(Violet's Pov)
I watched as the road was moving really fast as I looked around more. I looked at the lock and I went to go fiddle with it.
"Violet stop." Clem said as I looked at her and she was just looking at the wall of the cage that was covered with a board of wood.
"I just… I wasn't." I tried to say and I looked at the lock.
"Don't they'll hurt you if you try to leave, besides even if you did get the lock off, you can't just jump off a moving truck." She said and I nodded as I went and sat down and looked at the gated door and I glared at it.
"What's gonna happen?" AJ asked and I looked at him. The truck jolted a bit as we hit a walker and I glared at the front of the truck as if that would do anything. The truck began to slow down a bit and I felt it jerk a bit as the truck lurched and I hit the sit of the truck with my shoulder to stop me from falling.
"Fuck." I mumbled as I sat down and we waited as the truck made a complete stop. It was about a minute or two when they came over to the side and opened the back and Joan was looking at us.
"Have a relaxing trip?" She asked and I just glared at her. She didn't look to happy but I didn't care as she got in the truck and grabbed me by the back of my shirt and stood me up. She then too me to the edge of the trucks bed and threw me off.
"VIOLET!" I heard AJ yell and I got up and glared at Joan.
"You better start talking or the boy gets it next." Joan said and I looked at her.
"You can learn to drive and not hit walkers you know." I said and she punched me and I fell to the dirt and I glared at her.
"Wasn't so hard now was it." She said and I glared at her more.
"Take them to the work station to see what jobs they will get, I want them to start work tomorrow bright and early." She said as one of the men picked me up and I watched them as they grabbed clementine and AJ as they took us to a building with the words Work Station written on a banner. We were pushed and shoved a bit as we walked and I glared at the woman sitting at the desk as she looked at us and I moved my shoulders a bit.
"Hmm…. Name and age?" The woman asked and I just glared at her then one of the men smacked the back of my head and I groaned a bit.
"Violet Everett, twenty-nine." I growled out and she looked at me.
"Surprised you know your last name, anyway do you know how to shoot a gun of any kinds?" She asked and I nodded and I was hit again.
"Fucking god damn it, yes I know how." I said and she wrote some things down and looked at me.
"Ok, stand her over there." She told the men and I was taken to the side and faced to look at a camera and It went off blinding me and I shook my head from the flash.
"What is this for?" I asked as she looked at me and typed away on a computer.
'Guess they have a generator.' I thought as I watched her.
"You need a job here and an I.D. as well, you will carry it on you at all times, if you misplace it just come back to get a new one." She said as she finished the I.D. and handed it to one of the men who showed it to me.
"Solider? Hell fuck no." I said and glared at all of them.
"You got that job deal with it, we need more people in the front lines, now go." The lady said as they dragged me away and I tried to get out their grips.
"Fucking hell I can walk damn it." I said and I was shoved.
"Shut the hell up kid."
"I'm not a damn kid." I said as they shoved me more and I was taken to a room and saw Joan and I glared at her.
"Hm, didn't think you'd meet the requirements to be in my army, oh well beggars can't be choosers." She said and I glared at her more as she came up to me.
"don't think about trying to escape either, you will be shot on sight even if it's in front of that boy of yours, and I think he's seen enough death don't you think?" she aske d and I just looked to her.
"Anyway, you will have your own home, you will show up to training at 0400 hours, no complaints about it, you will do as told and hey, maybe you might rank up, you will be paid for your job, we have made our own currency with the acceptations of the old currency mostly coins that is, you can stay with Clementine too, and so on, basically this community is just like how the world would have been if you were to go out and find a real job." She says and they take the Zipties off my hands and she hands me a uniform along with keys, and my rifle and I just look at her.
"You have the truck back, your weapons and any other supplies you had is now in your new home, no need to pay any rent or anything for the building, you just need to pay the people who fix your water electricity and so on, now, john and sanders will take you to your home and Clementine and your boy should be there by now, you'll get more information tomorrow while you're at work." She said and the two men took me out the room and I look around so confused as they take me to a house. They open the door and shoved me in and I looked around a bit and Snow runs up to me and stops as she looks at me. I look around and I see Clem sitting on the couch and I see AJ looking at her and I walk over.
"I um…I'm so confused." I said and she looked up at me.
"she's messing with our heads, or at least trying too." She said as she looked at her I.D. I looked at it.
"Armory?" I asked and she nods.
"Yea…only thing I can do." She said.
"I got student." AJ said and I looked at him.
"Schooling?" I asked and he nods and I looked at them.
"I uh… we." I was so confused as I sat on the couch and she saw my uniform and looked at me and I looked back at her.
"I uh… Military?" I said or more like questioned and I looked to AJ as Snow came and sat in his lap and I looked around.
"We have to go along with this?" AJ asked and I nodded a bit.
"Uh… I'll get shot if I do anything stupid." I said as I just looked at the wall.
"Same." Clementine said and I nodded a bit.
"As expected." I said and I looked at my uniform and I shook my head and I rubbed my head a bit and leaned forward as I covered my face.
"Fuck." I mumbled and I got up and let my uniform drop as I went and looked out the window and saw people walking around as if there wasn't a care in the world.
"And no one cares?" I asked and looked at clementine.
"It's how they were before… but we didn't have currency or working lights or water…. I still don't trust her, there's something up with all this." Clementine said and I nodded.
"Look, we really can't do anything at this point right now, lets just stay on their good side…. And plan a way out of this." I said and she nods and we look around the house a bit. I checked the faucets and water was running and I shut the faucet off and I flipped a switch to see the lights turn off. I looked around the house more and I saw the bedrooms there was only two and I rubbed my face a bit as I came back down the stairs and looked at Clementine as she looked at me.
"Um… fucking hell." I mumbled again as I looked at her.
"We'll find a way out of here soon." She said and I nodded. I heard a phone go off and I jumped at the sound as the old wall phone went off. I looked at clementine who also looked a bit scared at the sound and I went over to it and answered it.
"Hello?" I asked.
"Ah good the phone works, is this the Everett house?" I heard a woman ask.
"Um.. Yes?" I answered.
"Hi, I'm Kelly I'm your neighbor, I'm also in charge of checking the land lines of the houses to make sure they work for new people, mind coming out to meet in person? I know this is all new for you but trust me this is good." She says and I looked to Clementine.
"I um… yea… I guess…. Um… be out in a bit." I said and she hung up and I looked to the phone and put it back on the wall and looked at Clem and AJ.
"Uh… neighbor? Outside." I said and they looked to each other and I went to the door and looked to see a woman walk out of her house. I got a really good look of our yard and saw we had nice green grass and I shook my head a bit as I walked out along with Clementine and AJ.
"Welcome Neighbors." The woman said as she came up to us and I looked at her.
"Um… thanks?" I asked.
"Oh don't be like that, How are you liking your home so far?" She asked.
"Uh… it's nice I suppose I mean… better than most places." I said as I looked to Kelly.
"Yea, being out there isn't nice, but hey at least you have a change in scenery right?" she asked and I nodded a bit.
"So what job did you guys get?" She asked as she waved us to come inside her house and we followed her a bit.
"Um… I work in the military." I said.
"Oh, then you'll be working with my Husband and Daughter." She said and I looked at her.
"What about you?" She asked Clementine and I looked to clem.
"Armory." She said as she looked at the woman.
"Nice job, you two have the best jobs available, well except for doctor, but it's still a good job." She said and I just looked at her and then she saw AJ.
"Oh you have a young man with you, what's your name?" she asked AJ and he looked to me then the woman.
"I uh… Alvin Junior ma'am." She said being polite to the woman and she nodded.
"I'm guessing you're a student hu?" she asked and he nodded.
"Oh wonderful, you'll see My son and other two daughters they're probable a bit older than you though so different classes." She explained to him and I looked to her.
"Um… so I'm confused here." I said.
"What's to be confusing?" she asked as she went to the kitchen and I watched her as she made some drinks.
"Why is this community um…. Taking people?" I asked.
"We want to make sure people are safe that's all, trust me, Joan might act like a hard ass but she's just looking out for people, she lets others join us and we have a good system going, trust me in a few days or weeks you'll get use to it and love it here." She said as she handed AJ some drink and I grabbed it from her.
"Uh… what's in this?" I asked.
"Oh, does he have an allergy to lemons?" she asked and I looked to him and Clem.
"No just… we don't really." I said.
"It's fine I understand; my husband was the same way when the Jones were being kind to us." She says and I look at her and slowly hand the drink back to AJ who just holds it and takes a sip and he drinks some more.
"Thirsty hu?" Kelly asked and he nods.
"Yes Ma'am." He says and she smiles and gives him some more and pours us each a glass along with herself.
"Haven't had lemonade in years." She says and I nod a bit as I take a drink, it was sweet just like lemonade.
"I uh..." I tried to say.
"We use to have apple juice every morning, Mom made it, and it was good." AJ said and Kelly looked to Clementine.
"You must me his mother, right?" She asked and Clem shook her head no.
"No, I mean... well yea but he doesn't call me Mom." She said and Kelly looked to me.
"Is he your boy?" she asked and I nodded.
"Not by blood just…" I tried to explain.
"Are you two Lesbians?" She asked and I turned red and took a drink of lemonade.
"What's a Lesbian?" AJ asked and I sputtered a bit and coughed.
"I uh… um." I tried to speak.
"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't mean." Kelly said.
"No, it's fine just… we never said that around him…. And yes, Clementine and I are uh… partners… we're married too." I said and Kelly looked to me.
"Oh, then my daughter and her wife should go on double dates with you." She says excited and I back up a bit and I look to Clementine who's mostly stayed quiet.
"Um, yes that would be nice." I said as I rubbed my neck and I looked at Clementine.
"I'm sure you three are tired, and I know you have to get to work pretty early there Solider, so I'll let you three go, oh tomorrow my husband is having a small Barbeque so if you'd like to come over just do so, also I forgot to mention that we do have a mail service here too, so you can recive letters." She said and I nodded as I stood up and she grabbed the cups and helped walk us out and we waved at her as we headed to the house and I looked at Clem.
"She seems happy to be here." I said.
"She's brain washed Violet." She said as I closed the door to the house.
"She doesn't seem so." I said.
"Don't tell me you want to stay here now, we said we would find a way out." She says.
"No, I'm not saying that at all." I said as I looked to her.
"I just… it's confusing." She said and she sat on the couch and I looked at her.
"Look, I will find a way out if they et me near the walls or whatever." I said as I sat down and looked at her.
"Same, I'll do the same." She said and I nodded.
"Ok… so that's basically the plan." I said and we all nodded as I looked around and I sighed. We went and grabbed our food and we ate a bit of our food and I looked at the two and Snow as she ate as well.
"We uh… I'll set up a plan and so on." I said and she nods.
"I'll help too." AJ said.
"No, we don't want them to look at you just in case they find out what we plan to do, we don't want you getting hurt." Clem said and I nodded a bit.
"Yea it's a good idea." I said and he nods as he pets snow and I watch her.
"We should go to bed, don't want you to get in trouble." She said and I nod as I got up and we all headed to bed I set my clock to three and I rubbed my face as I look at clementine as she just sits and looks at the window.
"Babe." I said.
"Hm?"
"We'll leave as soon as possible." I said and she nods and lays next to me and I hold her to me a bit. I don't sleep at all as I hold her and I don't think she slept at all either as I rubbed her hand gently and kissed her head as the alarm went off and I shut it off and got up slowly and felt her shift a bit as she turned to look at me and I looked at her as I come close to her and I kiss her and she kisses me back. I go down the stairs and I grab my uniform which was the desert colored camo pants and a tan shirt as I tied my boots I see AJ and Clem come down and he looked at me. We kept silent and ate breakfast as I walked with them outside and we headed to where we needed to go, AJ was going into an actual high school and me and Clementine walked onto an actual military base.
"They seem to have a pretty big community." I said and she nodded as we showed our I.D.'s and we were taken to where we needed to go, clementine was taken to the armory and I was taken to the office areas and I looked around as people were walking by and talking.
"Ah you must be the new girl, you're with me." I heard and looked to see a woman with a clip board as she walked and I followed her a bit.
"Um… what uh… what am I doing?" I asked and she looked at me.
"Let me see your I.D." she says and I hand it to her and she looks at it.
"Infantry ah so you need to be at the shooting range for training and then you need to go to the rec center and you will be exercising and so on, then you'll work on the wall with Johnathan and Diana." She said and handed me my I.D. back and I shook my head.
"Uh look I shouldn't be here, my family shouldn't be here, we didn't want to come here." I said and she looked at me.
"don't worry you'll get use to it, and don't try anything stupid, Joan said that the new people aren't to accepting at first so we will show you around." She said.
"Uh but we were literally forced here." I said and she looked at me.
"Trust me you'll like this place, it's not bad, we're just trying to make the world as it once was but better." She said.
"Yea but you guys don't need to kidnap people." I said.
"We didn't kidnap, we recruited." She said and I just looked a her.