Clementine sat with her legs dangling over the edge of the train. She hated the train, all she could picture was Duck lying in the arms of his mother as he slowly died from his walker bite, or Chuck telling her she was going to end up just like her dead friend, or Lee cutting her hair with the huge scissors. The thought of all the bad memories on the train almost made her sick. Her eyes began watering as she stared out the train, the different kinds of trees blurring as they sped across the train tracks.
She was brought out of her depressing thoughts when Mason sat next to her, cross-legged. "You look upset." Mason said. "Are you alright?"
"I'm okay." Clementine said, quickly drying her eyes.
"I know what'll cheer you up." Mason said. "Want to see a magic trick?"
Clementine gave a small smile. "Okay." She said.
Mason took a small white cardboard box from his pocket. He emptied out a hand of cards into his palm and spread it out like a fan before turning to Clem. "Alright, pick a card." Mason said. "Don't show me."
Clementine chose a card from the pack and looked at it was a smile. "Okay." Clementine said.
"Alright, pass it here." Mason said, taking the card off of Clem, still looking at the back of it. He held it up in front of Clem and covered it with his hand, before tearing it in half and throwing it behind him. "Alright, just going to shuffle the pack." Mason put the cards behind his back and shuffled the pile up. He brought the pack back in front of Clem with a smirk.
"What now?" Clem asked.
"What was the card?" Mason asked.
"The…third of clubs." Clementine said.
"Alright. Third of clubs…oh, y'know what I think that was the one I tore up. Here, let's try and make a new one with magic." Mason said, waving his hand over the pack of cards. He lifted up the first card on the pile and showed it to Clem. "Is this your card?"
Clem's eyes widened in excitement. "Wow! How'd you do that?" Clementine gasped.
"A good magician never reveals his secret." Mason said.
"I'll teach you how to do it later on." Emily laughed, sitting on the other side of Clementine.
Mason took a deep breath as he looked outside the train, nervously. "Alright, let's move back a little…please." He said, shuffling back and sitting back down in the centre of the train, where Omid and Christa were also sat.
Clementine giggled whilst Emily rolled her eyes, before joining him in the middle of the train carriage. "Everything okay in here?" Joshua asked, as he walked into the carriage.
"We're good." Mason said.
"Been impressing everyone with your card tricks I see." Josh laughed, noticing the pack of cards Mason was putting away back into his pocket.
"Hey, you love my card tricks." Mason said.
Clementine stood up and walked over to Joshua, shyly. "Excuse me...Mr…" Clementine said, quietly.
"Call me Joshua." He said with a smile, crouching down in front of Clementine.
"Is Lee okay?" She asked, noticing Lee had been in the front of the train for the last hour.
"He's fine, want me to get him back in here? It's getting a little crowded up there anyway." Joshua said.
"Is that okay?" Clementine asked, looking to her feet.
Joshua smiled kindly and pet Clem on the head before walking back over to the train.
After a few seconds Lee walked back through the carriage door, and picked Clementine up, hugging her close to him. "Joshua said you were missing me." Lee said.
Clementine didn't say another word, just hugged him back, with a happy smile. "I don't like it when you go away for too long." Clementine said.
"I know. But I need to make sure nobody breaks the train." Lee chuckled, sitting down in the circle of people in the centre of the train carriage, placing Clem down onto his lap.
"Is…what's his name, David that bad?" Christa asked.
"I trust him, I don't trust Allen and Will." Lee laughed. "I promise to spend some more time back here."
"You better believe Clem'll hold you by that." Omid said with a small laugh.
"I know she will. I'll be right back, I've got to go tell the guys I'm staying back here for a bit." Lee said, stroking Clem's cheek gently before walking out of the carriage again.
"C'mere, Clem. I'll teach you that magic trick." Mason said, gesturing to go into the nearest corner of the train.
"What happened to a good magician never reveals his secrets?" Emily asked.
"Well, you don't make the noise right." Mason bickered, jokingly.
"Meh, you don't make the noise right.' Listen to yourself." Emily laughed.
Mason chuckled and rolled his eyes, sitting down in front of Clementine, taking the cards back out. "Alright, so what you do is…"
Mason continued to teach Clementine the trick, how to make a tearing noise with your mouth, and pretend to shuffle them behind your back whilst picking the card you tossed behind your back, and the other steps to playing the trick, until he was cut off by the train being thrown into complete darkness.
"What the hell?!" Omid yelled in surprise.
"What happened?" Christa gasped.
Mason listened out for Clementine, who was beginning to sniffle and cry quietly nearby. He held his hand out and landed it on her shoulder, making her jump. "Ssh, it's okay. It's alright, I've got you." Mason said, pulling her towards him. "Everything's okay."
The light was soon shot instantly back on. "Is everybody okay back here?" Lee asked, as he ran back through the carriage door. "The train went through a tunnel."
Mason looked around the train as soon as his eyes got used to the light. He sat with Clementine hugging close to him, teary eyed and shaking.
So, nothing much happened this chapter. Just a little character development between Mason and Clemmy.
If you're not done with Clem being cute, go check out my new story Baby Girl where Clem is a baby! Just updated it tonight!
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