(Vincent's pov)
I finished looking at the papers as I got up from the chair and headed out the room to see AJ laying on the couch still and I look to AJ who was still laying on the couch I go and I pick him up gently and take him to his and Clementine's old room. I open the door and lay him on the bed.
"Vincent?" He asked and I looked to him.
"Yea?" I asked.
"Sorry." He says and I look to him and I sit on the ground next to his bed.
"Sorry for what?" I asked.
"Wasting medicine." He tells me and I look to him a bit.
"You…. You didn't waste medicine, you were hurt, you needed it." I tell him and he looked to me a bit sad.
"Just relax and heal up, get better." I tell him and he nods and closes his eyes and I head out the room. I go outside to see Clementine, Mitch, and Ruby all coming back with some barbed wire and some fertilizer as well.
"What's with the fertilizer?" I asked.
"Mitch said something about making a bomb." Clementine tells me and I nod.
"Alright, that could be useful." I say and they all nod. We all went to the court yard and we began to work. I helped Clementine set up the barbed wire on the top of the wall as the others began to work on other forms of weapons and setting the tables up in a certain way.
"I set AJ in your guy's room." I tell her as I set the barbed wire in a hole of the wall to keep it secured.
"Thank you." She says and I look up to her.
"Do uh… do you still want to play that twenty questions game?" I ask her and she looked up at me and nods just a bit.
"I have a question though." She says and I nod.
"Ask away." I tell her as I work a bit more.
"Louis and them called you Violet…. Why?" She asked and I froze a bit and looked up to her as she looked at me.
"I… that was my old name…. it wasn't legally changed before the world went to shit so…. Yea Vincent is the name I want to go by." I tell her as I set my hands on the wall and move a bit to fix the wires.
"Isn't Violet a girl name though?" She asked and I look to her again and nod.
"I uh…. Yea, my parents thought I was a girl." I somewhat lie to her.
"Oh, so they didn't have a guy name for you when they found out?" She asked and I nodded a bit.
"Yea pretty much." I say as we finish up on the one section on the wall. I look up to her to see her working more as I come up to her and grabbed another portion of the wires.
"That's just really weird, not saying that your name is weird but uh." She tried to say but I laughed a bit.
"Nah it's all good, it's weird to name a child after a flower, or color…. or fruit." I say as I smirk at her and she also laughs as well.
"Or a song." She says and I smile as I finish with the wires.
"Oh, my darlin, oh my darlin." I start to sing and she looks to me.
"Don't." She warns.
"Oh, my darlin Clementine, you were lost and gone forever, dreadful sorry Clementine." I sing and she looks to me a bit and I smile just a bit and she laughed a bit and I chuckle along with her.
"I remember when my mother would sing that song to me as a child." She says and I look to her.
"Did your mother ever sing to you?" She asked and I shook my head no.
"No, she didn't have time to, and if you're wondering, my father didn't teach me to play the guitar." I tell her as she looked at me with questions in her eyes. We finished up the whole barbed wire traps so we slowly descend down the wall and I help her. She lost her footing and I catch her real quick as she looks up to me.
"Th-Thank you." She says and I nod as I let go of her and she backs up a bit.
"So, you never had a boyfriend once?" I asked as we worked some more on our defenses.
"He wasn't my boyfriend; I did like him but… he's kind of… stupid but in a fun way sometimes or in a way that can get someone killed." She says and I look at her as we head up to Marlon's old office.
"So, did you kiss?" I asked.
"Nope, just an awkward talk with his uncle about how his nephew likes me… and then I left." She says and I laugh.
"Clementine a true breaker of hearts, I think Louis should watch himself." I say as we head in and I grab some more papers to show her.
"Louis likes me?" She asked and I looked up to her.
"Not sure but…. He never went hunting with Aasim, Marlon usually had to drag his ass out just to get simple jobs done…. Then once he knows you're awake and helping us, he just does it? I think he does have feelings for you but…. But you shouldn't take my word for it… he might have different feelings now so." I say and she laughed a bit.
"It's fine, I don't have feelings for him anyway." She says and I nod a bit.
"So, is the guy you like named Luke by any chance?" I asked and she looked at me.
"Oh god no, he was and would be super old by now." She says and I chuckle.
"Ah, so who is this guy?" I asked as she looks at the map.
"He was this dude I met in AJ's parent's old group…. He dropped me when he thought I was bit by a walker, but I was bit by a dog." She says and I look to her.
"Oh god… if I had known." I say as I look to Rosie.
"No, it's fine, she's a good dog." She says and Rosie comes up to her and Clementine pets her gently.
"I'm glad you helped me get somewhat over my fear of dogs." She says and I nod a bit then Ruby walks in the office.
"Do you know where the paint is?" She asked and I looked to her.
"Um why?" I asked.
"Thinking we could put up a banner or something to scare the raiders off…. Or to give Tenn something to do you know?" She says and I nod gently as I think.
"Last time I saw paint…. Maybe the art room has some left? I know Sophie used a lot of it but there might be some left." I say and she nods.
"Didn't think about that." She says and walks away. I look to Clementine as she looked at the school's design that Marlon had drawn out and I sit next to her and look at it as well. We talked more on what we were going to do and how we needed to get more weapons for the kids to use.
"You know there was a group of people I ran into before I got here." She says and I look to her.
"And this is going to sound uh…. Bad but uh… they use to take walker heads and… use that to scare people." She says and I look to her.
"Well, that is scary…. Is it worth it?" I asked her.
"I'm not to sure, at this point having a live walker would be scarier than a dead one…. But we aren't going to bring a live walker into the school." I tell her and she nods.
"You know when all this started…. I didn't know that my babysitter was going to be one of those monsters…. She got bit saving me, and then…. I just hid." She says and I look to her then to the ground a bit.
"How long did you hide?" I asked.
"Three days I think, maybe four, I was so scared and so little." She says and I smirk.
"You're still little." I joke and she shoves me.
"Hey, I may be small but I can still kick your ass." She says and I smile and chuckle a bit.
"Do you still want to continue with your story?" I asked and she looked to the map a bit.
"One day at a time." She says and I nod. I understand if she doesn't want to talk much about it.
"So, what about you?" She asked and I point to a section of the school of where we can place more traps.
"What about me?" I asked.
"Why were you sent here?" She asked and I sighed a bit.
"My family wasn't the best to be with, you already heard about how my father was an alcoholic and would beat me…. But there was more to it…. But I don't want to talk about it." I say and she nods. It wasn't long till we had gone outside and talked more with everyone here, I saw Tenn drawing on the banner that Ruby had brought, I turned to see Mitch working on a bomb and I rub my neck as I look around more.
"Alright, we've done enough work for the day, we should play a small game." Louis says and I shake my head as I go to grab any supplies to use on the gate.
"Vincent, do you want to play?" He asked a bit and I look to him and then to everyone else. They looked tired and I nodded a bit as I went and set the items near the gate and I grabbed my guitar as I head over to them and we all sit near a fire as Omar starts on dinner. Louis was shuffling his cards a bit and I look to the gate and watch for anything.
"Alright we have some new people playing with us today, welcome dear Clementine and AJ, in this small game we will be playing a game where you can do two truths and a Lie." He states and I look to him.
"You don't use cards for this game." Mitch says and I roll my eyes and I look to clementine.
"Louis tries to make any game with cards, don't be to surprised on the rules though." I explain as I play my guitar for AJ.
"My dear friend Mitch, I happen to be a master of cards and game play with them, it's simple, highest card and lowest card gets to go against each other and tell two truths and one lie, of course you could try and cheat and tell two lies and a truth, but that would be one boring and jackass way to play the game." He says as I look to him and I see Clem watching me a bit and I smile as I continue to play the soft tunes of 'Oh My Darling' and she smiled then shook her head at me.
"Fine whatever." He says and I watch as Louis hands the deck to Tenn as he grabbed a card and they passed it around. I grabbed my card then passed it back to Louis then looked at it. I had the king of hearts and Clementine had the Ace of spades.
"Oh looks like Clem and Vincent are first." Louis says and I look to her and hold up one finger.
"I Love history." I then hold up a second finger.
"I use to drink Alcohol like crazy before I got sent here." I then hold a third finger up.
"I once broke my wrist punching a guy in the face for taking a Yoohoo in second grade." I tell her and she looks at me as she thought a bit. I handed the card back to Louis as I played the guitar for a bit.
"I think that History is a lie?" She asked and I smirked.
"Wrong, Love history." I say.
"Really?" She asked and then looked to everyone else and they nodded as well.
"What was the lie?" She asked.
"I didn't break my wrist for a Yoohoo in the second grade…. It was in the fifth grade, and it was a girl." I say and she looked to me.
"Why would you hit a girl?" She says and I rubbed my neck a bit.
"Uh your turn Clementine, can't let Vincent be the only one to do this." He says and she looked to him and I look to her.
"I uh… I use to play Baseball as a child." She says as she raised one finger.
"I loved to color a lot even when the dead were walking." She raises another finger and she looks to me.
"I got to meet a famous baseball player, out here in the apocalypse." She said and raised her last finger and I have to think a bit.
"I'm going to call bullshit of the third one." I say and she smiles.
"Sorry Vincent but you are wrong." She says and I look to her.
"Seriously?" Louis says and she nods.
"Javier Garcia, met him when I was looking for AJ, I was going to take his car from him, and I had pointed my gun at him." She says and I chuckle.
"Holy hell." I say and she nods.
"I was one messed up teenager." She says and I shake my head.
"Nah you were just trying to do what you thought to do." I tell her and she nods gently. We continue to play the game for a while, mostly people playing against Clementine or each other, and I grabbed my guitar and I play another soft tune. I start to think about what we are going to have to do for this school to keep them safe.
"Vincent?" I heard and I looked to the group.
"You ok?" Aasim asked and I nod.
"Going to work on the wall more tomorrow but we need to go hunting to get some food, I know we have all those other things from the train station." I say.
"We can get the garden up and running, Clementine cleared out the walkers, and we just need to clean it up a bit." Ruby speaks up and I look to them and I nod.
"That would be good…. And Mitch is working on the bomb, we can use that to blow them sky high." Louis says and I nod. We all then got to eat dinner and we then headed to bed, a few days passed and I finished work on the wall. We had done a lot of work for these past few days but we finally finished up. AJ had been sleeping his fever away and he was walking around a bit as long as Clementine hadn't seen him which I will say I did let him walk around a bit, you can't really stop the kid once he has his mind set on something. He's a good kid though and wants to play his part in helping others. He said he wanted to atone for what he had done, and I have respect for that.
"Vincent." I heard as I looked to AJ.
"Yea?" I asked as I set the map down and marked some areas off.
"Clementine has been happy since she's been here." He says and I look to him.
"She has?" I asked and he nods just a bit and holds his side.
"You ok? You need to lay down if you don't feel good." I tell him and he nods as he lays on the mattress in the office and I nod.
"She's never been this happy before, like…. she smiles more." He says and I look to him.
"I'm glad, are you happy here?" I asked him and he nods a bit.
"Yea, you, Tenn, and even Louis make it nice here." He says and I nod as I finish with my papers.
"Hey I'm going to head out, you can sleep in here with Rosie, or just relax, don't push yourself ok?" I tell him and he nods as I head out. I exit out the admin building and see Clementine as I walk out and she looks to me and smiles just a bit as I come up to her.
"So, what we can do is place some barbed wires here as well, just in case they try to come from the back of the school, I don't think we have to worry to much about the back since they want us all to be in one area but for precaution." Clem says and the boys nod.
"I'd like to see them try to climb our walls, tear their stomachs open…. Sounds bad but I'd like to see that." Mitch says and we nod.
"We can use some of the remaining barbed wire there…. We need to get some wood later on for a fire, we're running low on supplies." I say and they look to me.
"Do you need me to get the wood?" Mitch asked and I shook my head.
"I'll get it, you still need to work on the bomb, and Louis you still need to work with that bow and arrow… do you have anything to do Clementine?" I asked and she shook her head no and I nod.
"I'll get ruby to come along too." I say and she nods as she gets her knife and I head over to get Ruby.
"Hey Ruby, Clem and I need you to help us get some wood, you good?" I asked and she looked up from her work.
"Yea shug, just let me get my knife and we can head out." She says and I nod as I go and get our axe, it was a small hand axe but we have one of those wire saws that they usually keep in survival kits, Mitch and Willy found it in the old greenhouse shed so it was a good find to be fair. I look to see Clementine and Ruby coming over to the gate with a few back packs to place any sticks or logs in so we don't have an issue with carrying them back. I opened the gate for us to get out, letting them out first and then I was last.
"Thank you, good sir." Ruby says and pretends to take a hat off and I do the same.
"Anything for you ladies." I say and we walk into the woods a bit.
"So, Clementine, I know you said you been to a lot of places, but where exactly?" Ruby asked her as I went up to a nice sized tree and wrapped the wire around it just a bit and began to work on cutting it.
"Well, I was from Georgia originally, a bit near Macon, but closer to Atlanta but to not be in Atlanta." She says and I look to her.
"Wasn't Atlanta basically a war zone when all this started up? I mean we use to have a radio but it went out after the first few weeks." I say and she nods.
"Yea, Kenny, an old friend of mine, he told me about how bad it was there, we got to Macon though, that's where…. Where I got to meet Lilly and the others." She says and looks down and I stop working on the tree a bit.
"I'm sorry." Ruby says.
"Nothing to be sorry about, she use to be so nice to me when I was little, I still have the hair ties she gave me when my hair was long and for me to sleep with…. shit and Duck was annoying as hell but I would love to hear his voice again." She says and I smirk.
"A, Boy hu?" I asked.
"No romance, he was just an annoying big brother I never had…. He told me A LOT about science dog and comics, and he wouldn't stop annoying me so… I put bugs in his pillow." She says and I laugh along with Ruby as Clem just smiles.
"Shit girl, I now know not to bother you." I say and I finish cutting the small tree and broke the rest of it away from the stump. It fell and I grabbed the Axe and I looked around a bit for any walkers and then began to work on cutting the wood.
"Oh, don't worry, I don't do that anymore…. But AJ on the other hand." She says and we chuckle.
"So, Georgia, where else?" She asked.
"I think we were in Tennessee, it was just Christa, Omid and I… it was a while after Lee had died and…. Omid…. Died." She says as she picks up the logs I've cut and placed them in her back pack and I look to her sadly as she stopped talking for a bit.
"I uh… ehem…. We could make them a grave here if you'd like… we did that for Minnie and Sophie so." I tried to say and she shook her head no.
"No, we uh… it's fine, thank you." She says and I nod as I finish with the logs and Ruby takes some and places them in her bag as well and I look to her.
"Hey want to take the bag back to the school Ruby?" I asked her and she nods as she leaves and I look to Clementine.
"You want to talk about it? You don't have to but it's fine to talk about it sometimes." I say and she looked to me.
"Can we walk a bit too?" She asked and I nod as we head to more into the woods to get some more fire wood.
"So, say anything you feel like saying." I tell her as I work on another tree. We were close to the small river where we had caught fish before with Brody.
"How do you deal with people dying around you so much?" She asked and I stopped working and looked to her.
"Everyone deals with death differently." I say and she looked to me.
"How did you deal with it though?" She asked and I sat next to her as she sat on the steps of the fishing shack. I look to her a bit and thought on the subject.
"When…. When I was eleven years old my grandfather passed away… I didn't know what to feel at the time, I just didn't talk much and when I visited my grandmother we didn't do much of anything… because my grandfather was an energetic man, we didn't know he… he had cancer and he didn't tell us, he didn't even take the treatments but we didn't have much money to help him with, and he wasn't the type to ask for money…. I felt like he abandoned me, that he… didn't like how I turned out…. And then…. My grandmother died." I said and I remember that day plain as day, it was etched in my memory for the rest of my life.
"How'd she die?" She asked and I just looked out into the woods.
"She shot herself." I say.
"Oh god, I'm sorry." She says.
"The bad part was…. She did it while I was in the room with her…. I saw her shoot herself." I admit and I look to her.
"I stayed in that once spot for five hours, I didn't call the cops or an ambulance…. I couldn't I was so…. so, scared about what she had done…. my father blamed me everyday for what had happened and a few days later they sent me to Ericsons." I say as I hold my hands together.
"Why the hell would your father blame you for that?" She asked and I sighed.
"Because I was born a girl…. And I wanted to be a guy." I admitted and closed my eyes, ready to be called a freak, ready to get hit, ready to have her walk away and stop talking to me.
"So… you're a girl…. That want's to be a boy?" She asked and I looked to her, she looked confused.
"Well… I am a boy… I had the surgeries and everything…. I…. that's why I'm…. it's hard to explain." I say and she nods.
"It's ok." She says and I nod.
"So… you look good as a guy." She says and I laugh.
"You think?" I asked and she nods.
"Yea." She says and I think and I open my right vest pocket and I pull out a photo and I look to her and then open it up and show her the picture.
"That is my grandfather, my grandmother, and me, before I uh… transitioned." I say pointing to the little girl with long blond hair and a purple shirt with pink jean shorts and light up sneakers. We were at my school for those dances they would hold for us at the schools, I mean they made us practice the dances before the dance and it was fun to do.
"Aww, that's adorable." She says as she looks at the photo and I nod as I hold it out for her to take which she does and looks at it more.
"How old were you?" She asked and I thought a bit.
"I was about five, maybe six when this was taken." I say and she hands me the photo back and I fold it back and put it back in my vest pocket. She looked to me and she goes through her jacket and then holds something in her hand hidden and then shows it to me and it's a picture of an older black man in a white suite shirt. The photo looked torn and I looked to her.
"This is Lee… the man who took care of me." She says and I smile as I take the photo and looked at it.
"He looks sharp." I say and she nods as I hand the photo back and she puts it back in her jacket pocket.
"I've had that photo for eight years, if I lost it, I would freak out…. I did lose it once though; a bunch of guys raided our camp for a damn skinny weasel that wouldn't feed even one of them… they took my bag and the photo was in there." She tells me and I look to her.
"I was eleven and I saw so scared…. And I didn't have Lee's photo to look at when I'm scared." She says and I nod.
"Yea… whenever I feel sad, I look at this photo of my grandparents and I…. it was a fun memory; I may not be able to get rid of the bad memories but I have good ones to remember." I say and she nods.
"I know what you mean." She says and I close my eyes a bit. The wind blows a bit and even though it's not to cold it's still a bit cold and I look to Clementine as she shivers a bit.
"You cold?" I asked.
"Nah I'm good." She says and I roll my eyes and I take my jacket off and I place it on her.
"Hey."
"Don't you're cold, I'm not, deal with it, besides I'm warm." I say as I put my hands to her face and I feel her cold cheeks and she looks up to me and blushes a bit then nods.
"Plus, I have a long-sleeved shirt so I'm ok." I tell her and move my hands away from her face. She looks down a bit and wraps my jacket around her more. I watch her a bit as she just takes in a scene and I watch her more.
"You know… you have really beautiful eyes." I admit and she looked to me and her face went red and nods.
"You have nice eyes too." She says and I smile as I just look at the river a bit.
"AJ told me that you were happy at the school?" I asked and she nods.
"Not to be mean but…. It's nice to have a place to stay that's longer than a day or two… Lee told me to stay away from the cities, and to also keep going…. I didn't want to disappoint him but right now…. I don't know." She says and I watch her.
"He won't be disappointed at all… think about it like this, you guys have been on the road out there for years, you finally find a place that you've been at for longer than a day, with not only kids your age but kids almost around AJ's age too, and….. and I don't care what the others say, but…. It would be great if you stayed with us." I admit and she looks at me with wide eyes.
"No, you don't have to make them angry at you for us, we've been on our own before it's fine." She says and I look to her.
"Clementine, you defiantly earned your stay at our home, you are risking your ass to help us." I tell her and she looks to the waters.
"Can I think about it?" she asked and I nod.
"Yea… yea you can think on it." I say and we just relax a bit as we watch the water flowing down the river and I get up.
"Alright let's head back to the school." I say and she nods as she gets up and I grab her bag. We argue playfully as I keep the bag away from her and she laughs as I hold it above my head and she tries to jump to get it. It was pretty funny to watch her try to jump up and grab the bag from me as we just head back to the school.
"You know I can carry it." She says and I nod.
"Of course, but what kind of gentleman would I be if I let a pretty girl like you carry this heavy bag?" I ask joking around and she rolls her eyes a bit as she tried to grab the bag again and I move back a bit from her grasp.
"You would still be a gentleman if you let me carry the bag." She says and I walk ahead of her as we finally get to the gate of the school. I open it for her and she still tries to grab the bag and I run in and laugh a bit as she chases me.
"Quick Aasim take the bag." I said and threw it to him and he grabbed it.
"Shit Vincent." He says and I run off and Clementine is still chasing after me as I run up to the old dean's office.
"Vincent." She says and I put my finger to my lip and I open the door and see AJ asleep with his arm over Rosie and she looks in and also sees this.
"He looks so happy." She says and I nod and close the door and I look to her.
"You still sure it would be best to leave?" I asked as we decided to walk back outside and see what else needs to be done. Once outside I notice how dark it was getting and I looked to see Omar making dinner once again or as always and I see the others just finishing up their work for the day. I rub my neck as Clementine looks up at me and I smile at her.
"You know you look good in my jacket." I say and she turns red.
"Well it's comfortable." She says and I nod.
"You can have it." I tell her.
"No, I-." She tries to say but I stop her before she can finish.
"I said you can have it, I have a few more jackets to wear so you're fine." I tell her and she nods just a bit and we both take a seat at one of the picnic tables with Ruby and Aasim.
"So, we finished the defenses, Mitch almost has a bomb ready, now all we have to do it wait." Aasim says and I nod.
"Pretty much, that's the hard part." I say and we all sigh and nod. It wasn't long till we had gotten our food and we ate and talked a bit more. I looked to Clementine as she talked to Ruby about things she use to do as a child, before the dead were walking around that is, and it was pretty fun to hear this.
"Yea, I didn't do so well in school I was held back believe it or not." She says and then eats some of the soup Omar had made and I eat some as well.
"You held back?" Louis asked and she nods.
"Yea, I was held back twice actually, I was eight and heading into the second grade before all this began." She says and I chuckle.
"Hey well you're at a school, maybe Vincent can be your history teacher?" Ruby says and I look to her.
"Yea and I can be the music teacher, Mitch can be the science teacher, and ooooh we can all be teachers." Louis says and I roll my eyes at his excitement and Clementine laughs and so do the others. It wasn't long till we finished our dinner and I thought for a bit and I looked to Clementine as she helped Willy with the dishes and the others headed off to bed. It was my turn for look-out so I go and grab my guitar and I head up the look-out stand we built long ago and I sit on the floor of the stand and I slowly play my guitar. The tune was that of Hallelujah and I played it for a bit before I heard someone come up the ladder and I look to my side to see Clementine as she came and sat next to me and I stopped.
"No, please continue, it sounds lovely." She says and I smile.
"Want me to sing it too?" I asked as I was about to play.
"There's words?" She asked me and I nod softly and she nods back.
"Alright, but mind you I don't sing very well." I say and she chuckles and I smile as I play a few strings. I look to her as I strummed a bit more and cleared my throat a bit.
"Well I've heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? Well it goes like this: The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah." I sang and I looked to her as she smiles at me and I continue to play the cords.
"Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah
Well your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya She tied you to her kitchen chair And she broke your throne and she cut your hair And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah." I sans again and looked to my guitar a bit to play some more.
"Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah
But baby I've been here before I've seen this room and I've walked this floor You know, I used to live alone before I knew ya And I've seen your flag on the marble arch And love is not a victory march It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah."
"Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah
Well there was a time when you let me know What's really going on below But now you never show that to me do ya But remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too And every breath we drew was Hallelujah." I looked to her and smiled a bit as I saw her lean her head back a bit. Her eyes were closed as she relaxed to the music and I chuckled softly at this and continued.
"Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah
Maybe there's a God above But all I've ever learned from love Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya
And it's not a cry that you hear at night It's not somebody who's seen the light It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah." I sang some more and I looked at the stars at this point.
"Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah." I finished and looked to Clementine who was looking at me and I smiled as I finished up the song.
"You have a nice voice." She says and I turn red and chuckle.
"Thanks…. My grandmother loved to hear me sing a lot as a child." I say as I look at the stars. I felt a hand on top of mine and I looked to her as she held my hand. I turn her hand so I could lace our fingers together and I realized how much small her hand was compared to mine. Her hands were callused as well, but yet they were also soft to hold. I lifted our hands and placed them in my lap and clasped her hand with my other hand as well. She looked to me and I smile again.
"I'd love to hear you sing again someday." She says and I chuckle.
"You're lucky, the others haven't heard me sing in years." I tell her and she smiles at this and I look at our hands.
"Are you scared?" I asked and she nods.
"I don't want anyone to get hurt, I don't want AJ to get hurt…. And I don't want to leave him here alone if anything were to happen to me." She says and I nod.
"Yea…. I don't want to leave Tenn on his own… I mean he has the others but… I helped raise him and Willy too… I wouldn't know what to do if anything happened to them." I said and looked to the side to see Willy talking with Tenn, as they helped Mitch with his prototype.
"It's ok…. No one is going to get taken, I'll make sure of it." She says and I look away from them and I look to the stars.
"Same here…. Same here." I say quietly and we kept watch for the rest of the night.