Chapter 2

"Hiiiii-Ya" the boy shouted as he kicked the walker in the stomach and it flew onto the road behind it, the boy then limped forward and finished it off with a hatchet to the face. It had been a day since he had hurt his leg, he was trying to get home and tend to it but he had to sit out the night because there were too many walkers. He pulled the hatchet from the walkers face put it in it's sheath then bent over with his hands on his knees and started panting heavily he was completely out of energy he needed food and drink. As the thought left his brain he heard the screeching of tyres and turned his head in the direction and he saw it that same bloody camper van - and it was driving straight at him "come on!" he growled to himself annoyed in seeing the van again. He noticed something weird though, the van wasn't slowing down.

He could just see through the front wind shield the driver and the passenger -couldn't tell who- weren't looking at the road "oh come on!" he shouted at the van standing up straight, as the van was bombing toward him he realised he was going to have to jump out of the way or it was going to kill him. The driver looked at the road and noticed him and slammed on the brakes but not fast enough the boy still had to jump out the way landing on his bad leg and rolling a few meters as the van came to halt right on top of where he had been standing. He stood up dusting himself off while mumbling curses under his breath and when he turned to look he saw Lee getting out of the passenger side aiming a gun at him and Kenny coming around the front of the van also holding a gun.

"Hello again" the boy said a grin creeping onto his lips

"your coming with us" Kenny ordered him

"oh am I? I seemed to have missed that memo" the boy bit back grin still on his face

"You are and if you refuse we'll force you" it was Lee that spoke this time

the grin left the boys lips and he hissed "are you threatening me?"

"Lee do it! so we can get out of here" the boy looked at Kenny and asked

"Do wha- shit" as he noticed Lee raise his gun, he didn't have enough time to react before it hit him on the head knocking him unconscious.

The boy was lighter than he looked as Lee lifted him off the ground and carried him to the van, opened the door and placed him on one of the chairs "Ben tell me if he starts to wake up"

"okay" the teen replied obviously glad he had something to do Lee took the unconscious boys hatchet, gun and backpack. Lee brought them to the front of the van where Kenny was starting it up

Lee dropped them and said "let's get back to the house and interrogate 'im", Kenny just nodded in reply and Lee went to sit next to Clementine.

The boy awoke with a start as he regained consciousness not putting his hand to head to try and stop the pain but to his back to see if he still had his backpack "fuckers" he said to himself but meaning the people that had just kidnapped him he then felt his empty sheath "Why would they leave me my hatchet?" he questioned himself hitting himself in the head before wincing and putting both of his index fingers to his temples to try and dull the pain. The boy looked around to take in his surroundings, he was in a bedroom with two doors he stood up to investigate them one was locked and the other led to a bathroom, there was also a bed and a boarded up window. He sat back down on the floor and started to think when the locked door handle started to turn and Lee entered with Kenny behind him the boy stood up and before they could say anything he ordered "I want my backpack" this seemed to take them completely by surprise

Kenny said mockingly "I don't think we got that memo"

the boy simply replied by staring daggers at Kenny and saying "I will fucking end you. Now. Give. Me. My. Backpack." anger rising inside him

Lee stood in front of Kenny and said "we will give back once you've answered a few questions"

"fine. What do you want to know" was the boy's reply

"First of all what's Crawford?" Lee asked

"You haven't been here long have you?" the boy replied just getting a dirty look in return "Fine. Crawford is the group of ass holes that live by the river they had an idea to create a Utopia, but just for the strong and guaranteed to survive. So that's no old people, no children over fourteen, no sick people nothing that would risk the 'Perfects' as I call them. Next question?"

"Okay, that was the only question I had" Lee replied a weird look on his face

"I want my backpack" the boy stated still angry

"i'll talk to you later first eat some food, Kenny" he turned to Kenny and he handed Lee a small bag of crackers which he threw onto the bed and turned to leave before stopping to watch the boy sit back down on the floor, he then closed the door.

Lee opened the boy's backpack and found a bottle of water almost empty but for a few drops, an empty packet of crisps, a pipe -probably from the alley- and a wallet with nothing in it but three pictures one was of the boy with two people who were most likely his parents, the boy had his arms wrapped around the father's neck as if he was giving the boy a piggy back ride and the father had one arm wrapped around the neck of the mother they were all smiling and they looked happy the boy didn't look much younger than he did now but he looked happy nothing like he did now, now from what Lee had seen of him he looked tortured as if he had gone through hell and back, it also looked like he hadn't been getting sleep because there were bags under his eyes and how his shoulders slouched made it seem as if he was already bored with the apocalypse, Lee set the first picture down and looked at the second it was of a girl with blonde hair and a pink dress she looked about eleven she held a massive resemblance to the boy probably his sister and on the back of the picture it said 'MARIA' he set it down and picked up the third which made him a little scared.

He didn't know how but the boy had a picture of "Clementine?" Lee said to himself but the girl in question heard him

"yes?" she asked

"um...Kenny hold this a sec" Kenny took it and looked at it in surprise "Clem...I...uh...think you should meet our guest"

"really?" she asked her face changing from confused to scared

"yes, come on" and with that Lee took her hand and led her up the stairs.

The boy was still sitting on the floor looking at the ceiling when he heard the door open he stood up and started saying "Look if you don't have my backpack then-" but he was cut off with a girl's voice saying

"Johnathan?!" he turned to see Clementine standing in the door way shock plastering her face

he couldn't do anything but say "Clementine?!"

Lee also looked shocked as he asked "Wait, you know him?"

Clem looked at him and said "yeah, we go to the same school"

"went" Johnathan corrected her, she looked at him she looked on the verge of tears

Lee said "Clem go downstairs and stay with Christa, I need to ask Johnathan another question" she looked back at him nodded and left closing the door behind her. Johnathan looked at the door after she had left for what seemed like for ever when Lee finally said "Johnathan, why do you have a picture of Clementine in your wallet?"

the boy seemed to be blushing as he replied "When we were in school I used to have a...uh...little...um...crush on Clementine. We were friends and we spent a lot of time together but I never asked her anything. I didn't want to ruin the friendship. The picture is Clementine in a tree we used to climb together" the boy rushed out the last part as if clearing his conscience

Lee just looked at him and said "okay i'll get your backpack".