(Violet's Pov)

I woke up to an alarm going off and I groan as I slowly sit up but I feel a body on me as I look to see Clementine still asleep. I lay my head back a bit as I close my eyes a bit and I rub her back gently as she shifted a bit on me.

"Hmm, go back to sleep." She mumbled and I chuckled.

"We have work today." I said and she got up.

"Fuck work." She said and I look at her as she rubs her eyes a bit and I kissed her cheek and I notice her hat was gone. I hadn't noticed it before until now that it was gone.

"Hey where's your hat?" I asked as I looked at her head and she felt the top of her head and looked around.

"I don't…. I don't know." She said and looked around more and gets up quickly but almost falls before I catch her.

"Hey calm down, we'll find it." I said.

"What… what if it's back at the shack by the bridge, what if someone took it?" She asked freaking out a bit.

"Hey, hey it's fine, I'll find a way to go find it." I tell her and she looks at me.

"No, it's fine I just…. don't go looking for it." She said and I looked to her and I sigh a bit as we get up and get ready for work I went and got AJ from his room and he groaned a bit as he got up and we all headed up to the school to drop him off and to explain that he is able to walk to the house on his own or with a friend and then we signed the papers. After we were done, we went onto the base and showed our I.D. and I took Clem to her building and I kissed her cheek gently and then left for my work.

"Hey how's it going." I heard and looked to see Juliet and nodded.

"Hey by any chance is there a way I could request to go out the walls for a bit?" I asked and she looked at me.

"You're not trying to escape, are you?" she asked.

"No, my wife is missing her hat and I think it might be at the last place we were at, I just want to get it for her she loves that hat." I tried to explain and she looked at me.

"Joan might let you so long as you have someone or a group with you just to make sure you don't run." She said and I nodded.

"I'm fine with that." I said and she nodded as we walked to the office area and we requested to talk to Joan. As we wait in the lobby with other soldiers, I look at the old magazines on the table. Nothing good really, I hear a door open and I look up to see Joan walking out the door.

"Someone requested to leave the city?" I heard and I got up as I looked to her and she looked to me.

"I did ma'am." I said as she came up to me.

"What do you need to leave the city for?" She asked and I looked to her.

"I uh… I…. an item we left behind; I need to get it." I said and she looked at me.

"Is it important?" She asked and I rubbed my arm.

"Yea it's important." I said and she looks to me and nods.

"Alright, Diana and Romeo will escort you." She says and I nod.

"You will use your own vehicle and be back in a few hours, if you find anyone bring them here, any of them attack then you shoot." She says and I nod knowing that we wouldn't have to do that. She handed us what looked like a passport and I grabbed mine and Joan called in the others and I went and sat back in the lobby area to wait.

"Hey Everett you get in trouble?" Diana asked and I looked to her.

"Um, no I uh." I tried to explain but Joan came up to them.

"You'll be taking Violet here out the city and get something they left behind, it's also a good day to look for recruits and show her the ropes." Joan explained and they both nodded as we all left to my house.

"So, what did you forget?" Diana asked.

"It's…. it's something my wife has had with here since the Walkers were around." I said as we all got in my truck and Romeo told me where to go. We were able to leave after showing our I.D.'s and passports and I was driving on the open road.

"So how old are you again?" Romeo asked as I drove.

"Twenty-nine, almost thirty." I said as I drove more and looked around.

"Ah so you're pretty young." He said and I nodded.

"Yea I guess." I said as I looked around more.

"So, how long have you been gay?" He asked and I looked to him.

"Um… a while now." I said as I drove.

"I mean haven't you had a boyfriend?" He asked.

"Nope." I said.

"So, you don't know what it's like to have a man?" He said and I looked at him then to the road.

"I am the man in the relationship." I said and looked at him and he looked at me.

"Uhhh." He says and Diana laughed and so did I.

"Dude, I'm happy with my wife if that's what you're trying to ask." I said as I drove.

"I um… sorry." He said and I nodded. It was about an hour or two before we got to the old shack by the bridge, I had stopped the truck as I went up to the building. I looked around the area and go to the back of the shed where some wood piles were and I heard a shot and scram as I ran out from the back and saw the door open, I quickly ran in and saw a woman laying on the ground with blood on her abdomen and a girl leaning over her. The girl looks at me and cries.

"V-V-Violet?" She asked as I looked down to see Christa and Romeo had dropped his gun as I ran to my truck and I grabbed the medic bag and ran back. I went over to Christa and lifted up her shirt and got to work as best as I could.

"I…I didn't know, they just." Romeo said and I heard some running.

"What happened?" I heard and looked to Diana."

"We.. we need to get her to the doctors but… fuck." I said as I grabbed a towle and placed it on Christa's wound and I looked to her.

"I'm…. I'm Ok." She mumbled as blood came from her mouth.

"Fuck, Fuck, Fuck." I said as I saw Diana come by and start to lift Christa up and I lifted her up by her legs. We get her in the back of the truck and I move the top up so Mary could sit back there and so it wouldn't lock up.

"Drive." I said as I threw Diana my keys and got in the back with Christa and Romeo ran into the truck's front and Diana began to drive.

"I'm ok… I'm fine Mary." Christa says as she holds her hand and I look her over a bit more and into my medic bag and worked as best as I could.

"I know mom." She says as she looks at me and I work more.

"We can get you to a doctor." I kept saying as I put more pressure on the wound but more blood came out.

"Didn't go out." Christa mumbled and closed her eyes.

"Mom?" Mary asked and I pulled Mary behind me.

"Just stay behind me, she passed out that's all." I said as I watched her more. She was going pale and the blood had slowed but didn't stop and I couldn't stitch her up properly.

"Almost there." I heard Romeo yell as I looked and saw we were closer to the city area and I nod as I look around and I hear some groaning and I look to Christa who slowly sits up and I keep Mary behind me as she looks at me with white in her eyes. I hadn't notice that she stopped breathing.

"Mom?" Mary asked as she tried to move away and Christa attacked as I shoved her away and grabbed my gun. I didn't want to shoot her but I had no choice.

"Mary close." I tried to say but Christa was able to grab me and I felt her teeth near my neck as I placed my gun to the side of her head and pulled the trigger, hurting my ears as the body slumped onto me and blood splattered as Mary yelled for her mother. I felt the truck stop as I just moved the body off me gently and I heard the others run to the back as I just stayed quiet.

"You were going to bring a walker here?" I heard as I looked to Joan as she walked up to us.

"I uh… no she just…. what?" I asked as I looked around confused then to Mary who was crying as she looked to her mom.

"Ma'am, Romeo had shot a woman and Everett knew her, we thought we could help her but we were to late, we didn't intend to bring a walker here she was alive." Diana said and I looked at her then to Mary.

"I… I'm so sorry." I said as I looked to Christa.

"Alright bring the body in we will burn it." Joan said.

"NO!" Mary cried as she pulled at her moms' head, or what was left of her head.

"Young lady, you will not yell at me like that."

"Are you kidding me? You just said to burn her mother." I said as Joan looked to me.

"Fine, you want to bury the body be my guest but she will not be put in our grave yard that's for soldiers only." Joan said as she walked away and I looked to Mary as I did, I rubbed my neck a bit and got out the truck and I grabbed her gently. When I did, she hit me in the face by accident and I held my nose which was bleeding.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." She says and I wave my hand a bit.

"It's ok, you're fine I shouldn't have grabbed you." I said as I held my head back a bit.

"I… My mom?" Mary asked and I looked to the truck and sighed a bit as I helped her out and closed the truck.

"We can bury her at my house… and you can stay with Clem, AJ and I." I said and she nods a bit as I help her into the truck and I drive to my house.

"I um… we found this." I hear as I look to Mary as she pulled a hat out of her bag and it was Clementine's. I grabbed it gently and I rubbed the bill of the hat as I looked to Mary.

"I uh… hmm." I couldn't say anything at all.

"I…I'm sorry." I said as I drove to my house.

"It wasn't your fault." She said.

"I shouldn't have requested to leave the city though." I said as I drove more and gripped the wheel a bit. I finally got to my house and I looked to see Clementine on our porch with her arms crossed as she glared at me or well the truck. I walk out and make sure Marry stays in as I walk out.

"Where the hell have you been? I have to be told by fucking Joan that you left the god damn city." She says as I look at her.

"Hey wait hold on." I said as she glares at me.

"Don't you dare say that to me, for fuck sake what if you didn't come back Violet?" She asked as I looked to her.

"Well I'm back." I said and she glared at me.

"Look Clem I know you're mad and everything but right now um…" I tried to say and I looked to the truck and waved to Mary and she comes out the truck slowly and Clementine looks at the girl and then at me then back at the girl.

"Mary?" She asked as she walked up to her and I walk next to her.

"Hi…. Clementine." Mary says quietly and Clem looks at me.

"Where the hell is Christa?" She asked and I breathed in a bit and looked to her.

"When…. I went back to the shack…. Romeo shot Christa and…. I tried to help her but…." I tried to say and she looked at me.

"I need to find the shovel." I said and she looked to Mary.

"Oh… god I'm so sorry." Clem said to Mary and I rubbed my arm a bit and Mary nods a bit.

"Um… after I finish the grave, I'm going to make sure Mary can live with us." I explained and Clementine nodded.

"Yea that… of course." She says and I nod a bit as I went to the shed and grabbed a shovel and began to work, it took about an hour and a half for me to dig the hole and I went and grabbed my truck and drove to the back yard and I went in the house and grabbed a sheet that we weren't using and I wrapped Christa up and set her in the ground as I buried Christa I saw Clementine come out and look at me as I looked back to her and I sighed gently as I finished patting the grave dirt. I come up to her and I look in the house to see Mary just looking at the floor as she sat on the couch.

"Mary?" I asked and she looked up to me.

"Yes Ma'am?" She asked as she got up.

"Uh…. Come with me, I'll make sure they have you living with us ok?" I asked and she nods as I go get my truck and we both get in and head to the Work Station. I talk with the people as we discuss for Mary to live with Clem, AJ and I they agree and they give her and I.D. and I take her back home with me. She doesn't say a word to me as she leaves the truck and I rub my arm as she heads into the house. I don't blame her though; I walk into the house and I sat on the recliner and I rub my face a bit as I feel someone stand next to me. I looked to see Clementine as she looks at me.

"She can have our room for now." Clem said and I nodded and thought a bit.

"I'll ask to make an extension to the house." I mumbled as I looked to the wall.

"How did she?" Clem asked and I looked to her and pulled her into my lap and I laid the chair back so she was laying on me.

"Shot in the abdomen, I wanted to get her here and well…. She turned while we were on our way here…. She almost took a chunk out of me so I shot her…. And Mary saw it…. I didn't mean to." I said and she looked to me.

"Things like that will happen Violet, you can't keep death away from everyone…. I know you feel bad and Mary will understand this as well later on…. I…. I'm sorry you had to deal with that." She said and I nodded.

"Is AJ home?" I asked and she nodded.

"Did he do his homework?" I asked.

"Yes, he's in his room drawing right now." She said and I nodded.

"I'm just going to…. Take a nap." I said and she nods a bit as I close my eyes.