#(b you don't have to reply to this jay but this interaction SPOKE TO ME )

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@nctbitten

             ❝  –     FORWARD.  ❞    she gently wipes her sister’s face, a torn rag.  what from she couldn’t remember but it had long browned with age and grime, still as good as any clean cloth will get on the road and she damps it with a dip of her water bottle and cleans clementine up.   they had been in silence, the longest they ever been while together, just them.   the car engine was off, the moon had began to set turning the sky lighter, it was the time of night when the stars began to fade in wake of a new day and aj was in the back, curled up in tattered blanket asleep ( maybe that was where her cloth came from? ) and it gave the twins a chance to reflect... more so on clementine’s side.   she hadn’t spoken about the nursery, she had given small details over what transpired... while the blood spots weren’t something to give a second glance but the look on her face, her eyes.

    she hadn’t seen eyes like that since.... since christa lost omid, kenny lost sarita, conrad and francine--   she’s seen those eyes many times, it pained her to see them in her sister.   IRIS cleans the last of the soot from her face and turns clementine’s face to hers, meeting her eyes for the first time since before they entered the ranch.

            ❝  –     you had no choice.   you did what you had to,

                                                            to get our goofball back. ❞