Walking Dead Game Collection

"The Things We Do"

Title: The Things We Do
Characters: Clementine, Luke, Kenny
Summary: When Clementine gets her first period and sends Kenny and Luke out to find her products, the two bicker the entire way. Kenny makes fun of Luke and, in the end, Luke gets his revenge. All in the name of getting Clem tampons.
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"You have what happening right now?"

Luke closed his eyes, mortified by Kenny's question. Of course, he knew that Clementine was far more mortified than he could ever be.

Clementine took a deep breath, exhaling sharply through her nose. Her hands were balled into fists, her face flushed red, and that grew even darker when she needed to repeat herself. "I'm," she hesitated, gulping. "Bleeding. And I need stuff for it."

Kenny stared at her, confused out of his skull. Beside him, smirking, Luke found his lack of comprehension hilarious. Deciding to spare Clementine the trauma of Kenny fumbling through even more questions, he stepped in. "I get it, Clem. We'll handle it."

"Handle what?" Kenny snapped, turning to the male. He absolutely hated feeling out of the loop, and right now? The loop was nowhere near him. They weren't even in the same realm.

All Luke did was pat the man's shoulder and start for the door. "Grab your gun," he said, tossing his machete onto his back. He'd cover the rest of the embarrassment for her. "Let's get going before it gets late."

Luke had a plethora of sisters when he was growing up. Seeing as he was the middle child — with girls in his house both younger and older than him — he learned about everything. His mother very much valued teaching him everything alongside his sisters. "There's no value in keeping this a secret." She'd said. "You'll value knowing this. It affects you too."

So, when Luke entered high school and his peers were learning all the ins and outs of contraception, safe sex and, of course, menstruation, Luke was well ahead of the game. To him, the topics didn't phase him.

Clearly, Kenny hadn't gone through the same treatment.

"My God," he sighed as they wandered the forest road. Whether it was out of embarrassment, or shock, or disbelief that Clementine was growing up, Luke didn't know. He chose not to ask.

"It'll be an easy trip," Luke said, adjusting his machete strap. "We'll walk in, grab all that we can, then head back home."

They were headed toward an abandoned convenience store on the side of the road. It was about a 20-minute walk — 30 with Kenny slowing Luke down — and the plan was to grab as much supplies as they could. That way, Clem wouldn't need to worry about running out for a while.

"If it's such an 'easy trip,' then why'd you have to drag me along?"

"Because I didn't want you embarrassing Clem more than you have to."

Kenny glared at the comment. Luke just smirked. All he knew about Kenny was that he, in the past, had a wife and a son. It didn't surprise him that he knew so little, especially in their new world where children were so rare. Needless to say, the longer he could keep Kenny from saying anything awkward to Clem, the better.

Luke's job was to make sure of that just like he had done for his sisters in the past. The memory gave his chest a bittersweet ache.

In silence, the two stumbled across the convenience store right on time and, just like they'd planned, slipped in without complication. The store, to that day, hadn't been used as a base by any group. While Luke wanted to find it surprising, the truth was that it was so out-of-the-way people rarely stumbled across it. Considering that Carver's camp was nearby, and that most of the road's travellers were either escaping him or about to be kidnapped by him, no one wanted to linger for long.