(Clementine's Pov)

I hear some light snoring as I slowly wake up. I looked to see the flames had dimmed down a bit and I slowly get up and set some wood on the fire to keep the cabin warm. I look outside to see more snow falling and I think about having to go out later today to get more wood. It seems like AJ and I would be here a little longer because the snow had reached to what looked like would be my knees. Did it really snow that much in such a short time? I then notice that it was snowing a little harder and I rubbed the back of my neck a bit.

I then look over to the couch to see Violet still sleeping so I go back over to her and lay back in my spot. She moved her hand a bit to place it back onto my back and she rubs it a bit. It felt nice but I felt bad if I did wake her up. I look to her a bit and she has one eye open as she looked to me and I lay my head back on her chest.

"Cold?" She asked.

"No, just wanted to make sure we didn't wake up to a cold cabin." I tell her and she nods.

"I'll get some more wood in a bit." She says quietly.

"Hmm, snowing pretty hard out there… think we should get it now?" I asked as she sits up a bit and looked to the window.

"Fuck… yeah now would be best before it's all covered up." She says and I nod as we both get up and get our heavy jackets and boots on. She grabbed her rifle and I grabbed my pistol as we walked out the door. Violet and I head to the back of the cabin and we would grab as much wood as we could then bring it inside. It took a good seven to eight trips before we felt like we had enough for the next week or even two.

"Well, if we get stuck in the storm, we can at least be warm." She says quietly and I nod. I look to her a bit and she looked to me. She then patted my shoulder gently and I watch as she headed over to the window a bit.

"Doubt there is anything in the traps… if the snow isn't that bad in the morning I'll go out and check them." She says.

"I'll come with." I tell her and she nods.

"Alright… well we will look at the traps later and then, about two hours." She says and I nod. We go and take a seat on the couch and she looked to me. She then looked to the side and I look at her more. she then grabbed her guitar and she looked to it and then strummed a few strings. I notice her look to the window and then to her guitar then back to the window.

"Something wrong?" I ask her and she looked to me a bit.

"No nothing is wrong." She tells me and I look back to the window. A few days pass and we had gotten a deer. We were just taking it the cabin to clean it when I notice a set of footprints that wasn't ours. I see Violet looking at them as well and she looked up to me. We head to the cabin and set the deer to the side as I held my gun and Violet had her rifle up. AJ was behind up and I open the door and turn my head to the side and saw someone raising their hands up and I keep my gun on them.

"The fuck." They say and Violet comes in and she points their rifle at the person.

"Jesus fuck… Till." I mutter and shake my head.

"Clem… how are you?" She asked and I just look to her.

"Um… so nothing?" She asked.

"Who the fuck are you?" Violet asked and I look to her then to Till and I shake my head.

"I'm Till and you are?" She responds to Violet.

"Violet… how do you know Clem?" Violet asked.

"She was with my group; how do you know Clem?" She asked Violet.

"Same thing." Violet says and I look to Violet a bit. She still had her rifle pointed at Till and I look back to the girl.

"So, you're the girl that wacked me in the head with the cast iron?" Violet asked.

"Maybe." Till says as she looked to me then back to Violet.

"Well, I think you should leave my cabin." Violet tells her and Till looked to me.

"Uh, well-."

"No, no uh wells about it I want you to leave my cabin." Violet tells Till as they have this stare down. I look to Till as she avoided eye contact with Violet as she looked to me and I holster my gun and raise my hands up. It wasn't my place, it's Violet's new home.

"You would throw someone out in this weather?" Till asked. I look to Violet as she looked to Till. She looked a little conflicted on this. I know Violet is a good person, but again this isn't my place.

"You hit me in the head with an Iron skillet, at this point be lucky I'm not punching you in the face." Violet tells her and I look to Till who looked a little surprised at what Violet said.

"Ok… Ok." Till says as she moved to head to the door but she stopped at me. I look to her and then I look a bit to Violet who was watching us.

"I miss you." Till tells me and I look to her. Before she could say anything, Violet pulled her back and away from me.

"Do not fucking talk to her." Violet warned. If I'm going to be honest it was a surprise but not really either.

"I can talk to her; you don't own her." Till says and Violet shoves her.

"And I'm telling you not to fucking talk to her, I didn't say she couldn't talk to you." Violet tells her. Till looked to me and I just keep silent and I look to Violet.

"She threatening you?" Till asked. I quickly look to her just as Violet shoved her and I had to jump out the way and AJ was going up to Violet so I grabbed him and pulled him back before he could get hurt. Violet had grabbed Till by the collar of her shirt and I could see her rifle pointed at Tills stomach.

"I said get out of my home." Violet tells her. A little too calm. Till doesn't say anything as she looked to me then to Violet.

"Now get the fuck out of my home." Violet tells her and I pull AJ to the side as Violet shoved Till back making her falter in her steps. I could see them glaring at each other as Till grabbed her own gun and I look at AJ as he had his own gun out and I placed my hand on it. He looked to me and I keep an eye on Till as she walked past me. Violet then moved past me as she went out and I tell AJ to stay as I follow Violet who was watching as Till walked into the woods.

"She's going to be back." I tell her and look to Violet who nods.

"I'll keep watch tonight… how bad was that group?" She asked as we see Till gone and we head back in.

"Not all of them were bad, just… I can't explain it… just her, she's been an issue." I tell Violet and I look to AJ as he looked to us. He was over by the window and he looked to us.

"I just wan to know where Amos is… he was with her before." I then look to Violet as I say this and she looked to the side a bit. We had searched the cabin and didn't find anyone else inside, we then went back out grabbed the deer and brought it inside the house before we barricaded the doors and even the windows. The one thing I will say is that Violet had prepared a lot the past few days. We grabbed the wood that she made to fit the windows and made sure it was flushed and then grabbed any heavy items and set them against the doors.

"Ok… so… time to clean the deer." She says and I smile a bit and shake my head.

"The floor is going to get messy you know." I joke and I hear her laugh.

"You're right… let's lay down some thin paper towels." She says and I hear AJ laugh a little and we look to him.

"I got the buckets." He says and I look to Violet.

"Hey better than going out there." She says and I shake my head a bit at this. We took our time cleaning the deer and Violet mentioned that we could clean the skull and have it mounted anywhere in the house. When all of this was done we set the meat near the coldest part of the house for now and AJ went to what he has deemed his room. Violet and I made sure he had eaten before he had gone to bed of course and we took a seat on the couch as the flames were going in the fireplace. We were lucky to have some coffee with us and Violet had set the kettle above the flames so it could heat up.

When she had gotten up to check on the kettle she then came over to me and took a seat on the couch but I could still see her watching the windows, even though no one could see through them and she couldn't see out there. I get it she was being protective but I wasn't helpless.

"How are you?" I asked her and she looked to me a bit.

"I'm fine… what about you?" She asked.

"Fine as well… you know I could have delt with her right?" I asked and we look at each other and she smiles a bit.

"Oh I know." She says then grabbed her guitar.

"Why did you pull her away than?" I asked.

"Didn't like how close she was to you is all… you wouldn't have been able to get a good swing." She says and I look to the floor a bit.

"You're lying." I tell her and we both look to each other.

"And if I am?" She asked and I raise a brow at her.

"Why lie to me?" I asked.

"It's not a bad lie, I could be doing it to lie to myself." She says and I was a little confused at this.

"It's not bad to ask for help, it's not bad to have someone help you even when you didn't ask… I just didn't like her close to you after what you told me." She says and I lean back a bit then AJ ran down the stairs and over to us as he had his book. We stopped talking for a bit and I take this time to think. She thought I needed help? Did I give that away? I don't even know what I was feeling at that moment.

I look over to her as AJ was talking about his book and Violet looked interested in what he was saying. This also got me thinking about leaving again. Did I really want to leave? Did I really want to just leave all of this? It was nice, we know what we are doing, I promised her I would at least try didn't I? Was it a promise to her or to myself? I know Lee said to keep going but I'm starting to get tired. Not just physically but mentally as well. I was tired of people using me for their own gain. I was tired of people having to rely on me, with AJ it's different, he's just a kid, he's my little brother at this point. He's my family and all I have left.

Violet get's up from her spot and I watch her as she goes and checks on the coffee then she looked to me as she grabbed two of those camping mugs. I nod just a bit and looked to my lap a bit. I didn't notice she was handing the mug to me until I feel and see a hand on my lap. I look up just a bit to see Violet as she looked to me with some worry.

"Hey is everything all right?" She asked and I nod and gently take the cup from her and nod again but in thanks. I don't know how long it was that I was staring at the coffee, until I look up to see AJ gone and Violet was looking at me but she didn't say anything. I look back to the coffee and took a sip. It had gone cold.

"You sure you're ok there Clem? I didn't mean to make you feel… bad?" She asked.

"It's not that… I… I had gotten use to me doing the work for others, and it's… I have to realize that not everyone is so reliant and that I need to have help sometimes." I tell her.

"Wise words." She says and I look at her as she looked to me.

"Can I just say something?" She asked and I nod.

"Did you ever take an honest to god break in all these years?" She asked and I think.

"Does sleeping in at the school count?" I asked and she chuckled a bit.

"No… no I don't count that… I mean… have you ever taken the time to actually sit, think, and wonder about what you want to do when all this is over?" She asked. I do take the time to think about that question.

"You want to know what I want to do, when all of this is done?" I asked and she nods.

"Yeah of course." She says and I think.

"I want to settle down… someplace like this… not having to worry about Walkers, not having to worry about people coming and taking my home, or anyone from me… but that's just wishful thinking." I tell her.

"Do you see that for yourself though? Walkers can't live forever, bodies decay to bone, bones don't move." She says and I look to her. She was right.

"I know." I say quietly and then she comes over to me and takes my mug away.

"I'll freshen this up for you." She says and I nod as she gets up and does just that. When she handed me the fresh coffee, I thank her and take a sip of it. I then take a deep breath and watch her as she goes and takes a seat in the recliner and I watch her as she was looking at her rifle. I watch as she just looked to it then she shook her head and set it to the side.

"What do you want to do?" I asked her and she looked to me.

"Pardon?" She asked.

"If Walkers are all gone… what do you want to do?" I asked her.

"I don't know." She says and she closed her eyes a bit as she leaned back in the recliner.

"Don't have much of a purpose you know… I don't know anyone out there unless my parents are somehow alive, but I wouldn't want to see them." She says.

"I know your dad was a drunk but what about your mom?" I asked and she looked to the side a bit.

"Why? She never came for me." She says and I get a little mad at her.

"But that's your mom." I tell her and she looked to me. She then sat up a bit and cleared her throat a bit.

"I don't know if they are alive or dead… I don't want to know if they are, I want to think… that I'm the last one in my family… so when I do die, I can shove it in their faces that I made it longer than them." She says and I look to her as she looked to me.

"And if you were to die tomorrow?" I asked.

"Then at least… at least I'll probably see my grandparents again." She says quietly and I look to her.

"You know… a few years back, I'd say… nine years ago… I wanted to just, go out into the town and find a gun." She says and I watch her as she looked to me then she got up and poked the fire a bit to keep it going.

"I mean it was smart to think that." I say and she looked to me then she looked to the ground.

"…Sad too." She whispers and I look to her a bit confused. What did she mean by that?

"Why?" I asked carefully and she sets a log on the fire and looked to it.

"Was thinking about blowing my brain out… just one bullet." She says and I look at her as she sighed and then went back to the recliner.

"I was scared… I saw what Walkers can do… I thought at the time that I would at least be going out on my own terms." She says quietly and she looked to me.

"You ever feel like that? So scared that just the thought of taking yourself out seems like the best idea." She says and I look to her. I did think that way at one point. When AJ was gone and I thought he was dead.

"Yeah… when I thought AJ was dead." I tell her and she nods. I take another drink of my coffee and I could hear the wind picking up a bit outside. I look back to the flames and then to Violet as we were just quiet.

"I don't think… people are weak for wanting to take themselves out… others thought they were and I didn't understand at the time cause I was so young, but… when I wanted to do it myself… I understood." I tell her and she nods and I watch her as she thinks.

"It's sad that I would hope you'd leave soon." She says and I watch her.

"When I saw that rope in the smaller cabin… was thinking about taking that rope and hanging it in the rafters… sometimes I feel like if Walkers can feel pain still… that I deserve it." She says.

"Why?" I asked and we just look at each other. She chuckled a bit and rubbed the back of her head and I look at her.

"I feel bad for lots of things… guess I felt bad for what I… for how I made Louis feel." She says to me.

"Why feel bad for him? He-."

"Doesn't understand lots of things… he's an emotional guy… too emotional if you ask me but… I feel like I would understand if I was in his position." She tells me and I shake my head.

"I doubt you'd be fist fighting him over a dumb girl." I mutter and take another drink of my coffee.

"No… I might have… you're not a dumb girl… everyone makes mistakes." She says and I look to her.

"You ever get anyone killed because you'd listen to a stranger and not someone who took you in?" I asked her and she moves in a way to crack her back.

"No… but I never saved my grandmother… actually… I don't think I ever saved anyone… couldn't save Minerva, couldn't save Tenn." She says quietly and I look to her a bit as she was looking at her hands a bit.

"What happened to them wasn't your fault." I tell her.

"I could have been the one taken… I should have been the one taken… not two." She mutters and I get up and go over to her and she looked to me.

"What happened to Sophie and Minerva, and Tenn was not and never will be your fault." I tell her. She scratches the side of her head a bit and then shook her head.

"If I just went that day Tenn would have had both his sisters… that's all." She says and I look at her and then I cup her face gently. I then move my right hand to the back of her head and I feel her move so her forehead was against mine.

"It's sad… I miss them… it's sad that I miss Minerva… she wasn't a bad person." She says quietly and I nod just a little. So, little she might not have known I did nod.

"When I was on my own, I always thought of Lee… all the good things he did for me, all the good memories." I tell her and she nods.

"If I had just gone." She mutters and leans onto me.

"What happened, happened but it was not your fault... I know you feel like it… it's called survivor's guilt." I tell her and she takes a breath.

"Yeah." She says quietly. We sit here for who knows how long and I started to feel a little tired. I look to Violet as she looked to me at the same time.

"You can go to bed, I'm ok." She tells me and I shake my head at this.

"Nah I'm good, I can stay up longer than you." I tell her and she laughed a bit and nods.

"I bet you can." She says and we listened to the wind pick up more. I look to the flames and watch as Violet goes and adds some more wood and I take a breath as I lay fully on the couch.

"We're going to have to keep our guard up if Till is around, I've never seen her get violent but I don't know." I tell Vilet and she nods.

"Yeah… she seems like the type to hold a grudge though." She says and I shrugged.

"Wouldn't know." I mutter and then take my hat and place it on my face. I feel her place a blanket on me and I sighed and moved my hat a bit as she went to the recliner. She then looked to me and nods a bit.

"Just incase you fall asleep." She says and I nod.

"Thanks." I say and she nods at this. I guess I was really tired because I wake up to a slight breeze and I look to see Violet as she had looked out the door and then closed it. She then walked over to the fire and set two new logs and then she went to the recliner and took a seat. I watch her as she grabbed a book off the stand next to her and she began reading it.

I don't think she noticed I was awake, or she did notice but didn't want to say anything. I watch her as she kept reading her book and would flip the page then she would look to the door a bit then back to her book. This would go on for a few minutes and before she finally looked over to me and she noticed I was awake.

"Well good morning." She says and I nod.

"Is the sun out?" I asked and she nods.

"Yep… I'm about to make some breakfast, you want any coffee?" She asked and I nod as I get up and so does she. She made some in the camping pot and I went and helped her with the deer meat. AJ then came down and helped with the rest of breakfast. Violet then went and got some coffee for us and AJ had some water saying coffee was gross. We both laughed at this and Violet drank her coffee and so did I. the deer meat was really good, and we were just content on having full stomachs for the morning.

"Going to have to get some more later on, I think the rest of the deer should last maybe two weeks, wasn't that big." Violet says and I nod. I then get up when we were all done and take the plates over to the sink so we could clean them later. Violet, AJ and I then went outside and I looked around a bit as the wind picked up.

"You'd think there would be no snow at this point." Violet mutters as we had to shovel some of the snow from the smaller cabin just to get in.

"Right? But it still might be early in January at this point so it's no surprise… just be glad it isn't like in Antarctica." I say and she laughed.

"I think penguins live there, to be honest I wouldn't mind chilling with a penguin for a bit." She joked and I couldn't help but think of her just trying to pet the penguin. I shake my head with a slight laugh and I look to her with a smile and she smiled back at me.

"What's a penguin?" AJ asked and we look to him.

"I'm going to have to get you a book on animals." I tell him and he looked to me.

"We can head into town; I know the bookstore was barely touched." Violet suggests and I nod and think.

"Till might be there." I mutter.

"Well, she knows better than to bother us." Violet says as we finished clearing a path for us to walk to the cabin to the smaller cabin. I think back to what Violet had talked to me about last night and I look to her a bit. Did she still want to hurt herself? Or was she ok? anyone can fake being happy, I know that better than anyone. The worst part is, I can't tell if she is being genuine, I mean I can tell when she is upset but to think of doing something like that. I look to the trees a bit frozen from the ice and snow. With the rate it was going I was surprised none of the trees collapsed from the weight of all this snow. But then again they were huge trees.

I look over to AJ and Violet as they grabbed some tools from the shed and they would talk about something random. I go over to them and look to some of the rope and had the idea of hiding it but stopped because we might need it. I look over to the two as Violet was telling him about yellow snow.

"Ok, so don't eat the yellow snow." She jokes and I head AJ laugh.

"Clementine licked a salt lick before, it was funny." AJ says and Violet looked to me and I just looked to her.

"Did you really lick it?" She asked and I just gave her a deadpan look.

"I don't know." I say as I look back to all the stuff on the wall. I hear her laugh at this and I shrugged. Look I was eight, I didn't know what it was, plus if it was good for the cows, I thought it would be good for people too.

"I got a good one, it was about three or four months after you two left, I was with Mitch, Marlon and Willy, we go into town and I find this bag of expired gummies, well Mitch thinks it's a wise idea to dare me to eat them." She says and I look to her and she smirks at me.

"Please tell me you didn't." I say and she laughed.

"I did… I did eat them… Next thing I know I'm vomiting all over the place and Ruby asked what the hell happened, you know what we said?" She asked.

"What?" AJ asked.

"Haha, we said, I was possessed by a poltergeist, um, a ghost, and that Marlon was trying to exorcise it out of me." She laughed and I hold back a laugh. She looks at me and I smile a bit and hold in my laughter.

"Come on Clemster, you can laugh." She says and I glare at her.

"Never call me that again." I warn her.

"Oh? I seem to have forgotten, Clemster, mind refreshing my memory?" She asked and I shove her.

"It's a stupid nickname and should never have come out of your mouth." I tell her and she laughed. AJ seems to be a little confused but he just shrugs and we get to work on the inside of the house more. AJ was happy when Violet said he could make the one room however he wanted. Violet and I were currently working in the living room rearranging some things. If I have to be honest, it was nice being able to do all of this. To just act like this place was our own little home.

But I know that once the snow melts a bit, or at least if the storms would stop then AJ and I would have to leave. I watch as Violet was working on the bookshelf, she was just looking at it I guess to figure out where she could put it. I then notice on the other side that there was a gun case. Granted all the guns were gone but I go up to it and look in the drawers and find some Ammo boxes.

"Seems like they were really in a hurry if they forgot something that important." Violet says and I look to her.

"You know I never understood the fact that someone lived close to the school and didn't think to check in. I mean unless they were in a hurry when the radio announced the Walkers but even then this place wasn't overrun that fast." I tell her and she just shrugged.

"Let's just think they left this here for other survivors than." She tells me and I shrug and set the boxes back in the drawer. I helped her move the bookshelf and it was a good hour or two when we got the place how both of us would like it. Violet then went to check on AJ and I headed to what was deemed our room and looked around.

I got to work and looked for anything in the room and found some old photos here and there. I would pack these up into a spare box to take to the attic later. There were some clothes as well in the closet, and some had been eaten away by lord knows what, so I take the ruined clothes and set them in a box as well to see if we should try and fix them up or just use them for something else. I got abut half of the closet done when I notice that the there is a box on the side and I grabbed it and pull it out.

I hear someone come into the room as I opened the box and it's filled with photos of the school, but it looks like they were taken way before any of us were even born. They were on old Polaroids and I look to see Violet as she looked to me.

"What did you find?" She asked. I showed her what was in the box. She looked to the photos a bit and then shrugged at this. I look to her face to see no emotions and I set the stuff back in the box and placed it on top of the others. It wasn't long till everything was done and Violet and AJ were working on dinner as I set the one box in the attic. I come down and hear them laughing and I go take a seat on the couch and remove my prosthetic. It felt nice taking it off.

"I'll head out tomorrow morning to see if I can find anything for us, mostly get some wood." Violet says as she hands me a bowl. I thank her and she nods.

"I can come help you." I say and AJ took a seat next to me. Violet went over to the recliner and she had her own bowl and we all ate.

"Nah it's fine you should stay off that leg a bit, looks a little swollen." She tells me and I look at it. The stump was red and did look a little swollen so I sighed at this.

"Alright, yeah you are right." I mutter and I can hear her chuckle just a bit.

"Ain't I always?" She asked and I look to her and she raised one hand up.

"I know I'm not, don't judge me." She says and we laughed at this. This was nice, all of this was nice. I honestly would not want to leave. Not because of what Violet said she would do to herself; I don't think she would if the thought of me coming back was there in her mind. We all just relax and I finished my bowl of food. AJ then grabbed the empty bowls and when he came back, he had grabbed some spare paper and began to draw.

Violet was reading her book and I grabbed one and began reading as well. The flames would crackle and the silence was nice too. This is something many people would dream of in this world. But yet I had the thought of leaving. This was the wrong thought to have I know, but I have gotten use to just leaving. No. No I would not leave this time, I want to stay, I want to be with Violet, I want AJ to have a home to stay. I look to him a bit as he kept drawing and I smile.

I then look to Violet as she was still reading her book and the smile was still there. This is where I should be, the thought of leaving might be there but I know. I know deep down that this is where AJ and I should be. It might be, because there wasn't a lot of people. Basically, our own little family.

"Alright, time for bed AJ." I hear and look to Violet as she set her book down and I look to AJ. He nods as he heads up to his room and I look to Violet as she watched him go up the stairs. We both look to each other and we both smiled at each other. She then gets up as well and comes over to me then kissed me on the head.

"I think we should go to bed too." I say and she nods. Before we go upstairs to our room Violet goes and places a few more pieces of logs on the flames so we didn't have to come down to place more on the flames. I didn't put my leg on and basically hopped up the stairs, Violet behind me to make sure I didn't fall. I go and open the door and hop in the room and then onto the bed. She goes to the other side of the bed and moved the covers after she took her boots off. I take my one boot off and lay in the bed with her. I feel her place her hand on my side and I look up to her as she looked to me.

I moved a bit closer to her and kissed her on the lips. She kisses me back and I feel her hand move a bit on my side but never going under my shirt. When we pulled apart, she looked to me and I smiled a bit and laid my head near her neck and we both ended up falling asleep.