(Violet's Pov)

I woke up to the sound of banging and I get up quickly and look around the room and look at the door and then head over to the window and saw that they hadn't gone through. I shake my head and then headed over to the door and went down the stairs. Once down I saw there was a cane in one of those umbrella holders so I grabbed it and I was able to walk just a little better. I look out the window and see a lot more Walkers than there was last night.

"Hmm, might be a bit more difficult than you thought." I heard and looked to the side and I saw Clementine and I glared at her. Or well the hallucination really but in all honesty, it was becoming a bother.

"Shut up." I tell them and she looks at me.

"Oh, would you like Joan?" She says and I shake my head and even looked away at the mention at that. I take the time to just breath a bit to keep myself from panicking.

"I think you want to see her." Clementine says and I glared at her.

"I do not want to see her." I tell her.

"I think you do."

"FUCK YOU I DON'T WANT TO SEE HER!" I yelled at her and she laughed at me. I gripped my hands into fists and glared at her. She looks out the window and I shake my head and moved around the house a bit. it wasn't long till I heard some banging on the door and I looked at it for a bit then to the window and saw it was just a Walker. In all honesty dealing with a living person right now would be more of a bother than a few Walkers. I decided to take a seat in the recliner for a bit and I let my leg rest a bit.

"Being lazy hu?" I hear and look to see Clementine again.

"Shut the fuck up." I mutter and leaned my head back and tried to get as much rest as I could. This lack of sleeping was getting to me and I was just tired. That is until I hear more banging on the door and I quickly move and grabbed my rifle.

"Fuck the door is blocked." I hear and I shake my head. Either this was in my head or it was real but I wasn't going to take the chance of people getting hurt. I opened the door quickly as I hear a gunshot go off and I grabbed the two people and pulled them in. I grabbed my pistol and shoot the Walker closes to me in the head and I hurry and quickly barricade the door and I take a few seconds to breath.

"Holy fuck." I hear and turn quickly to see AJ and Aasim Junior.

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU-." I stopped and took a few breaths and looked to them again as they looked to me.

"You just ran the hell away from home and Aasim Junior here snuck into the truck, I couldn't go back." He says and I passed the room a bit and grab my head.

"Oh, fucking hell, Ruby is probably panicking and Clementine… do you two realize what you have done to them?" I say getting pissed.

"You fucking ran off; how do you think Clementine felt?" AJ says and I glare at him.

"You have no fucking clue what I'm going through right now, you have no reason to judge me." I tell him and he glares back.

"YOU LEFT US, YOU TOLD ME YOU WOULDN'T LEAVE US BUT YOU DID, YOU LIED TO ME!" He yelled and he shoved me and I shoved him back.

"Don't test me boy." I tell him.

"Don't test you? I'm tell you that Clementine is blaming herself for you leaving, you need to come back, we can talk this all out, you need help and this isn't helping you, for fuck sake was saw the Humvee down the hill." He says and I look to him and then walked over to the kitchen and I know AJ noticed the limp I had.

"Your leg got worse." He says and I look at him and sighed then grabbed some food for them. I go over to the two boys and hand Aasim Junior some food and look to AJ and handed him some as well. They both take it but AJ doesn't eat what I gave him and I rubbed my head and took a seat. I then looked to my leg and saw it was bruised massively and I lean back in the seat.

"You need to come home, Ruby can help." He tells me but I don't talk to him. How can I tell him I almost stabbed Clementine in her sleep? To think I mistook her as Joan and I was going to hurt her.

"Clementine isn't at home either." AJ says and I look to him quickly and he looked back to me.

"What?" I asked.

"She left too, we got separated." He says and I get up quickly.

"When? Where?" I asked panicked and he looks to me.

"Not like you care." He says and I grabbed him by his shoulders and he looked to me.

"When and where?" I asked him again and he looked to the side.

"The… Joan's community last night." He says and I get up and went to grab my bag. I also grabbed my gun and looked to both of them.

"You have the truck?" I asked and he nods and shows me the keys and I grabbed them then looked out the window and saw the Walkers and I think for a bit then look to AJ.

"Ok… you both need to listen-."

"There's Walkers for miles Violet."

"YOU TELL ME THAT CLEM IS OUT THERE AND EXPECT ME NOT TO DO ANYTHING?!" I yell at him and he glares at me.

"Don't yell at me." He says and I shake my head and look at the window again.

"We just need a plan… maybe she left the mark somewhere and we can find her." I mutter and think for a bit.

"Look, we need to wait till the Walkers die down." He says.

"AJ that could be days from now, we don't have enough food for three people, and I got a busted leg… I'm getting too old for this shit." I mutter the last part and rubbed my face and take a deep breath.

"We can wait till tomorrow morning to head out, Clem should be fine, plus we have food in the truck, we can just head out in the morning." AJ says and I look at him then to the door.

"No… no." I say and I think a bit as I tried to figure a way to find Clementine.

"Violet, she will be fine." He says to me and I look at him.

"She knows what to do." He tells me and I look back to the door.

"It's not that AJ… fucking… look you two stay here-."

"You aren't going out with a busted leg." He tells me.

"And I'm not going to let Clem stay out there." I tell him and pulled my rifle to me and I listen to the door. I felt AJ grab me and he pulled me away. I felt regret for what I did but I had to find Clementine. I turned to face him and quickly punched him in the face making him back up. I panicked and hurried out the door knocking a few Walkers back and I quickly slammed the door. I hear AJ yell for me but I look around and had to shoot a Walker in the head as it tried to bite me. I look around quickly and saw the truck was covered in Walkers so I had to run. God did it hurt to run but I did it, I hurried and looked at the tire tracks they left and I followed them till I reached the road. More and more walkers were everywhere which was surprising after how long it's been since I've seen a herd. I look around and head in the direction of Joan's old community. I was stupid but I needed to know if she was here.

"CLEM?!" I call out and look around.

"CLEMENTINE, CAN YOU HEAR ME?!" I yell once more and look around.

"CLEM?!" I yelled again and I hear a loud bang and turned to see a hole in the ground and I hear screaming, not just one person screaming but many people. Scared people, children and adults all alike and I turn quickly to see a familiar truck driving away from me. In the back window I see Mary looking at me as it drove away. I turn and head over to the wall and saw a familiar face.

"VIOLET!" I hear and turn to see Delta and I back up aiming my rifle at him.

"What the hell get down." He says as he pulled me down just as we hear bullets hit the wall. I shake my head and gripped my hair a bit.

"It's not real, this isn't real it can't be real." I mutter and close my eyes as I hear more screams, bombs, Walkers.

"This isn't real, this isn't real not again, not again." I say to myself and I feel something grab me. I open my eyes and see Clementine and I look around to see we were by the wall and there was a Walker at me feet and I back up.

"Violet it's ok." She says and I shake my head.

"No… no, I… you left… You, AJ, Mary, why aren't you gone?" I asked and looked as I see Juliet, Delta, even Romeo were looking at me.

"BOTH OF YOU GET DOWN!" Delta yells and I pull Clem down as I hear a bomb go off and I hold her close to me.

"Violet, stop." She says and I look to her as she looked at me. But it wasn't her, it was a Walker. I shoved it back and aim my pistol at it, shooting it in the dead. I didn't see any bombs, I didn't see anyone from my old group and I looked to see no one, nothing. I quickly check myself for any bites and I don't see or feel any at the moment. I take a few deep breaths and get up and look around the area. I hurry and run to my old house and look around.

"CLEM THIS ISN'T FUNNY ANSWER ME DAMN IT!" I yelled and looked around. I was scared, I was terrified as I stayed here, but she must not be here. I was about to leave until I hear something and I look to see the door open and Clementine looking at me.

"Are you ok?" She asked and I look around and see people walking around looking at me and I shake my head and head up to her.

"Nothing just… inside." I muter and bring her into the house. I look to see AJ and Mary sitting at the table doing homework and I hit my head a bit with my hand but I feel someone grab it and I look to see Clem looking at me worried.

"What has gotten into you?" She asked.

"I know… I know this isn't real I know." I mutter and look around.

"What do you mean?" She asked and I shake my head and I go take a seat on the couch. I grip my head some more and I opened my eyes as I felt hands on me. I turn and saw Clem but there was not much light like when this place was an active community. I look at her then around and I stand up and grab her face gently.

"Tell me this is real… please for the love of God I can't take not knowing anymore." I say to her. She looked worried and placed her hands on top of mine. I feel tears go down my face.

"Please tell me." I begged to her and she looks to me worried. I move my hands to her shoulders and gripped them a bit and as I cried more.

"Please… please tell me this is real and not in my head." I begged and felt her rub my head. I look to her and she hugs me.

"It's real, I'm here, this is real and it's ok." She tells me and I take a few breaths to try and calm myself down.

"It's real, you're ok, this is real, I'm here, ok?" She asked and I nod. Even if it was a lie, it was comforting just a little bit.

"I can't take it… I can't take it anymore Clementine… I just can't." I cried and gripped my hair a bit. I shut my eyes tightly and I feel her rubbing my back.

"I can't… I just can't take it anymore." I tell her.

"Yes, you can… you just need to talk it out, that's all you need to do, is talk it out and we can figure out how to help you." She says to me and I cried. I don't know how long we were like this but it must have been a long time because she told us we needed to move. I get up with her slowly and we head up the stairs and I sit on the bed for a bit.

"AJ and Aasim Junior, they're… at a house." I say to her.

"Ok, where?" She asked and I think.

"Hmmm, fuck… it's past a steep hill… we can head out there now." I tell her and she nods.

"Ok… we have some stuff here we can grab and head out." She says to me and I nod as we grabbed some supplies and she grabbed a bag and I look at her a bit and get up. I take her outside and head in the direction of the house but as we walked I just kept quiet.

"Talk to me Violet." She says and I shake my head.

"Violet I can't help you if you don't talk to me." She says and I just keep looking ahead.

"God damn it." She says and I just think.

"I… don't want to talk about that." I mutter.

"Vi." She says quietly and I just keep looking forward. It took us a while before we reached the hill and she looks down and sees the damage to the Humvee.

"What happened?" She asked and I look at her then to the side as I headed down just a bit on a not so steep slope of the hill, I look to her and hold my hand out and she takes it and I help her down a bit. I see some walkers so we hide behind the Humvee and I lean over to the side as does she and I see a Walker to the side and move us back as we kept silent. The walker seems to pass us by and I nod and look to Clem who grabbed her knife and I grabbed it from her. She looks to me and I place a finger to my mouth and she nods as I sneak up at the Walker, once close to it I stab it in the head and grabbed it before it dropped to the ground. I look to Clementine as I drag the body to us and we put the guts and blood on us. I stand up and feel my leg hurting so I drop down a bit and I see Clementine looking at me and I shake my hand a bit and get back up. I then take her over to the side of the woods and we still stay to the side even though we were covered I just wanted to be extra safe on this. We keep going until we finally reached the house and I look around as we passed Walkers and I knock on the door a bit.

"Who is there?" I hear.

"AJ… Clem and I are here." I whispered. And he opened the door and lets us in. When we get in I help AJ barricade the door and I look to the side as I see Clementine looking at me.

"Are you going to expl-."

"I just got into a… I swerved off the road no big deal." I tell her.

"No big deal? Does this have to deal with your leg?" She asked and I looked to the window as I see a Walker staring at us. I go and close the blinds and look at all of them and I sighed and took a seat on the couch.

"Violet, you need to talk." She says and I look to her and rubbed my head then leaned back a bit on the couch.

"It was a simple accident, just a walker jumping out onto the road and I freaked out." I lied to her.

"You're lying." She tells me and I shrugged.

"Take it as a lie but I'm not." I tell her and she glared at me.

"God damn it… ok well the truck is still out there so we have transportation… Aasim Junior and Alvin Junior we all need to work together on this." Clementine tells them and I get up and head over to the kitchen and looked in the fridge to find a few beers and I smiled as I grabbed one. I popped open the bottle and I took a drink and looked to the side to see Clem glaring at me.

"Seriously right now?" She asked and I laughed.

"Yea right now… I need a drink right fucking now." I tell her.

"No, you don't trust me that's a bad idea." She says as she tried to grab the bottle from me but I love it away from her and glared back at her.

"Don't… don't you dare." I tell her.

"You need to listen to me Violet we are not going to do this, not here, not today not right fucking now, we have kids here." She tells me and I look at her.

"AJ isn't a kid… he said so himself." I say and take a drink.

"We have Ruby and Aasim's son here for fuck sake." She tells me and I look at her.

"Look, I need a fucking drink after a long god damn day, my head is fucked up right now, I can't tell if you really are here or not." I tell her.

"I am here and you're here right now, AJ and Aasim Junior are here as well and you and I have to be responsible for them both." She tells me.

"Like I was with Mary." I mutter and looked to the side.

"Violet that wasn't-."

"It was though… it fucking was, I should have said no but I didn't… it's my own fault that I'm like this too, I know it is." I tell her.

"Violet it's not your fault, listen." She tells me and she places her hands on my shoulders and I look to her. I tried to talk but she stopped me.

"No listen to me… Violet you just can't drink right now ok… please just for now… don't drink for fuck sake you can drink when we get home ok?" She asked and I look at her then to the ground.

"Can I at least finish this one?" I asked and she looked to the bottle than to me and she shakes her head a bit.

"Fuck fine if it get's you to agree, than yes just this one." She tells me and I nod and finish the beer and throw it to the ground not caring. She shakes her head and I chuckled then looked to the window a bit.

"Who has the keys?" Clem asked and I take them from my pocket and I jingle them a bit.

"Can you drive?" She asked.

"Hey I walked all the way back to Joan's community on a busted leg, I think I can drive." I laughed and she looked at me.

"I'll drive." She says and I shrugged and hand her the keys. Not like it's much use to me anyway.

"We're going to head back home understand?" Clem asked us all and I look at her and just nod at this.

"Ok… how are we going to get past them." Clem asked.

"They don't seem to care if you're covered or not… I was able to walk right past them easily." I muttered.

"What?" She asked as she looked to me then looked at my leg and I look at her.

"I wasn't bit if that's what you're worried about… I would have turned a while ago." I tell her.

"Can't be too sure." She says and grabbed my leg and I watch as she pulls up my pant leg and it's discolored but no bite mark.

"Told you." I mutter and she looks at me then to the boys.

"You two upstairs now." She says and they nod and run up the stairs and I look at her.

"Shirt off." She says and I chuckled.

"Well demanding, aren't you?" I asked her.

"God damn it what if you are bit." She says and I look at her.

"I am not bit… trust me." I tell her.

"Take your shirt off then." She tells me and I sighed. I take my shirt off for her and she gasped and I looked down to see bruises from hell and I chuckled. I looked to see my old dog tags as well.

"Well damn… didn't know I had these." I laughed and looked to her. She looked like she was going to cry so I get up and place my hands on her shoulders.

"Hey, hey don't no tears allowed ok?" I say to her.

"What the hell happened?" She asked and I grabbed my shirt and put it on and I tucked it in then looked to her.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"What the hell happened for all that?" She asked and I look at her.

"You want the truth?" I asked her.

"For gods sake yes." She tells me and I rubbed the back of my neck and I look at her.

"I have been having the hallucinations again… this time you were in the Humvee next to me and I freaked the hell out and I basically crashed it." I tell her. She looks at me then to the side and shake her head.

"Does your other leg hurt?" She asked and I shake my head.

"No, just the bad one that Javier and David busted… by the way I saw those two sons of a bitches a few days back." I tell her and she looked to me.

"And?" She asked.

"Got into a bit of an argument, they think that Joan is still alive, as if they'd believe me when I told them she was dead." I mutter then look to her a bit.

"Fuck." She mutters and I look at her.

"If they become our enemies." I tell her and she nods.

"Ok, I get it but I doubt they will try anything, especially with me being involved." She says and I nod.

"They better not." I mutter and looked to the door a bit.

"AJ, Aasim Junior come on we need to head out." Clementine says and I get up and grabbed the cane. I grip it like a bat and look to the door and then to Clementine.

"I'll head out first, make a path and you and the kids run like hell to the truck, I'll hop in the back and you drive like hell, ok?" I asked her and she nods.

"Got it." AJ says and I look to Aasim Junior.

"This isn't a game ok; this is real." I tell him and he nods at this and looks to the door scared and I look to AJ. He was looking at the boy and then up to me and he nods as he pulled Aasim Junior close to him and he looks to the door. I moved the blockage and I grabbed the door handle and took a few deep breaths and nod as I opened the door and hit the first Walker I see. Clementine helped me make a path and we got the boys into the car and she got in the driver's side. I hopped in the bed of the truck and she revved the engine as I grabbed the side of the truck, she floored it hitting a few of the Walkers. I know I must have been crazy but I fucking cheered at this.

"WOO THAT'S MY GIRL HIT THEM DAMN DEAD HEADS!" I yelled in the back and laughed as we get to the highway and I cheered.

"WOOO!" I yelled and chuckled as I looked around more and laughed. As I calmed down from the high I had I look around and see that we were heading into Texas and I tap the window a bit. AJ opens the back window and I pop my head in.

"Having fun?" Clem asked.

"Hell yea, it's fucking fun right now, don't worry I'll be losing this high soon." I say and looked to the side a bit.

"We'll be back in Texas in a few days, come in here and rest up." Clem says.

"Sure." I say and pulled myself into the back of the truck and then head to the front seat and look to her and she looked back to me.

"Happy?" She asked.

"Maybe a little… so can I sleep?" I asked her and she looked at me.

"Of course… if you have a bad dream, I'll wake you up, ok?" She asked and I nod at this and closed my eyes just for a bit.