Love In The Apocalypse (Violetine)

Russians

Clementine passed out in the back of the van the trio found.

"Clem?!" AJ almost yelled.

"It's alright, she just needs to sleep." Violet declared, patting his back.

Violet drove them all toward the wreckage of an airplane, to look for supplies.

...

Clementine looked at the bullet wound in her left shoulder.

"Fuck..." Clementine spoke, softly.

Violet crawled to the back of the van, to Clementine.

"What's up?" Clementine asked.

"It's fucking cold, you're warm, and I love you." Violet declared, covering herself with a spare blanket.

"Well, if that's the case, come closer." Clementine said, smiling.

Violet did as told.

Clem lifted her blanket, a bit.

Violet laid next to her, smiling.

"So warm..." Violet declared, smiling.

Clementine laughed, quietly.

...

Morning already? Fuck that, Clem's nice and warm.

Violet hugged Clementine.

"Out of the van, with your hands up." A Russian man ordered.

AJ got out first.

"Wait, Alexei, there's a kid, gun down!" The Russian spoke, shocked.

Clementine and Violet got out of the van.

"I am Yuri. That's Alexei." The Russian declared, smiling.

"Clementine, this is my girlfriend, Violet, and that's AJ." Clementine declared, tiredly.

"We saw the van last night, and we were going to shoot the people inside, cause those cultists killed our friends, but then we saw the kid..." Yuri declared.

"Cultists?" Violet asked.

"Yeah, these fucks worship a fucking bear." Yuri replied.

AJ looked at Alexei.

Alexei was AJ's age, if not a year older.

"What do these cultists do to outsiders?" Clementine asked.

"Men, and kids are killed, or used as slave, women are raped, shot, and fed to The Holy Bear." Yuri replied.

"Well, we have a modified bus, a few minutes away, if you can siphon the gas from your van, we can use it for the bus. We have actual beds inside, and even three built in ashtrays." Alexei spoke, in a heavy Siberian accent.

...

AJ, Alexei, and Violet slept as the bus drove along.

Yuri was smoking a cigarette.

"Hey, you're not tired?" Yuri spoke, softly.

Clementine shook her head.

"Well, not really much to do..." Yuri said, offering Clementine a cigarette.

Clementine took it.

"Need me to-" Yuri started, when he saw Clementine light it.

"Thanks." Clementine declared, looking out the window.

"So, what's your story?" Yuri asked.

"My story?" Clementine asked, confused.

"Like, before the apocalypse, who were you?" Yuri asked.

"Oh." Clementine realized, already halfway done with the cigarette.

"So?" Yuri asked.

Clementine told him all the important pieces leading up to the boat incident.

"So, this guy, Lee, took care of you, like you were his own kin?" Yuri asked.

"Yep. I miss him, everyday." Clementine declared, sighing.

"Alexei isn't my kid. He's my friend's kid. I had a daughter, but she was turned, Day Ten after it all started." Yuri declared.

"I'm sorry." Clementine declared, frowning.

"That's okay, Clementine. You've lost more than me. Y'know... I used to sing to her. An old song by a group called Dropkick Murphys..." Yuri started.

"That's cool." Clementine declared.

"See this on my neck?" Yuri asked, pointing to a rose tattoo with a name inside the rose.

"Yeah. It looks good." Clementine declared.

"Y'know, you were as old at the beginning, as my Katya was, when she turned into one of the biters." Yuri declared, finishing his cigarette.

"Shit..." Clementine spoke, looking out the window.

"Well, enough reliving our shitty pasts, another smoke?" Yuri asked.

"Sure." Clementine accepted.

"Well, if the dead wouldn't have started walking, I would've liked to be a train engineer. Like, metro trains, y'know?" Yuri declared, as Clementine lit her cigarette.

"If everything wouldn't have changed, and I'd grown up... I'd have liked to become a teacher." Clementine spoke, sighing.

"Good dream to have. Anyways, y'think Violet will want a smoke, or two later?" Yuri said, looking at the road ahead.

"Oh, uh I don't think so. Plus, I'd rather not have Violet, or AJ knowing I smoked, at all." Clementine replied.

"Is it weed?" Violet asked, scaring Clementine.

"None of them have tobacco, it's all weed, My Friend." Yuri replied.

Clementine looked at him.

"Okay, okay, a fourth of them were regular tobacco..." Yuri declared, laughing.

"Which kind did I smoke?" Clementine asked, nervously.

"Do you feel extremely hungry?" Yuri asked.

Clementine nodded.

"You may have smoked some weed, with me, then." Yuri replied, laughing.

"Whatever, I'm gonna go get some sleep." Clementine declared, making her way to the bed Violet was sleeping on.

...

"So, Clementine told me about her past. And when she met you." Yuri declared, handing Violet a smoke.

"Weed?" Violet asked.

"You'll have to find out on your own, Lovebird." Yuri replied.

"So, she told you all about us..." Violet started.

"You don't have to worry, Violet. I trust her, and she trusts me." Yuri declared.

"How long are we going to travel together?" Violet asked, curiously.

"At least until we're out of cultist territory..." Yuri replied.

...

The bus stopped in front of a blockade.

"Out of the bus!" A voice yelled.

Everyone was alerted.

"Out of the bus, or we will open fire!" The voice yelled again.