After The End - Violentine

Fragments

The group took a moment to catch their breath, saving the people they loved was hard work.

"I'll take Minnie and search down here, Louis make sure nobody gets inside."

Abby turned on her flashlight and continued down the corridor towards the music room, Minerva following her carefully.

Violet forced herself towards the stairs, it was hard to see in the dark light. The old floorboards creaked and the sound of her footsteps echoed around the main room.

As she neared the top of the stairs she became suddenly aware of a faint sobbing.

She slowed her already steady pace, carefully drawing cleaver. As she finished climbing the stairs she froze and looked around for the source of the noise.

"Who's there?" A voice sniffled, "Back away I'll... I'll shoot."

The blonde looked down the corridor to her right, the hazy moonlight illuminated the source of the voice.

Gabe stood bloodied and weeping, his gun aiming dangerously down the corridor. Behind him what seemed like a body lay calmly on the ground.

Violet lowered her cleaver as soon as she noticed it was Gabe, she stepped forward and glanced at her the corpse, it was far too dark for her to identify who it was from this far.

"What happened? Where's Clem?" Violet worried, what if something had happened before she could get there.

Gabe began to sniffle and his breathing became rapid and short.

"Javi.."

That was all he could say before breaking down into tears.

Violet stepped forward and looked down at the body.

Large pools of crimson blood leaked from a central wound in Javier's chest, a trail of the blood lead from Clementine's office. The corpse had been dragged into the corridor sometime ago.

"I'm sorry Gabe but I need to know where Clementine is so we can get out of here."

The boy stared at the office and raised his hand.

Violet turned on her heels and quickly ran to the office door. She grabbed one of the handles to the door and pushed it open slowly.

She entered the office expecting to find her wife immediately yet at first she couldn't see anything.
Continuing into the room her footsteps echoed.
Suddenly from behind the desk Clementine jumped out, a pistol in hand.

The blonde jumped out of her skin for a sudden moment.

"Clem! Oh thank god your ok."

Violet ran around the desk and pulled Clementine close to her and held her there for a good few seconds.

"Hey I'm fine, but we need to get rid of these guys, one of them already got Javi on the way in."

Clementine pointed to a body which lay next to the door, a singular gunshot wound through his head.

Suddenly the door burst open. Gabe stumbled into the office screaming a bloodcurdling cry, his neck was covered in a blood and seemingly endless stream leaking from his collar.

"Shit!" Violet yelled as she spotted the stumbling corpse of the boy's uncle trailing behind him.

The blonde swiftly retreated to her wife's side.

Clementine pulled her pistol up and aimed it at the Javi's walker.

"I'm sorry Javi." She muttered quietly as she prepared to pull the trigger.