Summary;
Clementine made it to Wellington with Aj after leaving Kenny, what happens when she meets up with an old friend that she thought was dead?
It has been 1 year since the events in season 2.
Chapter one; I thought you were dead?
Clementine walked through the cramped hallway, making her way through the crowds of people. She kept her eyes glued to the floor not bothering to make eye contact with anyone and hoping that no-one would come over and try to speak with her; she didn't want to make friends and have them end up dying like the rest of her friends. As she heard a girly giggle she glanced up, noticing a group of friends talking and messing around, Clementine couldn't help but let out a small smile, as she thought back to her old friends, back before the apocalypse even begun, and the times they had spent together.
"Clementine stop!" The blonde haired little girl cried out as she let out a large giggle. Clementine couldn't help but laugh at the girl as she tried to calm down her laughter so their teacher wouldn't hear. Their teacher; Mrs Smith, was a strict old lady, who Clementine's parents always told her 'did not seem suitable enough for teaching 7 year olds' she was to 'uptight' for this profession yet she was still here, God knows why.
"Is something the matter girls?" The old, grumpy lady asked as she gave them a cold stare. Clementine looked up at the teacher with her vibrant yellow eyes, putting on her best 'innocent expression'
"Everything is okay, Mrs Smith!" Clementine retorted with a bright cheery smile. A smile that won her many friends along with her cheery attitude. She noticed her brown eyed, raven haired friend glance back at the two of them, flashing a stupid grin over, her eye's gave away what she was mentally saying to Clementine 'HA HA'
"Okay girls, but if I catch you talking out of turn again, I will be forced to call your parents." The older lady replied, giving them both a final stare as if to intimidate them not to do it again. Clementine's so called 'sad eyes' must have worked again, 'I need to use them more often' she mentally noted before she stuck out her tongue to the raven haired girl, flashing a cheeky grin back to her.
Clementine smiled at the memory, she wasn't entirely sure why out of all of the day's she had spent with her friends she would chose to remember that day, it wasn't significant to her in any way, except for the fact that it was the day she told herself she would use her 'sad eyes' to get herself out of 'hairy situations' as Luke called them. Clementine's expression saddened straight away, remembering her brown haired friend and his unique sayings made her miss him even more, she wished she could have done something to help him but, thinking back, there was nothing she could have done.
As she reached the top of the stairs that led to her room, she walked past a 'carer' some help they were, they were never bothered enough to take the time to talk to Clementine, out of the whole year she had been living in this orphanage she had only spoken with the carers 2 times, 1 when she was enrolling into the orphanage as they told her the rules, and a second time when AJ was acting strange, the lady she spoke to took AJ away to the nearby nurse to have him looked at to realise he was malnourished, the nurse then ushered Clementine out of the room to speak to the carer that took them there. Even though Clementine wasn't there she knew what they were talking about because when the next day rolled around and AJ was allowed to be let out Clementine never got to see him, instead the nurse told her they were 'permitted to keep him there, safe and look after him until he's old enough.' Clementine remembered that day all too well, even though the nurse promised her she could visit AJ, whenever she tried to the doctors always made up excuses.
"Clementine, is it?" A lady wearing the usual 'uniform' the carers had, a black cardigan with a white t-shirt and jeans, asked. Clementine looked confused 'how did she know my name?' she asked herself mentally, as she debated wether to ask this out loud. Instead she settled for nodding, not finding the courage to speak up.
"I thought so, I was meant to be taking you and a couple of others to the park, you coming along now?" The woman asked with a soft smile. Clementine mentally cursed and tried to think of an excuse in her head, usually she gets away with not going by hiding in her room away from the others, they never bothered to search for her as they usually left without her.
"I uh… I feel sick?" Clementine replied, not sounding the least bit convincing, and she knew that because the lady looked at her with a smirk.
"Really? You don't look sick!" She said smugly, Clementine glared down at the ground not wanting to maintain eye contact with the lady. "I know your just looking for an excuse, but you've gotten out of going to the park too many times, It's not good for you to stay inside for too long, you need fresh air!" She replied. To Clementine, it felt like a rant, a rant that she didn't want to hear. Without waiting for a reply, the lady grabbed hold of Clementine's arm and pulled her along with her, going in the opposite direction that Clementine was going. "Come on!" She said instructively.
Sitting on the wooden bench Clementine let out a sigh of frustration, 'why did I have to come here?' she thought as she was now regretting entering Wellington with AJ and leaving Kenny behind. 'Kenny. I wonder where he is now? I hope he's okay' Clementine wished, she looked down at her hands, remembering the day she had to leave Kenny.
"Now I'm gonna walk away… and I might not look back… not 'cause I don't wan't to… I'm real glad to have met you, Clementine"
As Kenny's final word's rang through her head she felt her eye's fill up with tears, as soon as she watched him walk away from her she wanted nothing more but to call out to him, ask him if it was too late for her to go with him, but she didn't. 'Alvin, Nick, Carlos, Sarah, Pete, Sarita, Walter, Rebecca and Luke. They didn't die for us to give up on Wellington, I needed to do this for them, and AJ.' As soon as Clementine realised she wouldn't get AJ back she felt like she had failed them all, and thinking about it made her feel even more upset, so upset that she didn't hear footsteps making their way over to her.
"Why you so upset, Clem?" A familiar voice asked her. Immediately, her thoughts ran wild, telling her she was hallucinating. There was no way that voice could have been…
"Luke?!" Clementine spoke aloud, her eyes shot up and confirmed her thoughts, it was Luke! But 'how the hell did he survive that!' Clementine asked herself, about to ask Luke but instead, before either of them could speak their minds Clementine pulled Luke in for a big hug.