(Violets Pov)

I opened my eyes as I heard the sound of thunder going through the air. I slowly got up and rubbed my head as I looked around the house a bit, I didn't see AJ drawing but her had moved to the window and was looking outside. I felt clementine shift a bit as she slept and I smiled at her gently as I moved her so she would lay on the couch. I went over to AJ and sat next to him and I watched the rain with him.

"Clem said you had a bad dream last night?" he asked and I looked at him and nodded.

"Nothing for you to worry about, just a bad dream." I said and I looked back at the rain. I felt him shift a bit and he laid his head on my shoulder and I rubbed his head.

"I still need my hair cut." He says and I smirk.

"Want me to wake Clem?" I asked.

"No, but could you cut it?" He asked and I nodded as we both got up and he sat in the kitchen chair as I grabbed the scissors and I patted his shoulder as I got to cutting.

"You need your hair cut too." He says and I chuckle a bit.

"I do?" I asked.

"Yea, I mean we might not see a lot of walkers these days but you can't be to careful." He says an I nod.

"I mean you aren't wrong." I said as I cut his hair more. I looked down at him as I thought a bit and I sighed.

"Is something wrong?" He asked as I looked at his hair more and then to the table.

"Remember that fight I had with Louis a long time ago?" I asked.

"You mean when he said Clem was probably glad that David took me?" He asked and I nodded a bit.

"And what he said about Clem only using me as an experiment?" I asked.

"Yea…. why?" he asked as I finished his hair up.

"Do you think I should apologize to him for that?" I asked.

"Why should you apologize to him? Shouldn't he apologize to you?" He asked.

"I mean… I talked about his parents before that, and Marlon." I said quietly as I looked at the window again as the rain kept falling.

"You want my opinion?" he asked and I nodded.

"Yea."

"Then no, you shouldn't have to apologize for it, it was his own fault for saying that, and saying Clem was glad to get rid of me, he should apologize to us…. I mean, he has no idea what Clementine was thinking at the time, and he had no right to say what he said." AJ speaks out and I look at him.

"Well I didn't make things any better by beating on him."

"He deserved it, he says those things and expects not to get hurt? I would have hit him too if I wasn't so small at the time, but now I'm big so he best better watch his mouth." AJ says and I look at him.

"AJ don't talk like that." I said.

"But it's true, I'm tired of him acting like that, and because Clem didn't want to be with him? Even I know that, that's childish." He says and I rub his shoulders.

"I know, but we need to keep this between you and I, Clem doesn't need to know about that just yet." I said and he nods a bit.

"It's just…. He shouldn't say things like that, I don't care if you brought up Marlon, you said so yourself he knew Marlon needed help long before we came along, but did he help him? No, and I'm still sorry for shooting him, but you can't just take my gun and wave it around and point it at my only family I have left." He said and I nodded as I sat in the other chair and looked at him.

"I know, I know AJ, you've already told me time and time again that you were sorry, and we shouldn't hold it against you, we don't know all the things you've been through…. All the things Clem has been through…. I know she won't tell me some things, and I'm ok with that, she doesn't have to tell me everything about her, just like you don't have to tell me everything about you." I said and he looked at me.

"I know but still… you've known me for so long, and I don't know much about myself from the beginning till we met you, I like to talk to, Clem says talking is good sometimes." He says and I nod a bit as I watch him.

"You've grown so big…. Hell, you'll be taller than me in no time… you're about Tenn's height right now." I said as I looked at him.

"We never got to bury him." He says.

"I know." I breath in a bit as I look out the window.

"He was a really good kid though…. Why do all the good people die?" He asked and I looked back at him.

"That's hard to talk about, I know what you mean though, Sophie was a really good girl, never wanted to hurt anyone, but because she didn't want to fight, Minerva, her own sister, just killed her… and yet Clementine let her live, I mean I would have gladly left Minnie to rot on that boat but…. I guess Clem though Minnie could redeem herself… which she had a few times with you and watching you and helping you when you needed it." I said as tapped my fingers on the table a bit.

"Or how Lee got bit by a walker and had to get shot by Clem, when a stranger didn't have to suffer as much as she had." AJ said and I looked at him.

"That stranger had problems too though AJ, Clem told me that when they were done at the people at the farm, they took supplies from a station wagon, well not her and Lee, but the other in her group, she heard that the stranger had lost his son not just a few hours prior, that his wife and daughter left and he found them a day later in the road…. How because Clems group took the food and supplies from the vehicle that's why him and his wife fought…. He suffered; he lost his entire family in the span of one to two days…. He just went things about the wrong way." I explained and AJ looked at me.

"If you could… would you have saved Lilly?" He asked and I looked at him.

"She lost her dad at the farm, that was all the family she had left, and yet she went and took children, killed Mitch, turned Minnie on her own sister, and was willing to hurt all of us again." He said and I looked at him.

"Would you have stayed with me, if you were there when I let my Grandmother kill herself in front of me?" I asked him.

"I… I don't know." He says.

"Lilly was broken too, we all are… would I save her? Had I known her a bit more, I would have tried to help her…. But after she hurt Clementine… when I saw those wounds on Clem…. No, I would have shot her myself." I said and I looked at my feet.

"I wouldn't even save my own ass if I knew what I did…. Not calling the ambulance for my grandma, to at least try and save her…. My mom probably thought I was a psychopath till the day she died." I said as I got up and went over to the window and just watched the rain a bit, I looked outside and saw a few walkers but they were walking away from the house but also walking all over the place due to the rain and thunder.

"I'm sorry for asking." He said.

"Don't be sorry AJ, nothing for you to be sorry about… well unless you hurt me physically for no reason then yea, I'd like an apology." I said as I chuckled and so did, he.

"I'm glad we got to meet you though, you make Clem happy." He said and I nodded.

"And she makes me happy." I said as I watch the rain lift up a bit so it wasn't raining anymore, the clouds were still grey though and you could here a few rumbles of thunder being made I looked at him as we both nodded and I went over to Clem quietly as I slowly picked her up gently and AJ opened the door for me as we headed to the truck. I heard Clementine mumble a bit in her sleep, and I set her in. Once I buckled her in I looked up to see her open her eye's a bit and she looked to me and smiled a tired smile. I kiss her cheek gently and she looked at me.

"Where we going?" She asked tiredly.

"AJ is going to follow me; we're looking for the other remember?" I asked.

"Ooooh right… sorry." She says and I smiled as I kissed her cheek again.

"It's fine, now let's get going." I said as I closed the door and I grabbed the bike. I turned it on and I rode of in front of AJ so he could follow me. I know a few hours had to pass before we finally got near the edge of Saint Augustine. It was a little old town that was built, if I remember correctly, they use to do Ghost tours here, I remember seeing Videos back at the school of people going there just to find Ghosts it was pretty cool. I hear my radio go off.

"Hey Vi, there's a map up ahead do; you want to go check it out?" Clem asked and I grabbed the radio.

"Yea, lets see if they left a trail for us." I said as I went up to the map. And there it was, the symbol we had made years ago, it looked like it was on one of the huge forts called Castillo De San Marcos. I heard the truck pull up next to me as AJ rolls the window down.

"Seems they're at the fort Castillo, we can head there and see." I said and they nod. I get back on the bike and head out to the direction of the fort. I can see it easily as I ride up on the path up to the bridge and see that they have the door up. I slowly get off my bike as I walk up to the fort and then I hear a gun and I look up to see Ruby and Willy. Willy holding a bow and arrow as Ruby held a shotgun. I slowly lift my hands up as I look at them.

"Well this is a warm welcome." I said as they look at me.

"Oh my god Vi." Ruby says as she moves away and I see Willy lower his bow.

"Omar open the gate it's Vi and the others." I hear and I see the door open a bit as Ruby runs up and hugs me tightly.

"Ooof, small girl got bear hugs." I said and she hugs me tighter.

"Hush you, it's been fucking years." She says and I hug her back just as hard.

"Fuck you're strong, last I remember you had noodles for arms." She says and I chuckle as I see AJ and Clem walk up to us. I see as the rest of the group come up to us and I go over to Clem and AJ.

"Holy hell, you're alive." I heard and see Aasim looking at us.

"Yea, we're alive." I chuckled.

"AJ, you've gotten so big." Ruby says as she comes over to him and gives him a hug too and I watch them.

"Jesus, it's so good to see you guys again." Omar says as he hugs me and I hug him back. I look to the side and I see Louis looking over to us but not coming up to us.

"Louis, come say hi." Ruby says but instead he walks away and I look at him.

"That damn boy is holding a grudge." Ruby says and I chuckle at her.

"It's fine." I said and she looked at me.

"Oh, hey actually we have a new member for you to meet." Ruby says and I look at her then Clem and AJ as we all head inside and I see a little girl running up to us.

"MOM! AJ, won't give me my toy back." The little girl says as she runs up to us and stops as she sees us. I look at her and smile a bit as she hides behind Ruby.

"She's lying, I gave it back to her." A young boy says as I watch him and he looks at us.

"Dad who are these people?" The boy asked as he stays behind Aasim.

"This is your other family members, your Aunt Violet, Aunt Clementine, and Cousin AJ." Aasim says.

"But I'm AJ." The boy says.

"Yea but so is he, You're Aasim Junior, he's Alvin Junior." Aasim explained and his son nods a bit and I look at the little girl as Ruby picks her up and brings her over to us.

"This little girl is Delilah." Ruby says and I smile as I hold my hand out to her and she takes it gently.

"Hey I'm Violet." I said and she smiles.

"Hello." She says and I chuckle a bit and I look at Clem who crossed her arms.

"You say hello to kids so easily." She says.

"Bah, this little cutie already has me wrapped around her finger." I said as I smiled at Ruby's daughter who giggled a bit as she held her arms out to me and Ruby handed her to me and I smiled as I held her.

"How old are ya?" I asked and she held up four fingers and I smiled.

"How old are you?" She asked and I smiled.

"Delilah, it's rude to ask a woman her age." Ruby says.

"But she asked me my age." Her daughter says and I chuckle.

"It's fine Ruby, I'm Twenty-nine." I said and she nods.

"See mom she doesn't mind." She says and I chuckle more as she sticks her tongue out.

"That's because Violet is different." Ruby says and I smile as they take us to the side of the fort where there was some wood built to make a roof area and I set Delilah down gently as she went to go play with her toys.

"Are you guys staying or just passing through?" Louis asked as I turned to look at him.