(Violets Pov)

I looked to the lady as she looked back at me from her clipboard, and I looked to her nametag which said Franklin on it. I clenched my fists a bit and she looked down at my fist then me. She also goes to a desk area as she grabs some dog tags and hands them to me and I just snatch them away from her and put them on and I look at her. My hands going back as fists.

"You might want to calm down, you'll get in major trouble if the others think you're going to hurt me." She says and I watch her more. As I unclench my fists, I look at the ground.

"My family and I don't want to be here." I tell her.

"You don't want to be safe?" she asked.

"We do bu-."

"You don't want clean water? Food, electricity, none of what this world was when you were younger?" she asked.

"Honest to God half this stuff I didn't even have as a kid, so I'm use to it." I tell her as I glare at her, she looked at me.

"I doubt that." She said and I glared at her.

"You need to learn that life aint fair kid, you lived a good life probably as a child but in this world, we need people to work together." She said and I laughed.

"Good life? Lady you have no fucking idea what my life was before this world went to hell so don't stand there and act like I was living the lap of fucking luxury." I said and she glared at me and got in my face as I glared at her more.

"Listen and listen good, you will do your job keep your head down and just live here and be safe and keep others safe, this place is better than out there." She said.

"You think kidnapping people is safer? Ya'll took us away from what we wanted to do and you force us into jobs that for one I don't fucking want." I said and she punches me and I fall back a bit and I am on the ground as I look up to her.

"You got a good job because you have two people with you that you take care of, one of them doesn't even have a leg, and you want her to travel around? To get killed? Have you seen what they do to kids out there?" Franklin said and I glared at her.

"YES, I DO!" I yelled at her and she backs up and I get up.

"You must be stupid as fuck to say something like that, to think I don't know what happens, for fuck sake my little brother was shot and killed by people, my wife lost her eye, my ex was sold off, my friend was killed with no remorse, I know what it's like so fuck you." I tell her and she looked at me.

"Then you should be glad to be here and that your…. wife? along with her son have a safe place to live, and that you're still protecting them as well by working on the wall, and defending them from monsters." She said and I glared at her.

"You know I'm right though; you and your family don't have to go out and scavenge for food."

"We know how to grow plants, clean our water, and do what we need to survive, we've done it for years." I said.

"Prove it to us." She said.

"No." I told her and she glares at me.

"Fine we can make your boy work on the wall."

"NO!" I yelled and she looked at me.

"I'll…. I'll work on it damn it." I said and she smiled and nodded as she took me to the shooting range and I glare at the back of her head as she opens the door and I walk in as the other soldier's look at me and I look around a bit.

"Ah you must be the new recruit, welcome to Valhalla." A man said as he came up to me and held his hand out and I took it and shook his hand a bit.

"Valhalla?" I asked confused.

"Yea, it's a Viking thing." He said and I nodded knowing about it, just why they named it that way.

"Um." I tried to say something but couldn't.

"First day of shooting?" A female asked and I looked at her name tag.

"Um… no I've shot before um… Juliet?" I asked as I looked to her.

"That's my name don't wear it out." She said as she smiled and held her hand out and I shook it.

"What's your name private?" she asked.

"Violet…. Violet Everett." I said and she nods.

"Welcome battle buddy." She says as we are heading to the shooting range and I am handed a revolver and I look at the people as they get ready to fire and I just look at my weapon.

"You going to shoot?" I heard and turned to see Juliet.

"I um… I mean I can I just."

"It's fine, not a lot of people like to shoot but trust me guns are needed these days." She says.

"I have a few guns… I know they're needed I just…. This…. Fucking hell." I said and looked to the woman and I rubbed my neck as I handed her the gun.

"Hey, that's your assigned weapon, you need to carry that on you." She says and I look to it and I nod as I look to the end of the gun range and I sigh as I just put the bullets in the chamber and I point it down the lane and shot at the paper. An hour passed and we all headed to the rec center and they began to exercise and I just went off to the side.

"Aww come on Everett you can lift a few weights." A man with the name tag Romeo said to me.

"I um…. Sure." I said and grabbed two twenty-five-pound weights and just lifted them up and down.

"There you go." He said and I nodded as I just did that over and over.

"You'll have to start running too, there's some vests you can put on and run with." He said and I nodded as I just did as told.

"You sure can run kid." I heard and looked to see a man with the name Delta on his name tag and I stopped and slid from the treadmill as I hit the wall with my back.

"Fuck." I mumbled as I rubbed my back a bit and shook my head.

"Hey I didn't mean to scare ya." He said and helped me up and I got up and looked at him.

"Uh sorry just um… your name that's all." I said and he looked at me.

"My name?" He asked and I nodded as I looked away.

"Um, yea, uh…. Delta." I said and he looked at me.

"Oh, that group?" he asked and I looked at him.

"What do you know about them?" I asked as I got back to work so they wouldn't yell at us.

"Nothing much other than that they were one of the groups we were defending ourselves from." He says as I jog.

"Really?" I asked and he nods.

"Oh yea, their leader was a crazy woman named Lilly, heard her boat was blown up by a bunch of fucking kids, imagine that shit." He laughed and I looked at him.

"How did you find out about that?" I asked.

"One of the group members joined us after the explosion of their boat, they passed away years ago though from their injuries." He said and I looked at him again.

"Really now?" I asked and he nods.

"Yea, just imagine if we had those kids with us though, it would be pretty bad ass." He said and I stopped running as I slowed down and took the vest off I set it down and looked at him.

"Yea it would be." I said and he nods. I am taken to the wall of the community and I get a really good look at it. It wasn't a really good wall to be honest the wall I made at my house was a bit better.

"Alright Joan want's us to board up this section with the wood planks and set up the barbed wire on the top of the fence." I heard and looked at the person as I was taken to the wood planks and got to work.

"Hey you're my new neighbor, right?" I heard and looked at a woman who was nailing in the wood plank I was holding up.

"Um, yea uh, you're Diana?" I asked and she nods.

"Yep, you have already met my mother yesterday." She said and I nodded as we moved down and I grabbed more wood.

"Yea she was really nice to us." I said and she nods.

"Yea she's like that, so how you liking this place so far?" She asked as she nailed in the board as I held it in place.

"I um… yea it's pretty neat, I mean…. Nothing to worry about, right?" I asked and she nods.

"Yea, I'm glad you and your family are here though, more people being safe is a great thing." She says and I look at her.

"How did you and your family get here?" I asked.

"We were in Georgia in a mansion house like building, there was a grave in the back yard though it wasn't a nice place to be at the time." She said.

"A grave?" I asked.

"Yea, well a grave marker really, it was a cross." She said.

"Did it have a name?" I asked.

"Yea I think it did." She says as we keep working on the wall.

"Do you know what the name was?" I asked as I lifted up the wood, getting a bit tired from all the lifting from the exercising and this.

"Hmm, I think it said Lee, or something, not to sure." She said.

"How long have you been here?" I asked.

"Hmm, about five years." She says and I nod a bit.

"Though the name could have been something else, I mean that's what it looked like to me…. Why?" She asked.

"Um… that was my wife's father figure so um…. My father in law is buried there… uh… no one messed with the grave, did they?" I asked her.

"Not that I know of, I am sorry if someone did mess with his grave though, we didn't touch it cause… well it's a grave and the dead aren't good to be around these days." She says and I nod.

"Well… it's the living we got to worry about." I mumbled as I lifted another board up.

"You're not wrong on that part I mean hell people are crazy these days."

"Oh, people were crazy before these days." I said as we talked more, I learned that her wife was in this group since they were in the old Frontier group and that she was near the truck when it exploded, so she has a huge scar on her face.

"Hm… my little brother had a scar on his face, well the side of his head more so." I said.

"Had?" She asked and I looked down a bit as we worked more.

"Oh, I'm sorry." She said and I nodded.

"He died a long time ago." I said as I worked more.

"How old was he?" She asked.

"Shit…. Thirteen when he was shot." I said and looked at wood.

"God damn." She said and I worked more.

"I'm so sorry." She said and I nodded as we worked more, her watch goes off.

"Ah time to clock out." She says and I look at her as I let go of the wood and I look at the wall.

"Um… but the wall."

"The night shift takes care of that, though I think they'll be glad with your work, look how much we got done." She says and I look at the wall more. It was a bit more secure than when we began working on it and I rubbed my neck and nodded as I walked with Diana as we went to clock out. We headed to the Armory and I saw Clementine walking out and I go up and I hug her.

"You ok?" I asked her quietly and she nods a bit.

"Yea I'm ok." She said and I kissed her cheek gently and I held her hand a bit as I looked at her.

"Aww young love." I heard and I look at Diana and Clem looks at me as I look back to her.

"Um, this is Diana, Kelly's daughter." I said and she nods and looks at Diana.

"Hello Ma'am." Diana says and holds her hand out to Clementine.

"Hello." She says and doesn't shake Diana's hand and I look at Clem a bit.

"Sorry um, she's probably tired from all the work." I said and Diana nods as we begin walking and I look at Clems leg a bit then back up to look at her.

"Your leg ok?" I asked and she nods a bit.

"Yea I was able to sit most of the time but all they made me do was just fill up the magazines." She said and I nodded as we walked more to the house. After we got to our homes, I help her inside and I kiss her gently as I look at her.

"I got to go get AJ soon." I said and she nods and I go and lock the door and I look to her and she kisses me a bit.

"You know where our guns are?" I asked and she nods as I look at her.

"Just… before I leave have one on you ok?" I asked and she nods.

"I know… did you find anything?" She asked.

"I'll explain when AJ gets to bed ok?" I asked and she sighs a bit and nods.

"Alright, yea." She says and I nod a bit as I kiss her gently and I head out the house and I go to the school to get AJ. I stand in the school's office as I look at the secretary as she types away on the computer and I look around a bit.

"Violet Everett?" she asked and I nod.

"Son is Alvin Everett Junior?" She asked and I rubbed my neck a bit and I nod.

"Yes Ma'am." I said and she nods and grabs the phone and calls his class room and I just wait.

"He'll be here in a few minutes, here's some paperwork though about our school schedule usually we don't let student's out until three thirty but since you guys are new, we will let it slide." She says and I nod as I look at the paperwork and I read it over a bit as I wait.

"Um… do we have to go anywhere for uh…. Parent pick up?" I asked as I looked at the paper a bit and then at the woman.

"You could have it where he can stay with his teacher until you or your spouse can get him, or just wait outside and wait for him to come out." She said and I nodded.

"I'll ask my wife about that." I said and she nods.

"That's fine, oh there he is." The woman said as I looked to see AJ walking into the office with a backpack and I nod to him and I sign him out and I walk with him as he tells me about school.

"There aren't that many kids but it's still pretty cool, I got to make a new friend here her name is Jaden." He said and I nodded a bit.

"Is that so?"

"Yea, and then they took us outside and taught us survival skills and I already knew about the water trick and told them that you taught me, and they also taught us math and stuff like you did." He says and I nod a bit at him.

"That sounds good, least they can teach you better than I could." I said.

"But you did a good job." He said and I nodded as I rubbed his head gently as we get closer to the house.

"Thanks kiddo." I said and I open the door and I see Clementine over on the couch looking at some papers.

"What's that?" I asked her.

"Just some paperwork I have to go over for work." She says and I look over her shoulder as I looked at the paperwork.

"It's just a list of how many bullets are in which magazine clip and who's weapon it is and yada, yada, yada." She said and I nodded a bit as I got up a bit and heard AJ come back in as he grabbed his bag and went through it.

"You good buddy?" I asked.

"Yea I forgot I have homework to do." He says as he heads to the kitchen table and grabbed a pencil and began to work on it. I lean down and whisper into Clementines' ear.

"They have night shifts by the wall to work on it, it's mostly wood and barbed wire for now, if they put me on a night shift then I can know the full shift change and then when the time is right, we can get out." I tell her and she looks at me.

"That seems like the best plan we have for now." She says and I nod and I go and sit next to her and I put my hand by her waist and I rub her side gently.

"It's all I can think about right now." I said as I looked at her a bit.

"I know, it's a good idea for now." She said and I kissed her gently.

"Vi." She says and I smile a bit and I kiss her again and I hold her hips a bit and then there's a phone call coming through and I groan a bit as I look at her and I get up as I go answer the phone.

"Hello?" I ask.

"Hello, my mother was wondering if you and your family would like to come over for a Barbeque." Diana asked.

"Um… yes sure um after AJ finishes his homework uh, we can bring some drinks." I said and looked to Clementine and shrugged a bit and she nods.

"Oh no you're fine my dad got enough drinks, just bring your hungry selves over at around six." She says and I nod a bit.

"Ok, thank you." I said and she hung up and so did I as I looked at them.

"So, we have to go?" AJ asked and I nodded.

"Yea um, just let's do all this stuff and make them think we're on their side that's all." I said to Clementine mostly.

"I kind of like it here already." AJ said and I rubbed my neck.

"AJ you know why we can't stay here." Clem tells him as she looks at him.

"I know but… I made some friends." He said and I look at him and I sit at the chair next to him and I rubbed my neck a bit.

"I know buddy but…. We can't stay here." I said.

"I'm sorry." He said and I rubbed his head gently as he worked on his papers. A few hours pass and we all get ready for the Barbeque and I was out of my uniform and in a pair of black jeans and black tank top as I walked with Clem and AJ over to our neighbors' house. We are greeted by the family as Kelly gives us hugs and I nod as we all go to the back yard and a few other families were there.

"Glad you three could make it." I heard and looked to see Delta.

"Oh, you're Kelly's husband." I said and we shook hands.

"Yep, nice to meet you again." He said and I nodded as he works on the grill and we talk a bit.

"So, they'll change your shift if you put in a request so like, if you need to be at your kids' school for anything than you can request for a night shift, you'll also get some reflectors so we know you're in our group." He explained.

"Oh, I never got o ask about doctors." I said.

"Oh, for your wife's leg?" He asked and I rubbed my neck and nodded a bit.

"Yea they can make a prosthetic to fit her, better than what she has on now." He says and I grumble a bit as I look at Clem.

"Yea well, I didn't have much to work with." I said.

"Oh, sorry I didn't know you made it." He said and I nodded.

"It's fine just…. It's fine." I said and I look around a bit.

"Well, she can get a better leg I mean, your leg is good just um." He said and I nod.

"It's fine man." I said as AJ ran and talked to a few kids in his age group and I watch him.

"He's pretty smart."

"Damn right he is." I said proudly as I watched AJ.

"My sister is his teacher, seems he was taught how to survive the walkers, and if he's ever on his own." He said and I nodded.

"We raised him so he could live on his own, all that we can do." I said as I watched AJ and Clem talking to each other. We ate a bit of the food and I had a few drinks as I look to Clem as she talks to Diana a bit. I have a few more drinks with Delta and the other Soldiers I was on the tipsy side as of right now. I go over to Clem and Diana to listen to them.

"Hey babe." I said and put my face by her neck.

"Violet are you drunk?" Clem asked.

"Noooo?" I said and I hold her hips a bit.

"Vi." She said and I chuckled.

"She doesn't really drink a lot." Clem says.

"I'm tipsy." I said as I kissed her cheek.

"We should go home than." Clementine says as I kiss her neck a bit and she grabbed my hand.

"Alright, we'll see you soon." Diana said.

"I'm gonna…. Do this on… one day." I said as I motioned around the Barbeque.

"A party?" Clem asked and I nodded.

"Yea… party." I mumbled as she helped me to the house. I got up the steps and I lean on her a bit.

"Sorry, um leg ok?" I asked her and she nods as we get into the house and I go and lay on the couch and I look at her as she looks down at me.

"Sorry." I mumbled and she sighs as she looks at me.

"You know we can't get to comfortable here." She says and I look to her more.

"I mean… we could stay here?" I asked as I sat up a bit.

"What?" she asked.

"We czn stay here… I mean… we kinda want this?" I said and she glared at me.

"I mean…. Not the getting… taken, look AJ has school and kids his own age." I said as he went to his room.

"Vi."

"No come on think…. Just…. Look." I said.

"You can't be serous Violet." She says.

"I am though… just think about it, AJ has friends, school, we work on the wall… I'd be… do it over and over again… and I'm not getting younger." I said as I look to her.

"I just… I'm sorry." I said and looked down a bit and I felt her sit next to me and lift my face up to look at her.

"Do you really want to stay here?" She asked.

"No, I mean…. I don't know." I said and moved my head away.

"I just… don't want to keep making walls and I mean…. I want you safe… they can give you a better leg." I said and she looked at me and I rub my arm a bit.

"Can we talk about this tomorrow?" I asked and she nods as I lay back on the couch and I cover my face with my arm as I felt a blanket covering me and I look to see Clem with a pillow as I sit up a bit and she puts it behind my head and I move the cover offering for her to lay on top of me and she does. I cover us up and I rub her back softly as I breath a bit.

"I don't mean to say we have to stay here just…. let's stay a bit longer if it's ok." I said and she nods and I rub her back more. I felt her fall asleep and I soon closed my eyes.