(Vincent's Pov)
As the time passed morning had come and I got up from the bed just to see some of the stars still out. I slowly got up as I rubbed my face a bit and I place my hands on my legs as I look to the window a bit more and I get up. I walk to my closet and grabbed a jacket and walked out he room and to the fireplace in the music room. I see Kenny and the others up as I grab the empty bucket to get some snow for water.
"You sleep good?" I asked as I looked to them.
"Yes, we did, thank you." Javie says and I nod.
"Mariana will come down later for breakfast." I mumbled as I went out to the front of the school and I filled the bucket to the top with snow. I took it back inside to the fireplace and set it close by so it could melt. I look up to see Louis and the others coming into the music room and I wave at them and then Omar comes up to me.
"I'll start on breakfast soon." He says and I nod.
"I'll get Clementine her coffee." I yawned as I got back up.
"It's in the kitchen like always." He says and I nod as I head out. I walked to the old kitchen and I took a look at the supplies that we had and I nod as I grab Clementine's coffee and I got a little warmer that we used to heat up the coffee or anything else. I grabbed a mug and poured in some of the bottled water and I put the instant coffee in it and wait. I hear some footsteps and I look up to see Mariana.
"Morning." I say and she nods.
"Hmm Aasim wanted me to ask if there was an extra water bottle he could use." She says and I nod as I give her the one I had in my hand.
"Guess you haven't been in the music room yet hu?" I asked and she shook her head no.
"No why?"
"Hmm, just wait, you'll see." I tell her and she nods as I watch Clems coffee. Once done I took it off the burner and I head to the music room just in time to see Clementine and AJ heading to the door.
"Got your coffee." I announce and she looked to me and smiled a bit.
"Thanks, I'm going to need it for this day." She says and I nod as I hand it to her and she takes a drink. I open the door for them and Mariana screams as she runs up to her Uncle and Brother.
"Oh my god, Gabe, Javie, Kate." She says as she sees Kate and hugs her as well. I watch them and then I look to Clementine as she heads over to Kenny. I think a bit and clear my throat.
"So, uh… I have a major question to ask you guys." I say and everyone looked to me and I rubbed my face. I need to find an eyepatch soon these bandages were bothering me.
"When uh…. when Lilly and them had me locked up…. Kenny did you kill a young girl in their group?" I asked him.
"Kenny wouldn't do that." Clementine says.
"I want to hear it from him, and the others, Lilly was after them, she told me that he killed a young girl and the others had a part in it, I just want to know… I don't want dangerous people here anymore." I say as I look at everyone.
"You said she was after Ya'll." Kenny says.
"She was, but she was so keen on me telling her where you four went to, now were you part of her group or did you kill a little girl there?" I asked and they looked at me more.
"I want an answer now." I demanded.
"Vincent, Kenny would-." Clem tried to say but I lifted my hand up to stop her.
"I was beaten because I didn't tell Lilly where they went, I want to know if my intuition was right and that they actually didn't hurt anyone…. And them keeping quiet…. Isn't helping them." I say as I look to Kenny.
"The…. I didn't hurt anyone; I didn't kill a little kid." He tells me and I look to the others.
"Is this true?" I asked and I saw Gabe moving a bit.
"Gabe?" I asked and he looked to me.
"He didn't." He says and I watch him more as he fidgeted more.
"Who did?" I asked.
"Who?" Louis asked.
"He's moving around a lot; people sometimes do that when they're nervous about something." Ruby says and I nod as I watch him.
"Kenny didn't hurt anyone…. He took the wrap for me." He says and I watch him.
"Why?" I asked.
"Why what? Look he doesn't have to tell you anything." Kenny says.
"He better or ya'll better, I'm not going to have anyone in my group get hurt by someone in yours, you all should know this by now." I say to everyone. They look at me and I look back to Gabe.
"Who did you kill and why?" I asked him.
"…. I don't know her name." He says and I look at him.
"But she was threatening to give away our plan to leave." He said.
"It was like Carvers all over again." Kenny said.
"The girl you killed was Robin…. Her name was Robin." Sophie says and I look at her.
"Ok… we…. Look…. Hmm." I tried to think but really couldn't.
"You can stay but one step out of line and you all are gone." I say as I look at them.
"That's fair." Javie says.
"The hell it is, you can't just throw us out cause of what the boy did, and he was scared about the girl blabbing." He says and I look to him shocked.
"Excuse you?" I asked and he looked to me.
"You don't get to run this place; you have no fucking-." I tried to say but he stopped me.
"We can take on a bunch of kids, so watch it."
"KENNY!" Clementine yelled at him and I look at all the others and then him.
"Hand your weapons over right now, you want to threaten us I swear to god I'll make sure your brains get blown on the walls." I threatened and he looked to me.
"I ain't giving up nothing." He says.
"Kenny, stop this now." Clementine says and I glare at him more as he walked up to me and Clementine got between us and I glare at him in the eye.
"You, will not threaten us and think we're going to listen to you." I tell him.
"You think you know everything don't you? Well you don't, you have no clue what it is like to be taken by people and be captive, you know nothing." He says and I look at him and clench my fists. I saw Louis about to talk but I spoke instead.
"You know what, no I have no god damn clue what it's like to be kept captive, I don't and I'm glad that I haven't that's nothing to feel bad about just like you don't have to feel bad about people abandoning you like we did, we had adults who we were entrusted to, leave us because they were assholes and they left us to die, only one adult stayed and she's gone." I say and he glared at me.
"I don't have to listen to you." He says.
"Oh, you're mad cause I'm telling you off? I don't give two fucks on how old you are, I'm done with adults and their bullshit thinking that just cause we're younger that we don't know shit, but we do… we lost friends, families, we were abandoned, we fought, and these kids." I said and pointed to everyone in my group and then I looked to Kenny.
"These kids, fought a bunch of adults, shooting at them, walkers, all the dangerous things in this world, and they fucking lived, they blew up a god damn raiders boat and got rid of the bad people that wanted us to fight in their war, you aren't special Kenny, no one is, we all have issues, you aren't the only one, only thing is, I am going to keep them safe, and I'M telling you that you are going to give up your weapons so no one in my group gets killed because of you, or that fucker over there." I said and pointed to Gabe.
"I'm not going to have some kid who killed a girl just cause someone was going to blab, because if you guys decide you want to take over, we can just have you go to the gate and no one will die." I tell him and he looked to me more. He kept glaring and I shake my head.
"Kenny please, just do it." Kate says.
"The hell I will." He says.
"Hey calm down, he is right, Kenny they let us in they didn't force us to come in or anything." Javie says.
"Kenny it's best if you do it, you trust me don't you?" Clementine asked him and I watch as he sighed and handed over his gun and Knife to Clementine and the others did it as well. I just shake my head and we get the day going like normal. We work a bit outside getting wood for the fire to keep us warn, heading to the greenhouse and looking at the food, I helped Ruby get some plants for medicine and then Clementine and I went out for a bit of a hunt. I had my rifle with me and I looked to Clementine who had her pistol.
"You know Kenny needs to learn to listen to people." I say as I look around.
"Vincent please don't, just stop." She says.
"I'm just saying." I mumbled and I see a lone deer and I'm lining up the shot.
"Ok, I know but right now just drop it." She says and I sigh a bit and lower the rifle.
"No, we need to talk about this, it's not going to end with him, look I know he's like a mentor to you but the next time he gets out of line…. I'm sorry but I can't have that." I say as we look at each other.
"You understand, that right? And especially with Gabe killing someone, what if he goes after Sophie? Or worse AJ?" I asked.
"He wouldn't."
"You don't know what he will do." I say to her.
"I had no idea what you guys would do to me after AJ shot Marlon, I know a few people wanted to hurt us, don't lie about that, but you… you still defended us, you gave us a chance, give them a chance too." She says.
"I am giving them a chance; I'm just saying that Kenny cannot sit there and play victim." I tell her.
"He isn't."
"Oh my god, he has and always has, you told me that he blamed you for what's her names death." I say.
"Sarita." She tells me and I nod.
"Right, he had the audacity to tell an eleven year old girl that it was all her fault that a grown woman died and he was no where near her to help her, he wanted to tell you that YOU were wrong to bring up Lee… a man you looked up to since he helped you when this world went to shit, you weren't allowed to show your sadness or tell someone about what happened to you, because of people like Kenny who want to think they're the only ones who have been hurt…. I've been hurt, Louis has been hurt, Ruby, Tenn, Minnie, Sophie, Mitch, Willy, all of us, everyone has been hurt even Lilly…. Now what she did was wrong, the path she went on was wrong, but she didn't say 'Boohoo woah was me, I lost my dad and no one is allowed to say they have it worse than me'." I tell her.
"She kidnapped kids Kenny didn't."
"He doesn't have to kidnap kids to act like a god damn prick, especially saying that he can take on a bunch of kids, I will not hesitate to shoot him if he decides to do as such." I tell her.
"You won't shoot him, if you do me and AJ are gone." She says and I look at her.
"You would be no better for shooting him Vincent he's all I have left of Lee." She says and I look at her then to the ground and I shake my head and aim my rifle at the deer and I take the shot shooting it right in the head. I get up and walk over to it and I close my eyes a bit.
"I'll only shoot him if he tries to take my home…. That's not a wrong thing to do Clementine…. It's the only home I've had even before the Walkers came about." I say as I grab the deer by the antlers and she helped me place it on the makeshift cart we made for the winter hunts.
"I'll be damned if I let someone take it by force." I say as we walk more.
"Vincent." She says but then stopped. She kept quiet and so did I, we didn't talk for the rest of the trip home as I opened the gate she walked in with the deer and I closed the gate. I saw Omar come out the building and I went and grabbed the rope from Clementine.
"Go inside and get warm, Omar and I will clean the deer for tonight." I say and she looked to me and nods just a bit before she heads inside. I watch her as she goes inside and I rub my neck and we take the deer into the back of the greenhouse where we take the food we've caught and we clean it. I grab my knife and a razor I was able to find, then Omar started a fire and got a few buckets of snow for cleaning.
"This is a good catch, and it's a buck too." He says and I nod as I shave the fur to keep it out of the meat when we cut it open.
"Yea… I'll give Clementine the antlers, she's been collecting skulls and stuff." I say.
"Hmm, sounds like something Mark use to do… remember him?" Omar asked and I nodded as I chuckled.
"Yea… He was an asshole to me but…. Can't blame him if I was an asshole back." I say as I finish shaving the deer and Omar had a bucket of water ready and I grabbed it an poured it on the deer.
"You know that Gabe kid started asking a lot of questions about you." He says and I stop working and I look at him.
"Questions like?"
"Well, he asked why you were sent here, and we didn't tell him, then he asked what you were to Clementine but we didn't say anything, we just told him to talk to you about it…. He kept real quiet after that though, guess he knew he wasn't going to get anything from us." He says and I nod.
"Thanks… for not telling him." I say as I get to work on cutting the deer open. It took us a good while to clean and cut the deer up for food but we were able to do it. I grabbed some of the meet and so did Omar and we made our way back into the school, we were cold but once in we felt the warmth of the fire and I sigh a bit.
"Damn my face went numb." I joke and Omar laughed a bit as we walk into the music room and he began to prepare lunch and dinner. I sat by the fire and I tried to get warm. I looked around to not see that Gabe kid and Clementine.
"Hey did Clementine come back here?" I asked Sophie as she sat next to louis by the Piano.
"Yea she did but Gabe wanted to talk to her." She says and I nod as I get up a bit and I head to my office to grab some papers. It's been a habit of mine to start writing down when we had food what it was where we got it and so on, it kept me busy. I heard some talking as I got closer to my office.
"Come on you can't tell me you actually like it here, that guy isn't thinking straight either." I hear and I stop walking and hear it come from my office.
"I do like it here, and so does AJ, and that guy has a name and it's Vincent." I hear Clementine say.
"Clem I just want what's best for you, is he forcing you to stay?" Gabe asked and I clench my teeth and growl lowly as I grab the door knob and open the door and looked to see Gabe and Clementine in the middle of my office and I glare at him.
"Get the fuck out of my office now." I threaten and he looked to me a bit scared but his face changed to anger too.
"No, I will not, I'm talking to Clementine." He says and I go up to him. I am taller than him an I look down at him.
"Get the fuck out of my office before I kick your ass." I tell him again.
"Gabe just go." Clementine says.
"No, he can't tell me what to do, and he can't tell you what to do either." He says and then shoves me back. Which was the wrong thing to do. Am I in the wrong for what I do next? I have no idea, but right now he needed to be taught a lesson. I grab him by the collar of his shirt and shove him into the wall his feet off the ground a hit and I look him dead in the eye before I pulled my arm back and slammed my fist into his face. I was able to get a few hits in before he kicked me right in the crotch and I groan a bit as I let him go and bend down a bit in pain.
"Fucking, idiot." I groan out as I get back up and he had his fist up to his chest as if he was trying to act like he knew hot to fight. I was about to tackle him but I was grabbed by the waist and I take the hands off me as I do finally tackle him and we fly out the doors of the office and into the hall. We started to swing fists at each other, hitting each other in the face, chest, stomach, he even kicked me a few times before we got near the steps and he tackled me as we both fell down hitting the steps along the way. We had fallen a few feet away from the steps at the last step and I hit the old table stand on the side, as I got up I was kicked in the face and I laid on my back as Gabe got on top of me. I hear the door open just as I was able to grab the sleeve of Gabe's jacket and move his one arm away before he hit me with his other arm. I twisted his right arm a bit which caused him to shout as I quickly shove him to the side and I got up and let go of his arm. He gets up as well and everyone is looking at us as he tackled me one more time and I grab his neck in a head lock as we fall to the ground and I punch his side.
"FUCKING LET GO!" He yells.
"FUCK YOU!" I yell back and hit his side again before he grabbed my leg and twisted it a bit causing me to let go of him.
"STOP IT BOTH OF YOU!" I hear Kate yell as I punch Gabe in the face and back up a bit. I see Javie and Louis come over to us and Gabe shoved Javie away and Louis tried to grab me but I look at him and he lifts his hands up a bit. Then Gabe tackled me again and this time we slammed into the door and it opened from the force breaking the lock, we tumble out into the snow and I hit my head on the step and I groan a bit as I get up only to be kicked in the side and I saw he was going to kick again and I grab his leg pulling him down and he falls on his ass and I quickly get up and start slamming my fist into his face as he tried to block me from doing so.
"STOP IT NOW THE BOTH OF YOU!" Javie yells but we didn't listen we just kept fighting, I wanted to beat the living hell out of him and I know he wanted to beat the hell out of me. Gabe shoved me back but I grabbed the collar of his shirt and hit him in the face again.
"STOP!" I hear and I feel someone pull me off Gabe and I fall back a bit and then get back up to go after him again.
"VINCENT STOP!" Louis yelled as I felt him grab me and I turn to shove him of me.
"BACK OFF LET ME KICK THIS PUNKS ASS!" I yelled at Louis and then I felt a head throbbing pain in the back of my head and I turn to see Gabe with a log and I felt the back of my head but didn't see any blood and I yelled as I tackled him again as he tried to swing the log at me again but he swing to fast as it wasn't able to hit me and I had him pinned to the ground as I grabbed the log and was about t hit him in the face with it before I was tackled off him by Tennessee and I look at him.
"Stop this Vincent, please." He begged and I look at him and then I see Gabe get up as he was about to grab Tennessee, I moved Tenn. away from me as I got back up and Gabe punched me in the chest and then his Uncle grabbed him and Tenn. pulled me back.
"I'll fucking bash your god damn face in." I tell him and he glares at me.
"What the fuck happened?" Javie asked.
"He got in my face so I moved him away and he started fighting me." Gabe says and they all look at me.
"I told that little shit that he needed to get out of my office, and he shoved me back, I don't fucking care anymore get the fuck out of here." I say as I glare at him then Javie.
"Wait Vincent just breath." Tenn. says.
"No, no fuck this shit, Kenny talks about how he can take on a bunch of kids, Gabe with his shit of being a disrespectful fucking child, to people who let them in, fuck that shit they need to leave now." I tell everyone that was in earshot.
"Vincent." Louis says and I look at him and I shake my head.
"Get him the fuck away from me or I swear to god I will break his fucking legs." I tell Javie as he takes Gabe away.
"FUCKING BITCH!" Gabe yelled and I was about to go after him but Louis and Mitch grabbed me and I shove them off and lift my hands up in surrender.
"Alright damn I won't go after him." I say as I take a breath, it took a bit and I walked to the bell tower and I heard someone walking by me and I see AJ.
"AJ go back inside." I tell him.
"You need to talk to someone, talking is good, I do it when I'm angry." He says and I sigh.
"What I have to say isn't something for you to hear." I tell him.
"I've heard a lot of swearing if that's what you're worried about." He says and I couldn't help but chuckle a bit and I pat his head.
"No, it's just…. Adult things…. You'll understand when you're older ok?" I asked him and he looked at me and nods a bit.
"Just breath a bit, that helps when you're angry… it helps me." He says and I nod as I take a few breaths and I sigh once more as he grabbed my hand and he took me inside the admin building. He must have been cold so I follow him and I look at the door a bit by bending down and I look at the door frame.
"Your stunt caused the door to get busted." I heard Kenny say and I glare at him.
"Please stop, don't start another fight." AJ says as he looked to Kenny and I get up and look at him.
"I'll fix it alright? Damn." I mumbled as I went to the supply room I grabbed the tool box and went back to the door and I looked at it and grabbed a screwdriver and unscrewed the screws as I worked on the door more I closed the door as I tried to unbend the metal portion of the lockset and I unbent it as best as I could before I set it back on the door frame. I screwed it back in and then closed the door to test it out and it worked good but I do know I will need to get a new lockset for the doors soon.
"Wouldn't have need fixing in the first place." He says and I glare at him.
"Back off, I want you and the others out of here by tonight, you are not welcomed here anymore." I tell him and he looked at me. I look to see Clementine looking at us.
"Kenny stop, you're making it worse." She tells him.
"Ho…. You can't be taking his side." He says and I just look at him.
"Kenny, stop, you and Gabe made things worse on yourselves, you both need to stop, now." She says and I look at her.
"Fine whatever." He says and I shake my head and I grabbed the tool box and set it back in the supply room and I close my eyes a bit and I feel someone touch my shoulder and I look to see Clementine.
"You need to have Ruby look you over." She says and I nod as I follow her to the old nurse's office and we see Ruby grabbing some medication and she looked to us.
"Good you're here, now let me check your damn head." She says as she hit my arm and I rubbed it.
"Damn, why?" I asked and she looked at me and glared.
"Seriously?" she asked and I look down as she looked at my head.
"Well there isn't any bleeding that's good, unless it's internal then well I can't help you there." She says and I nod gently and I look at Clementine who looks at me.
"Clementine, I'm sorry but your friends need to leave." I hear and look to see Mitch.
"I… I'm not going to talk about this, you guy's do what you need to do." She says.
"Clementine, we don't mean to act like a bunch of bad guys but if that Gabe kid fought Vincent over something as petty as that, then we can't have that here…." Aasim says and the others nod.
"I know, I know, I'm not saying what he did was ok." She says.
"I'm to blame too." I say as I get up.
"Look, they can stay, until the winter passes, once the snow storm stops then they can go…. It wouldn't be great to let them go out in the freezing cold… I know none of us would want that to happen to either of us." I say and they all look at me.
"No, Vincent they have to go now, he could have killed you, do you know how hard you hit your head?" Louis asked.
"Yes, I'm the one who felt it, but it doesn't matter, he can work it off as a punishment, remember when we all got in trouble for sneaking out one night, and we had to shovel the snow and other hard work? He can do the same." I tell them.
"Hmm we could do that." Omar says and they all agree.
"Alright, now all of you get, Vincent you need to rest." Ruby says.
"Hey I'm fine, I just need to go to my office, if I have to, I'll sleep in there with Rosie." I tell her and she sighs as I head out with Clementine.
"You want to tell them what's going on?" I asked and she nods and I follow her. I just want to make sure nothing happens.
"I didn't mean to do it Uncle Javie, I swear." I hear Gabe say.
"Gabe you need to understand there are consequences to your actions, you hurt him just because he told you to get out of HIS room, how stupid are you?" Javie says and I walk in with clementine.
"You need to apologize to him right now." Mariana says and she points over to me and they all look at me. I look at Clementine a bit and she walks up to them.
"You guy's have to leave when the winter is over." She tells them.
"Clem tell them I'm sorry." Gabe says.
"No, she isn't going to tell us nothing, we decided that, you guys can stay till winter passes, but you on the other hand, you need to work your ass off for the stunt you pulled." I tell Gabe as he looked at me.
"I.." he tried to say.
"No, you ain't getting out of this, we all did something bad and we got punished for it, the same is gonna happen to you, anyone got an issue with it speak up now." I say but no one talks and I nod.
"You can start buy getting the wood from the greenhouse with Mitch." I say as I head up to my office and I go and sit at the desk. I look at the desk drawer and I open it to see a bottle of whiskey looking at me. I pick it up and I think for a bit.