Nut Up Or Shut Up

[He puts his backpack aside to fish out her prize, grinning all the while.] “Safe and sound, just like your delivery. We gonna do this thing?”

“Ah! yeah just a sec-”

Hellooooo. Sorry to keep you waiting~

“About 8 months ago a few kids from a raider camp showed up at our place... and I mean kids. 17 and 18. Hah- Tiger and Sparky. They didn’t really wanna hurt anybody, they were just scared and didn’t know how else to get by. I took ‘em in after that, Viv didn’t like it but she doesn’t like anything.”

“...I guess they fought through a hoard to get here and uh...”

"Stupid fucking- 'don't use tinfoil' I'll use my dick as an antenna if I fucking want to-"

"Will you stop fiddling with that thing and do something useful for awhile?"

"JESUS SHIT do not EVER do that to me again!"

"Well I'm sorry, but really Clara, it's time to come out of radio-dreamland and back to the real world."

"There's people out there! Viv! Real live people! What if we find our people? Thesp- Claus- Payton- My Payton- Craig- your Payton! Don't you want that!?"

"What I want has nothing to do with it, if you fixate on this for as long as I know you're going to you'll forget about what's really important; keeping this settup we've got, keeping this place purged of infecteds, staying alive. I know it really seems like I'm holding things together for us, being the strong one, the backbone, keeping you sober, but... I'm scared Clara. You're the one who's good at killing those awful things. I can't do it by myself, I need you."

"...."

"You're right- I'm getting too distracted. I'm sorry."

I don’t know where he is, where anyone is, I literally just said that.

I think they meant dating Clara.

Oh???? No? We never DATED anon we just. Had similar taste in cute boys or something. It’s whatever.

oh- ohhh i see what happened ok, wrong Clara anon, sorry about that. But Viv doesn’t need to worry because everyone is just-

“Craig” refers to my homes Payton right? He’s dead.

What?

We thought he was dead when he came here in the first place, but this? He can’t sit through scary movies by himself- of course who would want to they’re dreadfully tacky. But my point is he isn’t smart or capable enough to survive all this, and I think I know him well enough to tell.

Aren’t you guys like…engaged? 

There’ve been a few but not for a long time... I’ve tried to help whoever I can.

Yes and your “helping” has gotten us robbed three times. Worse- We’ve let infecteds into our sanctuary because you pitied them.

I didn’t know they were infected! They hadn’t been bitten!

It’s airborne, and you know it. Not everyone is as lucky as we are when it comes to immunity, and that doesn’t mean we’re obligated to drag in every charity case you find on the side of the road. They’re monsters Clara, not wounded puppies. We’re lucky you didn’t get us both killed.

...I know ok? I get it- jesus I’m an idiot is that what you wanna hear?