'Got Your Back' A Gabentine Story?

The Finale Moving Forward

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Gabe screamed in pain as Clem chopped half his foot off. "Arggg! Fuuuckkk!" He yelled clutching the tree in agony. Clementine dropped the hatchet on the ground and checked to make sure that she had cut off the bitten part of the foot before she pulled Gabe's backpack off his back. She grabbed the bandages and began rapidly wrapping Gabe's bleeding foot. Gabe,grinding his teeth and breathing hard to keep from yelling again, picked up his backpack and pulled out the bottle of painkillers. He dropped it while trying to open it and Clementine picked up off the ground. She opened it and put a few in his mouth, which Gabe swallowed followed by a long drink of water.

"You-you actually did it." Gabe managed to say through the sharp pain as he dropped his water bottle onto the ground. Gabe tried to move his toes even though he knew they were gone. "Fuck! That's so strange!" He thought as Clementine put the painkillers away.

Clementine sighed in relief that it was over, "I-I had to."

Gabe slowly lowered himself down until he was sitting. "I-I know you did. Thanks Clem....for giving me a chance..." Gabe said giving her a weak smile.

She nodded, "I know you'd do the same for me...So for now try to rest,we'll know if it worked in a few hours." She said sitting down next to him.

Gabe nodded, the pain was intense and he was trying to get away from it. He had almost fallen asleep too when Clementine said, "Gabe. Get up! We got walkers!"

Gabe's eyes snapped open, there were several walkers approaching them from dead ahead. "Watch my back and only shoot if you need to." She said drawing her knife.

"Here."Gabe said weakly and offered her his long knife.

She took it and nodded thanks before approaching the walkers. Gabe struggled to pull the gun out of his jacket as Clementine killed the first two walkers. Gabe felt drained, he hadn't slept and the blood loss and pain were affecting his mind.

Suddenly a walker appeared from behind the tree and tried to lunge on Gabe. Gabe yelled, "Oh shit!" before quickly pulling the trigger, blowing the walker's brains out. The walker's blood covered Gabe and it's body fell on him. "Great! Just fucking great!" Gabe thought,trying unsuccessfully to push the walker off him.

Clementine spun around to see if Gabe was ok, oblivious to a hidden crawling walker approaching her. "Clem!" Gabe tried to yell but his voice didn't carry far enough. He aimed the gun over the dead walker on top of him, the walker was very close to Clem now as she began moving towards Gabe. Gabe pulled the trigger, causing Clementine to jump in shock, and blew the walker's head open.

Clem spun around to see the dead walker and then looked back at Gabe. "You just saved my life!"

Gabe smiled, "Yeah... I pulled the trigger..." He said remembering the time he couldn't do it before he passed out.

Clementine sprinted to Gabe and pulled the dead walker off of him. She felt Gabe's arm, "still a pulse,he's just tired." Clem thought.

Clem wasn't sure what to do, Gabe has lost a lot of blood and the walkers were going to smell that. Gabe had fired his gun so that wasn't going to help either. "We need to move! But Gabe isn't in any condition to...." Clementine thought,pacing in-between Gabe and the horse.

Her stomach growled and she stopped to grab a can out of her backpack. She continued pacing as she ate, "I could try to get Gabe on the horse.... but it wouldn't be easy to keep him on....but we can't stay! The walkers are going to be coming and the ranch needs us!"

Clem continued pacing for several minutes and she was about to try to put Gabe on the horse when she heard Gabe speak, "Well....I feel like shit."

Clementine turned to see him awake with a weak smile on his face. She ran to him and hugged him, "Easy,Easy!" Gabe said,still feeling weak but hugging her back.