This story takes place after Clementine and the cabin group leave the cabin, but instead of going to the ski resort, they decide to head into another direction and arrive at a location that Clementine is all too familiar with...
Clementine walked besides Luke as she and the cabin group trudged through the muddy forest away from their cabin. They had left almost 3 weeks ago and have been on the move since. Only stopping to make camp for the night or when Rebecca needed it, they had passed a few towns and convenient stores to scavenge for essential supplies like first aid, food, and water.
They had decided to go south, thinking that the north was too risky with the cold and limited supplies they had. Clementine was disappointed of course because she hoped to get to Wellington and try to find Christa. But she wasn't going to risk the lives and safety of her new group to try and fulfill a lost cause when Christa was most likely dead.
The last time she did that-
Her depressing thoughts were cut short with Luke nudging her to get her attention.
"What?" she asked slightly annoyed by the nudge.
He gave her a smirk like he knew what she was thinking, "Just making sure you're not dead to the world Clem," he responded with the same smirk, "you looked like a lurker there for a minute."
Clementine rolled her eyes with a smile.
"I was just-" her smile faded and her eyes became hooded with sadness, "thinking about something."
Luke gave her a sympathetic look and put a comforting hand on her shoulder. Clementine gave him a thankful smile in response.
Ever since Clementine had opened up to Luke back at the cabin about Lee, they had both become closer over the last few weeks and bonded over anything they could think of. She hadn't told him much about her old group other than what Lee had been to her and that he died protecting her. Clementine liked to think of Luke as the older brother she never had. She would give her life for him and she knew he would do the same.
She had also grown closer to Nick, Sarah, Carlos, and Alvin. But not as much as Luke. She had succeeded in becoming acquainted with Rebecca too, but just to the point where they tolerated each other. They only spoke to each other when need be or she needed help with tasks that an enlarged stomach wouldn't let her do, but Alvin mostly handled that.
Her thoughts were once again cut short by a slightly more forceful nudge.
"Stop that!" Clementine playfully said, no longer dwelling on her past memories.
"Well then stop dying on us," Luke challenged with a smile.
Clementine huffed, "What do you even want," she asked him.
"Just trying to tell you Nick says there's a settlement up ahead and we can make it before nightfall which could possibly mean...?" Luke started with a growing smile.
"A possibility of having an actual roof over our heads," Clementine finished with a smirk.
They had been using nothing but sleeping bags since they had left weeks back on the cold, hard ground which left all of them sore and annoyed when they woke up with plenty of mosquito bites to add on to that. So sleeping in a actual house or shelter sounded like heaven to Clementine. The towns they had passed before were too dangerous to set up in so they had never stayed long enough to use them. Be it thieves or walkers staying there.
Luke smiled at her and nodded, "Hopefully it ain't too dangerous to set up for the night or maybe we can finally stop running around and finally settle down."
Clementine thought it would be great to finally stop travelling all over the place and finally take a load off. Everyone was constantly on watch for Carver, more so with Rebecca for some reason. Clementine didn't want to pry but she had a suspicion it had to do with the baby when she heard her praying back at the cabin that "it" would be "his."
The more they walked, the stranger Clementine started to feel. As if she had been here before. But she immediately dismissed the notion, she had been in a forest before. But she couldn't help that lingering feeling that she was wrong to dismiss it.
Nick slowed down so that they could catch up to him. He was holding a map in his hands.
"Hey," he greeted them.
"What's up Nick?" Luke asked him
"We've been travelling for a while and it looks like we're about to come up on a city." he told them with a hint of excitement and a bit of fear in his voice.
Clementine didn't really blame him for hoping for a safe and comfortable place to make their home for a while. She would be lying if she said she wasn't just as excited, even though that strange feeling was still bothering her. But with a city, there was the risk of a large amount of walkers and bandits who could have taken refuge there which is probably why Nick was a bit fearful as well as Clementine.
"What exactly is the name of the city Nick?" Luke asked with curiosity.
Clementine wondered where they were going too. She wondered if she had ever been there before and it would be a huge advantage if she, or anyone for that matter, knew how to get around the city and know the most safe routes.
Then Nick responded with an answer that made Clementines heart stop. The memories hitting her full force made her stop in her tracks.
"Savannah."
To be continued...
