Hey guys! So this is a story I've been thinking about for a long time. You see, it's basically Clementine being sent back in time to the RV. The dream in Season 2 was actually real life, and the rest of it was a premonition.

I see that this can be compared to ZombieGuy96's 'Second Chance' series, but it's far different, as the story goes on. Would contain some shitload amount of tragedy that it could be considered misery porn to some. This focuses on Pragmatic Clementine's struggle to change the future. She is hellbent on making sure that every little thing changes for the better... maybe a little too much.

Clementine and Lee are the main characters (obviously) as for probably the first time, conflicts will arise between the duo. Also, this would not be the story for you if you're the fast-paced type of gal/dude.

PKOW!

The familiar ringing-sound was probably the last time Clementine will ever hear, as she fell to the ground, blood pouring out of her shoulder.

The shock drove her away from the stinging pain, as her vision became blurred. She heard echoes of Kenny screaming at the duo as all she could hear afterwards was him screaming her name.

"Clem! What the fuck did you DO!?"

"CLEM!?"

She gasped. She quickly rose awake to find that she was in a different place, different from the snowy atmosphere before. She took a moment before finding where she was. Before it suddenly hit her.

She's here. At the RV.

She turned around to see a face she thought she would never see in the actual flesh again. Lee.

"It's just a bad dream sweet pea."

She couldn't believe it. This had to be a dream. This had to. She was lying in the floor the last time she remembered, moments close to dying. But it felt too real.

Clementine's eyes were terribly widened. Lee then frowned, a worried expression in his face. He didn't know why she was looking at him that way.

"L-Lee?"

"Yeah, it's me Clem. What's the matter?" Clementine was silent. She didn't know how to explain this at a comprehensible way. She then remembered what had happened at this point. Lilly was at the back of the RV with Ben pointing a gun at her. Duck was with Katjaa, riding, for lack of a better term, shotgun beside Kenny, who was driving the RV. She recalled her former friend's state at this point, she then looked at him, hoping to divert Lee's attention from her to Duck.

"D-Duck."

As expected, the word made Lee turn around and focus on Duck, who was being cuddled by Katjaa.

"We don't know how this works yet."

"Maybe it's like a cold." He tried to sugarcoat the reality of the situation to her, hoping for her to stop 'worrying for her friend'. He didn't know that she knew better.

"It's not like a cold." Clementine said with an unusual blank face, Lee had never seen this side of her. Does she know something that he doesn't know? Weird.

Lee sighed. "Probably not."

Something then caught Clementine's peripheral vision. Kenny was glaring at them. Weird to see him without a beard, or any attachment to her at all.

"He's going to die, Lee." The straight-forwarded manner Clementine said this caused discomfort to her old mentor, while Kenny's glare became more intense than ever.

Lee looked at her with concern. What caused her to start acting this way?

"You don't know that."

"I do. He's going to turn into one of them unless you make sure he doesn't."

Lee frowned, sad. She wasn't really suggesting what she was suggesting was she? "Listen Clem. We never had a bite victim in the group before. Even if we do know he's going to die, we should still give him time with his parents. Who knows what they're going through by now? We shouldn't end it right away, and you definitely shouldn't ask for a thing such as that." Lee raised his voice at the last part, but she wasn't scared the least bit. She knew him. She knew he won't hurt her.

Clementine then looked at Kenny, not sympathetically but she was analyzing him. She knew this would be the day he would be changed forever. Her emotionless eyes then rolled down. He's been through worse.

"He'll get over it."

The RV then stopped abruptly. Clementine and Lee tilted sideways a little bit, as Lee used his body to act as a stopping force to what was supposed to be massive amount of inertia of what was suppposed to be a launch all the way to the back of the driver's seat for Clementine.

"Kenny, what-" Katjaa called for Kenny, as he marched to Lee and Clementine, as his glare locked at Clementine.

"You little fucking bi-"

Lee then stood up to Kenny, his height slightly towering him. He tried to shield Kenny from Clem by pushing him away from her.

"Whoa, whoa there. What the fuck's wrong with you?!" Lee furiously asked the raging man, as he was still staring at Clem with a dagger-sharp eyes.

"What the fuck's wrong with ME? How about you ask yourself what the fuck's wrong with your GIRL!? She fucking thinks that I don't give two shits about my fucking son. THAT'S WHAT'S WRONG WITH HER!"

"HEY! She didn't say that!" Lee crossed his arms at the redneck, his eyebrows tilting downwards at each other to show a glimpse of anger at him.

"The fuck she didn't!"

This whole argument was bound to catch the rest's attention. Even Lilly's eyes were widened as the two blabbered at each other about God knows what. While Ben looked down in guilt. He caused all of this to happen. Clementine was surprisingly staring at Ben. Although he didn't know because he was too busy at the arguing duo.

"Even if she did say those things, that doesn't give you the right to do who knows what to her!"

"Doesn't give me the fucking right!? My son's sick, we have nothing to do about it, and what does your girl do!? She talks behind my son's fucking back about how he's going to die, and that I don't fucking care! I think THAT gives me a bit of fucking right to knock her right on her fucking ass!"

"Enough!" Katjaa finally interrupted the duo.

"This isn't going to help things, Kenny. Duck's still sick. All we could do is find a way to try to fix that. She's still a little girl, Kenny. You shouldn't do things like that to a little girl."

Kenny then looked back at Katjaa. She looked petrified at her own husband. The single look from her alone knocked some sense into him. He then sighed, then he turned at Lee, eyebrows slanted.

"You better talk some fucking sense to her."

He walked back to the driver's seat, starting the engine once again. Lee then sat down once again beside Clem.

"Uh... I'm sorry you had to hear that." Lee once again cuddled the little girl. Although his touch was tender and soothing to her two years ago, something about it... changed. It was probably just her, but something in it changed.

Lee then looked at Clementine with unease. "Kenny doesn't actually mean that, Clem."

Clementine still looked at what was the invisible abyss to her. Feeling quite nothing as usual. Lee wasn't able to stop that empty feeling inside her. All she heard was him still saying something about Kenny.

"He doesn't scare me." Clementine deadpanned.

Lee looked at the little girl with a smirk, impressed at her surrogate daughter.

"Really?"

"Yeah."

Clementine then looked at the windshield. There she saw the gigantic locomotive she was expecting.

"I think there's something in the road." She gestured to the windshield.

Lee took a quick look, before turning back to Clementine.

"Stay here, okay?"

Clementine nodded, as he went to the driver's seat, beside Kenny.

She shrugged their conversation off, as she once again glared at Ben. She knew what he had done. At first she thought he was a friend... now she realized that he's nothing but a pathetic cowardly screw-up who left her to die at the street which will come probably in one day. Hell, he single-handedly caused the death of almost everyone in their group, including Lee.

Ben took note of Clementine's glare, as he stared at Clementine with a different tone than her glare.

"What's the matter, Clem? Why are you looking at me like that? Did I... do something?" Clementine kept her glare, her eyes shielded by the bill of her cap. She looked quite intimidating in that form. Too intimidating.

Ben didn't want to be scared by a little girl. That was too low, even for him. But he couldn't help it. He couldn't help but think of her killing him in his sleep whenever he pissed her off. He was actually fearful of Clementine.

As his expression slowly switched from curiosity to fear. His face trembled from her glare, as she non-visibly rolled her eyes at how pathetic he was.

"I..."

Figuring that she tormented him long enough, she decided to stop glaring. Switching to her 'normal' blank face. As after what seemed for like an eternity, the RV finally stopped.

Took them long enough.

"Ben." Lee's gravelly voice rang out across the area. Ben quickly snapped his head at the former professor.

"Why don't you help me and Kenny scope this place out? I'm sure the kids will be fine in here." Ben was surprised that Lee could offer something like that to him. After what he's done. After what he didn't do, at this point he was more useless than the kids. As he stood up and gladly took his offer.

"Okay then." Lee then unsurprisingly walked up to Clementine then knelt before her. His hands on her shoulders.

"Stay safe, okay?"

"Okay, Lee." She slightly smiled, as the trio walked out of the door.

But Clementine noticed something. She noticed something that needed taking care of. She quickly walked up to Lee.

"Hey, Lee?"

"Hm. What is it, sweet pea?"

Clementine clutched her right arm, actually nervous from how this would turn out.

"Can I... talk to Ben for a minute?"

Lee arched his eyebrow. Looking at Ben then back to her. He was quite suspicious of the child, if he can believe it. Something about her felt strange lately. He didn't know if it was her parents or something she knew, but she was acting strange. In the end, he decided to shrug it off. She was probably taken aback from Carley. Any normal kid would. He figured she needed someone to talk with to cope. A friend of some sort. He then sighed.

"Alright."

He then looked at Ben.

"Hey, Ben!"

"What?"

"I think you should stay here. Clementine needs something to talk to you about." Lee's statement caused Ben to gulp. What now has she have in store for him?

Clementine stared at Ben's nervous stance. He probably thought that she's going to slit his throat out after kicking him in the groin.

"It's okay, Lee. It's only for a little while." Clementine tugged Lee's hand with puppy dog eyes, putting up the innocent little girl act. Lee fell for it.

"See? Come on, Ben. Later, you can join." Ben was nerve-wracked. The duo then headed outside the RV, as Clementine marched closer to him.

"What-what is it?"

Clementine rolled her eyes in disgust for his cowardice.

"Come here." She motioned her hand as a signal for him to come closer. Ben's heartbeat started increasing. As his face was right beside Clem's. His mouth lining up withing his ear.

"Give me your gun."

My. Gun? Ben was terrified at what the little girl was going to do to him with a gun. Did she even know how to use one?

"I... Clem. Do-"

"NOW, Ben. Or Lee will know..." Ben was feeling uncomfortable. But something about her statement confused him.

"Know... what?"

A short moment of silence followed. Ben was starting to sweat from the intensity of Clementine's cold tone around him. He didn't knew she had this side to her. She could give Lilly a run for her money.

"I know it was you."

The nerve-breaking realization drowned upon him. How did she know? She was just a little girl. Maybe she was bluffing, maybe she just thought it was him. Did she really...

know?

"W-what do you mean?"

Clementine was still blank.

"I know that you made the deal with the bandits. They said they had your friend."

The revelation made Ben skip a heartbeat. He was starting to break down. He didn't know how to explain this. Everything she said was on point. She already knew, there was no point in lying. All questions about how she knew was quickly cut short by her silence. Her bone-chilling silence. He was stuttering. Clementine knew what that meant. She had him in her grasp.

"And I won't tell if you give me. The gun." Clementine deadpanned.

The firmness under her voice made Ben to shamefully give in to her and give her the gun.

"Fine. Just, make sure that you know how to use this thing, okay?" Ben finally gave a stern statement of his own. But it was probably more of annoyance and humiliation than actual intimidation.

"Trust me. I know." Ben then left the RV, quickly running up to Lee. Probably to borrow another gun. Clementine had her sights on her next target.

Lilly.

Clementine casually walked up to her. Lilly only stared at her. She didn't feel anger or fear towards her. Like Clem, she felt... nothing.

She sat in front of her as she pulled the safety off. This caused Lilly's eyes to go wide. The innocent little girl she knew for three months straight, was now here, seemingly knowing how to use the gun. And the gun was turned at her.

"Clem?" Lilly's question wasn't one of curiosity. No, it was different. There was melancholy and depression. Clementine did nothing. She just stared.

The staredown continued. Indifference against despondency. It lasted for quite awhile, Clementine was still waiting for the moment to where she'll just give up and break free of her cuffs. Daring to make a break to the driver's seat. But it didn't come. Lilly looked sad. Too sad. She probably thought she was the reason for her acting like this.

The duo then heard something.

KREEK...

It was Lee, silently checking up on...

There he saw the unusual sight of Clementine, with a gun in her hand. Pointing it at Lilly. His jaw was slightly dropped, he stared at his little girl, for a while. Staring at her, as Clementine had a hint of nervousness, as her eyes were widened, but the rest of her face wouldn't cooperate.

"Clem?"

Clementine was still too shocked to speak. She didn't think about what would happen if Lee caught her doing things that she shouldn't know how to by now.

"What the hell are you doing with Lilly?" He then tilted his head to her before turning it back at Clementine. His face more furious than ever.

"Uh... Ben, since Ben got out of the RV, I tried to keep an eye on her. W-who knows? Maybe she'll try to get out." Clementine nervously explained her actions to Lee. Lee then shifted his gaze to Clementine then to Lilly, only to notice something.

Her binds.

They were no longer on. Lee's eyebrows slowly raised in shock as he quickly marched over to Lilly afterwards, inspecting her.

"What the? How did you get these bindings off!?" He then tried to check her arms, who were now free of bindings. Lilly's heart dropped to the floor, as he tied them up once again, this time bringing her along with him.

Just before he walked out of the door however, he turned to Clementine, his face more angry and strict than ever before. Clementine probably knew why.

"You and I are going to talk later." He probably noted the gun incident. Clementine simply nodded as they now left and she was left to her thoughts. She wasn't afraid of him. She knew him. She then quickly took her time to recall what just happened.

She couldn't believe it. The whole thing was a dream? It felt like an eternity. Was she really given the chance to change the future? She didn't know. So many questions... that probably will never be answered. One thing's for sure... this was a chance. A chance to change everything. And she'll do everything in her own power to make that change.

No matter the cost.

Alright! First chapter is done! 2 will probably come within one or two weeks. Remember to leave a review to let me know what are your thoughts on the story, and if you like, make sure to favorite and follow.

Just to let you guys know, this story is inspired by Whiplash. Why do you ask? Well, you just have to find out later on. Whiplash is one of my favorite movies, and this fic's structure will probably similar to the movie. Just different events, of course.