Greetings Fan Fiction Reader! It's MidnightJD back with another story on this site! This time, of The Walking Dead, preferably the Telltale version of The Walking Dead, not the show. Now, I'm actually a huge fan of a lot of stories that Telltale presents in their video games and they give such a huge diversity of genres. Three seasons of Walking Dead, Batman, Minecraft, Borderlands, etc. Each one tells a great story based on the audience that's actually playing it. It just so happens that first season of their version of The Walking Dead is my favorite, so here I am, though season 2 and New Frontier are almost just as good.

This will probably be my only pre-authors note in this story since I ramble on enough with these already, don't want to make them too long. I think I'm getting better... no? Okay then.

ENJOY!

If there had to be one sight that Lee Everett absolutely did not ever want to see, it was the sight of Clementine shedding tears over him. This wasn't how it was supposed to go. He was supposed to protect Clementine and hopefully find peace for her one day. Instead, the whole thing has been one disaster after another. He should have never let Clementine take those batteries. Never. Now they're both paying the price. Though which price was higher? Lee didn't know.

To think that he went to such great lengths protecting this little girl, one who existence wasn't even known to him five months prior, and yet it felt like he had known her his entire life. Clementine brought Lee some light in this fucked-up world, she brought him a joy he hadn't felt in a long time and now he was being taken away from her. To Lee, it wasn't fair, nothing was even remotely fair in this life anymore. He had dodged walker bites for four months pretty swiftly and the one time he got caught off-guard, the one time he didn't have his defense up, he got the smallest bite mark you'd ever see and now it was killing him.

Practically everyone Clementine ever cared about had died in just four months, her parents, Carley, Kenny, Duck, and now Lee. Lee was wondering why a nine year old deserved capitol punishment from fate itself, and it he could get his hands on fate, he'd stab it with a pitchfork like he did to Danny St. John. He had to admit though, if there was one positive to all this and Lee dreaded the thought itself, it was that he was the one bitten instead of Clem. She deserved to live much more than he did, he got 37 years in a non-walker world, while she only got 8 and a half. He was just hoping that one day, she'd be able to find a good place to stay that was peaceful and free of walkers because she sure as hell deserved it.

"This is so horrible..." She bawled out. "An-and now...you? PLEASE Lee...don't turn into one of them, just...anything but that...please don't turn in a walker!"

Inside Lee's mind, it was in overdrive with all different kinds of thoughts. "That is one tone of voice I just wish I never could here. My heart, it hurts right now, even more than when I found my ex-wife...*sigh* There's only one thing left to do at this point."

"I wish...I couldn't. But there's only one thing that you can do. You know that Clem."

She gets the horrible idea and replies. "I just...I...I-I don't know if I can."

Lee never wanted Clem to see him as one of those monsters so he gave the worst, but most honest answer he could think of. "You have to shoot me honey. There's no other way and I'm not letting you see me as one of those monsters."

She shakes her head in denial. "Lee noooo...I can't. I just can't."

Lee decided to have a small backstory with her. "Remember when Katjaa took Duck into the forest? I eventually had to be the one to put him down and make sure he didn't turn. It was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. I'm so sorry you're in that position now. I'd do anything to prevent this."

"It's so simple, all you have to do, is point the gun at me, close your eyes and just be thankful you'll never see turn into one of them. I know it's hard, but you can do this, I know you can." His voice was hoarse at this point, barely making it out in whispers. He was trying his best to tell her that this wasn't all bad, even though it mostly was.

She started to sob again. "O-Okay Lee...I can do this...I can, you told me I can." Her face was just downright distraught at this point. Lee hated doing this to her, but there was no other choice.

"Good girl." Praising her though did little in this situation. But Lee figured that maybe giving her some advice could help her survive. "Find Omid and Christa Clem. They're outside of town...by the train...you remember where it is, don't you?"

"Yes." She replies and Lee nods in content.

"Good. They'll take real good care of you. I can promise that." From the short time Lee knew of Christa and Omid, he could tell that they were good people and that they were trustworthy. Plus it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that they had a kid of their own along the way, Clem would be a great big sister.

Tears were flowing down her cheeks at this point, but he had to push on. "Clem...You need to keep that hair short. It's safer that way."

"I will Lee...I'll cut it myself. No walker will ever grab me."

"Good. Good...And also..." Lee was slowly losing a fighting battle to stay conscious and more and more energy drained from his body. Black dots were starting to appear in his vision.

"What?" Lee heard. "What is it?"

"I..." The African-American man was contemplating whether what he was thinking would either relieve her or make her more distraught. "Come...here Clem. One last hug." He was barely managing out words at this point as everything he felt was slowly dying. She launched herself at the bitten man before he even finished his sentence, letting everything out, her emotions, her pain, all the hard memories she's seen over the last four months were pouring down onto Lee's left shoulder. It was too bad that he couldn't even feel her tears, or ever her at this point. It seems as though he's become fully paralyzed and there wasn't anything he could do about it anymore other than say his last soothing words to the young lady before she would do the unspeakable.

It was just something Lee felt he needed to say, because it entirely true, 100%. "I...love you Clem. You're like the daughter I never had and I wouldn't trade you for anything...I'll...miss you."

Clementine started wailing even harder into his shoulder now and he hated that she was feeling this way, but he felt he just had to tell her though. Especially after everything they've been through, it was the least he could do.

She cried for another minute before eventually composing herself enough to say the thing that Lee was hoping for. "I love you too Lee. You were a g-g-great surrogate father...I'll miss you too." Tears continued to fall down her cheeks as she stood up and aimed the gun.

By now, Lee was just spent. He felt as though on a scale between 0-100, he was at 0.001 percent, but he mustered up what energy he had left and took one last glance and sent a weak smile to her, letting her know that all this wasn't her fault, that he would never blame her and that it was alright. It didn't need to be spoken, but Lee knew that Clem knew that he would be watching down over her and would be proud of the young woman she would become.

His energy was now depleted completely so he did the only thing he could do now and just closed his eyes, wait for the inevitable and just let that be it. All that was left was the quiet sobs that Clementine was making. Lee felt her hesitate, hoping for some kind of miracle to happen, but both knew it was wishful thinking.

Clementine got enough courage to raise the weapon and the very last thing Lee would ever hear was one last sob and a gunshot aimed for his head.

BAM!

Nobody ever knew it, but Lee was a good Christian man. He always believed that there was a life after Earth, a life, after life. He chose the Christian lifestyle and way, despite some of his actions. He always prayed when no one was around, it gave him a sense of peace and just a way out of the world, even if it was just for a few minutes. So when Lee only saw darkness after he heard the gunshot, he figured it wasn't enough to move on to something more hopeful.

Just pure darkness. In all honesty, he thought this was a clever way of saying that "Hey, you're in Hell now, enjoy the rest of your days in eternal darkness." It probably wasn't the most creative hell one could think of, but it would bring those to complete insanity after a while. No one around, no one to talk to, nothing to hear, smell, taste or feel, just seeing an endless amount of black. Yet Lee could still hear his own thoughts.

"Guess this is Hell. *sigh* I always presumed that Hell would be a place with lots of orange, red and yellow with a ton of fire everywhere. Apparently I was wrong, it's just endless darkness. Probably a more convenient way to break those poor souls down into complete madness. I mean all I can do right now is just think to myself. Eventually all my thoughts will run out and I'll start talking to myself in various ways. Better just think of nothing for a while."

The sea of black was already getting to the poor man and it would have continued if Lee didn't see a small light growing bigger.

"What the hell?" Was all of Lee's thoughts.

Eventually the light became so bright that any darkness completely vanished and was replaced by its opposite color. Lee was thinking that maybe this wasn't hell, maybe he actually got to the gates of heaven or something, he didn't know. He just waited as that was the only he could do before the light eventually died down a bit and showed a picture that completely shocked Lee.

"Clem?"

It seemed as though whatever he was watching was a few months into the future as it shows Clementine with Omid and Christa, only Christa is showing a lot more stomach than what she used to. "You cannot be serious Omid." He saw that they entered some kind of conversation and since there was nothing else to do, he just listened. He just hoped this wasn't snooping in anyway.

"I am."

"We are NOT doing that."

"Why not?"

"Because!"

"Come on Christa, what's wrong with "Omid"?"

"We're not calling our baby Omid, one of you is enough. Clementine, a little help here?"

"How about Omid the Second?"

"No."

"Okay then, Omid Junior."

"No!"

Clementine finally spoke her first words. "What if it's a girl?"

Omid replied. "Then we name her Christa."

Christa spoke her two cents about the idea. "But I'm Christa, I don't want to call her Christa, that's just confusing."

Lee thought this was just too comedic. He knew the presumably married couple were hiding a secret ever since he first met them and he figured Christa was pregnant because it made the most sense, this entire conversation alone proved that, minus the fact Christa looked 7-8 months in.

Since he had nothing better to do, he continued watching the mysterious movie play and it got dark really fast. What started out as just another area searching for supplies turned into a tragedy as a girl entered the girls' restroom doing the exact same thing they were doing, only she had an easy trigger when she took Clementine's gun and shot Omid right in the chest when he tried to sneak up on her and take the gun away.

Christa quickly ran in quickly after and a look of devastation was plastered right on her face as she took no remorse and fired a shot from her rifle into the abdomen of the one who murdered her husband.

"Goddamn." Were Lee's only thoughts. He was now wondering why on Earth he was seeing this. This wasn't anything hopeful or inspiring, if anything, it was demeaning to how things were nowadays. How easy it was to just...kill someone, was mind-boggling to Lee, on both ends of the situation. Even now, he still feels regret to all those whom he had killed. Even the bandits.

His vision faded to black again before another scene made itself appear and Lee could definitely tell the one he considered his daughter was definitely older, at least by a year or two. Her facial features matured ever so slightly and she had grown a good 6 inches or so. The setting around her and Christa looked to be somewhere in a forest, similar to the events he had just witnessed, only deeper into said forest.

From that point on, event upon event just kept flashing into Lee's point-of-view, from getting bit by a dog on the arm, to finding a new group, to actually finding Kenny again. Lee became perplexed at that one. He figured the poor old man was dead from being surrounded by walkers in that alleyway, but apparently not.

The dead man was observing every scene that was flying his way and wondered why he was watching all of this and who was sending it his way. Of course, he was glad he was being a guardian angel of sorts to Clementine, despite how corny that sounds. But he had to wonder if this served any purpose or if it was just there to watch over whom he considered his own daughter.

As he was watching on, he almost instantly noticed that the world was a lot worse than what it was when he was alive. Death was everywhere, betrayal was so easy for people to do, and how the more Lee kept watching on, the more his little sweetpea wasn't so sweet anymore. Sure, she had AJ and viewed him as his own mother which left Lee a bit flabbergasted, but everybody she ever met just got killed and figured that's why she's kept her distance from everyone for a number of years. She feels it's her fault that the people she meets end up dying in one way or another and he can see that. He just wishes he could do something about.

After some time passes however and Clem finally meets a group that isn't dysfunctional and actually cares for one another, she begins to stick around more and becomes close to each member of the little family she finds. Especially this Gabriel person. Lee smirked and knew exactly what was going on because he was in a similar situation when he was her age. Ah young love.

Clementine's ultimate goal though is to find AJ after she loses him so she manages to get her hair cut from Javi and promised him, Gabe and Kate that she'll come back and when she does, she'll have her little goofball. Upon said statement, Lee sees she says her goodbyes and walks into the unknown. After that, the visions once again stopped showing and all he saw was black.

From what he saw of what appeared to be a few years into the future, Lee was very proud of the young woman his sweetpea was becoming. She definitely had her rough patches, though who doesn't in a world like that, but she did the right thing the whole way, she never killed unless she had to, always cared for others that were close to her and was prepared to be a dedicated mom to AJ. It may sound absurd in a normal world, but that world wasn't normal anymore. Lee figured Clementine definitely had some good karma coming her way.

His thoughts were cut short though when he saw the white light starting to appear again and he wondered what he would see this time. What he saw was something that he thought he would never see again.