Author's Notes: Written for 1sentence at LiveJournal.
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01 - Air
Clementine alternately makes Joel feel so nervous and so excited, and consequently he sometimes forgets to breathe.
02 - Apples
They had called her a bad apple when she was little, and she wished she could push that out of her mind.
03 - Beginning
She doesn't remember how they met, but she sure is glad they did.
04 - Bugs
Clementine is a slob, and it drives Joel nuts; he doesn't want to get bugs in his apartment.
05 - Coffee
He drinks coffee, and she drinks tea; it's one of their numerous differences.
06 - Dark
As they walked together one night, she glanced up at the sky and saw that it was dark.
07 - Despair
"Don't despair," he whispers to her one particularly difficult night, but she does anyway.
08 - Doors
Maybe they would be okay again; maybe that particular door in Joel's life would reopen.
09 - Drink
He wants to scream when she comes home drunk, but he rarely does.
10 - Duty
Perhaps it had been fate's duty to see that Joel and Clementine met again.
11 - Earth
If she could, Clementine would walk with Joel months and months, going through every inch of the Earth step by step.
12 - End
She assumed that erasing him from her memory would be the end of him; she had been wrong.
13 - Fall
Sometimes he gets tired of having to catch her when she purposely falls.
14 - Fire
It was as if she was a fire, and he the water that killed her.
15 - Flexible
She smiled as she recalled last night's discovery of just how flexible Joel's body was.
16 - Flying
She was sure that Joel would be able to fly, in a metaphorical sense, if only he would allow himself to.
17 - Food
She took him out to dinner that night; she was always coming up with new foods she wanted him to try.
18 - Foot
He tickled her foot; she laughed.
19 - Grave
He wore a grave expression that evening, and she knew that she had disappointed him yet again.
20 - Green
Clementine's hair was green that day.
21 - Head
She wants to know exactly what is going on in that head of his, but he's so quiet - does he ever talk, really? - and she wonders if she'll ever know.
22 - Hollow
When he learned that Clementine had erased him from her memory all the air had rushed out of Joel's lung's, and he felt hollow inside.
23 - Honor
She had failed to show up and hadn't honored the plans that they had made once again.
24 - Hope
Joel comforting her when she's feeling down is like a glimmer of hope.
25 - Light
After the procedure, she noticed that he seemed familiar and wanted to shed light on who he was.
26 - Lost
They had been lost after they had both had the procedure, but then they both found their way back to one another.
27 - Metal
She leaned against the metal to discover it was cold, just as he was.
28 - New
Clementine was something new in Joel's monotone and routine driven life.
29 - Old
Clementine had only known Joel for five minutes, but he felt like an old friend.
30 - Peace
Sometimes her mind quits arguing with itself, and then she is at peace.
31 - Poison
Sometimes she was like fresh air and other times she was like poison; he never knew which one it would be.
32 - Pretty
"You're pretty," he whispered, only to hear her soft reply of "you're lying."
33 - Rain
She had been outside in the rain, and little water droplets fell from her hair.
34 - Regret
She regretted partying, going out late and coming back only god knows when, and being generally inconsiderate; she regretted loosing him.
35 - Roses
He gave her roses, and she found it utterly predictable.
36 - Secret
She had never voiced this fear before, but sometimes she worried that she wasn't good enough for him.
37 - Snakes
She was wearing bracelets that resembled snakes, and he wondered where she had found them.
38 - Snow
She couldn't believe he had never had a snow ball fight before and quickly came to the conclusion that she would have to remedy that.
39 - Solid
He was solid and stable, something for her to lean on; for that, she was grateful.
40 - Spring
Spring was a time for new beginnings, and maybe this was their spring.
41 - Stable
He wished that their relationship was stable rather than a roller coaster ride of emotions; he had always been scared of thrill rides and didn't like that she forced their relationship to emulate one.
42 - Strange
He felt strange and empty with Clementine gone.
43 - Summer
One summer morning, she prepared a surprise picnic for the two of them, only to realize that Joel was gone.
44 - Taboo
Her insecurities were a taboo subject, and he quickly learned t was better if he didn't bring them up.
45 - Ugly
Clementine was beautiful; Joel wished she could see that.
46 - War
She wished that they weren't at war with one another.
47 - Water
"My water broke," she said somewhat frantically, and the fact that he was going to be a father sunk in all over again.
48 - Welcome
She made him feel as if he was welcome anywhere she went; he liked that.
49 - Winter
Her bright hair contrasted against the white winter snow.
50 - Wood
It was totally and completely cliché, but as she ran her fingers over the C + J engraved in the wood of the tree, she didn't care.