Clementine's POV

Pain, the first thing I feel as I try to bring my head up from off of the bed I'm layin on is a thundering pain coming from my head. I grunt in agony, gritting my teeth as I force myself to sit up. I open my eyes, or try to, but only succeed in opening one. I turn to Becca who's looking at me with eyes the size of saucers (Probably due to the fact that she didn't expect me to be getting back up after all that's happened). I look at her and start to speak before she reaches around and pulls me into the tightest hug I've felt in a long time. This girl has some strength, I'll give her that. I reach around to return the hug and she smiles in response before she looks me in the eye and her face immediately saddens.

I bring my hand up to my face and its in that instant that my own eye widens. It just occurred to me the reason why I can only see out of one eye. Carver beat my face in. I hop up and run away from Becca and past the entire group as I go over to a piece of broken window sitting in the corner and pull it up so I can get a good look at myself. I hesitate and stare for what seem like minutes. Almost the entire left portion of my face is covered in a cloth and bandage with a large amount of blood soaking through the cloth portion but most of it seems to have dried. I bring my hand up to remove the bandage and wince as I pull up the cloth instead. What I see, shakes me to my core. My left eyelid has been completely stapled closed. There's a large gash just to the side of it and there's blood everywhere. I'm a freak.

I turn back to the rest of the group after having pulled the bandage back down and I can't hide the quiver in my lip as I fight back the tears threatening to spill. Almost immediately, Luke swoops in and pulls me into the second tightest hug I've felt in a long time, but I wish he'd hug me tighter. Tight enough so that I'll sink into him and disappear. I know this is the most he can do and so I accept that this hug will have to do until I find a way to sprout wings or turn invisible.

Alvin's POV

Alvin. I can hear a voice calling my name. I know it. It sounds familiar. Calm, sweet, lovely. It's Rebecca's voice. I know it. She's close. So close I could reach out and touch her. The love of my life.

Alviiiiin. She's calling me. This time it's louder. And longer. As if she's leading me somewhere. But I have no idea where. Or why. I see float through this vast nothingness until I come upon a light glowing off in the distance. It's beckoning me. It's taking me to her.

Alviiiiin! I feel a great force pulling me backwards. Away from the light. Into the darkness that's growing behind me. I reach out to her and she reaches out to me and for a split seconds our fingertips touch, but nothing more. I'm hurdling into the darkness. I can only watch her as she ascends into the light while I'm taken back into the darkness. Into the void. Into reality.

"Alvin." I hear a voice say as my eyes open. I turn and I'm greeted to a sight that makes me wish I were asleep again. William Carver is sitting in a chair just a few feet away from me and he's staring directly at me. If only my hands weren't tied up I'd show him exactly who's the bigger man.

"She always loved you, you know?" he begins and I am immediately thrown off by what he's talking about.

"No matter what, she always picked you. I've done everything I could for her. Gave her a home, food, I even let her keep your sorry ass around. I did all this, because I thought that she'd be happy. She'd see that I could make everything she wanted a reality. That I could take her to heights she never knew existed. However, she decided that I wasn't good enough. That no matter what I did for her I still couldn't provide her with the thing she wanted most. The only person who could give her that…was you. I even fucked her, right here in this office. Twice. Because she decided for those few hours that I was the better man. Then she'd get this look on her face. You know what that look was Alvin?" he rambled on as I start to understand what he's getting at and I feel my heart sink. Rebecca had sullied our marriage. Went behind my back, and then pretended it never happened.

"It was regret Alvin, but not for the reason you think. You see, she didn't think that what we did was wrong. She knew that no matter what, you wouldn't have the heart to do anything about it. She knew you'd still be the big, soft, loser you've always been. That's when she realized something. She preferred the big, soft, loser. She could have everything her way with the big, soft, loser. That he would never back talk her, he'd never step up, he'd never do anything except follow her beck and call and THAT, Alvin, is what she wanted more than anything. Control. You think she'd ever in her wildest dreams be able to control me as much as she has you? Alvin, I feel sorry for you. Even to this day, you don't have a single backbone in that big, pathetic, body." Carver went on as he stood and paced back and forth.

He looks up at the ceiling before closing his eyes and sighing, "She's dead."

"No…" I close my eyes as the tears begin to fall from my face and he notices my reaction.

"Alvin, you're not crying are you? It's not like you would've done anything to prevent it. You couldn't save her Alvin, but the worst part about all this is that I couldn't save her and our baby."

"It was our baby! Not yours!" I say and he smirks as he looks at my angered face.

"How do you know this? You didn't know about the affair, you didn't know about her death, you didn't even know that she was pregnant until AFTER she had begun to start showing."

My face noticeably faults but I hold strong to my belief. That was our baby. Me and Bec's.

"So what happens now?" I ask and now it's his turn to be shocked as I continue, "If Bec's gone then you have no reason to keep me around. You could've just killed me before telling me all of this."

"You're a smart man, Alvin. Well it's simple. I thought about just getting it over with, but I figured for once, we'd make this fair between us. On even ground. To determine once and for all who indeed is the better man. I believe I have a purpose, Alvin. God has shown me all of this for a reason. I'm going to lead us into a new age, Alvin. This world we've been thrown in has tested the medal of every human being on the planet and surviving is only the beginning. Surviving was the initial part of all this. The next phase is to thrive, Alvin. To do more than just live day to day. To grow and prosper in this new world. And then Alvin, we conquer. We take this world by force. Usher in a new age of mankind under the banner of the greatest leaders mankind has to offer. And that, Alvin, is my destiny."

"You're insane!"

"Am I, Alvin? Tell me something. Could YOU have made it this far without having been in my camp. Under my leadership I've kept several generations of families fed, clothed, and surviving. I've created an entire society within the walls of a hardware store. Do you honestly think for a second that that is something you could do."

"…That doesn't mean anything."

"It means EVERYTHING! Open your eyes Alvin and look at the big picture. I know for a fact that there is a 14 year old girl living within these walls that has the exact same power that I do. It's been decided that our destinies are intertwined. It's the reason she's alive and the baby is not. She was brought here by God and the baby wasn't deemed worthy, Alvin. It'll come down to me and her. Before this is all said and done. One of us will be standing above a sea of the strongest humans out there and that person will be the best, but until that day comes, Alvin, I'll have to deal with every obstacle that is thrown in front of me and right now, you're that obstacle."

I sit here listening to him rant on and on about his destiny and I can clearly see that something isn't right with this man. He's lost his mind. I do know one thing, however if Carver's claim is true, then God help us all.

Sorry this chapter's so short but next week I plan on making it up as we begin to near the Season Finale of Together We Fall. This story isn't going to be over for a little while though but there WILL be a Season 2 to this story. Don't worry if your favorite characters haven't appeared yet as their appearances have been altered due to the change in the timeline of things but hopefully everyone will leave happy.

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