The Final Season: Alternate Legend

Can Walkers Be More?

Clementine and AJ walk through the forest for it least an hour or two to find James' camp and hoping that he can help him. He did after that save them from Lilly and Abel with the walkers. AJ soon stop walking because of his gunshot wound. They sat down on a rock. AJ started talking to Clem about Tenn.

AJ: Clem? I keep thinking... When Willy said all that stuff about Tenn before, I got so mad. He was being mean, and Tenn wasn't even there to defend himself. I wanted to hurt him. I know I shouldn't. But I just can't stop thinking about it. I wanna just...punch his head. I tried breathing, kicking rocks... I don't like this feeling. Wanting to hurt somebody.

Clem: I know it's hard, AJ. But thoughts like that, they go away. You just have to give it time.

AJ: Waiting's hard. I'm just thinking too much. Like, I think...I think I'm mad at Tenn, too. Running out of cover when Lilly attacked the school was really stupid. But he just doesn't know stuff like we do. And then Willy started yelling at him instead of helping him learn... Why don't the other kids know all the stuff we know? When there's a plan, you have to follow it. And when you yell at someone, it just makes them not listen.

Clem: Well, the other kids haven't had it as hard as we've have. We had to make a lot of mistakes to learn what we know.

AJ: Yeah, I guess. But Tenn's mistakes are just so bad. So did Marlon. Maybe we'll learn from them, too. Like we did. It's weird that people are so different.

Clem: It is Ericson's Boarding School for "Troubled" Youth.

AJ: Troubled youth... Trouble... Like, bad. So they did bad things? Why?

Clem: Okay, um, sometimes they do them because bad things happened to them. I knew a doctor once, back when you were just a baby. He called it trauma. You have some too, you know. The thing where people can't walk up behind you.

AJ: I don't like my trauma. I want to get it off of me. How do I get rid of it? I don't even like the way the word sounds.

Clem: It's really, really hard to do by yourself. A lot of people can't without some help.

AJ: Like from a doctor?

Clem: Sure. But those are rare these days.

AJ: Or--or like the school, right? It was supposed to help with people's...trauma.

Clem: Yeah, it was. And now they help each other.

The two got up and continue walking.

AJ: I still like them. I like Tenn the most, I think. Even if he does dumb things. Actually...I think he's my first real friend.

Clem: Oh, yeah? I thought I was your first real friend?

AJ: Well, yeah. But you don't count, you're old!

Clem: Am not!

AJ: Fine, he's my second first real friend.

Later. They run into some walkers, and they hide. Clem draws her knife and sneaks toward them, hiding behind a log. James walks up behind them and clears his throat Clem and AJ turn around to see James as he puts his finger to his lips and Clem puts her knife away. James grabs his injured arm.

Clem: Did the raiders do this?

James: It looked like they...had people from your school. Why are you here?

Clem: Those people you saw, we're going to save them. But to do that, we need your help moving some walkers.

James: I could...maybe help, but... My mask is still in the camp. Inside my bag. I can't pass through a herd without it.