What The Heart Wants/A Violetine Story

Chapter 3

Here chapter 3 I got the chance to finish it early so yeah lol anyways hope you like I'm working on the other chapter already so please enjoy and let me know if you like it.
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Clementine has been through a lot for the past few years, ever since Lee died. She has been injured, shot, scarred, betrayed... And she always managed to stand on her feet again.

This time though, she couldn't.

She was feeling restless, not knowing what to do now that her legs couldn't support her, now that she was wounded and could do nothing but wait.

And emotionally...? She wasn't thinking straight.

Everything was coming back to haunt her, from Lilly's words concerning Lee, to telling AJ to shoot her, destroying the last connection she had of the past... The last connection to a time where Clementine hasn't lost everything.

It was a time where she had Lee, and a time where she didn't have so much blood on her hands.

It felt like the last straw, because everything came crashing down, and she couldn't do anything about it.

She was seeing everyone.

Her parents, nothing but walking corpses.

Lee, handcuffed with a bullet to the skull.

Christa, helplessly holding a dying Omid.

Luke, drowning as a walker gripped his leg.

"Clem? Are you with me?" A voice rang in her head, distant, unreachable. She chose to ignore it.

Jane, lying in a pool of her own blood.

Kenny, left behind to become walker food.

Brody and Mitch, buried because she failed to protect them.

"Clem?" This time, she looked at the voice calling for her. Ruby has been replacing her bandages, but now she stopped to check on her, concerned for her lack of response.

"Yes?"

"I'm done. You can join us for dinner later, but don't walk too much." Ruby instructed, noticing how staying in one place was affecting her. She was more withdrawn, always staring into the distance.

AJ was with them the whole time, refusing to go anywhere. Clementine didn't mind, since he saw her in worse conditions. There were times where he had to help her patch herself up.

She needed to talk to him, about Lilly, about what he did.

She told him to shoot her, but she didn't expect him to lose it like that.

"Maybe I shouldn't." She said, wincing as she pulled down her shirt. "You said Minerva was back. I don't think she would be happy to see me. And Violet, I don't know if I can be near her."

Ruby studied her for a moment, before turning to AJ.

"AJ? Could you leave us for a moment? Clem and I need to talk." She said, and Clementine's eyes widened, unsure what her friend meant.

The boy looked between them, frowning.

"Old people talk?" Ruby frowned, not appreciating that he just called them old, but nodded anyway.

He sighed, and took his gun, planning to go on patrol.

Once he was out, Clementine gulped.

"So, are you going to tell me what's between you and Violet?" Ruby asked, making her panic.

What was she supposed to say? What was she supposed to do? How could she escape this conversation?

"Who is Violet?" She blurted out, only for the girl to look at her, unimpressed.