(Violet's Pov)
It's been well over a few months now; summer is upon us with the hot weather and I was currently outside with a piece of wood being held by my prosthetic arm and a knife in my other hand as I was wildling away. AJ and Liz wanted to go fishing later today so I set the items to the side on the work table and I got up from my chair and stretched a bit. I grabbed my pistol and then three fishing polls and walked over to the door of the shed now deemed workshop and I opened the door and took in a breath of fresh air.
"Hey you getting ready to go?" I hear and looked to Clem and I smiled as I nod.
"Yeah, oh by the way I'm going to need to look at your leg again when we get back." I tell her and she nods.
"Been squeaking a lot hu?" She asked as we walked over to the truck where there was a boat hitched up to it. Aasim and I had found it last month and we got to working on it with AJ and Liz.
"Yeah, but it should be fine." I say as I set the fishing polls in the back of the boat.
"Where you going to fish?" She asked.
"Not sure… one day we have to go near the gulf, like a little vacation and catch some other stuff too." I tell her.
"We can plan that out some other time…. Stay safe, ok?" She asked and I nod and kissed her.
"I know, and while we are out do you need anything?" I asked and she thinks a bit.
"Not that I can think of." She tells me and I nod and I kissed her again.
"Gross." I hear and look to AJ as I shove him playfully and he shoves me back.
"You should be use to me loving your mom so much by now." I tell him.
"You're both gross." He laughed and I shrugged and kissed Clem on the cheek and I got in the boat and made sure we had everything we needed. Life jackets, fire extinguisher, fishing bait, tackle box, radios, first aid kit, floating cushions.
"Alright we got everything we need." I say and get out the boat and got in the truck just as Liz hopped in the back. We waved to everyone as we head out the trailer park and I started to drive us near Lake Roberts.
"So have you ever driven a boat?" AJ asked and I look to him then to the road.
"Nope, but it shouldn't be that hard." I tell him and Liz comes up to the seat and puts a CD in the radio and I chuckled as we listened to some music while I drove. I made sure to stay on the back roads so we didn't run into any bandits if they were in the area, though honestly, we haven't had any problems with people since the Walkers had hit us last month. We sang for a bit until we had finally got to the lake and I backed the boat up into the water from the boat ramp. AJ went out to make sure the boat didn't float away as he grabbed the rope and I get out to help him as did Liz.
"Alright, put on your life jackets." I say as we get into the boat and I got it started up.
"Aww come on." Liz says and I look to her.
"Come on you two, put them on, I agreed to take you out on the boat if you'd listen to me." I say as I sit in the seat.
"You aren't putting one on." Liz mutters.
"That's because we only have two, we do need to get more yes but right now we only have the two." I tell her as she puts the lifejacket on and I nod as I begin to drive us out into the waters. When I got to what could be a good spot, I shut the boat off and got up from the seat and handed them their poles and I got the tackle box out.
"You want a bobber?" I asked and Liz nods and I pulled one out and I look to AJ who also nods as he gets the weights on his pole as well. I grabbed Liz's pole and began to work on hooking the bobber onto it and I used my teeth to pull the line tight and secured. Once I was done, I grabbed some bait for her and put it on the hook so she didn't hurt herself but she did watch me so she could do it on her own next time.
"Think you can cast the line out?" I asked as I handed her the pole and she nods. AJ had already cast his line and then Liz casts her out perfectly and I nod as I get to work on my own pole. Once I was finished and cast my line out, we sat quietly and I look around a bit as I hear a few birds here and there. We had been out on the boat for hours and caught a few big ones mostly bass but it was a great time, Liz was having so much fun and so was AJ. When we filled up the cooler about half way we decided to call it a day as I started up the boat and began to drive back to the ramp. AJ got out and to the truck as I pulled the boat onto the trailer and when done AJ drove us out the water and then stopped. I got out and made sure to secure the boat and when done I helped Liz off the bot and she got into the truck as did I and AJ drove us home.
"That was so fun, I've never seen fish that big and we got so many of them." She says so happy and I smiled.
"Oh yeah, not that many people fish out here so they had time to repopulate more, plus we can use the other parts of a fish to use as bait too." I explained.
"Fish eat fish?" She asked and AJ nods.
"Yeah, it happens." AJ tells her as he drives more. when we finally got back home, we pulled in and AJ parked the truck and we got out.
"Get anything good?" Omar asked.
"We got huge fish." Liz says and I smiled and nodded then pat her head.
"We got half the cooler filled up for ya, there was plenty of fish we could have filled it up all the way if we could." I tell him.
"Half is fine, thank you." He says as he goes to grab the cooler I look around and see Clem so I go over to ker and I kissed her head and she looked up to me and smiles.
"Hey there." She says and I smile and take a seat with her.
"Was the fish good?" She asked.
"Oh yeah, big ones too." I tell her and she looks at me and I smiled.
"Did the kids have fun?" She asked and I nodded.
"Oh yeah, Liz seems to have loved it." I tell her and I nod and she hands me her leg and I got to work on it.
"It's still weird to see you in shorts." She laughed and I look at her.
"It's hot as balls out here, plus I need to tan these pale legs of mine." I say and she laughed again and so did I. I got to work on her leg and fixed it up for her. When I finished it up I let her test the leg out and I nod as I don't hear any squeaks and I look to her.
"Thinking about going back in the workshop?" She asked and I nod.
"Yeah, still working on my project." I tell her and she nods.
"Alright, I'll leave you to it… you ever going to tell me what exactly you're working on?" She asked and I shake my head as I stood up.
"Nope, but trust me, it'll be a great surprise." I tell her and she nods and kisses my cheek and I head back to the workshop. When inside I went to the table and grabbed the rope and took a seat in the chair. I had the rope set on the table and I looked at it a bit and tried to tie it properly. I then looked at the rope and grabbed a rather large stick that I made as a walking stick for Clem if we ever decided to go on a hike and I looked to the carving at the top. I had gotten good with my wood carving and it looked like a bird at least but not a lifelike one sadly. I then headed to the other side of the workbench and grabbed a few tools along with some metal parts that I had cut to size. I began working on making Clem an even better leg. I hear a knock at the door and I turn in my chair then get up and opened the door to see AJ and Liz.
"You two, ok?" I asked.
"Yeah, we just want to see what you're working on." AJ says and I smiled and nodded as I let them in. I take them over to the bench and showed them the drawings I had and the parts.
"I'm making Clem a better leg, what do you think?" I asked as I showed them.
"Does she need a new leg?" Liz asked.
"Well, she says the old one is fine but this one will be a lot more stable, plus this one will be able to bend easily at the knee joint, and if I can I want to try and make it easy to fix so if I can't then she can do it easily." I explain as AJ looked to my papers.
"This would make her really happy." AJ says and I nod.
"Thanks, I'm hoping I can get it done sometime by the end of the month." I tell them.
"Can we help?" Liz asked and I look to the parts and I rubbed my neck.
"I mean… I'd really like to work on it myself…. But…. Maybe you two can try and keep this a secret from Clem? I don't want her to know I'm making this for her." I tell them and they nod at this.
"Ok, oh also Clem wanted me to tell you that you and her need to talk, you haven't talked to Minerva in a few weeks?" AJ asked.
"Oh right, right sorry yeah I'll talk to her in about two hours." I tell him and he nods.
"Alright I'll be sure to tell her, but you know if you're not on time she's going to come here." He says and I nod as I set my new watch to time for two hours.
"Got a timer set." I tell him and they head on out. I work on the leg for a while I was about halfway done when my watch ends up going off and I rubbed my neck as I get up and stretched a bit. I crack my neck and covered the unfinished leg up with a sheet then headed out the door. Just as I opened the door, I end up getting hit in the chest and I smirk as Clem started to apologize and I stopped her.
"It's fine Clem, what did you need?" I asked.
"I just wanted to talk with you." She says and I nod.
"Sure, want to talk in the house?" I asked and she nods as we head in and I take a seat on the couch. I watch as Clem heads into the kitchen and I tilt my head a bit and shrugged as I waited on her. When she came back I saw that she had some alcohol in her hand and I look at her confused.
"You do know that today is your birthday, right?" She asked and I look at her as she set the bottle on the table.
"You don't have to drink if you don't want to." She says and I look at the bottle and I grabbed it a bit and opened the cap and took a quick swig and shook my head.
"Fuck." I mutter and look to her.
"I forgot that today was my birthday to be honest." I say and hand her the bottle.
"Nah it's yours." She says and I shrugged a bit.
"So, what did you want to talk about?" I asked.
"How are you feeling?" She asked.
"Great in all honesty, I haven't freaked out in months, and the joints Ruby made are working." I tell her.
"So, you are fine? Like if you start drinking a lot you won't freak out?" She asked.
"Nope, actually… wanna smoke with me?" I asked her and she shrugged as I pull out a joint and lit it up. I took a puff and handed the joint to her and she takes it and I lay my head back a bit.
"You know, I've been real calm lately, nothing sets me off like it use to." I tell her.
"I noticed, I'm glad that you're doing better." She tells me and I nod as I take a drink from the bottle and she hands me the joint and I take it back. Time passed us by and I was feeling the effects of alcohol and the weed.
"You, are so adorable." I hear and I chuckled as I look to Clementine.
"You're adorable." I tell her.
"No, you."
"No, you are." I say and we chuckled a bit and I lay my head on her lap. She rubs my head a bit and I look up to her as she looks down at me.
"How's your back been?" She asked.
"Been ok hurts a bit but it's fine." I tell her and she nods. I closed my eyes for a bit and relaxed on her lap as she kept rubbing my head gently. I hear the door open and I open my eyes to see that Minerva and Ruby had come in.
"Hey birthday girl." Minerva says and I nod.
"Been having an ok birthday?" Ruby asked and I nod again and lift up the whiskey bottle.
"Best birthday ever." I say and then take a drink and I look up to Clem who smiled at me.
"That's good." Minerva says and I hold out the bottle to her.
"Want some?" I asked and she looked to me then to Clem.
"I got more; I didn't know how much she would want." Clem says.
"I would like some more." I mutter and look to Clem.
"Alright, I got to get up though." She says and I nod as I sit up and she gets up. I sit up on the couch and hand Minerva the bottle and I look to Ruby and smiled.
"How you feeling?" She asked and I think.
"Great in all honesty, haven had an episode in a while and I'm just doing what I want and not stressing myself out." I tell her.
"That's great." She says and I nod and Clem comes back with another bottle and she set in on the table as Minerva hands me the bottle back and I take a drink and looked to Ruby and offered her a drink.
"No, I'm good thank you." She says and I nod and take a drink.
"Oh, right Omar wanted to know if you wanted anything special to eat?" Minerva asked.
"Nah whatever we have tonight is good enough for me." I say and I take another drink and hand it back to her. It wasn't long till we finished both the bottles and I was laying on the floor with Minerva next to me and I was waving my hand in my face for a bit.
"My hands are fuzzy." I mutter.
"You're drunk." Minerva tells me.
"And high." I laughed and I place my hand on my chest.
"Seems like you're having fun." Clem says and Minerva and I nodded.
"Yeah, it's so fun." I say and wave my hand in my face again and I hear Clem laughing.
"Well, it's dinner time, need help you two?" Ruby asked and I nod.
"Yeah, I do." I tell her and Clem helps me up. Once I stood up, I kissed her cheek and looked to Minerva and helped her up as best as I could.
"Ugh I want to be lazy too." Minerva says and I chuckled a bit and we head on out to get some dinner. I take a seat next to Clem and lay my head on her shoulder.
"Tired?" Aasim asked.
"No." I say and chuckled.
"Ah got it." He says and I nod a bit and we all eat dinner. When we finished up, I helped Omar clean the dishes and we went back to the table. I see that they have some cards set out and I look to it.
"We are playing war, want to join?" Aasim asked and I shake my head.
"Nah I can just watch." I say as I do watch them play the game for a while. After a few rounds I decided to join in on the game and they handed me the cards and I placed it on the table as I flipped the cards with everyone else. We played for a while and I was almost won but instead AJ had the better cards for a long while. I ended up being in second and we played some more. It wasn't long till we finished up the game and everyone decided to go to bed but I decided to head to the workshop just for a bit longer. I started to work on the new leg for Clementine. There was then a bang sound and I look to the side and I quickly get up and walk out the workshop and look around. No one else seems to have heard the sound so I think it's all in my head.
I then head back into the workshop and got right back to work on the leg before I hear another bang and then a growling sound so I quickly get out and look around to see everyone else walking out their houses.
"That wasn't you, was it?" Aasim asked and I shake my head and there was another bang and I look around as we hurry to the gate and there was a truck coming at the gate quickly and we hurry to get away before the truck crashed through and I groaned a bit.
"Oh, fuck my back." I mutter as I get up and see the truck had hit our boat and I get a bit pissed before I see a Walker and I quickly grabbed my gun but the Walker was shot dead.
"Jesus fucking hell Luke." I hear.
"THE FUCK?!" I hear Aasim yell and I look to the gate and saw more Walkers.
"Fucking hell get the kids." I hear Clem tell him and I stayed in place as I looked to the truck then to the gate. I get pissed as I get up and go over to the truck and grabbed the driver out and it was Luke.
"THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" I yelled at the man as he looked to me.
"I god I thought this place was abandoned." He says and I shove him back.
"VIOLET, WALKER!" I hear and I turn and grabbed my gun and shot the damn thing in the head.
"Pull the damn truck to block the gate." I tell him but he was frozen and I pulled him out and I got in the truck and saw Elenor in the passenger seat and I shake my head as I quickly pull the truck back and drove it to the destroyed gate. I got out and tried to close it as best as I could before a Walker tried to bite me but AJ ran over and stabbed the damn thing. Once we got the gate closed as much as we could I got back in the truck and used it to block the gate so nothing could get in and I glare at Elenor.
"WHAT THE FUCK?!" I yelled at her.
"Jesus, fuck you don't have to yell."
"BULLSHIT YOU BROKE OUR GATE I JUST FIXED THE DAMN THING TWO DAYS AGO!" I yelled at her and a walker hit her window and she backed up as best as she could and I shake my head and get out the truck so she could get out.
"Oh, thank god, we're so sorry." Amos says and I shake my head.
"The hell you are." I say.
"What the hell is going on?" Minerva asked.
"Ask these dumb fucks." I tell them and we all look to the new group of people.
"We thought this place was abandoned, no one was out and about." Luke said.
"WE WERE SLEEPING!" Ruby yelled at them as she came up to them.
"WE HAVE KIDS HERE AND YOU BUST DOWN OUR GATE, YOU STUPID FUCKS!" Ruby yelled and I look to her.
"Hey just go check on the kids please Ruby." Aasim tells her.
"NO, THEY PUT OUR KIDS IN DANGER THEY WERE SLEEPING AASIM, FUCKING SLEEPING!" She yelled at him.
"I know sweetheart but please go check on them." He says and she glared at him then to the others before she went to go check on her kids and I look to the group.
"Look we can fix the gate; we are so sorry." Luke says and I rubbed my head. We then look to the gate to see there were plenty of Walkers trying to get in and I groaned a bit. I then look at the others for a bit and I tried to think.
"Look we're going to have to clear the walkers from the gate-."
"There is a whole heard of Walkers coming in this direction, unless you have some type of machine gun you won't be able to take them out." Elenor says in a mocking tone and I glare at her.
"You know what bitch, get the fuck out if you're going to act like that." Clem says.
"Clementine?" She asked.
"Yeah, guess you remember me, surprised that you do after the shit you pulled in Richmond." Clem says as she crossed her arms.
"Look Clem, Javier and the others were-."
"Oh no, you are not pulling this shit, you can blame yourself for what happened, you caused the problem in Richmond, fucking deal with it." She tells the older woman and I look to the woman as she glared at Clem and I get in front of her the moment her hands turned into fists.
"You try and hurt her; I'll shoot your worthless ass." I tell her and she looks at me.
"You know nothing about what this bitch caused; did she tell you she was part of Richmond?" She asked pissed.
"YES! WE ALL FUCKING DO!" I yelled at her and she looks at me.
"You aren't high and mighty bitch now back off." Clem says to her as she came to my side and Elenor did back up.
"Hey woah, tension." Luke says.
"Oh, shut the hell up Luke, I'm still pissed at you." Clem says and my head hurt a bit at this.
"Ok, everyone just… look let's figure out what we have to do." I mutter as I think.
"Don't tell us what we have to do." Elenor said.
"Elenor shut it, we broke their gate and basically into their home." Amos says and I look to them.
"Alright tomorrow I can head out and get some more metal for a better gate." I planned out loud and I sighed as I grabbed the little pocketbook I carried and wrote what I needed and then look to Clem.
"You can't if there is a heard coming." She says.
"Then we can tear up one of the old trailers we don't use." I tell her.
"I don't know if that would be sturdy." Aasim says.
"Then I can head out tonight before the herd hits." I say getting a bit annoyed.
"Look we can keep the truck like this for a bit till after the herd leaves, you and AJ got the gate closed so it should be fine." I mutter and look to the gate and I groaned a bit and rubbed my head.
"Look it's not that bad-." Elenor said and I glare at her.
"Bitch, if it's not bad get the fuck out." Willy tells her and I look at him.
"Hey don't-."
"Don't tell me what to do, you're in our home, so shut the fuck up and don't touch anything." He says.
"Holy shit." I mutter and couldn't help but smile and then chuckled a little at this. It was quite funny in my opinion and I stopped and looked to the side a bit. I go over to the gate and looked at it as Walkers tried to get through it and it started to bother me.
"Look the gate is fine for now." AJ says and I look to him.
"But if you really want to we can head out to get the gate." He says and I think.
"It sounds good, that's what I want to do, but no one wants to let me." I mutter and looked at the gate more. AJ and I then walked away from the gate and I go over to Clem.
"Hey, look we will get the gate fixed soon-."
"No AJ and I are heading out now, there isn't much Walker activity, and I want to get this done now." I tell her.
"Violet, no-."
"Mom listen it's my idea, if we head out now we will be fine, plus we can use the Walkers to cover our sent." He says and she looked to him then to me and I look at her.
"Clem we will be fine, I just want to get this gate fixed before more Walkers come-."
"How the hell are you going to the truck out?" She asked.
"Luke and them can move the truck and we can get the gate open and I'll hit any Walkers that try to come through. Then the gate can be closed again and the truck moved back in place." I explained.
"That's suicide." I hear and look to see Amos and Luke looking at us.
"You guys busted the gate and we need to get it fixed before the herd hits." I tell them and they look at me.
"You're going to risk AJ-."
"I thought of the plan now back off I'm not a damn kid." He tells Luke and I look to AJ.
"You are a kid-."
"I am not, I haven't been a kid for years, and you aren't my parents." AJ says to him and I look at Luke.
"I know your parents." Luke says.
"Yeah, they're fucking dead, you were in the same group as them, but you left the group after I was born, you left Clem and I and you cannot dictate what we can do, this is our home and we want to fix the gate you broke, so back off, and shut up." He tells the older man and I look to the gate to see more Walkers coming.
"Look we better get going now." I tell AJ and he nods and heads to the truck to unhook the boat and I go over to the other truck.
"Wait what the hell is going on?" Minerva asked.
"We're getting parts for the gate before the herd hits." I tell her.
"Vi no-."
"Yes, we're getting the gate fixed." I tell her.
"Well then I'm coming." She says and nod.
"Sure, I'm fine with that, go help AJ bring the truck." I tell her and she nods then heads over to AJ. They got the truck started and came close to me as I set the truck in reverse and the gates moves a bit and they drive through it hitting the Walkers and I hurry to put the truck back. I get out the passenger door and through the gate and I close it again and hurry to the truck.
"VIOLET GOD DAMN IT!" I hear Clementine yell as I got in the back of the truck and I hit the truck and AJ drives quickly. Minerva then opens the back window and I stick my head through.
"You know we are in so much trouble for this." She says.
"Very much so but I really want to get this gate fixed." I tell her.
"It would have been fine." She says.
"I don't know it's just an itch I have to fix things." I tell her.
"I know, look we have to head to the closest hardware store." AJ says and I nod.
"That's fine, they have some gates and I can get some sheet metal too." I say as I look at the road through the windshield.
"What for?" Minerva asked.
"Put a damn warning sign on it so idiots don't ram though it." I mutter and then pull my head out and the wind hits my face. We were able to get to the border of the small town and saw some Walkers just walking around like nothing was happening.
"Alright, I'll get a Walker for us and we will cover ourselves up then head to the shop and get what we need." Minerva says and I nod as I get out the truck. She was able to grab a Walker for us and we covered ourselves and I shake my head.
"God this is morbid." I mutter and look to the other Walkers.
"I know but its all we can do." AJ says and I nod at this.
"I know, I know." I say and we head into the town. I kept my gun unholstered and I look around as Walkers would almost bump into me and I shake my head as we finally get to the shop and we look around inside.
"Think we should get some locks and chains?" AJ asked and I look to him.
"Yeah, would be great actually, we have to come back and get some chests too so I have some place to store my spare parts." I think out loud and I look to the boxes they have and shake my head then get to work on finding the right size gates. When we found some and some sheet metal, we grabbed them and I carried the gates on my back for an easy carry, while Minerva had the sheet metal as well. We head out the shop as quietly as we could and we got back to the truck and I sighed happily as we got the supplies in the back of the truck.
"That was easy." AJ says.
"Don't jinx us." I joke and we laughed as I got into the back of the truck and they got in the cabin and began to drive. It wasn't long till we finally got back to the house and the truck was moved as we got in, they closed the gate with the truck once more and I get grabbed by my shirt and I'm made to look at Clem as she looked at me with anger.
"You…. Are so fucking grounded." She says and I couldn't help but laugh a little.
"I know but… we're safe." I say and she sighed and let me go and I get out the truck and she hits my shoulder.
"Ow damn I'm sorry." I say to her.
"Not going to cut it." She says and I sighed.
"Am I grounded too?" AJ asked.
"Very much so, yes." She says to him.
"Damn." He mutters.
"Yeah, well you should have tried to tell Violet that it wasn't a good idea right now." She tells him.
"Well to be fair it kind of was a good idea, we got the stuff and no one is hurt." I say to her.
"Violet that's not the point." She says and I rubbed the back of my neck.
"Look we are safe; we got the supplies and you got to admit that it was great timing look." I say as we look to the gate and saw a few Walkers coming from the wooded area.
"Look Violet, we can talk about this later." She tells me and I nod.
"Alright, fair… can I work-."
"You are not working on the gate." She says.
"Ok fair I get it." I say and she sighed.
"Look I'm not trying to be a bitch." She says.
"No, no I get it, you want to keep me safe and I acted out a bit, and I'm sorry for doing that." I say and she nods.
"We can talk about this later, I'm sorry I need to calm down." She says and I nod.
"I get it." I say and I go back to the gate as a few Walkers tried to get in and I grabbed my knife and stabbed a few of them. AJ then came over and helped me take some of the Walkers out and I looked to the gate as best as I could.
"Alright, I think I have an idea on how I'm going to make the gate work." I say as we back up and I go over to the truc and AJ helped me grab the gates and sheet metal and take it into my workshop.
"I'm sorry I shouldn't have gone along with it, but I get that we need this gate fixed… I don't like how Luke treated me like a kid." He mutters and I pat his head.
"I know how you feel." I say as he helped me with the gate and we get one of the side gates fixed up before there was a knock and I groaned and I go and opened the door to see Elenor and I glare at her as I stepped out along with AJ.
"What the hell do you want? I'm a bit busy trying to fix the gate ya'll broke." I tell her getting pissed off.
"Hey I just wanted to say sorry." She says.
"Your, sorry means nothing to me, just go away." I tell her.
"Jesus, you're just a bitch." She says.
"HEY, BACK OFF!" AJ yelled and I looked to see him coming up so I stopped him.
"She ain't wroth it AJ." I tell him.
"No, she needs to back off." He says.
"I know, just shut it." I tell him getting a little agitated. I feel a hand on my shoulder and I shove them off and I look to see Clementine and I sigh.
"Sorry, I just… I don't want any arguing, I'm sorry for being mean AJ, I just… don't want them to argue with you as well." I tell him and he nods a bit and I nod as well.
"Let's just… get back to work, please leave us alone Elenor, we want to just fix our gate that you and your group broke, and I would greatly appreciate it, if you didn't bother me as I try to work." I tell her and she backs off a bit and I look to Clem and AJ.
"May we please get back to work?" I asked her.
"Sure, but do you need-?"
"Yes please, can I have some?" I asked and she nods.
"I'll be right back." She says and I nod and go back in the workshop with AJ and I take a seat and groaned a bit.
"I didn't mean to make you angry." I hear and look at AJ as he came up to me and sat in the other chair.
"It's not your fault AJ, I am sorry that I got mad at you." I tell him and then there was a knock and I go answer the door.
"Hey." Clem says and I let her in making sure her new leg was hidden and we all take a seat. Clem hands me the joint and I take a puff and then hand it to AJ who looked at me.
"Want some?" I asked and he nods as he takes the joint and I get to work on the gate.
"I'm quite surprised you didn't try and fight her." Clem says and I'm handed the joint and I look to her as I take another puff and hand it off.
"Because I'm trying to keep the peace, I don't feel like fighting, and I just want to get this gate done." I explain and look to AJ as he took a puff and I chuckled as he coughed again and I get back to work.
"Did you want to punch her?" AJ asked and I nod.
"Oh yeah very much so." I say and he held a piece of the metal as I tried to connect the two pieces.
"You still want to punch her?" Clem asked.
"Yeah, her, Luke and Amos." I tell her.
"Because they broke the gate?" AJ asked and I mimicked him.
"Because they broke the gate? Yes, because they broke the god damn gate, had that thing up for years with no problems, even after I busted it, it still worked fucking fine, and these assholes break it? Fucking why? It's stupid you don't break shit like that if you're trying to fucking hide from Walkers. Stupid fucking idiots." I mutter the last part and sighed.
"Sorry I just…. Sorry." I mutter as I get to work.
"So, what have you been working on besides the gate?" Clem asked.
"Few things here and there." I say and look at her then stopped working and I go and grabbed the hiking stick and I handed it to her and she looked to me.
"Wow, this is beautiful." She says as she looked at it more.
"Made it for you." I say and looked to the new gate and sighed and rubbed my head a bit and then took a seat because I felt lightheaded.
"Are you ok?" AJ asked and I nod.
"Yeah, just a little lightheaded, it's fine." I say and take a breath and looked to them.
"You sure?" Clem asked and I nod.
"Yeah, trust me I'm good." I wave it off and looked to the door.
"So, what else have you worked on?" Clem asked as she got to looking around and I watch her.
"Just mostly on the hiking stick and the gate, also other things for my arm." I say as I lift up the prosthetic.
"Oh? Can I see it?" She asked.
"It's not done yet, but I'm still trying to get it t fit me properly I think I made it a bit big." I explained to her.
"Oh ok, well I'm going to head out." She says as she gets up.
"You don't have too." AJ says and I look to him then to Clem.
"Yeah, don't go, stay chill, keep me from going and busting Elenors face in with a damn bat." I tell her and she looked to me a bit worried.
"Sorry I shouldn't say that." I tell her.
"Well do you need to talk about it?" She asked.
"I thought I did." I say as we worked more on the gate and I finished it up with AJ.
"A little." AJ says and I chuckled a bit at this and looked at the gate some more just to make sure it was perfect.
"Alright well…. I just think anyone that wants to try and apologize for doing something stupid like that then they are just stupid as fuck." I mutter.
"You're talking about the fact that she should just keep her mouth shut?" AJ asked and I look to both of them.
"I mean… I mean just… I can't say that, I've done something stupid, I really have but…. I just hate people sometimes." I mutter.
"Not us though, right?" AJ asked.
"Right, can't hate family." I say and look to them and then I look down.
"I mean you can but, you know." I say as I look to AJ as he looked over the gate as well. He nods to me and I smiled and chuckled a bit as he gives me a thumbs up.
"Alright, we can get the gate set up." I say and he looked to me.
"But the Walkers?" Clem asked.
"Nah it's fine, unless the heard hit while we were in here." I laughed and then I looked to the gate as AJ helped me grab it. We then headed out and saw that the heard wasn't there yet but we go and get the new doors to the side and we get ready to set it up.
"You're seriously going to-."
"Shut it." I say and look to see Luke.
"I… do you need help?" He asked.
"Kill the damn Walkers and we'll be fine." I say to him and he looks to me.
"I mean… I guess." He says.
"No don't guess, you're going to kill those damn Walkers so I can get the gate fixed, NOW KILL THE DAMN WALKERS!" I yelled at him as I get angry at him.
"Jesus, you don't have to yell."
"FUCK YOU, YOU BROKE THE DAMN GATE AND YOU'RE GOING TO FUCKING SAY YOU GUESS? YOU FUCKING GUESS YOU'RE GOING TO KILL THE DAMN WALKERS?! FUCK YOU!" I yelled and get pulled back as I glare at him.
"I mean, I just-."
"What the hell is going on here?" I hear and look to see Minerva and I glare at Luke.
"Look ok I'll help kill the Walkers." He says.
"Wait old on, you're mad about the gate? The truck is blocking-."
"THAT DOESN'T FUCKING HELP WHEN A HERD COMES YOU FUCKING MORONS WHAT ARE YOU IDIOT'S NOT UNDERSTANDING, FUCKING JOAN AND HER WALKERS ARE COMING AND I'M NOT GOING TO HAVE THEM COME TAKE ME OR MY HOME!" I yelled and panted a bit as I get pulled back a bit by AJ.
"Who?" Elenor asked and I glare at her.
"Violet, please stop." I hear and I look to Clem.
"No, no, no, I am not, I am not." I tried to say and I look around.
"Minerva help." Clem says and I back up from them.
"BACK OFF!" I yelled and grabbed a metal rod from the side and I held it out at them to keep them back.
"What the fuck is wrong with this psycho?" Amos says and I look around and see Joan.
"SHUT UP!" Clem yells and I look at her.
"She's here Clem, she's here, I see her." I say to her.
"Violet she's not here, I promise you that she isn't here." She says and I look at her then to the side.
"No, she's here." I mutter.
"Jesus this bitch is crazy." Elenor says.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP ELENOR!" Clem yelled and then she looked at me and I look down and then around again.
"Violet, just let's just go inside-."
"No, if I don't get this gate done then Joan and her Walkers will come and take our home, she is going to come back I swear she's going to come back and then take me away and I don't want to go, I don't want to go with her, not again, not again." I tell her.
"She isn't going to take you, I won't let her take you I promise now why don't we go inside, and-."
"LIAR!" I yelled at her.
"If she doesn't stop-."
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU GOING TO DO HU? SHOOT ME? DO IT, FUCKING DO IT YOU GOD DAMN RAPIST SAVER!" I yelled at Elenor.
"Woah hold on I do not save-."
"YOU FUCKING MORON! YOU BASICALLY SAVED JOAN YOU SAVED A RAPIST!" I yelled and I tried to hit her with the rebar and he backed away from me and I glare at her.
"JESUS SOMEONE GET HER!" Elenor yelled and I get grabbed and Clem takes the rebar from me.
"Violet, stop this."
"NO, I WANT THEM OUT LET THE WALKERS GET THEM I DON'T CARE!" I yelled at her.
"No, no you are better than this Violet, just calm down please, breath." She says and I felt myself shaking my hand and I was shaking. I look at her and then to the side as I see Joan again and then I look to Clem.
"Help." I whispered and she nods as she takes me to the house and I look around the living room.
"Violet, calm down, sweetheart." She says and I shake my head as I see Joan in the window and I back up.
"I want her gone, I want her and the others gone I don't care, I want them gone I want them out of here." I tell her.
"No, no you're better than that, you don't want to send people out in a herd close by." She says and I look down and I shake my head.
"No, no I want them gone, I hate them, I fucking hate them I want them gone… they broke my gate, the bitch left Joan alive, I don't want them here." I tell her. Joan was then right in front of me and I back up and fall on my back.
"Vi." I hear and I hurry and get up and run into my room.
"Violet what are you doing?" I hear as I grabbed my father's pistol and I look around.
"Violet put the gun down." I hear and I see Joan in the doorway and I point the gun at her.
"Put the gun down." She says and I shake my head.
"Back off." I say and they stay in the doorway and I take some panicked breath.
"Please put the gun down." She says and I shake my head again and place it to my head.
"You aren't getting me." I say to her.
"Violet…. Please for the love of God put the gun down." She says and I back up a bit.
"VIOLET!" I hear and look to see Minerva.
"Put the fucking gun down." She says and I shake my head no.
"No, Joan isn't going to get me this time, I have the upper hand." I say as I put my hand on the trigger.
"What about Clem?" She asked and I laughed.
"She won't care, she wants Louis, not me, I'm broken I'm fucking broken, and she doesn't need me, she doesn't need me." I cried and I pull the trigger but nothing happened so I pulled it again but still nothing happened and I cried more.
"Just let me die… I just want to fucking die." I cried and I dropped the gun and someone hugs me.
"Oh god Violet." I hear and I look to the floor as I cried.
"Minerva get Ruby please." I hear and wanted to punch something.
"Violet, can you talk to me please?" I hear and I shake my head.
"Please." I hear and I grip my shirt.
"Why can't I just die?" I asked.
"You don't…. what about AJ and me?" She asked.
"I don't care, I don't want to care anymore." I tell her.
"You care, Violet you need to calm down, but not with a joint." She says and holds me close to her and I lay my head on her chest as I try to keep myself calm.
"I heard you need help." I hear.
"Can you help me with Vi? She's having a panic attack I think." Clem says and I grip her shirt.
"No… No, I just… I just want to go away." I cried.
"No, you can't say something let that." Clem says and I just kept myself close to her.
"Violet, I think you should talk, what happened out there-."
"They deserved it, they were assholes." I tell Ruby.
"Yeah, I know but I think you need to clam down." She says to me.
"Shut up." I mutter.
"Really?" She asked and I nod at this and I feel Clem hold me more.
"Violet, please be nice to Ruby." Clem says and I look to her shirt.
"No." I mutter.
"Vi." Ruby says and I gripped Clem's shirt.
"I just want to sleep." I tell them.
"What kind of sleep?" Ruby asked.
"What kind of sleep." I mutter and look Clem's shirt more.
"Violet." Clem says.
"Not the bad sleep." I mutter.
"Look I have some stuff that can help her sleep." I hear Ruby say and I close my eyes a bit.
"Hey I need help getting Violet into the bed." I hear and I gripped her shirt.
"I want to stay right here." I mutter.
"Violet, you're on Clem's leg." I hear.
"I don't care." I mutter I then hear and feel Clem laugh.
"Violet, it's my bad leg." She says and I look to her and I move so I wasn't on her leg anymore and she laughs again.
"Sweetie let's get you in bed." She says and I shake my head.
"Vi." I hear and I shake my head again.
"Don't you want to be comfortable?" She asked and I think a bit and nod.
"Ok, come on let's go to the bed." She says and then Minerva and Clem helped me up and we go t the bed and I lay down but I don't look at them. I just close my eyes and tried to sleep as I feel Clem rubbing my head and I feel tears in my eyes.
"I just wanted to fix the gate… that's all I wanted to do." I say.
"I know, I know, we can get the gate up." Clem says and I gripped my shirt. It wasn't long till Ruby had come back and I don't speak to anyone anymore. They talk to each other for a bit as Clem still kept rubbing my head and it was starting to make me tired. I ended up falling asleep when Clem started to rub my back a bit and I let go of my shirt as I finally fell into a deep sleep.
