(Violet's Pov)
-Six Months Later-
Joan, she had said that another group had passed by the community and that I was to go talk to them as they could join our group. I looked over to Clementine as she looked at me from her spot on the chair in the kitchen as I stood by the counter. We had been here for almost half a year and Clem and I haven't really talked since that day.
"Where are you going now?" She asked as I looked to her as I grabbed my rifle and uniform.
"There's a group of people that passed the community, Joan wants me to talk to them." I said and looked to her.
"You're going to capture more people and force them into this group." She mumbled and I looked at her.
"I never did that… I ask if they want to join and if they refuse, I leave it at that."
"Then explain how they ended up here." She says as she gets up and glares up at me.
"I… I don't want to be here anymore, you… you kidnap people and force them here like they did to us… you aren't the person I married you, changed." She says and I look to her. My chest hurt at these words and I fiddle with my fingers a bit.
"If you want to leave me that's fine." I said quietly and I looked up to her.
"I want you safe I want AJ safe what's so fucking hard to understand about that? Sorry that we haven't left out of here and gone someplace else but for fuck sake Clem I am not a kidnapper." I said as I looked to her. She just looked away and I sigh as I come up behind her and hold her wait gently.
"Come on Clem… after I'm done with this we can go on a date; they have the movie theater working and a few places to eat wouldn't that be fun?" I asked and she moved away from me and I rubbed my face a bit.
"Look, if I get enough hours put in and I'm on Joans good side we can take a trip for a few weeks." I said.
"I don't want to come back… what are you not getting?" She asked and I looked at her.
"I just want you safe, I know you want to leave but look at this, we have a home, we have food, we have clean water, we aren't struggling, we have medicine, they made you a leg and it's ten times better than what I made you, AJ is learning some things, so is Mary, you guys don't have to deal with any Walkers or any other people, you're safe that's all I care about." I tell her and she looks at me.
"Violet I know your intentions are good, you have proven that time and time again but Joan is planning something, she always acts kind to people just to drop their guard." She says and I look to her.
"I'm not like that, I watch my back with her, trust me on that."
"Violet." She says and I come up to her and I kiss her neck gently.
"Clem I am careful have been for six months now, trust me darlin I know what I'm doing." I tell her and she moves away from me and I sigh.
"I'll be back tonight… I want to try the date night at least… and if you still want to leave me then… then you can." I said as I go grab my jacket I look at the ring on my finger and sigh as I look to Clem who was just rubbing her arm a bit and not looking at me. Winter was coming around rub my neck as I grab my gloves and I head out. I head to the base and walk to the garage as we set up the trucks and other vehicles as I look through the list of people who would be coming with us.
"Ready to head out?" I heard and looked up from the paper and I see Diana.
"Yea, we have to get a few blankets though since we're going to be out in the dark." I said and she nods as I go to the supply closet and grab a few blankets and jackets and set them in the car.
"Ok let's head out." I said as we head to the vehicles and we head out of the wall. We stay out for a good few hours as I look around and see some cabins as we pull up to them. I get out and head up to the cabin with a few people and it starts to snow a bit as I slowly open the door and hold my rifle up and look around the cabin a bit as Rome, Diana, and I walk in a bit and I look around as others go into the other cabins.
"Nothing." I said as I look up the stairs and hear a sound and I stop as I look to Diana and I point up and she nods as I head up the stairs and she follows up behind me.
"Hello?" I heard Diana ask and I looked around and opened one of the doors and point my rifle up and I see an older man as he points his pistol at me. He looked to be Mexican I could be wrong; he has an army jacket on and is glaring at me.
"Found someone." I heard Diana say.
"Same." I said as I looked to the man.
"Back the fuck up." He says and I glare at him.
"I don't think that's going to happen any time soon." I tell him.
"Now drop your weapon and keep your hands where I can see them." I said and he looked to me and I felt someone behind me and I quickly turn only to get hit in the face with something and I black out. I don't know how long I was out all I know is that I woke up freezing as I open my eyes and see that Diana was tied up along with Romeo and I feel my hands and I am also tied up.
"Fuck." I mumbled as I look around the room and see some people I didn't know.
"They're part of Joans group Javi they need to be put down." I heard as I look at them my head still fuzzy.
"David you can't just keep killing people in her group, they're forced into this." The man Javi said and I tried to get up slowly but I couldn't feel my right leg and I looked down to see it broken.
"Don't move." I heard and turned my head as I saw a woman as she had a rag in her hand and I moved my head away from it.
"I'm trying to help, Javi hit you pretty hard with that bat, you're bleeding." She said and I looked to her.
"M-My leg." I mumbled and she looked down and Sighed.
"I'm sorry." She said and I looked to see the two men looking at me as the older man came up and grabbed the front of my shirt and pulled my up, pinning me to the wall.
"You fucking sack of shit, wearing this uniform." He said and I glare at him.
"Fuck off."
"I should kill you, I had men die in this uniform and you're playing solider." He said and I glare at him.
"It's what my job requires fucking asshole." I said as I glare at him more as he dropped me and tore my jacket off cutting the cuffs as he glared at me. I didn't really care other than I would be freezing but I'm use to it.
"Fucking brat." He said and I just watched him.
"David quit it." The girl said as she went back to me.
"David?.. you know Joan?" I asked and they all looked at me and I looked back.
"Garcia's? You… you're the Garcia family, right?" I asked. And they looked at me.
"I swear to God Joan is just making us look bad." Javi said and I looked to him.
"Javi?... uh… Clementine and AJ." I said as he looked to me.
"How do you know them? What the fuck did you do to them?" He said pissed as he came up to me and grabbed me again and I groan.
"Fucking hell my leg." I mumbled.
"I don't give a fuck about your leg, how do you know about Clem and AJ? What have you done to them?"
"JAVI!" the woman yelled.
"Not now Kate." He said.
"Set her down god damn it." Kate says and he glared at me not listening to her.
"What the fuck have you done to them, tell me now or I'll beat the hell out of you." He said and I just looked to him as I was about to tell him he punched me with one arm as he held me up with his other.
"Fuck." I mumbled as he lifter my head up in a jerking motion.
"What the fuck have you done to them?" He asked again and then dropped me and I land on my leg wrong.
"Hmm, fucking hell." I mumbled as I grabbed my leg and he stepped on it.
"FUCK!" I yell.
"TELL ME NOW!" He yelled and the woman grabbed him and pulled him back as I look up at him.
"Fucking asshole." I said.
"I swear to god if you hurt them." He said and I spat some blood.
"I would never." I said and I get picked up again this time by David.
"You would, you're from Joans group they don't give a shit about anyone." He said and I glared at him.
"Like you?" I asked and he punches me this time. My head hurt as I felt blood pour out my nose and I groan a bit.
"BOTH OF YOU STOP!" I heard and looked to see Diana awake.
"Fuck you bitch." David says to her and I take my good leg and kick him in the crotch as he let me go I drop to the floor and I land on my leg wrong again as he groaned and glared at me and I put my hands to my face to see blood.
"Fucking assholes can't wait for someone to talk, instead you beat the hell out of them…. Why Clem talked about you so kindly I don't fucking know." I said as I coughed a bit.
"Fucking bitch." David says as he gets up.
"She's back at our house… taking care of AJ and Mary." I said and I set my hands in my lap.
"She's ok." I said as I just looked at my bloody hands.
"Ok?" Javi asked and I nodded.
"She's ok…. she's ok." I said and remember what I told her before I left.
'I don't think they'd kill me but if they did… Clem can be happy right.' I thought a bit as I looked to see Diana looking at me and I look at the Garcia's.
"Let the other two go, Diana and Romeo, and anyone else you have." I said and David laugh.
"We aren't letting you go." He said as he glared at me.
"No, not everyone, you can keep me as a… bargaining chip so to speak, I am Joans right hand, and you can radio her now." I said as I looked to my bag.
"Walkie Talkie in the bag, fully charged." I said and Javi looked to me then went to the bag and grabbed my radio.
"Go on… call her." I said and Diana looked to them as David grabbed the radio and pressed the button.
"Hello?" he asked and the radio buzzed a bit.
"This isn't Violet, who is this?" I heard and it was Joan.
"Seems you've forgotten us so easily." David said.
"Ah David, how nice to hear from you and your family… so you've taken my people captive hu?" She asked not to surprised, though I can't blame her.
"If you want to call it that then yes, we have." He said and I watch him as he looked to me.
"We have Violet too; seems your right hand isn't good at her job." He said and I watched him.
"I suggest letting her and my people go unless you want your family to get hurt." I heard.
"See I fucking told you." David said pissed as he looked at me.
"Well you have her people captive what do you fucking expect?" Diana said.
"Diana stop it now." I said.
"No fuck them."
"Diana, stop." I tell her and she looked at me as I looked back at her.
"Just shut the fuck up ok?" I said and she looked down at the floor and nods.
"Put Violet on the radio." I heard and looked at David as he looked to me.
"I don't think that would be necessary." He said.
"If you don't put her on, I'll assume she's either injured to the point where she can't speak or is dead, if she is either I won't hesitate to find you and shoot you myself David." I heard and watched as David came up to me pissed as he pressed on the radio for me.
"Hello?" I asked.
"Hello Violet are you ok?" Joan asked and I nod.
"Yea, fine as can be." I said and waited.
"Are you injured?" She asked.
"Uh… just a splitting headache and a… busted leg maybe." I said in the radio and I looked to David.
"Noting else wrong? Are the others ok?" She asked.
"Uh Diana looks ok, she's talking, um… Romeo looks fine." I said.
"Ok good, how bad is your leg?" She asked.
"Uh… it just hurts a lot that's all." I said and David moves the radio away.
"There you talked to her." He said.
"You think having her injured in any way is going to make things ok? And my other people, they're injured too." She says and Javi looked at me as Kate works on me more.
"Now here is what's going to happen, you will let my people go, and we won't have a war on our hands, your people live and our people live, nothing more nothing less." I hear and I look around a bit and I look to see David glaring at me.
"No, No deal." He said and I glare at him.
"I hope you know you're keeping those people away from their families, are you willing to let families suffer?" Joan says.
"They have no families you're always fucking lying." He said and I look down.
"Poor Clementine won't see her wife again, and her son AJ won't see his mom again, Javi I know you know Clementine and I know you're there, are you going to let her suffer?" Joan said and I sit up a bit.
"Clementine… who's with Clementine?" He asked us and grabs the radio.
"Who's Clementines' wife?" He asked Joan pissed off as he glares at us.
"My right hand, Violet, the woman you're refusing to give up along with my other group members." She says and I see Javi looking at me pissed.
"You're lying, Clementine wouldn't be in your group or even be with someone associated with your group." Javi says and he shuts the radio off and I watch him as he glares at me and I chuckle.
"What's so funny?" He asked as he came up to me.
"You sound like a pissed off dad." I laughed a bit as he grabbed me by my shirt and I was off the ground a bit.
"Your dad should have taught you to keep your mouth shut." He said and I laughed more.
"Fucking funny." I said and he glared at me and dropped me and I land on my leg wrong and groan a bit.
"Stop fucking dropping her, for fuck sake you already busted her leg." I heard Diana say and I look to her.
"Keep quiet."
"No, they're being fucking assholes to us when we didn't do a damn thing to them." She says and I look to them.
"Haven't done anything to us? You fucking kidnap people to join your fucking group." David said.
"AND YOU GIVE LITTLE SICK BOYS AWAY AND RIP THEM FROM THE ONLY FAMILY THEY HAVE LEFT!" I yelled at him and he glared at me.
"You kept a doctor who would rather get fucking high on drugs then take care of a sick boy who could fucking actually help you in your community, but instead you rip him away from his mother figure and kick a thirteen year old girl out the group to fucking fend for herself in a walker infested world, so shut the fuck up David." I tell him and he grabs his brothers' bat and comes at me but Javi stopped him as I glare at him.
"David don't." his brother said.
"No let him, he loves to fucking hurt people like it's a damn hobby." I said as I glare at both of them.
"And we don't fucking take anyone, we ask if they want to join we tell them what we have and if they want that then they join us if they don't they leave, sometimes they come back to us asking if they can join and we allow them, I fucking deal with that shit, I know what the fuck goes on there, I know who joins and who doesn't." I said and they all glare at me. We did this for a few minutes before they all walked away leaving the room and hours had passed, I saw the sun come through the windows of the empty room and I look at Romeo as he got up slowly but not in a normal movement.
"Diana… move away slowly and quietly." I whisper to her and she looked to me then to Romeo and does as told. I hear a groaning sound, something we've been use to for so long now. I move a bit as Romeo gets up and I see those white eyes looking at me as I try to get up but my leg hurts. I hear him groan more as he walks up to me and I look around a bit but saw nothing.
"Walker." Diana says and I nod as I try to move a bit quietly and he doesn't seem to notice as we just keep calm.
"Diana…fuck." I mumbled as Romeo heard me and growled loudly as he got close to me and I moved away and I saw blood coming from my leg.
"Fuck." I say louder.
"HELP US DAMN IT!" Diana yelled as the walker got on me and I heard the door bust open as someone also moved the walker off me fast and shot him. I breath heavily as I look to the walker and cough a bit.
"Fucking hell." I said as I looked at Diana and then to the person and it was Kate.
"Fucking Christ." She said and I glare at her.
"You… fuckers." I said and looked back to Romeo.
"What happened?" I heard David ask as he came in.
"The man turned into a walker, almost bit her." Kate explained as she pointed to me.
"Should have let him." David say and I glare at him.
"Get them ready they're heading back and we're going to move out, they follow we shoot them." David says.
"Her leg is messed up asshole, you expect her to walk?" Diana said and I look to her.
"You'll take the stupid fucking truck you dumbass." He said and I glare at him. It wasn't long till I was set in the back of the truck and Kate had handed me my jacket back and I looked as my name tag was no longer on it and I glare at David as I put it over Romeo's face when they set him in the truck and I see his jacket gone too.
"You know he actually served in the military…." I said as I looked at him and He didn't give the jacket back. I shook my head and tapped the back of the truck and Diana drove us back home. I don't know how long we drove but we finally got home after a while and we got in through the wall's gates. Once in people got to the truck and I scooted off a bit as I tried to get off but my leg stopped me from doing so.
"What happened?" I heard as I looked to see Joan coming up to us.
"The Garcias….. ambush that's all." I said as she came up to me and checked me over then Diana and then saw Romeo.
"They killed Romeo?" She asked.
"I… all I know is that he was knocked out and I guess they hit him to hard and…. Fuck I don't know." I said as I looked at him then to Joan.
"Ok, get Violet to the hospital and call her family, after that we will find them and keep them prisoner." Joan said and I looked to her but didn't say anything as I got up and was helped to the hospital. I was there for a few hours and it was around noon when Clementine came into my room and I had a boot on my foot.
"What happened?" She asked as she came up to me.
"Your friends the Garcias, Javi and David, fucking did this shit…." I said pissed.
"You…. No, they didn't." She said.
"Like fucking hell, they didn't, how else did I get a busted leg?" I asked.
"You fell?" she questioned and I shook my head and I laid my head back as I rubbed my face.
"You…. You can't be fucking serious." I said as I looked to her.
"Javi wouldn't hurt anyone else he had to." She said and I groan.
"Well Joan is going after them so you'll see, fuckers killed Romeo damn man turned into a walker and almost ate me, but you won't believe that either will you?" I asked a she looked to me.
"No, it's not like that." She said and I shake my head.
"I just…. I just want to go home." I said as I looked to the door as I felt Clementine place her hand on my shoulder and I looked up at her.
"Sorry just…. I just want to go home." I said and she nodded as we got my paperwork and I looked at the bill and I paid for it and we began to head home. I sat on the couch and I rubbed my face as I looked to Clementine as she looked to me.
"Joan is going after them…. After what happened to Romeo, she isn't going to let them go that easy." I tell her and she looked to me.
"She… you'll make sure she doesn't hurt them will you?" She asked.
"Look at what they fucking did to me, and Romeo, he didn't have to fucking die we didn't do shit to them and they do this to us." I tell her and she looks at me and then at the floor and I stop as I look at her.
"Clem… I… I didn't mean to yell it's just… I'm tired and…. I wanted to do something nice for you when I got back so we could talk things out too." I explain and she looks at me.
"I'm sorry Violet…. I'll… you hungry?" She asked and I nodded a bit as I was about to get up but was stopped.
"Nope, you relax I'll get lunch ready." She said and I nod a bit as I look to see Clem head into the kitchen and I look to the clock a bit.
"You want nuggets?" She asked and I looked up.
"They had some?" I asked.
"Yea, the little old lady made some all we have to do is heat them up." She said and I nod.
"Yea… that would be good." I said. A few minutes pass and I'm handed a plate of nuggets and I eat some and share with Clementine.
"I'll try and make sure Joan doesn't hurt them to much…. I can't really stop her at this point." I explained and she nods a bit.
"I never saw Javi even hit his own brother when they fought, even though David deserved it so much." Clem explained and I nod.
"I'm sorry." I tell her and she looked to me.
"I'm sorry." Clementine says and I lay back on the couch a bit and I felt something cover my body. I didn't realize how cold I actually was but this blanket was nice and warm.
"I'll start the fire, you're freezing." She says and I nod a bit as I watch her. My eyes going heavy as I watched her and I just couldn't keep my eye's open any longer.