-PLANET EARTH, NORTH CAROLINA; November 30, 2006 12:37 Hours-

Pete, Clementine, and Six walked along a forest path. Pete was using a scope-less hunting rifle while Six was using his DMR, which impressed Pete when Six got it out. Meanwhile Clementine was between them, holding her bruised arm, but still coming along.

"Hey Clem, how are ya' holding up? I heard you got an earful from Rebecca last night. Once she gets goin' there's no bringing her back, her bark's worse than her bite." Pete said, as while Six was taking watch duty during the night, Rebecca decided to talk to Clementine in a less than friendly way.

"What's her problem..?" Clementine asked Pete whilst they walked towards the River where the traps should be at.

"Well, she's got a lot on her mind, lately. Imagine bringing in a baby in a world like this?" As Pete said this, he and Six walked across a bridge, while Clementine had to run just to catch up with them.

"How far away are these fish traps, sir?" Six asked to Pete, which he replied. "It shouldn't be much farther now." While they walked in silenced, Pete turned to Clementine, and asked, "Anyone teach you how to shoot? By that I mean taught proper... Any idiot with a finger can shoot." As he said the last sentence, he looked down at Clementine.

"My friend, Lee taught me." She said, smiling as she remembered back in the train almost a year ago as Lee helped her aim, and shoot properly with a Pistol.

Pete nodded, as he squeeze between two broken fences, in which while Six moved them further apart, letting Clem have an easier time getting through. "That's good, it's important nowadays."

As they walked Pete said, "Nick was about Clementine's age first time I took him huntin'. Came across this beautiful 13 point buck just standin' there on the ridgeline."

Pete stops for a moment in his tracks to show exactly what young Nick did, pointing his hunting rifle forwards. "The boy takes the rifle... lines up the shot just like I taught him... then suddenly I hear him start whinin'." He pointed the rifle down at this point, and looked Clementine and Six.

"He turns to me, and say's, 'I can't do it! I can't shoot it, uncle Pete. Please don't make me shoot it.' As Pete said this he shook his head a bit.

Clementine smiled, and said, "Aww... That's sad." Suddenly, from behind them, Nick shouted, catching up with them holding a rifle as well, and sweating a bit. "Hey!"

Once he reached them, he looked at Pete. "Why didn't you wait?"

"You want us standin' around while you piss on a tree? You know where the river is, boy." Pete said sternly to Nick, he then turned back to Six and Clem. "Anyway, so I go to grab the gun out of his hands before this big buck runs off, when BANG! Boy nearly gut shot me, and of course, the buck got away." Behind him as Pete told the story, and different emotions ran through Nicks face, mostly anger and embarrassment.

"What're you goin' and tellin' them this shit for?" Nick said, then Pete stopped and turned to Nick. "Because you almost blew the girl's face off, and gut shot the man yesterday. Seems relevant, tryin' to let them know it's nothin' personal with you." Nick started to glare at Pete. "Why are you always giving me a hard time?" Pete glared back at Nick. "Because you're always givin' everyone else a hard time."

"I apologized already, and Clementine accepted it." Nick said, still glaring at Pete. "Ok, well I didn't know that until now." Pete said, and Clementine decided to join in. "It's fine, he apologized." She said, and smiled.

"You're always trying to embarrass me." Nick said, and Pete countered it, "You're doing a good enough job doing it on your own." Nick then went ahead of them, walking without looking back. "Leavin' us again?" Pete said, before Nick said back, "I know where the fucking river is!"

Pete sighed, then continued walking. "So, anyways...I found that buck later that season. Shot it right in the neck. Brought it up to my sister's, figurin' she'd want to freeze some of that meat... Nick didn't speak to me for weeks. Sometimes you gotta play a role... even if it means the people you love hate you for it." Pete stared down in silence, with a sad look on his face, then scratched the back of his head.

"You should tell him that..!" Clementine said to Pete, looking up at him. Pete thought about it for a moment after she said that...

"UNCLE PETE!" Nick suddenly shouted, scaring both Pete, and Clementine, though Six was already rushing towards where Nick was, DMR in hand.

They raced over, Pete slowing down as he got closer to Nick, "Nick...?" Then they all saw something that would've scarred someone for life, though, not Six, as he has seen worse, it was still bad.

"Jesus, Mary, and Joesph..."

There were bodies all over the shallow river, freshly dead for most of them. Pete went up to a body in front of them, and inspected it, while Six checked his motion sensor, seeing three faint red dots where it'd look like some walkers would be, and more somewhere up ahead.

Pete sighed as he got up, looking genuinely freaked out of what's happen. "Fulla' holes..."

"Who do you think did this...?" Clementine said slowly, shocked over what she was seeing.

Pete turned to Clementine, and said, "Not sure yet, but this ain't your average gang'a thugs... That much I know." Meanwhile, Six walked toward a body with a red indicator on his motion sensor had, and it looked up at him weakly with glazed eyes, a shot missed this poor man's brain, and instead hit it's jaw, making it almost falling off at this point. Six stomped on it's head, ending it's life for good.

"...Think about it. You're Carver, what do you do..?" Nick said to Pete, his eyes showing fear.

"Who's Carver..?" Clementine said to Nick. Pete, and Nick stared at each other for a moment, before Pete turned back, and pointed at the bodies near Six, and said, "Check those guys over there, and be careful, some of them might be movin'..." He walked towards the bodies, as Nick went for some behind them.

Clementine went towards a biker looking man, and kneeled down, seeing bullet holes everywhere, including the head. "This one's shot too..." Pete looked up at her from his spot. "Through the head?" Clementine responded. "Yeah..."

"Check the rest... And look for ammo, we're runnin' low." Pete said, and continued searching.

Six went ahead, and saw more bodies, including red blimps, one hiding in tall grass up ahead. "Sir, there's more up bodies up ahead of us." Six said, turning to them.

Pete sighed as Nick walked towards him. "This wasn't no rinky-dink pissin' match..." Nick replied to his uncle. "What was it then..?"

"FUBAR." Pete simply said, walking towards some more bodies. "Where you goin'?! We need to get the hell outta here!" Nick told Pete. "Gotta check the rest..." Pete said, and Nick got a look of astonishment on his face. "What?! WHY?" Pete waded his way through the water. "Calm down, and think about it, son." "Calm down?!" Nick almost yelled. "We've gotta get out of here , NOW!"

"What if someone is alive, Nick..?" Clementine asked him. "Who cares?!" Nick said simply to the young girl. "Cause they just might be inclined to tell us who did this to them. We gotta do this, now." Pete said with an angry look on his face. "Stay here, keep searchin' these."

"This is a dumb idea..." Nick said, backing up slowly. "You know, Nick, I don't like this either, but sooner or later you're gonna have to realize a simple truth."

"What, that you're an asshole?" Nick said sarcastically. "That nobody in this world is ever gonna give a goddamn whether you like somethin' or not! You gotta grow up, son!" Pete said angerly. "Whatever..." He walked away.

Pete stared to talk to Clementine, but meanwhile a few minutes after they talked Six, crushed a few more Walker heads, and the one in hiding tried to sneak up on the super soldier, but Six easily kicked it's head open, and was finished. Six looked down at his motion sensor, and saw tons of red dots slowly heading towards the four. Six got out his DMR, and quickly shot a walker that was about to take a bite out of Pete's leg, which made Pete yelp in surprise upon seeing the thing's head pop, and go all over his exposed left leg.

"Pete!" Nick yelled, going to his uncle's aid. "I'm fine, a damn lurker almost took a chunk out of me if it weren't for the Spartan..." Pete said, catching his breath, when suddenly, almost all around them, undead groaning and moaning could be heard as a bunch came from Pete and Nick's side, blocking them from Six and Clementine, who had recently found her backpack, and had put it on.

"Nick, stay with me!" Pete said, as he and Nick went almost back to back, killing the lurkers with ease mostly, while Six grabbed Clementine off the ground, and got out his M6G Magnum, and killing a few walkers with it.

Suddenly, without anyway to get to Six and Clementine, Pete and Nick ran away, Pete yelling to Six before getting out of there, "We'll meet you back at the cabin, just get out of there!"

Six nodded, and carried the young girl with one arm, running in a opposite direction from them due to the walkers, and reached a small building, in which Six burst open the doors, and quickly put Clem down, then putting his weight enough not to shatter the door, but enough to hold back the walkers. "Clementine, hold the door!" Six said to her, she nodded, and quickly put all of her weight on the door as Six got off of it, and grabbing a box filled with some heavy enough stuff and put it against the doors to barricade themselves as walkers banged on the doors, their hungry growls multiplying outside the door.

Clementine sighed in relief, knowing she and Six were safe finally. She turned to Six, and suddenly hugged him. "Thank you so much..." She said, grateful for all the times he's saved her from god know's what.

Six felt something he hadn't felt in a long time, ever since his family, he felt... Happy, somewhat, and protective over this child. He patted her on the back, then got up, looking around their surroundings, they looked like to be in a cellar of some sort, with a small window on the side, and on the other side of the window was an unsuspecting walker, that had no clue of it, there was a chair against a wall by a tall table, some tools on some shelves, and a ply wood covering a shelf.

"What... What now...?" Clementine asked the super soldier, he said, "We wait, but, once those walkers maybe forget about us, we rush out, killing any blocking our path if you can." Six said simply. "Alright then..." Clementine said, sitting against the wall, and looked around a bit before looking at Six, who seemed to be in deep thought, though, she couldn't tell due to his visor. She was scared of Six at first, not knowing if he was going to kill her, but now, she felt safe around him, like a new guardian for her...

~ Author's note - Sorry if this came out a bit rushed, but I had enough time to do one more chapter, hope you guys enjoyed, and if you want me to answer some questions, PM me if you want, or leave a review!