Re: TWD, Woodbury: Clem/Graham
She wasn't real offended on her momma's behalf, especially not when he laughed, because the sound reminded her of being real small and Lore still being alive, and he could say near anything about her momma if he laughed like that after.
Making him turn sheepish hadn't been her goal, but she didn't go soothing it away neither. He and Shane, they'd needed all this killing. Jack too, with his claws, and she wasn't good or moral enough to go getting on any high horse and talking about killing the dead as some kind of therapy. Way she figured it, everyone needed to take care of their own issues first, or they wouldn't be a whole lot of help to anyone else. Now, that was plenty hypocritical, on account of his issues keeping her living for months now. But she was the last person who would ask a person to be selfless; she didn't know the meaning of the word. Lore had tried to teach her, more momma than her own momma some days, but Clem was just made selfish. Too much starshine and spotlight and daddy telling her everything in the world was hers for the having.
When he got to fretting over the Governor, she poked his stomach, trying to distract him with that finger between his ribs. "You fret too much. I won't do nothing I don't want. I'm not the sacrificing kind," she assured him; she wasn't. She'd do whatever it took to get out of here, but she would do it because she wanted to. She wasn't about to lie down with someone for another person. His asking if she was sick of him made her smile. "Course I'm not sick of you. Shane's barely let me near you. I need to spend some more time with you to go getting sick of you." She was joking, and her grin made that plenty clear, even if there was some truth in what she was saying. She knew he'd follow Shane, even if Shane did follow his woman.
Isaac was sobering though, and she moved away from the window and toward the door, eager to get that meeting over and done. "Not sure what he thinks. I'll tell you once I see him." Maybe he'd been around her long enough to tell the fear in her face, or maybe she was just similar enough to Lorelei that it was telling. "You hold off on introductions until I see how bad he's got. You try not to borrow trouble while I'm gone."