(Vincent's Pov)

As Clementine and I were watching the Walkers just limp on wherever they could I would just hold her hand and caress it a bit. She didn't seem to mind the interaction; I didn't mind it at all if I was going to be honest with myself at this point.

"So, you keep joking about me and if I had a boyfriend…. Could I ask the same?" She asked and I chuckled a bit and smiled as I looked to her then her hand.

"Uh… no…. no boyfriends at all." I tell her and she giggled just a bit.

"What about a girlfriend" She asked and I licked my lips a bit and took a breath.

"I did…. A year ago." I say and she looks to me.

"It was… Minerva…. Tenns sister." I admit and I looked down.

"I'm so sorry." She says and I shake my head and I look to the walkers.

"Don't be…. For a year I though Minnie was dead…. And I blamed myself everyday since then…. That it was my job to keep her safe, to…. Make her happy and all that mushy junk." I say as I look at Clementine. She was looking at me with those beautiful amber colored eyes, god were they beautiful.

"I wouldn't take you as the mushy romantic type." She says and I chuckle.

"Neither did Minerva, but I can prove you wrong like I did her." I say and immediately turn red at my statement.

"I mean uh… well…. Uh…. Forget what I said." I tell her and she laughed.

"No, no it's fine…. So how do you date in the apocalyptic times where walkers have taken over and try to bust into your home?" She asked as a joke and I chuckled and I held our hands up a bit.

"We'd hold hands a lot…. I once took her to the fishing shack for a date, we caught some big fish back then too…. We would take a walk in the woods when we had to get some sticks for the fire…. Before Marlon made the safe zone, I took her into the town once where we found this big huge industrial sized pudding…. Now I wanted to eat it all but we brought it back for the others to have a share." I say as I look to her.

"Did you two ever…. Kiss?" She asked and I nodded.

"Yea… but only after I've shaven, she said my facial hair tickled her." I joked and she smiled.

"Oh, I know that, when my dad use to kiss my cheek it would just tickle my face." She says and I smile at this.

"Well just imagine how many razors I went through during those times, sometimes I wish I had a razor now, I had gotten so use to shaving so much." I tell her.

"I think you look cool, maybe trim it a bit but not shave it." She says as she strokes my face gently with her free hand. I nod a bit at this and she smiled at me and I look back to the walkers. There weren't that many out tonight, I'd say maybe five or six, they weren't bothering anything but I did get a bit bored. I slowly let go of Clementines' hand and I stand up to my feet to go and grab the spare bow we keep up here and I grab an Arrow and I aim at one of the walkers. Once I think I have a good shot I release the arrow and it hits the walker right in the head and I smirk.

"Nice." I say to myself and I look to Clementine who clapped quietly and I rolled my eyes.

"Want to try?" I asked and she gets up and I hand her the bow and I get behind her as I help her pull back and aim.

"It's not exactly like shooting a gun but, you use your finger as a sort of guide." I say as I hold my index finger out and she does the same.

"Keep a cool head, calm, and breath a bit." I say and she does as she's told and I point it at what I suppose is a female walker and I aim the arrow at its head and I move my head slightly to Clementine as she has a good hold on the bow and arrow. I place my hands on her hips gently and she takes a breath and releases the arrow, missing.

"Damn." She says and I smile.

"It's fine, try again." I say and hand her another arrow. I place my hands back on her hips as she does what was instructed and then, she released the arrow hitting the walker in the neck.

"Good shot, now if that were a living person, you most defiantly killed them." I joked and she turned to my and I took my hands off her hips and she looked up at me.

"That doesn't help in a walker attack, but for some raiders that's a different story." She says and places the bow back in it's spot and sits back down and I sit next to her and I hold my hand out a bit and she places her hand back into mine and I lace our fingers together again and I rub the back of her hand with my thumb. She lays her head on my shoulder gently and I breath a bit. It was starting to get a bit colder and she moves into me more and I smirk.

"You only come to me to get warm?" I asked and she giggled a bit.

"Oh no you found out my plans." She says and I chuckle more at this.

"no, I mean you are comfortable, and warm…. Haven't been this warm since that time I fell through the ice after AJ was born…. That was a good fire after that." She says and I look to her.

"You've had one hell of a life during these past eight years." I say and she nods.

"Got a scar right here." She says and points to her cheek and I see it.

"How'd you get that?" I asked as I caressed it just a bit.

"Wellington… it was a community that Kenny and I had heard about, we found it, but…. They said they couldn't take us in, had to wait." She says and I look to her.

"We had AJ with us too, but….. they let AJ and I stay Kenny…. Couldn't stay… it wasn't long till Wellington was attacked by raiders… I got AJ and as much of our stuff as I could and I ran with…. This woman, the one that let us in…. she had AJ but was shot dead and…. I went back for him…. When I ran from the person they shot at me, missing… well not really missing but you know." She says and I nod as I look at her.

"I was so fucking terrified after that, I tried to keep away from people but after so long…. AJ was becoming more work, and that's when I found the New Frontire." She says and slowly sits up rolling up my jacket as she showed me her arm, where I saw a huge jagged scar and then above that was a brand mark and I looked to her as she looked at it.

"They fucking branded you?" I asked and she nods.

"How old were you?" I asked her and she rubbed her neck a bit.

"I was…. Thirteen." I looked at her more and I was angry, no beyond angry, beyond pissed, I wanted to find one of those fuckers in that group and fucking hurt them so god damn much.

"It's ok though…. I don't have to deal with them anymore, Javie is the new leader of the group so." She says and I look to her and nod a bit at this and I roll the sleeve jacket down and hold her hand some more. I saw that the sun was raising up a bit and I sighed as I look to see Clementine asleep. I move the hair out of her face gently and just look to her more as she slept. I heard someone coming up the ladder and I turn to see that it was Louis and I look away from him and look to the walkers.

"Um… my turn." He says and I look to him.

"I'll take your shift, till Clementine wakes up." I say and then I look to the walkers again.

"I can watch her."

"No…. no, I have her just…. go practice shooting with the bow and arrow." I say.

"Vincent."

"Stop, don't, just go, be glad you don't have to do look-out today." I say and I look to him as he glares, why the fuck is he glaring at me for?

"Whatever." He mumbled and I watch him go back down and I shake my head as I keep watch longer. It wasn't long till Omar was making breakfast and I slowly shook Clementine awake. She's one heavy sleeper I'll give her that.

"Hey Clem…. Time to wake up…. Breakfast." I whisper to her and she moves up against me more and I rub her side gently.

"Hey, come on I know you're hungry." I say and she opens her eyes just a bit and I smile at her.

"Mornin' sleepin' beauty." I say and she shakes her head just a bit.

"Morning." She mumbles and snuggles into me more.

"Come on, let's have breakfast." I say and she nods and slowly gets up and I help her stand a bit and then she goes down the ladder, and I go down after her. We head over to the picnic tables and the others had gotten their food and I see AJ coming over to Clementine. I head to Omar and I grab them their bowls of food along with mine and we all sit down to eat.

"You didn't come to bed." I hear AJ say to Clem and I looked to him then her.

"I was with Vincent on look-out." She tells him and he looks to me and I nod and then eat more.

"I'm almost done with the bomb; I just need to test it out." Mitch says and I look to him.

"Don't worry the one I made won't kill anyone, but the one that I have planned for the raiders will do some damage." He says and I nod.

"Alright, we can test it out later today, we do need to get more food and…. shit maybe head into the town and see if we can get better weapons for us." I say and they all look at me.

"We can't-." Louis tried to say.

"I will go." I tell them all and I look at them.

"You need to have at least one person with you." Aasim says and I shake my head.

"No, everyone stays here, it's just in case they expect us to try and go in the town, it's better to have one kid gone than two or even three." I say.

"I can go with him." Clementine says.

"No, you won't." I tell her.

"And why not?"

"Because I said so, you have to watch AJ." I tell her and she gave me this look that I suppose it was supposed to intimidate me but it didn't work.

"I can watch myself." AJ says.

"See, plus we all know he can, he just needs to be careful that's all." She says and I roll my eyes.

"Fine whatever, you can come." I say and she nods. We all finish up our meal and I go grab another jacket of mine which is this just one of those cheap jackets you could get at any store but it is warm to wear. I then gabbed my bag and I walked out the room and I saw Clementine coming out of her room. We met up and then headed out of the gate after telling the others that they needed to work on anything that needs to be worked on, like fortifying the wall more, or even just practicing with the weapons they have now until we bring the new ones.

"You stay safe now ya'll hear?" Ruby says and we both nod and head out. We walked for about thirty minutes before she took my hand in hers again and I look to her and smile just a bit.

"Getting scared now?" I asked and she gives me a glare and lets go of my hand and I frown a bit and grab her hand once more.

"Hey I was just joking." I tell her.

"Better be, I can still kick your ass you know." She tells me and I nod as I hold her hand more as we walk. I finally see the road that leads into the town and I stop and she looks to me.

"You ok?" She asked and I nod a bit as I looked to her then the road.

"Yea I'm fine." I tell her and we begin to walk to on the road. I checked to the road in each direction to make sure there wasn't any people nearby that's all.

"So, let's talk about something." She says and I think.

"Well did you know that butterflies can drink blood?" I asked and she looked at me.

"No."

"Yea, they can, now are they going to do it to a living person? No, to a dead person, yea most defiantly." I say.

"Wow… That's scary." She says.

"No not really, I mean it's weird…. They can also retain memories too, when they're in the um… chrysalis they're basically soup and um… it's funny that they can keep their memories after just being a pile of goop." I say and she looks to me.

"Did you like butterflies?" She asked and I look to her.

"No, I um… my mom did... she had a book on them and I read it sometimes when I was younger." I say to her.

"Oooh." She says and I nod as I hold her hand just a bit tighter.

"When I was younger people saw me and would say I looked just like her when I was little, and uh…. I might not have liked it at the time but… my mother was happy." I say as we just keep walking.

"And what about when you?" She stopped talking and I looked to her then at the ground just for a bit then at the trail.

"They said that I started to look like my father." I told her and she looked to me.

"And…. I didn't like that… at all…. The fact they said I looked like a drunk man, who…. Beats his child and wife….. I remember what he looked like as a teenager and as an adult… and I hate looking in the mirror at school because I look just like him now…. When he was my age." I say and I stopped for a bit and looked to her as she gets in front of me and let's go of my hand just so she could cup my face.

"don't think about that…. Those people are long gone now, your dad is gone." She says.

"What if he isn't?"

"Then so what? He hasn't come for you in years, he didn't care about the safety of his own son… and if you happen to pass by him, he won't recognize you and that's a good thing…. Or in my mind it's a good thing." She says and I look to her.

"I…. I don't want to see him." I tell her and she nods.

"And you won't have to." She tells me.

"But…. I'd want to see my mom." I tell her.

"And she would want to see you too." She says and I nod.

"She was a really nice woman." I tell her and she moves to my side and grabs my hand again as we walk once more.

"Want to tell me about her?" She asked and I nodded.

"And you'll tell me about your mom?" I asked and she nods and I nod a bit.

"Well…. My mother worked three jobs… she was a hard worker, and she helped me be who I am today…. I promised I would pay her back but…. I don't think money is an option these days." I joke and she smiled at the bad joke and we walk some more. I see the town in the distance.

"There's the town." I say and we walk up to it. I let go of her hand when we get in front of the old gun shop and I place my ear to the door and knock on it twice and listened a bit. I don't hear anything so I go to open the door and it's locked.

"Maybe the back is open." Clem says and I nod as I head to the back of the gun shop and I try that door and it is also locked.

"Damn…. There might be a walker in there than." I mumbled as I looked to the window and I look in and see nothing but some guns and ammo.

"Break the window." She says and I turn to see her grab a rock and I stop her.

"No don't that will draw any walkers here and we don't want that… let me try something." I say and she nods still holding the rock and I let go of her hand as I go check the windows. I look at the top of them to see one of them isn't locked so I grab it a bit and I lift it up and smile as it opens just a bit.

"Alright." I say silently and I look to Clementine as I open it all the way, or as much as I could.

"I'll help you in, and then I'll come in." I say and she nods as I grab her waist and help her up. Once she got in I jumped up and got in. I stood up and looked around a bit. I looked to see Clementine looking at the rifles and shot guns laid about in the store. I come up to her and I see a .22 rifle and I look away as I look to the pistols laying in the glass case.

"This is good." She says and I nod. We packed up the guns and she handed me a rifle and I grab some of the ammunition and load it up and I hear some walkers groaning a bit and I look to Clementine. She nods a bit and looks out the window.

"Not many we can just sneak past them, that's good." She says and I nod as I come next to her quietly. I hear some gun shots and I duck down along with Clementine and we hear some talking.

"You think we can find anything here?" I heard a man say as I slowly get up and look to see Abel and I go back down as I look to Clementine.

"Fuck it's him." I whisper to her and she nods a bit and holds her pistol close to her and I think.

"I'll go make a distraction ok? And you make a run for it, we can meet up at the school." I tell her and she looked to me.

"No right now we just lay low." She says and I shake my head a bit.

"No, you can take the guns to the school, just in case the raiders decided to go there for them, if they're in the town then there's no telling what they had planned." I tell her and she looks at me.

"Plus, it's so the others don't think you were working with them." I say.

"Me leaving you here would make me more guilty." She whispers and I think.

"Shit it does, doesn't it…. Fuck." I mumbled and I hear something and I look to the side at the door.

"You hear something?" I hear.

"Probably some walkers, no use going in there, lot of people died trying to get in those damn things." I head a woman say.

"Right… I don't think we have to worry much about that though." I hear another man say and I ready my rifle at the door and I look to clementine.

"Go now ok?" I asked her and she looks to me.

"No."

"Yes." I tell her and look at the door and can see a few outlines of people and I watch the door.

"Go." I tell her and I look at her. She looks at me then to the door and then back at me and pulls my jacket to her and kisses me and I can't help but kiss her back. When we pull apart, I look to her more.

"Come back, we can meet up at the fishing shack and look to the school and make sure no one went there while we were gone ok?" she says and I nod as she goes out the window. Once she is out, I look to the door and a man busts through and I shoot him and freeze as I quickly move and grab some more ammo and I hear a gun shot and I quickly move up and aim the rifle at anyone in my path and shoot. It hits another man that was closer to me something hitting me in the face and I look around as I grab my bag and head into the office and I push the desk against the door and I hear banging.

"I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU KID!" I hear Abel yell and I look around the room a bit, sweat dripping off my face as I quickly go to the window and bust it open not caring if any walkers are near by and I look down at the drop. The desk moves a bit and I quickly go and jump down and out the window and run as fast as I can in another direction. I hear more gun shots ringing out as I keep running and running and that's all I did. I ran the full mile which felt like forever and stopped at the old fishing shack and I take a few deep breaths and I collapse onto the steps of the shack. I look around and I hear a few sticks snap so I quickly turn and aim my gun at the sounds and see Clementine running and she stops and I lower my weapon.

"Fucking hell." I mumble as I look at her.

"Yea…. You ok? Did they hurt you?" She asked and I shook my head no and rubbed my neck and she came up to me and wipes my face a bit and I look to her hand to see blood and I choke up a bit.

"I… I never… I… that's… b-b-blood?" I asked and she nods.

"It's ok, you're ok." She says and I nod fast and look down.

"Hey, hey, what's wrong?" She asked as she lifted my face up a bit.

"I…. I never shot a… a person." I say a bit slowly and scared as I look to her with wide eyes.

"I… I shot two people." I tell her.

"It's ok, you were… you had a reason." She tells me and I shake my head a bit and I look at her again.

"I… hmm." I tried to say something but had nothing left to say. What was I going to tell her? That I couldn't fight in this supposed war we're about to be in with some raiders?

"Let's get you back home ok?" She asked and I nod as I grip the rifle a bit and we start walking.

"Hey, we're going to get you cleaned up ok?" She asked and I nod some more as we keep walking. We finally get to the school and the gates are opened and Ruby came running up to me.

"Oh god what happened?" She asked scared as she looked me over.

"Raiders… in the town… I… I shot two of them, and… ran… we ran and… here." I mumbled as I walked away from her and headed to the office. I went up the stairs and I headed down the hall and I opened the door and closed it a bit. I set the bag down and I went over to the desk and sat down in the chair. I didn't move from that spot for god knows how long. I looked to the desk drawer and thought for a second. I heard the door open and I turn to see Clementine with a bowl and rag.

"Hey." She says quietly and I nod.

"Can you… Can you lock the door?" I asked and she nods as she sets the bowl on the table and goes to lock the door. I watch her as she comes over to me with the bowl and I look to her and she sets the bowl down and puts the rag in the water and gently dabs my face and I move a bit and she looks at me.

"Sorry." She says and sets the rag back in the water and she cleans my face a bit more and I just look at her.

"You're ok…. It's ok." She says and I nod a bit and I think as I look at her. She's about to put the rag back in the bowl and I open one of the desk draws and grab the whisky bottle and I look at her.

"Want some?" I asked and she looked to me as she rung the dirty water off the rag.

"What is it?" She asked.

"Whiskey." I tell her and she scrunches up her face a bit and I chuckle.

"So I'll take that as a no." I chuckle.

"No I'll have a drink." She says and I nod as I open the bottle and I take a swig and hand the bottle to her as I swallowed the drink. I shook my head a bit and chuckled as I looked to her as she grabbed the bottle and I grabbed the rag and finished cleaning my face. I look to her as she takes a swig and she coughs a lot and I laugh a bit as I grab the bottle and I place it on the desk and I look to her as she shakes her head.

"God that's just…. it smells like nail polish." She says and I nod.

"Yea but… I've been around it a lot." I say and I grab the bottle and take another drink and set it back on the table. I look to her again as she sits in front of me and I nod a bit as I look to her more and she stands up and I grab her hand a bit and pull her to my lap. I place my face near her neck and I breath in a bit.

"You doing good?" She asked and I nod as I grab the bottle once more and drink more and set it back down. I hold her waist a bit as I just breath and listen to her and feel her a bit. Minutes pass and I am slowly moving my hand up her shirt. She doesn't move and I move my face to her neck and I kiss it gently.

"Just tell me when to stop ok?" I ask and she says nothing. I kiss her neck again and pull my hand up higher up her shirt and place my hand directly onto her stomach and keep it there. I kiss her neck more and she moves a bit so I stop and I look up at her and she looks back at me and kisses me gently and I kiss her back. I kissed her more and I pick her up and set her on the desk and I look at her as she looks at me and I kiss her again. She puts her hands through my hair and I move from her lips back down to her neck and I kiss her more as I place my hands on her hips and I hold her.

"We shouldn't." she says.

"Why?" I ask as I look to her. I slowly move my hands to the jacket and I unzip it as I look at her more.

"Why shouldn't we?" I ask her again and I kiss her neck again.

"The others." She says.

"The door is locked, there's a bed right over there, and we can be quiet." I mumble as I look at her.

"It won't take us long either, we can be quiet and it won't take us long." I tell her and she looks to me.

"Would you remember it though?" She asked and I thought a bit.

"I… I'm sure I'll remember." I tell her and she looks at me.

"Vincent." She says and I look at her more.

"Do you want me to stop?" I ask as I place my hands on her face and I take her cap off as I look at her.

"Just tell me to stop… don't say we can or can't." I tell her as I kiss her cheek and I place my hand near her jeans and I slowly unbutton them. She doesn't say or do anything so I am able to unbutton them and unzip her jeans and she places her hands on top of mine and I look at her.

"Stop." She says and I nod as I move my hands away from her jeans and I kiss her again. She kisses me back and I feel her hands cup my face. We pull back a bit and I kiss her again and again, just small light kisses to her cheek and lips.

"You should go to sleep." She says and I shake my head.

"Don't want to." I mumble into her neck as I kiss it again and she places her hand on the back of my head and I smirk a bit. I hear her moan just a bit and I place my hands up her shirt.

"Vincent." She says and I stop.

"Yea Clementine?" I ask as I move to face her.

"Have you…. Done this?" She asked and I look to her.

"Not really…. I uh… used my hands." I laughed and she does too. I look to her and she looks back to me.

"…No… I've never really done it but." I tried to say and I shake my head a bit and I grab the whiskey bottle again and take a drink. I feel her hand on my arm and I look to her as I place it down on the table once more. It was halfway empty at this point.

"We don't have to…. Not now, or even ever…. I don't want you to feel uncomfortable…. I know we've known each other for just a week, a week and a few days at that but still." I say as I look to her and she Kisses me gently.

"You'll stop when I say stop?" She asked and I nod a bit.

"Of course." I tell her.

"And…. The door is locked." She says as she looks to the door.

"And it's not that late so the others are probably having dinner right now." I say in her neck.

"Can…. Can we wait till after? When the others are asleep? We can come back here?" She asked and I nod a bit.

"Yea… we can do that…. And if you don't want to after, we don't have to." I tell her and she nods and I help fix her jeans and jacket. I kiss her and she kisses me back and I smile at her as she grabs her cap and I hug her from behind.

"I'm sorry….. if I made you feel bad." I tell her and she nods.

"You didn't make me feel bad." She says and I nod. I watch her leave the office and I rub my face a bit as I headed out the office as well. I head down the stairs a bit and walk outside and I see the others as they look at me.

"You good Vincent?" I heard and looked to Ruby and I nod.

"Yea… just a bit hungry." I mumbled and she nods as we head to the table and I sit next to Clementine and I grab my bowl. We all eat our dinner and I hear the others talking.

"So tomorrow I'll add more to the bomb and keep some others on hand just in case we need more." Mitch says and I nod a bit.

"You good Vincent?" I hear and I get a bit agitated.

"Yes, I'm fine, I'm fucking fine please stop asking me if I'm fine." I say pissed and they all looked at me and I shake my head.

"Is that Alcohol I smell?" Louis asked and I rolled my eyes.

"So, what if it is? There's more in that damn office anyway." I mumbled as I rubbed my face.

"Jesus dude you know you aren't supposed to drink." Aasim says.

"Clem you let him?" Omar asked.

"No, fuck off leave her alone I was drinking before she came to the office, secondly, who the fuck cares if I drink or not? I still get up, I still work, I am fine." I tell them and they look at me.

"Leave her alone, and stop asking if I'm ok, I'm fine." I tell them and they nod.

"No, you're fucking drunk." Louis says.

"What's drunk?" AJ asked and I looked to him.

"Something you should never be, ever, and Louis shut up, just…. I'm not wasted just tipsy." I tell him and he glares at me and I shake my head.

"Not even my turn on look-out anyway so it shouldn't matter." I tell him.

"And what if those fuckers decided to attack us right now hu?" He asked.

"We're shit out of luck cause you can't shoot an arrow worth shit, you think you'll be saving the damn day?" I laughed.

"Fuck you man."

"No fuck you…. I'm going to go to bed." I mumble as I leave my bowl and I head into the admin building and go right back to the office. I go and lay on the mattress and close my eyes for a bit and place my hands on my chest. I don't know what time it was, how late, or how early all I know is that I heard the door of the office open and I open my eyes and I look to see Clementine at the door. She closes the door and locks it and I sit up a bit as she comes over to me and places her hands on my chest and pushes me back on the bed and I look at her. She kisses me and she helps me take my shirt off and I take her jacket off along with her cap.