(Clementine's Pov)
I looked over to Violet a bit as she just stayed quiet. I placed my hand gently on her leg and she looked to me a bit and smiled and I smiled back to her. She placed her hand on top of mine and I think for a bit as the others talked about the plan. I already told Violet that we would be heading south for a bit, there were plenty of places to stop at with the directions I remember when AJ and I had gone through on our way here. She doesn't say anything and I moved a bit so she would look at me but she seemed to be interested in her shoes right now. Omar hands her another cup of warm broth and she looked up and took it gently and I look to her as she took a drink.
"Alright, best get packing now and get some sleep." Marlon says and I nod and I help Violet up and she finished the broth and hands the cup to Omar. We head to her room and AJ went to get a spare bag. When he got it, I grabbed a bag and so did Violet as she packed her bag.
"Hey is everything ok?" I asked her and she looked to me and nods.
"Yeah, everything is fine, just… uh trying to think of what to do when we leave… we haven't really left this area you know." She tells me and I nod at this. This was going to be new for all of them, they've only been here in this area for years.
"Well, I'll be your tour guide, though I know something else is bothering you." I say to her and she looked to her bag a bit and then to me.
"I-." She stopped when we heard a banging at the door and I look to her and we went and saw Mitch.
"Walkers are already here." He pants and Violet pushed on by as she grabbed her rifle. Mitch looked to me then to where Violet went and we hurry to her as she got to the door. We opened the door a bit and saw a bunch of the Walkers by the gate and then we closed the doors and I rubbed my head a bit. I clear my throat a bit and look to see Marlon and Aasim come over to us.
"Whole place is surrounded, there is literally no way out." Aasim informs us and I tried to think of something.
"We wouldn't even be able to grab any Walkers to cover ourselves up in their scent, we don't know who is a Whisperer or if there are any there right now." Marlon tells us and I nod.
"Only thing we can do is wait, if they have someone in there watching us, they have to get some sleep." I tell them.
"They might change in shifts though; we're fucked either way." Mitch says and I look back to Violet. She looked deep in thought and I place my hand on her shoulder and she looked to me a bit and then to the door.
"We'd have to open the gate and let them in, in order to do that, and that's dangerous on its own… and the whole place is surrounded." She mutters and I move my hand off her shoulder and I look to the others as they come over to us.
"We should try and escape from the back but they could have someone there as well, maybe even on the sides too, we don't know how big the group is on their own, I doubt they'd try and kill us but that one guy." She mutters again.
"Best option we have is the back." Marlon says and the rest start to talk over each other. I tried to keep track of what each person was saying but I couldn't and I shake my head a bit. There was no point in trying to talk to the Whisperers but we can't stay here. Maybe they're going to wait for us to try and give up and go with them? Everyone stopped talking once we heard a loud crash and we hurried to look out the window to see the gate had been broken off and had fallen to the ground.
"Shit… shit." Louis says panicked and Mitch, Marlon, and Aasim hurried to get some stuff to barricade the door and Violet ran up the stairs.
"Jesus fuck, where is she going?" Louis says as he went to help the guys and I hurried to follow her. She was in Marlon's office and looking out the window. I see her looking around a bit and I go over to her and look as well. There has to be an exit there is always and exit in a heard. I see an opening and point to it and she nods as we hurry back down just as the Walkers were trying to break the door down. We hurry over to the others and Violet automatically goes to move the barricade.
"The fuck are you-."
"We need to try and get a few Walkers there is an opening." I tell him and Violet along with Marlon stood by the door and Mitch and Aasim were ready to grab any Walkers. Marlon and Violet quickly open the door and Mitch grabbed a Walker bringing it in and then Violet and Marlon slammed the door on one of the Walkers hands breaking it off. Aasim killed the Walker and Violet tells Aasim and Mitch to cover themselves first since they were grabbing Walkers. We did this four more times but the last time we opened the door and the Walker busted through and then closed the door. I hurried and grabbed my knife and the others grabbed their weapons as well. It was a Whisperer as they grabbed their gun and pointed it at us.
They looked down to the Walkers and then us. We all stayed still, no movements at all so as to not cause a bloodbath in here. The Whisperer then puts up their hands and Marlon takes the gun from them and throws it to the side and Violet aimed her rifle at them and they look to all of us. We take their mask off as well and see that it's a girl.
"Shit." Violet mutters and I look to her.
"You're the girl." Marlon says and she just nods and places her finger to her lips and then looked to the door and then back to us.
"Too many Walkers for you." She whispers. At this point I don't even think she could talk any louder if all she did was Whisper for all these years.
"Is there anyone else?" Ruby asked the girl and she shook her head.
"James and I got the Walkers here, needed to show the others we could bring them to the school." She tells us and Violet lowers her rifle and I look to her as if she was crazy.
"James is here?" I asked and she nods.
"Yes, he's making sure the Walkers don't clump up all together, so there is an opening for you all." She whispers and I look to the window and then I look to the girl. I still didn't trust her, I have to be honest I still didn't trust James, he said he didn't like the Whisperers or at least the old group he was in, why was he back with the group he didn't want to be around.
"Why are you helping?" I asked her.
"Don't want you guys hurt, don't want you to end up like me." She whispers.
"Like you?" I asked.
"Forced in, don't like it but no one else to be around." She tells me and I nod in understanding. I look over a bit to Violet as she was looking to the window. I see her hands clenching and then she shakes her head and before any of us could ask her she punches the window.
"What the hell?" Louis asked and I go over to her as she was taking deep breaths. I look to her face and I see panic. It also looked like she wasn't there, panic and yet blank at the same time.
"Vi-."
"First the raiders, and now these fuckers… we didn't do anything and yet… we have to leave our home." She says and I grabbed her busted hand and Ruby came over to check on Violet and I look back to the girl as she looked to Violet.
"Busting a window isn't going to help." Louis says and I look to him and then I hear Violet sob and we all look to her as she pulled her busted hand to her chest.
"Violet?" He asked as he goes over to her and I grabbed his shoulder and he looked to me as I watched her. Ruby looked to me and I look back to the Walkers. In the courtyard and the ones that came close to the window. I let Louis go as we grabbed Ruby and Violet away from the window. Marlon and Mitch blocked off the window and I could hear Violet.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry I don't… I can't go." She says.
"You're going to get yourself killed." Louis says and I look to her.
"I don't care… this is our home; I don't want to go… I can't… I don't… I can't." She sobs and I get in front of her before she sits on the floor holding her hand.
"Is she?" The girl asked.
"Now's not the time." I tell her as I glared at her. I look to her hand and Ruby hands me some gauze but Violet wouldn't let me wrap her hand. I look to her and she just mutters to herself and I look to the others.
"You and James fucked our plans up." Marlon tells the girl.
"It was the only plan-."
"Just shut up… you didn't have to bring a damn heard on us, we had our own plan and you two fucked it up." Marlon says.
"Stop." I tell him.
"NO!" He yelled and when he looked to me, he frowned and apologized quietly and I nod.
"It's just… I know a little on why Violet is acting up." He says and I nod a bit and look back to Violet as she held her hands to her head. I bend down a bit and gently place my hands to her face and she looked to me. I saw the tears in her eyes.
"I'm sorry… I can't… I can't go I can't." She says quietly and I look to her sadly. This was like Sarah all over again. But I couldn't smack Violet out of this. I rubbed my thumb across her cheek gently.
"We have no choice." Louis says.
"Shut up." I tell him and he looked to me as I look to him.
"Just… shut up Louis." I tell him and I look back to Violet. She was looking to the ground and I frown a bit as I made her look to me but she didn't.
"I can carry he-."
"Don't." Ruby tells Mitch and I look to him and shake my head and look to the others. I take a breath and look to Violet as more tears came from her eyes. She didn't look at me at all.
"You all head out and take AJ, Violet and I will catch up." I tell them. I don't even think Violet heard me since she didn't say a single word.
"We can't just-."
"Louis right now be selfish and just go… I'll figure something out." I tell him and I look to the girl.
"You go with them, if any of them get hurt, I will be coming after you and James." I warn her and she nods.
"I can do that." She tells me and I look to the others.
"We all have our meet up point, if we aren't there by a day just keep going." I tell them.
"All because Violet's having a panic attack?" Louis says and I look to him. I watched him as he just shakes his head and goes off to the side. AJ was over by Violet and he was sitting next to her. I watched him a bit and I shake my head as I tried to think of what to do.
"Marlon you're in charge right now." I tell him as I go back to Violet. I hear Louis say something but didn't care right now.
"We have to go now." The whisperer says and I look to the others and just nod. I look to AJ and he looked to me a bit.
"It's ok, go with them." I tell him and he looked to the others then back to me. He nods as he gets up and they all leave the school and I look to see them walk past the heard and I look back to Violet as she was wiping her face. She had moved so her back was against the wall and her knees were to her chest. I go and take a seat next to her and I look to the hallway a bit then back to her.
"I can't go." She whispers.
"Why?"
"I don't… I don't know." She whispers and I look back to the hall. We stayed silent for a while as we hear the Walkers and I look at her as she placed her head on her knees. I watched her as she stayed quiet and I clasp my hands together.
"I'm scared." She finally says and I look to her as she had her chin on her knees and she looked to the wall.
"I'm scared that… I'll fuck everything up… You got sick, Tenn Died, all the arguments… the fighting." She says quietly and I nod.
"It's always scary, and it will always be scary." I tell her.
"What if we get caught? What if something bad happens? What if I can't… what if you get hurt?" She asked.
"I can take care of myself; you don't need to worry about me." I tell her.
"I couldn't keep her safe." She whispers and I look to her just a bit and I place my hand on her back.
"You're thinking about Minnie?" I asked and she nods slowly.
"She, went through so much and look what happened to her."
"Violet."
"She use to be so kind, then she… did what she did… I don't know why I feel like this, I was ok before and all this just… made me think and I overthink and… and I ramble." She stopped and I just listen to her.
"What happened to Minerva won't happen to you, we have a plan set up, no one is giving anyone up to those Whisperers… it's going to feel scary for a while going to a new place but it's the only and best option, we have… they know people are here and they knew we were at the cabin at some point." I explain to her.
"I know but it's still there." She says. I stayed quiet for a few minutes and I take a breath as we hear the Walkers growling outside the school. I look to her hand again and grabbed the gauze and wrapped her hand up. She flexes her fingers a bit after I was done and I look her in the eyes.
"Violet, we have to go." I whisper to her.
"I… I can't." She whispers and I rubbed the back of her head gently. I slowly get up and look out one of the free windows and I see our opening gone.
"I'm sorry." She says and I look to her. I look back out the window and watch as the Walkers surrounded the building and I closed my eyes. Take a breath. And I go back over to her and I take a seat.
"Would you rather die in a heard of Walkers?" I asked her as I look to her and she shrugs.
"Are you… do you feel like a failure?" I asked her and she nods at this and I nod as well.
"I feel that way all the time… even now I feel like one… when I didn't listen to Lee… when Omid died… Sarah, everyone I knew… I felt and still feel like I failed them." I tell her and she was quiet and I take a breath.
"I should have listened to Lee when he said we couldn't find my parents, instead I listened to a stranger… I should have kept my gun with me when Omid got shot by that girl… in the bathroom. I should have worked harder when it came to Sarah, so much I wish I could redo because I feel like a failure." I tell her and she looked to me.
"How do you do it though?" She asked and I think.
"I focus on one task… Keeping AJ safe was one of the major tasks… I taught him from my mistakes… You were also a wonderful distraction." I tell her truthfully and she laughed a bit and I smile a bit.
"The fact is… you're going to feel like that for a long time… I'm still not over it and I don't think I will, I use to think that just the simple things I did wrong would cause problems… like what if I didn't check the garden every single day, would the plant die and we'd starve? It… it makes you paranoid." I tell her.
"You sure you aren't a therapist?" She asked and I nod.
"I'm sure." I tell her and she nods a bit. She gets up and she helped me and then she looked to the window then her hand a bit. She flexes her fingers and I look to her.
"You think you can still stab Walkers?" I asked and she nods.
"Yeah… Yeah I think I can." She says and I nod and we head to the door. We had to get a Walker to recover ourselves and I take a breath. I opened the door and she was able to get a Walker by stabbing it in the head. We bring it in and cover ourselves and I look to her and then she grabbed our bags and we head out. The heard was huge but not as bad as when I was in Savanna.
I look over to Violet as she was looking around and we get past the walls of the school before we headed in the direction of the others. I would look to her from time to time just to make sure she was ok. She still had that blank look on her face and I frown a bit as I look ahead of us. We get to the edge of the woods and by this point the Walkers had thinned out but were not completely gone.
I looked over to the tree lines for a bit and we just kept walking and walking. I would look to Violet from time to time just to make sure she was ok but she had this blank stare. I look to her wrapped up hand and saw some blood but we couldn't stop. Not now but I would check her hand later.
"Shouldn't have punched that window." She whispers and I nod.
"Well, you are right on that… how is your hand?" I asked and she flexed her fingers again. There was a slight hiss and she shakes her head.
"Stings but, I'll get use to it." She says.
"It got cut up pretty bad." I say and she nods at this.
"Honestly, first time I punched a window… a wall maybe but not a window." She tells me.
"A wall might have broken your fingers." She looked to me as I say this and I shrugged.
"I mean I am right, would have been worse if you punched a wall but… I suppose glass is fine." I tell her and she sighs at this.
"I suppose… was still stupid but, what's done is done."
"Next time we should get you a punching bag." I mutter and I hear a slight chuckle and I look back to the tree line.
"We've been walking a good while… should we get another Walker?" She asked and I think.
"Yeah we should… alright." I grabbed the bags from her and set them to the side. We looked for a Walker that would work for the both of us and Violet gripped her knife in her good hand. I look to her and she points one out before we head up to it. We snuck up from behind it and Violet stopped me as I was about to go and grab it. I look at her as her grip tightened on her knife. She then goes up and I follow her right as she stabbed it in the head something was wrong.
"Is that?" I asked as we look to the Walker more and Violet dropped her knife as we look to the 'Walker'. The blood was red not the darkish red. She backed up a bit as she looked to me.
"I.. Is that a person?" She whispers and I look to the 'Walker a bit and indeed it was a mask and I look to her.
"We need to go." I tell her and she looked to me and I grabbed her arm as we run to our bags. She grabbed hers and I grabbed mine and we run as fast as we could.
"Did I just kill a person?" She asked as we ran.
"We can deal with that later but right now we have to-." I stopped as I saw more Walkers and we looked around.
"Damn it, god damn it." She says and I look around as does she.
"There." I say pointing to a slight opening and as we ran I hear Violet fall behind me. as I turn to look at her I feel a pain in the back of my head before I blacked out. When I finally woke up I felt my hands were tied and I look around as best as I could. I look to the side and see Violet. She was knocked out and I tried to go over to her before I hear some footsteps.
"You have been a pain in my neck you know that." I hear and look up to see one of the Whisperers. They look over to Violet a bit and then to me.
"Where are the rest of your people?" They asked and I kept quiet. They seem to not like that but at this point no one does when they don't get what they want. I take some breaths and they look over to Violet a bit. They get up and go over to her.
"Don't… don't touch her." I tell him.
"Unlike most people I don't care, you didn't answer so, punishment must happen." They whisper as they grabbed Violet who was still out. I glared at him as he looked to me. I couldn't see his face but he was crazy I knew that.
"Should I wake her up? Hmm, yes I should." He says and backhands Violet in the face. I tried to move but I now know they tied me up to something. I look to see the rope around my torso and I glared at him. Violet woke up but dazed and she looked around before she saw me.
"Clem?" The Whisperer then hit her again and she groaned before she looked to the Whisperer. I could see the cut on her lip and I glared at the Whisperer. They hit her again and I tried anything I could to get out of the restraints.
"Stop, stop." I begged and the Whisperer looked to me then to Volet as he shoved her to the wall. He comes over to me and bends down.
"Tell me where your group went." He orders.
"If you don't or if you lie, she gets hurt." He tells her.
"D-Don't tell." Violet says and I look to her.
"Shut it, or I'll slit your throat." They say to her and I look to him.
"You killed one of our own, I should return the favor." He says as he got up and went to the side. I see the knife as he picked it up. He walked over to Violet.
"DON'T!" I yelled and he comes over to me and placed the knife near my face.
"I suggest keeping your voice down… Walkers will hear you." He whispers and I look to him. He waves the knife in my face and then he pointed it at Violet.
"You tell me, or she gets hurt." He tells me.
"Wouldn't it be better to hurt me then her?" I asked and I could see him smirk under that mask.
"I've learned that hurting others is more productive." He tells me and I look to him.
"So… Tell me, where did they go." He orders again and I look to Violet a bit and she shakes her head. He looked back to her before he got and paced around the room. He messed with the knife in his hand and he would point it to either of us. Theone someone else walked in the room.
"What are you doing?" They asked and the man turned to look at the new person.
"Just having a little fun is all." He tells them.
"This is not how we work, get out." They tell him and he just shrugged before leaving. The new person comes over and checked on me then to Violet.
"He got you good." They whisper and I just look to them. It was quiet. They sigh as they get up and they looked to the both of us before they leave the room. I look over to Violet as she laid her head back against the wall.
"Are you ok?" I asked and she looked to me and nods.
"Yeah just… what happened?" She asked.
"Don't know, we were running and I thought I heard you fall and when I looked I was hit in the back of the head with something." I tell her.
"Your head ok?" She asked and I nod.
"Yeah, yeah just… what about you?" I asked.
"You already asked." She tells me.
"I did?"
"Yeah, are you sure you're ok?"
"Yeah maybe a little… out of it." I tell her and she just nods and I look around.
"Hmmm, fucking hell." She mutters and I just keep looking around trying to figure out how to get out of this. We seem to be in a small shed, not like the one back in the cabin but it looked like a shed. I could hear the Walkers but not the people. I take a deep breath as I close my eye and exhale slowly.
"Sorry." I could barely hear it but I heard it non the less.
"Why?"
"If I hadn't… freaked out like I did, we wouldn't be in this mess… I was scared about this happening and then it happened." She tells me.
"Irony has a way of showing itself in a weird way, but at least we know they have no idea where the others are… honestly think of it as a good thing." I tell her and she chuckled dryly.
"A good thing… yeah sure." She mutters. I take another breath and open my eye and tried to at least stand up. It was hard and my leg felt like pin needles were poking at it constantly. We must have been here for a while, not a day but a long time in general.
"Your leg hurt?" She asked me and I nod and she stands up too. She was also tied up but her hands were behind her back and she was tied to one of the beams.
"Do you have a plan?" I asked as I looked around.
"Hmm, I don't see any weak points so we can't just bust the wall down, only thing I can think of is if they come back and untie one of us, we can knock them out but… doubt they'd have one person alone with us being awake." She says and I nod at this.
"Well at least we can come up with something, might not be the best plan but it's what we have." I tell her.
"Has this ever happened to you?" She asked.
"Not exactly like this, when my old group was taken by carver, before I lost my eye, he had us tied up in the back of a moving truck." I explained and she nods.
"Is there anything sharp behind me? to cut the rope on my hands?" She asked and I had to crank my neck a bit to try and see, I look back to her and shake my head and she mutters to herself.
"There is always a way out… and we will find it." I tell her and she nods at this.
"Yeah, yeah just uh… I need to calm down is all." She says and I watch as she slid down a bit and so do I so we were sitting on the ground. I rolled my leg around to keep it awake before I looked to the door. No one has come in and I close my eye once again. The door opened and I slowly opened my eye to see a whisperer and they come over to me and I watched them.
"Sorry for what happened." They say quietly and when I said nothing they sighed and I look over to see Violet sleeping. I look back to the Whisperer as they looked to her as well.
"We have to get you two to another location." They tell me and I look to them.
"Don't make this difficult please." They tell me.
"When someone says that it doesn't end well on either end." I tell them.
"Trust me, it's best to co-operate our leader is not to kind." They tell me and I roll my eye. No leader is ever kind. I should know. They untie me from the post and take me outside where I see Whisperers just looking at me. they put me in the back of a caged cart and then they bring Violet. She looked so tired as she takes a seat next to me and then they begin to walk as the horses pull us to wherever they planned on taking us.