"Alvin Junior that is not what I taught you, not about how you feel, how you treat people, how to think!"

"I'm teaching myself now." Clementine...

"The wrong lessons."

"Says you.." You taught me all this first.

"I never taught you to find joy in killing."

I Needed To Protect Us!


"AJ, you can't really believe that, please think about what you're saying!" Oh, so now he wants to participate! "Stay out of this or I swear I will claw your fucking eyes out!"

"Neither of you are listening! Anyone who wants to hurt us should be dead! And I'm not sorry about it, and I'm not gonna feel bad about it." His face, I knew his every word would be straight from the tracks, so to say, instead of his usual AJ filter.

AJ...my little goofball, what do I do Lee?

"AJ" I have to try.

"You say you didn't teach me this but you did!" My little man started to pace, he really was getting too smart, huh? "You always said survival is the most important thing. Be strong! Be brave! If something tries to hurt us shoot it in the head!"

God, what do I do? I've raised him straight into being like Carver and..Her.

"Killing Lily, made us safe."

I... AJ might never remember Jane, and some nights I wish I didn't either, but to know I've raised him straight into giving up... What do I even say, he's...

"I can't listen to this."James, what do you want to say, huh? "You think you change him? Do it then. Talk to him." You think I don't fucking.. breathe Clementine, focus on AJ.

"I'm not gonna stop Clem, I'm not gonna let people who wanna hurt us just walk around. You can't just tell me to stop and expect me to get it." He really has been listening, and this is something I haven't answered yet.

"AJ, do you remember how it felt, that first night having hot food and a new family, before we knew about Marlon, and the raiders, and how it felt like home, even just a new one?" It was short but that day and half seems like paradise looking back. "And how even now we're fighting to get that feeling back, of safety, of a hot meal and laughter and drawings." He was looking at me as if I was crazy asking something like that, but as I gave him a look he closed his eyes and gave a ghost of a smile as he thought of it. "Yeah, Clem, I do. I miss it." "Everyone alive on this planet wants that same thing AJ, including Lilly and Abel. Just like Minerva and the rest of the raiders, and they all just want to feel that same feeling in their chest and belly of knowing their family is safe." God he looks like Alvin more and more everyday, "We all will fight and, because it's a fucked up world, kill each to get it AJ, but you can Never Ever like it. The same way you understood how taking Marlon away made everyone at the school sad and upset, I need to understand you can never pull the trigger liking killing, hear me?"

"That only works for Marlon, he wasn't going to hurt us and he dropped the gun but Lilly cut out Loius' tongue Clem! You said it yourself she deserved it, so why are you trying to confuse me?" God, it's like looking into a mirror, AJ please. "You can't just make up new rules, it confuses me."

"AJ, for the last two years I've focused on teaching you survival because it was what you needed to learn first. It was me and you on the road and I needed to know you knew those rules by heart. But things change, we're with people now, and while it's gets more complicated it's worth it but you can Never like killing Alvin Junior, monsters are one thing, but people are just as lost as you and me were kid. You can never think that way about killing anyone. Not even Lilly."

The way he looked at me, he didn't believe me, just for a moment there but I could see it before he looked down. My little goofball stopped listening...

"I've had enough"

Him

"It's obvious he won't listen to you, and he shouldn't, killing in the name of your friends is how you create more sorrow, more anger." James grabbed AJ by the shoulder, luckily AJ already knew how to get out of that grip.

AJ and Tenn are behind me, time to deal with this fuckstick. He charges first, and as I reach to grab his hands, his wrap around my wrists instead.

"You're not listening!" He growled out.

Pushed to the ground I looked up at him, expecting to have to move out the way from a stomp or a kick, when he gets his head hit with a rock. AJ looks at James anger in his eyes now, protecting me again, at what cost goofball?

"We hear you, you just don't understand who we are." My little man, ready to keep going. That's my boy.

"I understand you, I've seen your kind, the world is full of you! I've been you! All you is violence and death." James, if you really think we're like them.. "He could live a peaceful life but it's like you won't let him!" Fuck you buddy, I'm doing my best and not everyone wants to live in a walker suit.

"It might seem hard to believe, AJ. I know it does, but listen to me. No one has to die anymore. Not humans. Not walkers." "James! This philosophy of yours.."

"Is what kept me human Clementine! It's what will keep any of us human!" He sounds like a...

"Jesus James look around, the world is broken, and its not going to fixed by some childhood fantasy made by a child who could walk with walkers! You think I don't want that world for me and AJ? A world where I could go to sleep without having to think about killing or dying that night? You don't think I want to show him cartoons, not just tell him stories?! That's Not How It Works! Not yet." The blood on my hands won't ever come off, Abel was his own thing and Kenny..

"So what is it?"

He looked as if he still wanted to fight over this as if he had already heard everything I could say.

"It may not kill or be killed, but awful damn close. And I will be the one to teach him,

Not you."

I won't let him go, fuck this walker fucker and whoever else fucking tries.


A/N)Hey there, so been thinking about this scene alot, mainly cause I just finished my first playthrough and this scene is one of those ones where you wish you were there instead of having to deal with the 4 options play style of the game. Secondly cause it is the closing point of a lot of our teaching for our goofball so yeah, wanted to make my own version.

Tell me honest thoughts only, no need for some "That's a good beginner, if not modest work." Honest critics but no flames? Only if you have to plz lol.

Random question, do you guys think James would stay? Do you think Clem/I explained ourselves well enough?