Hit the road, Jack!
Another bastion of the living has fallen, it had sentimental value to the human race,
one of the probably last sanctuaries on this planet has fallen, even though it was just a little shack,
it was a place, where humans could live the way they used to. Were the walkers a capriciousness of the nature?
Or were they the precursors of a whole new age? No one had an answer to that, neither anyone had time
to even think about such questions, for the human race it didn't matter anyways. Whatever they were,
they wanted to outnumber the humans. Or didn't they? Walkers weren't capable of thinking, there is
no complex meaning to them, the only thing they can do, and the only thing their brain can handle is survival,
nothing more, nothing less, they are animals caught in human bodies, and that can be seen by how they behave.
Omid ran through the woods with Clementine on his left shoulder, he didn't know what was happening back at the shack,
but the gunshots had stopped. That's nothing good these days, since gunshots meant, that there is someone alive.
Omid was worried, but couldn't help it, he couldn't run faster, neither he could leave Clementine behind.
After the probably 5 longest minutes of his live, he finally arrived at the shack to see an incredible amount of dead walkers,
and Christa and Andrei dragging them, and piling them up.
Omid: "Oh thank god you're alive!"
Christa came running and hugged Omid, with Clementine still on his shoulder.
Andrei: "Family reunion, huh." He thought, and grinned a little.
Christa: "You're both fine!" She said with relief in her voice.
Omid: "Yeah..." He sighed.
Andrei: "I am truly sorry to interrupt, but this place is no good, and we should get going, now."
Christa: "Woah, woah, woah, wait..."
Omid: "He's right, we already talked about that." He cut off her words.
Christa: "But..."
Omid: "Listen-to-me, hon'. I know this is a great place for Clementine, it has a bed and all, and that it would be nice to have a home,
but trust me. We can not hold this place, look at those walkers, when I left I counted somewhat less than 40 rounds in total, without the
extra ammo packages. How many rounds do we have left? After this first, and so far only attack? Barely enough to fend them off
once more – Sooner or later we'll be forced to leave, and we should leave while we still have ammo left. Do you trust me on this one?"
Christa: "I-I... I guess so, yes... I trust you."
Omid put Clementine back on her own feet, and knelt down in front of her.
Omid: "I know this is a terrible time, and I know, that you like this place a lot, but as much as it breaks your heart, and mine, we have to leave."
Clementine: "Yeah... I guess so..." She said sadly
Omid: "You understand why this has to happen, don't you?"
Clementine: "Uhm... yes, because if we stay, walkers will get us?" She said curiously.
Omid: "Yes, and if we leave, that won't happen." He said with a reassuring tone in his voice.
Clementine smiled, and Omid mumbled: "Not on my duty, it won't."
Omid: "Now, everyone start gathering our stuff, and put it in the car."
Andrei: "I'll go and reload the guns.
Overview: 8x 9mm rounds in Clementine's Glock, 30x rounds in the 9mm ammo package,
13x went into Christa's Browning HP (max. capacity) and 17 into Andrei's Jarygin,
30x .44 Magnum rounds in the package from the village, 6x were put into Omid's revolver right away,
3x rounds left in the rifle, and 8x buck shots left in the shotgun + 17 extra rounds in the package,
since it wasn't full (3 bucks were missing).
Now everybody was working on getting the stuff into the car, so they could finally leave.
Once everything was collected and nothing was forgotten they got into the car, Omid was
the driver.
Omid: "Where to?"
Christa: "That's the million dollars question..."
Andrei: "To the south or the west, since it's goddamn cold here."
Clementine: "Back to Savannah, we could go looking for Molly."
Christa: "Clem, sweetie..."
Clementine: "I know..." She said disappointed.
Omid: "Well we could stop at the train and get the stuff we left there..."
Christa: "Ain't that a little risky?" She asked worried.
Omid: "When worst comes to worst, we'll need everything we can get our hands on."
Andrei: "What sorts of stuff have you left there?"
Omid: "All the unhealthy stuff, chips, energy drinks, some cans of beer, because we
couldn't take everything with us."
Andrei: "It's not much, but as you said, when worst comes to worst, we'll need it."
Christa: "Fine, we drive there, take the stuff, and get the hell away."
Clementine: "Last time I forgot my note block and pencils there, can we get them?"
Omid: "Sure." He smiled.
Clementine smiled back.
After some time they finally arrived at the train and got their stuff, anything they could possibly need.
Clementine got out of the car and climbed into the train, she looked around and found Chuck's old scissor,
she picked it up.
She looked at it intensively.
Lee: "Keep that hair short..."
Clementine: "I'll cut it myself!"She remembered.
She sniffed and clenched her fist, with the scissor in her hand.
Clementine: "We need this."
Omid: "For what?"
Clementine: "To cut our hair..."
Omid: "Yeah right, well done." He said with a happy voice.
She put it in her pants' right pocket.
Andrei: "Okay, we've been here for too long, let's go."
They got back into the car and started following the road next to the train, it would lead them west.
It was just noon but they drove until the night.
Christa: "Clem, honey, get some rest."
Clementine: "I cant sleep in cars..."
Christa: "Try at least OK?"
Clementine: "OK."
She closed her eyes and saw Lee again, those dreams never stopped but his face was more and more fading,
she didn't see him for a long time now.
Lee: "Sweet pea, you're doing good."
Clementine: "I'm s-scared..." She stuttered in the dream.
Lee: "It'll pass, you won't be scared for ever, you can do this, you can survive, you hear me?"
Clementine: "I don't know..."
Lee: "I do, you remember back inside the jewelry store when I wanted to tell you something?"
Clementine: "Yes, Lee..."
Lee: "I wanted to say, that you're like a..." His words were cut off by a sound.
It was dark by now, and as Omid drove, a red light suddenly appeared.
He hit the break and pulled over, the breaks' sound woke Clementine up.
It was a red road flare.
Omid: "Where the..."
Voice #1: "Shut the fuck up and put your hands behind your head, NOW!"
Omid hesitated to follow the instructions.
Andrei was on the seat next to him and whispered: "Slowly pass me your revolver."
Omid reached for his revolver slowly, and gave it to Andrei.
Omid: "Relax now." He didn't see a face, but felt a gun's barrel pressed to his forehead.
Clementine was nervous, she was almost hyperventilating.
Voice #1: "Shut up, and get the hell out."
Omid: "Alright..."
Omid got out of the car.
Voice #1: "You there, one fucking move and I'll blast his head." He looked to Andrei.
Andrei: "OK, I won't try anything."
Another man walked over to Andrei's door and opened it.
Andrei readied his gun so that the first man couldn't see it.
As the door yielded, Andrei whispered: "Don't-say-a-single word boy. Listen to me carefully,
you don't reach for your gun, and you don't let your partner know, or this sweet gun will make your head pop.
Lay your left hand on the car, and your right on my neck, and carefully yield back. Christa, when I say the word die,
you scream like you're being eaten alive okay?" He left the car and held the second man as a hostage.
He raised the gun to the second man's temple and then slowly, but self-confidently pointed it on the first man.
Andrei: "Okay, let my friend go, and nobody has to die."
Christa: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrghhhhhhhh !"
The man was distracted by the scream and looked at the car, in this very same moment Andrei pulled the trigger and killed him,
then he pushed the second man towards the car, and slammed his head against the roof.
Andrei: "Who are you sons of bitches?"
Voice #2: "We... w... w- we're bandits..."
Andrei: "Oh that's gotta be my lucky day, killed women or kids already?"
Voice #2: "N-no..." He stuttered.
Andrei: "Kuzok hawno, bladj (Russian for: "fucking piece of shit") but you were ready to, huh?"
Voice #2: "I-I..."
Andrei: "Don't fucking lie to me, don't do that! I know your kind of people, people like you killed my wife and son!"
He reached back with the revolver and hit the bandit in the face, over and over again, until his face was barely more than a bloody mess.
The man could barely breathe.
Omid: "Finish him off, he's got enough..." Omid said with a quiet and sad voice.
Clementine asked Christa quietly: "Is Andrei... bad?" She hesitated to ask.
Christa: "No, but the man he is hitting is a very, very bad man." She tried to reassure Clementine.
Andrei: "Fucking scumbag deserved worse than this!"
Omid: "I understad you..."
Andrei: "YOU DO? Your girlfriend is alive, you've got two kids, none of them is dead, do you know how it is, to lose your complete family?"
He shouted desperately and angry.
Omid: "I..." Andrei could barely hear this answer.
Andrei: "'course you don't..." He released the bandit, who then dropped to the ground.
Andrei knelt down to him and asked: "Where is the rest of you?"
Voice #2: "We were alon-" He coughed.
Andrei: "Bullshit!"
Voice #2: "I-It's the truth... I s-swear!" He said desperately.
Andrei: "Then we have no more use for you, burn in hell..."
Voice #2: "N-" His beg was cut off by a last smash in the face.
Andrei: "He didn't deserve a gunshot..."
Omid didn't believe what he saw, he knew the man was in special forces, but he didn't think he could solve a
hostage situation that cold and fast.
Voice #3: "Alright you fuckers, you caused us quite some trouble here, everybody out of
the car, and line up!"
Voice #4: "Do, as the nice man asks you."
Voice #5: "Yeah, our boss wants to see you guys."
It were approximately around 10 or more bandits with heavy weaponry, they were facing.
Andrei was still kneeling, and quickly hid the revolver in his sock, as good as he could,
then slowly rose up.
Clementine: "Are we going to die now?" She was scared as she never has been before.
Maybe except for the moment, when she saw her parents, but nothing could ever top that.
Omid: "Man, we got a kid, c'mon, we don't want any trouble..."
Voice #3: "Too late for that after blasting our friends there!"
Andrei: "Let us go, or you'll fucking regret it!" He said this, slowly, loud and clear.
Omid: "what now?" he whispered over to Andrei.
Andrei: "We don't resist, we go with them..." he whispered back.
Omid: "Christa, Clem, get out of the car."
Bandit #3 approached them, he seemed to lead the ambush.
Omid went slowly upon him, as the bandit pointed a gun at Omid's forehead.
Omid: "You hurt any of those girls, and I make damn sure you die, even if it means my death as well." He whispered.
Voice #3: "Big words." He smiled.
Voice #4: "Okay guys, put the blindfolds on them."
They were blindfolded and started to move, somewhere, in bad company.
Author's note:
Thanks once again for reading.
So this one started with a cliffhanger,
and ended with one. Now I'll bring
something more interesting into this
story, a hostage situation.
How will they deal with this situation?
There's only one way to find out! :)
