(Violet's Pov)
-Six Days Later-
It's been days since I've been looking through all the radio stations to see if there were any survivors heck I was back in Georgia I had gone into Atlanta even which was not that bad but still needed to be careful, I'm not going to lie but I was loosing all hope on finding someone alive, I went farther out just to make sure these people were ok and then I would see people had stayed in the radio station but would leave before I could reach them, I finally got to the last station as I looked around for any walkers, there were a few and they looked dead for a good time but not to long ago either. I quietly head into the building and look around and hear for anything but no sound was made so I walked around some more to one of the chairs and I take a break but I keep my guard up as I sigh a bit and look around more.
"Fucking god damn it, I try to do one good thing but, in the end, it doesn't fucking matter." I groan as I get back up then I hear a gun click and I turn and aim my rifle at a woman and I glare at her.
"Oh god I thought you were a person." She says and I recognize the voice.
"You called on the radio, who else is with you?" I asked as I looked around more.
"My sister and my other group members, please you have to help us, one of them was bitten and we… we cut their arm off but we don't have medicine, or at least enough." They say scared.
"Shel what the fuck?" I hear and turn to see another girl.
"Becca stop this we need to get help for Russell." The woman Shel says and I look at her.
"How long ago was his arm cut?" I asked.
"You're going to help?" She asked surprised and I nodded as she took me to their friend and I saw a few new people and two familiar ones and I glare at them.
"Jesus fucking Christ not you." Mike says.
"Wait you know this woman?" Shel asked.
"Yea, we met a few years back, but right now I'm going to help your friend and then I'll be on my way." I say as she takes me to a young black male and I opened my bag and grabbed some medicine for him to take and looked at his arm.
"Shit this was not a clean cut, but I can work with it." I say as I get to work on the man.
"Th-Thank you." He says and I nod.
"Yea." I say as I work more on his arm.
"Shit, she might kill him." Mike says.
"I won't now shut the fuck up." I say as I work more.
"Your fucking girlfriend killed Arvo, how can we trust you hu?" He asked.
"Wait what?" Becca asked.
"Now is not the time asshole so just stop or I'm going to fuck up and he'll get an infection for fuck sake." I say as I work more on him.
"Jesus just stop Mike." Russell says and I look at him sadly.
"How long ago were you bitten?" I asked him.
"Hmmm two hours…. We got it in time?" He asked a bit scared and I nodded.
"Yea, yea you guys did, that's good." I say as I clean his wound and bandage him up and looked at him as he slept a bit and I sigh and look to the rest of the group.
"He's going to be fine, just check his bandages after a few days keep his wound nice and clean and if his stump starts to feel hot he might have an infection, if it feels hot and tingling, then he's not going to make it." I tell them as as we walk out and I go to find a place to clean my hands.
"Explain how you know Mike?" I hear Shel ask and I look to her and I sigh.
"Him and Bonnie along with a guy named Arvo were wondering around my school, the place I lived at since all this mess… anyway we brought them to our school and kept them locked up because I didn't know them but… My wife did." I say.
"Who is your uh… Wife?" She asked and I look to her a bit.
"Clementine." I say.
"Wait…. Does she have a baseball cap with a D on it?" She asked and I look at her.
"Maybe… why?" I asked.
"Honestly her group did mine a fucking favor by killing Carver, that man was a fucking psycho, killed one of his own just because apparently he didn't do a good job." She says and I look at her.
"So what happened with this Arvo guy?" She asked.
"Clementine shot him, hours after he said he would get his group to come and rape and kill us kids, shit we were just kids and he says that sick stuff… Clementine didn't like it, and Ruby didn't either…. I didn't know till after we gave Bonnie and Mike supplies and they left." I explained and we stayed silent for a bit.
"So, how'd you know about medicine so well?" She asked to get off topic.
"My old friend Ruby taught me, then when I was in another community I had to learn, I was second in command and shit…. I've seen plenty of people lose limbs from Walker bites…. Clementine also got bit and lost a leg so… yea." I say and cross my arms a bit.
"Jesus… is she?"
"No, she's alive and well, or as well as she can be." I say.
"I know she was grouped up with Rebecca she was a pregnant lady is she uh?" She asked and I looked to her.
"Rebecca died, Clementine said it was a few hours after the heard attacked Howes." I say remembering what Clementine told me.
"Shit… and the baby?" She asked sadly.
"The baby was fine, he's currently with my wife, and we have another kid with us, but they're both really good shots, so I wouldn't try and fuck with them." I say and she nods.
"Got to teach them when they're young these days." She says sadly and I nod.
"Well the Walkers are dying off anyway so by the time they become adults there shouldn't be much, but if we die, we still got to destroy the brain." I say and she nods.
"Can't be to careful anymore." I say.
"So, what is your story?" I asked and we talked a bit as we walked to the rest of her group, they talked about their past as well and I would listen and I went to check on Russell who seemed to be doing better and I sigh.
"That's good." I say.
"Thanks for… helping him you know." I hear and look to see Becca and I nod.
"Can't let more people die, especially if I can help them." I say.
"I didn't trust people for a long time, back in my old group, before Carver, there was a man that tried to steal our food, and our old group leader… killed him…. Then one of our own she was trying to leave after she took some stuff from us, but my sister just took the RV we had and left, I guess she didn't like the idea of killing someone we knew." She says and I look to her.
"You know… I have a friend, and I hate his guts to this day, but…. I could never kill him…. Hurt him, hell yea but kill him? No…. I don't know about him though, honestly I don't think he would hesitate to kill me, but I don't know…. Everyone is different." I explain and she looked to me.
"Yea… You're right." She says and looks to me.
"Was there a girl with Clementine, her name was Sarah." She says and I look at her.
"No." I tell her and she looked down.
"Shit…. Sorry." She says and leaves and I sigh as I look at Russell again and I head out the room and look to Bonnie and Mike as they looked at me and Bonnie came up to me.
"How ya been?" She asked.
"You know, Major issues with walkers, having to deal with some kids and seeing death, but ain't nothing new." I tell her, honestly, I never had any ill feelings towards Bonnie.
"What about you?" I asked.
"Well the supplies you gave us helped in the long run, we got trapped in a building for a few days and well you know." She says and I nod.
"Hmm, still doesn't mean anything." Mike says and I look at him.
"Don't listen to him, he's just thinking about the past, which he should stop doing." Bonnie says and I nod.
"Hey, I'm Wyatt." A man says and I nod.
"Nice to meet you." I say and he nods.
"So um, thanks for saving Russell and all we really appreciate it." He says and I nod as he leaves.
"I'll stay for a few more hours and then head out." I tell them.
"No please stay the night, have dinner, it's still dangerous to walk out at night and you must be tired." Shel says and I think a bit and nod.
"Alright if that's fine with you guys." I say as I look to them.
"I'm fine with-it Becca says and the others except Mike agree.
"Look I just have my issues." He says.
"Mike, he shot Clementine, as a child, of course she's going to have ill feelings for him, and after what he said to Clementine and Ruby, god I wouldn't blame her, he was threating me, her family, and friends, you'd do the same if I did the same thing Arvo pulled." I say and he looked to me.
"I'm not asking you to forgive her or anything, I'm just asking you to push those feelings aside for now, once I'm done here you can burn a hole in the back of my head with your eyes." I tell him and he grumbled a bit and nods and I nod as well.
"Thank you." I say and we all sit down and eat.
"So, you use to be in command of a group hu?" Shel asked and I nodded as I ate the can of peaches Clem had in my bag automatically, she knows I love this stuff, just like her and her apples.
"Yea, and second in command of another one it was huge but uh…. It got taken down not to long ago." I say and they look at me.
"Shit, why?" Russell asked as we looked to him.
"The group that attacked us was part of the Old New Frontier group, it's a strange story." I explain.
"Tell us we have time." Vince says and I think and I nod.
"The new group I was in had a leader named Joan, and she was in charge of the Old New Frontier group before years back, well people that lived from her old group followed her, and her right-hand man David formed another group after the fall of Richmond. Anyway, Joan and her group took me and my family captive after we left my old group in Florida, I hated the fact that we got caught but if we didn't work with them then we'd die…. And sadly I thought that what we were doing was good, the place had solar power, wind turbines working, water, everything, they had schooling for kids, jobs for people, homes it was like the world never ended to them, hell they had their own fucking money printed too, imagine that." I say and they all look at me.
"David and his brother killed one of our group members and held me and another member of my group captive, they broke my leg and kept hurting it… after a while we were able to go home but… we lost one guy to them, and I didn't like it, so for months I was planning on attacking them once we had them pinned, but instead they throw grenades in my community blow out our wall let the dead walk in and kill children, elderly, people just in general…. They kidnapped me after I told AJ to get his mom and sister out and I was locked up for a good while…. They finally let me out and well, they threatened my life if I came back, but yet they wanted to bring my wife to see them, fuck that." I say getting pissed.
"They hurt me, and they want me to do that, it's fucking funny….I mean… after all they did to me and my family… they could have killed them and not care." I say quietly and I finish my peaches and stare at my lap.
"Shit…. Just…. fucking hell." Vince says.
"Hell, if you want, we can take out that group." Becca says and I chuckle a bit.
"Nah, they got kids there too, and some goo friends of mine and their kids, I'm not like them, there's only two people I want gone." I say.
"That David guy?" Wyatt says and I nod.
"And his brother, they can rot for all I care." I say and I look at them.
"Shit sounds like hell." Shel says and I nod.
"They deserve it after what they did, their attack was stupid." I say as I tap my leg.
"With how you explained things I'd say uh yea it was stupid." Vince says and I nod as I look out the window and I see the sun setting a bit, Russell had gone back to sleep and I look at sun setting a bit more and I lean back in the chair a bit and I think.
"You good?" I hear and look to Bonnie.
"You know how many times I've been asked that?" I asked and she shrugs.
"A lot…. But hey least people take the time to worry about others…. It's strange you know?" I asked and she nod.
"About what Arvo said…. I didn't know…. I just… was in shock." She says and I nod.
"I don't blame you honestly." I say and she nods as I look at the stars.
"You can sleep on the couch over there tonight, it's not comfortable but it's the best we got." She says and I nod.
"It's fine, we all should be use to sleeping on shitty beds." I joke and she nods and laughs a little.
"God Clementine had grown up so much, besides a few years ago I last saw her as a little girl, but once Arvo shot her I wanted to help but Kenny, he scared me so much, after all I had been through before I just… I just couldn't take it anymore with people that snapped." She says and she grabbed a cigarette and offered one to me. I think a bit and I take it and she hands me a match which I light my cigarette with.
"Before I joined Carvers group I was with this man and his wife, Leland and Dee….. god the fact that I can remember theor names makes it sad." She says and I watch her and listen.
"Well they helped me out a lot, use to be on drugs and they helped me but uh…. Dee thought I was trying to take her husband, but we were just friends, I never really had people that cared for me you know…. And we had to run from these people because Dee had taken medicine from them and god, she had a flashlight and I though she was the people chasing us, the people that shot me in my shoulder and I…. I killed her, hit her head with those big iron rods they have on a farm, and I hit her head so hard." She says sadly as she takes a drag of her cigarette and I watched her.
"She kept calling me a bitch, a junkie, and mean things, saying I was trying to take her husband from her, saying I killed her for him, but I swear on my life that I didn't know it was her, she didn't call out or anything and I was so scared, I needed both her and Leland they helped me so much but… she didn't trust me and she died thinking badly of me… then later on Leland got trapped and I tried to help him but he just told me to go…. Those were the last two people before these guys that is…. That cared for me." She says and I watch her.
"Yea, it's terrible when people you care about get hurt or hurt you." I say and I take a drag of my cigarette.
"Tell me about it." She says.
"You cared for that Arvo guy?" I asked her and she looked at me.
"He was good for a while, I still didn't forgive him for what he did to clementine, I couldn't forgive anyone that would shoot a kid, but honestly I was so scared of being alone I just kept my mouth shut and I dealt with it… and I regret it, but I don't regret getting away from Kenny." She says and I look at her.
"What did he do?" I asked curios about what she had to say about one of the men that Clementine looked up to.
"He… After Carver had beaten him with a radio, he changed from what I heard about him from Clementine he changed from what she remembered him when she was younger you know." She says and I look at her and nod a bit.
"He beat Arvo because he didn't like the house that Arvo took us to, beat him cause he thought he lied about the food and supplies but he did take us to a house, granted it wasn't completely built but there were bags of food there… only thing is there wasn't baby formula for the baby so he got mad at that too… he just got mad and I got scared." She says and I nod.
"I would be too but what can we do? Heck I yelled at AJ and Clementine got on to me about it…. I felt so bad after that I never should have yelled at him…. He looks up to me, or so I'm told so… I thought I made myself look bad…. And that was the day we were attacked I don't think I ever apologized to him for that and now I feel worse if I didn't." I say trying to remember.
"He knows you didn't mean it." She says and I nod as I finish my cigarette and I snuff it out and sigh.
"I hope so, I mean he yelled at me and he regretted it, I know he did." I say as I get up and bid Bonnie a good night and I go lay on the couch and relax just a little bit. I slept for a good amount of time before I woke up and looked out the window and saw the sun and I get up and look around as I grabbed my bag.
"Heading out?" I hear and nod as I look to see Shel.
"I'll check on Russell before I go though." I say and she nods and I go look at Russell as he gets up and I checked on his arm a bit and I cleaned it.
"Make sure to air it out at some point and keep that stump clean ok? If you get an infection, I won't be here to help you." I tell him and he nods.
"Yea, thanks… thanks for helping me." He says and I nod and I get up and I head outside and I say good-bye to the rest of the people in the group and I start the long walk back to see if there was any sign of Clem and the kids leaving. I just looked at the trees and the road, I stop and look inside a car here and there as I head back home. I looked around an old garage area and see blood on the ground and I sigh as I see a motorcycle and I head over to it but there are no keys. I think and look around a bit under the seat and in the bags and just my luck I find a spare set of keys and I look around a bit.
"Fuck it could be a trap." I mumbled as I sighed and looked at the keys and tried them on the motorcycle and it starts a bit but doesn't turn over.
"Hm… just needs gas." I mumbled and I look around a bit and sigh as I hold the keys and I go look for some gas in cars. It wasn't long till I found a container to hold the gas in to take to the motorcycle and I got a good amount of gas in the canaster and I took it to the bike. Once I filled up the bike I tried to start it again and it did work and I smiled and chuckled a bit as I got on it and began to drive back home. I took a bit of a detour to make sure no one was following me but after a long while I stopped at an old pitstop and I looked at a sign and sighed as I park the bike inside the barricade and I go over to the front door and opened it. Surprisingly it opened up and I looked inside to find nothing and I sigh.
"Just great…. Well I didn't expect anything to be in here anyway." I mumbled to myself as I looked in the kitchen and I found some seeds for vegetables and I smile as I take them. I open the back door and I see nothing but dead bodies and I get sick by the smell.
"Fuck… Never got use to the smell." I say as I look around more and search the bodies to find nothing. I look to see two elderly looking women dead and I gag a bit as they rotted and I headed back inside. I then walked out back to the bike and looked at the pitstop and saw its name.
"Well whoever this Gil person was, least he left some stuff or at least whoever was here last did." I say and I drive off, I find an old restroom area and I take a quick stop into it and look inside. I see a dead body inside the woman's restroom and blood on the floor, I head back out and I see a grave marker and I shake my head a bit and then I hear a gunshot. I quickly get on my bike and start driving as fast as possible away from the location. It wasn't long till I finally got back into Tennessee State and I get to the house where Clem and the kids stayed. I park the bike and I knock on the door and it does open. AJ is at the door and he hugs me instantly and I am a bit shocked by his action but I hug him back.
"Hey bud what's wrong?" I asked as we walked in.
"You were gone for days, we thought the worse." He says.
"Shit, sorry, I had to track the people down for days, they kept moving and they were all the way back in Georgia." I say.
"Georgia really?" I hear and I look to Clementine as she walked in.
"Yea, but get this, the people knew about you, Bonnie and Mike were with them." I say.
"Fuck, did they follow you?" She asked worried.
"No, their friend was in bad shape when I got to them, guy named Russell, lost an arm Walker got him." I explained.
"….Who was all there?" She asked.
"Hmm, Wyatt, Vince, Shel, Becca, Russell, Bonnie, and Mike were all the people there." I tell her and she nods a bit.
"Alright…. Just got to make sure if they did follow then we need to be prepared.
"Alright, fair." I say and she nods.
"Oh I got this stuff." I say as I grabbed my bag and I pulled out the seeds and other small supplies.
"Seeds, we can start a farm again." She says and smiles.
"We should move one more time before we do that, you know." I say and she nods.
"Where did you get this stuff?" She asked as we put it back in my bag.
"At this pitstop, named Gil's, weird name right?" I asked and she looked to me a bit and nods just a little and I look at her.
"Were will we go now?" I hear and looked to Mary and AJ as they looked at us.
"We can head out to the countryside, like the farm hu?" I asked and AJ nodded. I smiled a bit at this and I look to Clementine. She looked tired and I pull her to me in a hug. I feel her wrap her arms around me and I smile a bit.
"Please told me you slept while I was gone." I say as we pull apart and she looked to me.
"Some days yes but some days no…. you know why I worry." She says and I nod as I take her to the couch and we take a seat. I relax a bit more and close my eye.
"You didn't sleep good either hu?" She asked and I shook my head.
"Hmm, drove most of the way to get here, got a motorcycle so it was a bit faster for me." I mumbled as I open one eye and I looked at her and I yawned a bit and I felt her lay her head on my shoulder and I smile a bit as I close my eye and I finally get some sleep, that I hadn't gotten for a few days now.