Clementine X Male Reader Season 4

Chapter 29: Walking Through The Woods

Y/N POV

We constructed a plan but we needed James help to pull it off. Me, Clem and AJ are searching for him through the woods.

Y/N: So, how many walkers do you think James will help us get? Fifteen? A hundred?

Clem: A thousand?

Y/N: That's a stretch.

Clem: You're no fun.

Clem: What do you think Goofball?

AJ: (grabs stomach) Guys, I don't-- Ow.

Clem: Gunshot wound?

AJ: It feels like someone pinched me from inside.

Clem: Here, let's rest a second.

I pick up AJ and sit him down on a rock.

AJ: Mom, Dad? I keep thinking... When Willy said all that stuff about Tenn before, I got so mad. He was being mean, and Tenn wasn't even there to defend himself. I wanted to hurt him. I know I shouldn't. But I just can't stop thinking about it. I wanna just... punch his head. I tried breathing, kicking rocks... I don't like this feeling. Wanting to hurt somebody.

Clem: I know it's hard, AJ. But thoughts like that, they go away. You just have to give it time.

AJ: Waiting's hard. I'm just thinking too much.

AJ: Like, I think... I think I'm mad at Tenn, too. Running out of cover when Lilly attacked the school was really stupid. But he just doesn't know stuff like we do. And then Willy started yelling at him instead of helping him learn... Why don't the other kids know all the stuff we know? When there's a plan, you have to follow it. And when you yell at someone, it just makes them not listen.

Y/N: We know buddy but like I always say....

AJ: "No plan survives contact with the enemy" I know. But I felt like things could've turned out differently.

Y/N: It's okay to get mad at people. You can't help that. But those thoughts have to stay in your head, okay? Don't act on them. Ever.

AJ: Okay. I'm strong. I can control what I do. But not what I think.

Clem: We know goofball.

Me and Clem sit on each side of AJ.

AJ: It's weird that people are so different.

Clem: It is Ericson's Boarding School for "Troubled" Youth.

AJ: Troubled youth... Trouble... Like, bad. So they did bad things? Why?

Clem: Okay, um, sometimes they do them because bad things happened to them. We knew a doctor once, back when you were just a baby. He called it trauma. You have some too, you know. The thing where people can't walk up behind you.

Y/N: My pecker has suffered from it.

AJ: I don't like my trauma. I want to get it off of me. How do I get rid of it? I don't even like the way the word sounds.

Y/N: You sock it right in the mouth.

AJ: It has a mouth?

Y/N: Oh yeah. A giant one that's gonna eat your face!

Clem slaps me across the face.

Y/N: What the fuck?

Clem slaps me across the face again.

Y/N: Ok fun police I surrender!

Clem: What he's saying is that, like everything else in the world, you can fight it.