'Got Your Back' A Gabentine Story?

Chapter Seventeen Gabe's Confession

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Gabe took a week to heal up, by then his ankle's swelling had gone down and he could walk around on his own,although his knee wasn't fully healed. During that week Gabe filled Clementine in on what had happened after he left her.

She shook her head in disbelief once he talked about Charlie handing him the backpack and distracting the others for him, "Lucky for you that Charlie showed up huh?" Clem asked,as she skinned a rabbit she shot.

"Yeah, I wonder what happened to him. I hope they didn't find out he helped me." Gabe said.

"They shouldn't right? I mean he didn't give you anything that would attract too much attention, did he?" Clem asked.

"I don't know....I mean, bandages and a map are kind of valuable." Gabe said leaning back against a tree and breathing in the wood's air.

Clementine nodded, "I had wondered where you had gotten bandages. A map too huh?"

"Yeah. It's probably valuable, as it has a bunch of their locations marked on it. That's how I knew you were walking into a sniper nest. It has all the Sniper's locations marked on it." Gabe said, thankful that Charlie had given him that map or Clem would've been dead.

"That will come in handy." Clem said, she had finished the rabbit and was now digging in Gabe's backpack for matches for the fire.

"You should probably clean out a backpack and move its stuff to your other one, you don't need to carry two." Clem said looking at the mess in his backpack.

Gabe smiled, "I wouldn't want to anyway." He replied.

As Clementine got the fire going and started cooking the rabbit, Gabe decided to empty his old backpack into his new one, it's older and it is more likely to tear, Gabe thought looking at his old one.

Gabe grabbed his old backpack and looked in it. It had old energy bar wrappers and a there was only two unopened ones left, Gabe moved them into Charlie's backpack. There was his project(Gabe's heart sped up on sight of it and his eyes darted to Clem to make sure she wasn't looking) which Gabe hastily moved to the other backpack. "You still need to tell her how you feel." said a voice in Gabe's mind. Gabe pushed the thought away, "Not yet....soon...." He told it, "When I finish it, I'll tell her."

Gabe's heart was going very fast at the thought of telling her and he was glad Clem wasn't looking at him. He went back to the backpacks, he moved his water bottle and found a forgotten bottle of painkillers, "Huh....these could've been useful." Gabe thought, smiling at the pain he had endured when a bottle of painkillers had been in his backpack the whole time.

Gabe was checking the bottom of the backpack with his hand, making sure nothing was left, when he felt something small and cold. Gabe froze, he had forgotten he had put that in there. He picked it up and looked at it sadly before putting in in the other backpack. Clementine didn't notice him.

"There we go!" Clem said getting to her feet, a minute later, a steady fire cooking the rabbit.

She walked over to Gabe and handed him the box of matches. He felt her hand as he took it and his heart beat quickly, "Calm down!" Gabe told himself, trying to keep his breathing normal as he put the matches in his new backpack.

"So did you move your stuff?" Clem asked smiling about the thought of fresh meat for dinner.

"Yeah." Gabe said smiling at her,but inside his head he was putting a plan together.

Whenever Clem left to go hunting or get water during Gabe's week of recovery, Gabe would whip out his project and start carving. When she would see him with his head down and his face in intense concentration with a knife in his hand carving something, she would ask him what he was doing. Gabe would turn red at the sound of her voice and quickly put it in his backpack, "It's uh...a surprise. I'll let you know when it's finished." Gabe would say every time until Clem no longer asked, "He'll tell me eventually." She thought wondering about what he was carving.