(Vincent's Pov)
I looked to the two people as they aim their guns at us, I lift my rifle back up a bit at them and they look at me.
"Violet?" The man says and I glare at him.
"Who are you and how do you know Vincent?" Clementine asked as she aimed her pistol at the two.
"Her name is Violet, and that's my daughter." The man says and I glare at him more and look to my mother. She had gotten a bit smaller but that had to be from the lack of food.
"Vincent what do we do?" Mitch asked and I lowered my rifle and my mom lowers her weapon as well. My father hesitating a bit but he lowers his gun but not by much, only enough to not be aimed at us.
"What do you think we should do?" I asked all of them as I looked to my parents.
"Where are you two headed?" Clementine asked.
"To a group called Delta, or the New Frontier group we heard about." My dad says and I look at him.
"Those groups are bad news, and Delta isn't around here." Aasim says and I nod.
"Fucking great and how would you know?" My father asked pissed.
"Because we blew up their damn ship, they were a bunch of child kidnappers and Murders." Mitch says to my father pissed off.
"Liar." My dad says.
"Well it's true, they even hurt Vincent, you haven't even looked at your own sons face." Clementine says to them and I looked down at the ground.
"Vincent?" I hear my mother say and I look at her and she looks me in the eye. She looked sadden by the fact that I had an injury.
"How?" She asked me.
"Let's all head inside the school where it's safe…. Walkers you know." I mumbled as I began to head to the school and the others followed. We all went in but I kept a close eye on my parents, as did the others as they also kept a close eye on them too.
"Vincent?" My mother asked and I look at her as she looks at my damaged eye. I move back just a bit and look away from her.
"Um… Delta group uh… kidnapped me and um… boat exploded when they kept me locked up in a cell and didn't let me out…. It uh…. It wasn't cause directly from them but they didn't try to prevent it." I explained to her and AJ ran up to me and grabbed my leg and I chuckled as I picked him up.
"What's up little dude?" I asked him.
"Omar finished the rabbits and he let me have a piece and it tastes really good." He says and I chuckle and look to my mother.
"AJ this is um… my mother, mom this is AJ." I tell her and he waves a bit to her. I set him down and he runs over to Clementine who was over by Aasim as they watched my father who was looking at them as well.
"He's such a nice boy, who's kid is he?" She asked me and I decided to play a little joke as I see Clementine looking at me.
"Well that's your new adoptive grandson." I say and she looked to me shocked and I laugh.
"I joke, um no his parents passed away a long time ago, it's not really my story to tell." I explain and my mom nods. After a while I take her over to the table, her and my father sit next to me as the others sit across from us. That would be Clementine, AJ, Louis, and Aasim. AJ was eating a bit of his food and would smile at Clementine.
"Do you not say grace before eating?" My dad asked.
"You can but we don't." I mumbled as I ate some of the rabbit.
"Still going against God." He says.
"Pardon me but your God has made hell on earth and caused the dead to come back to kill us, drop the religious bullshit and pray to yourself and do not force us to do what you want, adults here aren't to welcoming." Aasim says an I look at him a bit. My father kept his mouth shut and I just ate my food and drank some water.
"So who's kid hu?" He asked as he looked to AJ.
"Does it matter?" My mother asked.
"Yes, bunch of kids having kids isn't wise… bet he belongs to you two." My dad says as he points to Louis and Clementine and I look to Louis as we both laugh and so do the others. After a few minutes we finally calmed down and I look at Clementine.
"AJ is part of my group." She says.
"You make it sound like you haven't been here for years." My father says.
"She's new to this group, she isn't from here." I tell him.
"Oh so where is your father or uh group?" My father asked and I glare at him.
"Just been AJ and I for the past five years, until now." She says and I smile at her a bit.
"Five years on your own? Hah nice joke." My father says and I shake my head a bit and I eat my food again.
"It's not a joke." Clementine says a bit pissed and I rubbed my neck.
"Yea, Clementine has been taking care of me since I was a baby." AJ says and I look to my father.
"Is it that hard to believe?" I asked.
"Ain't no kids around the woods." He said.
"That's cause we had a car…. Till the crash." AJ says and my mother looked to him a bit worried. She was still motherly.
"How'd that happens?" She asked.
"We found an old train station and there was this grenade and boom, and that caused the walkers to come out so we hurried to the car and bad things happened." AJ explained.
"So how did you end up here?" My dad asked a bit pissed, bet he thinks AJ is making it all up.
"Vincent." He says simply and I smile at him a bit.
"What did Violet do?" My father asked.
"I uh… it was Me, Louis, and Marlon, we uh…. We heard something and I just ran to it." I say as I look to my father.
"So um yea…" I say and look at the table a bit.
"So where are the teachers?" My mother asked and we all looked to her and I rubbed my neck.
"They ran off when things started to get bad…. Only adult that stayed was Mrs. Martin and… she passed away a few years ago." Ruby says and we all look down.
"They left you all here? Alone?" She asked and I nodded as I stood up from the bench.
"We might have been bad kids but we didn't deserve to be left behind by the people who were supposed to take care of us…. And none of our parents came either, which pissed off a bunch of the little ones." I say pissed.
"Lot of kids died." I say.
"Thirty-four…. Or thirty-eight now with Marlon, Brody, Minnie and Sophie gone." Omar says and I nod a bit.
"Oh god." I hear my mom say and I sigh.
"You two can stay until tomorrow, than y'all can head on to wherever." I tell them.
"Don't you want to come with us?" My mother asked and I look at her.
"No, this is my home so no thank you." I tell her.
"You'll end up dying here." My dad says.
"Then I'd like to be with my family when I go." I tell him.
"What family? These people aren't your family." He says and I glare at him.
"Who are you to say that?" I hear and look to Clementine as she glares at my father.
"Who are you to say who is and isn't his family, because you sure as hell aren't his family, you didn't come for him, you didn't do anything to comeback for him." She says and I see my father glaring at her.
"And who the fuck are you to say who her family is." He says pissed and I see his hand move to his side and I quickly grabbed his arm as he looked at me. He looks at me and we glare at each other.
"You fucking touch her or harm her you will fucking regret seeing me." I say as I take his gun off his side.
"All your guns now." I demand and my mom hands her weapons to Aasim and I glare at my father as he shoves his rifle to Louis as he continues to glare at me.
"We just kicked a group out not to long ago, I won't hesitate to do the same to you." I tell him.
"Why the fuck are you defending her hu?" He asked.
"Cause she my girlfriend you fucking prick and it doesn't fucking matter I would still do the same thing if you pointed the gun at anyone here, grow the fuck up." I tell him and he takes his arm back and I glare at him.
"John stop this now, they're letting us stay here be glad we know our son is alive."
"DAUGHTER THAT IS OUR DAUGHTER WE NEVER HAD A GOD DAMN SON!" He yelled and I just watch him.
"They're still letting us stay just stop this right now, can't we have one day where you two aren't at each other's throats?" She asked my dad and I look to the others as they look away. I look to Clementine as she gets up from her spot and AJ follows her as she comes up to me and I look down at her.
"Go to bed you two." I mumbled.
"It's my turn to keep watch remember." She says.
"After you take the kids to bed? I need to speak to my parents alone." I say quietly and watch as the others go clean up. I look to my parents then to Clementine and she cups my cheek gently and kisses my cheek. I smile a bit and she looks to me.
"Call me if you need help, just yell." She says.
"I'll holler if I need you." I say and she nods as she goes and takes the kids to bed. I look at my parents as Louis takes their guns and heads to his room to go keep the weapons away from them. I rub my neck as I look at my parents a bit.
"You has no right to do that to us." My father says.
"Do what?"
"Take our weapons." He says pissed.
"You were about to pull out your gun on a fucking child, you are in our home, you follow our rules, you'd be doing the same god damn thing in any other group." I tell him and he glares at me more.
"We are your parents and you listen to us." He tells me.
"I don't have to, for one thing I'm an adult, and if I'd listen to any parent right now it'd be mom, not you. Fuck you can't even respect me in front of my own group." I say.
"You act like you're in charge or something, last time I checked you were a fucking coward." He says as he crossed his arms and looked at me.
"Clementine and I take responsibility of leadership but we still ask the others what they'd want unless it's something that needs to be dealt with quickly and we don't have time to vote…. we've always done votes here, we all help each other out… shit ever since Clem helped me things are a hell of a lot better." I say to him.
"John, lets just get along for tonight please." My mother says.
"I did try to get along Marie, but this thing doesn't want to." He says and I just look at him.
"I don't care if you rot in hell for what you've done to yourself but I will not be disrespected by the likes of you." He says to me and I look away and I see a few walkers at the gate trying to get in. It wasn't long till I took them to their temporary room and I take a seat by the door for a bit. I have no clue how much time has passed before I saw Clementine come down the hall and I stand up and head over to her.
"You good?" I asked. She nods and we both walk outside and take our spots back on the small watch tower by the gate. I look to the walkers and I look at my guitar a bit then back to Clementine. She's looking into the woods and then to the walkers and I grab my guitar and strum a few stings. She looks to me and I smile a bit as I play a familiar tune to me.
"I was an island before you came along put your boat in my sand, hand in my hand your heart in my songs."
"I was a fighter and I was so brave but I lowered my sword when you held me and swore you'd stay, stay, stay." I sang and looked to Clementine and smiled.
"I can't do this alone anymore 'Cause I'm no good on my own anymore what did I do to deserve this? What did you do to me? Baby, come back You know I don't want to be free." I sing.
"I was a rebel, but I had a cause 'Til you came to town, pushed me around And showed me what love was."
"I was a wolf, dear, apart from the pack But you answered my cry in the dead of the night and told me that you had my back, oh I can't do this alone anymore."
"Cause I'm no good on my own anymore What did I do to deserve this? What did you do to me? Baby, come back You know I don't want to be free."
"I can't do this alone anymore Cause I'm no good on my own anymore What did I do to deserve this? What did you do to me? Baby, come back You know I don't want to be free."
"Baby, come back You know I don't want to be free No, No, No Baby come back You know I don't want to be free."
"You know a lot of songs." She comments and I chuckle.
"Yea… yea I do…. Ever heard of Neo-Folk music?" I asked as I look to her. She shook her head no a bit and I look to the school.
"No, not at all." She says and I nod.
"I forgot my grandma taught me one song, she liked it, ironically it was the last song she sang to be before my grandpa passed away…. My grandpa told me how to play it too." I mumbled as I strum the guitar a bit.
"Wanna sing it?" She asked and I look to her a bit.
"It's a girl song." I joke.
"The one you just sang sounded like a girl would sing it." She says and I nod.
"And the original singer was a female… alright give me a bit." I say and mess with the guitar a bit and strum the strings to hear if it was good.
"Alright." I say and I play a tune. I look down to the guitar a bit and sigh.
"Atop the crags and cliffs, the air is thin So we'll find a mountain path on down the hill Meet me where the snow mount flows It is there, my dear, where we will begin again Skipping stones, braiding hair Last year's antlers mark the trail."
"Take us back, oh, take us back Oh, take us, take us back Take us back, oh, take us back Oh, take us, take us back."
"I've a friend who lives out by the rivers mouth He knows the fiddles cry is an old sound A lonesome creeks and moans of empty houses Are songs of like fallen rain Windblown buildings, muddy ground The strength of water can sink a man."
"Take us back, oh, take us back Oh, take us, take us back Take us back, oh, take us back Oh, take us, take us back."
"When the higher hills have turned blue And the waves are lapping where the children grew All that we have know will be an echo Of days when love was true Muted voices just beyond The silent surface of what has gone."
"….. I wish we could go back." She says and I look up to see tears in her eyes. I pull her to me gently and she lays her head on my shoulder and I kiss the side of her head and look at the woods a bit.
"What do you remember about your parents?" I asked her as I rubbed her shoulder a bit.
"…. They always made sure I was happy." She says and I nod.
"Your parents…. Why can't your dad call you his son?" She asked.
"I think you know why but…. I honestly don't care, at this moment…. He won't change and he'll be gone tomorrow morning…. Now come on what did you like as a kid?" I asked.
"I liked dogs…. My mom wouldn't let me have one BUT she gave me a goldfish…. Named him peanut." She says and I kiss her head gently.
"My dad also got me a hamster but…. I can't remember what I named them." She says and I rub her head gently. We watched the walkers for a bit and I get up slowly and grab my bow and arrows and I shoot them down. Once all we're dead I rubbed my neck and looked to her.
"Walkers suck hu?" I asked and she laughed.
"Yea they really do." She says and I watch her.
"I…saw my parents as… Walkers…. A few months after this started… I just turn nine a few days before that too." She says and I look at her sadly.
"You did mention finding them…. didn't think you found them as walkers." I admitted as I sat next to her.
"I don't think I did." She says and she plucks the strings on my guitar and I smile.
"Wanna learn how to play it?" I ask and she shakes her head no. I nod and hold her to me. We stay up all night till the sun started to rise up into the sky to show that morning was here. I get up a bit and help Clementine down as Aasim and Ruby come to take their shifts. Omar was just heading over to the fire pit and started on breakfast which reminded me.
"We got to go hunting soon." I mentioned.
"We can go later today after breakfast." Clem says and I nod and head to Louis's room. I knock on the door and he opens the door and he looks to me.
"Need the guns." I say and he just nods as he hands them to me. I hear a sound and turn to see my parents exiting out the room and I head over to them just as Louis went outside. Leaving me lone with my mother and father once again.
"Finally gonna give us our guns back?" My dad asked and I look to him.
"Not till we get you to the edge of our safe zone." I say and he glares at me.
"Listen here girl, you will respect your god damn elders, seems this school didn't fucking teach you that shit." He says and I tighten my jaw.
"I was sent here for other reasons." I tell him.
"They didn't fix that either, doesn't matter you'll always be a fucked up kid." He says.
"John."
"Shut the hell up Marie, I swear to god it's your fault she ended up the way she did, a fucking freak, low life, psychotic brat." He says to us.
"Vincent isn't a low life." I hear and look to see Tennessee and AJ at the end of the hall.
"AJ, Tenn, go over to Clementine and the others." I tell them.
"But." AJ and Tenn Botha say.
"NOW!" I yell at them both and they run off. I didn't want to yell at them. It was a cruel thing to do to a child, yelling didn't do anything right.
"Vincent." My mother says and I look at both my parents.
"Listen and listen good John, you're nothing but a fucking asshole to all parents, you can't accept me, fine I don't give two flying fucks wether you like me or not, but I am who I am now, not because of you. No all you did was fucking drink beer and sit on a fucking recliner watching TV while mom busted her ass, so don't even pull that Holier than Thou bullshit you're trying to do now, you're a fucking wreak, I'm a fucking wreak, our family was a bunch of wreaks after grandpa died." I tell him and he just glares at me as if it will do anything.
"So shut your god damn mouth, grow the fuck up, and keep your god damn words to yourself, these kids here are more family to me than you ever are." I tell him as I walk out with the bag and head to the front of the school. I see AJ and Tenn looking at me and then away quickly and I sigh as I set the bag next to Clementine and I look at the boys.
"I'm sorry for yelling." I tell them.
"You yelled at them?" Clementine asked.
"I didn't mean to, and I'm really sorry…. Is there any way I can make it up to you guys?" I asked them and AJ looked to me.
"Can I go hunting with you?" He asked and I looked to Clementine.
"Can he?"
"….. Alright he can just keep him safe for me please." She says and I nod.
"Yes, I'm gonna get the biggest deer there is." He says and I chuckle and look to Tenn.
"If you find anything cool could you bring it back?" He asked and I nod and looked to both of them.
"I'm sorry." I tell them again.
"You're forgiven." AJ says and I nod and look to see my parents walking out and I look to Clementine.
"I'll come with you." She says and I nod as I grabbed the bag and my dad walks to the gate with my mom. Clementine and I walk up to them and I open the gate and we begin to walk.
"Walkers have been around this area like crazy." I tell them.
"Not like you care." My dad says and I rub my neck.
"Just warning ya." I say and Clementine comes up to me and takes my hand. I grip it a bit as we walk more and more towards the edge of the safe zone.
"Dating a black girl hu." My dad says and I stop and look at him. My mom having the look of utter shock on her face as she looked to my father.
"Yes?" I questioned why he was saying this.
"Probably been sleeping around all black girls do." He says and I glare at him as I let go of her hand.
"I swear to god I told you to keep your god damn words to yourself." I tell him and he glares at me.
"And what are you going to do about it?" He says and I look to him and then to the ground. I hear him chuckle a bit as I turn around but I quickly turn back and punch him right in the face making him fall on his ass as he looked to me.
"Vincent." I hear mom mom day and I glare at my dad.
"Don't fucking….. don't, I hope a Walker kills you while you're out there, you deserve to die." I tell him and I feel Clementine pull me back a bit and I look at her.
"Let's just go." She says and I glare at my dad once more and hand my mom their guns and take the bag with me.
"Fucking rot in hell you little bitch." He says and I glare at him.
"Same for you." I say to him as he gets up.
"You think you're so god damn tough hu?" He says.
"Vincent don't." Clementine says and I look to her then back at my dad. I shake my head and we both walk away from the two and I look down at Clementine.
"He… I should have beat him more." I say and look at my bloody hand.
"No you shouldn't have."
"But."
"But nothing Vincent…. I know you hate your dad, and you should, but I don't care what he says about me, he doesn't know me, he doesn't know my story…. I know you're trying to protect me but I don't need it." She says and I look to her.
"Yes you do."
"No I don't." She says.
"Everyone needs protection Clementine….. doesn't matter how big you are or how old you are everyone needs it, now more than ever." I tell her.
"I…. I didn't mean…. I meant against words Vincent, that all they are, are just words, they don't hurt me, and I know you don't like your father talking like that, but you said so yourself he won't change." She says.
"He never acted like a racist though…." I mumbled as I look to her.
"Let him act that way, grown man wants to pick on a kid, so what, he shows his face around her again then you can kick his ass as long as I don't see it." She says and I look at her more.
"So what? That's fucking wrong and vile."
"And that's how people are today, Vincent I've been called the N word by maniacs far worse than your dad, I had no clue what it was till later on and yea it annoyed the hell out of me, but they got what they had coming cause later on as they were being surrounded by walkers, I didn't help them, no one helped them, karma is a bitch." She says and I nod slowly as we head back to the school. I kept my eye close to the woods making sure my father didn't try anything stupid as Clementine and I entered the school gates. It was later on in the day when I grabbed my rifle and AJ had his pistol and knife with him. Clementine came up to us and gave me a kiss and then kissed AJ on the cheek and he whipped it away with the pack of his hand.
"Yuck." He says and I laugh a bit.
"Hey kisses are always good." I say.
"Well Clementine has cooties." He says and I laugh more.
"If I have cooties than so does Vincent." She says and AJ looks at me.
"Mom gave you cooties." He says and we both look at him.
"Mom?" She asked and he looked to her.
"I mean Clem… I said Clem." He says and I look to Clementine who looked like she wanted to cry a bit.
"Let's go hunting." He says and runs off and I look to Clementine.
"I'll have a talk with him ok?" I asked and she nods. I kiss her again and then head out with AJ as we go look for any deer.
"Is Clementine mad at me?" He asked as we searched the woods.
"Why would she be mad at you?" I ask. We get near the town a bit and we search a bit inside the buildings. AJ finds a toy he thinks is cool for Tenn and other toys too. I help him put them in his bag and I smile.
"Cause I called her mom."
"No buddy she isn't mad at that, she was just shocked is all." I explain. As I look around and I find a pack of cigarettes, which I grabbed and looked for a lighter which I did find a few of them. I place the items in my pocket and look at AJ.
"Shocked? Why?" He asked.
"Well…. Have you ever called her mom before?" I asked him as we take a break and he sits on one of the chairs.
"No I never have."
"It just came as a surprise to her is all." I say and I look around a bit.
"Would you be surprised is I called you dad?" He asked and I look at him.
"I'd wonder why you'd call me dad." I say to him truthfully.
"Well you're with Clementine and if you're with her and I call her mom then I should call you dad." He says and I smile a bit and I rub my neck a bit.
"Well… I get your logic I do but… just cause I'm with her doesn't mean you have to call me your dad." I explain.
"Oh…do you not want me to call you dad?... will my real parents be mad?" He asked and I look to him sadly.
"No, no they wouldn't be mad at you buddy." I tell him and I spot a deer and I along with AJ both hide behind some shrubs by the building and look to the deer and I aim my rifle at it.
"Think I can make the shot?" I asked and looked to him a bit than back to the buck.
"I think you can." He says and I nod as I take my aim and squeeze the trigger just a bit and shoot the buck. Once it was down AJ and I walk over to it and I look at him.
Alright I'll carry it and you keep lookout for walkers?" I asked and he nods as I pick up the buck as best as I could and we start to walk back home.
"So Clementine isn't mad?" He asked again and I shook my head a bit.
"Nope, actually I think she felt… happy." I say.
"Happy?" He asked.
"Yea happy…. she's taken care of you since you was a baby right?" I ask him and he nods as we keep walking.
"Well, it makes her happy that you'd call her your mom…. She raised you and has helped you…she's done a lot…. Just like a mom would do for her kids." I say as we get near the shack by the small river where we fish.
"Need a break?" He asked and I nod a bit as I set the buck down and I sit down on the steps.
"Your dad was really mean." He says and I look at him.
"Yea… yea he was." I say as I grabbed the pack of cigarettes from my pocket and I light one up.
"Can I try one?" He asked and I look at him.
"God no, this stuff kills you." I tell him.
"So why do you do it?" He asked.
"Stressed out… but don't you be doing this understand? You're to young and it messes with your lungs." I tell him.
"It can't be that bad if you do it though."
"Oh it's bad trust me, you wouldn't be able to run well cause you can't breath, and you could get other health issues too." I explain and he nods.
"Ok." He says and I nod as I finish the cigarette and stomp it out with my boot. I go and pick up the buck and we start walking again. That is until there's a loud bang and I drop the buck and grab my rifle and look around.
"AJ get in the shack." I say quietly as he looks to me scared and he nods as he slowly heads to the shack and I look around more. There was another bang and a sharp pain in my leg as I fall to the ground.
"VINCENT!" AJ yells and I look at him.
"RUN!" I yell to him and he does as told. I get up a bit and head into the shack and look at my leg as I lean against the door.
"Come out here boy we know you're in there." I hear a woman say and I look at my bloody leg.
"Either you come out or we go after the kid that was with you." She says and I open the door a bit.
"You fucked up my leg I can't get up you idiot." I say and another shot rings out and I take cover so as to not get shot again.
"I don't take to kind to being called that, now drag your ass out here or we go after the kid." I hear and I slowly get up. I feel the pain in my leg as I try to stay off of it and move to the door a bit and looked to see an Asian woman looking at me with a few other people near her pointing their guns at me.
"That's a good boy, now come on out more." She says and I move out a bit more hoping on one leg and I look at her.
"Good, now here's what's going to happen, you're gonna take us to your home and we're going to set camp there." She says as she comes up to me along with a man and I look at her.
"What makes you think." I try to say but a man points his gun at my temple.
"Either you do or you die and anyone in your group dies." She says and I look at her.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Joan, and this is my group, now be a good boy and tell us where your home is." She says and I look at her.
"I won't tell."
"Oh that's to bad…. doesn't matter we know you live at that abandoned school anyway." She says and I look at her more. I felt a bit warm and I looked at my leg more.
"Oh don't worry, your leg will be fine but you won't care cause you'll be dead soon." She says and I look at her.
"Joan." I hear and look to see Clementine and the others as they point their guns at this Joan persons group.
"Well if it isn't Clementine, nice to see you again." She says as she grabbed my shirt and the guy helped her as they threw me to the ground and I lifted myself up a bit before I had my own gun pointed at me and another man pointed his gun at the back of my head.
"DON'T!" I hear Clementine yell and I look at her and I slowly move my body back down to the ground and place my hands on the back of my head.
"Don't what Clementine?" Joan asked.
"The hell do you want Joan?" She asked.
"Just your food and a place to stay…. Could start a new community." She says.
"Are you fucking crazy." Mitch says and I try to calm down.
"Not at all, either you give up your supplies of this young man… what did you call him Vincent? Well anyway he's going to have his head blown off all around the dirt if you don't comply." She threatens.
"DON'T DO IT!" I yell out to them and Joan laughs.
"Don't do it he says, honey if they don't you die and so do they." She says and I look to Clementine as she looked back to me.
"We can't give you everything we barely have enough for ourselves." Ruby says.
"Vincent here just got a buck, I think hunting for big game isn't that bad around here." She says.
"We don't have proper place to store food to keep it from going bad." Omar says.
"We can make one, ain't that hard for us adults to get electricity going." She says and I feel a sharp pain in my leg and I groan a bit.
"Stop it you're hurting him." Clementine says a bit panicked.
"We will once you give up all your stuff." Joan says.
"You never keep a promise, you're a god damn lair." Clementine says and Joan laughs.
"You can think that all you want Clementine but I've never broken a promise." She says and I feel the gun be pushed more to the back of my head and I keep still.
"Don't just don't hurt him we'll give you our supplies." Louis says.
"DON'T!" I tell them and look to them.
"We don't have a god damn choice." He says back and I look to him.
"Seems like all your friends are complying why don't you?" Joan says as I look to my group sadly.
"You two stay here make sure he doesn't move….. shoot him if he does, I along with the others will go with the kids to their home take supplies and then their home." Joan says and I look down sadly.
"No, no you gotta help him, give him medicine for his leg." Clementine says to Joan.
"How about I don't shoot him and you take us where we want to go now." Joan says.
"Fuck you." Clem says.
"Sure Clementine, how about you stay here, you follow and Vincent here ends up dead." Joan says and I look to see her along with my group except Clementine and AJ go in the direction of the school. It wasn't long till they all came back and I was lifted off the ground by Joan's men and she looked at me.
"Wasn't so hard was it?" She asked me directly.
"Fuck you." I tell her.
"No thanks, but it's your lucky day boy, we don't want your home….we can get a better place, plus electricity wouldn't work at all there." She says and I look at her more.
"Drop him and we can be on our way." She says and they do drop my and I get up a bit and hold my leg as they leave and Clementine runs up to me and looks at my leg.
"Fuck, how bad?" She asked.
"I…. I can't feel it so… I don't know." I say and look to the others.
"Mitch, Louis come help Vincent." Ruby says as they come up and grab me. We all head back to the school where I see Tenn and Willy on the watch tower and they set me on the bench and Ruby takes a look at my leg.
"Oh god….. least the bullet came out and isn't stuck." She says.
"I can't… feel it is that bad?" I asked.
"Might be." She says.
"Fuck."
"Don't worry, we have some medicine stashed away from when the raiders were going to attack, we didn't show that crazy lady that stuff." She says and I look to her and I nod a bit. It wasn't long till I was laying back with my head in Clementines lap looking at the clouds a bit.
"You ok?" She asked and I look at her and nod a bit.
"Yea… just still a bit shaken… is AJ ok?" I asked and we both look at him as he plays with Tenn.
"He was freaking out when he came running back to the school…. I thought you were bitten by a walker or killed with the way he was acting." She says and I look up at her and wipe away her tears.
"I'm fine…. I just wish… I wish you guys didn't have to save my ass like that." I say and she looks to me.
"We'll get them back one day… remember Karma is a bitch." She says and I nod just a bit as I close my eye just a bit.
"So AJ called you dad." She says and I open my eye and look at her.
"Yea? He asked me about that…. Saying that if you and I are together than he calls me dad… I told him he didn't have to." I explain.
"Do you not want him to?" She asked.
"It's up to him, I don't mind… I don't mind at all." I say and close my eye again.
"Tired?" She asked.
"Just resting my eye."
"Really now?"
"Yea really…. You should try it sometimes." I tell her and we both laugh a bit at that.
"I will one day." She says and I take her hand gently into mine.
"…. You want my answer?" Clementine asked and I open my eye and look up to her again.
"Answer?"
"…. To your proposal." She says and I sit up a bit and I nod.
"Yes… I'd like and answer…. If you're ready."
"…. Then Yes…. I'd love to be with you." She says and I smile a bit and I kiss her gently.