(Vincent's Pov)
I move a bit as I slowly wake up from my sleep. I look to see Clementine with her face in my chest a bit and I pull her a little closer to me when I feel her shiver just a bit as I close my eyes again before I fully wake up. I think about what had happened not too long ago. It was very eventful I must say and I never felt like that before either, I can't explain it but it was just amazing. I would really like to ask Clem if she was ok with all this, I mean I remember her telling Louis and I about relationships and what she thought about them. Would she leave me after this? I hope not, I do like her a lot, she's a really beautiful woman. I look her up and down a bit as best as I can and I kiss the back of her shoulder gently as she lays on her stomach and she stirs just a bit in her sleep as she wakes up slowly. I look at her beautiful amber colored eyes and I smile at her and she smiles at me just a bit.
"Hm? What time is it?" I hear and I look to the window and think.
"Early morning." I mumble as I see the stars still out just a bit and I look back to her as I slowly pull the blanket over us more and I look at her as she looks at me a bit; she had moved from being on her stomach to her back. I smiled
"You feel better?" She asked and I nod a bit as I kiss her neck. I hold her hand a bit and she takes her other hand and places it on the back of my head keeping me there for a bit. I don't mind that at all though. I slowly move away from her neck and see the mark I left and I chuckle a bit at this and she just rubs the back of my head a bit and I kiss the side of her neck once more.
"You feel good at all?" I ask and I feel her nod just a bit and I move my head away from her neck as I get up a bit and grab my shirt, jacket, and even pants as I put them on I look to see Clementine put her jacket on and I rub my neck just a bit.
"You got lookout?" I asked and she nods.
"Yea, I have to take Louis shift." She says and I get up as she does and I come up to her.
"Mind if I join?" I asked.
"Hmmm, not sure." She says and I smirk as she smiles at me and I follow her. We both head to the look-out stand and I see Louis looking at us.
"What took you so long?" He asked Clementine.
"Making sure Vincent got some sleep." She says as she goes to the side and I climbed up.
"Oh? Doesn't look like he got any sleep." He says as he looked to me and I shrugged a bit.
"I did sleep just…. woke up worried or something, I can't remember the dream." I mumbled as he nods and leaves the look-out deck and I look to her as she rolled her eyes and I come next to her. Of course we just watched walkers for hours on end doing nothing but groaning, walking, probably eating some dead animals or some unsuspecting victim that was caught in their grasp.
"What is the one thing you miss the most from the old world?" She asked and I looked to her and smirked.
"Chicken Nuggets." I say and she looked to me.
"Wait really?" She asked and I nodded a bit.
"Yea, might not have been healthy but hey fast food was good." I say and she looks to me a bit.
"Hu… not really sure what I'm missing, my mom never wanted me near that stuff." She says and I chuckle.
"Oh, you aren't missing much but I just miss the chicken nuggets, after church my grandmother didn't have time to cook, so fast food." I say as I feel Clementine get closer to me and I look down at her.
"Jesus it's fucking getting cold." She mumbled and I smiled just a bit.
"Yea well, winter is coming closer, I wouldn't put it past these fuckers to try and take us when we're desperate and cold." I mumble and she nods.
"That's how they get a lot of people, desperate people." She says and I nod. I hold her hand again and I try to keep them warm for her and she holds my hands back.
"It should be snowing soon, we are in November I think, I mean it has snowed in October a few times before the dead came about but it hadn't snowed like that in years." I say and she nods.
"I should be use to this by now but it doesn't matter, can't stand the head much either but there's nothing I can do about weather." I say as I look to the walkers more.
"So, you and Louis are uh… getting along?" She asked and I looked to her.
"You want to know about us fighting hu?" I asked and she nods a bit and I look at her.
"We may fight a lot but…. I know he has my back and I have his." I explain and I watch her as she nods and I look up to the stars as I point some of them out.
"You know about stars?" I asked and she shakes her head no and I look to her.
"Hmm, I can't seem to remember much, I know about the simple things like the big dipper and stuff." I explained and she looks up at the stars too.
"Yea and the Milky Way, oh and I saw a shooting star once when I was with my parents, you know before all this." She says and I nod a bit as I look up more.
"We could make up our own stars and stuff, you know, names, personalities and junk." I say and she giggled a bit and I smiled as I looked to her.
"Sounds like fun, alright let's do it." She says and I nod as I look up at the sky and point to one set of stars.
"Looks kind of like a fish don't you think?" I asked and she looked to where I had pointed and nods.
"Yea it does… ok… its personality involves… good with people, dependable… awesome." She says and I chuckle as I think.
"Hmm, sounds like… You." I say and she laughed.
"Really now?" She asked and I nod.
"Yea would you have wanted me to say Louis?" I asked and she thinks.
"I'll take it." She says and I nod as I look at the stars again and I point to another set of stars.
"I spy with my little eye, a knife." I tell her and she looks and then nods once she sees it.
"Alright, you give it a personality." She says and I nod a think.
"Dependable, good in a fight, gets shit done kind of personality." I say and she thinks.
"Hmm… sounds like, you." She says and I chuckle.
"Alright I'll take it." I say as I look around the sky more. I then hear something and look around and Clementine grabs the binoculars and I look at her as she hands them to me and points in a direction and I see some people and I look to her and I nod as we slowly leave the look-out stand and I see Mitch and Louis looking at us and we walk up to them.
"There are people in the woods, we don't know who though." Clem informs them and I go and grab my rifle as they go grab their stuff as well, Tenn goes and tells Ruby and the others of what is going on and we all stand and wait. We listen a bit and I hear some older man's voice.
"Damn look a building." I hear and I walk up to the gate just a bit and I see Louis on the other side with his bow and I look to see Clementine with her gun up a bit and I look through the gate a bit and see an older man with a grey beard and green army like jacket. I slowly raise my rifle a bit as I open the gate once I hear them get closer and I raise my rifle to the people.
"Stop right there." I say and he looks at me.
"Holy shit it's a god damn kid." He says and I glare at him and look to the group of people, three males and one female, one of the males looked to be a kid our age.
"Hello." The boy says and I look at him as I keep my rifle on them.
"Who are you?" I asked as I looked to them.
"We're just passing by." The younger male says as I see a bat in his hands.
"I don't care if you're just passing, who the hell are you? Is this your group? Do you have a bigger group of people with you?" I asked as I looked to them more.
"Woah hold on, what's going on?" The older man says and I look over to the others and Clementine walks out and she freezes as she looked to the people and I keep my gun on them.
"Holy fucking shit." She says and I look to her.
"You know them?" I asked and she nods and I look to them more and I sigh as I slowly move my rifle down and I look to the people to make sure they didn't do anything funny or bad to her.
"Clementine? Wh-Where is AJ? Is… is he still?" The older man asked and Clementine nods.
"Yea he's alive and um… asleep right now." She tells them and he nods satisfied with her answer and I look to them as they chatted then I looked to mt group of people. I hear a few walkers near by and I come up to Clementine.
"Hey, uh maybe we can take this conversation inside, I don't want to deal with Walkers right now." I say and she nods as she escorts the group of people into the school's walls and I follow behind as I watch them. Louis and I then close the gates and then lock it up and put some things against it to keep walkers from coming in.
"Shit it's been what? Two years since we last saw each other." The boy in the new group says to Clementine and I come up to them.
"Yea, it's been a long time." She says and then looks to me and smiles.
"Oh Vincent, this is Gabe, Gabe this is Vincent." She introduced us to each other and I held my hand out which he shook. I let go of his hand and he looks to Clementine and then I hear the older man speak.
"Where's the leader of the group?" He asked and I look to him.
"Vincent is the leader." Aasim states and I look to him as I came up to him.
"You need me?" I asked and he looked to me and laughed a bit.
"No seriously where is the leader?" He asked and I rubbed my neck a bit. I know why he would think like this though, I didn't look like a leader type and also I look like a kid to him.
"I am the leader, actually Clementine and I are the leaders here currently." I say and he looks to me.
"Where are the adults?" He asked.
"They left us." Ruby tells the man and he looks to all of us and then to me and I nod.
"Yea, we uh… been on our own since the beginning of this, last adult that was here was Mrs. Martin but uh… she passed away." I tell him and he nods a bit.
"Uh, damn." He says and then the other two adults walk over to us and I watch them carefully.
"Ok so who are all of you? I know a Gabe but not you three." I say and the others nod.
"I'm Kenny." The old man says.
"I'm Javie." The man with the bat says.
"I'm Kate." The woman says and I nod at all this. We all introduce ourselves and I look to Clementine as she talked more to Gabe and I watch them.
"Damn it's been so long since we've seen Clementine, looks like that's all we have in common, she's pretty notorious." Javie says and I nod a bit.
"We wouldn't know, we never left here." I say and he looks to me.
"I'm sorry." He says and I shake my head a bit and I watch them all a bit.
"She had a kid with her right?" Kenny asked and I nodded.
"AJ, or well Alvin Junior." I say and Kenny nods.
"Yea that's him… how is he?" He asked and I looked at him.
"I uh… I can't really speak for him, but he's a good kid, he gets a bit confused sometimes when trying to learn new things." I explained to him.
"Hey, are you guys hungry?" Omar asked them and they nod a bit as he serves them some food and I look to Clementine who came over to me and she took me to the side so we could talk. Kenny was telling a story to the kids about said girl that was taking me away from them.
"So, Gabe said something about having to leave their old community due to raiders attacking the area, I'm pretty sure it's Lilly's group." She explains and I nod.
"Alright, so they either might leave or stay?" I asked.
"I'm not sure, I know Kenny would want to fight but… he could have changed." She says and I nod and I hold her hand a bit as I look to her.
"Um… I'll show them to their rooms when they finish dinner." I mumble and she nods and kisses my cheek and I turn red a bit from embarrassment and she laughed a bit.
"You're just adorable." She says and I look to her.
"I'm not adorable." I mumbled and she shakes her head a bit when she looks to me with a smile.
"Come on, lets chat with them a bit so we can head to bed, I know you're still tired." She says and cups my cheek a bit and I look to her and nod. But before she can leave, I stop her and look at her.
"You uh… are we?" I asked a bit and she looks to me confused.
"I know… when Louis asked about relationships… you aren't mad at what we did?" I asked and she shook her head no and I watch her.
"No, I started it by coming back to the office, so I just went against what I said about relationships… I liked it though, I mean… it was really nice." She says and I nod as I kiss her cheek a bit and we walk over to the picnic table and we sat and talked with the new people.
"Oh god when I first met her this girl, she had chopped a huge tree down and made the fucker crash into it." Javie says and I look to her.
"Really?" I asked and she nods.
"Oh yea… kind of bad on my end because the truck wasn't drivable… I basically not really, but I basically kidnapped Javie and wanted his vehicle." She says and I nod.
"So how did you meet them?" Kenny asked as he looked to us.
"Car crash." I say and he looks to her scared.
"Not my fault, fucking walkers and… we tried to get away after the grenade blew up at the train station." She says and I chuckle a bit but the guy Kenny looked to me and frowned.
"You think that's funny?" He asked and I rubbed my neck.
"Hey man calm down, we think a lot of things are funny." Louis says and I shake my head at him.
"Well it isn't funny." He says.
"I think it is now that I can look back to it, plus we had to go back to the train station so it was better to have had it blow up then, and not later." She says and I hold her hand under the table and I stroke it gently as we listen to stories more.
"Gabe here had a huge crush on Clementine." Javie says and I look to her and she nods and I laugh a bit at his information.
"You still got a crush on her?" I asked and he turns red and rubs his neck and I chuckle as I look to Clementine.
"And she was oblivious to it all." Javie says and I smile at her.
"Clementine a true breaker of hearts." I say repeating what I had told her once before and she shoved me a bit and I chuckle at this.
"Ok, so what have you been up to since we last saw you Clem?" Gabe asked her and I watched her.
"I found AJ not to long after I left New Frontier, and we just traveled from then on, well until a few days ago where I showed up here." She explained and I hold her hand a bit more and I watch her as she looked to the table a bit.
"So, is this a boarding school?" Gabe asked.
"Yea it is." I answer as I look to him.
"That's cool, what did you do here?" He asked.
"Uh learned?" I asked a bit confused.
"No like, did you guys have to be really smart to get sent here?" He asked and I looked to him.
"I mean, we are kind of smart." I say and Clementine looked between us.
"So, this is a nerd school?" He asked and I was so confused at what this boy was saying and I rubbed my head a bit.
"We saw a sign that said there was a boarding school around here." He says and I look to them.
"Where?" I asked.
"In that small town not to far from here." He says and I rub my face a bit as I look to Clementine.
"We'll go take it down later." She says to me and I nod a bit and I look to the kid.
"So, there are no adults here?" Kenny asked and I nod.
"Adults suck anyway." Mitch says and they look to him.
"He isn't wrong." I said.
"Adults built this wall." He says.
"And we kept it maintained and worked on it for the past eight years." Louis says and I sigh a bit as I looked to Kenny.
"We have been doing well without adults for years now, Clementine has too." I say and she nods to Kenny a bit.
"Clementine is different, this is a school of troubled Youth, you didn't think I wouldn't read the sign?" He says and I look to him.
"So? Everyone is troubled." Ruby says to him and he looked to her.
"I…" He tried to say but Javie interrupted him.
"Anyway, thanks for letting us stay and feeding us." He says and I nod and I look at Clementine more and I grab her hand more and place my other hand on hers. She looks to me and smiles a bit.
"So how long have you been here?" Kenny asked Clementine who looked back to her old mentor.
"A week and a few days? Almost two weeks to be honest." She says and he looks to me more.
"Any issues with the boys here?" He asked and I looked to him with a glare.
"Like?" She asked.
"They haven't tried anything have they?" He asked and I look to Louis, Mitch, Aasim, and Omar and we all laughed at this and they looked to us and I move my hand from hers and cover my mouth as I try to calm down.
"Bold of you to say that around us." Louis says and I shake my head and Clementine looks to me so confused. I keep forgetting she never really got to have these types of talks.
"He's asking if any of us tried to have sex with you." I say bluntly and the new faces blush like crazy and my friends and I laugh again.
"Wait… the fuck is that?" She asked and I rub my neck a bit and I whisper in her ear so no one could hear me.
"You know what we did in the office?" I asked and she looked to me and turns red. I do hope the old man assumed that it's because I explained what it was and not what we had done in our alone time.
"Uh… no they haven't." She says and looks down at the table and I chuckle a bit.
"Good." Kenny says and I smirk a bit as I look to Clem. She grabbed my hand more and I rub it gently.
"And if she did?" I asked.
"Then I'll beat the boy that violated her." He says and I look to him.
"Come on man, if they did stuff then they did Clem can make her own choice." Javie says and Kenny glared to him.
"Listen here, she is still a child, she doesn't need to be a mom." He says and I look to Clem who is laughing just a bit and I laugh a little too. If only he knew. But I know what he's doing, he want's Clementine to be safe, nothing wrong with that, he's known her since all this started.
"She acts like a mom already." I joked but he didn't seem to like that response and glares at me.
"Excuse me?" He asked.
"She's raised AJ for a long time now, she's basically a mom at this point already." I say and he looked to me and I glare back at him.
"Well she doesn't need to be having kids at this point in her life you idiot." He says and We all look to him. I'm not really shocked at his response.
"I didn't say she needed to have kids at this point, I'm just saying she's already acting like a mom by taking care of AJ who is still a child mind you." I say and he looks at me more then he looks away.
"Ok can we stop talking about this?" The woman Kate says and I nod a bit and I hold Clems hand more.
"Yea, please." Clem says quietly and I look to her as she was red from embarrassment and I smile at her a bit.
"Whatever." Kenny says and I sigh a bit as I see the sun starting to come up and I rub my eyes a bit.
"Alright uh… we can try and relax for today; it's been a long night and I know I'm bushed." I say as I get up a bit and so does everyone else. Ruby takes the new group of people to theor rooms for the day and I look to Clementine as I take her to her and AJ's room.
"I'll stay up longer to Watch AJ and the others, I can't leave them up by themselves." I say.
"I can stay up too, we can just stay in the walls today just in case either of us need to sleep." She says and I look to her as I see Ruby and the others heading to their rooms and I look to her.
"You sure?" I asked and then the door opened and I looked to see AJ looking at us.
"Oh, you done with lookout?" He asked and Clementine nods a bit.
"Yea but I'll stay up a bit longer, we're going to kind of relax for the day." She says and I look to her a bit and then I see Tenn and Willy coming out the room as well and I smile at them.
"Hey you guys." I tell them.
"Morning Vincent." Tenn says and I nod.
"Uh Omar made breakfast for you guys." I said and they all nod and head out to get some food. I watched as AJ followed them and I looked to Clementine who looked dead tired and she looked back to me.
"You sure you don't want to sleep?" I asked and she nods.
"Yea I'm sure I can stay up for days." She says and I chuckle.
"Well if you ever need to sleep just go ahead, I can watch the boys." I tell her and she nods as she slowly heads into her room and I watch her go in her bed and I go in and cover her up.
"Sorry." She mumbled and I nod.
"Nothing to be sorry about, just get some rest." I tell her and she nods as I take her cap off and set it on the table for her. I kiss her head and she closed her eyes a bit as I stood up. I turn to the door to see AJ looking at us and then running off out the building and I rubbed my neck as I looked to Clementine and I sigh as I go and leave the room making sure to close it and lock it. I head out to see AJ, Tenn and Willy all eating. I go over and sit with them.
"I had a dream where I was flying." Tenn says.
"You can't fly though." AJ says.
"Well it was a dream you can do anything in a dream." Willy says to AJ and I smile a bit.
"Yea, I once had a dream where I was aware it was a dream and I could do whatever I wanted." I said and he looked to me.
"Yea?" he asked and I nod.
"So, you did whatever you wanted?" He asked and I nodded.
"If I wanted to eat ice-cream in my dream I did so, I can't do that anymore so." I try to say and he nods a bit and I hear some walkers by the gate and I go and grab my knife to take care of them. The boys help me and I look to the sides of the gate after we killed the ones in our way.
"Lots of walkers out today." I say and they looked at me. It was a few hours later when we sat at the table and I watched the boys draw and Willy was witling with his knife that Mitch gave him two years prior.
"Shit you haven't gone to bed?" I hear and I look up to see Louis and Aasim walking over to us.
"Had to watch the boys." I tell them as they still draw.
"Go to bed Vincent." Aasim says and I nod a bit as I get up and start walking over to the rooms until I hear someone running behind me and I turn to see AJ.
"You should sleep in mine and Clems room, the beds are soft in there." He says and I chuckle and nod.
"I'll think on it ok?" I asked and he nod and I pat his head gently.
"Alright, have a good sleep." He says as he runs over to Aasim and I nod as I head over to the room and I look to his and Clementines. I rub my neck a bit as I head to my room and I hear the door open and I turn to see Clementine walking out. She still looked tired and I go over to her.
"Hey you ok?" I asked and she looked to me and nods.
"Yea I'm… no, I had a nightmare." She says.
"Want to, come to my room? We can lay back and relax, Louis and Aasim are going to watch the boys." I tell her and she looked to me and nods just a bit as I grab her hand gently and I take her to my bed room and I open the door for her. She walks in and I walk in behind her, I then come up behind her and I hold her waist gently and I kiss her neck a bit.
"You want to talk about it?" I asked.
"I… it was just what happened years ago, With Lee." She says and I nod as I take her to my bed and I sit next to her.
"I just…. I just keep having the dream of shooting him when he was bit… I try to help him but I can't." She says and I look to her.
"I am really sorry about what had happened to Lee, He sounds like a great man and he loved you till the very end." I tell her.
"I just wish I could go back in time and help him or even just not do what I did." She says and I hold her to me and I lay back on to the bed and she had her head to my chest and she gripped my shirt a bit as I looked to the celling.
"You know… there are times where I wish I could turn back time to do something and change the outcome of my life but… then I wouldn't be here… I wouldn't have met you, no matter how morbid it sounds its just…it's the truth." I try to say and she nods a bit.
"Hell, if Lee was with me… I don't think he would have like the idea of what we uh… did." She says and turns red and I smile and I close my eyes a bit.
"Yea, I don't even think your friend Kenny would be to… Happy to know about that." I joked and she laughed just a bit.
"I'm sorry, I… I can't really talk about this with anyone." She says and I nod gently as I rubbed her back just a bit.
"Yea I know what you mean, I can't talk to a lot of people about certain things." I tell her and she nods a bit. I don't know how long it's been but my eyes start to grow heavy from the lack of sleep and I start to nod off.
"I should head out." She says and I grab her hand gently.
"Nah, you can stay, this is comfortable." I mumbled and I sit up and take my shirt off. It was a bit warm today and I lay back down and I feel her lay back on top of me and I hold her to me. It wasn't long till I just started to fall asleep and I just held her to me.