Walking Dead Game Collection

"We Know"

Take Us Back spoilers ahead!!!

Title: We Know
Characters: Clementine, Louis, AJ, Ruby, Aasim, Violet
Summary: After Clementine's amputation, AJ runs back to Ericson, urgent for help. Louis, Clementine's boyfriend, rushes to find her in a panic.
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"Guys!"

AJ was out of breath when he slammed through Ericson's front gates. Louis had been cut off from him and Clem a few hours previous, and the entirety of Ericson had been sitting in nervous panic since. So, watching AJ burst in through the front gates without warning — without understanding — was terrifying to say the least.

But that wasn't what Louis cared about. Not when he dropped everything in his arms to run to him. Not when he was blindly yelling his name.

Not when Clementine wasn't with him.

"Where's Clementine?" Louis wailed, throwing himself to his knees, gathering the child in his arms. His stare was wide, blank, trained forward through the swinging gates. His gaze didn't leave the dirt as AJ sobbed into his shoulder and quivered into his chest. A part of him hoped that Clementine was just behind him, somewhere in that forest just as the sunrise took the forest in its grasp. He hoped they could leave the gates open because she was right there.

"The barn," AJ wheezed, the words dancing on his breath. "She's in the barn."

"The barn?" Aasim, one of the many crowding the two posed. "What barn?"

"The walker barn." AJ managed, prying himself from Louis' chest.

Louis' arms didn't leave the child's elbows, not wanting to let him get too far away — not wanting him to disappear too. The pit in his stomach grew larger, forcing out the question he felt too sick to ask. "Why is she there if you're here?"

AJ's stare sat on Louis', wobbling under his terror. The look alone answered every question. "She's hurt."

Before Louis knew what he was doing, he was running. He took off through the gates without a second thought. He didn't know where he was going, he didn't know where the barn was, he just knew it wasn't there. Being anywhere not in Ericson meant he was closer to Clementine.

He couldn't hear everyone screaming his name. He didn't hear AJ's sobs as he chased after him, each step prompting a louder wail. He didn't hear Ruby and Aasim charge a beat later, hauling bags of medical equipment.

"Louis!"

"Which way?" He heaved, flipping around, eyes wide and mad, hair frazzled and wind-warped. He scoffed, raising his voice upon not getting a response. "AJ! Which way?"

"Louis!" Aasim yelled, skidding to a halt in front of the teen, AJ and Ruby fumbling at his heels.

"What?" He scoffed, loudly, irritably. "We don't have time for this. Where's the barn? Where's Clem?"

"Louis, you need to calm down—"

AJ pointed to their right and Louis stopped listening. It wasn't like he had been in the first place, he was too lost in his own head trying to navigate through his thoughts. He couldn't calm down, not when he was so close to losing her.

When they reached the barn, they were greeted with a slew of walkers clamouring at the walls and doors, thrashing through openings, desperately trying to squeeze their way through.