Going Together
Clementine leaves Kenny to join Wellington, Dr. Lingard is alive, and Kate died and David survived in this timeline.
Clementine is getting her stuff ready at the apartment complex to leave Richmond and head off to McCarroll ranch in hopes to find A.J.
Gabe walks in, "Hey Clem, are you heading out there… alone?"
"I just need to see if he is all right. I am a mom or big sister to him, I can't live in peace until I know he is ok," Clem answered.
"You don't have to go alone… I can come with you if you want," he suggests.
Clem looks at him, "No you don't have to go with me. I can handle being on my own out there."
"Well anything can happen to you out there… you may need a partner… and I may not able to sleep not knowing you are ok…" Gabe stutters.
"Javi told me you had a crush on me," Clem teases, "Is this true?"
Gabe just stutters with random words and he is unable to utter a sentence.
"If it is ok for Javi… and David… you can come," said Clem.
"GREAT!" Gabe yelled excitedly.
Gabe then finds Javi in the other room.
"What is it Gabe?" asked Javi.
"I have decided to go with Clementine," he tells them.
Javi is a bit shocked, but not surprised to hear Gabe's plans.
"It's dangerous out their Gabe, stay here where it is safe," said Javi.
"Clem won't be safe there either and I may not able to live in peace not knowing if she is ok. What if she never comes back? I will go crazy," Gabe pouted.
"Fine then… just be safe," said Javi. "Did you tell David?"
"Are you kidding? He will tie me up with chains if I ask something like that to him… especially in his state on what happened to Kate," Gabe answers.
"If you don't tell him and he finds out you are gone then who knows what he will do. I would take my chances out there than in here."
"You can tell him you did not know anything and I left without telling anyone."
Javi takes a deep breath and knows this may not end well. "Fine… just be careful out there and don't be surprised if David causes a shit storm when you come back."
Javi and Gabe hug. Gabe and Javi find Clementine at the gates so Javi can wave Gabe and Clementine goodbye.
They had to fight off a few walkers down the road but they (mostly Clementine) fight them off with ease.
They take their time after there are no walkers in sight and it seems they are ok for now.
"Dr. Lingard said it will take one day and a half to get there," Clementine.
They were given a map to the McCarroll ranch and they walk to the direction where the map shows them where to go.
It is late in the afternoon; they come across a small abandon town. That is when they see at least five walkers in the town.
"Five walkers… it shouldn't be a problem," said Clementine.
Then they hear louder walker groans coming from the other side of the town. Then they see a heard of walkers walking towards their direction. They are too far for the walkers to see them. They look around them and they see an abandon bar to take cover from the heard.
They enter the bar; both have their pistols out in case there are walkers inside the bar. They see two walkers, but they already been put down long time ago and thankfully there are no other walkers inside the bar.
They close and barricade the door and the windows are already boarded up.
"I guess we stay here for a while until the muertos passes," said Gabe.
Clementine gets out some food to eat. They got some crackers and bread for them to eat and some bottled water to drink.
"I got some crackers and a bottle of water," said Clementine.
Clementine eats the first cracker, then hands the second to Gabe.
"Go ahead… you eat much you want… I can eat afterwards," said Gabe.
Clem is about to open the water… then she remembers she still in a bar. She looks around and she is surprised to see a lot of unopened liquor… there are a dozen unopened beers, two bottles of Jack Daniels whiskey, a bottle of unopened brandy, and a scotch bottle.
"Looks like we can savoir the water," said Clementine.
"Wait what?" question Gabe, worried what is Clementine is going for.
She grabs the two unopened beers and she opens them.
"Me drinking beer?"
"Why not? Kenny would kill me if he sees me doing this. I had my first sip when I was eleven. If nobody else finds out, it will be ok."
Gabe gives up and takes the beer. "Cheers?" said Gabe unenthusiastically and still unsure about drinking. They clank their bottles at each other and they started to drink.
Clementine drinks it with no problem since she has drank before and she got used to the taste, but Gabe gives the most awkward face and Clementine could not help but laugh.
"I actually choked too at my first sip," said Clementine, preferring being in the shack with Nick. "Then again… I'd even chocked on my second sip".
After a while, they sat down on the floor, cuddling close each other, and they are going on third beer.
Gabe has taken his jacket, shoes, and socks off and Clementine also took of her jacket and shirt off… showing wearing her bra.
Gabe is getting a little dazed from drinking two full bottles of beer and Clementine is talking his time with her first group, laughing a little bit.
"I walked in on Duck when he was still showering… that is when he still had hot water at the motel. Duck was so pissed when he caught me peeking in. I already hid his clothes, later he came after me with only a towel around his waist and then it fell of… that was a horrible sight to see," Clementine laughs off. "Then Lee banished me to my room for two whole days."
Gabe laughs at that too and laughs as he is starting to be out of it. "One time… I was playing a game with my friends. The game resulted in taking all our clothes, all of us were naked, and then my dad walked in on us," Gabe responds with his story.
"Holy shit! I bet he was really pissed," Clementine comments with laughs.
"He dragged me out in the backyard while I was still naked and made me stay there for the rest of the day, took my video games away, and drove me to and from school despite school being three blocks away from my house."
Clementine just finished her third beer and then throws the bottle across the room.
"I cannot believe nobody took the drinks from this place after so long," said Clementine, as she is getting more and more drunk. "Hey… their lost and our gain… so I am no position to complain."
Before she opens her fourth beer… she goes for the Jack Daniels bottle, opens it, and pours it into two glass cups.
Clementine looks at Gabe's bare feet and his toes curling back and forth. "You have really cute feet," she comments. Then she takes off her shoes and socks, then she gently rubs her feet with his feet. "And it feels nice too."
"You're nice," Gabe kindly shoots back.
Clementine and Gabe take their whiskey glass and they drank their entire glass in one shot before they started to kiss each other aggressively.
Later, Clementine wakes up with a pounding headache. "Oh, my head feels like someone is jackhammering it, my brain feels like cracked cement, my mouth feels dry and wet at the same time, and I feel the world is spinning."
As her hangover is slowly to diminish, she realizes she is not at the bar anymore and now she is in the floor of an abandon family van. She puts her head down and she feels warm skin with her face.
She looks and there is Gabe, sleeping underneath her and then she realizes she slept on top of him. Gabe is not wearing a shirt… she finds something disturbing when she looks downward… Gabe is naked… and then realizes she is naked too.
"Oh my god?" cried Clementine.
She tried to get up and trying to find her clothes, but it is too late. Gabe is starting to wake up too with the same problems she had when waking up. He opens his eyes and there is Clementine, naked and then he realizes he is naked too.
They both look at each other with awkward expressions and thinking… "Uh oh".