(Violet's Pov)

-Seven Years Later-

It's been seven full years since Clementine, AJ, and I had decided to just stay at my home. Seven wonderful years actually, yea we had some fights here and there but nothing major, just what is considered the norm these days really. AJ is a fine young man now, he's fourteen years old now, Clementine is Twenty-Six, and I'm about twenty-eight, to twenty-nine now. AJ was helping me work on the fence which was now made of concreate like how the school was.

"We need to cut your hair." I said as we worked on the wall together. I looked up at him and he looked at me and nods a bit.

"Ok, just not to short." He says and I look at him.

"Not to long either." I said and he nods and I hear the door open and I look at our house and I see Clementine walking out the door. She limps a bit due to her prosthetic but she looks at us and smiles and waves. We both wave back at her and I look at AJ.

"Come on, lets take a break kid." I said and rubbed his head. He was about the same height as Clementine right now but he should grow taller soon.

"I'm not a kid." He says and I roll my eyes.

"I'm closer to my thirties, you are still a kid to me." I said and he sighs as he heads to Clem. I come up the porch with him and I hug Clem a bit and I kiss her neck gently as she hugs me back.

"Sorry for sleeping in." she says.

"It's fine Clem, you couldn't sleep last night anyway." I said and she looks at me.

"Still." She says and I kiss her and I smile at her.

"Eight years." I said and she smiles and nods.

"Happy Anniversary." She says and I kiss her cheek.

"I was thinking of taking a walk around the wall." She says and I look at AJ who was currently drinking some water and I look at her and I nod.

"I'll join you." I said and she nods as she heads off the porch and I look at AJ.

"Hey buddy, me and Clem are gonna walk around the wall a bit." I told him and he nods.

"Ok, keep safe, and if any places need to be patched tell me." He says and I nod as I close the door. I go over to Clem as I take her hand into mine and we begin our walk.

"What do you want to eat?" She asked and I thought.

"AJ and I can go hunting again, bag us a nice sized buck." I said and she looked at me.

"that would be nice…. I'm sorry I haven't been much help all these years." She says and I stop her, I get in front of her and you can hear the gravel shift under my feet. I lift her head up a bit and I make her look at me.

"Don't ever apologize to me Clementine, you still do work around here." I said.

"Like what?" she says and I kiss her hand.

"Keeping the garden Kept up for one thing, then you have watches when AJ and I are asleep, you keep our spirits up when we get tired, you show me and AJ love, I can go on and on about this." I tell her.

"But that's not enough."

"For us it is, hell you fixed that god damn motorcycle in my neighbors shed, and that truck too that we found, you have done more than enough especially when you risked your ass to save us six years ago with that crazy woman, Joan…. You lost a leg Clem…. So, you've done more than enough and you still do more work when you shouldn't…. AJ and I are supposed to take care of you, you need to relax…. Especially now." I said and she looks up at me.

"I can't you know I can't." she says and I hold her to me and I rub the back of her head gently.

"I know… I know, but try? For me and for AJ, come on he turns fifteen in a few months, we can secretly plan his party." I said and she laughed a bit.

"He found out the last time." She says and I smile.

"But this plan will work, I promise, we just plan it in the other trailer." I said and she laughed a bit and we began walking again.

"I love your laughter." I said.

"It's stupid."

"Hey I snort when I laugh." I said.

"And that's adorable." She says and I chuckle as I kiss her cheek gently.

"I love you so much." I tell her.

"I love you to Violet." She says and kisses my cheek too and I smile at her more as I grab her hand gently and we walk back to our home. I open the door for her and she waves her hand a bit and then sits in the rocking chair I had set outside for her and I smile as I close the door. AJ then comes out and I look at him and he smiles at us as he sits in the chair next to Clementine.

"How's the leg?" He asked.

"Doing good, now that I can walk long distances." She tells him and I look at him as he talks to her more.

"We should head up to Savanna to visit Lee." I hear him say.

"Yea… one day, when we have the time we will." She says and I nod as I go back to work on the truck trying to fix it. It took a while but I was able to finally put it back together and test it out, sadly it wouldn't start and I sigh as I get out of the truck and look inside the hood again.

"Hey Clem want to play catch with me and Violet?" AJ asked and I looked at her and him.

"Sure, why not?" she says as she gets up and I go over to them and he grabbed the gloves and I look at her as I put mine on my hand along with AJ.

"Remember we can't throw to hard." I said and clementine rolled her eyes a bit.

"Hey I can run with one leg." She says and I nod.

"I know but still, we need to find you a better leg." I said and she sighs and rolls her eyes and I chuckle.

"Alright, get ready Mom." AJ says and I look at him as he winds up his pitch and throws the ball and I have to run a bit to catch it.

"VICTORY VIOLET!" I hear both him and Clem shout and I laugh as I throw the ball back to him. He then throws the ball to Clem who jumps a bit to catch it and I watch her leg carefully just to be cautious is all.

"And Clementine winds up the ball." I joked as she's about to throw the ball to me and she laughed as she throws the ball and I catch it.

"Oh, to bad." AJ says and I smile as Clem shoves him playfully.

"Hey you aren't small anymore bud." She says and I throw the ball back to her and she catches it. We then hear a loud bang and we stop our little game and I look at them both.

"AJ get clementine inside now." I said and he nods as he grabs Clem and they head inside the house and I go up to the door and I grab my rifle and look at them.

"I'll come." AJ says and I stop him.

"No those aren't walkers, what have I told you." I said and he looks at me sadly and nods as he goes and get the bags ready just in case and I look at Clementine as she grabs her gun and is about to come out but I stop her.

"You stay inside, I'll look up over the wall." I said and she looks at me and nods a bit as she kisses me gently and I look at her and I nod as I head out quietly to the wall and I go over to the gate a bit and look through it a bit. I don't see anyone though the gun shot sounded pretty far off but we can't be to careful these days. I look around a bit and head around the other sections of the wall just to be safe. I look around a bit more and when I see nothing I head back to the trailer and I look at Clementine as she looks at me.

"Do we have to leave?" AJ asked as he grabbed the bags.

"Uh… no I didn't see anyone so we should be good, they're probably in the woods hunting, as long as they don't make another shot this way we should be good." I said and they nod a bit and I look around.

"I'll put the bags in the truck though." I said and AJ looks at me.

"I can help, I'll be careful." AJ says and I look at him then at Clem.

"Alright, just be extra careful." I said and he nods as we grab some of the bags and set them in the back of the truck. The one good thing about this truck is that it has a cover on the back of the truck so we can lock it up and no one can grab our supplies. AJ and I got our bags into the back of the truck and He went back inside to grab another bag. Once we were done, I locked up the truck and we went back inside and I looked at Clementine as I handed her the keys to the truck.

"You and AJ take the truck; I'll take the bike." I said and she nods a bit as she grabbed the keys gently and I grabbed my rifle again and went outside and stayed on watch for a bit I saw Clem come out quietly but I didn't say anything to her as she showed me her gun and the Keys and I nod as I look around more.

"Vi, we should leave." She says in a whisper.

"I…. I don't want us to run anymore." I said and she looked at me as I looked at her.

"I know…. If the gun shots get closer, we have to go though." She says and I nod gently as I look around more.

"I… We have a home… and people are going to take it…. After AJ and I busted our asses to make it safe… after you busted your ass to help keep us alive, we made this home and fuckers who don't want to do the work are going to take it." I said getting pissed off at the fact that people take others homes just so they don't have to fucking work for it.

"Vi." She says and I look down at her.

"I'm sorry." I mumbled and she grabbed my cheeks gently and kissed me and I looked at her more as I held her hand gently.

"Never be sorry." She says to me and I chuckled.

"That's my line."

"Well now it's mine." She tells me and I smile at her.

"Alright, it's yours." I tell her and we hear another gun shot. I look around more and sigh gently and look at her.

"Come on." She says and I look at my home, then her, then back to my home. Seven years we've been here. Seven birthdays for AJ to celebrate, seven years we had of peace and quiet, not many walkers to deal with, no humans till now. Seven years of hard work, and memories, and hardship that we've dealt with all about to be taken away by fucking assholes who don't want to do the work themselves.

"Alright." I mumbled as I Saw AJ come out with his gun and I help Clementine into the truck. I looked at AJ as he got in the drivers' side and I saw him grip the wheel a bit.

"You know what to do AJ." I said and handed them a radio.

"If something feels wrong with the truck you tell me, we will stop and I'll work on it, if we get separated you head to the nearest town and look for any signs that Louis and them may have left for us ok?" I asked and he nods.

"Got it." He says and I nod and look at clementine who looked so damn tired. I don't blame her though; she hasn't really done much activities with her leg and it's my own fault for doing that to her.

"Clem, you'll be fine." I say and she nods.

"I know…. You be safe on that damn bike understand me." She says and I nod.

"Of course." I said and she nods and I look at AJ.

"Keep her safe." I whisper to him and he nods. I then close the door and He starts up the truck as I back up bit as he drives off and I grab my bag and I turn the radio and attach it to my hip and I get on the bike and start it up. Once I'm good I begin to drive and I get right behind them and I watch some movements in the woods as we fly by. A few walkers here and there but not really walking due to their muscles rotting and not being able to keep their legs to their bodies. I want to vomit at the smell cause it's been worse these few months. I hear the radio go off and I grab it.

"Hello?" I asked.

"We have to take a detour the roads getting smaller with the cars in the way." Clementine says and I nod.

"Ok, we can take a right down the dirt path just have to be careful of the walkers in the woods, they jump at ya." I said.

"You should get in the truck than." She says.

"I'm fine, I can go faster than you guys, just be careful not to fun them over AJ the walker will get stuck under there." I said as we turned to the road and I kept a close eye on the treelines as we drive on by. I drive up beside them and Clem rolls down her window and I smile and wave at her a bit and she waves back and I wave to AJ. But he keeps his eyes on the road and I look at her as she mouths focus and I nod to her. We drive for a good while before we have to stop. AJ pulls over and I look at them as they get out the truck and AJ opens the back and hands Clementine a water bottle. She looks at us as we get ours and I take a few sips.

"So, Florida?" AJ asked and I nodded.

"Yea, they probably went close to the waters they should have left signs to show they had been there." I said as we looked around a bit.

"Walkers are getting less and less these days." AJ comments and I nod.

"That's good." I tell him.

"But the world still won't be the same." He says and I nod.

"No, it won't be… people would have to start working together just to even be a tiny bit normal." Clementine says and I watch her.

"Like that'll happen… I mean hell, Louis a guy who I thought would stick around and wait for you, just…. Left and said you might be dead." I said and AJ looked at me.

"But you don't hate him." AJ says.

"No… no I don't but he shouldn't have said that… he's… he shouldn't have said a lot of things." I said as I looked Clem.

"You never did tell me what happened while I was gone." She says and I look to them.

"Nothing important, it's in the past now." I said and she looked at me and I looked around more. I got her back in the truck and handed her the water bottle. She grabs my hand before I leave and she kisses me and I kiss her back and I look at AJ.

"You good bud?" I asked as he looked straight ahead and I look to and I see some walkers coming to us. They were new walkers since they weren't as rotten as the others are, I looked to him.

"It's fine just drive by them can you do that?" I asked and he nods a bit and I close Clementine's door then head to my bike. He drives ahead and passes the walkers and I follow them as we pass by them, I look around a bit and we head off to Florida. We drive for a few more hours before it starts to get dark and we make a stop at one of the abandoned houses and I make sure to barricade the door as the other two settled in. Once settled in Clementine began to work on the fire in the fire place and I got some of the food ready for us to cook.

"You think those people are following us?" AJ asked.

"I don't think so, we left before they really knew we were there… before anything bad could happen." I said as I worked on the deer meat and I got the pan to cook it on ready.

"It's good to be cautious but what if they never knew we were there?" He said and I looked at him.

"We'll be back there soon… we could bring Louis and them too, it's a bit better than the school to be honest but more out in the open." I said and he nods as he cuts the vegetables.

"We can play baseball with them." He says and I chuckle a bit.

"Yea we can play baseball with them." I said and looked at Clem as she looks at the fire and works on it a bit as I finish with the meat.

"Fire ready?" I asked.

"Yep good to go." She says and I nod as I begin to cook the food. AJ grabs the waters for all of us as Clem grabs the bowls and forks and I watch her a bit as she hands AJ his and I kiss her cheek.

"You ok?" She asked me and I nod a bit as I hold her waist gently.

"Love you." I mumble to her and I feel her smile.

"Love you too doofus." She says and I laugh a bit as I go back to the food and finish it up. I handed AJ and Clem theirs along with some roasted vegetables and I sit with them as we eat our food.

"I bet Aasim found a lot of books by now."

"Yea he probably did, I mean he wanted to be a teacher one day." I said and looked to Clementine and she smiles a bit.

"Speaking of teachers, we should go visit Lee." AJ said and I nod.

"Yea we can visit him after we find the others how about that?" I asked and he nods.

"WE can bring him some flowers." Clem says and I nod.

"And some bourbon." I joked and she laughed a bit.

"Yea, and some bourbon." She says and I put my arm around her and hold her to me.

"When can I drink?" AJ asked and I looked at him.

"Never, it's a bad thing to do right now." Clementine tells him and I look at her and I kiss her cheek and I hold her closer to me as we finish our food and drink the water.

"Ok, AJ time for sleep." I said.

"I'm not a baby anymore." He says and I roll my eyes.

"You might not be a baby anymore but you still need to sleep." I said as I got up and grabbed the blankets and I looked at him as he sighed and grabbed the blanket and went to the couch and I watched him as he went to sleep. I looked at Clementine as she finished up her food and I kissed her cheek a bit as I looked at her hand gently and I lifted it to my lips and kissed it.

"I'm sorry that we had to leave." She says and I look at her.

"Don't be, it was my plan from the start." I tell her and she just leans back into me and I hold her waist as I kissed her cheek gently once more and I put my face in her neck. I don't know how long we have been in this position all I know is that when I woke up the fore had burned out and the night was still going though it might be early morning at this point. Clem was still asleep on me and I slowly got up as I too her to the chair and covered her up gently. I opened the door and looked around outside a bit and looked up at our stars. The fish, the knife, the bird, heck the heart too. All here looking down at us. I looked around a bit more to make sure there was no walkers or even people to begin with. I didn't see anyone or anything abnormal or as abnormal as it could get.

I went back into the house and barricaded the door once more and I saw Clem and AJ still sleeping and I put a blanket on her as I went to the bag and grabbed some food to start making breakfast for them. I worked on the meat and looked around a bit as I started on the fire, it was roaring and I began to cook the food for them just as the sun started to rise up. I looked at the two as I finished breakfast and AJ woke up slowly and I smiled as I went over to him and gave him the bowl of food.

"Thanks Mom." He mumbled and I nodded as he ate his food slowly and I looked as Clem woke up and I handed her, her bowl and she looked at me.

"You get any food?" She asked.

"Yea I'm good." I tell her and she looks at me and glares a bit as she tears the meat in half and hands it to me.

"Hm, I'm good." I tell her.

"Eat it." She says.

"Clem I'm fine, I'll have some energy bars on the ride ok?" I asked and she looked at me more as she handed the meat to me and I sigh as I grab it and take a bite. She smiles and eats her half and I roll my eyes at her. AJ looks over to us and fakes a gag and I roll my eyes at him.

"I wouldn't do that AJ; you'll do the same thing to someone you love." She says to him as she points her fork to him and she stabbed a carrot and held it to my face and I took a bite of it then she ate a carrot too.

"I'm to young for that." He says and I laugh.

"To young for love but to old for bed time." I said and I looked at him and he nods.

"I… I didn't mean to sound rude if I did." I said and he nods.

"You weren't it's the truth." He said and I nod a bit. We get our bags set up and I lock up the back as I hand AJ the keys.

"Ready to head out." I said as we got in our vehicles and I started up my bike and I drove off. A few hours pass and we stop to fuel up and I look at AJ. I look at Clem, and then I look to the road. It'll take a few days before we reach Florida, but we can do it.

"Just a few two days till we reach Florida you two." I say and look at them more.

"Alright, lets get going." AJ said and we begin the drive once more.

-One Day Later-

We got to Alabama after a day of non-stop driving, it was easier that way really, so we decided to take a break in one of the open fields and I was laying in the grass with AJ and Clem as we looked up at the sky and we pointed at the clouds and told the shape we thought it was to each other. Just like we use to at the farm. I close my eyes a bit as I remember Tenn, when he would do this with us, how he would point out the clouds and act like a kid before he died.

"What are you thinking about?" I heard and turned my head to face Clementine as she looked at me and I held her hand a bit.

"Just how we use to do this a lot back at the farm." I said and I looked back at the sky and pointed to a cloud.

"Looks like a dog." I said and she smiles.

"Rosie." She says and I smile a bit and I rub my thumb against her hand a bit gently.

"When we get to the others, I'm going to give Rosie the biggest hug ever." AJ said and I thought about it, she was around ten years old when they met her. She would be the age of a teenager by now.

"If she's still around." I said and I looked at Clementine.

"She was pretty old already when you guys met her, she was ten years old." I said and she looked at AJ who looked sadden by the fact that Rosie could be gone.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that, I'm sorry." I say.

"It's fine, I didn't know she was that old already." He said and I sighed as I looked at the sky again.

"We should head out." I said and got up a but and I looked around the field a bit as we got our things ready. I looked to Clem as she sat in the drivers seat this time and I held her hand gently.

"Clem… when we get to the school group…. I want to apologize to Louis…. I said some things that I regret and…" I tried to say an was stopped by a kiss.

"Hey it's fine, he'll understand, so don't be scared ok." She says and I nod.

"What if he doesn't forgive me?" I asked.

"Then that's on him." She says and I nod a bit as she starts up the truck. I got on the bike and we began our long drive. It took us about a day and a half to get into Florida due to some detours that needed to be taken, but once we got there we sighed in relief and I radioed them as I saw one of the signs, they had left us.

"Hey guys, follow me I see one of the symbols so we must be close." I tell them and AJ talks to me.

"Roger Dodger." He says and I chuckle as I get ahead of them and they follow me as I look around for more symbols. I see a few heading in the same direction as we keep going until I see an old high school and I see one of the symbols pointing to the school. I head in that direction and I see someone on the roof as I park my bike and Clem parks behind me. She gets out of the truck and I see Ruby, Aasim, Omar, Willy, Louis, A little toddler and hell even Rosie, all come out to see us. I walk up a bit but before I could speak, a loud bang could be heard throughout the parking lot, and I only saw blackness after that.