The Broken But Strong

Let's Get To Work

(Clementine's Pov)

I woke up early in the morning and I saw AJ also getting up. We head outside and the other teens were also outside and Violet looks over to me and I nod as I go over to her.

"Ready for practice?" She asked and I nod as we go and get the guns and each teen grabbed the ones, they think would be best for them. Mitch was over on the side though making his bomb and Violet didn't seem to want to grab the rifle that was left but I didn't want to push them on it. I take a pistol and looked to the others as they looked at their guns.

"You know you guys don't have to use these if you don't want to, I know it might be uncomfortable." I tell them.

"No, I think we should learn at least." Ruby says and I nod as I look to the others. I go and take them over to the tree and we had set up a makeshift shooting range and I grabbed some bottles and cans and set them up and I went behind the line where a table sat and they placed their weapons on the table and I nod a bit and grabbed one of the rifles and loaded it up and looked to Aasim.

"Ok you're up, let me see how you hold your weapon." I say and he grabbed the rifle and held it right and I nod.

"Ok so this one has a scope so we need to zero it in for your sight, it'll take a bit but we can get it to work." I explained.

"Wait you can't just shoot it?" Louis asked.

"Well, you can but if you want to get a proper shot, you have to zero the sight in for your eye, it's better to have it set up than to just shoot and go, from far away, if the person is up close it's easier to take a gut shot." I explained and I look to Aasim who was taking his time and he ends up shooting but missing the bottle and I show him how to fix the sighting so he could do it himself. After a while he was able to finally shoot a bottle and I nod and make him shoot two more bottles and he was able to hit them.

"That's great." I say and he nods and I show him how to properly empty the rifle and I grabbed this wire with a lock on it.

"This is if you ever want to keep the rifle with you but make sure no one else can use it." I explained how to use it and how to clean the rifle. After I finished with Aasim I helped Ruby and Louis out since they had pistols I told them about the sight on the pistol to make sure to hold the weapon with both hands the thumbs crossing each other and let them shoot for a bit. They were able to get the bottles and cans and I showed them how to also clean, lock, and empty their weapons.

"And you learned this how?" Mitch asked as he came over to us as I was teaching Omar how to shoot a revolver.

"When I was in the New Frontier we had to train a lot, the man in charge was in the Military before the Walkers, I didn't know how to really do all this until then, all I knew was to keep my gun loaded and aim for the head, didn't know how to clean my gun and such." I explain to them and he nods.

"I was able to get one bomb ready we can test it out." He says and I nod.

"After I teach Omar ok?" I asked and he nods as I teach Omar. It took a bit because this revolver had a bit of a kick and he dropped it and I said he didn't have to shoot it at all. He agreed and we decided to stop for now and the others were cleaning their weapons and Omar just went back to his cooking area and I head over to Mitch.

"Don't worry it's a small one it's not going to hurt anyone." He says and I nod as he grabbed the igniter and he tried to light it. It did light the fuse and we backed up but the fuse died before it was halfway down.

"Fuck... ok hold on." He says as he goes up and licked his fingers and placed it on the fuse to make sure it didn't reignite at random; I've seen it happen before and we think.