(Violets Pov)
I woke up to the sound of movements and was about to say something till a hand covered my mouth. My eyes shoot open and I look up to see Clem looking out the back door as she placed a finger to her lips telling me to be quiet. I slowly move my head to the side and see some movement by the doors and kept quiet. I looked to the side to see AJ holding his small knife near him and Clem slowly moved off me. I grabbed my gun and she shook her head no as she pointed to her knife and I nod as I grab mine.
"Shh." AJ said quietly and I nod as we head to the door and I hear some talking. Walkers don't talk.
"Those fucking brats have to be here somewhere." I heard as we kept ourself hidden and they opened the door a bit and I look at Clem as they don't see us.
"Shut up if they're in this house they're gonna hear us you moron." The guy whispered and I looked at Clem who motioned to the two people and I nod as we creep up on them. The floor squeaks a bit and I freeze and look up to see the two men pointing their guns at me one going off and hitting me in the shoulder.
"Fuck." I groaned and heard movement up their stairs and Clementine grabbed one of the men and stabbed him and I grabbed my knife and killed the other man.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck." I mumbled as u backed up a bit and held my shoulder. I felt pressure on it and saw Clem looking at me as she put pressure on my shoulder and I nod.
"I'm fine, I'm fine nothing bad." I said and groaned a bit as I saw a lot of blood.
"Jesus fuck Vi." I heard and looked to see Ruby come running to me and I groaned as she put more pressure on my shoulder.
"Fuck that hurts Ruby." I said and Clem covered my mouth and I heard more people talking and I closed my eyes tightly from the pain.
"The fuck did they go?" I heard and we all kept quiet as they leave the back yard and I felt more pressure on my shoulder and I groaned a bit.
"It won't stop bleeding." Ruby says.
"Fuck just stop." I said and Clem covered my mouth again.
"Shhh there's more outside." She whispers and I nod a bit, sweat falling from my face a bit and I tried to calm my breathing. God I was an idiot.
"Is violet ok?" I heard Louis ask and I glared at him but I felt ruby move her hands away and I look to see a lot of blood and I lean my head back.
"Fuck, AJ get my med kit." Ruby says and she takes her jacket off and puts it to my shoulder and I look out the back doors and see another person walking by.
"We already checked there you idiot." The man said.
"Well Joan said to check more than once." I heard and looked at Clem who was glaring a bit at the door.
"It's fine they probably went into the damn city where's the two new guys?" I heard and looked at the bodies on the ground and then back at Clementine.
"Get Violet upstairs I'll stay and watch the back door incase they come through." Clem says and I look at her.
"I'm fine, I'm fine." I mumbled and AJ came down with the kit and ruby moved the jacket and I saw less blood than she moved the shoulder of my shirt down and looks at the wound.
"The hell did he shoot you with." She mumbled and I shrugged and hissed a bit at the pain. I looked at Clementine a bit as she watched the window and I watched too, just to distract myself from the pain. Plus I did not want to see how bad the injury was.
"Shit ok it looks fine but god damn it be careful when moving it." Ruby says hushed and a bit scared as she looked through the window a bit and I nod.
"Ok I'll try." I mumbled as I heard a vehicle go and Clem got up and looked out the window that looks out into the road.
"I don't see anyone." She says and comes back over.
"I'll head out and look, you guys please stay quiet ok?" She asked and I nod my head a bit as ruby finished patching me up and I grab Clem's hand and she looks at me.
"Take someone with you." I said.
"I'll go." Minnie says and I look at her and nod a bit as her and Clementine leave the house quietly. I kept an ear out for them and listened a bit. It was a few minutes before they both came back and Clem sat next to me.
"There's two people left a woman and a man." Minnie said.
"Joan and cliff." Clem says quietly.
"You know them?" Louis asked.
"They're….. they were the leaders of the new frontier, cliff worked in the vegetation and food section while Joan…. They're just not to be trusted." She says.
"Wait I thought you said that, that David guy was in charge." Omar asked.
"There were three leaders, David worked security, Joan worked with navigation basically, and cliff was in charge of food, look I don't know much all I know is that the last time I saw them they killed someone in my group and somehow that bitch is still alive." She says pissed and I look at her.
"I don't think they're gonna leave anytime soon." I said and she looked at me and I looked at the bodies and turned away.
"Jesus." Louis says and I look at him.
"Fuck I thought we were done with this shit." He says and I glare at him.
"And what the fuck were we supposed to do?" I asked and he looked at me.
"Oh I don't know stay quiet." He says and I got pissed.
"Oh brilliant fucking idea, stay quiet on a damn couch as they look through the damn house and fucking see us, Louis anything else you want to add?" I asked as he glared at me and I glared back and I slowly got up.
"Quit it you two, let's just get violet up the stairs and stay the fuck quiet." Ruby says and I look at her and nod a bit as we grab our things quietly and we slowly head up the stairs. We get into one room and it looks really girly and I look at Clementine as she looks out the window.
"Fuck they have more people than I though." She says and I go over to her and peak out the window a bit and see a few vehicles coming from the north side of the road and I move back a bit and sit against the wall.
"Shit we can't stay." I said.
"You're injured." Ruby says.
"We lay low and keep quiet." I said and I look at Clementine a bit as she still looks out the window.
"The fence, if we can get over the fence we'll be able to hit the highway to Atlanta, find a vehicle that's good and head west instead of south." She says and I nod.
"I'll deal with that plan." I said and got up slowly and she pushed me back down and looked at me.
"You're not gonna like this but…. That's what you guys will be doing." She says and I look at her.
"I'll go out and distract Joan, you guys head out over the fence while I have her distracted, head to Atlanta and find a vehicle and head west." She says and hands Aasim the map.
"What about you?" AJ said.
"I'll head east and get them off your trail." She says.
"The hell you will." I said.
"Vi listen to me Joan… she hates my guts trust me she'll be more focused on me than you guys, so do this for me, no arguing." She says.
"But."
"No arguing." She says again and I look at her.
"You guys head to my parents room, there's a rope in there under the bed use that to climb out the window." She says and they nod as they leave. I look at Clementine as she checks her weapon and I stand up slowly.
"I'm gonna go with you." I said.
"No you aren't, Ruby needs to keep an eye on your shoulder for right now." She says and looks at me and sighs a bit.
"We'll meet up in Dallas." She says.
"Fucking Texas? Really?" I asked and she looked at me.
"Yes really, now do as I say."
"Clem no, I can't let you go alone." I said and she looks at me more and poked my shoulder and I hissed a bit.
"You are gonna go West with everyone, watch AJ ok?" She asked and before I could stop her she places her hat on my head and kisses me then runs off and closes the door.
"God fucking damn it." I said as I opened the door fast and was grabbed by Minnie.
"Let's go now."
"Not until."
"Shut it violet she told me to stop you and I'm not gonna let you get hurt, Clem knows what she's doing now let's fucking go." She says and I look at her then at the stairs and I grip my hand into a fist.
"She said to meet her up in Dallas, that's where we head." I said and Minnie nods as we leave. She helped me down the rope a bit as she lowered me down after I was off she came down and I heard someone.
"HEY JOAN, YA MISS ME?!" I heard Clem yell and Minnie shoved me.
"Fucking go." She says and shoved me to a wooden plank that was pride open and I go through it carefully and I heard some vehicles drive off and a few gun shots.
"She's fine vi, go." Minnie says and we run into the woods. As we ran down I looked and saw a police car that was busted up and an officers body near it, he looked long dead.
"There's the road, you think you can go up that hill?" I heard and looked at Aasim.
"Shit uh… yea if I had a stick." I said and looked around but none of the sticks were sturdy enough.
"Let's find a better spot, we can't have her opening that wound again." Ruby says.
"At this point I don't give a damn." I mumbled as we headed down the wood path to see if we could find a better place to climb. I heard more gun shots and looked at the direction where it was coming from.
"Clem's fine." I heard AJ say and I nod as we walked more.
"It took a while but we finally found a spot where it would be an easy climb, so we were all able to get on the road and Aasim looked at the map.
"Ok so let's head into the town there's an old auto lot we could see if there's any good working vehicles there." He said and we all just start walking. I stay in the very back of the group and I see them look at me as they turn around. Probably making sure I don't run off to Clementine. It took a few hours and the sun was rising up when we He to the car lot. There was a few cars here and there and a few walkers that they took out as I looked for they keys. I found a few and we tried them out. None of the cars worked and I groaned a bit as I place my head on the steering wheel.
"It's ok, we'll find a car." Willy said and I rubbed my face.
"The batteries are fucking dead, there's no way." I mumbled and rubbed my face a bit and looked around and saw an auto shop near by and I went in and looked around.
"You shouldn't go into a building alone." I heard and looked to see AJ.
"Sorry but there might be something we can use in there." I said and he nods as we go inside. No walkers which was a good sign but also bad if they're just being quiet. I looked around a bit and saw one of those portable batteries that you can charge up. I turned it on but nothing and I sighed.
"To easy." I mumbled.
"Hey mom look."
I heard and looked at AJ who found another portable battery charger and I went over and turned it on to see it working and I turned it off.
"Good job Goofball." I said and rubbed his head and picked up the battery as we began walking out. We went over to the truck and I placed the battery on the ground and went to pop the hood. When I did Aasim pushes the hood open and I grabbed the charger and hooked it up right and we waited a bit.
"Vi we need to talk."
"Nothing to talk about Louis." I said and he rubbed his face. I looked out onto the road. Just Incase Clementine decided to change plans and come with us.
"Look, we can only stay in one place for so long, so we can't stay in Dallas for to long." He said.
"Fuck you Louis, if Clem said that's the meeting point than that's the meeting point, we don't fucking leave." I said and he looked at me.
"Ok and if those psychopaths are still following us than what?" He said and I looked at him.
"Just think if Clem wasn't able to get them off our trail than what?" He said.
"We fight them." I said.
"We can't, we couldn't even fight off the raiders completely without Mitches bomb." He said.
"So? We practice, we can shoot, the hell did all that time at the farm mean to you?" I asked and he looks at me.
"We just leave the symbol that Clem drew a year ago." He said and pulled out the map with the symbol.
"You guys can leave I'll stay." I said and I head to the truck door and I turn the key. It starts up and we all get in. Omar and Aasim were up front driving and giving directions and I just watched as Atlanta got smaller and small as we left the city. As we left Clementine.
"Clem always keeps her promise." I head and looked down at AJ who was laying his head on my side and I rubbed his side gently and ruby checked my shoulder.
"God damn you bleed a lot." She says and I look at her a bit and sigh as I rub my face.
"Does it hurt to move?" She asked and I did move my shoulder a bit and hissed at the pain as I stop.
"Fucking hell." I mumbled.
"Well as long as you can move it it seems fine, but we need to make sure you keep moving it so it doesn't stiffen." She says and I nod a bit.
"How long till we get to Dallas?" I asked through the window.
"Depends, might take a day or two." Aasim said and I nodded a bit. Hours had passed and I just kept watching the road as we drove on it. The truck came to a stop and we all got out and I looked around a bit to see some abandoned cars and Minnie along with Louis went to get some gas.
"Vi, come on talk to us." I heard ruby say and I shook my head a bit.
"Louis says we can't stay in Dallas long so y'all will leave with him after a few days." I said."And what about you?" She asked.
"That's where Clem said to meet so that's where I'm staying, so…. Yea." I mumbled.
"Vi." She says and places her hand on my good shoulder. We had to use a spare long sleeved shirt as a makeshift sling for my arm for now.
"That's where she said to meet up so…. I'll be fine I know the area anyway." I said.
"And what about medical attention? Last I checked you worked on cars with your girl not people." She said trying to make a joke. I did laugh a little and I nodded a bit.
"I'll be fine, no heavy lifting and being quiet is my specialty." I said.
"You sure about that plan?" She asked.
"Yea, we can find a spare map and you along with the others can head out we make checkpoints on where you guys will go and we can meet up." I explained.
"And what about AJ? You know that boy isn't gonna leave you alone, you're all he has left of Clem." She says.
"You act like she's dead."
"I didn't mean it like that, I mean you're all the family he has until Clem comes back." She says and I look at AJ as he talks with Willy and Willy is just showing him plans on making bombs.
"I think he'd be safer with you guys." I said and rubbed my neck a bit.
"He's gonna throw a fit." She says.
"I'll tell him the day y'all leave that way he doesn't change his mind a day later, y'all will be long gone by then." I explained and ruby just looks at me a bit and I just look at AJ more.
"Are you sure you wanna do that?" She asked and I nod a bit.
"Yea…. I'm sure." I said Louis and Minnie then came back and we filled up the truck and I got in the back as Aasim drove off again. It wasn't long till we got to our next resting point, we were currently in Alabama right now so we decided to take a rest for the night in one of the abandoned houses. I help set AJ and Willy to bed and I went into the living room and looked at everyone who looked back at me.
"Did clem ever tell you about this Joan person?" Minnie asked and I shook my head no.
"No, other than the fact that she use to work with the New Frontier group." I said as I sat down on the couch and Ruby looked me over again.
You sure she isn't working with them." She says and I glare at her.
"Don't fucking test me, not now Minnie." I tell her and she looks at me.
"I just find it weird that she didn't let us defend her home that she's complained about for months, and then goes alone to supposedly draw them away from us." She says.
"Clem wouldn't stay with a group that robbed people and took AJ from her, that's the shit you'd pull, since you killed Sophie." I said and she looked at me with a glare and did the same.
"Look, calm down." Louis said.
"Calm down? Louis just shut the hell up, you literally cannot tell anyone to calm down at this point." I said.
"The hell is that supposed to mean?"
"You're letting Minnie accuse Clementine of being a traitor when she doesn't even fucking know her, then you tell me not to stay in Dallas where Clementine said she would meet up with us."
"Because I'm thinking of your safety."
"No you aren't when the hell do you care about safety, you didn't even want to fucking help keep the school safe when the raiders came, oh I gotta play the fucking piano instead of working, oh look let's play piñata with a god damn walker, all you did was screw around." I said as we both stood up, Ruby holding me back and Omar holding Louis back as Aasim got between us.
"Ok you two." Aasim says.
"Well what about you always hanging around Clem screwing around on your trips." He says.
"We didn't screw around you fucking moron, we brought back food, medicine, clothes for winter, we worked on the god damn truck for weeks, we busted our asses just to keep you and everyone safe." I tell him.
"What about when you were on the bell tower hu?" He says.
"You mean when she kissed me? We checked the damn wall before we did anything else, so fucking what we put two weeks of work into that wall but you didn't do shit." I tell him.
"You don't know what I did." He says.
"Ok what the fuck did you do than hu? Cause me, Clem and Aasim busted our asses on the wall, you sure as hell weren't helping Ruby cause that was Tennessee, you didn't help Mitch with the fucking bombs, Willy and Aasim worked on the damn log in the school, and Omar went with us to get supplies for the school, wall, and everything else, you did the same shit to me as you did with Marlon." I said and he looked at me.
"Don't bring him up."
"IT'S FUCKING TRUE! You told me you knew Marlon was struggling years before Clementine and AJ came, I told you to help him but you didn't do shit but mess around like always."
"WHY DIDN'T YOU HELP HIM THAN!" He yelled.
"YOU WERE HIS GOD DAMN BEST FRIEND, DON'T PULL THAT SHIT ON ME!" I yelled and Ruby pulled me back as I tried to punch him.
"YOU DIDN'T HELP HIM EITHER!" He yelled.
"YOU FUCKING KNEW HE WAS IN TROUBLE, BUT INSTEAD YOU WAITED TILL HIS BRAINS WERE BLOWN OUT TO FINALLY RELIZE HE NEEDED HELP, THEN YOU KICKED CLEM AND AJ OUT BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T WANT TO BLAME YOURSELF FOR MARLONS ACTIONS, HE KILLED BRODY BUT YOU DIDN'T FUCKING CARE!" I yelled.
"BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP!" Ruby yells and I look at her.
"The boys are sleeping and you two ain't making it any better now Shut both your damn mouths sit the hell down and fucking take a break." She says and I shake my head.
"No fuck this." I said and got up and headed to the back yard and sat on the steps. I rubbed my face a bit and just looked at the yard a bit and closed my eyes. Just trying to calm down a bit. I thought of Clementine.