(Violet's Pov)

I woke up to some movement on my chest and so I open my eye and then yawned a bit before closing my eyes again. I hear some giggles and I wake up to see Minerva and Ruby sitting in the other chairs we have and I groan a bit as I try to roll over but the weight on my chest stopped me.

"Liz is so adorable." I hear Ruby say and I look down to see Liz laying on top of me and I look to her.

"You ok there Violet?" Minerva asked and I nod just a bit and then yawned again as I closed my eyes.

"I'll make some coffee." Ruby says.

"Hmmm, Shut up." I mutter as I tried to fall back to sleep.

"Well seems like you're talking again." I hear and I wave them off a bit as I start to fall back to sleep. I feel movement again and opened my eyes to see Liz getting up so I sit up a bit and help her down as she tiredly heads over to her room and I sit up on the couch but lay my head back.

"You know you snore right?" Minerva asked and I shake my head a bit.

"No." I mutter.

"Don't lie to them Violet, you know damn well you snore." I hear Clem say and I chuckled at this and so do the others.

"Got some coffee." Ruby says as she sets the mugs on the table and I just lay my head on the arm of the couch. Closing my eyes and I take a deep breath.

"Still not talking much hu?" Ruby asked and I shake my head a bit.

"Has she spoken to you two already?" Clem asked.

"Yeah, told us to shut up." Minerva says.

"Welp that's all you're going to get; she's only using one or two words per person." Clementine explained and I nod a bit then yawned as I tried to get more sleep.

"Come on drink up, we got some work to do." Ruby says and I open my eyes and get up a bit as I grabbed my coffee.

"She'll get up for work." Minerva laughs and I look at her a bit as I drank some of my coffee.

"Well, sucks for her because I lied." Ruby says and I flip her off.

"Now Violet that's not a nice thing to do, what if Delilah and AJ saw you?" Ruby asked and I flip her off again.

"Ok, well actually Violet if you and AJ want you can check the fish traps down by the river with Liz." Clem tells me and I nod and drink some more of the coffee. I then set the mug down and leaned back on the couch.

"We're going fishing?" I hear and look to see Liz and I nod a bit.

"Check traps." I tell her and cleared my throat.

"Your vocal cords must hurt hu?" Ruby asked and I nod a bit.

"Well, I got something for that actually." She says as she gets up and exits the house and I look to the other two and I shrugged a bit.

"Well if you try and talk more it can help." Minerva says and I look at her a bit then shake my head and closed my eyes.

"You know, it's sad that you think you can't talk out of fear." Ruby says as she comes back in and I look to her.

"But I won't push it, I just want you to know it's ok to say the wrong thing from time to time, hell you think I haven't gone off on Aasim or the kids? I'm no saint, no one is." She explained.

"Hell, I say some messed up things too, it's…. I get it, I didn't want to talk for a while, I didn't want to upset you but at some points I just did and I made a mistake when I did, I can't take the words back but it made me aware that something wasn't right." Minerva says and I look to her a bit.

"Like when I called Clementine crazy? I had no right to say that, honestly, I didn't know what she had gone through but I said what I said but now I see that I was a bad person at the time and I grew more to try and understand people, and you all did the same for me… You talked to me, hell I kept it a secret about what happened to me back at the Delta, I still have secrets." She tells me and I look down.

"What we're trying to say Vi, is that it's ok to start talking again, we know you need time but keeping silent isn't healthy." Ruby tells me and I nod a little at this.

"I will try to talk more I just need some time." I wrote to them and they nod and I look to see Liz and AJ come over to me.

"Ready to go?" AJ asked and I nod and I get up and grabbed my bag.

"I have some tea here for you when you get back." Ruby says and I nod but she hands me some halls and I look at it and sighed as I take it. I then followed AJ and Liz out the house as we head to the old lake and I'm looking at the traps a bit.

"Now when the fish is close by and slows down a bit you take your spear and jab it." I hear AJ explain to Liz and I look at them a bit as I see her jab at the fish in the water but she misses. I go over to them as she looked a bit down at the fact that she missed and I rubbed her head a bit and give her a thumbs up and a smile.

"But I missed." She says and I wave my hand in a so-so fashion and she looked to me.

"You won't always get them, but that's ok, I wasn't that good when I started." AJ says and I nod.

"But I bet Violet never missed." Liz says and I chuckled.

"Missed a lot." I say to her and she looks to me.

"Missed many, but ok." I say to her and then grabbed a spear and showed them a good point to get the fish. She and AJ stand next to me and I watch as the fish come by and watch them then jab into the water catching a fish.

"Woah." I hear Liz says and I smiled and she then grabbed her spear and tried again. After two more tries she finally got a fish and I smile at her then look to AJ who had caught some as well. When we finally filled up the buckets I went and showed Liz how to check the traps and I grabbed a fish and gutted it leaving some of the guts in the traps and we then head on back to the house.

"Should head to Ocean." I say and look to them.

"Why?" AJ asked and I think a bit.

"Big, big fish." I say and open my hands wide to show them how big the fish could be.

"Woah." Liz says and I nod.

"But the fish here are good." AJ says and I nod.

"But other um… fish." I say and then try to think of other words. It wasn't that I couldn't say it but when we finally get to the house and we set the fish in the one house where we clean the fish for Omar.

"Hey how was the catch today?" Omar asked.

"Good." I say and show him.

"Hey Omar, Violet says there's other fish in the ocean, what does she mean?" Liz asked.

"Oh, well there are bigger fish, then there's things like crabs, lobsters, sea urchins and so on, we have an old biology book." Omar says and I nod as they leave the house and I finish up on the fish and I leave the house and set the fish to the side for Omar to cook with. I then see Ruby and the others by my house and I go over to them.

"Ready for that tea?" Ruby asked and I nod. We head inside and I look to see Clementine as she worked on something and I go over to see her working on her leg and I tap her shoulder. She turned to look at me quickly and I raised my hands up in a surrender pose and she sighed.

"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't mean." She tried to say and I shake my head and point to the joint and she looked to it so I grabbed the screwdriver and loosened the bolt a bit and she looked to me and I moved the joints apart to separate the leg a bit.

"Oh, heh, thanks." She says and I nod as I watch her a bit.

"Sorry I just… it's been bothering me lately and I don't know why." She says and I nod and shrugged a bit as I take a seat next to her and I show her in the book she had on what I built.

"The padding is fine for now, but I'll have to make some more later on, it's just the way it kept bending I'm still not use to it you know?" She asked and I nod and point to my arm and she looked to it a bit. It didn't bend like a normal arm but I know if it did, it would feel weird to me, and to be fair how would I even be able to bend it properly.

"It would be weird hu?" She asked and I nod and chuckled a bit. Ruby then came over with some tea and I look to it a bit and take a few sips. It did taste good if I'm going to be honest, though it's still not my thing, I'd rather have coffee. As I drank my tea, I would help Clem with her leg an she would ask me some questions on it as well.

"So, this would just make it fall all apart?" She asked as she undid one screw and just like that the leg fell apart and I laughed at this.

"Hey not funny Vi." She says and I laughed some more.

"Vi help me please." She says and I laugh some more but once I was done, I helped her fix the leg.

"Keep, unless need be." I say quietly and I feel her looking at me as I fixed up the leg for her.

"You're talking more." She says and I nod.

"Need to." I say and I finish the tea and fixed her leg and I help her put it on. She tests it out for me and I look at her as she looked to me. I look down a bit and rubbed my neck.

"You're still going to leave hu?" She asked and I nod.

"Have to." I tell her and then rubbed my face a bit as she takes her seat next to me and I sighed.

"You can… stay you know?" She asked and I shook my head.

"They're mad." I say.

"Let them speak about it." She tells me and I sighed. As hours would pass, I helped around as much as I could and we finally get close to dinner time I sit outside and see Aasim and Willy as they glare at me a bit and I look away from them. When dinner came around everyone got their food but I didn't grab any I just got some sunflower seeds from my bag and ate them.

"Why did you come back?" I hear and look to see Aasim as he came up to me and took a seat next to me. I didn't feel like talking so I grabbed my notebook and wrote to him.

"Didn't want to in all honesty." I wrote and showed it to him and he looked to it then to me.

"Yet here you are." He says and I sighed.

"I didn't mean to shoot Louis, I had another… panic attack and it was an accident, I never wanted to hurt him, hell I hated him yea but not enough to kill him." I wrote to him and he looked to the notebook then to me.

"You really did it by accident?" He asked and I nod and wrote again.

"I didn't mean to shoot him; I didn't want to hurt anyone but I freaked out, especially when he came after me." I explained to him and he looked to me.

"Then what was that gunshot?" He asked.

"I thought I saw Joan again; I have those hallucinations and it freaks me out, even now." I say and he looked to me and sighs.

"I never wanted to hurt anyone, I just freak out, I tried to keep it to myself, and I had a few to drink but not enough to be intoxicated you know?" I wrote for him and he looked to the paper and then to me.

"It's just… he's gone." He says and I nod.

"Yea, I feel bad for what I did, I just… I can't explain it, I can just say, or well write to you, that I've been trying to fix whatever is going on in my head but I can't I really can't and I don't think I ever will." I explained to him.

"It can't be that hard." He says and I chuckled.

"Aasim, I think I'm a bad person just for simple mistakes, hell ever since Joan… I just keep thinking I'm a bad person, I'm the reason Tenn. is dead, I'm the reason Mary is dead, I cause more problems now then I did back at the school and it's my fault that we left the school, I got Christa killed just because I wanted to get Clementine her hat back, Mary lost her mother because of me, hell I sometimes think I deserve what had happened to me, what Joan did to me was my punishment, what I go through now is still my punishment." I wrote and sighed then continued to write some more.

"Joan, hurt me… hell if I wanted kids, I can't because of her, I'm even scared to be in bed with Clementine because of all the ugly scars I have, Joan had carved her god damn name on me as if I was her property, I've had my head beaten in time and time again, I wished I was dead, I almost did kill myself because I thought it would make things easier for Clementine." I wrote and showed him the notebook.

"It was that bad?" He asked and I look to him and I lift my shirt up a bit to show him the damage Joan had done to me. He looked then looked back to the notebook as I dropped my shirt back down and I sighed then rubbed the back of my head and then grabbed the notebook.

"It's not an excuse, I'm not trying to make it an excuse for what I did to Louis, but I just want you to know it wasn't intentional at all. Like I said I hated him but not enough to kill him, even if he tried to kill me, I still wouldn't have tried to fight him off." I explained to him and hand him the notebook again.

"I knew it was bad but this bad?" He asked and I grabbed the book back.

"Aasim, I've had voices in my head, I sometimes mistake Walkers for people I knew, it happened back after I had found AJ, Clem, and Mary back in the cabin, I went out in the woods and I thought a Walker was Tenn. they looked so much alike without the burn scars though, and AJ shot the Walker before it could bite me." I tell him and he looked to the notebook then to me. I looked around a bit and I see Joan again and I look down quickly and then grabbed the notebook from him.

"I sometimes see Mary and Joan, and they talk to me and it freaks me out, I don't like having them in my head, it scares me so god damn much, I've seen Clem as Joan, hell I'm not kidding when I tell you that I see Joan right now, she's right in front of me with a busted skull." I tell him and I keep my head down as I hand it to him.

"Jesus fuck… maybe Ruby can help?" He asked and I laughed at this. It was funny to me but when I looked to him, he looked shocked and serious at the same time. I sighed and I grabbed the notebook from him.

"It's never going to work, I'm to messed up in the head, I mean I'm not staying long anyway, I'll be gone tomorrow so." I wrote and handed it to him and then got up and went into the house before he could say anything. I laid back down on the couch and closed my eyes for a bit. it wasn't long till I heard the door open and before I could open my eye, I feel a pressure on my chest. I did open my eye to see Liz on top of me and I take a deep breath and placed my hand on her head and rubbed it a bit. I look to see Clementine and Minerva come in and I place my finger to my lips telling them to keep quiet as I pointed to the little girl and they nod but smiled a little as Clementine took a seat at my feet and Minerva took a seat in the recliner chair and I close my eye and take another deep breath.

"Guess this is her way of asking you to stay." I hear Minerva say and I cracked open my eye and looked to her with a bit of a glare and then I closed my eye again as I kept rubbing Liz's head a bit.

"Not staying." I say quietly.

"I know but she's gotten attached to you." Minerva says and I take a breath and just kept rubbing Liz's head.

"Plus, Sasha misses you." Clem tells me and I open my eye and look to her.

"Poor girl wouldn't stop crying when you left." Clem tells me and I look to the side of the couch and then I shake my head.

"Don't you miss this?" Minerva asked and I look to her and I sighed but nodded.

"But-."

"We can help… just let us help you." Clem interrupts me and I look to her.

"You don't have to do any of this alone, you have us." She tells me and I look back to the side of the couch.

"Give me time… please." I say to them.

"Ok… ok." Clem says and she comes up to me and gives me a kiss on my head and then I feel a blanket being placed on me and I close my eye and placed my hand on Liz's back. I hear the door open again and I look to see that it was AJ coming in and I nod a bit and I close my eyes once again and finally I fell asleep.

Morning comes around and I wake up to Liz moving off of me and I sit up a bit and coughed a bit. hope I wasn't getting sick; this would be the worst time for me to fall ill. I rub the side of my head a bit and look to my prosthetic. I forgot to take the damn thing off and I move my sleeve a bit and I do take it off to see my stump a little irritated and I shake my head a bit.

"Morning." I hear and look to see Clementine and I nod.

"Your stump, ok?" She asked and I shrugged as she came up to me and looked to it.

"You need to put something on it to keep it padded." She says and I shrugged again and she looks to me as I look to her. I smile a little and shrugged again with a chuckle.

"It could get infected." She tells me and I sigh and nod at this. It didn't really matter to me this was my last day here anyway, I would be leaving tonight. I get up from the couch and Clem takes me to the kitchen where I help her make breakfast and I make some of that tea Ruby had brought over for me. When we finished making the food AJ and Liz come over and I set a plate in front of Liz, hen one in front of AJ. They ate their food and I hear the kettle go off so I go and I take it off the heat and make myself some of the tea. It wasn't long till we were all sitting at the table and they were talking and I would give Sasha some of my food to eat which she happily took and I smiled and pet her head. She barked and I chuckled as I gave her another piece of meat and she eats it and I eat some of the food at least.

"So, what are we doing today?" Liz asked and I look at her and think.

"Maybe you four could head out into the town for a bit?" I hear and look to see Minerva as she looked to me.

"Could get more supplies for your arm?" She says to me and then I look to Clementine.

"Could be fun." She says and I think and nod a bit. We finish our breakfast and I pet Sasha and then go and get my bag ready.

"We are taking the Humvee." AJ says and I nod and he throws the keys to me and I catch them then look to Clem and then to the keys.

"It's fine." She says and I nod as we go and get everything ready. Once everyone was in the Humvee I start driving in the direction of the town. Sasha was going crazy in the back seat, excited that she was going out of the walls and I put my hand back and pet her as Liz and AJ laughed. When we get into the town, I look to make sure there wasn't anyone around at least living that is. I stopped the Humvee and looked around as we exit out. Sasha running out and running around the Humvee but keeping quiet which was good.

"Think we will see any Walkers?" Liz asked and I look around and try to listen.

"Not sure but always keep your guard up." AJ says and I nod and pat his head and he backs up and I chuckled. I look to Clem as she watched us and we all head into the mall and I look around as we head into different stores.

"Will you talk more today?" I hear and look to Liz and I shrugged. She looked down and I rubbed her head gently and we found a store and she was looking at the clothes and I looked around just as Clementine came in.

"Find anything?" She asked and I pointed to Liz who comes over with a jacket she liked and I smiled and nodded as we put it in my bag. We looked around more and I stopped as we reached a store and I see a familiar bag. I stopped Liz and looked around as I pulled my pistol out and I go up to the bag. I opened it to see some of my things but there were other things inside that didn't look familiar. I quickly get up and grabbed Liz leaving the bag and I head over to Clementine and AJ and I set Liz down and looked to the other two.

"Bag, old bag." I mentioned and looked to AJ.

"Well, I mean-."

"No… god my bag." I say and I point to my arm and looked to AJ.

"Fuck." He mutters and we hear someone or something so we head into the old security office and lock the door.

"I heard a dog I swear." We all heard and Liz gasps so I covered her mouth and looked down at her head and she moved her hands on top of mine to keep herself quiet. Did she know the people?

"Dude, dogs run wild now, all the animals do, be glad we haven seen any tigers or lions." I hear and I peak through the glass a bit then look to Clementine and AJ as they held their guns up. Ready to shoot if they need to.

"Dude this dog looked well fed though." I hear and I slowly move my hand but Liz moved it back and I looked to her. She looked so scared and I look to Clem a bit and I whisper to Liz.

"Go to Clem, keep your hands on your mouth." I tell her and she nods a little as she let me move my hand away and she put her hands to her mouth and I grabbed my pistol from its side and I keep it at gut level.

"So? Maybe it killed a deer or something?" The strangers say.

"A puppy can't take down a deer you moron." The stranger said.

"It's kind of fucked, the guy we robbed had nothing and his dumb kid ran off, could have gotten something good from her." The man says and I quickly look to Clementine as she looked to Liz and then AJ moved quietly to one of the doors and then look to me and shook his head. There was only one way in and one way out. Damn it.

"And what were we going to get from a little girl?" The man asked and I hear them as they were close by.

"Shit I don't know, food? Ammo, I don't give a damn if we got something from her." The other man says and then the door knob jiggled a bit and I glare at it as we kept hidden.

"Fucking locked." I hear.

"Hey wonder what happened to the one bitch that shot Mike, lot of Walkers around." I hear and look up and then to AJ as he raised his gun and I shake my head.

"Probably dead by now, saw her get bit on the arm." The man says and then they bang on the door trying to open it.

"Ah leave it be, probably a Walker inside." The stranger says.

"Shit did you hear about that one community with the wacked Asian lady?" I hear and look to the window as they walked away.

"Oh yea, wasn't that place bombed? Looked like a good set up." I hear as they get farther and farther away. I keep silent and looked to the others as they looked back to me. I keep silent and we stay hidden for a while before someone whispered.

"Are you good?" I asked them and they nod and I nod as well as I look to the window and take a peek to see no one at least no shadows.

"Let's stay here a few more minutes and then we can sneak out." Clem whispers and I nod and think a bit.

"Store, down the hall, back entrance." I tell her and she nods and we stay quiet and I hear Sasha as she whimpers and I place my hand on her muzzle telling her to keep quiet. A few minutes passed by and I get up slightly and open the door and look around to see no one. I nod and we all walk out quietly and we head to the store next door and they ran to the emergency exit and before we could get it open a Walker came out and I hurried and grabbed it by its shirt and threw it to the ground taking my boot to it's face. I look as AJ and Clem tried to bust the door open.

"Fuck, it's jammed." AJ says and I look around and handed Liz my pistol as I ran.

"Violet." I hear Clem whisper yell but I didn't care I need to get them out. I see a hardware store and I quickly run in and looked for anything to use. I grabbed a crowbar and I turned to run back but I was hit on the side of the head with something hard and metal and I fall to the ground. I open my eyes a bit and it was blurry as I see a man over me.

"Holy shit, it's the girl that got Mike." The man laughed and I felt around for the crowbar but I feel a boot stomp on my hand and I groaned a bit.

"You sure about that?" I hear and look to see another man as he comes up and picks up the crowbar and I glare at them.

"Sure, I'm sure, dude she's missing an arm." The man says.

"Ken, people lose limbs all the time now." The man says.

"Shut the hell up Luke, I know this is the bitch that killed Mike." The man says and he grabbed the crowbar from the man and he looked to me.

"Dude, she looks beaten up already look at her." The man Luke says and I look to Ken as he held the crowbar like a bat. I look around in a panic and I see AJ and Clem as they aim their guns at the two men.

"I suggest putting that crowbar down." Clem says and both men turn around.

"Jesus fuck." The man Ken says and I he dropped the crowbar and I back up a bit to not scare them but I stayed on the ground.

"You good there Vi?" Clem asked and I nod and place my hand to my head and looked to my hand to see no blood. I was glad about that but my head hurt like hell.

"Clem?" The man Luke says and I look to him. How did he know her?

"How do you know me?" She asked as she kept her gun on them and AJ came over to me and helped me up so I leaned on him for some support.

"It-it's me Clem, Luke remember?" The man says and I look to him then to Clem in a bit of confusion as did she.

"The fuck you are, Luke died in the lake." Clem says as she kept her gun on him and AJ helps me over to Clem.

"Liz?" I asked.

"With Sasha." Clem says and I nod a bit and looked to the two men and I feel Clem check on me.

"It is me… fuck ok um… it's weird I know but I didn't drown in the lake, I swear." He says and AJ sets me down as I stumbled a bit.

"The fuck you are." She says and I look to Clem then to the other two.

"Kenny, I remember Kenny, and Rebecca, Alvin, Carlos, Sarah, Jane, Nick, Carver." He says and I look to Clem.

"What did Rebecca name her baby girl?" Clem asked.

"It was a boy his name is Alvin Junior." Luke says.

"How does he know my mom?" AJ asked.

"I have no…. clue." I say quietly.

"Clem I'm not… I'm not lying I swear." He says and I lean on the wall.

"Ok… what did I say on the bridge when Matt was coming up to us?" Clem asked.

"I know I said something along the lines of…. You'd think he'd shoot a little girl? And you said you'd shoot you." He tells her.

"This is not possible." She says as she lowered her gun.

"It is… I found a weak spot of ice near the shore after I was able to get out of the Walkers grip." He says.

"Then why the hell did you not come to the house? For fuck sake you abandoned us." Clem says getting pissed.

"Ok the fuck, you know these people, Luke?" Ken asked.

"Only Clementine… unless… is that AJ?" Luke asked.

"What's it to you?" AJ asked pissed as he checked me over.

"Head hurts but… ok." I say to him and he nods and goes through his bag and I closed my eye a bit.

"Smart mouth." Ken says.

"Yeah, well when you hurt my mom, I'm not a happy person be glad I didn't shoot you first fucker." AJ says and I couldn't help but smile a bit but I place my hand on his shoulder.

"That is not your mom." Luke says.

"The hell she isn't, I know Rebecca is my real mom but Clem and Vi are my moms too." AJ says.

"Does he call everyone his mom?" Luke says and I glare at him.

"No, only me and Vi… she's my wife." Clem tells him.

"I uh… I didn't expect that." Luke says and he rubbed his neck.

"Yea well years pass and people change." Clem says and I slowly get up.

"Liz." I say.

"I'll get her." AJ says as he hands me some pills and I sighed. Guess the placebo effect is just going to have to work with me. I took the pills and I take a breath as AJ handed me his gun and he heads off and I look to Clem then the two men.

"Look I don't mean to sound rude I'm sorry." He says.

"I think you two should apologize for almost killing my wife." Clem says a bit pissed.

"You know how the world is now Clem." Luke says.

"Doesn't fucking matter." Clem says as she comes over to me and I hear Sasha and the others run up to us and Liz hugs me.

"Are you ok?" She asked and I nod.

"Dude it's the girl." Ken says and I hold her close to me and I glare at them.

"Ok, seems like we have a problem here." AJ says.

"Problem?" I asked and he nods.

"Look, she killed our friend Mike-."

"After the fucker shot at us?" AJ asked.

"In a heard of fucking Walkers like a moron?" AJ asked again and they kept quiet.

"Thanks to your fucking friend, my mom lost her damn arm, so you're even already, assholes." AJ mutters the last part and I chuckled a bit.

"But that girl-."

"You touch her, you're dead." I warn them and coughed a bit. God my throat hurt like hell.

"Don't talk much? Haha your friends so called wife must be slow." Ken says.

"She's not slow you big meany." Liz mutters and I pat her head as she lets me go.

"Dude, you hit her in the head." Luke says.

"Look it was nice seeing you but we need to go." Clem says as her and AJ help me up.

"Wait, we just met up again-."

"And it's nice seeing you given the circumstances but we have to go, now." Clem says and we start walking out but Luke gets in front of us.

"Wait, why don't we catch up?" Luke asked.

"No thanks, last time I met up with old friends they ended up hurting me and my family." She says.

"I… We didn't know." Luke says.

"Look just give us a chance-."

"Luke stop, maybe we will meet up later but right now, no." Clem says and I glare at the man.

"Back off." I say and he looked to me then to Clem.

"Alright… just… we have a community out in Georgia and in Austin if you guys want to come over." Luke says.

"Thanks for the offer, maybe we will visit." Clem says and he moves out the way.

"That's all I ask." He says and we head out as Ken and Luke start arguing and we hurry out. AJ helped me in the Humvee and the rest got in and AJ started to drive as I rested my head on the door.

"Are you sure you're, ok?" I hear and I look to Clem and I nod a bit.

"Head just hurts… a lot." I chuckled a bit at this.

"Can you tell me how many fingers I'm holding up?" AJ asked and I looked to see three.

"Three." I tell him.

"That's good at least, but we still need Ruby to check her out." Clem says and I nod.

"Why do your old friends always hurt me?" I joked.

"Sorry, they seem to go crazy if I'm not the one reeling them in." She says and I chuckled a bit. I lay my head back down and I take a breath.

"We're home." I hear and I nod a little as I get out the Humvee and I faltered a bit just as Clementine catches me.

"Fuck… hit hard." I mutter.

"I know, come on you need rest." She says as she helped me into the house.

"Ruby need your help." I hear and I get seated on the couch and I lay my head back.

"What happened this time?" Ruby asked.

"Someone hit her head with a crowbar and we just want to make sure she's ok." Clementine says and I nod.

"Big mean people." I hear and look to Liz as her and AJ come in as well. I nod at this and close my eyes again but not before Ruby grabbed my face gently and I open my eye to get a flash from a small light she had and I watch it as it moves.

"No concussion, no bleeding, Violet has to hard of a head." She joked and I chuckled at this.

"Does it still hurt?" She asked and I nod a bit.

"Well lucky for you we have some ice." She says and I nod as she leaves and then I hear someone else come in just as Liz takes a seat next to me and I rubbed her head gently and look to Clementine who was looking at me.

"Ok what the hell happened?" Minerva asked and I look to her.

"Nothing bad, just hurt." I say and she looked to me and got in front of me.

"The side of her head is red as hell, the fuck happened?" Minerva asked.

"Two guys hit her; Ruby is getting her some ice." Clem says.

"Fucking hell." She mutters as she looked me over and I lay my head on her hand which felt cool to the touch.

"Cold." I mutter and closed my eye.

"Apparently we know them." AJ says a bit pissed.

"What? Was it that Javier and David fucker?" Minerva asked and I opened my eye.

"No, the man's name was Luke." Clem says and I look at her as she looked angry.

"Mother fucker, he abandoned us, he could have helped Jane, she killed herself because of him, Kenny was mad at him… fucking… stupid man." She says and I tried to joke and I point to myself and she looked to me.

"No… Vi." She says as she comes over to me and I look to her as she takes a seat next to Liz and I and I pat her back. Ruby came back in with a rag and I take it feeling some ice in a plastic bag wrapped in the rag and I place it to my head as Minerva moved her hand away and I close my eye again as I felt the cool rag on my head.

"And by some random chance you wouldn't happen to know where this Luke guy is?" I hear Minerva ask.

"Apparently, they have a community in Austin and in Georgia." Clem says.

"Of course, they wouldn't say where in Georgia hu?" I hear Minerva ask.

"Yea… look he wanted us to meet up with him again but we aren't doing that." Clem says.

"Oh, come on they need to learn-."

"Minnie… stop." I mutter and I open my eye to see them looking at me shocked.

"What?" I asked.

"You haven't called me Minnie in years… it's kind of weird." She says.

"Hm… sorry." I mutter and I tried to get up but AJ stopped me and I look to him.

"What do you need?" He asked and I make a writing motion. He nods and goes to grab my notebook and hands it to me and I write in it.

"Can I have some more of the tea Ruby brought?" I wrote and showed him.

"Yea, I'll get it." He says and I nod and I close my eye again as I slowly started to fall asleep. I was woken up by a gentle shake to my shoulder and I open my eye and see the tea so I sit up a bit and grabbed the cup gently and took a drink.

"I think we should-."

"We can't do anything Minerva, he's part of a community a big one at that, trust me I want to hurt him after what he did to me and the others but it's not worth it." Clementine says and I look to her.

"It'll be a Joan situation all over again…. Wait they didn't follow you, did they?" Minerva asked. I look to her and I shook my head.

"Seems like they know Liz too." AJ says and I look to said girl who was sleeping against my side with a blanket on her and I look to Minerva.

"Then there's more of a reason to go after them, did they hurt her? Was she scared of them?" Minerva asked.

"She was scared, hell scared enough to keep Violet's hand over her mouth to make sure they didn't hear her." Clem says and I nod.

"Look, they are stationed in Austin we are closer to Dallas." Clem says.

"So?" AJ asked.

"So, it'll take them time to even get close to us even if they are in Austin here look." Clem says and she goes and grabs a map and shows them.

"That walk alone would take them a month if not a few weeks, even with a car it'll take hours with how the roads are and abandoned vehicles." She tells us.

"We just leave them alone, if they come near us then we have a problem with them, Luke isn't on my good side and I don't think he ever will be at this point." Clem tells them and I write something down.

"I have to agree with Clem on this, they won't mess with us if we don't mess with them, and right now I don't feel like fighting in a war again." I wrote and set it on the table for them.

"I'm not saying we are starting a war with them, just let them know…. Forget it, I'm just… I hate it when any of us get hurt." She says.

"That's fine Minerva, just cool down a bit, trust me I'm angry too." Clem tells her and they agreed to just leave it at that. I finish drinking my tea and I set the cup on the table and laid my head back on the cushions.

"I think they killed Liz's dad." AJ said and I nod.

"What makes you say that?" Minerva asked.

"They said something about a little girl and taking their dads supplies or something then the one dude said 'it's the girl' as if he knew her before." AJ explained and I look down to Liz and rubbed her head gently.

"Don't worry Vi, we'll make sure they don't do anything to her." Minerva says and I look down a bit.

"Just like Joan did to me." I hear and look up a bit to see Mary and I look back down.

"Sorry didn't mean to make it a rude comment." Mary says and I nod gently as I tried to go back to sleep. I did finally go to sleep but I didn't dream this time. It was just dark, maybe it was my dream just darkness or something but that's all it was. I do know that I was woken up once again and it was caused by a movement on my side and I open my eye to see Liz waking up. I moved my hand from her head and I see that it's dark out so we get up and she heads on out the trailer and I just sit on the couch. There wasn't much for me to do so I get up and grabbed my bag.

"You're leaving?" I hear and look to see Clementine as she stood in the doorway and I nod.

"Why don't you stay a little longer, you got hit in the head." She says and she comes up to me and I look to her as she placed her hand to my head gently and I close my eye a bit.

"Does it still hurt?" She asked and I nod a bit.

"Then you should stay a little longer." She tells me and I shake my head a bit at this.

"Violet you're injured please just-."

"No… three days, that's it." I say to her and she looked to me.

"But-."

"No." I tell her and she looked at me with worry and I sighed a bit.

"One month, I'll come back." I tell her.

"Fine… fine." She says as she heads out. She had the look of someone who has given up. I don't blame her though, she honestly should give up on me, I'm broken all to hell. I rubbed the good side of my head and I head on out the trailer and then I head out the gate. No one stopped me and I was happy about that. I started to walk in the direction to head back to Virginia but something was nagging me in the back of my head. I groan a bit as I see Mary and Tenn.

"Look we know you aren't going to talk to us, but I think you should head to Austin." Tenn. says and I look to him.

"Just go there and see this Luke guy, Clem thought he was dead, he abandoned her, don't you want to know why?" Mary asked and I stopped and think a bit. it would be great to know why he did what he did, could give Clementine some closure but was it really a good idea? Maybe I'm over thinking it, maybe he is an ok guy, Clem talked highly of him before and it seemed like he didn't do wrong, I mean except for sleeping with someone while he was supposed to be on watch for Walkers or anyone from that Carver guy's group. I groan as I head in the direction of Austin to try and get some answers.