(Clementine's Pov)

It has been over a year and I was in the garden working on some flowers the leg was doing fine, I haven't been in the shed for a while and I haven't had any issues with drinking, I take a breath of fresh air and I hear the others as I get up and walk over to them. I don't see AJ he had left about six months ago, on his own. I felt like shit when he did leave, he said he wanted to so I had to let him go. It's been a long time since we actually did anything. All we did was work and try to make sure everyone was safe and it was the same thing over and over again. Nothing new, nothing exciting.

"Clem over here." I hear and see Liz as she waved over to me and I go and take a seat next to her and I rubbed her head a bit.

"Hey, how's the supplies?" I asked as she looked over the bags we had.

"Each bag has the same supplies and extra ammunitions, flashlights, rations that still might be good, along with keys from the buildings in the area labeled for the correct building." She lists off and I smile at her a bit. God she looked so much like Violet still, how was this even possible? It's so weird.

"You good Clementine?" I hear and look to her as she looked up to me.

"Sorry you just… look so much like Violet." I tell her truthfully and she looked down a bit.

"I'm sorry." She says and I shake my head.

"No, it's just… it's just it's weird knowing that someone else could look like her, or me…. or anyone." I tell her and she tilts her head a bit.

"That is strange… maybe I'm a secret relative of hers." She says and I laughed a bit and pat her head.

"Maybe you are… least she got to meet you." I say and look back to the bags.

"Hey what's going on?" Minerva says as she comes over to us.

"Just making sure supplies are good, I'm going to go set them in the car." Liz says and grabbed the bags and I watch her.

"How you holding up?" Minerva asked and I look to her.

"Just as best as I can, doing the same thing over and over again." I tell her.

"Yeah, things are getting a bit bland here, so let's liven it up." She says and I laugh a bit.

"Sure, why not." I say and she heads off to who knows were and I just take a seat and lay my head on the table for a bit. I've been feeling so tired lately and I just don't know why. Guess I'm feeling depressed? No, I can't feel like that now, I have work to do. How was Violet able to do this? Stay active after something bad happened to her? How could she do it?

"Hey." I hear and look up and see AJ and I smile.

"When did you get back?" I asked as I got up and hugged him.

"Oh, just now." He says as he hugged me back. I take a good look at him and saw he didn't shave so he was growing a beard.

"You need to shave." I joke and he laughed.

"I will, but I came here to see you right now." He says and I nod and he takes a seat next to me.

"So how have you been?" I asked.

"Been good, I have gone to seven states, and I didn't really have a run in with Walkers…. Much." He says and I smiled as he told me all that he's done.

"Oh, and get this, I actually met someone." He says and I perk up a bit.

"Pardon?" I asked.

"Yeah, she's a really sweet girl, Clem…. How do you know you're in love?" He asked and I look to him.

"I uh… it's different for everyone AJ." I tell him.

"But what about you?" He asked and I think. I think back to how Violet made me laugh, how she cared for me after I got my leg cut off, how she would make sure I was ok no matter what, even if she hurt herself in the end. I take a deep breath and looked to AJ.

"How do you feel when you're near her?" I asked him.

"Like I'm on top of the world." He says and I smiled.

"But what about you?" He asked and I lean my head on my hand and think.

"Well… I felt like I was loved, like I could do anything with Violet by my side… like she was the reason for my everything." I tell him and look at him and he smiled.

"So did you bring your girlfriend?" I asked.

"Oh no, she's with her group, we are going to meet up in Arizona." He says and I look to him.

"What, too scared to bring her to meet your mom?" I joked and he laughed.

"A little." He says and I laughed as well.

"Well, next time you come back you should bring her over, I'd like to meet the woman that's going to make you happy." I say as I get up and so does, he.

"I will, but right now I have a month to spend here." He says and I smiled and nodded.

"That's great." I say to him.

"Woah AJ, nice beard dude." Willy says and AJ laughed at this.

"Thanks, but it's really itchy." He says as she scratched his beard.

"Yeah, they tend to be itchy but you'll get use to it." Willy says and I look over to AJ a bit and he looked to me.

"Hey want to take a walk?" He asked and I nod as we walk around the wall.

"I remember when Violet felt bad about the wall breaking bit by bit." He says and I nod.

"Yeah… she just… she put to much on herself." I say and I look to the wall some more and stop where AJ and Violet had escaped that one night.

"I'm sorry I just… I still miss her." He says.

"Same here." I tell him and I look to our house and I rubbed my neck a bit at this.

"Did you ever fix the cross?" He asked and I look to the side a bit.

"I tried… but once I saw it I just… I broke down and I just stayed in bed again." I tell him.

"I can fix it up if you'd like." He says and I shake my head.

"No, I just… I'll do it." I tell him and he sighed.

"Clem, If you can't-."

"I can but… let's talk about something else." I tell him.

"Well, how has Liz been?" He asked.

"She's been fine, really active, but uh… I feel bad." I tell him.

"Feel bad?" He asked.

"I just… I feel depressed and then I start to think how the hell Violet was able to do it… I'm comparing myself to her and I just… don't want to do anything anymore on some days." I tell him.

"Did you talk about it to the others?" He asked.

"God no, they'd treat me different." I tell him.

"Well Violet felt like that but she still talked about it to others." He says and I look to him a bit and then down to the ground.

"I'm not use to it." I mutter.

"You tried to help Violet, let others help you, Do I need to stay here longer?" He asked.

"No, no you don't I don't…. Her birthday passed and I just…" I stopped and took a seat on the ground, my back to the wall and I feel AJ take a seat next to me.

"Clementine, it's hard, I know it's hard… I know Violet thought you'd be able to handle it but she thought you were strong enough to do it, she thought that you…."

"Didn't love her anymore? The hell was she thinking, yeah, we argued but who didn't? I tried to help her; she helped me… god I love her so much… I felt like shit with what happened… did she know that?" I asked and looked to my hands a bit.

"I can't say if she did or didn't." He tells me.

"She had to have… she was able to shoot herself." I mutter.

"You're still mad that she shot herself?" He asked.

"No… yes… but no… I don't know." I tell him.

"Clem." He says.

"Yes, I'm still angry about that, I'm filled with rage, she thought I was strong but to fucking weak to just… I wanted her to at least go to sleep before she left… what if she felt pain?" I asked him.

"I don't think she did." He tells me and I shake my head.

"We won't know… fucking… stupid woman." I mutter.

"Hey, she might have been stupid, but she tried." He says and I laughed.

"It's sad… I'm calling her stupid but… she was really good at building, working on cars… among many other things." I say to him and he laughed.

"So, what's the girls name?" I asked and AJ looked to me.

"Jessica, she's the same age as me, she's very beautiful, and god she knows how to use a sword, it's amazing." He says and I smiled at him.

"Sounds like you really like her." I say and he nods.

"I hope we stay together for a long time; I'll be sure to bring her here though, it'll be great." He says to me.

"I can help Omar with making a big meal for you two." I tell him and he smiled. Time seems to have passed me by so quickly because AJ was leaving again and I gave him a big hug, Omar gave him some food on the go and he thanked him. When AJ leaves, I start to feel bad again, it felt like losing him all over again but I knew he would come back, he knows his ways home.

"Empty nest syndrome." Minerva says and I look to her.

"I still have Liz." I tell her.

"Yes, but AJ will always be your baby boy, so listen, Ruby and I had been talking, we should all have a girl's night, you, Ruby, Liz and I could go out to the lake too?" She says and I look to her a bit.

"I… don't… oh what the hell, yeah let's do it, when?" I asked.

"How about tomorrow?" She asked.

"Sure, sounds great." I say and she nods and we talked a bit. We go and make some soups with Omar and it was a great dinner when the next day came Ruby Delilah, Minerva, Liz, Sasha and I headed out to the lake. It was a nice day, warm too. I laid on the land a bit and closed my eyes for a while.

"How's it going?" I hear and I look and see Minerva.

"It's actually relaxing, it's such a nice day too." I tell her and close my eye again.

"It is, isn't it?" She asked and I nod at this.

"It's sad, we didn't get to go on our trip." I say quietly.

"Well… you and Liz can go… maybe you can find AJ too?" She asked.

"I don't want to bother him; he has a girlfriend you know?" I asked.

"Oh, he did not tell me this, do tell." Minerva says and I laughed.

"Her name is Jessica; I think he's in love." I tell her and then look to Minerva and then to the clouds in the sky and sighed.

"I know what you are thinking." She says and I look to her.

"What am I thinking?" I asked.

"About her." She says and I sighed again.

"I always am, nothing new… and here I thought you could read minds." I laughed and so did she. I take a breath and sit up and look to the lake as Ruby watched Delilah and Liz play with Sasha. The dog barked and splashed in the water and Liz ran in and I watch her more.

"You ever think we all would have met if the world didn't end?" I asked.

"Hmm, never thought about that… I don't think so, maybe in passing." She says and I look to her.

"I asked Violet the same thing." I tell her.

"Bet she said yes you would have." She says and I laughed.

"I can't even remember what she said… it's getting hard to remember her." I tell Minerva honestly.

"Her character? Cause I can tell you she was a broken woman who still cared for people, worried a lot, but was a great survivor." Minerva says.

"Great survivor… don't make me laugh." I tell her.

"Hey, she was… she just… Clem you're only thinking about her in a negative light, you can't do that to her." She says and I shake my head.

"Why not? She left-."

"I know, she left you, but be honest with me, do you think she would have wanted you to see her all pale and no able to do anything? At least she took herself out so you wouldn't have to… at least she was able to think in that moment to spare you the nightmares of having to shoot her in the damn head, you think I liked the fact that I killed my sister? It haunts me to this day Clementine." She tells me and I look down.

"She could have fallen asleep." I say quietly.

"No, she couldn't Clementine, and you know it." She says.

"Yes, she could have, Minerva she couldn't really move, I had to move her away from the door." I tell her getting a bit angry.

"She could have just fallen asleep, and I could have taken her out." I say quietly.

"Could you really? Clem think about it, Violet would have suffered more if she didn't put that bullet in her head, she didn't want to go out slow and in pain, I know I wouldn't… and I would want to make sure I didn't come back, make sure I went out on my own terms." She tells me.

"Clem would you want to make sure you didn't come back?" She asked and I nod a bit.

"Yeah… I would want to make sure I didn't come back." I say to her.

"Same as Violet… I get it, you love her still, and that's ok, it's ok to still like her even when she's gone… You were with her for so long, you two did so much together, she helped you and you helped her as best as you could… you two might have had an argument before she died but trust me, if there is a heaven, she watching you right now." She tells me and I look to the lake.

"I don't believe in that heaven or hell bullshit anymore, I know Violet prayed a lot, but… why would a god do this to us? Why would this so-called God take her away from me like he did? Its cruel… I lost so much over the years that I just… it's dumb." I tell her.

"Yeah, it's a cruel world we are in but we live in it, and we deal with it… But can't you think that Violet is watching you in some way." She says and I think a bit.

"I guess she is watching me…. in her own stupid way." I tried to joke.

"Clem come play." Liz says and I look to Minerva who nods and I go over to the girls and they were skipping rocks and I grabbed one and threw it how Violet showed me. We just skipped rocks and I looked around a bit. The trees were swaying in the wind. The water was rippling, there was even a few birds flying around.

"Clementine, you good there?" Minerva asked and I nod.

"Yeah just… thinking about how it's such a good day today." I tell her and she looked to me a bit and nods. When it was starting to get dark out, we head on back home and I looked to the photo album on the table and I go and pick it up and look through it. Why was I torturing myself with the past, why do I keep doing this to myself? She's not coming back, and it's my fault. I should have stood up for her, I should not have stayed quiet, I should have done something, then she would have never run off and she never would have gotten bit trying to help me. She helped me even after I said those terrible things, why? Why would she do that?

"Clem?" I hear and look to see Liz who comes over and lays her head on my lap and I run my hand through her hair.

"You, ok?" I asked her and she shrugged a bit.

"You want to talk?" I asked and she doesn't move but I can see her eyes look around a bit.

"… I know I didn't know you guys for so long but… I miss Violet." She says and I look to her.

"She makes that impact on people… especially kids." I joked and she looked up to me.

"Why was she so nice?" She asked and I think.

"She had been through a lot as a kid… before the dead were walking about and before they knew about the wars that have happened… she had heard her grandmother shoot herself, her parents sent her to a school for troubled youth… and despite that she made graves for them in the back." I tell her.

"But they never came to get her?" She asked and I nod.

"Yeah, but she says it was basically a blessing, had they did get her she thought she would have ended up dead earlier." I tell the girl and she looked to the table.

"I'm glad I got to meet her." She says quietly and I nod.

"Same here." I tell her and keep rubbing her head.

"Are we going to go on the trip again?" She asked and I sigh.

"I don't know if we are going to this year… but we can still do something nice, maybe go to the lake and catch some fish, oh we could go into the town and find some flower seeds plant some next to her?" I asked and she nods at this.

"Yeah, she'd like that." She says quietly and I nod at this and think.

"Let's get something to snack on hu?" I asked and she nods and we get up and head over to the kitchen and I pull out some deer jerky and some water for her. We sit at the table and ate the snack and sat in silence for a bit. weeks would pass on by, then to months then to years. AJ would come and go, Liz has come and gone, Ruby's and Aasims children also left and would come back. I would go over to Violet's grave once in a while and put some flowers there for her.

"Hey… not many Walkers these days… haven't seen any in god… three years now… guess the whole earth is healing thing is going on." I say to the grave and take a breath as I slowly take a seat on the ground.

"God I'm getting old." I mutter and looked to the grave.

"You'd be getting old too." I mutter and then laughed a bit.

"AJ is supposed to be coming back today or tomorrow… can't go on those trips anymore damn stump has been bothering me." I tell the grave marker and take a breath.

"You'd be joking about my grey hairs right now." I say and looked to the side a bit.

"You'd also be proud of AJ and Liz, haven't gotten hurt… much since they had left… Don't get me wrong I miss them a lot, but it's gotten a little boring." I joke and looked to the tree a bit.

"I miss going out and slashing Walkers, you know the rush and to get my anger out." I take a breath and feel a hand on my shoulder and look to see Minerva and she takes a seat next to me I smile a bit and look back to the grave.

"This old bitch helps me sometimes." I say and she shoved me.

"Excuse you, last I checked I was a bastard." Minerva says.

"Oh, pardon me yon Bastard, I shall never desecrate your title again." I joke and she laughed.

"Having a good conversation?" She asked me.

"Yeah… though she's been awful quiet." I say and I feel Minerva look at me.

"Can… Can I still be in denial even though I have accepted the fact that she's gone?" I asked as I picked at the grass a bit.

"I think so… not many people would agree but yeah, I feel that you can." She tells me and I nod at this.

"It's not that I'm denying the fact that she is gone, I know she is, but…. Sometimes I feel like she is here… as dumb as that sounds." I mutter.

"Oh no it's not dumb, think about it… you thought you were a curse, when all of this began right?" She asked and I nodded.

"Well… your parents passed on, maybe they were protecting you, then Lee, and so on… yeah sometimes you got hurt, you felt like shit, everything but in the end… you're still here… because someway somehow all the people you cared for in the past are still here helping you." She says and I look to her.

"I never thought of it like that." I admitted and she nods.

"And that's why I'm the smart one." Minerva says and I shoved her.

"Sure, you are." I say and looked to the grave.

"I know you're always going to miss her. I still miss her, it's…. it's hard, and yes sometimes it can get harder, but hey, talking helps, doesn't it?" She asked me and I nod.

"As weird as it is." I say and she shook her head.

"And what isn't weird these days?" She asked.

"Well, you're weird." I tell her and I get up.

"And you aren't?" She asked as I helped her up.

"I'm not weird I'm crazy." I tell her and she laughed and we head away from the grave and I see AJ over at the gate and I let him and his group in and I see Liz and the others.

"Welcome home." I say to them as they hugged me.

"So, how's the leg?" AJ asked and I smile.

"It's fine, but I do need to take it off once I get back in the house, I think I've irritated my stump." I tell him.

"I got some ointment for that." Ruby says and I nod as she goes to grab it and I go with AJ to take a seat with him and Liz.

"So how have things been out there?" I asked.

"Not to bad, we saw like, one or two Walkers, and there is this scientist who's been working on a way for no one to come back from the dead, it's worked maybe once or twice but they're still working on it." Liz explained and I take a breath.

"Did it really work?" Aasim asked and she nods.

"I've seen it too, so if you guys want…." AJ stopped talking and I look to him as he looked down.

"Oh, we know we're old, forty years of this we already accepted death." Ruby says and I nod.

"So, Clementine how have you been?" Someone asked and I looked to Jessica.

"Oh, I've been fine, and you?" I asked and she smiled as we talked. Don't get me wrong Jessic is a sweetheart but I still have every right to worry. AJ is my boy. I may not have given birth to him but I have raised him.

"Oh god AJ still has his collection of guns here." I say as they talked about the weapons they found.

"Oh, but this is better, blast someone with it and boom obliterated, seen people use it on Walkers." A man says. He's been with AJ's group for a while.

"Actually, we have seen that… was used during the raid back in Valhalla." I say and lean my cheek on my hand.

"Oh man I heard about that place, Wacked out leaders, but god I heard their fighting tactics were the best… ya'll know how they got killed?" The man asked and AJ along with the others looked to me worried but I smiled.

"Well, there was a sneak attack, bombs and Walkers from every side, an old friend actually learned to walk with the dead… the main leader had her head bashed in and her bones are gone but her body was thrown right over that wall." I say as I point to the wall her body once laid.

"Holy shit, ya'll killed her?" He asked and I shake my head.

"My wife did… she had her issues with Joan… the other leader, who you praise for her tactics she passed away oh what ten years ago? Walker got her in the mall not too far from here she shot herself in the head." I stated and they looked to me.

"Well hell, she must have been old as hell." The man says and I shake my head.

"Nope… I mean she was about God in her forties." I tell them.

"Did you know her?" A girl asked and I nodded.

"That was my wife." I tell them.

"Holy shit AJ, you didn't tell us, I'm so sorry." Jessica says and I shrugged as I moved my hand from my face.

"No need to be sorry, I've put it past me, who she was then was a broken woman that we tried to help, in the end she kept helping us." I tell them.

"So, she was the leader at Valhalla?" The man asked.

"She was one, but it wasn't a good life for her, it broke her, lots of things broke her… but at least she was able to kill the woman who had hurt her." I say.

"My mom was smart, taught me how to live in this world same with Clementine, when I asked questions, she would try to answer as best as she could, she taught me how to hunt deer." He says to them.

"That's why you won't let us kill does?" The man asked and AJ nods.

"Yeah, I mean unless we have to but we haven't had a shortage of Bucks'" He says and he gets up and goes show the man his antler collection.

"How has AJ been?" I asked Jessica as Omar hands us some carrots to eat and I thank him.

"He's been… ok… he get's sad during um… your wife's birthday, and we try to come here during yours but we get so busy with the community-." She says and I wave my hand a bit.

"It's fine I don't mind… I knew AJ would have days where he can't visit… but I'm glad he's happy and healthy." I tell her and she nods at this.

"Yeah… I didn't take you guys to be religious though." She says and I raise a brow at her.

"We aren't, why do you say that?" I asked and she looked to me.

"I saw AJ praying, and he usually does it before we go out." She says and I think back a bit.

-Thirty Years Ago-

"Hey Violet why do you pray?" AJ asked.

"Oh uh… I do it for… myself… and to tell God if he takes Clem from us I'll personally get him." Violet joked and I smile a bit as I was looking at the bowl of soup.

"You can do that?" He asked and I look to her and she nods.

"Oh yeah, but… I do it because I was raised this way, in no way do you have to do this though, it's just some part of my past that seems normal for me right now." She explained to him.

"Oh, so only you can do it?" He asked and we both laughed and I take a bite of my soup.

"No, no you can do it too, I could show you, but if you don't want to it's fine, I'm just doing this for myself." She explained to him and AJ nods but doesn't ask how to do it. He then runs off to check something and I look over to Violet and smiled at her.

"How's the stump?" She asked as she comes over to me.

"It's fine, but I think I might need some clean bandages soon." I tell her and she nods.

"I'll go into town and find some." She says and kissed my head.

"Say… mind teaching me a prayer?" I asked and she chuckled and takes a seat next to me.

"Sure." She says.

-Present Day-

"I'm guessing he's remembering what Violet taught him when he first asked her." I tell her honestly and she looked to me.

"She told him that she prayed for some type of… well it was mostly to keep herself back to normality I suppose, she did it more for AJ and I to stay safe in some way…she told AJ once that it's basically a letter to God threatening to kick his ass if something happened to me…. she started that up when I lost my leg." I tell her and she nods.

"I'm sorry that she had passed away." She says.

"People die Jessica, it's part of life…. If it wasn't a Walker, it could have been her own mind, she almost hung herself, shot herself, hell even tried to cut herself… she was broken, and every time I put the small broken pieces back… she would just crumble making it harder and harder to piece her together, to the point it was like trying to make each grain of sand make her a person again." I tell her.

"Wow… that's an interesting way to put it." She says and I nod.

"She would have her good days and bad days, we tried to manage but… when things got worse it broke her more, that she felt like everything had to be perfect or everything would fail… as if she was a soldier again." I say and she looked to me.

"She did a good job with helping you raise AJ though." She tells me and I look to AJ as him and his friends were laughing as AJ was wacked with Omars spoon as he tried to taste test.

"Yeah… he is a good boy, you know when he first met Violet he was like 'She's too quiet, I'm keeping an eye out on her.'" I tell her and she looked to me.

"Seriously?" She asked and I nodded.

"He was always constantly thinking and keeping watch on people… Violet then grew on him and they became the best of friends." I tell her. I then look to AJ as Omar finally let him have a taste and he gives Omar the ok sign.

"The fact that we were born in this world and get to chance it… makes it seem like we were given a purpose." She tells me and I look to her.

"You think you wouldn't have had one had you been born in what was once a normal world?" I asked.

"I mean we could have but… not to this extent, like… maybe one of us would be a firefighter in the old times and saved many lives, but some of us might have never been known… like you're talking about your wife to us, she made that much of an impact." She tells me and I nod and think.

"Oh, Clementine here is a legend." Minerva says and I hit her shoulder.

"Oh, I know, heard about you when my mom and dad were alive, they talked about the girl with a D on her cap, how she was basically the light in this world… when I asked what happened though they said that you just… disappeared." She says and I nod.

"Must have been around the time we stayed here; I doubt Joan talked about me." I say and Minerva nods.

"Well, it's good to see that you are still a living legend and that I could meet." She says.

"See that Clem, you're the most famous person on this planet right now, bet they know your name all the way around the world." Ruby says as she helped me take my leg off and I looked to see it was irritated but nothing bad. No breaks in the leg either.

"She really made sure this one would last." I hear Ruby say quietly and I nod as she moved my leg and I put the ointment on.

"Yeah, that she did, I think I might have messed it up but it's fine for now." I say as I let myself relax a bit. AJ and the others get their food and I was about to put my leg on but Liz came over with a bowl for me and I smiled at her.

"Thank you." I say to her and she nods as she takes a seat next to me and we all eat.

"Again, a great meal from Omar." Aasim says and we all agreed.

"So how is everything out there for you?" Ruby asked and I look to the others.

"Doing great, no Walkers really, seems like everything can go back to as normal as it was once before." One of the guys says and I shake my head a bit at this. I may be biased when it comes to things like this but there is no since of normal.

"You good there Clem?" I hear and look to Minerva.

"What do you all think normal is?" I asked out loud and everyone looked to me.

"I'm asking an honest question… normal for me is different that normal for you or AJ, or Liz." I state and the man looked to me.

"I mean there is no dead walking." The man says.

"That would be normal for us but for AJ and Liz… Walkers were normal." I stated and they look to me.

"Well no more people fighting." A woman said.

"People fighting was normal for us, especially back at the school." Aasim says and I nod.

"Rapes happened, kidnappings, and many other things happened in our time, from before the Walkers… no normal doesn't exist to anyone… getting beaten could be a normal thing to some." I say to them.

"I mean like good things, we can all work together." The man says and I shrugged.

"And get blown up or shot at was ok in that aspect." I say.

"Why are you being a downer?" A woman says and I shrugged.

"I have lived a long life, longer than you, we all have in our time normal was just what you thought it was, not sociatel norms, people thought that a man alone could be god but he's lying and using that go get many women… a woman could think cheating on her husband over and over was ok and normal just because she saw her own mother do it… a woman thinking that staying in a community with the person who hurt her just by using the false blanket that she would be protecting her family, was and is considered normal in this time." I say and I know everyone was look at me by this point.

"Clem I think you should stop-."

"No… I'm sorry but normal doesn't exist anymore, you want to know what I think is normal?" I asked and some nod.

"I think that trying to help a broken woman try and regain her sanity back was normal… having to tell others that it's ok… I got this… as a kid I thought it was normal for adults to fight and make a child do the hard and difficult tasks… I thought it was normal to fear for your life every single day, and in this world all that is normal, all of it is what we have to deal with now… that… that broken people give up on not just themselves but on you because you failed them… Jane gave up, Lee gave up, Violet gave up… many people have given up… it's just our normal." I say to them.

"Well it doesn't have to be." A woman says and I nod.

"It doesn't but it's just what we have gone through, back at the school the teachers abandoned us, except or one that is… our… old leader Marlon thought he had to take charge of everything…. I mean a kid, a group of kids watching other kids… we did that for eight years… when Ruby and I had our kids we had to teach them young to keep quiet, stay away from others that we don't know, to always watch their backs." Aasim says.

"I had thought it was ok to kill my own family…. Because even family was bad to most people." Minerva says and I look to her.

"I had to learn that not everyone can or want to be saved." Ruby says and I look down.

"Normal just doesn't exist to us anymore." I say as I get up and head into my home.