(Violet's Pov)

-Three Days Later-

I looked to the side as I watched Ruby grabbing some medication. I watched her search her bag and then she looked to me. I have been here for a few days and they had moved me to I guess what is called an interrogation room, like what the police used. I was also cuffed to the table and my legs were shackled to the table as well.

"So, when can I go?" I asked and she looked at me.

"Not yet Hun." She says and I lay my head on the table.

"I've been here for three god damn days, I just want to go find Clementine, AJ and Mary." I tell her and she looks at me.

"I know." She tells me and I roll my eyes a bit as I rubbed the back of my head as I look at the wall. I hear the door open as I look up to see David, Javi, Louis, Omar, and Aasim.

"Let's get this done and over with." David said and I look at him, as he glares at me.

"You will answer these questions." He said and I rolled my eyes.

"Yea, no I just want to go." I said and he glared at me.

"How many people has your group killed?" He asked.

"None."

"BULLSHIT!" Louis yelled and I glared at him.

"You know usually there isn't that many people in a cramped room." I said and Louis glares at me.

"You're a god damn liar Violet." He said.

"And you're a god damn idiot Louis." I say back.

"Both of you stop this now." Aasim says and I roll my eyes.

"Look, I've told you all I know, I was in charge with people coming in and leaving the community, we didn't kill anyone for not joining, we didn't kidnap anyone at all because I was part of looking for survivors, it was near Christmas time when this fucker and his brother decided to take it upon themselves to hit us in the head with a god damn Baseball bat, not only injuring people but killing a group member of mine." I tell them and they look at me.

"We didn't threaten you, we didn't do shit to you, we were just looking in empty building to see if there were people near by and you whack the hell out of us, shit you broke my leg and kept picking me up and dropping me on my fucked up leg, so fuck off." I told David as he glared at me.

"Oh, and not only did you destroy a community, you got kids killed, parents killed, old people killed as well, fucking grandparents in their sixties died, but none of ya'll give a god damn flying fuck, you blew up a house." I said as I glared at them.

"We didn't mean to." Javi said.

"Fuck you, and your whole 'we didn't mean to' bullshit, you helped plan this shit, right? You were part of this attack, you knew Walkers were and still are dangerous even if there isn't that many around, well now I don't know about that cause a HUGE FUCKING HEARD came through and ate children, such great memories of our god damn school life, right?" I said as I looked to Aasim and the others.

"Violet calm down." Aasim said.

"No, I will not calm down, my family is out there and I'm stuck here with a bunch of idiots." I said and Louis glared at me.

"Fuck off Violet, you said that we did Clem a favor, you were probably abusing her." He said and I stood up a bit yanking the cuffs and chains as I tried to go at him. I felt someone grab me and sit me back down and I look up to see Omar and I glared at Louis.

"I would never hurt them, I have never hurt her in any way, I have done everything for her." I said.

"EVERYTHING!.. I HAD BEEN BEATEN TO A PULP FOR HER BECAUSE SHE WAS BEING AN ASS, AND I SAID I WOULD TAKE HER PUNISHMENTS! SO, FUCK YOU! SHE FUCKING……just fuck you man." I yell and they look at me and I shake my head.

"I never hurt her, I… I never wanted to hurt her… I tried to make her happy." I said and laid my head on the table.

"I just want to fucking go, now." I say.

"I uh… we'll um…. Give us a few." David says as all but Omar leaves and I look to him.

"Violet, you know you can talk to me…. What you say stays between us you know that right." He says and I nod a bit and I look to him.

"What happened to you?" He asked.

"….. Nothing."

"Violet…. What did Joan do to you?" He asked and I looked to him.

-Eight Months Ago-

I walked with Joan as we got to her office, she opened the door and let me in and as I walked in, she closed the door, then goes to her desk and sits down at her desk and I stood in front of it and I look at her.

"Yes Ma'am?" I asked as she looked up at me.

"Word is, people are trying to leave the group." She says and I look to her.

"Let them, I mean we never had an issue with it before." I said.

"The thing is, there's been word of another group taking in these members that leave our group and give them information on us, so you can see the problem we have." She says and I look to her.

"So, we keep them here and what?" I asked.

"We can't let them stay…. Only thing I can think of is…. Execution." She says and I look at her.

"You can't be serious about that." I said and she looked to me.

"I am, Violet I want you to know that your wife is part of the reason this is happening." She said and I looked to her confused.

"Clem isn't part of this though… she wouldn't." I said and she looked to me.

"We have an under cover in the group of people who leaves, and a few of them have mentioned your wife's name." she says.

"S-S-So you're going to make me shoot my own wife? I won't do that." I tell her and she looked to me.

"Then will you take her punishments?" She asked and I looked to her then the floor.

"I can get someone else to deal with her." She says and I see her grab her Radio and I grab it and stop her.

"I…. I will take her punishments, any of them, all of them ok? Just…. please just let her be…. She's just scared from what happened to her over the years, please…. Don't hurt her." I tell her and she looked to me.

"you will take all her punishments even if it can cause your death?" She asked and I nod.

"Yes, Yes Ma'am even… even if it involves that." I said and she looked to me.

"You are a good Soldier Violet; your wife should thank you for taking her punishments." She says and I nod as I look at her.

"You won't be punished now but you will have to take care of these people." She says and hands me the list of people who have left the group or plan to leave the group.

"I'll set up an interview with these people before they leave." I said and she nods.

"It's on you." She says and I nod as I leave the room. A few days would pass and I would be punished for Clems actions for the day. I would be beaten with many things that Joan had, and even after that I would have to deal with the people on the list that she had given me, I had to talk to many people and look through their paper works, just running myself ragged from the lack of sleep. Clem had asked me about some of my bruises and I would shrug it off and say it was from my training today.

-Present Day-

"I… only had to get rid of two people but that's because I found out they had planned to shoot up my home… they had bombs and took some supplies from the armory and I found out that Clem had let them…… I…. I lied to Clem saying that I was staying at my office for a few days or so I would lie about the wounds I couldn't hide…. And Joan beat me with a god damn Golf club…. I just." I tried to speak but I stopped and looked to him.

"I'm not lying I swear." I tell him and he looks to me.

"I believe you Violet." He said and I looked to him.

"Look, I have done some things I regret, I didn't want to hurt those two people but they were planning to shoot up my home, not Joans home, mine, and Clem helped give them the guns, how the hell was I suppose to react?" I asked and he looked to me.

"I can't tell you; I would have tried to do things differently but even then; I wouldn't know if it would have gone good or bad." He said and I nodded a bit and I twiddled my thumbs a bit.

"What else happened?" He asked and I looked to him.

"Nothing else… nothing else." I said and he looked to me.

"Alright…. I'll see what David and them are doing, and I'll make sure you can leave ok? Even if it's to leave this room would you be fine with that?" He asked.

"I just want to go find Clem." I tell him.

"I know you do, and you will soon… is it ok if I tell them some of the things you said?" He asked.

"Like what?"

"How she abused you?" He asked.

"NO... No, she… she didn't hurt me, no I… she didn't, I didn't say that." I said and he looked to me confused and looked down.

"You…. She'll know I told and I don't…. just don't tell them that." I said.

"What about her threatening Clem?" He asked.

"Um… I…. I don't know, if you say that then Louis will say I let it happen." I said and he looked to me.

"Violet, this is serious, she used you." He said.

"She didn't I, did that to myself." I tell him.

"Vi."

"Nope, no, you can't tell them anything, that stays between us, right? You said it did." I say as he looked to me and sits next to me.

"Did…. Did she do anything else to you?" He asked and I shook my head.

"No."

"Violet?" He asked as he looked to me and I looked down.

"she didn't do anything else… leave it at that." I said quietly and I look at him and he nods a bit.

"I'll get you something to eat and drink and I will ask David to take the chains off ok?" He asked and I nodded as he left the room and I just looked at the table a bit. It wasn't long till I heard the door open and I look to see Louis.

"What the hell do you want?" I asked.

"Nothing… just want to know what Clem still sees in you." He said and I looked to him.

"You and me both." I said. I didn't want to fight or argue or anything it just wasn't worth it plus I'm at a disadvantage at this point.

"What's happened to her over the year?" He asked.

"Nothing, she just went to work, and helped AJ and Mary when I wasn't home." I tell him.

"What else?" He asked and I looked to him.

"We…. Had a fight." I tell him and he glares at me.

"You hurt her." He said more than asked.

"I only grabbed her hand…. I don't know if it hurt her but if it did I just… I didn't mean to." I said and he glares at me more and I look at the table.

"She talked about you." I said.

"What did she say?" He asked.

"….. Basically, she said marrying me was a mistake…. How she should have stayed with you… should have gone with you… she said she regretted saying that but, hey…. She probably didn't." I said as I looked to him.

"If she does want to be with you then…. She can." I said and laid my head on the table and I closed my eyes.

"Well…. You'd be doing her a favor." He said and I nodded.

"Yep." I say.

"You don't care?" he asked.

"I'm just tired Louis…. Please leave." I said and he did and I guess I fell asleep and I woke up a few hours later there was a bowl of food in front of me, my hands felt light, and I saw some water as I lifted my head up.

"You good?" I heard and looked to see Omar and Ruby sitting across from me as they had bowls in front of them.

"I um… I uh…yea, I'm good." I said and Ruby nods as I look at my hands to see the cuffs gone.

"David let us uncuff you so long as there was two people in here with you." Omar said and I nod as I grab the bottled water and took a few sips and looked to them.

"How's your side?" Ruby asked.

"Feels fine…. Am I allowed to leave?" I asked and she looks to me.

"After you eat." She says and I nod and I eat a bit of my soup.

"Are you sure you're fine?" She asked and I look to her more.

"Yes, I am fine, thank you." I tell her as I finish as she looked to me.

"Ok, as long as you're fine." She says and I nod.

"We have your bag ready for you along with your Pistol." Omar says and I nod as we all stand up and I am handed my bag as we walk out the room and they take me to their gate. I saw a lot of people looking at me as I put my bag on my back and clip the front belts together and secure it to me. It didn't take us long to get to the front of the wall they had and I look to them.

"Um… you know you could stay." Ruby says.

"Like I said I need to find Clementine."

"We can help." She says.

"You have your family to worry about…. I'll bring them back here and we can hang out again." I said and she nods.

"Alright, and please come back Vi." She said and I nod as they let me go and I walk away from the community, it wasn't long but I ran into David and Javi as I walked away.

"I hope you don't plan on returning." He says as I look to him.

"I won't I just…. is it fine if Clementine and the kids come back?" I asked and Javi nods.

"Yea, they can but you can't." He said and I nodded.

"If you do come back, we're going to assume Joan is with you… we will shoot you." He said and I looked at him.

"I… I can understand that." I mumbled as we went on our separate ways. I checked my pistol to see it fully loaded and I sighed as I didn't get my rifle back but at least I still had my fathers' gun. If they took that from me, I would have been pissed. I look to my sides as I traveled some more. When night started to come by, I decided to stop for the night and I grabbed some wood and set them in a pile then grabbed a lighter as I started a fire. I looked at the map as I worked on where I needed to go. I know I told Clementine to meet at one location if something like this were suppose to happen but she still needed to leave a sign that she was there.

"Damn it." I mumbled as I looked at the map more. I stayed up all night just too keep an eye out for anyone in David's group, I didn't need them to follow me anywhere. I saw the sun rising and I got up slowly as I began to travel more. I would look at some cars and see if they would run, of course they didn't and I did learn to hotwire a car but again it wouldn't work. I sighed as I went and walked more and looked into the towns as I passed them and went into some of the buildings, nothing worth taking or expired cans of food that would do me no good. I rubbed my face a bit as I walked more and more, for the next few days. I am tired, as I finally get to a dealership and I look in the cars again. Again, they didn't work until I get to one and I open the door and there's a Walker the smell was so bad from the hot car and the walker looked like it was almost melted from the heat, how long it was in there I will never know. As I backed up a bit as I looked to it and sighed as I look to the door and open and close it a bit and look to the Walker.

"Shit." I mumbled as I slowly take my bag off and slowly move to the Walker and I unclipped the belt as the walker started to come at me and I grab the door, as it was about to grab me, I slammed the door into its head. It died and sighed as I got back to work and dragged the body from the car and began to hotwire it. Surprisingly it worked and I chuckled.

"Yes, damn." I said as I work on grabbing the bag and I setting it in the back and I drove off the lot and I get to a gas station and park the car and I look around to try and get some of the gas for my car. It wasn't long till I was able to grab some of the gas from the cars already here and I put it in mine. I looked at the map as I looked around the area more. I head back into the car and drive some more and look to the signs to see where exactly I was heading. Again, it took me a day before I stopped as I stopped the car and I lean back in the seat and I couldn't sleep I just relaxed a bit as I tried to think about what Clementine and the kids were up to. I hope they were ok, after a few hours I get up and I start to drive again until I see a state sign. I pull over and look to it and see something drawn on it. It was the arrow pointing up and I smiled and looked to see the sign saying Tennessee. I nod as I get back in the car and I drive some more.

"Alright they have been here." I spoke to myself as I looked around the area more and rubbed my face as I drove more in the state and I sighed as the car started to sputter and I groaned a bit.

"Shit, not now." I said to myself as I stopped the car and I checked it to see the engine smoking and I groaned as I went and grabbed my bag and got some of the tools and worked a bit on the car, but it was done for when I checked the oil and it was really bad.

"Didn't expect it to last this long." I said as I sighed and put the tools back. The car was done for since I didn't have a fuel filter or oil to repair it, I walked a bit and I got to a river as I sat down and looked to the water and I just splash some water on to my face. I hear a gun click and I slowly lift my hands up as I feel the gun to the back of my head.

"Who are you?" I heard and I turn a bit and I see Clementine and I smile a bit and she smiles and drops the rifle and hugs me.

"Jesus fucking Christ Violet." She says and I hug her back.

"Hey." I say and I look to her.

"Fuck you look tired." She says as she cups my face and I blink a bit.

"I might be hallucinating that you're here." I said as she looked to me.

"You aren't." She said and I nodded as I hugged her more and kissed her head as I rubbed her back.

"Fucking hell, how's the leg holding up?" I asked as I looked to her.

"It's fine didn't have time to grab my other one." She says and I nod.

"Yea I uh… I can go back and get it, the…. Place is completely destroyed or last I saw it was." I said as I looked to her.

"Where's AJ and Mary?" I asked and looked around.

"They're fishing right now, that's why we were here." She says pointing to the river and I nod.

"Ok that's good." I said and looked at her more and I kissed her gently and looked to her.

"The… the people that uh…. Attacked… uh… it was David's group but…. Also, Louis and the others." I said and she looked to me.

"…. What happened?" She asked and I rubbed my arm.

"Nothing to bad… um…look Javi and them really want to meet up with you again… I know where they are and I have the map." I said as I pulled out the map as I showed her it and she looked to me.

"You… You want to go to them?" I asked as she looked at the map.

"It's been a while…. Yea we can head back in a few days." She says and looks at me.

"I um… I can't go back." I said and she looked to me.

"Why…. What did you do?" She asked a bit pissed and I rubbed my neck.

"Nothing I just… they don't want me back there but I agreed to it, so." I explained and I heard someone running up to us and as I turned around, I was tackled by two teenagers and they hugged me.

"Violet you're back." AJ says and I hug them.

"Y-yea heh." I said as I sat up and looked at them.

"I'm so sorry for yelling at you AJ." I said and he nods.

"It's fine I was in the wrong." He said and I shook my head.

"No, No I was in the wrong buddy…. I was just really tired and stuff but that still didn't give me an excuse to do that." I said and he looked to me and I look up at clementine as she looked at the map again.

"They were based so close to Joans old community…. Did they find her?" She asked.

"I don't know honestly…. She probably got eaten by walkers or if she's still out there then… she's looking for the others." I said.

"Are you going to go back to her?" She asked.

"I… they think I will so…. That's why I'm not going to go back, they'll hang me." I said as I remember Javi's threat.

"Clem… can you and I talk alone?" I asked and she looked to me and nodded as I followed them to one of the houses, they had been staying in. AJ and Mary head up to their rooms and I am with Clementine in the Kitchen. I looked to her a bit as I set my bag down to the ground and I hug her again gently. And I kiss her cheek and look at her.

"Vi?"

"I'm so glad you're ok." I tell her and she looks to me. She cups my cheek gently as I just look at her and I kiss her and she kisses me back.

"Violet are you ok?" She asked and I nodded as I looked to her.

"Yea… Yea I'm ok." I said and she looks at me.

"You get hurt?" I asked.

"No, I'm ok." She says.

"What about AJ and Mary?" I asked.

"They're fine as well." She says and I nod and I kiss her cheek again and I hold her hands a bit.

"Um… so yea that map will take you to the others if you want to see them… I mean you wanted AJ to see them again right?" I asked and she nodded.

"But I do want you to be there." She says and I shake my head.

"Not the best idea, I told you they'd hang me… Javi was clear on that." I said and she looked to me.

"Then I won't go see them."

"No… I mean… you can, I'll stay a few miles out but…. Louis misses you." I said and she looked to me.

"And I mean it's a group you know and…. They do travel a lot." I said and rubbed my neck.

"are you telling me to join them?" she asked.

"No… no I'm not…. Just…. an option for you…. To take." I said and she sighs as she moves away from me and I look at her.

"Um… Ruby is there so the kids are too." I told her and she looked at me.

"Violet you…. I don't want to go there." She said and I watched her.

"I mean you don't have to go there now but when you feel ready you can…. I don't think they'll be mad." I said as I looked to her. She looked to me and sighs as she lays her head on my shoulder and I look at her.

"Hey, did you lose your hat again?" I asked as I put my hand through her hair. She looks up at me and then down.

"It's just soaked from the rain, storm passed through a few days ago and I couldn't dry it off." She explained and I nod a bit as I look to her.

"Yea it's to cold…. I could start a fire for the house." I said as I looked to the fire place. We both got up and I went to the fireplace and saw some wood in there.

"I'll have to get some wood from outside." I said and she nods as she heads to the door and we get to work. It wasn't long till we had enough logs inside the house and I lit the wood on fire as she grabbed some blankets and the kids came down. I watched as they sat on the couch and I smiled and went back to tending to the fire. It wasn't long till the living area warmed up and I stayed near the fire.

"You think Joan is still out there?" Mary asked and I looked to them.

"I don't now… and I don't care to be honest… if she is, we just…. I'll just shoot her." I said as I watched the flames.

"Vi." Clem said and I looked to her.

"Sorry…. Anyway, we can stay here a bit catch some game and find more guns, Davids' group took my rifle so all I have is my knife and pistol." I said as I got up and sat in the recliner.

"Could we go back to our old home? I told Mary about it and she wants to go." AJ said and I looked to them.

"We can head back there at some point, still never found out who made those shots near us, but we've been away from the place too long, plus Snow might love it there." I said as the dog barked a bit and then went silent as she laid on AJ's lap. I looked to Clem as she got up and sat on my lap in the recliner and I held her waist a bit.

"It wasn't that bad of a community though, I know you don't like Joan, but they made it seem like the world didn't end, it was nice for a while." Mary said and I looked to her a bit then to Clementine who sighed.

"I can't say you're wrong but Joan was always up to something, when I was a teen, she manipulated people into stealing from other communities and sometimes would force them to join, we had a girl in another group who thought it was a good thing but…. I don't know what happened to her." Clem says.

"You remember her name?" I asked.

"Elenore or something, she ratted us out to Joan and shit hit the fan after that." She said as she grabbed my hand a bit and I held hers back.

"I'm sorry." I said as I placed my head on hers.

"Don't be." She whispers to me as I look into her golden eyes.

"Remember when we first met?" I asked and she nodded.

"You were laying on the school wall and Tenn. said something that made you get up to look at me… I saw you smile just a tiny bit." She said and I nodded.

"And I helped carry you out of a car." I told her as she looked to me and placed her hand on my cheek. I looked to see AJ and Mary fast asleep cuddled in a blanket and I looked to Clementine who just looked at me then up to the stairs and I nod a bit as we both get up. I make sure to block the doors so no one could get in and we head up to one of the many rooms. Clem opens the door and I kiss her as she closed it behind us.