(Violet's Pov)
I woke up in a cold sweat and looked around the room then got up and I headed out the room and into the hallway. I look around the trailer a bit and I shake my head a bit and placed my hand on my head. I knew it was a bad idea but I went into the fridge and grabbed a beer and opened it up. I look at it and take a drink. It took a while before I was in by half the alcohol I had brought; I was chuckling to myself and saw that the sun was coming up so I stood up and stumbled a bit to make some coffee. I then hear the door open and I look to see the Giant Lady.
"Ooooh hi there." I say and wave a bit.
"Oh god." She says as she comes up to me and I chuckled as she helped me stand up straight. I guess I was leaning a bit too close to where I could fall flat on my face.
"Ok, you need some coffee or-."
"No, I drank… I just… now." I mutter and lean on the giant lady a bit. I then hear some more footsteps and looked to see the pretty lady and others.
"Oh hey." I slurred and chuckled.
"Vi-."
"I AM…. I don't know, but not her…. Never her." I mutter and pull back from the giant lady.
"She drank half the fucking… God damn it." I hear the giant lady say.
"Bad dream… had one… didn't… drink enough." I mutter and they help me sit down and I see AJ.
"Hey bud… sorry." I mutter to him and lay my head on the table.
"Ok, I think you need to be cut off." I hear and I shake my head.
"Nope… no, no, no fuck you." I tell them and glare at them then I see others walk in.
"Keep your mouth shut." The giant lady says and I wave my hand at her.
"Bah, fuck this." I mutter as I waved my hand a bit to her again.
"What's going on?" I hear and I squint a bit to see someone.
"Goatee man." I whispered and I look to see the tall lady glaring at me and the pretty lady comes in front of me and whispers to me.
"Violet, no-."
"I AM NOT VIOLET!" I yelled and moved away from her.
"What the hell is going on?" I hear and I get up and stumble a bit.
"I hate that name… I hate…. Being that name." I muttered and moved to the side as I grabbed the table a bit.
"V-.
"STOP CALLING ME THAT…. SHE CALLED ME FLOWER I HATE THAT SHUT UP!" I yelled and stumbled backwards and I sat on the floor.
"Ok… ok what do you want to be called?" I hear and I gripped my head and shook it.
"I… I don't… I don't know." I mutter and I feel someone grab my shoulders and instantly I shove them backwards and I look at them to see it was the pretty lady.
"I'm sorry… I'm sorry I didn't." I say as I try to go up to her but I stopped as she put her hand up.
"It's ok… it's ok." She says and I lean back a bit and looked at her.
"What happened?" I hear and look to see Louis.
"I… drank." I mutter as I look at him.
"Jesus' fucking… why?" He asked pissed and I look down ashamed. I didn't answer him at all.
"Why?" He asked again and I shake my head and I look to the pretty lady.
"Why?" She asked and I look down.
"I don't… want to… talk." I say to them.
"You need to tell us." The tall lady says and I shake my head at this and I get up but stumble.
"I don't-."
"VIOLET TELL US!" Louis yelled and I glare at him.
"Fuck you." I mutter.
"What?" He asked.
"FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU DON'T CALL ME THAT I HATE THAT NAME DON'T CALL ME THAT NAME!" I yelled at him and he came up to me. I tried to punch him but he stopped me and I glare at him then he looked to the pretty girl.
"Don't… fucking look at her." I say to him but he doesn't listen and I tried to get out of his grip but he didn't let me go.
"Don't fucking look at her." I say again and move a bit to get out his grip. But he wouldn't let go of me and I glare at him as I try to shove him away. I was forced to sit down and I glare at him and I look around to the others.
"She's out of her mind." I hear and I shake my head at this and crossed my arms.
"Fuck… you." I mutter at whoever said that.
"Well fuck you don't want us to call you by your name." They say to me and I glare at them.
"I hate… it." I mutter and looked to the table and I laid my head down on the table. I look to see the pretty lady as she looked at me and I look away.
"Ok, uh… everyone we should all have a break today, I'll talk to v-… I'll talk to her." I hear someone say and I look to see everyone leave and I look to the pretty lady as she takes a chair and looks at me and I smiled at her. Then I see the short red head looking at me as she also takes a seat.
"Hey." I say as the red head looks at me.
"What's wrong?" I asked and she sighed. She rubbed her head and looked at me.
"First things first… what do you want to be called?" She asked. I think and look to the pretty lady and shrugged.
"Sometimes she tells me to call her Captain, but I'm not to sure." The pretty lady says and I look to the red headed woman.
"Do you want us to call you that?" The pretty lady asked.
"Hmm… no, you can… not her." I say as I point to the red head.
"Ok, I get it, it's personal right?" The red head asked and I nod.
"Yea… private matter." I mutter and then chuckle at this.
"Well, can us three just talk?" She asked and I looked at the beer bottles and grabbed one and smiled as I saw some liquid in it. I nod and take a drink as I looked to both of them.
"Did you have a bad dream?" The pretty lady asked and I nod.
"Yea." I mutter and glare at the bottle.
"Do you want to tell us about it?" The red head asked and I think.
"Tell… no one knows." I say to them.
"Of course, it's just between us three." She says and I nodded.
"So, did you have a bad dream?" The pretty lady asked and I nodded a bit at this.
"You already asked." I mutter.
"I know, I'm sorry." She tells me and I shake my head.
"Don't… I am… just… drunk." I laughed and looked to the wall then back to them.
"That's ok." The red head says.
"Clem said it wasn't…. no that's a lie… she doesn't know." I mutter and rubbed my head as I tried to think.
"You can't… you can't tell Clem… she can't know I'm… like this." I say and look to them.
"We won't tell her, we promise." The pretty lady says and I nod.
"I… had a bad dream… and it… bad." I mutter and shook my head.
"Can you tell us what happened in your dream?" She asked me and look at her.
"I hate… my name." I tell her.
"Is it because of Joan?" She asked and I nodded.
"Ok, we won't call you… that name." She says and I smiled a bit.
"What happened in the dream?" She asked again and I shake my head.
"She… was there… and had a uh… fuck." I mutter and I point to my scars to try and tell them.
"She had a knife?" The red head asked and I nodded.
"What's your name?" I asked the red head and she looked to me.
"Ruby… you know me." She says and I think.
"Ruby… but she has two kids." I say to her.
"Well, they're not here right now, they're outside with their dad." She tells me.
"Ok, um… Can I ask you two something?" I asked.
"Sure, what is it?" Ruby asked.
"Clementine… um… she won't know about." I stopped and motioned to us talking.
"No, she won't know about this." The pretty lady says and I think. I tap my hand to my head a bit and looked up to her.
"Joan… called me… flower… and my name… is a flower…and I just… hate it." I tell them.
"Ok, well we can work on calling you something else, ok?" Ruby says and I shake my head a bit.
"I like… my name though… I just hate… that." I mutter and sighed as I rubbed my head a bit.
"So, Joan was in the dream, and she was saying your name?" Ruby asked and I nodded a bit.
"Yea… stupid bitch." I mutter and looked to my scars on my arms and I look to them.
"I want to talk to pretty lady… alone… ok?" I asked and the red head looks at me and then to the pretty lady. She nods and leaves the room and I look at the pretty lady. I then take my shirt off and point to the scars.
"She did this… this hurt and… and." I try to say the words but they wouldn't come out.
"You don't like to remember it." She says and I shake my head.
"I… I don't want Clem to see them… she… prob-… ly thinks bad." I slurred and looked to the pretty lady.
"Why don't you ask her?" She says and I laugh a bit and shake my head.
"Nah… she'd lie to uh… to um… shut me up." I say and looked downward.
"She's really nice… you two should meet." I tell her and I look up to see Clem.
"Hey… when you get here?" I asked.
"Just a minute ago… the pretty lady said you wanted to talk to me." She tells me.
"I do? Did?" I asked her and she nods.
"Oh… about what?" I asked.
"About your scars and dream." She says and I think.
"Oh… uh… um." I tried to say something but nothing came to mind.
"Do you want to talk to me about this?" She asked as she put her hand on the longest scar and I take a breath.
"You said Joan opened-."
"Stop." I say and look at her.
"Stop." I say again and she moved her hand away and I look at the scar.
"It's like you… not like… I mean." I tried to think of the proper words to say and I tap my fingers on my head.
"You have big scars… I yelled at Minerva for them." I say remembering and I look at her.
"Oooh… ok… ok." She says and nod.
"But she… that bitch…. Was able to put… her hands in." I felt tears prick my eyes and I wipe them away.
"Ok, ok don't bring it up if you don't want to, I will not judge you." She says and I think and take a shaky breath.
"No just… hard to… remember." I tell her.
"Isn't that a good thing?" She asked and I look at her.
"I don't want… to be drunk… for me to… forget." I tell her and she nods.
"We can talk to you about it, just you and me." She tells me.
"And uh… pretty lady… red head… Ruby… was nice… I just don't." I tried to explain.
"I get it… do you want to lay down or?" She asked and I think.
"Back yard." I say and get up stumbling a bit and I feel her grab me.
"How about we put the shirt back on before we head outside." She says and I look down at myself and I nod as I grabbed the shirt and put it on, with some help from Clem. We head on out in the back yard and I see the grave markers and I go over to them and fall a bit as I get to the lifted portion of the ground.
"Hey, hey are you ok?" She asked and I look at the graves and then look to Clem then back to the graves and point to them as I shut my eyes a bit.
"Um… mom, and dad." I say and look to her.
"Your parents yes, you told me." She says and I nod.
"I miss them…. You miss yours?" I asked her.
"Yes, very much." She tells me and I nod.
"I'm sorry." I tell her.
"For what? You act as if you caused all this to happen." She tells me and I shake my head and sighed.
"I mean… I am sorry… about your parents… they seemed like good… people, they should… have markers." I say to her.
"It's fine… I am ok with all that." She tells me and I moved away from the graves and I pulled my knees to my chest and Clementine sat next to me.
"You… help me a lot… but I can't help you." I tell her.
"You help as much as you can and I am grateful for all of it." She tells me and I wave my hand at her and looked to the sky and watch the clouds.
"I am sorry for getting drunk, I just… wanted to forget the dream." I tell her and looked pointed to a cloud and traced it's shape a bit.
"I don't like Louis." I tell her.
"Why is that?" She asked and I think as I whisper.
"He is mean, and he wants to take you from me." I tell her.
"But he won't get me." She says and I look at her.
"Why?" I asked.
"Because you have me, and I want to stay with you, I will never go with him, you and I have been through a lot together, we've help each other… you just need a little more help than I do." She says and I shake my head.
"No… no I just…don't want help… I don't want it." I tell her.
"You say you don't but you know you do and you know you want to tell us this but your brain says no… you think you don't need it because you're supposed to be strong well I'll tell you that I use to think that way." She says and I look to the ground.
"I use to think like that since I was younger… since Lee and Christa before I met AJ's parents… I thought I had to be strong after Christa, that I had to do for others and keep others safe no matter how little I was." She tells me and I look at her.
"And for a while I was… but when I met you guys my views changed." She says and I lean my head on my knees.
"I thought that… I had to be alone with my demons but I can't be… and you can't be either." She tells me and I sighed.
"I don't deserve it, I just… I can't explain it at all, it's hard… even if sober." I tell her and she nods.
"I understand." She tells me and I chuckled.
"Yea… yea you would… badass Clem known by the entire country at this point." I tell her and I see her smile.
"I think you would be known too." She tells me.
"In a bad way." I mutter.
"Joan messed me up… fuck her, she deserved to die." I tell Clem.
"So, you think she deserved to die." She tells me and I nod.
"Damn right." I tell her.
"You don't feel bad for killing her?" She asked.
"No, never… look at what she did to me." I point to myself.
"She fucked with my head… she cut me open… I was awake." I say and I feel tears in my eyes.
"I felt it, it was torcher, I fucking felt it…. To her I was… an animal… she… it fucking hurt like hell." I tell her.
"When?" She asked and I think.
"When you flipped her off… at that dinner party we had for uh…. The dead soldiers, and you said she should be gutted like a pig." I tell her honestly and she looked at me in shock.
"That's when… I mean I was paralyzed for a bit but I just… I still felt it… still awake." I tell her.
"Oh god." I hear and she puts her hand to her mouth.
"It's ok." I tell her.
"No, no the hell it is not ok, Jesus fuck you should have told me, I would have kept my mouth shut for gods' sake." She cried and I pat her back a bit.
"It's ok, honest." I tell her.
"No god damn it." She says and I sighed at this.
"If it meant keeping you safe, I think it's fine." I tell her honestly and I hear something behind us and I look to see AJ. He had the look of shock on his face and I turn and look at him.
"She gutted you?" I hear him ask and I look away and sighed. I patted my knee and got up from my spot and Clem got up as well. I look at AJ as he looked back to me.
"She fucking gutted you?" He asked again and I nod.
"But it's fine… happened a long time ago." I tell him, but I was still shocked that he started to talk to me again.
"What if something… why do you think it's ok?" He asked and I see him clench his hands into fists.
"I kept you, Mary and Clementine safe… that's all that mattered." I tell him and I stumble up the porch and I feel hands on me and I get up and wave them off. We head in and I clear my throat a bit as I looked around.
"That doesn't fucking matter, for fuck sake Vi-."
"Don't… say that name… not now… just not now, ok?" I asked him and he nods a bit at this.
"I'm sorry… I didn't know how bad." He says and I am a bit confused at this. I look to Clem who also looked confused and we all go and take a seat on the couch and I look at him.
"What do you mean?" I asked him.
"I… my teacher, I asked them what it meant when someone said 'Gutted like a Pig' and she… asked where I heard that phrase… and I told her, and I guess she told Joan… I didn't know it would happen I was just curious." I hear him say and I patted his back a bit.
"It's fine… it's ok you didn't know… not like we ever said that phrase for you to know what it meant." I tell him. I was sort of sobering up but I was still a bit out of it at the moment.
"But it's my fault." He says.
"No, no it's not, it's Jonas fault, she's the one who did it… and hey, she didn't fuck up too bad cause… I'm still here." I tried to joke a bit but it didn't seem to work and I sighed as I think.
"But it's still my fault, I didn't know going near the wall hurt you I just." He started to panic and I look at Clementine as we tried to help him.
"Hey, hey it's ok, everyth-."
"EVERYTHING IS NOT FINE!" He yelled and I look at him a bit in shock and I look to the side and tried to think of anything.
"If… if I had known… I would have stopped going to the wall, I was scared an wanted to find a way out because Clementine didn't trust Joan and if she didn't then I shouldn't…. but you kept saying we should stay and I didn't know I just wanted an escape plan." He says.
"AJ, I am telling you, do not blame yourself for what had happened… I knew that… Clementine felt unsafe but I made you all stay because I was to chicken shit to leave, I knew you would listen to Clementine and you were right to feel uncomfortable there, it was my own faults and I am being honest here… I should have taken the time to listen but I didn't and that's my own fault." I tell him.
"But you got hurt because-."
"AJ, I put myself in that position for you and Mary and Clementine, I decided that, not you, not Mary, and not Clementine, it was me."
"But if I had-."
"AJ even if you had known it still wouldn't have changed a damn thing." I tell him and look to Clem then back to him.
"Joan made a lot of things up in order to punish me, so even if you didn't go near the wall anymore, I still would have been beaten, so do not blame yourself do you understand me?" I asked him.
"I-."
"No, AJ do you understand me?" I asked him again and he looked to me as I looked him in the eyes. He looked to the side a bit and nods at this and I sigh and nod back. I look at Clementine who was rubbing his back and I look to the ground and then get up and look around a bit.
"I'm so sor-."
"Do not apologize to me AJ, you don't need to." I tell him and he looks at me as I look back to him.
"Don't because I won't accept it." I tell him and he looked to the ground and I look at Clementine. She tries her best to comfort AJ and I smile as I pat him on the back and he looks at me.
"Why don't you and I go out hunting hu?" I asked him and he looks at Clementine who nods and as he looked to me, she looked at me and lips 'Are you ok to hunt?' I nod at this and smile at AJ.
"Come on, let's go bag a deer or hell even a turkey if we are lucky." I laughed a bit and he looks at me and then nods.
"Ok." He says and I nod and go grab our gear. I then hear someone behind me and I turn to see Clementine.
"Are you sure you're, ok?" She asked.
"Oh yea, trust me I'm fine… look AJ is safe, I will let him hold the rifle and I carry the bags if that makes you feel better." I tell her and she nods.
"Ok, but you two watch yourself and I mean it." She tells me and I nod as she kisses my cheek and I kissed hers. I then look to see AJ holding a bag to me and I grabbed it and we headed out of the house. I see Louis looking at me with a glare and I shake my head as AJ and I leave out the gate. We walk for a while around in the woods and I look at AJ and he looked back to me a few times but would look forward again. I sigh and keep my eyes to the front of us.
"I know you won't accept my apology but I still want to say that I am sorry, it is partially my fault and you should hate me for it." He says and I laughed at this.
"Hate you? AJ there is nothing to hate about you."
"But I-."
"AJ… you didn't hurt me, Joan did, not you do not blame yourself." I tell him.
"But I-."
"Sto-."
"Stop interrupting me." He says and I look at him as we stopped.
"I feel bad, I should feel bad, it was because of me that you were damaged from her… to the point you mentioned you would castrate Louis like she did to you… I know what that means and I just… I know you are gay I know it but." He stopped and I smile a bit at him sadly and then chuckled.
"If you think I wanted kids than no you were wrong… not into guys and the only way to have a kid would to be with a guy but that would never happen… now Clem on the other hand can have her own kid." I explain to him and he looks at me.
"So I'm not to worried about that part of me being… destroyed." I tried to find another word for it but that was all I could think of.
"But." He stopped and I look at him as I see his shoulders slump a bit and I go up to him and place my hands on his shoulders and he looks up at me.
"AJ, I don't care, it happened it's done and over with, she isn't here anymore… do I have nightmares of her? Sure who wouldn't? do I wish I had taken Clementine's advice and left when we had gotten there? Hell yea but I didn't know what to do at the time." I explain to him. He looks at me and I take my hands off of him.
"I had messed up and because of that I have to suffer with those nightmares, and hallucinations I fucked up, not you." I tell him and then began walking again.
"I just think… if I hadn't been so stupid to ask that question." I hear him say and I turn to look at him.
"AJ she was planning to do that for a long time, no one just thinks after a comment like that being said and automatically does it… she's wanted to do that for a long time and just had an excuse for her to do it… sometimes I wish she had killed me but I'm glad it didn't happen." I tell him.
"Did you… did you really mean it when you said no one should help you?" He asked and I remember talking to Minerva about the same thing.
"AJ… sometimes I say things that I don't mean or I do mean it… I do not want anyone to try and save me because there is no point on having one of my family dying to save me… and I don't want to try and save me because I swear to God I just… it would break me even if I am dead, I would blame myself if you got hurt." I tell him honestly and rubbed my face a bit. we got close to a small-town area and I look around just a bit and look back into the woods.
"Should we check it out?" He asked and I think.
"Couldn't hurt to try." I say quietly as we walked into the town. I look to see a small general store and we go inside.
"Why are there small-town area's and then the big city areas?" AJ asks and I smiled as we looked at the shelves.
"Some people like the country side since there's more land than people… wouldn't want to deal with a lot of people anyway, the traffic was hell in city areas, plus farmland was great." I explain and think for a bit.
"Then you have to think, some people were prepared for the apocalypse to happen, probably not dead people walking around but it would be best to keep away from others… society and laws kept people in line but now that we don't have it people can't be punished properly, or think about the consequences to their own actions these days." I explain.
"So back when people were alive, they thought about that?" He asked me as we grabbed some medicine.
"Not everyone but at least people would be scared if they ever got caught… for instance, kid killers… people have killed their own kids before but once found out they would go to court and if found guilty some of them would break down and cry." I tell him.
"Why? Because they knew they did wrong?" He asked.
"Because those sick bastards got caught and had to spend their life locked up in jail… sometimes other prisoners would kill those bastards in their cell if they found out why they were locked up… but I have no sympathy for them just like now, I have no sympathy for people that… force others into things they don't want to do." I tell him.
"Like making people stay in communities?" He asked and I felt awful at that comment, but I should feel this way, I was a terrible person for doing that to my family.
"Yea… I hate myself and have no sympathy for myself… that's why I'm ok if I die… if I get bit." I tell him.
"But you were doing it to keep us safe, I don't understand." He says and I think for a bit.
"I… I can't explain it." I tell him.
"Why?" He asked and I rubbed my neck as we looked around more and I found some seed packets and grabbed them.
"I have other reasons for why I am ok with dying… what Joan did to me." I stopped and sighed.
"What… did she do?" He asked and I look at him then to the side where I see a mirror and I look at myself.
"The world is a cruel place AJ… people do awful things to others just to get a thrill… and it's disgusting no matter how old you are it should never happen to anyone." I mutter and look to him.
"Remember when you were at school, ad they would teach you guys about… sexual harassment?" I asked and he look up at me with wide eyes.
"No… she didn't-." He stops and I look at him from the mirror then I turn to actually look at him.
"She did way worse… and I… well I." I laugh at this and shake my head and place my hand on my head.
"I just couldn't do anything about it… who would believe me? No one." I tell him as I look at him.
"No one would believe me if I told them because they would say things like… 'She's old how could she' or hell even 'You're young you could have stopped her'." I say and laughed again.
"I couldn't…. she threatened to do that to Clementine… she threatened to have someone do that to Mary… so no I couldn't stop her… I had to fucking take it… I had to." I mutter softly and then sat on the ground, back to the wall.
"I had to… because I was so scared… and I couldn't tell anyone because they wouldn't have believed me… and I sure as hell couldn't tell Clementine because… we both know what she would have done, and we would have been in a hell of a lot more trouble if she knew." I say and I feel AJ sit next to me.
"I…saying sorry won't help… I don't know how to help." He says sounding so defeated and I look at him and lean on my hand as I look at him.
"No need to help me, I have Clementine helping me, and even Minerva." I tell him.
"But." He tries to say and he stops.
"AJ, I talk to Minerva about this, she's helping me, you don't need to worry yourself about me and this situation… honestly, I never should have told you." I tell him.
"No, it's ok… you need to vent, I get it." He tells me and I take a deep breath and looked to the shelves in the store.
"I may not know a lot about things… I try to understand what I can… I can't really talk adult things because I'm still young… but I can try." He tells me and I chuckle and nod.
"I get that… hell I'm in my god damn thirties and I still don't know what I am doing… we've been in this type of world for so long, no one has the perfect plan but I think we did good enough… I mean as good as we could." I say.
"You guys did a great job… I mean I'm still here." He says and I felt tears in my eyes. I place my hand on my face trying to hide the tears and it hurt. It hurt to remember that I failed to protect Tenn and Mary. That I failed to be the big sister for Tenn and a parent to Mary, though I never could replace her real mother, not like I was trying too at least. I failed them both. I choke up a sob and moved my hand away and sniffled a bit then coughed a bit as I tried to stop myself from crying.
"Oh, shit I didn't mean… I just… fuck." I hear AJ say and I shake my head.
"It's fine." I say and wiped the tears from my face.
"I know you didn't mean it like that." I say to him and we both get up. We head out the store and walked around some more and I see a gun shop so we walk in and I am surprised that it was still fully stocked up.
"Holy fuck." I mutter and look around.
"Should we take this stuff?" He asked and I nod.
"Take what we can carry and then-." I stop when I hear a gun click.
"Put your god damn hands up right now or I blow your head off." I hear and I slowly raise my hands up.
"Good… boy put your gun down." I hear and turn to see AJ pointing the rifle at the stranger and I look at the man. He was wearing a blue cap with white on the front. It looked warn down from all the years in the sun, the man had stubble on his face as well that was grey with age.
"Hey you look just like this other black kid I met years ago." He says and I glare at the man.
"Boy was he a trip… think his name was Russel or something, don't really remember." The man laughed and I look to the side a bit.
"Well, ain't you pretty looking." He says and I glare at him.
"Don't talk to her." AJ says and the stranger looks to him.
"Well, that's rude." He says to AJ.
"I'd listen to him; kid is a great shot." I tell the man.
"Hmm, probably, kid had years to learn and live than be stupid and die." The man says. He keeps his gun on me then takes a step. AJ was about to shoot but I look at him as he looked to me. He stops as I shake my head slightly telling him not to risk it right now. The man walks up to me and smirks.
"What's your name?" I asked and the man smirked.
"The name is Nate, and you?" He asked as he put his gun under my chin. I swallowed a bit and looked at him as he had this sadistic smirk on his face. Just like Joan once had before she did something bad to me.
"Brody." I lie and he smirked.
"Hah, sounds like a guys name, your parent's must have wanted a son or something." He laughed and then moved the gun to the side of my head. He moved his hand down to my shirt and I took a breath and then shoved him by his shoulder. The gun moved a bit but he pulled the trigger, it blasted near my ear and I cover it quickly then look to AJ.
"RUN!" I yelled as I grabbed a gun from the side and we both booked it. As we ran I hear the man yelling and then I hear the sound of a truck and I curse under my breath as we kept running. I see a building and I quickly pull AJ to the side and we duck for cover and I look to him then to the side as we hear the truck slowing down. I look back to AJ as I think.
"AJ I need you to fucking listen to me for once, do not talk back and don't try and make any excuses." I say as I pant a bit and hear the truck getting closer.
"I need you to fucking run, run as fucking far and fast as you can you understand me? You get back home, and tell Clem and the others I will be back, I just had to take care of someone." I tell him.
"Bu-."
"God damn it AJ, I need him to get away from here and I don't want him fucking following us, now do as you are told, when I give you the go, you fucking run into the woods, he can't drive in the woods with all those trees." I tell him and then look to the side as I hear the truck stop. The breaks squealing and I look at AJ.
"I will head home too I just don't want him following us ok?" I whispered and he nods and I nod as well. I look to the side and then to AJ once more and give him a hug and he hugs me back then I moved him to the other side of the building.
"When I yell at him, you run." I tell him and he nods and I gut up and run to the side and wave my hands.
"HEY FUCKER!" I yelled and he sees me then gets in his truck and I hurry and run to the other building. As I hid I see AJ looking from the tree lines and then I see him running deep into the woods.
"GET BACK HERE YOU BITCH!" I hear Nate yell and I hurry back out and then duck as he shoots at me. I run to another building and keep showing him where I was so he would keep following me. It wasn't long till I had reached the final building to hide behind.
"YOU HAVE NO WERE TO HIDE GIRLY!" He yells and I take a breath and checked to see if my gun was loaded. I groan silently when it wasn't and I throw it to the side and think. I look at the woods and hurry making it to the trees but not before I feel a piercing pain in my gut. But I was able to run due to the adrenaline and I kept running even as I hear the truck disappear. I slow down and take a seat against a tree and looked down to see blood on my shirt and a hole right through it.
"Fucker… shot me." I mutter and tried to get back up but it hurt like hell and I still see blood pouring out. I grab the bag on my side and take slow breaths as I tried to find the first aid kit but I couldn't. AJ had the bag with the kit inside it and I think. I tore a part of my shirt and tried to put pressure on it.
"Oh god… oh, God." I mutter as the blood soaked the fabric and I take some shaky breaths. I was scared, scared as hell.
"Well, this is fun." I hear and look to see Joan.
"Looks like we might see each other soon hu Flower?" She says and shake my head ever so slightly and I tried everything to keep me awake. But my body just didn't want to listen to me.
