Re: TWD, Cell: Shane and Clem (+ Graham)
Shane wasn't too bothered by the fall of Clementine's face, the crumbling empire of her glee falling into the ruinous fucking "oh, he's not my brother-in-law I'm trying to fuck" state. He smiled in its face, actually. Nothing sunny (have you met Shane?), but a spiteful thing with a handful of rapid blinks just to express his utter despair at her disappointment. Which is sarcasm. Because he was just fucking glad it was him and not Graham, a man weak enough about his dead wife's loss to succumb to a red dress on a girl like Clementine Murphy. They looked fucking close enough, God knew, her and Lorelei. And Graham didn't know the fucking difference.
Shane returned to shearing the matted hair on his head as the woman got pithy with him about the color of putrefying blood (a sludgy black, as it happened). He rolled his eyes visibly, taking on the role of 'ornery' big brother with fluid experience. And when she offered to help, he straightened his spine and extended the old sewing scissors out behind him without turning, his eyes on her in the mirror.
He did trust Clementine, that was the fucking thing. He trusted his own life with her, anyway. (Not Graham's dick.) She might stab him, see if his blood matched that dress, but more than likely, she'd just cut his hair. She'd had more than enough chances to hurt, maim, or kill him since they'd arrived in this hell. If she wanted to fucking take him out, well, he wasn't going to stop her.
All the shitty haircuts he'd ever gotten in his goddamn life had been given by untrained women tangentially related to him (by blood or otherwise). First it had been their waste of a mother, then teeny Tess, the scissors as fucking big as her torso, then Lorelei, then a woman he'd known in Vegas since he was 18 by the name of Sara. All of them hacked and sawed at the hair on his head like it was fucking cancerous. There wasn't any way Clem could do worse by him in that sense. She could stab him and that would be worse. But. Eh.
"Help me finish this the fuck up and you can come help me clear out the guts of this godforsaken place, yeah?" What a deal. Limited time fucking offer.