Re: TWD: graham + clem
She knew what he sounded like ornery. And this was the man being ornery. Clem made a sound of being aggrieved, like putting up with him was real hard work. But it wasn't anything angry any; this kind of ornery she was used to from him. It wasn't around any when she was small and all his time was spent making doe eyes at her sister, but he'd been fussing like this since she first met him in Vegas, and she was used to it some. "You're supposed to tell me she ain't pretty as me, you damn fool of a man," she informed him, all eye roll and like he was the dumbest thing ever come calling. "Marina's man took her boy away, and he's been terrible to her as can be about giving him back or even letting her see him any. I gave her money for some law help. She lives across the hall from me. That's how I met her, and how I found out about Shane and her." But she scoffed then, real unimpressed. "If I end up forty and crying over men not loving me any, then you shoot me right there and then. Real sad, being insecure like that."
She didn't turn to look at that shaking door, because looking wouldn't make it shake a damn bit less. She was busy looking on his face as he talked about Lore going somewhere better, and she sighed and relented some. "Always did want to believe that. Just ain't sure I do." Was hard, believing in a thing like Heaven, all while sitting in church with daddy's hand on her knee and no one doing a thing about it.
He got up to check on the door, and she figured an hour was long enough to wrap her arm tight enough that it didn't cause them any trouble out there. "You bring bandages for wrapping this thing good?" Might as well put that hour to use.