the H3artfull author- Ah you mean the whole drug thing? That comes up in the next chapter.
smeake- Thanks.
Guest- Here's more.
Worker72- I thought about doing a combo of Lee and Clementine's collective memories of the things they come across so Clem and Lee can do better together and know what to avoid, but I've decided to do that for another story. Yes Lee will be training Clem earlier and he will deal with Ben's multiple fuck ups as well as everyone else's. That includes his own fuck ups. And thank you.
Lee was quick to rack his brain for a solution. Now if he was right that the "dream" predicting the future or he had actually lived it and was getting a second chance, he had used some kind of coin to get the air conditioner in the room open. But where on earth did he get a coin from? He checked his pockets for one. None there. Where the heck would he get one from? Then he thought of it. When locked inside of the locker room, Kenny had bashed in Larry's head with a salt lick while Lee had held Lilly back from getting harmed herself. Afterwards he had gone into the man's pockets and grabbed the change from Larry's pockets. As much as he hated to ask him, he had to if he wanted to get all of them out as soon as possible before things escalated quickly. Too bad Larry hated him, something he knew he couldn't change.
"Larry, I need a coin of some kind." He hoped Larry wasn't going to be difficult, especially not in their condition at the moment. The faster he complied, the faster they could get out.
"What the fuck are you asking me for change for?" He yelled as he turned to face Lee. "We need to get the fuck out of here before they fucking eat us!"
"Just hand it over unless you want to die!" said Lee. He couldn't help but to remember the vivid memory of Larry having a heart attack and then Kenny bashing the guy's head in with a salt lick at that moment. He knew Larry would just think he was crazy if he told him this which is why he kept his mouth shut about it.
"And how the hell is money supposed to help us? In case you haven't noticed, we're stuck in a damn meat locker and..."
"I know that!" He pointed over at the air conditioner. "That air conditioner over there has some screws that can easily be opened with some coins. Clementine can slip in and open the door."
"And how do you know that? For all you know those fuckers could be on the other side."
"They're not. Just gave them here! Do you think you have have the time to not take risks?"
"Just give them to him, dad," said Lilly. "We need to get out of here and it's worth a try."
"Fine." Larry gave Lee whatever change was in his pockets.
Lee quickly unscrewed the bolts from the air conditioner successfully and Kenny helped him move it. Now it was time for Clementine's part. He asked her to go through the vent which the child was terrified to do. He assured her nothing bad would happen and that their safety depended on her getting out and opening the door from the other side. She hesitated a little while before agreeing to go through with it. He picked her up and she slipped on through. Lee still worried about her safety because what if he was wrong? What if the brothers were still outside at this point? He immediately began regretting his choice to just send the girl on her way and possibly to her death.
'What have I just done? I probably got her caught!' He panicked on the inside. 'Maybe I was wrong. I was given this chance to start over or not make the same mistakes again but am I making different ones?'
Then the door opened revealing Clementine had been successful with getting out. "Nobody saw you, did they?"
It was possible that someone could have given how around this point Larry was on the floor, suffering from his heart attack. To his relief she shook her head.
"No, but there's a man outside."
"Lilly, can you and Larry stay behind and watch Clementine?" Lee asked Lilly. "Kenny and I will..."
"To hell you will!" said Larry. "I want a piece of those of those fuckers as much as you two do!"
"You're not in any condition to do anything. Do you really want to have a heart attack right when you're trying to fight them?"
"Don't you dare tell me what to do!"
Lilly grabbed her father's shoulder. "Dad, you know how your heart gets when you're mad. Just stay here and calm down."
"How the hell can I when those bastards...?!"
"Dad, your heart! Take a deep breath and calm down!" said Lilly. "You know you don't have your pills with you."
"I don't give a damn!" Larry stormed out of the room ready to kill the brothers. Lilly started to chase after her father when Lee told her that he'd watch him after him. He doubted he'd be able to stop him from doing anything stupid, but he'd sure as heck would try. Lilly couldn't blame him if something happened to the hot headed fool. Then again Lee could understand why Larry didn't want to listen. He had eaten some of the "food" and had been fooled just like the rest of them into thinking the pair were nice people. Still the guy was in no condition to do anything with heart problems.
They went into the back room where they found what was a human slaughtering house. Blood was everywhere and organs in jars that Lee knew belonged to some poor human. Though Lee had already came across the site before, it still made him sick at the site. There was no telling how many unfortunate people the bastards had captured and then turned into dinner here. They were going to put an end to it now or rather again considering Lee was reliving this a second time.
"I told you there was something up with this room!" Kenny said as he observed the large blood stains. "It's a human slaughterhouse back here!"
"No shit, genuis," said Larry.
"No time for arguing!" hissed Lee. "And keep it down. Do you want them to hear us?"
"Maybe I do so I can kill them!"
"How the hell are you going to do that? Last time I checked neither of us have guns. They do so unless you wanna get shot before you get your revenge, keep talking and get Lilly killed as well."
Larry started to retort only to just scowl and keep silent, knowing Lee was right. He was pissed that the three of them had feed them human meat and planned to do the same to them, but just going out there to kick ass with the other parties having a gun was pretty stupid. He wasn't going to admit that to Lee of all people though that he was wrong.
Lee grabbed a sickle and headed to where Kenny was crouched down and peeping out of the door. "That dumbass is so caught up in his rant we could probably sneak up on him. When we get to him, all three of us should be able to take him down and grab the gun."
"Sounds like a plan." agreed Lee.
The three of them creeped toward Danny St. John as silently as they could. He was just sitting on a bale of hay with his gun leaning against it. All they had to go was grab it while Larry grabbed the man and took him down. Lee couldn't help but to be glad Larry was around and for him to be as gigantic as he was. Just as they were a foot or two away, his brother showed up. Lee had forgotten about him! Kenny and Larry cursed and all three went into a stable to avoid being seen.
"What the fuck is he doing out there?" whispered Kenny.
"I don't know," Lee thought for a few seconds. "I'm going to see what they're doing."
Lee peeked outside and saw Danny setting a trap outside a little ways away from the entrance of the barn. That's right! Danny had gotten caught in the trap. His own trap at that.
"What's he doing now?" Larry asked.
"He's set a trap in the barn a little ways away from the entrance."
"Why the hell would he do that for?"
"The bastard must know we're out or it's for the others." guessed Larry.
"See what's going on now."
Lee knew what was coming next and he was ready. He opened up the door and faced the barrel of Danny's shotgun facing him. He grabbed it and turned it upwards just as he was about to shoot him. As he was scrambling to reload the gun, Lee stabbed him with a sickle. Danny knocked him down with his gun and was about to shoot him again when Larry opened the door of the stable, the gun flew out of his hands, and the man took him down with one punch. As soon as he was down, Larry made for the gun.
"Where's my family, asshole!" He demanded while Larry pointed the gun at him.
"You can't have 'em! We need the vet." Just then Kenny could hear Katjaa cry out "No!" which made Kenny run out of the barn to go to his wife. Lee ran off after him and he had barely even left the barn when he heard a gunshot going off behind him, knowing that Larry killed Danny.
Lee remembered killing the man himself the first time and he didn't care Larry had done it now. The bastard did deserve it after all. What happened after they faced Danny before? Oh right. They had Katjaa in the house and Duck was somewhere. He snuck up the stairs of the house, going low so she wouldn't have a clear shot of him.
"Danny is that you out there?" Brenda walked up to the screen door of the house. "What's going on out there?"
"Where's Katjaa and her son?" Brenda left the door and went back to where ever she had Katjaa. When he got up to the door, she had one arm around Katjaa and the other hand had a gun in it.
"Don't you dare come in here Lee!" Brenda shouted as she shifted to in front of the stairs. "You just had to go snooping around, did you?"
"Brenda, you don't want to do this. You know you don't want to!"
"Just go away and leave us be!" she said with a frightened voice. Lee slowly went forward anyways. He had to do this like he did before as to not get himself killed or Katjaa as well. "Stop right there! I mean it!"
"Think of your husband, Brenda!" said Lee calmly. "Would he have wanted the dairy turned into a slaughterhouse?"
Brenda backed up a bit as she pressed the gun against Katjaa's head. 'That's right. Keep backing up so Mark can kill you.'
Lee inched forward until she pointed the gun again at him. "Stay back! Don't do anything stupid!"
"What happened? Your family was obviously smart! How did it come to this?"
"Just stop!" She backed up and Lee went forward until she pointed her gun at him. "I don't want to kill you, Lee!"
"This dairy was your pride! Look at what you've done to it!" She shook her head as she shakily pointed her gun at Lee. She then pointed the gun back at the vet and backed up until Mark caught her by surprise and suck his teeth into her neck. Katjaa was able to get free and ran got down the stairs to Lee.
"They took Duck! Where's Kenny?"
Before Lee could tell her that he didn't know, they heard Andy shouting at Kenny. Katjaa ran outside to find that Andy had Duck. Lee was about to run off after her when he figured out how he didn't have to deal with Andy physically. He recovered the gun Brenda had and aimed for Andy while he was distracting with a now injured Kenny, who had us gotten shot by Andy, and his family. He shout him right in the head and the man fell. Lee sighed with relief. All of them were dead now. Now to retrieve the others and go home.
After rewatching the 2nd episode, I noticed Lee didn't even try going for Brenda's gun. Probably because he was in too much in a hurry.
