If everything I love turned to dust {TWDG LOUIS x CLEMENTINE/CLOUIS}

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Just as I was relaxing, Marlon dashed into the room.
"There's walkers that need taking care of. Louis, come on," Marlon looks at me, "I know you're new, but we could do with your help."
I nod hesitantly. He signals me to follow him. We get out of the building, and as we're running Marlon gets close to me.
"I'm Marlon by the way. Sorry that this is the way we meet each other."
"It's ok." We continue running towards the gate. I take out my knife which was in my bag, and prepare myself.

We exit the gates and enter a forestry zone. There are red markings on the floor, and lots of dangling ropes. Traps? I see a couple of walkers staggering towards me. I swipe one off its feet and stab another in the head. The remaining two which stood up were easy to kick and kill.
"Nice. But you need to work on your finesse." Louis says. "Watch and learn." I put my eyes on Louis. He lures a walker towards him and then swings his bat - I think it's a bat - in a mighty arc against the tree. The tree shakes but nothing happens. For a second. And suddenly the walker was in pieces, all over the floor, under a large boulder.

"Now that's how yo—"
Without warning he grabs my shoulder and pulls me towards him. My natural instinct almost stabs him in the head, but I stop myself.
"What was that for!?" I ask, but he's not listening. He's killing a walker which is standing where I was a moment ago. I was distracted and almost died, and he saved me.

A wave of gratitude crosses me as I step forward to fight some more walkers. I remember his trap technique and approach a red marked area. I lure the walkers into the marks and cut a piece of rope, just like he did. Sure enough, the Boulder comes crashing down, destroying two of the walkers with one stone. Louis manages to look up and gives me a thumbs up. I smile and turn back to my fight.

There's only a few left I can see. I await the first and just stab it through its eye. I continue deploying this strategy until only one walker remains. It's quite far away, and it's sneaking up on someone I haven't seen before. I approach the walker and grab it's attention, but it only pauses before going after that other person. I run up and stab it through its skull right before it reaches the unaware person. The person turn around in shock to see my with my bloody hand thrusting a knife through a walkers skull.

"You're the new girl? I.. I'm aasim.. and thanks for saving me?" He says, his voice uncertain what tone to speak in.
He smiles faintly before approaching Marlon. I go over to Louis and wave.
"That was an A performance there, Clem. A star, even." He says confidently. It feels strange to hear him call me clem when he's only known me for a few minutes, but I feel like it's correct. I look behind Louis to see a blonde girl walking by herself.
"Anyway, Vi, today was not your special day. B plus." The girl rolls her eyes and takes some steps away.
"Hello there Clementine, my name is Violet." Holds his nose as we speak.
"Yeah. What he said." The girl's voice is quite nice, considering it's the apocalypse and all.

I follow the two as they argue about Louis' jokes. When were inside, someone closes the gate behind us. I turn around to see a young ginger boy with big eyes just... staring at me.
"Uhm... Hi?" I say uncertainly. He runs past me, not saying anything.
"Sorry about him," Louis materialises behind me, making me almost jump, "we just haven't seen anything like you before."
"What does that mean?"
"Well, you're prettier than any other girl I've seen."

I laugh a little, before we both continue walking towards the school building.
"Marlon assigned you a room. I'll show it to you." I nod and follow him. We go into the building and then back into the room I woke up in.
"This room's been looking blank ever since Sophie and Minnie.. left."
"Who's Sophie and Minnie?" I ask.
"They were kids here, violet was very close with Minnie, and they were both our great friends. They died on a hunting trip." He says slowly, a tinge of sorrow in his voice.
"Oh." I sigh. "I'm sorry."
"It's ok. Now it's up to you to make this place alive again." He looks into my eyes, "I hope you'll settle in well." He smiles, and I smile back, which completes the connection.
Suddenly AJ runs into the room.
"Clem! Are we going to stay here?" He is eager and is bouncing about.
"We'll see, kiddo."
But inside me I'm crossing my fingers:
Let us stay.

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