(Violet's Pov)

I looked over to Louis who had his arms crossed as he leaned on the wall of the fort and I watched as AJ went to go play with Aasim Junior. I looked over to Clem who was also looking at louis.

"Is it fine if we stay the night?" I asked him.

"Not really no." He says and I nod.

"Well what about Clem and AJ? Can they stay the night?" I asked.

"I'm fine with that." He said and I nodded.

"Wait, what is going on why can't Violet stay?" Clem asked and I looked at her then to louis.

"Why don't you tell her Violet." Louis said and I watched him leave.

"Oh no, Louis you stay here to, I'm not going to have you stand there and act like a dick then have Violet tell me something while you walk away, now both of you explain what the hell is going on." Clem said and I looked at her as Louis stopped and turned to face us.

"Because that bitch over there punched the hell out of me, fucking broke my jaw." He said and I clenched my hands into fists.

"You said that Clem was only using me as an experiment, on top of that you said she was probably glad to get rid of AJ, so fuck you man, you deserved to have your jaw broken." I said.

"Fuck you, you didn't want to come with us when we left." He said.

"I was waiting for Clementine, fucking this idiot over here said you might have been working with Joan, he also says that you more than likely died out there, and he said that in front of AJ too." I said and she looked at him then me.

"He was just mad that I got you but he didn't, oh so fucking sorry I got the girl Louis grow the fuck up." I said.

"Language Violet." Ruby said as she came up to us.

"What's going on?" Aasim asked.

"Just bringing up old memories." Louis said.

"Something about a fight." Clem said and Ruby looks to her.

"Look, just drop it ok? We'll be gone tomorrow anyway." I said.

"No, you three have to stay longer." Aasim said.

"Yea, ya'll traveled so far to get here, rest a bit." Ruby said.

"Clem and AJ can stay but Violet has to go." Louis says.

"Damn it Louis you're not in charge here, you can't make decisions on your own." Aasim says.

"Violet said that she was ok with leaving." Louis said and I glared at him.

"Because you said she couldn't." Clem said.

"Why would we let a person who beat the hell out of me stay?" Louis asked.

"That's like saying why the hell are you still ok with me and AJ staying after AJ shot Marlon and I supposedly work with Joan." Clem said and I looked at her as she got pissed and I put my arm out in front of her so she didn't do anything rash.

"Because unlike you, Violet didn't stay to help." He said.

"Fucking petty like you always are, damn it louis you didn't even help during the two weeks we were getting ready for the raiders, you didn't fucking help Marlon and he ended up going fucking crazy, giving up the twins and killing Brody." Aasim says and I look at him.

"Don't bring him up." Louis said.

"No fuck you man, you don't want us bringing up Marlon because you were so worried about yourself you didn't give a flying fuck abut what happened to him and when karma bit you in the ass you took your anger out on Clem and AJ." Aasim says.

"What about Ruby hu? She voted them out too, and Mitch, and Willy, along with Omar." He says.

"They weren't you Louis, you fucking didn't even try to convince Marlon to put the gun down, Violet tried too but Marlon didn't fucking listen, and you didn't do shit either." Aasim said.

"How are they different than me hu?"

"You were his fucking; best friend you, dipshit, how dense can you fucking be?" Aasim says and I hold him back more as he is about to punch Louis.

"You didn't save Marlon, you were acting like a brat, and you don't get to tell Violet or the others whether they can stay here or not, I'm in charge here and your fucking vote doesn't count for shit these days." Aasim says and I see Ruby pull him back as I move him back too.

"I should kick your fucking ass right now." Aasim says pissed.

"Woah calm down Aasim." AJ says as he helped me keep him back.

"Calm? I am Calm, I'm tired of your shit Louis, if you think you're such a bad ass then why don't you fucking leave Louis?" Aasim says and I look at him.

"Fuck you guys, I've helped."

"WITH WHAT?! WHEN RUBY WAS IN THE GARDEN AND A WALKER CAME AT HER, YOU RAN OFF, AND SHE WAS CARRING DELILAH!" Aasim yelled as I pushed him back.

"WILLY AND OMAR SAVED HER, AND SO DID MINNIE!" He yelled and I looked to the side to see Minnie come out and she ran over to us.

"Woah what's going on?" She asked and I looked at her.

"Nothing just."

"This isn't nothing Violet." Clementine says and I look to her.

"It is nothing, it's done and over with ok, just…. Stop fighting." I said as the kids came up to us and we stopped.

"What's going on?" Aasim Junior asked and I looked at him.

"Nothing." Aasim says as he glared at Louis for a while.

"Violet, Clem and AJ are staying however long they want, no if ands or buts about it Louis, they're still our family, they're still our group members weather you like it or not Louis." He said and Aasim walked away so I went and followed him.

"Aasim, you good?" I asked.

"No, I'm not, fucking louis has no say in anything these days, he couldn't even help Ruby when she was carrying Delilah but by god, we have to help him." He says pissed and I rubbed my neck.

"Thanks for sticking up for me." I said and he looked at me.

"Of course, so…. How about staying for dinner?" He asked and I nodded as I walked with him a bit. I looked over to clementine as I saw her limp a bit and she went and sat in a chair.

"Hey I'll be right back I got to check on Clem."

"Take your time." He said and I nodded and went over to her and sat in front of her.

"Is your leg bothering you?" I asked and she nods a bit.

"Want me to have a look at it?" I asked.

"Do you think you need the book?" She asked and I nodded as I whistled for AJ to come over and he runs to us.

"Yea what's up?"

"I need you to grab my medic bag in the truck, Clems leg is bothering her again." I said as I handed him the keys and he grabs them then runs off to the truck. I slowly roll up Clems pant leg and I take the straps off of her leg.

"Woah she's got a robot leg." Aasim Junior says and I look at them then her and she turned red from embarresment so I get up a bit and I kiss her.

"Hey you're good, they're just kids." I explained and she nods a bit as I take her leg off and look at it a bit.

"Is it damaged?" She asked and I shook my head as AJ ran up to us with my bag and I saw Ruby coming over to us.

"Hey Omar said…. What happened to you?" She asked as she got next to me.

"It's nothing Ruby." Clem said and Ruby looked at her.

"Violet's got it." She says and I grab my book and show Ruby it.

"You built this?" She asked as she pointed to the leg and I nodded as I got to work.

"Hmm, need to get some extra padding later on." I mumbled as I looked up at Clementine.

"You need to take it off when you aren't going to walk for long periods of time." I said and she sighed and crossed her arms and I chuckled and I se the leg down a bit as I grabbed her stump and looked at it to see some cuts and I look back at the leg then her.

"Have you been feeling the cuts?" I asked and she looked at her leg.

"No, I just thought it was an itch or something." She says and I nod as I put some medicine on her stump.

"Do you mind if I asked what happened to cause this?" Ruby asked and I looked at Clementine.

"I don't know what really happened…. All I know is that I got bit and Violet had to cut my leg off." She says and I grab the leg.

"Oh, dear lord." Ruby says.

"But I'm fine, Vi and AJ have been a lot of help." She says and I look to her a bit.

"I'm going to go grab your crutches for right now if that's fine?" I asked and she nods as I head to the truck and grab them. I look to the leg again and saw some holes where the metal broke through and I sighed as I went and grabbed my tools for the leg and I head back to Clem who is talking to Minnie and Aasim and Ruby.

"Yea, Violet read a lot of books and made me a fake leg, since the ones they found didn't really fit me." I heard as I walked up and I saw Clem smile at me once she saw me.

"And there she is." She says as I hand her the crutches and I kiss her cheek as she stands up and I help her a bit.

"I'm going to go check on AJ." She says and I nod as she goes over to him.

"Damn, you should stay here Vi, at least you do more work than Louis." She says and I look at her.

"I wish I could but… we kind of have a plan for a trip." I said.

"Trip?" Aasim asked and I nodded as I explained to them.

"We want to take AJ to other places in the states, you know, travel for a bit and then we can head to the…. Georgia and the school… and farm." I said as I looked at AJ as he played with the little ones.

"That, doesn't seem like the best plan, you have no idea what's going on up north, and neither do we." Aasim said.

"We were going to head west first, not head straight up, go to like California or some shit." I said and Ruby nods.

"I mean it's a change, and there isn't much walker activity go on these days with them rotting away." Ruby said as she looked at Aasim and then me.

"But the people is what we have to worry about." He said and I nodded as I looked at him.

"Yea, we know, that's why we have our guns and stuff." I said as we walked over to Omar who was giving the kids food.

"Well, hello Violet, long time no see." He said and I smiled.

"Yea, been a good while." I said as he handed us some food and I gave my bowl to Clementine.

"You know you need to eat." She said and I nodded.

"Yea but you and AJ eat first that's all." I said as I grabbed another bowl and Omar and I sat at the table. I place my hands in my lap and watched the others a bit as they ate and I looked around a bit.

"You ok?" Delilah asked and I looked at her.

"Yea I'm fine." I said and smiled a bit at her as I grabbed my spoon and ate a bit.

"Hey Vi, you should tell them about the time we went to the creek and saw this snake." AJ said and I looked at him and laughed.

"Oh, you mean when we went swimming? The damndest thing happened, Clem, AJ and I all head to the creek to swim in the summer heat, he was about twelve and I told him to splash around so the snakes wont come about, well I'm just resting a bit on the land talking to Clem and not paying attention and AJ starts to yell." I said and looked at him.

"Now I thought it was a walker, so I shoot up from the water and he's pointing to us and yelled 'there was a snake by your leg' and sure enough I see a snake swimming away, damn thing was trying to go up my shorts." I laughed and so did everyone else but Louis.

"Jesus, I almost had a heart attack that day." I said.

"When she saw the snake, she turned pale, and that's kind of hard to do now." Clem says as she holds my hands.

"Burning in the sun makes great tans." I said as a joke and I kissed her hand a bit.

"Grown-ups are gross." AJ, Aasim Junior, and Delilah all say together and we chuckle.

"I wonder how Mary is." I said and Clem looked at me.

"We might see them on our trip, maybe AJ could find a girlfriend." She says and he shakes his head a lot and I chuckle.

"Oooooo just think about it, I can hear wedding bells chimin." Ruby says.

"Noooooo." He says and lays his head on the table.

"Aww come on AJ, you'll fall for a nice girl…. Maybe she might crash into your life." I said as I looked to Clem who turned red.

"Well you don't have to worry about crashes anymore, cause I'm to worried about you on that damn bike." She said as I looked to her a bit.

"Shh, dear I'll find a helmet soon." I said and ate some more soup.

"God it's so good to see you three again." Willy says and I smile.

"Same to you buddy." I said as I watched everyone a bit.

"So, Clem you need help finding a new leg?" Louis asked and I looked at him.

"You know, since Violet's built one is broken." He said and I shook my head and ate.

"Sorry, but Violet's leg is my leg, others can't fit." She said.

"Well there could be some at the hospital near here." He said.

"She doesn't want another leg leave it at that." Aasim said.

"Why not? It's got to be a lot better than the one Violet made." He said. I ignored him and I rubbed Clems hand as she gripped mine and I ate more.

"Louis, Violet worked on it for a month, it's been fine for the past seven years, it's just old, so please, stop asking." She said calmly.

"I could make you one, I bet it would be better than Violets." He said and I looked at her.

"Louis just stop it." She said and he does and looks down at his food then gets up and leaves. I watched him and then looked at the others as they eat.

"He does that a lot these days." Willy said.

"Hey, I never got to ask, but is um… is Rosie still around?" AJ asked and I looked at him.

"Sorry buddy, she passed away last year…. But she does have puppies, we just didn't let them out tonight cause they were being a bit loud." Ruby said and I looked at her.

"C-Could we have one?" I asked Clementine and she nods to me and smiles gently.

"Of course, you can." She said and as we put our bowls away Ruby took AJ and I over to this cage in the wall and I looked to see some dogs sleeping on the ground and I look at the dogs, AJ comes up to the cage and one pup comes over to AJ, it was a pure white pup, but their nose was black and their eyes were golden brown like Rosies. It came up to AJ and sniffed his hand then licked it a bit. AJ then began to pet them.

"It seems she likes you AJ." Aasim said and I smiled as I bent down next to him and the pup and I rubbed her head gently as she looked at us.

"Can we get this one?" He asked and I nodded a bit as they let the dogs out and this one stayed right next to AJ.

"She really likes you kid." Ruby said as she pets the other dogs and they ran off. I walked with AJ and his new dog and Clementine came over and put her hand out gently to the dog so she could sniff her hand. The dog does just that and licks Clems hand and she pulled back quickly and scared and I come up to her as she sighs.

"Sorry just…. Though she was going to bite my hand off." She says quietly and I hold her hand.

"Hey it's ok, it's fine." I said and she hold her hand out again and the dog comes up and places her head under Clems hand. She rubs the dogs head gently and I smile at her.

"What's the dogs name?" She asked and I looked to AJ.

"How about… snow? Cause she looks like snow." He said and I nodded. An easy name.

"Alright, snow it is." I said and Clem petted the dog more and it sniffed her stump a bit.

"Snow hu? I would have said winter." Aasim said and I chuckled a bit.

"Alright, well it's getting late you guys and I got to put the kids to bed." Ruby said and I nodded as she called her children over to her and I smiled as they went to their mother. She took them to their room that was built by the group and I smiled a bit as I looked at Clementine.

"We should be heading to bed soon than." I said and she nods and yawns a bit.

"I don't know why I'm so tired." She says.

"We use to be able to go to bed earlier and sleep in sometimes." I said as I helped her to the room that Aasim said we could stay in. AJ went to go talk with willy as I go Clementine settled in bed and I grabbed the blanket and covered her up a bit.

"I love you so much Violet." She mumbled in her sleep and I kissed her head gently as I watched her. She was so peaceful when she slept and I rubbed her face gently then moved my hands away and clasped them together, saying a few things like, making sure we don't get attacked or hope Clem doesn't get sick or hurt tomorrow, tonight, or any other day, it just helped me a bit to do this, I guess that's a good thing, though I've only been doing this since Clem lost her leg.

"You tired?" I heard and looked to Omar.

"No not really." I said.

"Would you care for a drink?" he asked as he showed me the bottle and I nodded as I got out quietly and he gave me a glass as we sat at the table and drank just a bit.

"Saw you praying, sorry." He said.

"Don't be, AJ has seen me do it a few times before, it's just a habit since…. Clem lost her leg." I explained.

"No shame in that, I started to pray more when Ruby and Aasim announced they were having a baby." He joked and I smiled a bit.

"How are the kids?" I asked.

"They're ok, it's new people we've been waiting for, especially Delilah, Aasim wanted a little girl." Omar said and I smiled.

"Really now?" I asked and Omar nodded.

"Ruby wanted a boy, at least they compromised." He said and I took a drink.

"Yea….how have you been?" I asked.

"Trying to keep the peace, nothing really new either, walkers are dying off, so that's a plus." He said and I nodded.

"That's another reason I want to take AJ on a trip." I said.

"Yea, that's a good thing to do if you want, no harm in it, but I understand Aasim when it comes to traveling to new locations or old ones." He said and I nodded.

"Yea I know, it's tough, heck you guys really can't do that till the kids get older, plus the dogs." I said.

"They're good dogs though, we were surprised Rosie was able to have puppies, we were surprised she was able to you know."' He said and I chuckled.

"Yea." I said and took a sip.

"What have you and Clem planned out?" He asked.

"About a family?" I asked and he nods.

"We're fine with what we have, we can take in kids who need help or anything for that matter… I just feel bad that I can't actually give her a child." I said as I looked to the room where Clem laid. I took another drink and I looked to Omar.

"Would you like to go to bed?" he asked and I nodded a bit and he nods as I get up slowly and hand him the empty glass and I head over to where Clem was sleeping. I got in the bed with her and I put my arms around her gently as I kissed her neck and placed my face by her neck. I closed my eyes as I rubbed her hands gently as she sleepily placed her hands on top of mine. I don't know how long it took but both Clem and I passed out just holding each other as we slept in peace.