(Violet's Pov)
I looked over to Clementine as I woke up slowly and I kissed her neck gently as she stirred in her sleep and I rubbed her side gently.
"Morning." I said as held her hand and she took one of those deep breaths as she stretched a bit to move her joints.
"Morning, Vi…. Hmmm you sleep good?" She asked and I nodded as I grabbed her hand gently and kissed it.
"Yea, did you?" I asked and she nodded as she got up and so did I. I looked to her leg as I went and grabbed it and I looked to her.
"I can work on it today and once it's fixed, we can head out." I said and she nodded tiredly and I kissed her head gently as I picked her up bridle style and took her out of the room and sat her at the benches that they had. I looked at her as she tried to wake up and I heard someone walk to us. I turn around and I see Ruby.
"Morning you two, ready for a good day today?" She asked and I nodded as I worked on Clems leg a bit.
"Of course." Clem said tiredly and I rubbed her back gently then went back to work on the leg.
"You know, you can still sleep in if you want." Ruby told her.
"No, I'm fine I should be use to this by now." She yawns and I look to her gently as she watches my hands work on the prosthetic.
"So, Vi, you've been doing a lot of work lately, seems like math class did well for ya." Ruby commented as she points to Clems leg and I nod.
"I mean I didn't hate math I just didn't like doing it at six in the morning." I said as I got to work.
"So, Ya'll leaving at any point?" Ruby asked and I looked to her.
"Yea, after I fix Clems leg we'll head out." I said as I looked to her.
"Are ya sure?" Ruby asked and I nodded a bit.
"Yea, we don't want to overstay, besides I'm so damn close to punching the hell out of Louis." I muttered as I got to work on the leg. Once done I put the straps on Clems leg and helped her stand a bit as she used me for support.
"Should be use to this damn thing." She says and I chuckle.
"It takes time, I mean I knew a guy who had a fake eye once, only reason I knew it was fake was cause he forgot to put it in one day and just walked around like it was in there." I said and she laughed a bit.
"Do I need to get a fake eye?" She asked and I looked under her patch a bit and shook my head.
"No, it's just foggy, besides I wouldn't be able to help you take your eye out." I joked and she shook her head a bit.
"Do I need to get your cane?" I asked and she nods a bit. I help sit her back down and I go grab the old cane from the truck and looked at it as I come back.
"We got this from Georgia right?" I asked and she nodded.
"Yea, it was Lee's dads….. I hope he doesn't mind me using it." Clem says quietly as I help her up and I hand her the cane. At this time more people were waking up and I looked to see Omar already working on breakfast.
"Would you three at least stay for breakfast?" Ruby asked and I looked at Clem and nodded a bit.
"That would sound really good right now." I said and I saw AJ with Willy and the little ones as they ask him lots of questions.
"How many walkers have you seen?" Aasim Junior asked.
"Tons, I can't even remember, but I remember walking in a heard once so probably in the near thousands, but Clem has seen more." AJ said and I looked at Clementine.
"What's it like out there?" Delilah asked as she came up to us.
"Is it ok to tell them?" I asked Ruby.
"Well they know about walkers and stuff, nothing to really scare them theses days." Ruby said.
"What about the uh…. Raiders?" I asked.
"They know about that." Aasim said as he came up to us and I looked at Clem as she talked with Delilah about how things were for her before the dead started to walk and take over.
"A tree house?" Delilah asked.
"Mmhmm, I lived in it for a few days before a man named Lee took care of me, it saved my life to be honest." She said as she rubbed her arm a bit and I came up to her and kissed her head.
"What about you?" Delilah asked me.
"I was with your parents when all this started." I said as I sat with them.
"What about AJ?" Aasim junior asked.
"I took care of him when he was born, I knew his parents before he was born." Clem said and she kept quiet and I rubbed her back a bit.
"What happened to them?" Delilah asked and Clem messed with her fingers a bit and I grabbed her hands gently.
"They passed away…. A bad man had kidnapped us and we had to escape, Alvin, AJ's father was uh… in very bad shape when I saw him… but he saved me…. And Rebecca… his mom…. Died after she gave birth to him…. But that was because of the blood loss and other things." Clementine mumbled as I looked to her.
"Oh, I'm sorry for asking." Delilah said.
"No it's ok… we all have some bad memories but, we can tell the good ones, I remember that Rebecca wasn't so keen on keeping me in the group, but I guess she started to take a liking to me after we traveled together for a few days, and everyone else in the group was ok, I mean… they had their ups and downs but who doesn't?" Clem said and we all nodded.
"Breakfast is ready." We all heard and the kids got up and ran to Omar and I got up and helped Clem stand up gently.
"Your leg good?" I asked and she nods as she walked a bit but stumbled and I caught her.
"Ok, I'll get your food." I said as I picked her up and sat her at the table.
"Damn Vi, you're strong." Aasim joked and I rolled my eyes as I set Clem down and patted her back a bit. I went and got her bowl as I came back over and handed her, her food.
"You not going to eat?" Ruby asked.
"She always does this, go get a damn bowl Vi." Clem said and I shook my head.
"Not till you and AJ eat first." I said.
"We're fine, now go." She said and shoved me lightly and I rolled my eyes and stayed as I saw AJ come over with his food.
"There AJ got his, now you get yours." Clem said and I nodded as I got up got my food and walked back with Omar.
"So why do you do that Vi?" Minnie asked as I looked to her.
"When we were in Texas, some really bad weather ruined our crops, so I always made sure Clem and AJ had something to eat and rationed out the food till we could get everything going again, it didn't last too long but I got into the habit of doing it so now I always wait till they have food before I eat." I said.
"Hmm, sounds like what my father would do, My mom always made his plate first cause that's how she was raised, but my father was raised to let the children and women eat first, you know… my mom and dad got mad at this a few times but, it's just how they were raised to take care of their family." Ruby said and I nodded.
"Yea but with Vi, it was scary cause she passed out from it, AJ was freaking out thinking she had a heart attack while he checked the other side of the fence, and that's how I broke one of my fake legs, fucking running out to check on her." Clem said and I covered her mouth.
"The swearing Clem, I know I did it a lot but AJ is older now." I said and she looked at me and Ruby laughed.
"You know how many times I swore in front of these two?" Ruby said while pointing to her kids.
"It's nothing new for them, only thing is, I best not hear them repeat those words." She said as they nodded and ate.
"Try telling that to the trash mouth, Vi didn't tell him he couldn't repeat the words." Clem says and I smirk.
"Hey, he's got a new vocabulary now at least."
"Oh yes, the words you said were very colorful, thanks for teaching him oh great and wise Violet." She joked and I smiled as I ate some of my food.
"So, you think the group uh, the frontier group isn't going to come after us?" Willy asked.
"It's been seven years, some of them were already in their forties, so they probably built a community somewhere and settled down." Clem said.
"Or they're still after you." I heard and turned to look at Louis and I rolled my eyes and ate a bit more.
"Or that, but we won't know for a while." Clem said and I watched her and Louis sat down and ate.
"Anyway, you guys should stay a little longer you know, it's been so long since we've seen you." Minnie said.
"We can come visit, we're going to head West again then head up north, hell we could go to Canada I said and Clem laughed.
"Sure, and we can find a plane so I can fly." She said and I chuckled.
"Crash it into a mountain more like it." I heard Louis mumble and I looked to him. I wanted to hit him so badly, no one would mind right?
"Say that again I couldn't hear you." I heard and looked to see it was AJ who spoke.
"I don't need to repeat myself." Louis said.
"No, you do, say it again so we can all hear." AJ said.
"I said 'Crash it into a mountain more like it.' There good enough?" He asked AJ with and attitude and I got up and grabbed the collar of his shirt and pulled him across the table and glared at him.
"You know, the sad fucking thing about you right now, is that you're being so fucking petty about shit." I said and he shoved away from me and I let him go.
"You want to fucking fight?" He asked.
"No… You're not fucking worth it." I said and sat back down.
"You're just chicken shit Violet, just like you were chicken shit to help your grandma." He said, and it pissed me off but I didn't move, I'm not going to fight him before I leave.
"And you were chicken shit with Marlon." I said.
"FUCK YOU!" He yells and I glare at him.
"You should have never been sent to Erricson, you should have been locked up in a fucking looney bin, or fucking jail, how the fuck do we know you didn't shoot your own grandmother hu? Maybe that's why you didn't show any fucking sympathy when people kept dying around us, you're a fucking whack job, you should have died that night MARLON SHOULD HAVE SHOT YOU!" He yells and I look at him, I was beyond pissed at this point as I got up a bit, he moved into a defensive stance but I didn't go after him, no there was no point, why waste the energy to do it?
"Thanks for letting us stay, we should go now." I said to the others and I headed to the truck. I grabbed some supplies for them to have since they gave us food and I saw Omar come over to me as I zipped up the bag and I looked at him.
"You didn't fight him?" He asked and I nodded.
"No point in fighting, no point in talking back at him, he's just going to think the way he wants to for the rest of his life, if so let him die a bitter old man." I said as I handed Omar some of the medicine and energy bars we had.
"No, you keep it, you guys will need it, and the others will say the same." He said.
"Hmm, next time I come I'll bring a deer or something." I said as I placed the bag back in the truck and looked at him.
"That would be nice." He said and I smiled.
"See you guys around." He said and I nodded as I saw Clem and AJ come over to me and I hugged her and kissed her gently as we got ready to go. Snow hopped into the truck with AJ and Clem and I smiled a bit then I got on my bike as I was about to turn it on, I heard a kid and I turned to see Delilah and Aasim Junior running up to me.
"Woah, you two head back." I said but they got up to me.
"Wait, here." Aasim Junior said as he headed me a paper and I looked at it to see it was a drawing of everyone.
"Thanks kiddo." I said and pulled off my back pack and placed it inside the front pocket for easy grabs.
"And this is from me." Delilah said as she handed me and actual photo and it was of us yesterday and I smiled.
"When did you take this?" I asked.
"When this was happening." She said and I rolled my eyes and rubbed her head gently.
"Don't forget us ok? And come back?" Aasim Junior asked and I nodded.
"Yea, we'll come back and I'll make sure to bring gifts next time ok?" I asked and they nodded as they ran back into the fort. I watched them as they ran and I saw ruby and the others wave at us and I waved back as AJ started up the truck and I started up my bike and we drove off. We drove a good while before we stopped to take a break and I looked over the bridge and into the water.
"Looks like a far drop." AJ said and I nod.
"Yea, be careful bud." I said as I looked over Clementine.
"I'm always careful." He said and I chuckled a bit as Snow began nipping at his feet and he pet her gently.
"Yea you are." I said as I looked at him again.
"I looked around more as I saw some vehicles on the side of the bridge.
"You want to go look and see if there's anything in there?" I asked and Clementine nodded as we headed to the cars and looked inside them. We didn't find anything good to take and I sighed as we looked around the area more.
"We should find a place to stay." AJ said and I looked around more and nodded as I pointed to an old abandoned building.
"We can stay there for today, we have a lot of time to travel." Clem said and we all headed to the cabin. We set some stuff to the side and I began to work on todays lunch which was some left over deer meat and some seasoning. AJ helped me a bit and I chuckled a bit as he tried to start a fire and I helped him.
"Got to make sure the wood is dry, this was wet." I said and he nods.
"Shit." I heard and looked to Clementine who sat down and took her leg off again and I told AJ to watch the fire as I went over to Clem as she took her leg off.
"Something wrong with it?" I asked as I grabbed it.
"The strap broke…. Fuck I hate this." She says. Snow hops on the couch with her and nuzzles her side a bit as Clem pets her gently.
"Hey I tried my best." I joked as I sat next to her.
"No I mean…. I didn't mean that." She says and I cut her off with a kiss.
"I know, I'll work on it."
"I'm sorry."
"Hey don't be it's nothing bad."
"I broke the damn strap." She says.
"I can fix it, easy, nothing to worry about." I said and she nods a bit as I kiss her cheek. Hours had passed as I worked on her leg and I looked out the window to see the stars and then I looked to see AJ and Clem both asleep on the small couch and I smile a bit as I work on the leg more. I look up a bit and I see a flash of light and I looked at the window a bit more and see another flash of a light as I slowly get up and looked out the window and I see a truck with a few people on it. I keep quiet as I look to Clementine who was slowly waking up and I go over to her and I cover her mouth a bit. Snow looks around a bit and is about to bark but Clem covers her mouth and looks at her as Snow whimpers a bit. I point to the window as the light goes by again and she looks at me. AJ wakes up a bit and I cover his mouth too, then I hear a car door open and we all get up a bit as we see them going through the front of our truck.
"They-." I cover AJ's mouth and I see them look at the door and I sigh a bit as I hear some guns clicking and the door opened.
"Well, seems we got some strangers in our home, don't we?" I heard and look to see an older woman with grey hair, she looked to be Asian but I'm not to sure and she had this flannel and orange puffy vest.
"Well, looky here if it isn't little old Clementine? And what's this? She has some friends." The woman says as her men point their guns at us.
"Fucking hell." Clem mutters a bit and I glare at the woman.
"Come on Clementine, you use to be part of our group." The woman said and she looked at me and smiled.
"Hello, I'm Joan, I bet Clementine has told you about me." She says as she come up to me. Snow growls at Joan and she glares at the pup and one of her members grabs her and takes her outside and I glare at them.
"That you're an evil hag?" I asked and she glared at me.
"Well that ain't nice and I haven't done anything to you." She said and I see her pull her hand back and then I felt the smack to my face and I glared at her.
"Fucking bitch." I said and she looks at me.
"I may be getting old but I still pack a punch…. Now where are the keys to that truck of yours? Oh, I'm sorry I mean the keys to my new truck." She says as she looks at me and I glare at her.
"As if I'd tell you." I said and she glared at me as she stands up and grabs the rifle and points it at my chest.
"No don't." Clem said and I looked to her then at Joan.
"Where are the keys Girly?" Joan asked me again as she pokes my chest with the rifle again and I glare at her.
"My front left chest pocket." I growled out as she grabbed the keys from my pocket and I glared at her as she hands the keys to a random guy but the rifle still to my chest.
"That wasn't so hard now was it?" She asked and I just glared at her.
"Well who's this young man?" She said as she looked to AJ and pointed her rifle at him.
"Stop waving that damn thing around especially at him." I said and she looked at me.
"Why he your boy?" she asked as she points her rifle at him.
"Yea, so stop pointing that gun at him, you hurt him I'll fucking kill you." I said and she laughed.
"I like you girly, you got spunk." She says as she points the rifle back a me.
"Now get the hell up." She said and the other people raised their guns up and we all slowly got up.
"Bind their hands behind their backs." Joan said as the people pull our arms a bit and bind them with zip ties and I glare at Joan.
"Uh, Joan, Clem doesn't have a leg." I heard and she looked at the man then at Clem.
"Shoot her than."
"NO!" I yelled and she looked to me.
"Don't just, she has a different leg over there by the table that's all." I said and she looked to me then to the leg.
"Fine, but if she slows us down, there's going to be a bullet in her head." Joan said then the members of her group shoved us and we followed them out to their vehicles. I looked to see that they locked Snow in a cage and they were about to do the same to us. We got in the caged vehicle and I looked to clem as she was shoved in and I went over to AJ and checked on him too.
"Shit." I mumbled as the vehicle began to move.