Project V (Clementine X Male Reader Book 4)

Red Night

Marina pulls the car up to a gate of Marinus. No one is on watch, no one is operating the gate, no one is there to guard the community.

You: You think they left?

Marina: No.

She gets out, you follow her.

Marina: They're all probably just inside, discussing.

Brooklyn: Leaves you vulnerable.

Marina: I doubt anyone is using this time to attack other communities.

You: Can we get that open from out here?

Marina: No.

You: Alright.

You make your way to the wall and jump to the top. There are people here still, huddled together in groups at the not far from the gate. A few of them notice you, and before you touch the ground, most of them are looking at you. Probably wondering where their leader is.

You open the gate, and Marina drives the car in. Brooklyn walks in behind it.

Brooklyn: This is weird.

You: What is?

Brooklyn: Her, being old.

You: She's not old.

Brooklyn: She was fourteen the last time we saw her. Now she's twenty-seven. She's older.

You: Yeah. It is kinda weird.

The community has started making its way to her.

You: So, give me all the details.

Brooklyn: Um, you know most of it, I'm pretty sure. Herakles, we have twelve hours, there's probably more of those Walkers around, the world is going to be decaying even while we're in here. I'm not entirely sure how it all works, but once we heard you had to do something in here, I came.

You: They have to figure something out, outside too?

Brooklyn: Yeah.

You sigh.

You: And if we get caught in here?

Brooklyn: It'll fry our brains, basically.

You: Thought so.

Marina has started addressing Marinus. She's probably not telling them everything. That would be a bad idea, and she knows better.

Brooklyn: Why did you go to that community anyway?

You: To get Aj.

Brooklyn: Was he not there?

You: The president used him to talk to us, and then he... Poofed out of existence.

Brooklyn: Poof?

You make an explosion gesture with your hands.

You: Gone.

Her people are getting rowdy, trying to ask questions and such.

You: Are they going to give you a watch?

Brooklyn: I assume.

You: So right now, you could die?

Brooklyn: Yes.

You: Gotcha.

Brooklyn: Not sure what that would do to us, though. Let's not die.

You: Easy.

Brooklyn: You say that, but we both died here already.

You: I didn't have invulnerability last time.