Last time on The Walking Dead: Eye for An Eye: Sequel
"Take all the time you need." She says and I nod as I sit on the ground and just look at Violets grave. I don't know how long I had been sitting there, my leg went numb but I didn't care, why should I care? I didn't want to feel anything at all. I just looked at the grave, thinking that it's not real, it's not at all real, this is just a nightmare, I'll wake up back home in Violets arms as we lay in bed. She'll talk to me telling me that it's not real and that I should go back to sleep or even offer to get me an apple to snack on like she always does. She'll tell me that she loves me, and I'll tell her I love her back, and then AJ would come in to wake us up but see us awake anyway. We'd all go out on our small walks that we use to have, we'd look at the clouds again and talk about the shapes. I cry a bit thinking.
'We'd look at the stars again.'
"Please let this be a dream, please." I said out loud and I look down at the ground as I wiped my tears.
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(AJ's Pov)
I watched Clementine as she sat in front of Violets grave, I could hear her cry and I watched as Ruby went to go talk to her. I glared at the man Clem called David. I remember that name, Clementine had said that a man named David took me away from her when I was younger. That he refused to let me have medicine when I was sick, saying I was weak and I would die. I watched him as he kept his gun to himself and the man Javie looked at me.
"I just didn't want her to get bit, that's all." He said and I watched him.
"You shot a grieving Woman's wife what the hell did you expect?" The woman Christa says as she looks at the two men.
"Look, I didn't fucking know ok, god damn it, fist that little bitch now you." He says and I glare at him. I still have Clems gun in my hand as I watch them.
"She's not a bitch, unlike you Clementine has emotions." I said and he looked at me.
"Oh, shut the fuck up kid." He says and I look at him with a blank face.
"I'd be careful of what you say next, you shot and killed my mom, and I'm known for blowing peoples brains out." I said and he looked at me. I held the gun up a bit to show him I wasn't joking.
"AJ stop." I heard and looked to see Louis as he glared at me a bit.
"Why? He killed Violet; he killed my mom." I said and he looked at me.
"You guys should just leave, now…. Don't come back." Louis says and I glare at him.
"No Clems right, we should shoot him, he killed Violet, you know 'Eye for an Eye' it's only fair." I said.
"AJ you will drop it, now, let them go." Louis says.
"I will not drop it; he's probably going to kill someone else's wife." I say.
"Then we should kick you out or you'll kill someone's friend." He says and I look at him and glare.
"Fine kick me the fuck out like you did last time Louis, I don't fucking care, all I know is that he killed Violet when she wasn't actually a threat, we just fucking got here." I tell him and he looks at me.
"They're going to leave now AJ and you are going to leave with Clem after she's done." He says and I glare at him, as I watch them leave and Ruby comes back over and I watch Clem.
"She's uh…. She's hanging on as best as she can right now." Ruby says and I glare at Louis.
"Whatever." Louis says.
"The hell is your god damn problem Louis? Ever since we left Clems house, you've been acting like a dick." I said.
"AJ, Language." Ruby says as she looks to the little boy on the side and I close my mouth. But I was telling the truth, he's been acting mean since Clem got Joan away from us.
"And Quite fighting you two, someone we know is gone now, so show some respect for the dead." Omar said and I nodded a bit. I silently went over to Clementine as she wiped the tears from her eyes and looked at the grave again and held her hands together. No, she wasn't praying, I think she just wanted to punch something. Or maybe she was praying, Violet had taught us if we ever wanted to just have something to do, a moral thing she said, it's also what she did when she was younger, but she said we didn't have to do it if we didn't want to. I think I heard Violet pray a lot before we went to sleep, but that was ever since Clementine lost her leg.
"Clem." I said and she looked up at me quickly and then back down.
"Do you still not want to say anything?" I asked and she took a shaky breath looked at the cross.
"Please tell me this is a dream AJ." She says quietly as I sat next to her and placed my hand on her back.
"Please tell me it's a dream…. That I'll wake up soon." She said with a sob and I rub her back gently.
"I'm sorry." It was all I could say to her at the time. She turned to me a bit and I hugged her as she gripped my shirt tightly and I rubbed her back.
"She can't be gone."
"I know." I said.
"She can't be dead."
"I know." I said calmly to her as she cried more. Her tears were staining my shirt, it takes me back to when she cried like this last time.
-Six Years Ago-
"Clem It's ok, I'll fix it." I heard Violet say as she sat at the kitchen table looking at Clementine as Clem removed her Fake foot.
"God Damn it, you shouldn't have to fix this damn thing, it's a fake fucking foot, how can it break." Clem says and I watch them as Violet grabs Clems fake leg and look into the book I had found in the hospital, the foot book.
"It's old Clem and it's not really your size, I could make you one if I read the book right, it just might take me some time." Violet says as she flips a page. I watch as Clem leaned onto Violets chest a bit and I saw Violet look down at her and rub her back.
"I just…. I just want to be normal." She cried.
"You are Darling, hey it's ok, we'll make you another leg, and AJ could put those science dog stickers we found on it, wouldn't that be fun?" Violet asked her and Clem gripped her shirt a bit.
"Shit, we could put a rocket in the damn thing too." Violet jokes. I hear it, a small laugh.
"And what about a flame stick hu? Freak people out by lighting your own leg on fire, think you're so hard core for not flinching." She says and Clem laughed more.
"Jesus Vi, you have crazy ideas." Clem says as she shoves her a bit but still doesn't lift her head from Violets shoulder. I smile as I watch them both joking and having a laugh, I hate seeing Clem so sad about her leg being gone.
"Well think about it, like it would be bad ass, you take your leg off too, scare the hell out of any kids." She says to Clem.
"Louis would scream like a little girl." I said and Violet laughed.
"See, AJ knows what I'm talking about." She says and hold her hand out so I go up to her and give her a high five and I look at Clem.
"I think your leg will be awesome if Violet makes it." I tell Clem and she has tears run down her face as she hugs me gently.
"You, Goofballs." She says to me and I look at her.
"Ok, I'll let it slide this one time." I tell her and she laughed a bit and rubbed my head gently.
"I don't know what I'd do without you two." She says.
"Hmm, probably sit here grumpy and eat an apple angerly." Violet says as she reads the book and Clem shoves her and she laughed.
"What? Seriously I have never seen you eat an apple so angry like." She says and Clem shoves her again and Violet falls out the chair and sighs as she places the book on her face as she lays on the floor and pretends to snore as Clem and I laugh.
-Present Time-
We laughed so much that day just to keep Clem happy, and it worked, it really did. I remember Clem and Violet talking about how she would make Clems foot, fit to where she could ride the motorcycle too. That was six years ago.
"I'm sorry." I heard as Clem shifted her head to look at the grave.
"I'm so sorry Violet... I…. I didn't keep you safe." She cried and I rubbed her back gently.
"Violet isn't mad you know." I said.
"She should be…. God damn it, I want her back." Clem says as she looks at the grave more. It was a long while before we stood up a bit. Clem needed a bit more help since her leg had gone numb and I looked at her as she holds Violet's vest to her chest.
"Ruby needs to check your…. Prosthetic." I said to her.
"No… She can't fix it…. Only Violet know." She says sadly as she slowly limps to the truck. I watch her sadly as she walked away. I remember Clem being strong, how she walked tall and strong, but now… now she limped and looked small as she walked away from Violets grave. I look at it a bit and made sure no one was around.
"I… I'll watch Clementine for you…. I might not make her as happy as you did but… but I'll try too keep her happy as best as I can…. I'm sorry Violet…Clems sorry too…. I'm sorry that she won't say anything but…. I think you know how she feels... We'll miss you." I tell the grave. Hoping for a response but nothing of course. I fiddled my hands together like I use to do when I was younger.
"We'll come visit you a lot I promise." I said and walked over to Clem who was talking to Louis and I glared at him.
"AJ threatened to shoot David." He says.
"So?" Clem says. Her voice just had no emotion to it.
"You do realize that he can't just be doing that." He says and I glare at him.
"I said the same damn thing Louis…. If anything, be pissed at me….and the fucking point of telling me this was to do what?" She asked as she glared at him.
"Because it was an accident." Louis says.
"Accident my ass I've told you and everyone here about David, but you didn't listen hu?" She says and I watch her.
"I did but damn it, eye for an eye? Why did you teach him that?" Louis said.
"VIOLET TAUGHT ME THAT YOU FUCK!" I yelled at him and he looked at me with wide eyes.
"So back the fuck off." I tell him and he glared at me then looked to Clementine.
"You two can stay the night, but leave tomorrow morning." He says and leaves us alone. I looked to Clem who is clutching at Violets vest, her knuckles turning almost white as she looks at the ground.
"She wanted to apologize to him." She says and I look at her as she holds the vest closer to her, like it was a lifeline now.
"I know…. Clem I'm so sorry I." I tried to sat.
"Don't be…. It's ok AJ…. It's not your fault… It's David's." She says spitting the mans' name out and I watch her as she slowly get in the drivers side of the truck and holds Violets Vest more. She just stares at the large blood stains on it and I see her about to cry again and I go up to her.
"Why… why don't you go see how Aasim and them have been up to?" she asked and I watched her.
"Can I have the keys to the truck?" I asked and she looks at me a bit and slowly nods as she hands me the keys and I go make sure the back of the truck is locked so she couldn't get into it. I watch her a bit more as she just stares at the vest more and strokes it a bit. I head over to Ruby and the others but still keep my eyes on Clementine.
"Damn you've grown kid." I heard and looked to see Willy.
"So, have you." I said.
"I…. I'm sorry about Violet… I wanted to shoot that man too." He says and I nod.
"It's to late now… all we can do is wait for him to come back, then I'll shoot him." I said as I tapped Clems gun.
"So how's it been all these years?" He asked.
"Fine, we stayed in Texas at Violets home, we made a damn good wall but… we heard some shots going off near it so we left, Violet and Clem didn't want anyone getting hurt if it was the raiders or Joan's group coming after us." I explained.
"That… that seemed like a good idea hu?" He asked and I nodded a bit.
"Oh and Violet taught me a lot of things too, like how to fix a car, and a motorcycle, and how to clean different guns and stuff, and she had these old texts books too, she even went to the school near her home and grabbed books from all grades, so she became my teacher too." I said and he nods.
"She teach you how to make any weapons?" He asked and I nodded.
"Oh yea, she even taught me how to make clean water just by boiling it. Hell, she even taught me how to cook deer meat." I said and he nods.
"If uh… if you guys plan to stay longer, we have some extra rooms and stuff, Clem shouldn't leave for a few days, she needs to mourn." He said and I looked to her then back at him.
"Louis said we had to leave tomorrow…. But we'll be back to visit Violet, I promised her that." I said.
"Woah hold on, he said ya'll had to leave?" He asked and I nodded a bit and he looked angry.
"Fucking moron, it's this Marlon bullshit all over again." He muttered.
"It's fine Willy, we expected you guys to not let us stay, especially after the fight Violet and Louis had before you guys left." I said.
"So, fucking what? Louis needs to grow the hell up, Clem just lost someone so fucking close to her, she needs time to mourn." He said and then I saw Ruby and Aasim come over with a little boy.
"Hey you two." Ruby said.
"Hey… who's this?" I asked as I looked at the boy as he hid behind Aasims legs.
"It's ok AJ, this is… well also AJ." Aasim says and I look at him.
"Alvin Junior?" I asked and Ruby smiled a bit.
"No, it's Aasim Junior, but it's also your initials." She says and I nod a bit as I look at the boy.
"Watch your language around him though he sure does love to repeat things." Ruby says and I nod.
"That might be a bit hard for me… Violet let me swear a lot around her." I said.
"Well considering ya'll made your own wall I wouldn't blame her if you had hurt yourself and swore like a sailor." Willy said and I nodded.
"Yea… anyway, um are we allowed to come visit Violet from time to time?" I asked them.
"You can stay here darling, we have the whole group back together now, plus Aasim Junior can meet his god mother and Uncle." Ruby said.
"Louis want's them to leave tomorrow." Willy says and I look at Ruby. Her face was not a happy one, no the only time I've seen that face was when she got mad when I bit her.
"He said what now?" She asked.
"It's fine, you guys really, it's fine… we've done it before." I said.
"Oh no, he is not pulling this crap on you two, if it's because of that fight, he's being petty." Aasim said as he looked around for Louis.
"It's fine you guys." I said.
"AJ."
"Please, just don't make it worse, I don't want him getting mad at you too." I said to both of them.
"AJ we all make a decision here like we did at the school, and I know us three want you two to stay." Ruby tells me and I look at her.
"I don't know if Clem even wants to stay here." I said as I watched Clem get out the truck and head over to us as she put on Violets vest.
"Come on AJ, lets get going." She said.
"They said we can stay." I said.
"No, it's fine… we can head back to Texas maybe and make a cross for Violet there too." She says quietly and I look at her. She looked so depressed, for fuck sake.
"Hun you need time to mourn." Ruby says.
"I just…. We should have never left… but oh no, we had to leave, that's what we had planned if we heard gun shots close by, because we were so fucking scared we left…. Shouldn't have left." Clem says to herself as she walks back to Violets grave. I watched her more and more as she limped.
"Did Clem get injured?" Ruby asked.
"Yea, but that was a long time ago…. Very long time ago." I said.
"If she needs pain killers we can give it to you two." Willy says and I shook my head.
"No, it's fine… she doesn't need them, still hates taking them, God Violet had to shove them down her throat one time when she was in so much pain." I said remembering that day and I shook my head.
"She still thinks she's wasting them?" Ruby asked and I nodded.
"That's Clem for you." I said as I watched her as she sat next to the cross and looked up at the sky, it was dark now and the stars were out and I looked down at the others.
"When Clem wants to leave then we'll leave if that's ok?" I asked and they nodded.
"If Louis has an issue with it he can take it up with me." Willy said and I nodded.
"Thank you." I said.
"Anytime kid." Aasim says as he picks up his son and him and Ruby head inside and I head over to clementine and sit on the other side of the cross and look up at the stars with her.