(Clementine's Pov)
I woke up to the feeling of my cheek being poked. I opened my one good eye to see AJ looking at me and smiling as I sit up and smile at him a bit.
"Hey what's up?" I asked.
"Nothing, you just slept in later and I was making sure you were ok." He says and I look at him.
"Shit really?" I asked and he nods as I get up from the bed and I look around the room a bit. I went and grabbed my bag and grabbed AJ's gun and he looked to me as I handed it to him and he nods as he placed it in his back pocket. I get up and I stretch a bit as I look to him as he heads to the door.
"Fuck." I mumbled as I got up and we headed outside.
"Afternoon sleeping beauty." I hear and look to see Violet as she came up to us.
"Sorry I just."
"Nah you're good, we expected you to sleep in." She says and I nod a bit.
"But you're in luck, Brody and I were just about to go fishing, and AJ wanted to come with…. So if you want." She offered and I nod at this.
"Sure that would be great actually." I say as she nods and heads to the gate and I watch AJ run up to her as I walked with him.
"What is a fish?" He asked and she looked at me.
"Well it's an animal that can live in the water…. I didn't do so well in biology." Violet says as we walked out the gates and headed more into the woods.
"What class did you do well in Vi?" Brody asked.
"History, mostly in the major wars and discrimination eras which is all of them." She says.
"You know Clementine's friend Lee use to be a teacher." AJ says and I look at him and then to them as I nod.
"Yea he was a college professor." I say as we walk more.
"You know I always thought that I'd want to go to college, be the first in my family with a college education, show I was better than them…. But they'd still be better than me." Violet says and I look at her.
"Why is that?" AJ asked and she looked to him.
"My family mostly worked their whole lives, heck my grandfather was helping his dad build broken cars for a living, and he was just about your age too." She says to him.
"Really?" AJ asked and she nods as we walk.
"I wanted to be a history teacher." She says.
"What did you want to be Clementine?" Brody asked and I chuckled.
"It's stupid." I reply.
"Come on tell." Violet says.
"Hmmm, well I wanted to uh…. I wanted to be a… princess." I say and Violet chuckles a bit.
"Frilly dress and tiara?" She asked and I nodded.
"But also a Sword, A warrior princess." I say and she nods.
"Well, you're half way there." She says and I nod at this.
"Well I was eight when this happened, now that I really think about it, I would like to be a doctor… just like my mom." I say.
"So how did your parents uh… die? I mean if they are." Brody asked.
"They were on a trip in Savanna…. They never came home." I tell her.
"Oh, I'm sorry." She says.
"Nah it's fine, I was never supposed to find them but when I did….. it wasn't the best case." I say.
"How?" Violet tried to ask but stopped and I look at her.
"It's fine to ask, I haven't talked about it for years." I say and she nods as I think about that day.
"I was nine years old, I was begging Lee for us to go find my parents, I wanted to see them alive and…. I was stupid, I use to have a walkie talkie but I lied saying it was broken, and this man radioed me looking for people, and I talked to him, told him all the things that have happened, I trusted this man because he said he was with my parents, saying they were ok and alive you know…. And then we get to Savanna, Lee had taken my radio and it goes off, I was a bit freaked cause he would know, I did something bad…. Anyway I ran away with the man and he lied about my parents he… lied saying he was with them…. Well Lee came and saved me, I… I shot the man because he was going to shoot Lee, well when it was over lee opened the door and a Walker was right there just standing and staring at him then it sees me and tries to get me, he shot it and I mentioned he was covered in gross stuff, turned out it was walker blood and guts and bleh." I say and Violet looks at me.
"Anyway Lee covered me in the walkers sent and we walked out the Marsh House into this huge and I mean fucking huge heard of walkers…. We were getting close to the docks and I turn my head a bit at two walkers that looked so familiar… I stopped and I…. I found my parents…. Walkers as they looked back at me." I explain as we get to a truck.
"Holy fucking Shit…. I'm so sorry Clementine." Brody says and I nod.
"Yea…. Anyway that was the same day I had to shoot Lee, he was bitten and he still came to save me, imagine that… I was a brat to him because I was selfish I was still living in a fantasy world thinking my parents were alive I never stopped to think they could be dead, I wanted to go home with them but well, shit happens." I say.
"I don't know what I would have done." Violet says.
"I know people that let their family turn and kept them like that, the stranger had his wife's head in a bowling bag and he talked to it." I say remembering that moment.
"Sick." Brody says and we finally get to the shack.
"I know a guy that said if he got bit, then he wanted to be a Walker, just so he could turn others." AJ says and they look at him and I nod.
"Yea… lets just say he uh, didn't get the option to do that." I say as Brody goes into the shack and I look at Violet.
"We had a kid that got bitten and well… he was really young, like…. Seven I think, anyway he got bit by this strange guy that came at us when we were going to head on a field trip and we honestly thought he had rabies…. Well he turned and bit another boy and we were all freaking out when the owner of the school shot them both, the teachers all left except for Mrs. Martin our nurse, and the radio was saying something about the dead coming back, then the radio station went out and that was that." Violet explained and I think a bit.
"So uh…. You were in a relationship?" I asked and she nods as Brody comes out the shack and hands us some spears, Brody goes and checks the traps as Violet and I look down the stream to catch anything, AJ went a bit more down and I kept my watch on him.
"Yea… I was." I hear Violet and I look at her.
"What uh…. Happened? If you want to talk about it." I say and she looked to the waters and stabbed a fish as she put it in the bucket.
"I uh… Her name was Minnie… well Minerva but I called her Minnie…. But fuck she was pretty tall…. Uh…. Anyway I wanted to work in the greenhouse we have and I had an argument with Marlon so Minnie and her twin sister Sophie went with him and Brody instead, and uh…. When they came back…. Marlon told us that the twins had died… Walkers got them…. Brody didn't talk to me for weeks, I think she thought I blamed her for what happened." She says as she looked to Brody.
"I never did blame her though, I never blamed anyone but the Walkers for what happened, but I kept my distance from her because she was scared of me, and would have panic attacks till I asked Ruby to tell her I wasn't mad…. I just…. I just wish I was there when Minnie was… dying because I… I don't know…. I wanted to have a chance to say goodbye." She says quietly and AJ comes running up to us with a fish and Violet praises him as he goes back to fishing.
"I know that feeling….. it's hard for people to lose loved ones in this world…. I thought AJ had been dead for a while when I was part of this group, the New Frontire…. They took him from me when he was sick and I just…. lost it you know, he was all I had left in this world and I thought the worse before I thought the good because I learned that no one in this world gives a crap if you're a kid…. Stupid fucking survival of the fittest, well look at us now I lived longer than those assholes and I'm just a kid." I say or well ranted as I got a fish and placed it in the bucket.
"People took him?" She asked and I nodded.
"That's why AJ and I don't like it when people come behind us, before I met you guys we ran into a group of bandits and… they were fucking monsters, literal monsters they had kids that they….. let's just say those people are gone now, so…. So no need to worry about them at least." I tell her as I looked to her and she nods understanding.
"Did they…. If you don't want to talk about it it's fine you know." She says and I nod and smirk.
"They never got the chance, when one guy tried I bit the fuckers finger right off." I tell her and she stops fishing and I shake my head a bit.
"I know how to handle situations like that, never get trapped, don't trust adults, hell I don't mean to be rude and all but I still don't trust your group… after two people in my group fought it got me thinking a lot…. Like everyday I kept thinking, am I next? Would this person I considered a friend do the same to me? Would he hurt AJ? I know he loved us but…. After all this… I don't know anymore." I tell her honestly.
"Nah it's not rude to say that at all, shit I'm still keeping my eye on you." She says and I smirk at this.
"That's smart, but don't just keep your eye on me, keep one on AJ too, the moment he says something doesn't feel right or something happens to him, he can handle himself but I would do anything to keep him safe." I admit as I catch one more fish before Brody comes over to us.
"Fishing traps ain't got nothing in them." She says and I nod.
"Sometimes you got to leave some type of food in there for them to go inside, AJ's parents old group would catch fish a lot and well Pete taught me a few things before he died, sadly we don't have fishing poles or you know, time." I explained as I handed the spear back as Violet got the bucket when AJ put the last fish in it.
"Well we use to do that but still we didn't get a lot, and Marlon said it was a waste." Brody says as we walk.
"Not if it's the stuff you can't eat, use those parts, unless you want to get sick." I say.
"We know, but Marlon won't let us." Violet says.
"That's dumb, what you guys feed the walkers the bad parts?" I joked and they shook their heads no.
"That would be stupid, it's like feeding a stray they'd come back." Brody says.
"Well yea." I say.
"Hey this is dumb to ask but, but where would you go if you didn't have to worry about the dead?" Brody asked as we got to the truck.
"Hmmm, Mexico." I admit.
"Heheh want a Taco or something?" Violet asked and I looked at her then to the truck and I shake my head as I remembered Kenny asking me the same thing, telling me how he went there before he met Katjaa. I sigh a bit at the memory and look to AJ then back to Violet.
"No just better than freezing to death, I've stayed up north way to long with all these wars, communities against each other killing innocent people, kids…. It would just be better." I say.
"What about you AJ?" Violet asked.
"I'd go with Clementine." He says and I laugh as I rubbed his head.
"Well duh, what was he going to say Violet?" Brody asked her.
"Shit I don't know; he probably would have said Candy land." Violet says as she looked to Brody.
"And what Tell him it ain't real?" she says a bit mad.
"Well I mean I think the kid could handle it not being real I mean look around you." Violet admits.
"You can't crush a kids dream though." Brody says.
"He doesn't know a lot of kid things, well other than Disco Broccoli." I tell them.
"He's a cool dude." AJ says and I nod.
"I…. I didn't mean." Brody says.
"It's fine, I haven't told him a lot of kid things because well… I can't, heck I was eight when this started, I can't remember a lot about the world before the dead were walking." I tell her as we walk more.
"Well what do you remember?" Brody asked.
"Oh god lets see…. I was in the first grade, I played soccer but I didn't like it, I used to love playing in my treehouse a lot." I say as I remember having to hide from walkers and robbers when all this started, thinking about how I almost ran out of food. How Lee called for me while I was up there hiding from him as I held a hammer thinking about dropping it on his head. I remember watching and even helping my dad build it in the summer time too.
"Tree house hu?" Brody asked and I nodded.
"I hate it now." I say as we walk.
"Why would you hate that? Lord knows I wish I had one." Violet says and I nod as I look to her then to the woods.
"When my babysitter got bit by a Walker, I hid in there for days, barely any food, almost died in it…. Then Lee came and… I thought about dropping a hammer on his head." I chuckled a bit as I remember telling him I was thinking about it.
"Robbers came into my yard too, tried to get into the house to steal my parent's TV…. They were so god damn stupid; I mean the door was open, but before they could break a window Walkers came by and scared the hell out of them." I explained as we get to another section of the woods and I see a walker dangling in the trap dead and I look at it.
"Shit did louis and Aasim do this?" Brody asked and I look to them.
"This is common with you guys?" I asked thinking if I should be worried.
"No, not at all, we don't leave walkers in traps." Violet says as she goes up and unties it and I look around the area and see some boot imprints and a cigarette as I pick it up.
"Any of you guys smoke?" I asked.
"No, nothing to smoke." Violet tells me as she moves the walker away from the trap and Brody resets the trap.
"You know if any people have been around here or live near here?" I asked.
"No, we've seen a few people pass by but we don't talk to them." Brody tells and AJ looked around a bit and I look around a bit. Then there was a gun shot and I take cover with AJ and I see the others do the same. AJ pulled his gun out and he handed it to me and I hand him my knife as I look around.
"SHOW YOURSELVES I KNOW THERE'S FOUR OF YOU!" I hear someone yell and I look in the revolver to see two bullets and I move to the side a bit only to get shot at as I moved back into hiding.
"LOWER THE DAMN WEAPON!" I yelled out the shooter.
"Oh, you'd like that wouldn't you, I said get the fuck out." The man says and I look to Brody and Violet as I motion for them to stay down and I keep the gun to my side as I slowly stand up and move a bit so the shooter could see at least half of me.
"DON'T SHOOT OK!" I yelled to them.
"SHUT THE HELL UP YOU DON'T MAKE DEMANDS!" The man yells and I see them come out and it was this hillbilly looking guy.
"Now lower your fucking gun and tell your friends to come out." The man says and I glared at him.
"No, how do I know you don't got any more people with you?" I asked and he laughed.
"Shit you're a fucking kid the fuck do you know." He laughed and I glared at him as he pointed his shotgun at me and I point my revolver at him.
"AH, I wouldn't do that if I were you girly." He says.
"Back off and I wont." I say.
"Like I said, you don't make the demands you little shit." He says as he gets closer. I make quick as I shoot at the man in the gut.
"RUN!" I say and they all start to run back to the school as I go to the man quickly to pistol whip him to knock him out but before I could he pointed his gun to them and I get in front of him quickly as he fired the gun hitting me instead, though the adrenalin was running I hit him knocking him out and I make a run for it. I have no clue how long it took me to get to the school but I did and Ruby hurries to me.
"Fucking hell what happened?" She asked.
"There was a guy he, fuck." I say as I hold my wound.
"Jesus, you get hurt a lot." She says as we head to the picnic table.
"Fuck it got you on the side but shit there's shrapnel." She says and I nod.
"CLEM!" I hear AJ yell as he comes up to me along with Brody and Violet.
"Shit, fuck are you ok?" Brody asked panicked and Violet just looked scared and I nod.
"Yea, just a nick on the side, Ruby's got me…. Fuck it burns like hell though." I say.
"I'll get some Peroxide." Violet says as she runs and Brody follows her.
"AND TWEEZERS!" Ruby yelled to her and I sigh.
"Fucking hell, What the hell happened out there?" Marlon asked as he came over to us.
"There was a man, he shot at us and we hid, I got in the way…. He's knocked out in the middle of the woods but for fuck sake I need to know, do you know if anyone is living around here? Cause if you do I need to know now because I'm not going to stay here or let AJ stay here if you're going to lie to me." I tell him.
"No, we didn't know of anyone living around here." He says a bit panicked and I glare at him a bit.
"Just hold still." Ruby says as Violet and Brody come back and Ruby works on me a bit.
"Fuck….I Fuck." Brody says panicked and I look at her.
"You ok?" I asked and she shakes her head no.
"Jesus, I mean… he fucking shot you, the man… what the fuck." Brody says as she backs away and Marlon goes over to her.
"Fuck." I mumble as ruby takes a piece of shrapnel out and she looked to me.
"You are one tough kid you know that." She says and I nod.
"God if you could see all the scars I have." I say.
"Yea I saw the huge one on your arm, and that burn mark." She says and I nod as she takes another piece out and I grumble a bit.
"Shit got one more piece but it's in there pretty good, it's going to hurt like hell." She says and I nod as I gripped the seat as she worked on it.
"FUCK!" I yell and she stops and I hold my side.
"I didn't get it, shit." She says and I nod a bit.
"Give me a bit… Please." I asked and she nods as I take a few breaths and I moved my hand away as she tried again. It took a while but she got the piece out and it was pretty big compared to the others and she cleans the wounds.
"Fucking hell, you'd think I'd be use to this type of stuff." I mumbled.
"Honestly, I don't think a grown adult would be able to handle it well like you did, shit, you been shot, you've got a huge scar on your arm from god knows what, you've got a busted eye too and you were a child when that happened… give yourself some form of credit you know." Ruby says as she stands up after patching me up and I sigh as I nod.
"Yea…. Thanks again." I say and she nods.
"If it starts to hurt or anything just holler." She tells me and I nod as I hold my side more.
"You are one tough girl I have to admit that." I hear and look up to see Marlon.
"Yea well it comes with years of experience."
"I can tell…. Anyway I'm sorry that you got hurt out there, we have no clue if people wonder in these woods anymore, we took down the signs for the school when all of this was new to us." He says and I nod as I get up a bit.
"Hey stay seated you might pull your stitches." I hear.
"Nah I'm good." I say as I stand.
"You can rest you know. You're not out in the woods anymore." He tells me.
"If I start to relax now I'll get use to it, and that's bad." I say.
"Who told you that? It's stupid if you ask me." He says.
"My friend Omid told me that, before he died….. you can't be to relaxed in a new place, it's fine for you guys and all but I can't do it, people take advantage of that and then they use it against you." I say as I walk over to AJ who was currently talking to Violet.
"You're ok." He says and I nod as he hugs me a bit.
"Hmm easy bud." I tell him and he nods as he moves away and I check him.
"He didn't get bit if that's what you're looking for, Brody and I made sure of that." Violet says as I look up at her.
"Thanks I just." I stop as I look to him.
"We always do this, it's our thing." He says to her and she nods.
"Not saying it's a bad thing, it's better to double check for these things." She says and I nod a bit as I watch AJ sit at the table with Tenn as he draws and I smile.
"Tenn is an artist." AJ says as he points to Tenns paper and I nod a bit.
"Shit, I still have the drawing you made when you were a toddler." I say.
"Seriously?" Violet asked and I nod.
"It…. It was all I had left of him when he got taken." I say as I take a seat next to him.
"Clementine can draw too, she's really good." AJ says and I shake my head at this.
"Really? Can we see?" Tenn asked and they both looked at me with puppy eyes and I rubbed my neck a bit as I nod a little.
"Sure…. Uh what do you want me to Draw?" I asked as he handed me a paper and pencil.
"How about Violet?" Tenn asked and I looked at him.
"A flower?" I asked.
"No." he says and points to Violet who was turning a bit red at the suggestion and I nod.
"Don't complain if I mess up on the eyes, I can't always get them right." I admit and she nods as I look at her and I start to make a sketch.
"So you drew a lot hu?" Violet asked and I nod.
"When I was little, with Lee he'd always find some papers for me to draw on so I wouldn't get bored or try to get involved with grown up talk as he called it…. Had some chalk once too, my pink one went missing though." I say as I remembered it.
"Is pink your favorite color?" She asked and I shook my head as I worked more.
"No… well not really, I love the color purple, it was my dad's favorite color and I loved my dad a lot." I say as I look back up to her and I erased some marks and worked again.
"It's good that you remember him you know." She says and I nod.
"Yea….. I try to remember what my parents looked like before but it's hard to remember…. You know what I mean?" I asked and she nods.
"Yea I do, it sucks when you can't remember what they looked like or their Voice. Some people think you do it intentionally but it's hard." She says and I nod as I sketch some more and erase some marks here and there.
"So how long does it take to draw people?" She asked and I look at her.
"Depends, might take a few hours or days, depends on how detailed I want to be." I answer as I work some more.
"Sophie was the artist here in our school." She tells me and I look at her.
"Minnie was the musical talent, all bluesy." She says as I watch her.
"They uh… they honestly didn't like killing walkers." She admits and I watch her some more.
"Why is that?" I asked.
"They still thought they were people, just sick and needed help, even after they saw the walkers kill our own, they still thought that way, and shit…. I tried to make sure they didn't have to kill walkers, told them they didn't have to and that I would…. We all agreed on that…. Now that I say this, I guess it was my fault they died, I should have pushed them to kill walkers, if I did they'd probably still be here with us." She explained and I look at her.
"I knew a guy that didn't want his daughter to know anything about this world, two years in and she still didn't understand the Walkers and how bad they really were, he sheltered her, didn't even teach her how to hold or shoot a gun…. I was eleven-year-old girl and I had to teach this fifteen-year-old how to hold a gun properly and to properly shoot, he didn't explain shit to me about his daughter other than she would cease to function, didn't tell me she had panic attacks, didn't explain that she was…. WAY more different that I was, you know… special." I say and Violet looked to me and nodded.
"He then tells me to stay the hell away from his daughter just cause I asked her to get me something for my arm, after he couldn't tell the difference between a walker bite and a dog bite." I say as I shake my head.
"I mean… how bad was it?" She asked and I looked from the paper to her.
"You could tell the difference between a dog bite and a walker bite, Walkers leave their teeth indented on your skin, dog bites are more jagged and deeper when they tear the skin because their teeth are so much different than ours, Doesn't matter anymore, I proved I wasn't bitten, I made my point after they come in when a walker attacked me and I…. killed the damn thing." I say getting a bit pissed off and I calm down a bit.
"It's stupid you know, people claim they're a doctor but don't know shit, it pisses me off to no end…. Because of them people die…. Shit the doctor that said AJ would never make it, he was a fucking junkie, wasting medicine to get high but says a baby having medicine was a waste for someone else's life… but look at him now, he's five and still alive and I know I made the right call." I say as I look to AJ and I patted his head which still had Kenny's hat.
"He had to at least know the basics, right?" She asked.
"Shit if I know, Carver trusted him with his people but what he did to me was a huge mistake, one that could have caused me to die because they didn't clean my arm and locked me in a filthy shed to die, reguardless, I took care of myself." I say as I show her my arm.
"Ever seen an eleven-year-old stich themselves up?" I asked and she shook her head no and I chuckled as I went back to drawing.
"Sucks a lot I'll tell you that much."
"I bet…. Wait, you got bit by a dog?" She asked and I nod.
"Yea… I don't like being around dogs." I tell her.
"Well… I know it's wrong for me to say this but Rosie is a good dog… If you uh… want to try and be near her I could help if you want that is, I wont force you." She says and I look at her.
"I'll think about that." I tell her and she nods and I work on the sketch more and sigh as I make a mistake and erase some parts.
"I use to love animals." She says and I smile.
"I want to say you look like a cat person." I say and she laughed and I look at her.
"Well, I'm not…. I wanted a Chinchilla." She says.
"What is that?" AJ asked and I look to him and then to her.
"It's…. it's hard to explain, it's like a rabbit, but WAY fluffier, and you can't give them baths with water because of how fluffy they are so they take sand baths, they're really cute and they bark too, not like a dog but um… I'm ranting." She says.
"Nah it's good, you seem to be well versed on it." I say and she nods.
"I wanted one so badly but… we couldn't afford it, and well, they're hard o take care off if you don't know a lot about them, and they love attention." She explained to him. She talked with AJ more about animals and I smiled as I saw her smile as well.
"Clementine saw a cow once." AJ says and I nod.
"Yea, Mable was her name I think… or Marble I can't remember." I say as I finished one section of Violet and showed her.
"Holy Shit." She says and I chuckle.
"Woah, that's amazing Clementine." Tenn says and I nod.
"Thanks Tenn." I say.
"Shit, looks like a picture." Violet says and I nod as I get back to work on it.
"Hey you guys, We need to go talk with Marlon." I hear and looked to Louis.
"You too Clem, he thinks you should be involved after well." He says and I nod as I set the drawing down and I tell AJ to stay with Tenn as Violet, Louis and I went to Marlon as he talked to the others.
"Hey you guys." He says and I nod as I stand and listen.
"Well we need to find more food." He says.
"Then extend the Safe Zone." Aasim tells him.
"Safe Zone?" I asked and he looked to me.
"Shit right I didn't explain that." Marlon says as he pulls out a map that they made themselves and I look at it.
"This red section is the safe zone, we don't go out this area, clearly why it's named that, and I can't extend it Aasim." Marlon says.
"You say we need more food but no animals come close to the school, we have to do something." Aasim argues back at him and I look at the map and see the train station labled and I point to it.
"There, AJ and I we went inside there, found a trap door and there was a lot a food, we could go there." I explained.
"That's outside the safe zone." Marlon tells me.
"Look I understand completely why you made this safe zone and all but if you can't extend it, and you can't get any food from it, this is going to be your best shot, that stuff is just sitting there for the taking, the original owners are dead." I say.
"How would you know?' Mitch asked a bit pissed and I look at him.
"They were walkers, I had to kill them to get the key to the security door, trust me when I say this there is plenty of food there…. And there should still be if they grenade didn't destroy all of it." I mumbled the last part.
"Grenade?" Ruby asked.
"It was rigged I didn't know, that's what caused a lot of the walkers to come out and how I ended up crashing the car." I say.
"Shit, then the place is infested, there is no way we're going there now." Marlon says and I think.
"I can go, I'm not part of the group technically and if I die you didn't lose something important at least." I say.
"Shit you must be suicidal or something." Violet says.
"Not really, but if I can help I can, I learned one good thing in this world." I say to all of them.
"The answer is No Clementine, lets be honest here, we haven't had problems till you showed up, how do we know you weren't working with that one guy you all saw in the woods." Marlon says and I look at him.
"The fuck? I'm not, I got fucking shot by him, I have no clue about this area, it's new to AJ and I." I tell him.
"Well how do we know that?" He says.
"Shit man there's no easy way to prove anything, what you think I carry a camera with me? I can tell you all the people I have met are dead, all of them, AJ and I have been on our own for years, I've been on my own for years." I tell him.
"Well how can we trust that you won't go talking to that man hu?' He says and I glare at him and I shake my head.
"You think I want to go find him and have a fucking Tea party with him? Sorry but he more than likely got eaten by walkers when I knocked him out, Look I'm offering to go and get you guys food, at least to help you like you helped me, I don't give two shits if you want me to stay here long or not, but I at least want to pay back for all the help I've gotten, seems fair." I say.
"I can go with her to make sure she doesn't talk to the guy if he's still alive." Violet offered.
"You want to make things difficult don't you Violet." He says to her.
"Hey, I'm not trying to make anything difficult, I just want Tenn and Willy to not starve, and Clem has to look out for AJ, do you want kids to starve Marlon? Look I'll make sure to watch her carefully, if something goes wrong, I'll just head back here." She explained.
"What does, 'Safe Zone' mean to you? Shit you ran out there with Louis to help them." He says and I look at them.
"I just…. Marlon if we can't find food now then what? We don't have a working greenhouse anymore because of this stupid Safe Zone, look around nothing is safe, we all understand you want to keep us safe and we appreciate it, but if there's food and Clem knows where it's at, it's best we try then not." She explained to him calmly and he sighed.
"Fine fuck it, you Louis and Clementine will go look for that train station, and Clementine, if anything happens to any of them, you and your boy will be gone, I don't care." He says and I nod.
"Loud and Clear." I say and he nods and we all go our separate ways and I sigh.
"Is he always like this?" I asked Louis as he walked next to me.
"He's just looking out for us." He says.
"I know, I know…. Is he the only one in charge? He seems stressed." I asked.
"I…. Yea he is." Louis says.
"You know, that much stress can cause harm to him." I admit.
"And you would know?" He asked and I nod.
"Carver, he was taking care of a group of so many people that could turn their backs on him you know, got to make a lot of people happy, Lilly too, when she took over my first group it caused stress, especially when we were all going to starve, we didn't have much rations for ten people, so she made Lee do it, it was hard on him, he fed the kids first though." I say as we both got our supplies and I see him carrying a chair.
"Never did introduce you to Chairles." He says and I look at him as he laughed at his own joke.
"Uh hi?" I asked and he smiles a bit as he walks to the gate and I follow him. We stand there a bit as we wait for Violet and AJ came over.
"Hey bud, you want to sit this one out? Just for today?" I asked and he looked to me.
"Who will protect you?" He asked.
"Don't worry little dude, Louis and I can watch her, don't worry." Violet tells him and I nod and he looked to me and I watch him.
"Please Just relax, you need it after today." I tell him.
"Well you need to relax too." He tells me and I sigh a bit.
"You're not going to stay put are you?" I asked.
"Nope."
"Jesus, please just this once AJ? You can watch over these guys, maybe interrogate them a bit?" I asked and he looked to them and then back to me and nods.
"Fine, but if Clem gets hurt, you have to take care of her." He tells the two teens and they nod.
"Can do Dude." Louis says and he nods as he runs over to Tenn as Louis, Violet and I head out the gates and I look at the map.
"Interrogation hu?" Violet asked and I nod.
"I just want him to relax, trust me he's just going to ask dumb things…. Or maybe not." I say as I think about it.
"Don't worry, He'll be safe with the others, nothing to worry about." Louis tells me and I sigh.
"Haven't traveled with New people in a while, it's just all so new to me, being alone or with AJ." I admit as we walk more.
"Well you're with us now." Violet tells me and I nod.
"You know AJ would always ask me if we would find a place to call home…. You know how hard it is to lie to him?" I ask.
"I bet it's hard, he is a tot, you can't really lie to them about these things." Louis answers and I nod.
"God his face would fall when I'd tell him no… 'No, we can't stay here AJ it's not safe' or 'No AJ there are monsters here we have to go.' It gets old so I had to start telling him that we'll see about this place." I tell them both as I look at the map again.
"I wouldn't be able to lie to Tenn about these things, but he's older so he'd understand more." Violet says.
"AJ understands sometimes, but sometimes he pushes some buttons and I get mad at him…. It's not that I want to it just happens, then he wont talk to me for a day or two and I would feel really bad." I look up from the map once we get close to the train station and I take a look around a bit as I see walkers around the area and I sigh.
"Lot of DeadHeads here." Louis says and I nod.
"I'll take blame for this." I say as I get a good look and I see the bell and think as I look to them.
"Alright, someone has to ring the bell and then when the Walkers are distracted two of us can start heading to the station, I can give a signal and then one of you can move to the next cart and ring the bell there and we can get in then get out." I explained.
"Sounds like a plan." Violet says.
"I'll ring the bell for you guys and then you two head in." Louis volunteered and I nod as he goes and grabs the bell and makes his way to the first cart. I wait until he made some sounds and I go ahead and see a few Walkers that I took out. When that was done I headed to the barrels and I see Violet kill a Walker as she runs up to my side and I nod as I stand up a bit and wave to louis as he nods and heads to the next cart. I take cover again and we wait a bit.
"Shit, Louis come on." Violet mumbled.
"Give him some time." I say and then we hear the bell sound again and I get up and we run into the station. I make sure the door is closed and I sigh as I look to the walker couple.
"Shit." Violet says and I sigh as I head to the booth and I open the door a bit.
"It's fine they're dead trust me." I tell her.
"It… it's not that just… did they do that to themselves?" She asked and I nodded.
"Yea they left a note saying they wanted this, they drank a lot of Poison." I tell her as I opened the hatch and I nod and looked to see a few duffle bags and I grab them.
"Alright I'll go in grab whatever and hand them to you." I tell her and I go down the hatch and grabbed some jars and set them on the ledge for her to grab, it took a bit due to me having to crouch a lot but we got a lot of food. I come up one last time to see Violet looking at the door a bit and I turned to see a man looking at us.
"Well, Shit it's my lucky day." The man says and I glare at him as he pointed his gun on me and I saw he was missing an arm and I glare at him.
"Guess I can beat the hell out of you after what you've done to me." He says and I just keep glaring as he went and grabbed another bag and went to our full one.
"Now, I'm going to take some food, seems like you owe me that much since you made me lose an arm, you bitch." He says.
"You fucking deserved it." I tell him and he laughed a bit at that.
"You're going to keep your mouth shut, or your girlfriend here is going to end up with a bullet in her head." He says and I keep quiet. I see Violet about to move near him but I shake my head no as he set his gun down close to him and he filled up his bag a bit.
"Good, now I'd best be going." He says as he lugs the bag like a backpack and he grabbed the gun and left and I shake my head.
"Fuck." I mumbled.
"I could have gotten him." Violet says and I shake my head.
"Just drop it ok, I didn't want either of us to get shot." I say as I go back to getting more food. It wasn't long till we had to hurry out the train station, we had to kill a few walkers on the way out and I look around more as we head back to the school.
"I saw a guy leaving the train station, what happened?" Louis asked.
"Shit I don't know anymore; he was the same guy that shot Clementine." Violet tells him.
"And you let him get away?" Louis asked.
"Look he had a gun doesn't matter if he had one arm or not, I just didn't want anyone getting hurt." I say as we walked more.
"But you could have taken him."
"Oh, right let me just become the flash and quickly hop out the trap door before he could grab his gun and shoot me, smart move there." I mumbled as we walked more.
"Clem, we didn't mean." Violet tried to say.
"It's fine, it was a mistake…. Should have shoved him in the pack of walkers." I say as we get to the gates. Willy opened the gate as we walked in and set the food on the picnic table and I head over to AJ.
"What's wrong with her?" I hear Mitch ask.
"Nothing, we saw that guy again, he took some of the food." Violet explains.
"And you let him?" Mitch asked.
"Not like we had a choice; he had a damn gun pointed at us." She tells him.
"I didn't… I didn't mean that." He says and I look to AJ.
"Wait you saw the guy again?" Brody asked and I looked to her a bit as I left AJ with Tenn and I walked over to the older kids.
"Yea, he had one arm this time, seems he got bitten when we saw him last." I tell her.
"Shit, he's got to have a group than, god this is so fucked." She says.
"It's fine we can deal with it." I tell her.
"Deal with it? Are you kidding me, he saw you and you let him go, what if he brings more people, what if he followed you?" She says pissed.
"You have no idea what people are like out there." She says and I glare at her.
"No idea? Hello, I got my eye taken out when I was eleven god damn years old, I've dealt with a bunch of fucked up people, ranging from cannibals to child rapists for fuck sake, I defiantly know what people are like out there, because unlike you and everyone else here I had to grow the hell up in that type of environment, and it fucking sucks a lot, so don't fucking test me." I tell her and they all look at me.
"Woah Clem." Louis says.
"She didn't mean." Violet tells me and I glare at them then AJ comes up and speaks.
"Clementine Breath." I glare at him for a bit and I breath a bit.
"Clem, remember what we do when we're mad?" He asked and I grip my hand into a fist as I look at them.
"Sorry just… sorry." I mumbled.
"Good, now breath." AJ says and I look to him.
"What are you my mom?" I joked and he laughed just a bit and I take a few breaths.
"Look, I know what people are like out there, it's a god-awful thing to experience, so just…. don't tell me I don't know cause I do…. And I'm sorry for getting agro about it." I tell Brody.
"It's fine I shouldn't have said that, I forgot." She says and I nod a bit as I hold my hand out to her and she shakes it and I let go.
"Jesus, I thought there was going to be a fight or something." Marlon says as he comes up to us.
"AJ was able to stop it." Louis says and I shake my head a bit.
"I'm going to head to bed early." I tell them as I walk away.
"What about dinner?" Louis asked.
"Give it to AJ." I say as I go into the dorms and head to bed for some sleep.