(Vincent's Pov)
I woke up a bit as I looked at the ceiling a bit. The sun was still high up in the sky and I feel some weight to my chest as I look to see Clementine still asleep on top of me. I moved a bit and she wakes up and she looks to me.
"Hm?" She mumbled and I chuckle a bit.
"Still tired?" I asked and she shook her head no.
"Nah I'm good." She says and I sit up and rub my face a bit as I look around and yawn as I get up and grab my shirt and I look to Clementine as she looked to me. She gets up and comes over to me and kisses my cheek a bit and I smile at her. I then grab her waist gently and look at her.
"So what do you want to do when all this shit with the raiders are over with?" I asked and she looked to me.
"We could go for a stroll." She says and I chuckle and nod a bit.
"Alright we can do that." I say and she nods as I let go of her and I put my shirt on. Once I grab my jacket, I help her out the room and I look to see Kenny and the other three walking out their rooms and I take Clementine outside so we could get anything we needed to get done, done.
"Afternoon good children." Louis says and I roll my eyes a bit as we sit next to him and look to a map that he had.
"Whatcha looking for?" I asked as he pointed to the school area.
"We could set some traps here for the raiders." He says and I nod.
"Sounds good…. What type of traps?" I asked.
"Rope that hangs them upside down, you know not really hurting them, just to scare them or something." He says and I nod.
"Sounds like a good idea." Clementine says and I hear some arguments and I look over to Aasim and Willy and I get up and hurry over to them before Willy punched Aasim in the gut.
"Whoa hold up what the hell is going on?" I asked as I pulled Willy back.
"Aasim isn't listening to me." Willy exclaimed.
"Cause your idea is fucking stupid, he wants to put a log in the god damn admin building that would take out one raider at most." Aasim says.
"Wait, raiders?" I hear and I look to see Kenny and the others looking at us.
"Look, we can talk about that later." I say and they look at me.
"What is this thing about raiders?" I hear Kenny say and I look to him.
"Not right now." I say.
"No now, the fuck do you mean by raiders?" He asked pissed and I looked to him.
"Kenny calm down." Javie says and I rub my face a bit.
"There are a bunch of raiders that want to take us." AJ says and he looked to him then back to me.
"Are you fucking kidding me?" he asked pissed.
"No, OK, we have raiders that want to take us from our home and make us fight in a stupid war or some shit, has nothing to do with you." I tell him pissed.
"You didn't think to tell us? I would gladly take Clementine and AJ away from this." He says and I look at him.
"No, Kenny don't not now." Clem groans a bit and looks down embarrassed.
"No, you and AJ shouldn't deal with this." He says.
"No, you're right, they shouldn't and they could have left the moment AJ got better and I would not have stopped them, but they're still here because they want to stay, we aren't forcing them to stay at all." I tell him as I look to Clementine who was looking at AJ, who was looking down at the ground.
"Now back off, and if you're going to act like this, you and your group can leave, you want to act like this I don't care, we are trying to clean up a fucking mess that should never had happened." I tell him and he glared at me.
"Why you-."
"KENNY!" Clem yells and we all look at her.
"Just stop this please, I can make my own choices I have for years without you, just stop." She says and he looked to her then back at me and the others then back to her.
"No, you're going to come with us Clem, you and AJ you aren't staying here to fight their bullshit." He says and we all look at each other then back at him.
"No, I will not, I am staying here." She says.
"Clementine." He says.
"Dude lay the fuck off her." I say and he glared at me.
"Let me guess you're making Clementine help you clean up your own fuck up, just admit it." He accused me and I glare at him.
"No, I'm cleaning up the mess our old leader made, so fuck off old man." I tell him and he was red and I was close to punching him. I saw his hand as a fist and I clenched my hands.
"Don't you dare." He says,
"No fuck you, you're in our home, you can fucking leave right now if you don't like this." I tell him.
"Gladly, but Clementine and AJ are coming with us." He says.
"Dude, stop." Javie says.
"Don't tell me to stop." He says and I glare at him.
"Vincent stop." Louis says.
"No fuck this old man, he thinks he can tell them what they're going to do? No fuck him." I tell Louis and then I look to Kenny, who was visibly mad.
"You're going to get them killed." He tells me.
"OUR OLD LEADER WAS GOING TO GET THEM KILLED, HE WAS GOING TO GET ALL OF US KILLED YOU OLD FUCKER!" I yelled as I glare at him.
"AND WE ARE TRYING TO CLEAN UP HIS MESS!" I yelled again as he looked at me. I wanted to fucking punch the hell out of this man with his bullshit, I don't care if he was friends with Clementine in any shape or form, he is not going to accuse me for Marlon's bullshit.
"Kenny, stop, AJ and I are staying, we like it here." She says and I look to her as she looked to me.
"You… You're a kid you don't know." He tried to say.
"Kenny please stop, I have been making choices for years, I want to stay here and so does AJ." She says and AJ nods.
"Tennessee is really fun." AJ says and I looked to him.
"Kenny, they let us in their home." Javie says and he shakes his head and keeps quiet. I was watching him as he mumbled and left the area and I shake my head as well and I rub my face as I looked to Clementine who looked at me sadly and I breath a bit as she comes over to me and I look down at her.
"I'm so sorry." She starts and I stop her.
"It's fine, old man needs to know that not everyone is going to listen to his way of life, oh well." I say and I finish talking with Aasim and Willy who both agreed to hand a bag of bricks in the admin building. It was a few days later when Kenny and the others had decided to take their leave. Clementine had said her good-byes to them and gave them all hugs and I watch Kenny.
"If…. If you guys ever want to come back then please do so." I mumbled and he nods and they all take their leave. I was watching them as they leave and I rubbed my face just a bit as I look to the others as I walk back into school and I lock the gate.
"Ok, we have everything set up?" I asked and everyone nodded and I nod.
"You all have your weapons?" I asked and they nodded as I looked to them and I nod as we all just take a break from working our asses off.
"Alright… lets play a game." Louis says and I chuckle a bit and nod.
"Yea I can go for a game." I say and Louis shuffles his deck of cards as we all look to him.
"Alright ya'll time for a round of truth and dare." He says and I chuckle as he hands us the cards and we grab one and flip.
"Ooooh ok Clementine, Truth or dare?" Louis asked and he looked to me.
"Uh… Truth?" she asked.
"Aww, anyway is there anyone here you like-like?" He asked.
"Like-like? What are you six?" I asked.
"Seven actually." He says.
"Yea there is." She says and I see her eyes looking to me but not giving away who. Even though Louis tried to get it out of her.
"Aww come on you can tell us, is it me?" He asked and I laughed along with Aasim and Ruby.
"Hey it could be Ruby." He says and I laugh some more.
"Come on tell." He asked her again and I look to her a bit.
"Nope." She says.
"Hey I could make fun of that hat." He says.
"Don't." Both AJ and I said and he looked to me and I shake my head a bit as to warn him not to do so.
"Don't make fun of her hat." AJ says and Louis nods at this.
"Alright ya'll next round." Ruby says and we all get our cards and I flip mine and look around.
"Shit again?" Clem says and I chuckle a bit.
"Alright… Marry Fuck Kill?"
"Vince." Tenn says and I roll my eyes.
"Fine, Marry, Flip, Kill? Hmm Ruby, Louis or that boy in the woods?" I asked as I looked to her and she thought.
"I would Marry…. Ruby." She says.
"Ooooh I hear wedding bells." Louis says and I chuckle.
"I can hear them too, now we just got to get a horse for Ruby." I say and she throws a stick at me as we laugh.
"I would, flip." She says and Louis along with AJ chant flip as I look to her.
"Louis." She says.
"Damn I knew I had the charm." He says as he slicks his hair back and I roll my eyes.
"So that means you're going to kill?" Aasim says.
"Boy from the woods." I announce.
"May he rest in peace, even though he was a figment of Clems' imagination." Louis says.
"He's real I saw him." AJ says and I nod to him as he looked to me.
"Alright another round." Louis says and then we all grab our cards and I flip mine and I see Clementine smile as she finally got a high card. I look around and see that Aasim was the one with the low card and he looked to her as he does Clementine was thinking.
"Truth or dare?" she asked and I look to Aasim and he smirks.
"Do your worst dare." He says and I look to Clem who is smiling.
"I dare you to… Kiss the walker head." She says and he looked to her shocked.
"But I'll die." He says.
"Go for the cheek, avoid the teeth." She says and Louis and I can't stop laughing at this as we watch Aasim going over to the walker heads and kissing it.
"Ooooh damn Aasim, when is the wedding?" Louis asked and I chuckled at this as Aasim came over spitting and I smile at this.
"Fuck off man." Aasim says and we grab our cards again and this time Aasim has the high card and Tenn has the low card and I looked at them.
"What's something you believe in that you wouldn't share in fear of being bullied for?" Aasim says and Tenn looked at all of us and I nod.
"I think that the walkers will go away, there are many things that have come and gone over the years, Stone age, uh the dark age…. Other ages you know… walkers came and they can go just like other things have come and gone, basically a walker age." He says and I look at him.
"A world without walkers… that sounds nice." Clementine says and I nod as I continue to look to him.
"It's so weird." AJ says and I looked to him.
"You all know what it's like before… I don't." He says quietly and I look at him sadly.
"Don't worry kid, the world was still a shit place before all the walkers came to eat us, and raiders try to steal us." Louis says and I look at my card a bit.
"Fuck those raiders." I say as I hand the card back to Louis.
"I'll agree with that." Aasim says and I rub my face as Omar calls for dinner and we all go and eat. It wasn't long till we all finished and I see AJ shivering a bit so I take my jacket off and place it on him and he thanks me for it and I nod. I finish my food and I look up at the gate and wall a bit as I think for a while I look to the Bell Tower. I hadn't been up there for years since Minnie didn't really like going up there with me and said that it was a stupid thing to do. And me being the coward who wanted to just make others happy I listen to her and had the door locked up after the twins were gone or we were told they were dead. I wasn't in a happy place after that news so it was a good thing that we had locked up the door to it.
"Alright, so major question…. Should we celebrate Christmas this year?" Louis asked and I look to him a bit.
"You know, that sounds like a good idea." Ruby says and I nod.
"What is Christmas?" AJ asked and I looked at him.
"A time where we give gifts and have fun." Louis says and AJ looked to Clementine for some form of confirmation and I chuckle.
"Well he isn't wrong." She says and I chuckle.
"God I can't remember the last time we did something like that." Aasim says.
"It was before Sophie and Minnie left." Tenn says and I look to him and rub my neck.
"I… It sounds like a good idea actually, lets do it." Omar says and I look to the flames a bit.
"Vincent?" I heard and I looked up.
"Yea, we can do that, show AJ how we celebrate." I say and everyone nods. It wasn't long till we finished up talking, Ruby had taken look-out for a bit and I looked at the flames then to the boys as they talked to AJ and explained holidays for him. I looked over to Clementine who was talking to Louis and I slowly get up from the couch and head to the admin building. I go up the stairs and head into the old office and I looked around a bit as Rosie sat up and came over to me. I pet her head gently as I opened the drawers a bit and I find a key and look at it. I did look like the key Marlon had used to lock up the Bell Tower, even if I'm wrong there has to be keys somewhere. I head back out the admin building and see Louis trying to make Clementine laugh but it seemed to be failing.
"So, that Kenny guy, was he always like that?" Louis asked as I came over.
"He… kinda, as far as I can remember, he has had a tough life since his son died." She says.
"Duck was his son, right?" I asked and she nods as I sit next to her and place my arm on the back of the couch behind her.
"Yea, he was ten when he passed away… I saw him in his moms' arms dying and… I told Kenny that Duck wasn't feeling good… Next thing I know a few hours later, Lee and Kenny stopped the train, and then Kenny takes his son into the woods with Katjaa… Then bang, gunshot rings out, I though duck was gone and lee went to check it out… then another bang, and Kenny came back with lee but no Duck or Katjaa." She says and I watch her.
"I honestly didn't know what happed to Katjaa I thought she wanted to stay with duck or something like that, but years later, I realized she shot herself." She says and I look down.
"She was a good woman." She says and I nod a bit. We talk a bit about random things like school and what music we listened too. I looked to Clementine a bit and then I get up.
"Well I'm going to go and check the defenses, want to come look?" I asked her.
"Or you could help me? I have a new piece I'm working on but it's missing something." Louis says and I look to her a bit.
"Got to get a few songs in before you chop the piano into fire wood." He says and I roll my eyes and I begin walking to the Bell Tower. I heard some footsteps behind me and I turn to see Clementine as she came up next to me. I smile a bit as I take her to the door of the tower and I use the key and unlock it, happy that it was the right key at least. I open the door for her and she walks in and I come in from behind and see her looking up the tower. The bell had fallen and was sunken into the ground because there was no need to fix it in any way.
"Up there?" she asked and I nod.
"Yep… chicken?" I asked and she looked to me.
"Hell no." She says and I chuckle as I start climbing.
"Uh… is it dangerous?" She asked and I smirked.
"Well be honest what's worse? Walkers? Or that deathtrap you called a car?" I asked and I hear her mutter a bit.
"Alright Fair." I chuckled a bit as I climbed up. It wasn't long till we finally got to the top and I looked at our defenses and I look at the wall more.
"Barbed wire, traps, seems like everything is in order." She says and I nod. I look around a bit more and I rub my neck as I look to her.
"Uh, you have look-out next right?" I asked her and she nods.
"Yea, why?" She asked.
"You think you have time to hang out with me?" I asked and she nods a bit but before we could I heard Ruby calling for Clementine who looked to me and smiled sadly and I chuckled a bit.
"Guess not." She says and we both laugh and I kiss her cheek gently. We looked down and waved to Ruby as I pointed to the bell tower a bit and she nods as I help Clementine down and she headed to the look-out post and AJ followed her up there and he grabbed the binoculars and I looked over to the others.
"Alright, so everyone think they're ready?" I asked.
"Yep, bomb is ready to go." Mitch says and I nod.
"Good, Louis what about the bow and arrows?" I asked.
"I think I got it, if not I have Chairles." He says and I nod as I look to the others.
"Medicine is hidden so they can't take any just in case something does happen." Ruby says and I nod and I looked to see Clementine and AJ hurrying down the ladder and AJ is running over to us.
"They're here and they have horses with movable crates." He says and I look to Clem.
"Cages for us." She says and I nod and I breath in a bit.
"Look let me do all the talki-." But before she could finish there was a loud bang and Omar fell to the ground holding his leg.
"Fuck." He says and I look around quickly and her people banging on the gates.
"Clementine, we know you're in there." The woman says and I see her grab Omar.
"I have him, go." I say and she looked to me and nods as she hurries to grab her bow and I pull Omar off to the side and hand him a gun.
"Use this ok?" I asked and he nods as I help Clementine flip the table and push it to the other to make a barricade and I look at her then I see Louis on the side with his bow and chair leg. I look around and see my rifle on the other side and I quickly go to I and I grab t and stay hidden behind the table when I hear the gates open up.
"Fuck." I mumbled and I look to Clementine who looked to us and I nod a bit as I hear the people walking in.
"Clementine, where are you?" I hear the woman ask again and Clementine nods to me and we both get up as I aim my rifle at them and she aims her arrow at them.
"Lilly." She called out and the Raiders look to us and I see the man with the one arm.
"Shit, thought you would have died with how close you were." He says as I look to him and I glare at him.
"Where is the rest of our recruits?" She asked and I glare at her a bit but keep my eyes on the other.
"They aren't yours." She says and Lilly looked to me then back to Clementine as she raised her hand up and I look to the tree and I glare as I see someone in the trees.
"Fuck." I say quietly and I look at them.
"You planned out a lot of things, told them how to do it too hu?" Lilly asked and she looked to me.
"You're Minnie's boyfriend hu?" She asked and I look at her more.
"She misses you, says you always made her smile, she wanted to come but as you can see this wouldn't have been the best if she was going to be hurt here." She says and I look at her.
"She's alive?" I asked. I just wanted to make sure, I just wanted to know if she was ok.
"Of course, come with us and we can show you." She says and I keep my gun pointed at her and her people.
"Vincent." Clem says and I look to her then back to the raiders and I shake my head. I see some movement and see Tenn coming out of hiding and I shake my head at him but he didn't pay attention.
"Where are they?" He demands and I glare at him a bit.
"Let me show you." Lilly says and I fire the rifle off near her feet as I move over to Tenn and she glares at me.
"You little brat." She says and I glare at her keeping my rifle pointed at them.
"Fuck you bitch." I tell her.
"Fucking disrespectful brat." The man Abel says and I roll my eyes. I see Mitch light the fuse on the bomb and I move Tenn back a bit as the bomb went off Knocking some raiders down including Lilly, scaring the horses as hey run a bit and the raiders scatter a bit as I shove Tenn out of the way as one raider came up to us and I shot him in the head and I backed up.
"TAKE WHAT YOU CAN AND KILL THE REST!" Lilly yells and I look around as I see Clementine shooting at some of the people. I move to the side quick enough to move away from one raider as she tried to cut me with her knife. I used my rifle and wacked her in the head with it knocking her out. I move away as I see the others heading into the admin building and I see Mitch throwing a miniature bomb by one of the raiders setting it off and blowing the mans foot and I back up as I look around. I see Clementine and AJ along with the other boys run into the admin building as Able follows them and I run up to him only to be stopped by a big bear like man who tried to grab me and I fired the rifle at his foot blasting a hole in it as I run away from him. It wasn't long till I saw smoke in the building and yelling, then I see Clementine and Abel fall from the balcony.
"CLEM!" I yell and I turn to hit another raider who tried to hurt me. I hear a gun shot going off as I turn to see Mitch hiding.
"MITCH!" I yell to him as he turned to stab a raider and I look to see Lilly pointing her gun at Clementine. I was about to run to her but I see Louis tackle Lilly and I turn to stop a woman from slicing me with her knife. I shove her back a bit and she shoves me a few feet back. I hear Louis yelling and I quickly aim my gun at Lilly and fire the rifle missing her but she had let go of him. The next thing I feel is a sudden pain from my side and I looked down to see a blade covered in blood poking from the fabric of my shirt and a burning sensation when it was pulled back. I hear yelling and screaming as I turn to see the woman who stabbed me and she grabbed my rifle from me and hitting me with it. I fell back a bit dazed and I felt myself being lifted up. It wasn't long till I felt a hard floor and bumps. My vision was going in and out a bit as I looked to see the sky and stars but also some bars before I finally passed out. I have no idea how long I was out for but I felt some water being splashed on me, it was so god damn cold that I woke up and breathed a bit hard and felt a pain in my side as I hissed in pain and then I felt a punch to my face as I quickly look up to see Lilly glaring at me.
"Have a nice nap?" She asked as she grabbed my face. Water dripping from my face onto her hand and I glare at her as I shiver a bit from the cold, I forgot that I gave AJ my jacket.
"Hmm?" She asked me again and I look at her more.
"You know you and your friends gave us real hell." She says as she shoved my head to the wall hitting it and I close my eyes a bit as I look at her.
"Fuck you." I tell her and she glares at me and punches me again and I cough a bit.
"You got a lot of my people killed back there, and all we got was you, a weak nobody." She says and I chuckle.
"Better me than them." I say and she punches me again and my head moved to the side and I hear footsteps.
"Thanks Dorian, I'll need you to get the medic in a bit." I hear as I look to the sounds and I see Lilly with a crowbar and I look to her.
"Yes ma'am." The other woman says and she leaves as Lilly closes the door of the cell and she looks at me as she comes back over to me crowbar in hand and hitting it against her other hand a bit.
"We lost four people just for one kid… that doesn't seem fair now does it?" She says and I glare at her. I'm shivering a bit more due to the cold air and water and she smirks.
"What can't handle the cold?" She says and I glare at her.
"F-Fuck you." I stutter and she laughed as she lifts my chin up with the crowbar, the cold metal making it worse for me.
"Well don't expect any extra blankets kid, this is all you're going to get." She says and I just look at her.
"You know they aren't going to come for you… they didn't even try to save you." She says and I glare at her more.
"You're a fucking liar." I tell her and she laughed.
"Let me guess Clementine told you that hu?" She asked.
"Well, you know she's a liar too." She says.
"The fuck has she lied about? You haven't been around her for years." I say and she smirks.
"Oh, dear boy when you live out those walls you have no choice to be a liar these days." She says and moves the crowbar away and I look at her as I shiver a bit and move my hands to my arms to keep a bit warm.
"She's killed many people, she didn't give a damn about some, she is well known through out these states, you think we haven't heard of her? Even Minerva Knows about her." She says and I look at her.
"Right, you are her boyfriend, right?" she says and laughed a bit.
"I… she… she." I mutter and she laughed a bit and I looked down.
"Sorry I should say you were her boyfriend; she found another guy her age in my group." She says and I look to the side.
"See how easy it is to lie?" she asked and I didn't look at her.
"Look at me when I am talking to you." She says as she grabs my face and I glare at her and I guess she didn't like and she stand up and swings the crowbar to my face and my god it hurt like fucking head and I hold my head a bit as I hear a ringing in my ear and I wanted to fucking cry from the pain.
"Fucking disrespectful brat, look at me when I talk to you." She says and I look up to her a bit my hand still to my head and she glared at me.
"Your friends won't come for you, your girlfriend didn't care for you, no one cares about you, had it not been for me, you would have died with that stab wound, so you better thank me." She says and I keep quiet as I look to her more. It pissed her off and I flinch a bit ready for the crowbar to hit my head again but it didn't come. I look up to see her smirking and she leaves the cell and I look to the wall as I try to stop the ringing in my ear. I breath a bit and look around and I grab the blanket and cover my top half as I try to get warm.