her good side and mine because the second you fuck up, you're out of here with nothing." I said sternly and she looks at me.

"You've changed Vi."

"Damn right I have." I said and went over to Clementine. I stood next to her as AJ talked about how there was music at our party.

"Violet said it was like Louis in a box." He said and I chuckled as I rubbed his head and he looked at me.

"I did say that hu?" I asked and he nodded.

"Yep, and Ruby was doing this one dance and Violet did it too." He said trying to copy it.

"Violet, square dancing?" Clementine asked and I smiled a bit at her.

"It's not my style."

"Oh and head banging is?" She asked and I shook my head.

"Nope…." I said.

"Do you like dancing?" AJ said and I nodded.

"I um…. I like slow dancing." I admitted and I rubbed my neck.

"Aww that's just adorable." Ruby said and I turned red.

"Yea, yea." I mumbled and felt Clementine lean on me a bit.

"You ok? Do you need to sit?" I asked.

"No I'm good…. So slow dancing hu?" She asked and I nodded.

"Ballroom dancing too….. when I wasn't watching cartoons with my grandma I'd watch ballroom dancing with her…. It was nice."

"Mind teaching me?" She asks and I look at her and nod.

"Y-Yea I can teach you…. I'm a bit rusty." I said.

"Well we can make it up as we go too." She says and I nod again. We sat down by the stairs and I watched AJ play with Rosie a bit and I got up and chased him around showing him how to play tag, then Ruby joined in along with Louis, Tenn, and Aasim. We ran around the courtyard a bit and everyone was laughing as we ran away from AJ, of course I'd let him tag me and I'd go after the others for him too.

"Clem wanna join?" He asked as he ran to her out of breath and I came next to her and sat as I panted a bit.

"I think that would strain my stitches a bit, but once I'm better we can." She says and AJ looks at me and taps me then runs off and I chuckle as I get back up. But not before Clem grabs my hand and pulls me down to her and kisses me. I kiss her back gently and cup her cheek a bit and smile at her and she smiles back at me.

"Can't catch me Violet." AJ calls out and I chuckle a bit as I go after him once more. By the time we were done Omar called for dinner time and we all went to the tables. Tenn went to eat with his sister while everyone else sat at the big table. I sat in between Clementine and AJ and we ate our soups and talked with everyone.

"So before all this, what did you like to do?" Louis asked as he passed out his cards to us older kids.

"Well…. I loved to play in my treehouse." She said and I looked at her. I grabbed her hand gently and rubbed my thumb on the back of her hand.

"Do you ever miss your home?" AJ asked her and I watched her.

"Always bud…. Actually I'd like to go back one day, see how things are." She says as she flips her card winning all of ours.

"It's probably a community by now so someone's living in there." Aasim said and I glared at him.

"Yea… you're probably right…. But it would be nice to go back." She says as she sets the cards in a stack.

"Yea… bet you got lots of pictures to show Vi." Ruby says.

"Pictures, videos, you name it I've got that." She says.

"What was the last thing you did before you know." Louis asked her and she closed her eye and breathed in a bit.

"If I remember correctly…. I was looking at my treehouse and I saw the door to it open up a bit, so I went and got Sandra my babysitter and told her to record it, we go out and what comes out that door? A baby raccoon." She says and smiles as she opens her eye.

"I wanted to climb up and pet it." She says and I chuckle a bit.

"I can actually see you doing that." I said and she shoved me lightly.

"Anyway, Sandra was telling my parents about the raccoon and she told me they wanted to talk to me, so I grabbed the phone but I was way to preoccupied with wanting to watch the raccoon…. I was a bit rude to them when I wanted to watch the animal, and Sandra scolded me a bit for talking to my mom like I did." She says and rubs her head.

"Though I think my mother would be scolding me right now with how much I swear, and near AJ too, god she'd have a field day telling me 'Clementine that was a swear you don't say that near kids or at all.' And now that I think about it, it's funny." She says and smiles as we flip our cards. Ruby won so she took the cards.

"Did you ever swear when you were younger?" Ruby asked.

"Oh, when we were at the dairy farm I said the word shit…. But I thought that since Lee said it I could too…. Katjaa wasn't to fond of that but she didn't say anything about it." She says and we flip our cards and this time I win.

"Oh man I use to swear a lot when I got here." I said as I grabbed the cards.

"Use to carve them too, didn't you carve on the diplomas or something?" Ruby asked and I laughed.

"Doctoring in fine ass." I said.

"So you were the one to write that." Clem said and I laughed some more and nodded.

"Yep, no one was going to be using them so might as well make a joke out of it." I said as we flipped the cards.

"Haven't heard a good joke in a while…. Well Jane tried to tell me one but I didn't understand it till now, and no I will not be repeating that joke." She says as Louis was opening his mouth.

"Aww come on."

"Nope, it's a disturbing one and I want it gone from my memory." She says and I chuckled a bit and looked at her.

"So what else did you do as a kid?" Aasim asked as he grabbed the cards since he has the highest one.

"Use to read a lot of books, my favorite involved these kids that live in a boxcar and then later they found out they had a rich grandfather or something." She says and I nod.

"The boxcar children?" I asked and she nods.

"I'm surprised you knew that Vi." Louis said and I stuck my tongue out at him.

"I used to read that book a lot when I was in school…. Before I got sent here." I said and Clem looks at me and holds her other hand on top of ours and I look at her and smile a bit.

"Blah, love birds." Louis said and I flipped him off.

"Ooh kinky."

"Shut the hell up dude." I said and he raised his hands up in defeat and we continue to play the game. Not long after everyone started to head to bed except for Aasim, Clementine and I but me and Clementine had taken AJ, Willy and Tenn to bed they wanted to have another sleepover and who was I to deny them that.

"Remember, you watch Clem tonight." AJ said and I nodded and looked up at Clem and she was looking at me a bit and I chuckled a bit.

"Yep and you watch her in the morning." I said and he nodded then I tucked him, Tenn and Willy in bed and both me and Clem left to room.

"So you're on Clementine duty?" She asked and I nodded.

"AJ's just worried about you, you know it." I said and she nodded and we stopped in the hall and she looks at me.

"So who's watching Minnie?" She asked.

"Aasim has first shift and then it's my turn." I said and she looks at me.

"You're not going to hurt her?" She asked and I looked at her.

"Not unless I have to." I said and she nods.

"I'm fine with that." She says and I kiss her gently and she looks at me and I smile at her.

"You're very beautiful." I tell her and she looks at me.

"You are too." She says and I chuckle.

"Oh really?" I asked and she nods and kisses me and I kiss her back.

"You should head to be if you're gonna be on watch." She says and I nod as I take her to my room.

"Maybe uh…. Maybe tomorrow we can have our date? Since you know." I said and she nods as I open the door.

"I can wait, not in any rush." She says and I smiled at her as I locked the door and helped her into the bed and I got in with her and I rubbed the back of her head as she laid her head on my chest. We both began to fall asleep to the sounds of crickets.