-Everett Pharmacy-
Hulk, Glenn and Carley return to the pharmacy, though the girl that shot herself is still on their minds. Clementine sees Hulk and smiles as she runs to him, hugging his leg.
"Hulk! I knew you'd be back!" She says with joy as she keeps hugging his leg.
"Heh. It's gonna take a lot more than a few walkers to take me down." Hulk remarks.
Carley smiles as she watches Hulk and Clementine. "He really cares about that girl..." She says, unaware that Glenn heard her say that.
"I'm just glad to be somewhere safer than an icebox." Glenn says.
Lee walks over to Hulk and Clementine, happy to see his friend return unscathed. "Glad to see you made it back here in one piece."
Hulk nods as he smiles at Clementine. "Yeah."
"Clementine missed you like crazy." Lee says.
"Oh, I know. I missed her too." Hulk says, petting Clementine like a puppy. "You get to those pills yet?"
"No. We can't find the keys." Lee says.
Hulk sighs. "Well, like you said, maybe they're on someone."
"Hopefully not one one of those things..." Lee responds, hoping the keys weren't on one of the walkers outside. After saying that, he heads to a back room with Clementine.
-Back Room-
Lee and Clementine enter a room with barricaded windows with a desk and a wood pallet blocking the door to the room holding the pills that Larry needs. Lee notices some blood on the floor, next to a mattress, clearly indicating that someone was living in there.
"My God..." Lee mutters in horror. "They couldn't have died in here..." He adds, fearing that his parents might've died...or worse.
"What happened in here, Lee?" Clementine asks.
"Something bad, Clem. Something bad..." Lee says as he approaches a desk, noticing a photo of him with his father and brother. He picks it up and looks at it with a saddened expression. Lee sighs as he approaches the barricaded door. "We should focus on moving this stuff out of the way so we can open the door...once we find the keys."
"Okay. Can I help?" Clementine asks.
Lee smiles. "Sure. You can help." He says as he moves the wooden pallet out of the way. "Be careful. Don't get your fingers caught on the drawers." He warns as he and Clementine slowly move the desk out of the way.
"What happened to your family?" Clementine asks, breaking the silence.
Lee stops moving the desk and looks at Clementine. "They're dead..."
"I'm sorry..." Clementine immediately says, feeling bad for bringing it up.
"You didn't know, Clem. Not your fault." He says as the two finally move the desk out of the way.
As Clementine sits on the desk, Carley enters and walks up behind Lee. "Find anything?" She asks, making Lee slowly turn around.
"Uh, just...a photo of the people that own the place." Lee says, pocketing the photo.
"I know who you are." Carley says bluntly. "You're Lee Everett. You killed your wife because you caught her sleeping with a senator. You were convicted, but you never made it to lockup because of all this."
"I'm not your enemy." Lee retorts.
"Maybe not. But you're a murderer, and that's a skill that might come in handy. But if there comes a time when you might be a problem for the others...I won't hesitate to put you down."
"I won't let myself be a problem." Lee says.
"Then we're cool...until proven otherwise." Carley says as she turns around and leaves the room.
-Main Pharmacy Area-
Lee and Clementine leave the back room and enter the main area, rejoining the rest of the group. As Clementine walks over to Hulk, who stood next to Duck, Lee walks over to the somewhat chubby young man, Doug, who stood by the front door.
"Hey. I'm Doug." He said, introducing himself to Lee.
"Lee. Nice to meet you."
"I was about to check to see how things are outside." Doug says nervously.
"Really?" Lee asks, thinking Doug must be crazy to want to be so close to the walkers.
"Yeah. The gate will keep us safe." Doug says, to which Lee nods as the two head out.
-Outside-
Lee and Doug sit behind the gate safely as the walkers lumber around, moaning and groaning. Lee notices a dead body leaned against a wall of a neighboring building, pinned by a downed telephone pole. Lee pulls out the photo he pocketed earlier and looks at it. The body is wearing the same uniform as his brother.
"No..." Lee says sorrowfully, realizing the body is that of his brother.
"What is it?" Doug asks, hearing Lee. "What's wrong, Lee?"
"The keys to the counter...they're on that body. The one that's pinned by that pole."
"How do you know that?" Doug asks, unsure about Lee's claim until he shows the picture to Doug.
"The man in the picture...the man trapped by that pole...he's my brother." Lee says sorrowfully.
"Oh, God...I'm really sorry, Lee." Doug says, feeling genuine sadness for Lee and the loss of his brother.
Lee then runs back inside, noticing the axe she used at the motor inn. He grabs it and goes back outside before using it to break the lock and covertly sneak past the walkers, who Doug distracted by using several TV's.
"Hey, Bud." Lee softly says as he stands over the body of his brother, only for the body to groan and start to move; he had become a walker like the others. Bud reaches for Lee to attack him, but due to the way he was pinned, he couldn't reach him. "I'm so sorry this happened to you. I don't know what happened to mom and dad, but you must've been there to protect them. I'm happy you were here for them."
"Did you get the keys yet?" Doug whispers to Lee, not wanting the walkers to hear him.
"Give me a minute..." Lee sharply whispers back. "I'm so sorry, Bud..." He softly says as he raises the axe over his head before slamming it blade first into Bud's neck over and over before driving the blade into his forehead, finally putting him out of his misery for good. Lee gives the body of his former brother a sad look as he grabs the keys off of his corpse.
Doug smiles upon seeing the keys in Lee's hand. "You got 'em. Shit! Walkers!" He shouts, as the walkers have turned around and growl as they stumble towards the two. They quickly enter the pharmacy, which would only keep them safe for a while, as the gate in front of the door couldn't be locked anymore.
-Inside-
Lee and Doug enter with horrified expressions on their faces. Lee then approaches Lilly, who slowly stands up and looks at him.
"I got the keys." Lee says, holding the ring of keys up so she can see them.
"Great! I knew you'd get them!" Lilly says happily, now knowing her father would live to see another day. Lee leads Lilly to the back room and unlocks the door to the medicine counter. Right as this happens, loud banging could be heard, indicating the walkers were starting to get inside.
"Shit! We better hurry!" Lee says urgently as he and Lilly run in and look for the nitroglycerin pills that Larry needs.
The two manage to find the required pills and return to the main group, who are frantically grabbing whatever they can as they prepare to leave.
"Once they get in, you better be right behind us, or you're done for!" Carley loudly says as she loads her gun.
"I don't plan on dilly dallying! Katjaa! Grab Duck and get ready to run!" Kenny says. "Lee, I'm gonna need that axe in case I run into any of them on my way to the truck."
Lee nods as he tosses the axe to Kenny, who catches it and runs outside to get his truck.
"That gate's not locked anymore!" Doug yells out as Carley cocks her gun, ready for a fight.
Hulk clenches his fists, ready for a fight while Clementine clutches his leg. "Stay close, Clementine." He says calmly as the front doors are suddenly forced open, though it's pushed shut by the combined efforts of Glenn, Lee and Doug.
"We can hold them! Lee says with a strained tone. Suddenly, the wooden panels on one of the windows starts to shift out of place as numerous walkers try to get in.
"Lee, the window!" Doug yells.
"Go! We got this!" Lee says as he and Glenn keep the doors shut. Doug nods as he pushes his back against the wooden panel, keeping it in place. "Clem, find something to jam against the door! Something strong, okay?!"
After a few seconds, Clementine has an idea. "Wait!" She says as she runs into the back room and comes back with Lee's father's cane. Lee takes it and uses it to jam the door together, keeping the walkers from entering.
However, things got worse, as several walkers latched onto Doug in an effort to pull him outside while a walker latched onto Carley's leg, keeping her from retrieving a spare clip for her gun. Without wasting a second, Lee ran over to help Doug while Hulk ran to Carley's aid, crushing her walker's skull with his massive foot. Unfortunately, as hard as Lee tried, he couldn't save Doug; there were too many walkers pulling on him. Doug was suddenly pulled out of Lee's hands and he landed on the street outside as the walkers began to tear into and devour the helpless Doug.
"No!" Lee cries out as Doug screams in agony before he gurgles on his own blood.
"Oh, God...!" Carley screams at Doug's demise as Lee runs to the back entrance, only to be stopped by Larry.
"You're not coming with us, you son of a bitch!" He says before punching Lee in the face, knocking him to the ground. As a walker crawls towards him, Kenny runs back in and slays the walker with his axe.
"I'm not letting anyone else die today." Kenny says he helps Lee stand up. "Especially not a friend." He says as he and Lee run out the door, followed by Hulk and Carley, the former of which is holding Clementine is his arms.
-Later-
Motor Inn
Several minutes later, the group arrives at the motor inn and start to get settled in, though Carley seems to be going through a stage of depression after what happened to Doug. Hulk, still holding Clementine, walks over to Carley.
"Hey." Hulk softly says, getting Carley to look at him. "You okay?"
Carley doesn't answer for a few seconds before shaking her head. "Honestly...I don't know, Hulk. I mean, Doug...I didn't know him that much, but...I trusted him, maybe even liked him. But I never told him, and now he's dead..."
"He was still your friend." Hulk says.
"I just wish he was here with us right now..." Carley adds.
"You can't save everyone, kid." Hulk says, lightly touching her shoulder. "I didn't know him either...but he'd want you to keep moving. To survive like the rest of us."
Carley nods. "You're probably right."
Glenn is standing next to a car, listening to an emergency broadcast until Lee walks over. "Seems like it's worse everywhere than it is here. I have friends in Atlanta. I have to warn them, Lee. Otherwise they're dead, and I can't stand to let anyone else I care about die."
"Go, then. If you got people that need you, go to them." Lee says sincerely.
"Really?" Glenn asks, hoping Lee is sure about his choice.
"Go. We'll be okay." Lee says. Glenn nods as he gets in his car and drives off.
"Okay. We have a minimal supply of a few days worth of food and other stuff that we managed to get from the pharmacy. Maybe if we block these driveways with some of these abandoned cars, we could make this place safer. Maybe call it home." Kenny says.
"That could actually work." Hulk says as Clementine clutches his large digit.
"Yeah. That's some good thinking, Kenny." Lee adds.
"Don't worry. We're gonna be just fine..." Kenny says as the electricity to the motor inn suddenly dies, leaving the group in the dark.
-Author's Note-
I couldn't decide on keeping Doug alive or not, so I decided to stay in canon. I also used Bud for the name of Lee's brother as his actual name was seemingly never revealed.