Clementine and Jane woke up before everybody else did. They both blushed when they realized they at some point in there sleep they began cuddling in each other. Jane smirked down at the girl.
"Hey~." She said with a grin.
Clementine smiled back at her. "Hey."
"Did you sleep well?" Jane asked the girl in her arms.
Clementine nodded. "Did you?" She asked the woman.
Jane smiled and nodded. Jane and Clementine were smiling at each other for a few minutes. "So...you wanna stay like this for a bit or you wanna get up?" Jane asked the tall eleven year old in her arms.
"As much as I like this, we should probably get up before everyone else does." Clementine said.
Jane gave the eleven year old a pout, which Clementine thought was adorable, before letting her up. They both stood up and grabbed their stuff and went over to the bench.
"Shall we continue our conversation from last night? We'll have time before that idiot comes to get us for work." Jane informed Clementine.
"We did get up pretty early, didn't we." Clementine said with a chuckle.
They both sat down at the bench and resumed their conversation.
"So, what can you do with that pick?" Jane asked Clementine.
"Climb like I'm Nathan Drake." Clementine answered.
Jane gave her an impressed look before placing her head in both palms. "Let's see it." She said with a smirk.
Clementine smirked at the woman before standing up and running towards a wall. She kicked off the wall and latched onto a broken ladder with Leeya. She hung there and waved at Jane.
Jane whistled. "Damn. You're a little badass, aintcha?" Jane said with raised eyebrows.
Clementine swung back and forth before swinging up and landing onto the roof.
"Ta-da!" She said as she clipped Leeya back onto her belt.
"Okay, now that was cool." Jane said in awe. "I can use Karen to climb, but the way I do it is a little more noisy." Jane informed Clementine as she climbed down the wall and walked back over to Jane.
"How do you do it, then?" Clementine asked with a curious head tilt, which Jane thought was adorable.
"Basically I just stab the wall." Jane said simply.
Clementine's eyes widened. "What the hell is Karen made out of?" Clementine asked.
"Some metal alloy that is harder than diamond." Jane told Clementine. "I don't remember what it was called, but I do know that Karen is basically unbreakable." Jane finished.
"Damn." Clementine said in awe.
They continued talking for another hour before other people started to wake up. They had gone back to the topic of walker guts. "How did you find out about it, Clem?" Jane asked her.
"Lee was the one who found out." Clementine told the woman, having told her about Lee earlier. "He walked through a horde of walkers with nothing but a butcher knife and a shard of glass and stabbed his way to where I was." Clementine said, remembering all the dead bodies she saw when they left the marsh house.
"Jesus, how many of them did he get?" Jane asked curiously.
"All of them." Clementine answered.
Jane's eyes widened and her mouth dropped. "A whole fucking horde?! A horde is like, three times the size of a herd!" Jane exclaimed before sitting back down, just in complete awe. "Lee was one badass mother fucker then." Jane said.
Clementine nodded. "Yep. He definitely was."
"Yeah, he would have been soaked in blood." Jane said.
They continued talking for awhile before everybody was awake. Kenny saw Jane and Clementine talking. His eyes narrowed into a glare at Jane. Why were they talking like they were super chummy already? He thought as he started walking towards them.
The door to the pen opened suddenly. Carver, Troy, and one more guard stepped inside. As the group turned to face them, Clementine saw the look Kenny was giving Jane. She groaned quietly when she saw it.
"Oh, great. Now I have to deal with that too." She said to herself.
Jane looked at her with concern. "Deal with what?" She asked.
Clementine shook her head. "Don't worry about it. I'll tell you later."
"Hey! You two bitches shut the fuck up! Bill want's a word!" Troy yelled at them.
They both flipped him off. Troy seethed with anger while Carver smiled at their ferocity. Clementine wanted to gag at the look Carver was giving her, Jane noticed and decided to talk to her later about it, not wanting to get anyone in trouble just yet.
"Everybody listen up! The work our home needs is in no shortage, everybody will be put to work. Pete, Mike, and the new guy, Kenny, you guys will be fortifying the wall." He told the three men.
Kenny crossed his arms.
"Like Hel-" He started.
"You got it, Bill!" Mike cut him off before leaning towards Kenny. "Just go along with it, you don't wanna get shot, do you?" He said through quietly.
Kenny sighed and grumbled but kept quiet after that. Carver hmph'd and kept talking.
"Reggie, take Sarah up to the green house and put her to work there. Carlos, it should be obvious what You're gonna do. Everybody else, split up and find a way to help out. Don't do anything stupid. Clementine, you can decide what you want to do." He said, hoping giving the eleven year old freedom of choice would get her to warm up to him.
"In that case, I'll work with Jane all day." Clementine said, giving a sideways glance and smile to Jane, which the nineteen year old woman returned.
Carver noticed the look they gave each other and placed his hand on his gun, considering shooting Jane right then and there, but decided that would ruin any chance he had of wooing Clementine.
Clementine noticed that and grew really worried. "Hey-"
"Did he say you could still talk, bitch?!" Troy shouted.
Carver placed a hand on his chest. "Yes, Clem? What is it?" He asked her.
"Jane and I can go work now, you got anything you need done on the roof?" Clementine asked hastily.
"Yeah, heavy lifting stuff." Carver answered. "Stairs are back and to the left." He told them.
Clementine took Jane's arm and they left the pen and searched for the staircase. When they found it, they proceeded to go upstairs.
"So what's the deal with that Kenny guy? He was a friend of yours right?" Jane asked as they got to the roof.
Clementine sighed. "He was a good person, but has lost a lot. He lost his family: His son, Duck, got bitten and his wife shot herself." Clementine explained.
Jane's eyes widened. "Oh..." She said in realization.
"Lee was also his best friend, so there's that too." Clementine said as they began walking around the roof.
"The problem with him though, is that he's unstable and he I think he sees me as a replacement for Duck sometimes. He's been scaring me for awhile, I've been slowly distancing myself from him." Clementine said before sighing. "Sorry, I don't mean to dump all of this on you, Jane. I just feel like I can trust you the most, despite only knowing you for a day." Clementine said.
Jane smiled at her. "Well, if it makes you feel any better, I feel exactly the same way with you, Clem. How about this. While we work, we talk about each other. We wont stop till we know all about each other. How's that sound?" Jame offered as she picked up a bag of cement.
Clementine smiled at Jane. "That's sounds great." She said before she picked up a box of tools.
The two of them talk throughout their work. Clementine telling Jane as much as she could recall from the before times and everything about after it started, Jane did the same.
"You see, at the bottom the bottle were these sugar crystals, and my thirteen year old self had it in my mind that I wanted to eat em. So I got the bright idea to smash the bottle against the dining room floor." Jane told Clementine as they worked on pulling up bags of soil from the pen with the winch on the roof.
"But you see, the problem with broken glass shards is that it looks a lot like sugar crystals." Jane said, cracking Clementine up.
"I was drunk, bleeding from my mouth when my little sister came running in. I got taken to the hospital and they pumped my stomach. But here I am today, with my high school diploma." Jane said, causing Clementine to burst with laughter.
"Well, the silliest thing that I've done was lick a saltlick. I was gross." Clementine told Jane. "Far from the dumbest thing I've done, though." Clementine said with a sad sigh.
Jane looked at her with concern. Clementine noticed and told the older woman that she would tell her eventually in their conversation. As they continued to work, Clementine told Jane everything about what happened at the St. John's Dairy.
They kept talking throughout the entirety of their work. Clementine had told Jane everything about her life before the walkers, and Jane was just about to finish with her story for before the walkers.
"And then, a day after I graduated, boom. Zombies." Jane said, a little annoyed that her super early high school graduation got undermined by the apocalypse.
Before Clementine could respond, a guard came up to them. "It's lunch time, ya'll. Get down to the mess hall so ya can eat." He said before doing that himself.
Clementine and Jane gave a groan of "Finally!", having grown tired of moving heavy stuff to a different spot. The eagerly went downstairs to get some food.
Jane and Clementine sat next to each other, Clementine having gotten a tray full of barbecue beans and a slice of pizza. Jane got the same. They were talking about how Clementine met Lee and everything that happened in those first few days with him, from meeting him at her house to Hershel's farm, to the drugstore, to getting settled in at the Motor Inn. "We stayed there for awhile and we went through three months without any major incidents. After those three months, however, we found out that everybody was infected and then the St John's Dairy stuff happened." Clementine finished her story.
"Jeez, that sounds like it was a depressing week." Jane said, sickened at the thought of cannibalism and everything else those guys did.
Clementine huffed. "Yeah, it was."
Before they could continue their conversation, Bonnie sat in front of them.
Clementine glared at her, Jane not knowing what happened between them stayed quiet unless she was prompted or explained to.
"What. The fuck. Do you. Want?" Clementine asked her through gritted teeth, trying her best not to shove Leeya right into her face.
Bonnie was fed up with how she was being treated by a child.
"Listen, ya brat. Do ya think that's anyway to treat an adult that has been tryin' to help ya?" Bonnie asked her angrily.
Clementine thought about throwing her food at her, but decided that would be a waste.
"How fucking DARE you talk to me like that after what you did you fucking bitch!" Clementine said enraged.
"Excuse me?" Bonnie said in shock.
"Oh I'm sorry, did you forget that you're little tattletale stuff at ski lodge got my friend killed?! Omid was a such a nice guy and you got him fucking murdered! Get the fuck away from me before I can't hold myself back anymore!" Clementine screamed.
"You don't know what yer talkin' about!" Bonnie shouted back.
Clementine punched her the face, breaking her nose and sending her flying off the bench. She was about to lunge after her but Jane held her back.
"She's not worth the energy, Clem." Jane said, trying to calm her down.
"But this fucking bitch got Omid murdered! And then she has the fucking balls to come and talk to me like THAT?!" Clementine shrieked angrily.
"If you kill her, she suffers less." Jane told Clementine, hoping that would work, which thankfully, it did.
She sighed and sat back down and continued eating. "I wonder what Lee would think of me now." Clementine said as she ate.
Jane looked at her and smiled softly. "He would be proud of what you've grown into since he last saw you." Jane told her.
Clementine smiled back at her. "Thanks, Jane."
While a Carlos and a guard picked Bonnie up, Carver walked over to the two of them. Before he could say anything, Bonnie opened up her stupid mouth again.
"I'm sure Lee deserved to die." She mumbled bitterly.
Everybody who knew Clementine and what she thought of Lee felt their blood run cold. Clementine pushed out from the table and stood up. "Hold me back." She said quietly as she gave Bonnie the scariest look she has ever seen.
She the proceeded to unclip Leeya and lunge for Bonnie.
Jane grabbed her by the waist, keeping her from reaching Bonnie.
"I'M GOING TO FUCKING END YOU!" Clementine screamed as she swung Leeya at her from where she was.
She was able to cut her cheek badly before Carlos and the guard got her out of reach, but that was it.
"Carlos! Jake! Get Bonnie out of here!" Carver ordered, which the two men did.
The source of her fury being out of sight got Clementine to calm down and she slumped in Jane's grip.
Carver looked at Clementine at brought her chin up so she could look him in the eye.
"I apologize for her behavior, she was out of line." Carver said, not sincerely at all before standing up. "Now I need to take care of some things, everybody continue eating lunch." He announced to everybody before walking off to do god knows what.
"What a load of horseshit." Clementine mumbled before eating the rest of her food.
She leaned into Jane as she waited for the older woman to finish eating. Jane smiled down at the girl and pulled her closer with a one armed hug and continued eating with the other.
After lunch, everyone was set to resume their work. Jane and Clementine had finished their task and were permitted to walk around the grounds and help out their penmates. They decided they would take a bucket of nails over to Kenny, Pete and Mike. Troy from the roof directed them to which building they were in.
Jane smiled up at Troy seductively. "Thanks big guy~." She said, causing him to blush.
"N-No problem." He said before resuming whatever he was doing on the roof.
As they walked out of Troy's sight, Jane gagged. "Oh man I hate flirting with him." Jane mumbled.
Clementine looked at her with confusion. "Then why do you do it?" She asked her.
"So he thinks I like him. It's to make my eventual escape much easier. Though I have to plan it a bit more, now." She told Clementine, who was relieved that Jane was just using Troy.
"Why do you need to plan it more, now?" Clementine asked Jane curiously as they walked.
Jane smiled down at the tall eleven year old. "Because you're coming with me." Jane said, causing Clementine to beam up at her.
"Oh. Okay then!" She said cheerfully before they reached the building Kenny and the others were working in.
As they entered, they saw Kenny begrudgingly hammering in wood on the wall. Pete had seemed to have literally just calmed a fight between him and Mike down. Kenny noticed Jane and gave her same look as before. He moved to come walk up to her and Clementine before the eleven year old placed down the bucket loudly in front of Kenny to get him to snap out of it.
"Here's the nails you guys need." She said, stepping in front of Jane in a way that made it seem normal.
"Thanks, Clem. We needed these." Pete said gratefully.
Kenny glanced at him before turning back to Clementine. "Yeah. Thanks, Clem." Kenny repeated before taking some nails to go hammer in.
Jane and Clementine left as soon as they were finished there. They walked around the perimeter of the outside wall, when someone grabbed Clementine and pulled her into a comic book store. "JMMNE!" She let out a muffled scream.
She unclipped Leeya and whopped her assailant in the head with the blunt side.
"Aaah! Fuck!" He wailed.
Before Clementine could kill him, the guy pulled a gun on her. "Damn it you bitch! I was gonna make this nice and easy, but you had to be a feisty one!" The guy shouted. "Now I have to shoot you before eating you!" The now confirmed cannibal shouted.
Clementine walked right up to him. "Hey, dumbass." She said.
"What, Bitch?!" He shouted.
Clementine smirked at him. "Your gun is empty." She said, making him check his pistol, which was fully loaded.
"What the fuck are you-" He was cut off a knife being thrown into his head.
"Damn. Nice." Clementine said before retrieving Karen for Jane.
"How the hell did he not notice me enter? And how did he fall for that?" Jane asked, dumbfounded at his stupidity.
Clementine shrugged. "He was a cannibal that some how made his way into this place. I don't feel bad for him dying." Clementine said as she handed Karen over to Jane, who cleaned it off and sheathed it.
They exited the comic book store and told Troy about it. "A cannibal? Really? Well we gotta question him, see if he got any friends." Troy said as he came down to the ground.
"If you like talking to corpses, go ahead, by all means." Clementine told Troy.
"Oh. Well shit. Well I still gotta check him for stuff to see if he DID have any friends, like maybe he was part of some crazy group that brands each other." He reasoned as he entered the comic book store.
Jane and Clementine headed back inside as Troy entered the store, deciding to go mess around or something. They walked around and eventually found a door labeled 'entertainment' and decided to check it out. Inside was shelves of comics, normal books, movies, a whole lot of stuff. The two of them looked around the room, Jane picked up on of the comic books and started flipping through the pages.
"Hey Clem, check this out." Jane said, holding a zombie comic.
Clementine walked over to her and looked through the comic with her.
"Man, whoever wrote this was shit at predicting what was actually gonna happen." Jane said as she flipped through it.
Clementine couldn't help but snicker. "Flying zombies? The hell?" Clementine laughed.
"I think this one shoots lasers." Jane said, pointing to a zombie that had a beam coming out of it's mouth.
"This comic is stupid." Jane said, Clementine nodding in agreement.
She put the comic back and the two of them looked through the room a little more before deciding to go screw around on the roof.
They were up there for the rest of the day, well into night. They just stayed up there, swapping more stories throughout the time up there. Clementine was getting to how she met Omid and Christa when they were told it was time for curfew.
"Ugh. Fine." Clementine said before she and Jane walked over to where the pen was and climbed inside, much to the awe of the guards.
"Fucking show offs." One of the guards grumbled.
Jane and Clementine walked over to their spot they slept at and sat up against the wall and continued talking.
"This guy, a real asshole, got himself stuck under a car while there was a herd following us, and people kept going in one after the other to save him, all dying in the process. A lot of nice people died to save the prick, and we found out later he was already bit. He turned and ripped throat right outta this old lady's neck." Jane said, while crossing a finger over her throat.
"Damn. I hate that guy and I don't even know him." Clementine said.
"Your turn, Clem." Jane told Clementine.
"Okay. Well, when we had to leave the motor inn, it was cause somebody had been slipping bandits our supplies and Lee found out. They raided us and we had to leave in an RV. While we were driving, Lilly started blaming Carley and Ben. We didn't know it at the time, but it WAS Ben. We had to get out of the RV because we ran into a walker. While we were out there, Carley told Lilly off because of how much of a bitch she was being, and then when Carley's back was turned, Lilly pulled out her gun. When she turned around to face Lilly, she shot her right in the face." Clementine told Jane.
"Jesus, going off of what you said about Lee and Carley, Lee must have been pissed." Jane commented.
Clementine nodded. "He left her on the road and we drove off." Clementine told her.
Jane nodded in understanding. "I would have done the same." Jane said.
As they continued to talk, Kenny walked up to them. Jane and Clementine looked up at him as he stood above them.
"What's up?" Jane asked him, looking at him with wariness.
"Why are you sittin' with her, Clem?" He asked the eleven year old, not looking at Jane at all.
Clementine crossed her arms. "Cause I like her. We've got a lot in common." Clementine answered the bearded man, causing him to take a step back in shock.
"What? You noticed that?!" Kenny exclaimed.
"Pssh. Please, Kenny. You weren't very subtle." Clementine said dismissively.
"I mean, she's not exactly wrong. I could see your glares from a mile away." Jane informed Kenny, who glared at her in return.
"You stay out of this!" Kenny said angrily.
"Hey, grandpa. I don't know what I did to yank your hate me stick, but you're gonna have to lay off of me." Jane said back with just as much venom.
"Yeah, Kenny. Back off." Clementine said with a warning tone.
"You hardly even know her, Clem!" Kenny shouted.
"Her name is Jane Rose Lawrence. She is nineteen years old and hates soccer as much as I do. Her parents were in the military and her knife is a gift from her dad. She played soccer in her elementary days and switched to base ball as soon as she could. Her favorite color is purple. She had a sister named Jamie whom she loved dearly even though sometimes she didn't show it right. She likes girls, and to top it all of, She-" Clementine's list was interrupted by Kenny stepping up to Jane and grabbing her by the collar.
He pulled her to a standing position. Jane grabbed his wrist and yanked his arm off and punched him in the face, sending on his ass and launching him back a few feet.
"-Has a hella strong arm." Clementine finished. "And is the sexiest thing I've ever seen. If sexy means what I think it does, that is." Clementine finished in her head.
Pete looked over to them at the ruckus and sighed when he saw Kenny on the ground on his back. "Damn it, man! Why are ya pickin' fights with anybody you don't like being near Clementine?!" Pete said as he offered his arm to Kenny, who batted it away as he stood up.
"She's a little girl!" Kenny reasoned as he stood up.
"That little girl is more capable then all of us put together." Pete said, recalling all of the things he's seen Clementine do.
Clementine puffed her chest out with pride at Pete's words, which made Jane guffaw at how adorable it was to her. Kenny grumbled at everything before walking off, fed up trying for the time being.
Jane sat back down and laid her back against the wall again. Clementine stretched her arms and yawned before leaning into Jane's side. "I'm going to sleep now, Jane. Good night." Clementine said as she cuddled the woman's side.
Jane smiled at her and wrapped her arm around her, making sure Clementine was comfortable. "All right. Good night, Clem." Jane said before she too try to get some sleep.
Little did Clementine know, her life was about to get much better within the next few days.
Author's Note: I'm gonna have Janentine go all the way before Lee and Clementine reunite. Clementine is going to introduce Lee to JAne as her girlfriend. Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, I enjoyed writing it as always. I hope everyone leaves reviews! :D