Suffer the Children

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Clementine: Previously on The Walking Dead. AJ, Pippa, Maddie, Kenny and I had been searching, for a long time. For some place we could call home. Just when we thought we'd found a huge stash of food, it turned out to be a trap. That could've been the end. But I woke up... and found I'd been saved by a guy named Marlon. The leader of a community living inside an old boarding school. It felt like a chance at having a home. A real one. We had to go back to the train station, to see if any food survived the explosion. But someone else had the same idea.

Maddie: When AJ and Pippa distracted him, I shoved him into a pack of walkers.

Kenny: I found Marlon and Brody in the basement that night, arguing about the man we'd seen. And I learned why Brody was so afraid. The man was part of a group of raiders they'd run into a year ago. Marlon traded Tennessee's older sisters to the raiders, to keep himself safe. He attacked Brody, and locked me in the basement with her. When she turned, I had to stop her. Marlon stole AJ's gun and tried to convince them I had murdered Brody.

Clementine: Louis backed me up.

Maddie: With everyone against him, the fight went out of Marlon.

Kenny: I told him to leave and never come back.

Clementine: But then, Marlon was dead... and AJ and Pippa pulled the trigger. They remembered what I taught them.

Maddie: To always aim for the head.

AJ, Pippa, Maddie, Kenny and Clem are in their room. Clementine, Maddie, and Kenny wake up and get out of bed. AJ and Pippa are already awake; they bring a cup of coffee to Clem, Maddie, and Kenny.

AJ: Made you some coffee. It was in the kitchen. Tenn said that I could have some. I didn't steal it.

Clem, Maddie, and Kenny take the coffee cup and has a sip.

Kenny: I'm surprised you remember how to make it. We haven't had coffee in a long time.

Pippa: You put it in hot water.

Clementine: You're right. Thanks.

AJ: Last night, with Marlon? I heard Louis, and... what he called me. Am I a murderer?

Flashback

Clem, Maddie, and Kenny and the rest of the group are in the courtyard.

Louis: No!

Omar: Oh, my God!

Violet: Shit!

Ruby: We could get medicine... from the nurse's office!

Mitch: He's dead! The kids blew his brains out!

Louis: You shot him! He's dead. You're a murderer! You promised Marlon! You said you'd help him fix things! You got Marlon to give up. You saw how broken he was. What the fuck did you teach this kid?!

End of Flashback

Pippa: Louis called me a murderer. But... but we're supposed to kill bad stuff. Monsters. Did I do it bad? I thought Marlon was bad. He killed Brody, he... he kept telling lies.

Maddie: This'll be hard to hear. Louis was right. Sometimes people do bad things, like Marlon did. But when you shot him, he wasn't a threat to us anymore. If you kill someone when they're no longer threatening you, that's murder.

AJ: Even if they were bad?

Kenny: Even then. It was wrong.

Pippa: What are we gonna do?

Flashback

Back at the courtyard, the group surrounds AJ and Pippa. Violet steps in front of them and brandishes her cleaver.

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