After The End - Violentine

The First Test

Violet yawned as she walked down the corridor, thought new and old bouncing around her brain like ping pong balls.

The thought of Clementine when she left this morning.

"Stay safe, I love you."

The strange yet arousing concept that Abby has shared with her involving the handcuffs that she was desperate to try with Clementine.

"H-hello Violet"

The voice resonated inside her head echoing painfully in her skull.

"Hello?"

The voice called again causing the blonde to shake out of her sleepy daze. Violet looked at the face ahead of her, she looked at it bitterly a strong feeling of disgust sinking into her stomach.

Minnie looked at Violet with innocent confusion, she reached out to grab her shoulder which caused her to jolt back slightly.

"Are you ok?" She asked.

Violet nodded quickly, "Yeah, yeah I'm fine still waking up." She said quickly.

The redhead smiled with genuine joy, "O-Ok, Abigail was wondering what y-you wanted us to do today?"

A sudden rush of footsteps approached from behind Minerva.

"Oh hey we were just looking for you." The dark haired woman said as she finished her approach.

Harry yawned as he slowed his jog, "So what it it today? Fishing? Hunting? Guard duty?"

Violet blinked in surprise, "Well we need two people for fishing and two people for the crop plots."

"We'll do the gardening ." Andrew said quickly joining Abby.

Andrew sighed and smiled, "So I guess were gardening."

The blonde led the group outside, she lead Abby and Andrew to the greenhouse and notified Ruby.

Violet anxiously led Harry and Minerva to the gates where Louis was waiting. Louis groaned as they approached, "Do we have to take her with us?" He said irritability.

Minerva frowned and sighed sadly, "I'm sorry, did I do something wrong?"

"Are you serious!" He almost yelled but Harry stepped forward and raised his hand, pointing aggressively at Louis.

"I made you that arm, I'll fucking destroy it along with your skull if you even lay a finger on her." He aggressively whispered.

Louis looked at his amputated arm, a metal and wooden blade arm perfect for walker killing, hand made and given to him the night they rescued everyone from the cannibal camp nearly two years ago.

Violet raised her hands defensively and stepped in between the two men, "Calm down, the quicker we get there the quicker we get this done." Violet said in attempt to defuse the situation, "I don't particularly like it ether but let's just get this other with." She added as she turned and opened the small gate.

The group walked silently along the woodland trail until Louis broke the silence with a quiet mumble.

"Where did you go?"

Minerva and Harry turned to Louis, "Speak up, didn't here you?" Harry yelled sarcastically.

Louis stopped walking and looked at the tall redhead, "Where did you go?" He asked Minerva directly.

"I can't remember much from before I met Abigail; my head hurt and there was noise so I ran away, I found a house and... and... then I woke up and the pain was gone." Minerva struggled as she spoke, taking a long pause before continuing walking.

Louis took and long hard stare at Minerva as she walked, "How are you ok with this, you know who she is?" She asked Violet who was avoiding looking at the redhead at all costs. The blonde remained silent and looked off into the distance, Violet drew her cleaver and turned to Louis.

"Woah! Calm down." Louis exclaimed raising his hands defensively.

Violet walked towards him and raised her cleaver, she thrust it down and Louis yelled in terror. The blade dug deep into the skull of a walker which stood just behind the fearful Louis, she kicked the life less corpse off her blade.

"Walkers, two of them."  Harry pointed into the forest, two snow-covered walkers snarled as they approached the path. Minerva stood panicked and slowly retreated behind Harry.

"Minnie! Minnie! Concentrate! Focus!" Harry grabbed the redhead, she closed her and Harry stepped back.

Minerva blinked rapidly, her head twitching and jerking violently, she screamed and ran towards the nearest walker yelling as she thrust her leg into the corpses knee. The walker fell to its knees, groaning and furiously attempting to grab Minerva'a leg.
"Fuck... You!" She yelled as she kicked its skull to the ground, repeatedly stomping on the walkers head until it became a thin paste on the bottom of her boot.

Meanwhile Harry walked up to the other, he reached for his holsters and panicked, "Oh shit, guess I'll do this the hard way." He said as he cracked his knuckles. He grabbed the rotted and frozen arm of the walker and swung it towards him, the walking corpse spinning around him flailing and stumbling yet remaining on its feet. He suddenly released the spinning body and flung it into the closest tree, the walker impaled itself onto a broken branch. The walker stopped flailing as its brain leaked out from its skull.

Louis and Violet stood in the centre of the path in confusion and embarrassment.

"Jesus Christ... Fuck." Louis mumbled, "Thanks Vi."

Violet however did not respond, she was focused on the crazed redhead who was still trampling over the walkers head, Harry turned and rushed over grabbing her by the arm and pulling her towards him, Minerva shook uncontrollably, her breath shaken. "Think of the wolves. Think of the wolves." Harry repeated quietly until her breathing had steadied.

Minnie shook her head and looked ahead at the path calmly, "What were we doing?" She asked innocently.

"Fishing, it's just up this path a little while." Harry said pointing to the distant shack. Minerva and Harry continued along the path leaving Violet and Louis.

"What the fuck was that?" Louis whispered to Violet. Violet mumbled, " I...I'm not sure."

The fishing trip itself was as normal as could be, the managed to catch a surprising amount of fish even in the frozen weather. However as Violet returned her spear she noticed Minerva staring at the wooden wall.

The blonde approached Minerva cautiously, "Everything ok?" She asked as she peered at the wall.

The redhead reached out and ran her hand across the wall, "C+V" she paused, "Clementine and Violet."
Minerva smiled, "You all seem so happy here, I hope we can stay."

Violet chuckled nervously, "Yeah... Clem is really special." Violet stared at the engraving on the wall longing to return to her. She turned away and hurried silently to the door.

"I'm... I'm sorry." Minerva suddenly blurted a Violet opened the door.

Violet turned and looked at her, "What?"

"Harry said that I did some things... some bad things that hurt some good people and I'm sorry if... if that hurt anyone you know." Minerva said swallowing a lump in her throat.

Violet looked at the redhead then back at the door, "Ok." She said before closing the door to join Louis outside.

Meanwhile, AJ

"What do you think is in there?" Willy asked excitedly eying the book in AJ's hands.

AJ flipped open the cover, the first few pages were torn out revealing the title to the second chapter,

"The Red Wolf." He read the title aloud.

Hope you enjoyed reading, it's been really inspirational seeing all the new people commenting and sharing ideas.
Thanks.
-ZQ