The Walking Dead: Fight for Survival
Chapter 2: the cabin
Hey, everyone, hope you are enjoying this sequel so far, and with Episode 3 of Season 2 almost being released, I will be able to publish more chapters since I am tying in the story with season 2. Here's chapter 2, everyone, hope you enjoy.
Lee tried not to show fear as he was still being held at gunpoint by three of the six members. Clementine and Carley had suddenly emerged from where they were hiding, keeping their hands raised in the air.
The man who looked Spanish folded his arms together as he looked over Lee's shoulder, seeing the young girl with her hands raised, too. He looked back towards his group, showing a change of expression. "They have a little girl with them."
The other group took note of this and looked over towards Clementine, who felt slightly nervous as each one of them glared towards her. The man in the orange shirt and the other one with the crossbow lowered their weapons down slightly, but as for the man who resembled Kenny, he still kept his rifle raised towards them.
"Nick, put the gu-" the man with the crossbow was about to push his nephew's gun down, but in act of panic, he had fired his gun, almost hitting Lee in the process. The crossbow man angrily snatched the gun out from his hand. "Nick!"
The gunshot rang through the entire area, startling everyone
"What the fuck!?" Lee swore, swiftly picking up his rifle again when they were not looking and kept their attention focused on the man with the cap.
Carley quickly took her chance to act and pulled out her Glock 17 and aimed it towards them. She stood in front of Clementine in a protective manner, already picking her target: the man with the cap. And he would not be hard to miss since she was an excellent marksman.
The man with the orange shirt aimed his weapon towards Lee again; fearing that he was going to shoot now that they had just gave him the perfect opportunity to get their weapons.
"You idiot!" the pregnant woman cursed; annoyed to what he has just done that may have consciences after wards. "Every lurker for five miles probably heard that!"
"Hey, we don't know this people!" the man with the hat clashed.
"Everyone just calm down for a minute." the man with yellow glasses suggested, sensing the situation was about to get bad if he did not step in and do something soon.
The Spanish man marched towards the three, standing only a few feet away. He seemed to have a change of attitude towards them once he noticed they had a child with them. "You say you're not with Carver?"
"We don't know any Carver." Lee assured them, raising rifle down now that he was no longer being held at gunpoint. "Look, we're sorry if we disturbed you folks. We'll just turn around and go, and I swear, you will never see us again."
The Spanish man looked back towards the cabin entrance when he heard the door open from the inside. His expression changed back into a serious one as he glared back towards the cabin.
A young girl who looked a couple of years older than Clementine but quite taller poke her head out from the door, either noticing they had guests or worried to why there was a gunshot a moment ago. "Who are they?"
"Sarah, what did I say? Get back inside." the Spanish man ordered, raising his voice slightly in a worried yet serious manner.
The young girl now known as 'Sarah' obeyed his wishes and moved back inside the cabin, closing the door behind her.
After they were gone, Lee looked back towards both the Spanish man and the cabin, and put two and two together, realizing that he must be her father since they shared the same skin color. He had an idea, and hopefully, it would work. "Look, uh, was that your daughter?"
"That's none of your business." he snapped, showing that he was extremely protective of his daughter by his attitude and sudden change of expression.
"Look, I know how you feel man. Clementine here is my family, too, and I know how it feels to try and protect them the best you can." Lee explained, showing that they were both not so different from one and other.
The Spanish took note to what he said and folded his arms together while he shifted his attention over towards each member of the cabin. The man with the crossbow and the man with the orange shirt gave him supportive nods. As for the rest of them, they remained neutral for now. He shifted his attention back towards Lee, but at the same time, keeping his attention on Clementine. "She's your daughter, then?"
Lee was about to answer with "yes", but to show them they were not bad people; he decided to be honest with them. After all, honesty is important nowadays. "No. She lost her real parents a long time ago. Me and my girlfriend are just doing what we can for her."
The Spanish man still had a couple of doubts about these random strangers, but something inside of him was telling him to give them a chance. "Why don't you come in? You can stay for tonight but have to be gone by tomorrow."
"Thanks. We appetite it." Lee assured, giving a slight nod to his girlfriend for a moment before he decided to introduce himself properly to the cabin group. "I'm Lee, and this is Carley and Clementine."
"Carlos." the Spanish man introduced, gesturing his arms to each of that cabin members while he spoke each of their names. "This is Luke, Pete, Nick, Rebecca, and Alvin."
"I hate to interrupt, but it's going to rain soon." Pete interrupted, stating the obvious as he looked up towards the dark clouds. "We should get inside."
The others agreed and made their way inside of the cabin to take shelter from the storm before it hit. But it did look like a great place for Lee, Carley, and Clementine to hold up for the night before continuing their journey up North to Wellington.
An hour or so had passed since the cabin group allowed the trio to stay for tonight, and during this time, they got to know the three a little better. Lee had a different opinion on each of the cabin group members while he got settled in.
Luke and Pete seemed like good people, Carlos acted a little protective and paranoid but was still a good guy, Nick he did not like so much at the moment since he could have killed him out there earlier than firing that gun, or worse, attracted walkers. He did not have the chance to talk with Rebecca and Alvin due to her showing an untrusting attitude towards them. But this may be because of her pregnancy.
Inside the main living room of the cabin, Lee and Carley sat together one of the couches with Luke and Pete sitting on the opposite side, sitting on another couch. Clementine was not present at the moment and was in the kitchen eating some food Luke was kind enough to give her.
Lee had just finished telling them their entire story in this God-forsaken world and how they wound up here in the middle of the Carolina woods. It was a lot to take in, but worth listening to.
"Wow. A lot of happened to you people." Luke admitted, unsure of what to say exactly about their story. "This Kenny you mentioned, what do you think happened to him, his family, and those other two you mentioned?"
"Not sure." Lee admitted, scratching the top of his head for a moment. He was about to mention to them about Wellington, but then changed his mind so some reason. "Maybe he found somewhere safe. I don't know."
"Well, hope he and his family are well." Pete wished, raising a smile slightly while he stood up from where he was sitting down. "Well, I think we all need to get our winks because I'm going fishing tomorrow and I could do with some help. Hmm, wouldn't that be nice? Now let's get some shuteye. This place is lit up like a beacon in the middle of the woods."
"Right, I'll help out." Luke replied, standing up with the older man and following him out of the room. He turned back towards the two before he left. "You can both sleep on those couches, and there are some blankets in the closet. Sorry, we ain't got any more rooms."
"Thanks Luke. We appetite it." Lee assured, giving him a friendly nod.
Luke returned the friendly nod before following Pete out of the living room.
Meanwhile, Clementine had excused herself from her dinner to go to the bathroom. Alvin was kind enough to show her where it was, and already, she could tell this man was nice. She made her way upstairs and was supposed to enter the door on the left, but her memory slipped and she accidently walked into the wrong room.
Inside, Sarah was lying against her bed with a book in her hands. She gasped slightly when Clementine had accidently walked inside, but it took her a matter of seconds to calm herself down.
"Sorry." Clementine apologized, about to leave the room before she caused any trouble. "Wrong room."
"No, wait!" Sarah called her back for a moment, not wanting her to go yet. "Why don't you stay? Just for a few minutes? Please?"
Clementine arched a curious eyebrow to why the older girl wanted her to stay but nevertheless, she agreed to her request and walked inside, closing the bedroom door behind her. She stood a couple of feet away and observed the book in the Sarah's hands, not expecting to see people still reading. "What are you reading?"
"A book." Sarah answered like it was obvious.
"What book? I like books." Clementine admitted.
"It's called the Guurgles." Sarah replied, setting her book down with the pages still open to speak to the young girl standing in front of her. "It's about trans-dimensional body snatchers."
"...Cool." Clementine simply replied, not really knowing how to respond.
"I'm Sarah." Sarah introduced herself, standing up from her bed, revealing herself to be quite taller than Clementine.
"I'm Clementine." Clementine introduced herself too, deep down, she was a little happy to finally meet someone not too far from her age.
"We're friends. Right?" Sarah asked, obviously eager to befriend another girl almost her age. "We can be best friends-I haven't met another girl my age since way before. It's hard to be the only girl, you know? Rebecca is okay, but she's old. And that's it. And if the baby's a girl then it'll be FOREVER because she's old enough to, like, be my friend. And then I'll be super old."
Despite Clementine feeling a little uncomfortable by Sarah's childlike behavior, she decided this girl felt like she needed a friend, and decide to give friendship a try. "Yes, we're friends."
"Promise?" Sarah asked. "It's important. Friends have to trust each other no matter what. Do you promise or not?"
"I promise." Clementine promised
"Me too. Friends." Sarah smiled, holding out her pinky finger on her right hand for her and Clementine to pinky swear. She watched as Clementine accepted her pinky swear and that gave her a little hope. "A pinky swear is forever."
"Yeah, I know." Clementine smiled, ending the pinky shake.
Before long, Clementine finally decided that she leave the room before Carlos un-expectantly walked inside and only assumed the worse. She bidden Sarah farewell and left her bedroom, and she had to admit, it was nice to meet someone her own age. She liked Carley of course, but like Sarah, Clementine thought Carley was good as a friend but just a little told too old.
Back downstairs, after the two men had exited the room, the young man who resembled Kenny known as 'Nick' by his uncle had walked into the room. He sat down on the opposite side of the two with an apologetic expression across his face. "Hey, look...I'm sorry for...Well, being a dick out there and almost shooting you. It's just; we let in strangers once...And..."
"And what?" Carley inquired.
"And they were bit, and we tried to take care of it. But I lost my mom that day." Nick admitted, trying his best to hold back tears the best he could. He got back up onto his feet and made his way out of the living room, but stopped and turned back to the duo for a moment. "Hope you understand."
Lee was about to answer with declining his apology, but he had a change of heart when he remembered what it was like to lose someone you are close with. He knew this because of his parents and his brother's deaths when all this began, and he was the one who had to put down his brother. "...Yeah...We do."
Nick raised a slight smile across his face but decided to leave the two alone and head back to his bedroom.
Clementine was back in the kitchen after befriending Sarah cabin, and now she had almost finished the food that Luke had given her and now she felt like she needed to rest. While she was sitting there, Carlos had entered the kitchen without even greeting her and began washing his hands in the sink.
He continued to do so while Clementine continued to eat until he suddenly spoke. "Are you going to be a problem to my daughter?"
"Excuse me?" Clementine replied, wanting to make sure that she had just heard him correctly.
"You talked to her. Are you going to be a problem to my daughter?" Carlos repeated, his voice calm yet slightly serious while he continued to wash his hands in the sink.
"No." Clementine answered, arching a curious eyebrow, wanting to know why Carlos would think her, a little girl, would be a problem. "What makes you think I would do anything like that?"
"Well, if you and your friends are going to stay, there are a few things you need to know about my daughter." Carlos answered, drying his hands with a towel while he stared outside of the window.
"Okay." Clementine slightly nodded, knowing this man was only being protective of his daughter, just like how Lee and Carley was looking out for her.
"She isn't like you. You may not get that initially, but once you're around her for a while you'll understand." Carlos explained, crossing his arms together while looking out of the kitchen window before closing his eyes. Imagining what would happen if Sarah was too know what it was like out there. "If she knew how bad the world is... what it's really like out there... she would...cease to function. She's my little girl. She's all I have left and I would ask that you please not tell her about what it's like out there."
"I won't, I promise." Clementine promised, giving a slight supportive nod to him, despite him being turned around from her view.
"Thank you. I appreciate that." Carlos replied, trusting Clementine to be around his daughter now that she had her promise.
Before long, he left the kitchen to check upon his daughter and put her to bed properly. He sure was not willing to let these new people visit her yet, until he knew they could be trusted.
A little while later, nighttime had finally risen to its fullest, and everyone who was part of the cabin had tucked in for the night. As for their three guests, they were going to have to sleep on the couch for tonight, but that did not matter as long as they were inside, sheltered from the storm.
Lee and Carley sat together on one of the couches as Lee kept his arm around her. He sighed as he looked over towards Clementine, who had fallen asleep long ago in the arm chair. "Carley, what do you think of these people?"
"I'm not sure." Carley admitted, resting her head down against Lee's shoulder. "What do you think?"
Lee thought about her question for a moment before he looked over towards sleeping Clementine curled up in a ball as she slept. "I'll do whatever's best for Clementine."
"You're still worried about her, aren't you?" Carley inquired, making herself comfortable against his shoulder.
"Of course I am, Carley." Lee admitted, looking towards the young girl who he raised up as his own daughter, trying his best to keep her as safe as possible. He remembered when there were times something could have happened to her like when she got grab by a walker twice but Lee was quick enough to save her. Andy St. John threatened to hurt her and Lee was unable to do anything. She could have been killed by the Bandits, and to top it off, they were trapped in a city full of walkers.
He sighed as he looked over towards Carley and was about to speak further but discovered she had fallen asleep while he had been thinking to himself for too long. He smiled and planted a slight peck on her head before he too decided to get some rest for the night. He would need his energy since he is going to help Pete in the morning catch some fish.
Chapter 2 is completed, ladies and gentleman. I hope you will all stay tuned for "Chapter 3: tense situation".