Clementine had awoke during the night, she sat up and glanced around the room, it was dark and quiet something she didn't like, she grasped her teddy and stared into the black room and could hear shuffling from Sarah's covers, she wanted out and badly but the bars where too high and she was too small to climb out it, she looked around to find away out but she was stopped when the door opened and light footsteps made there way towards her cot, she looked up and saw Luke standing over the cot and she knew this was her way out.
"Ah!" She squealed and held out her hands hoping he would pick her up and thankfully he did, he carefully picked her and wrapped his arms around her tiny body, "How you doing Clementine?" He rubbed her back slowly and smoothly, "Dark room! Scary!" She gripped his t-shirt , "Want to leave?" He whispered into her hair not wanting to wake Sarah up
"Yeah!" Her grip was still on his t-shirt when the left the bedroom and made her way downstairs to the group of adults who where awake, "What she doing up?" Nick asked through his yawn and leaned into the couch, "She didn't like the dark room" He sat down on the empty couch and leaned back while Clementine was busy playing with a piece of thread on his t-shirt.
"Is Sarah awake?" Carlos spoke up when he came down the stairs, and sat beside Luke "No, only her she was awake when i checked on her" Luke smiled down at Clementine who was still playing with the thread, "Why are you up this late anyway?" Carlos asked Clementine with a slight annoyance in his voice.
"Drink" She whispered so only Luke and Carlos could hear, "You want water?" Luke pulled her away from his chest, "Milk!" She patted Luke's chest and glared at him, "Calm down kid, you'll get you're milk!" She jumped off his lap and sat herself on the couch, Luke leaned in and whispered to Carlos "Have we even got any milk? Or any bottles to put them in?" Carlos looked towards the kitchen and whispered "Yeah" Luke got up from his seat and made his way towards the kitchen.
Clementine stared at Carlos who caught her stare "You okay sweetheart?" He asked this time with worry in his voice, "Just thirsty!" She shifted closer to him, the other adults had went back to sleep, only her, Luke and Carlos where awake, he smiled faintly at her "You'll get your milk, don't worry it wont disappear!" He rubbed her arm up and down, "Here!" Luke had emerged from the kitchen and was holding the bottle of milk in his hand, he handed her the bottle of milk.
Luke and Carlos had stepped away little to have a conversation "How old was she when this started?" Luke asked sadly his eyes falling to the ground, Carlos looked towards Clementine who was still drinking from the bottle, "Well i think they started eating flesh about two years ago, which means she was about 1 when this started!" His voice went to normal to surprised at the end, "Holy shit, you gotta be kidding me!?" Luke frowned and looked towards Clementine,"Maybe she has family around here who can take her back?" Carlos suggested, "Clementine!" Luke called her over and she was by his side instantly.
"Yes?" She looked up to Luke who had a frown across his face, she gripped his leg and continued to look up at him her eyes locking onto his eyes, "Do you have any family around here?" He noticed her sad eyes and frowning face "No! I stay with you!" He gripped his leg tighter, he sighed and looked back towards Carlos, "Does she have to go?" He asked a clear hint of sympathy and sadness in his voice as he gripped her shoulder.
Carlos studied her face and saw happiness in her eyes when she looked at Luke, his mind recovered the memories of him and Sarah when she was younger and his heart felt broken and regret if he threw out Clementine but he looked towards Luke and saw the same happiness in his eyes whenever he looked at her and he smiled "She can stay!" He crossed his arms to seem angry but a certain someone gave him a hug.
"Thank you!" Clementine hugged at Carlos's torso and felt his arms wrapped around her back "No problem sweetheart!" She pulled away from him and turned towards Luke, "Thank you Carlos" Luke smiled at Carlos and scooped Clementine up into his arms and trekked up the stairs and towards Sarah's room but Clementine wiggled in his arms when he reached her door "Dark! No, no" She whispered and Luke looked down "You really don't like the dark now do you?" He held her tighter and looked around the landing, he realised that Nick's room had the only window that wasn't boarded up.
He made his way towards his room and lightly chapped it, Nick opened the door to see Clementine in Luke's arms "Whats up?" Nick leaned against the doorframe and waited for Luke to answer him "Clementine doesn't like sleeping in Sarah's room, its too dark for her and you're the only one who hasn't boarded up the window,so can she sleep with you tonight?" Luke shifted Clementine up in his arms letting her lean her head against his shoulder.
Nick pushed himself off the doorframe and waved his hands in front if him "Woah, woah no i ain't good with kids!" Before he could saw anymore Clementine was resting against his arms and Luke was downstairs, "God damnit!" He whispered to himself and closed the door, and sat her on the bed but she just squealed and lifted her arms up again, he rolled his eyes and picked her up, she smiled at him and cuddled into his as began to slowly to sway her side-to-side her eyes closing slowly and her body rested against his.
He rubbed at her back and lower back making her wrap her arms around his neck and fall back into a deep sleep, he kept swaying side-to-side for a little moment longer until she was sleeping, when he heard her light breathing and snores he stopped swaying and sat on the bed, his head leaning against the bed frame his arms wrapped around her waist as she was sleeping peacefully against his chest, both of them fell into a deep sleep with the moonlight shining through the darkness.
Clementine had awoken first when the sunlight hit her eyelids she woke up with a groan and a quiet yawn, her vision was blurry due to sleep but her vision came back when she let the sun hit her eyes and she realised that she was in Nick's room, staring down at his peaceful face she grinned evilly and slapped his face causing him to jolt awake and sit up, almost crushing her between his torso, he looked down and saw her smiling up at him, he growled at her "Why the hell did you slap me?", "Food!" She lifted her hands to his face and rubbed his cheeks he chuckled at her and removed her hands from his cheeks, "Im not hungry!" He yawned and stretched his arms, "Food! Pleeeeeease" She lifted his hands to his face again a big grin on her face.
He glanced down at her and saw the big grin on her face, he gave up "Fine, okay!" He didn't expect the right hug from her but he relaxed into it and hug her back before lifting her up and walking downstairs to see the other awake and well, "Morning! You two had a good sleep?" Alvin smiled at them and rubbed Clementine's head earning a giggle from her, "Yeah but she slapped me awake!" He glared down at her with fake anger but all she did was stick her tongue out.
"Cheeky monkey you are aren't you?" Alvin laughed and patted her back before heading to his and Rebecca's room t give her some food, Sarah had cane down the stairs after getting ready "Good morning!" She smiled at everyone, and headed towards the kitchen to get some food, Clementine patted Nick's chest while he was day dreaming "Hmm?" He looked down at her while she was pointing towards the kitchen "Food!" He walked towards the kitchen and opened the door slowly just incase someone was walking past it or leaning on it.
"Hey Sweetheart!" Carlos smiled at Clementine while dishing out the food, "Morning" Luke smiled up at both of them, "Had a good sleep?" Clementine nodded while Nick rolled his eyes "She slapped me to wake me up" This earned laughs from all of them "Shut up!" Nick laughed along with them, as Sarah went to sit down, Clementine held out her hands towards her indicating she wanted Sarah to hold her, "You want me?" Sarah asked surprised, as she saw Clementine nod she took her out of Nick's hand letting him to sit on one of the kitchen chairs, Sarah held Clementine to her side one of her hands underneath her thighs and the other one to eat her food, she sat down on the kitchen chair across from Luke and Carlos.
"You want something to eat?" Luke asked as he went to get a drink of water, "Yeah! Please" She felt Sarah move her hand to her waist to support her sitting position, "Here have some of mines, it will save us some for tomorrow!" Sarah smiled at Clementine, "Do you want the toast?, i can see you eyeing it like its a teddy!" Sarah chuckled and gave her the toast, Clementine took slow and small bites out of it, it was a little hard for her little teeth and Carlos noticed that.
"Sweetie that toast is too hard for her!" Sarah took the toast off her and settled it against her plate, "Whats soft for her then?" Sarah glanced around the kitchen before hearing Luke pipe up, "I found some strawberries is that okay for her?" He sat the strawberries down next to Sarah, "Yeah, strawberries are soft enough!" Carlos put his and Nick's empty plate in the sink and both of them left, just leaving her,Luke and Sarah.
Sarah stopped eating her breakfast and handed Luke her empty plate and wrapped her free arm around Clementine who was eating the strawberries messily, "Such a cutie isn't she?" Sarah smiled at Luke who had his eyes locked onto Clementine "Yeah she is" Clementine was too busy eating the strawberries she didn't realise that Luke and Sarah was speaking about her, after she finished the strawberries she heard loud chuckles.
"Lets get you cleaned up and changed into you're clothes again" Sarah stood up and headed out the kitchen with Luke following behind her, she headed up to her bedroom again with Luke following behind her and closing the door behind them, Sarah sat Clementine on her bed and went to get her clothes from the drawer while Luke wiped her face, "Luke you want to change her for me? I did it last night" She threw him the clothes, "Wait! No, no you change her! You're a girl, she's a girl so you do it!" He threw the clothes back at her.
"Luke! It takes like five minutes if she doesn't decide to wiggle around!", He stood up and walked towards the door "Look Sarah, its a girl's job to change another girl not a man's job", She opened her mouth in surprise "Fine then, i'll get Nick to do it!" She went to push past him but he pushed her back "Fine! I'll do it" She chuckled and left the bedroom, "Oh wait! Here!" She came back in handed the clothes into his hands.
He rolled his eyes and walked towards Clementine who was sticking her tongue out at him, "Its rude to stick you're tongue out at people!" He placed the clothes on the bed "C'mere!" He went to take her t-shirt off but she giggled and wiggled at his touch "Clementine! C'mon let me do this!" But she kept wiggling in his arms, he sighed in defeat "Please let me change you?" He asked sweetly hoping it would calm her down, "No" She started to jump up and down on the bed.
With another sigh he shouted for Carlos who about five seconds later entered the room seeing Clementine jump up and down on the bed, he let out a light chuckle "You have trouble there Luke?", "I have a hyperactive three year old who wont stop jumping up and down on the bed and wont let me change her clothes!" Luke raised his eyebrows at Carlos in a 'are you fucking serious' way, "And what do you want me to do about it?" Carlos crossed his arms and kept an easy gaze on Clementine incase she falls off.
"Well you've had you're fair share of hyperactive three year olds" Luke didn't let Carlos speak, "But anyway thanks for taking over!" Luke sprinted out the room before Carlos could shout at him, "What! No!" Carlos looked down at the clothes in his hand and back towards Clementine, "Come here Clementine" He coldly asked not wanting to waste minutes of his life with her, but she kept jumping up and down "No, no, no!" She laughed at the end before spinning around while jumping, she almost fell off the bed as her ankle got caught in the mess of covers.
He caught her before she could hit the ground, "See this is what happens when you get too hyper" He removed her t-shirt and replaced it with her original t-shirt but he noticed the blood and dirt on it, "You can't wear this, its filthy!" He removed it and walked out the bedroom forgetting that she wasn't wearing a t-shirt, so she jumped off the bed and headed out to the hall and started walking where ever her little feet could take her, while she was walking she was busy looking at her face and he bumped into the back of someone.
"Hm? Clementine?" She looked up and saw Nick towering above her a slight pinkness in his face, "Where's you're..t-shirt?" She glanced down at her naked chest and shrugged "Los took it!" Nick looked down in confusion but then realised that she was talking about Carlos, "Why does he have it?", "Wash!" She pointed towards the kitchen, "Do you have any other t-shirts you can wear?" He asked refusing to look at her but she wandered off not answering his question.
"Typical three year olds" He mumbled and went to his bedroom, this time Clementine bumped into Sarah, "Sarah!" She raised her arms "You really like me don't you?" Sarah picked her and headed back downstairs, "Dad! Can she borrow one of you're t-shirt's? Carlos scoffed "No Sarah sweetie but she can borrow ones of Luke's , "Hey what!? Why mines?" Luke called from the kitchen "Because she doesn't have any other t-shirts!" Sarah shouted back, she felt Clementine pull her glasses off and place them on herself" Hey! What you doing?", "Aw look a mini Sarah" Carlos chuckled and gave Sarah a kiss on the cheek and pat Clementine's head before taking Sarah's glasses off her and placing them back on his daughter and take Clementine from Sarah's arms and headed up to Luke's room.
"Tell him we're in his room" He said to Sarah before going upstairs to takes Luke's t-shirt, after a couple of minutes of getting changed he noticed that Clementine had falling asleep, he glanced at the clock and it was only ten to nine "Wow i didn't realise it was that early!" He whispered to himself and headed out his bedroom, "Sarah! Is her cot ready?" He yelled from the landing, she moved slightly in his arms "Yeah!" She shouted back.
He slowly let Clementine down into the cot and wrapped the blankets around her and moved the teddies closer to her, he closed the blinds and headed out the room leaving it opened slightly letting the hall light shine through the crack in the door.
