After a few minutes of resting for Lee, Katjaa then called out to Kenny and Lee to come where she was. She was treating the man who had his leg chopped off. He was lying in the back of a truck.
"Lee! Ken! Come here for a quick second!" Katjaa called them over. They came.
"He didn't make it, did he?" Kenny asked.
"He had lost too much blood.." Katjaa said.
"Goddammit! I'm gettin' sick of this shit.." Kenny angrily said as he walked off.
"Ken, wait. There's nothing-" Started Katjaa.
"Let him go Katjaa." Lee said, stopping her.
"That man.. I don't know if he was ever gonna make it." Katjaa said referring to the man with the chopped leg.
"Yea maybe you're right.. But at least we tried." Lee said trying to stay positive.
"What about the other kid?" Katjaa asked referring to Ben.
Before Lee could answered, Katjaa was grabbed by the man who had turned into a walker. Katjaa let out a scream.
"Katjaa!" Reacted Lee while trying to pull the walker and Katjaa away from each other, which he did successfully.
"The ax! Hurry!" Lee called out to Mark for the ax. The walker then grabbed Lee. The momentum pulled Lee onto the truck. Lee was smashing the walker's head side to side on the side of the truck. Mark then came with the ax.
"Step back!" Mark told Lee. Lee pushed the walker back and gave Mark a chance to swing the ax at it. But Mark missed and hit the window and the ax got stuck on a part of the truck. The walker grabbed at Lee's foot but Lee was able to kick it away. Lee backed all the way up until he fell off the truck. The walker fell on top of him. Lee was holding the walker back. He was digging his thumbs into it's eyes. Blood started streaming down. Carley came up with her gun and shot the walker in the head. Lee pushed it off of him.
"You okay?" Carley asked, checking on Lee.
"Just fine.. thanks." Lee responded. The rest of the group then came over.
"Why'd you bring him here in the first place, asshole?!" Said an angry Larry.
"Dad.. please.' Said Lilly trying to calm Larry down.
"You're gonna get us all killed!" Finished Larry.
Kenny was holding onto Katjaa until he saw Ben. Kenny was furious.
"Why didn't you tell us he was bitten?!" Hollered Kenny.
"What?" Ben said, scared.
"He was bitten and you didn't say a goddamn word!" Kenny was still hollering.
"He wasn't bitten! I swear!.." Ben trying to assure him.
"Well your non-bitten friend here just came back to life and tried to kill my wife!" Exclaimed Kenny.
"What? Wait.. you all don't know?" Said Ben. Everyone had their eyes on Ben.
"What the hell are you talkin' about?" Kenny said.
"It's not the bite that does it.. You come back no matter how you die. If you don't destroy the brain that's what's gonna happen. It's gonna happen to all us.." Ben went on.
"You're lying.." Lee said in shock and denial.
"I'm afraid I'm not. I wish I was.." Ben assured him. "Because one of the girls at my school, Jenny Pitcher, I think, she went to the bathroom and took some pills. A lot of them. Someone went into the girl's bathroom the next morning and.. Jesus.."
Everyone just looked in shock and disbelief after hearing the words that came out of Ben's word.
"Back off!" Shouted Carley as she had her gun pointed at two men outside of the gate. One of the men was carrying a gas container.
"Whoa lady! Don't shoot! We're just lookin' for gas. Could you spare us? We're running low." The man holding the container said. Kenny then pulled out his rifle and aimed it at the men as well.
"I said back off!" Shouted Carley again still holding up her gun.
"Carley.." Lilly said trying to calm her down.
"We don't want any trouble." Lee said to the men.
"Of course! Neither do we. I'm Andy. This here's my brother, Danny. We're the St. Johns. We'll be on our way, but you'd really be helping out a fellow survivor if you could trade us for gas." Said the man.
"Why do you need gas?" Carley asked.
"We have an electric fence at our farm and we have a generator to keep it running. And the generator needs cause to keep it running." Andy said.
"How yall doin' on food? We got plently at the dairy." Danny said.
"Our generator runs on gas. Look, if you folks would be willing to lower your guns, we could talk about some sort of trade." Andy said trying to make a deal.
"Lee, why don't you and Mark go with them. Make sure the place is legit." Lilly said.
"I'll go too. Watch your backs." Carley volunteered to go with them.
"So.. do we have a deal?" Danny asked. The group all huddled up.
"I don't know guys. I don't think we should go. We're all starting to bong here at the motor inn. We've made something out of this place. I think we should stay." Lee said.
"Whoa whoa are you fucking crazy Lee?! We won't go another week without food! If you wanna stay here, then you can stay by your damn self!" Larry went off.
"Dad! Calm down.." Lilly said to Larry.
"Well I guess I'll ask everyone what they want." Said Lee. "Kenny?" Lee asked.
"Me and my family are going. We need the food Lee." Kenny answered for him, Kat, and Duck.
"Carley?"
"Let's at least check it out." Carley said.
"Mark?"
"I'm going." Mark answered.
"Lilly?"
"Me and my dad are going. Right dad?" Lilly asked.
"You betcha pumpkin." He assured her.
"Ben?"
"Going." Ben said.
"Naje?"
"I agree with you Lee, but we're running low on food.. So I'm going." Naje said.
"How about you Clementine?" Lee asked her.
"Lee.. I'm really hungry." She said.
"Well, I guess we're all going to a dairy."
The group broke huddle. They then had their attention back on the St. John brothers.
"We've got a deal. We'll bring some gas to your dairy, and in return, you give us some food." Lee said.
"Sounds great." Andy said.
"Alright everyone, listen up for a second. If the place seems legit, then I'll come back and gather you all up and we'll head back out there together." Carley said. Everyone nodded, agreeing.
Mark, Lee, Carley, and Ben then went out the gate and began walking with the St John brothers to their family's dairy.