Episode 4: Around Every Corner Part 3

Alexander's POV

"Shit! We Practically Left Lee!" Kenny Panicked As We Began Walked Back to the House

"Calm Down, I've Been in that Sewer A Few Times On My Chase, He's Gonna Be Fine, That Sewer Leads to Many Directions" Molly Reassured Waving her Arm Off

"Then Why Didn't You Hop In There Then! Saving Us all The Risk Lee Could Be In!" Kenny Exclaimed at Molly

"Kenny Calm Down! Me and Clementine Are Just as Worried as You Are, So Please Don't Take It Out On Molly, At Least She Helped You Flee Away From The Walkers" I Consoled Kenny

"Thanks Alex, But This is Between Me and Molly" Kenny Said Facing Molly

"First Off, Thanks Alex And Second Of All, Look Asshole At Least I Helped Your Other Friends Out, You Ungrateful Pig! I Could Have Ditched The Second I Laid My Eyes On You Folks, But I Kept My Instincts And Gathered a Conversation with You People and This Is How You Repay Me?" Molly Said. Kenny Sighed and Shook His Head

"Come on Girls, Let's Go" Kenny Said in His Depressed Tone Before Continuing our Walk

"I Miss Lee" Clementine Said Worriedly

"Me Too Clem, Me Too.." I Answered Back as I Held Clementine's Hand

Back at The House...

"Thank God Were Here...Time To Think of a Plan to get the Fuck Outta Here" Kenny Planned Before Walking Inside

"I'm Just Gonna, Check the Place Out" Molly Said before Walking inside too

"Come On Alex, Let's Look Around Too" Clementine Pulled Me As We Started Looking Around in the Back Yard.

"But Wait, We Should See How Ben, Christa and Omid Are" I Suggested As I Escorted Us Inside The House

"Hey Alex, Clementine Your Back" Ben Greeted By Hugging Clementine and Kissing My Cheek. I Smiled and Hugged Him Back

"It's So Nice To See You Too Ben" I Said Back

"Eh, Puppy Love..." I Heard Kenny Grunt as I Saw He Was In One of His Depressed States. I Looked at Him Worriedly

"Is He Okay?" I Asked Walking Over to Him

"I'm Not Sure, I Just Saw Him Like This When He Came In" Ben Answered Sadly

"Hey Molly" I Called Out As I Saw Her Looking Around in the Back

"Yeah" She Answered Walking In.

"What Are You Doing?" I Asked

"Like I Said Before Looking Around" Molly Answered

"You Seem to Be Doing More Than Just Looking Around, What Are You Trying to Find?" I Questioned Suspiciously.

"None of Business Just Be Glad You're Back Home, Safe" Molly Said Back Before Going Back to 'Looking Around'

"I Don't Trust Her, She Seems...Sneaky" Ben Said Before Sitting Down

"I Don't Know We Just Met Her, She Probably Is Just Looking Around, She Seems Really Cool too" I Said "Where's Christa and Omid?"

"Their Upstairs...Alex, It's Not Good, Omid Seems to Be Not Feeling Great" Ben Said Sadly. I Nodded As I Felt Someone Tugging On My Hand

"Let's Go, Alex, Let's Play in the Backyard!" Clementine Begged. I Smiled and Walked Out With Clementine Hot On My Tail...

Lee's POV

"Clementine? Alex? Alexander? Clem?" I Called Out as I Walked Inside The House With Vernon Behind Me, I Turned to See Molly in The Kitchen Looking Around

"Molly?" I Called Watching Her

"Oh Hey. You Made it Back" Molly Greeted Facing Me

"Who's This?" Vernon Asked Me, Facing Molly

"He Didn't Tell You About Me? Understandable, I Guess. I'm the one who put that beating on him when he tried to jump me back at the rive. Who's The Fossil?" Molly Asked

"Where's Clementine and Alex?" I Asked Avoiding Her Question

Well I Just Talked to The Alex Girl A While Ago But The Small One, She's Around Here Somewhere, Relax I Got Kenny, Her and The Alex Girl Back Safely Your Welcome By The Way" Molly Answered Before Stepping Up to Me

"I Believe You Have Something to Give Me?" Molly Asked Waiting While Putting her Hands On Her Hips. I Gave Her Her, Weapon as She Walked Off, Looking Cautiously Around...

"Lee Thank God Your Back" Christa Greeted While Running Downstairs

"Christa What's Wrong" I Asked Worriedly

"It's Omid. He's Gotten Worse. Much Worse" Christa Answered

"We Have a Man Wounded" I Said to Vernon

"Who's This?" Christa Asked Facing Vernon

"This is Vernon, He's A Doctor" I Answered as Christa Stepped Up to Him

"Oh Thank God"

"Could You Take a Look at him?" I Asked Vernon

"You Have to Help Us...Please" Christa Begged

"I'll See What I Can Do. Take Me To Him" Vernon Accepted...

Upstairs...

We Walked Inside A Bedroom to See Omid Laying on The Bed...

"Omid,Honey You're Gonna Be Alright. Lee Brought a Doctor" Christa Reassured Omid Who's Eyes Was Closed

"All Right Let's Take a Look at Him" Vernon Said Before Turning to Me "I Work Better Without an Audience, I'm Sure You Have More things of your own to Attend to." I Nodded Thinking About Clem and Alex

"Clementine...Alex? Clementine." I Called Out Searching In Every Room Until I Landed Upon a Picture Clementine Drew, It Was a Drawing...Of Me and Alex, As A Family...I Sighed before Continuing Back My Search, I Walked Inside a Bedroom, Looked Around Until I Saw Molly Looking Under a Bed

"What Are You Doing?" I Asked Walking Up to Her

"Oh You Know. Just Poking Around" Molly Answered

"You Won't Find Anything We Already Searched the Place" I Said

"You'd Be Surprised What People Miss, Trust Me I've Been Doing This for A While." Molly Said.

"Where's Clementine and Alex?" I Asked Again

"Don't Ask me, I'm Not Their Keeper" Molly Answered

"Hey! Do I Look Like I'm in the Mood To Be Jerked Around? Where Did They Go?" I Asked Again But More Firmer

"Last I Saw, They Was Downstairs with your Redneck friend and that College Kid who hangs around with them. Why Don't You Go Bug them?" Molly Answered before going back to the Bed

I Sighed and Walked Out Calling Out Clementine and Alex's Name, Damn Where Could They Be? At Least Let Me Find Alex and She'll Know Where Clementine Is...

"Clementine, Alex Come Out Please?" I Begged As I Made My Way Into The Living Room "Kenny?" I Asked as I Saw Him Chugging a Whiskey Bottle

"Oh Hey. You Made it Back. Good Job. Good Job" Kenny Praised In A Drunken State

"What The Hell Do You Think your Doing?" I Asked

"What Does it Look Like?" Kenny Asked Before Chugging Another Round Of His Whiskey

"Where'd You Get the Bottle?"

"Found it." Kenny Answered "First Good thing That's Happened Since..."

"Kenny Come on Gimme That" I Reasoned With Him As I Walked Over to Him, Trying to Take the Bottle Away "Kenny Give Me The Damn Bottle!"

"Get the Fuck Away From Me!" Kenny Exclaimed Holding Onto the Bottle Not Giving it Up

"Getting Wasted is not gonna Help Anyone" I Said

'"Yeah Well What Is? We Are Fucked!" Kenny Exclaimed "Molly Said there's not a single boat left in Savannah. No Way Out. We Got Walkers All Around Us, that Crazy Fuck on the Radio Messing with us...hell, Ain't now not the time for a Drink..." Kenny Took Another Chug. I Gave Ben a Look as He Grabbed The Offer of Having a Drink With Ben Who Eventually Denied the Offer...

"Have Either Of You Seen Clementine and Alex?" I Asked Kenny and Ben

"Damned If I Know, Gotta Be Around Here Somewhere" Kenny Answered Carelessly After Taking a Sip of his Whiskey, I Turned to Ben

"Ben I Gave You One Job When I Left Here-Take Care of Alex and Clementine. Then They Show Up Out on River Street Looking for Me? What the Hell Happened?" I Asked

"Hey Don't Turn That All On Me. Omid Took a Turn for the Worst and Christa asked me to help, I'm Sorry I'm Doing the Best I Can Here" Ben Explained "She Was Frantic and things got kind of Crazy, I Told Alex to Watch Clementine Who I Told to Stay Put, What Else Can I Do?"

"Don't Be Sorry Just Tell Me Where the Hell They Are Now." I Said Back

"I Think Clementine Went out to Play in the Backyard" Ben Answered

"On Her Own? With No-One Watching Her?!" I Asked In Disbelief

"Man Will You Get Off My Back? She's Fine Out There! I'm Definitely Sure Alex Accompanied her" Ben Said

"She Better Be Or it's your ass!" I Warned Before Walking Out to the Backyard

Backyard...

"Clementine! Alex! Clementine!" I Called Out

I Walked Over to A Shed "Doors Covered in Vines...I Don't think Anyone came in through there" I Said To Myself Examining the Shed's Door. I Decided to Examine the Other Spots they Could Be In, I Became Alerted When I Heard Something Thumping from the Shed. I Walked Over to the Shed and Opened And Fell to the Ground...

"Lee!" Clementine Exclaimed in Happiness Before Running Over to Me, Hugging Me

"Where's Alex?" I Asked

"Here..." I Heard a Voice Call Out as I Saw Just the Other Person I Wanted to See Walk out of the Shed "Thank God You Came!" Alex Came Running Up to Me, Hugging Me From Behind

"Hey Girls" I Greeted As I Pulled Away

"Come Look! Look What We Found!" Clementine Urged As She Walked Back Over to the Shed. I Got Up and Opened the Shed Door All The Way To See My Prayers Were Answered...

"Holy Shit" I Said In Awe As We Stared At The Boat

"Swear" Clementine Called Out. We Turned to See Kenny Behind Us...

Back in the House...

Alexander's POV

I Was Now Back In the House Waiting As Kenny and Ben Were Working on The Boat as I Told Clementine to Stay Put Upstairs and Let Her Draw A Portrait Of Me...

"Omid's Doing Okay?" Lee Asked Vernon Who Just Walked In

"As Well As Can Be Expected Under the Circumstances. I Did What I Could For Him, Cleaned Out the Wound. But He's Got a Real Infection, Running a Fever. Without Antibiotics..."

"Will You Quit Pacing? You're Making Everyone Nervous." Molly Asked Lee Annoyed

"Why Are You Even Still Here?" Christa Asked Molly

"Hey, if Your Friend really can get that Boat Working, Your Taking Me With You as Payment for saving your Asses. I Figure that's fair enough, Don't You?" Molly Answered. We Turned as Kenny And Ben Walked In

"Well?"

"You Want the Good News Or Bad News?" Kenny Asked

"Let's Get the Bad News Out of the Way First" Lee Chose

"Bad News Is She's Not Taking Us Anywhere the shape's she's in right now. Gas Tank's Empty and The Batteries Dead" Kenny Explained

"So What's the Good News?" I Asked Wanting Part in this Conversation

"That's it, That's All She Needs, Some Gas and a Battery. Other than that She's Good to Go" Kenny Answered

"Well How Are We Supposed to Get that Stuff?" Christa Asked

"Sounds Like Crawford's is the one Place that has everything we need. Maybe We Should Try There" Lee Suggested

"Now Hold On A Minute." Vernon Started Not Liking the Idea

"Surely We'll Have to Try If There Are People Left in this City Who Are Still Alive, Still Have Supplies. What Harm Can It Do to Ask?" Christa Said Supporting Lee's Choice

"Trust Me You Don't Know These People. I Do. You Showing Up With a Wounded Man? Might as Well Put a Noose Around his Neck. They Don't Exactly Welcome Children With Open Arms Either" Vernon Explained

"What The Hell Kind of Place Are We Talking about here?"

"The Worst Kind. But I Don't See What Other Choice We Have" Molly Answered

"And Just How Exactly do you figure we do this?" Kenny Asked Not Supporting Lee's Plan "Because From What I've Heard, That Place Isn't Exactly Friendly to Outsiders"

"That's Putting it Mildly"

"We Negotiate With Them Like Civilized People. We Must Have Something they'd Be Interested in Taking in Trade" I Reasoned

"Negotiate? With Crawford? Once Again I Have to Remind You, You have no idea what these people are Like!" Vernon Disagreed "They'll Take What They Want and Then Decide Whether or not to let any of you live"

"So What? No One Has Any Ideas?"

"There Might Actually Be A Way. I Know the Sewer System that Runs beneath Crawford like the back of my Hand" Vernon Said "Ya'll Wouldn't happen to have a Map by any Chance?" Vernon Asked

"Yeah, Actually..." Lee Answered Taking out a Map and Spreading it out on the Table

"Yeah I Think I Could Lead us through So We Could pass Under the Perimeter and Right into the Center, Where they keep their Supplies. We Come up Right Underneath them,take them by Surprise, Grab What we Need and get out before they even knew what hit them" Vernon Planned

"Okay, That's Not Bad. But Better" Molly Said

"I've thought about it before Just Never had the people to do it. But I Think if We All Work Together, We Could Pull it off." Vernon Said

"And What Do you Want In Return For all This Help Your Giving Us?" Kenny Asked Suspiciously

"Crawford Doesn't Just Have What You Need for Your Boat, They're also Well-Stocked with Medical Supplies. Medicine That My People Could Use, Just Like yours Could" Vernon Answered

"We Can Do This! We have to!" Christa Agreed

"So It's Decided Then Were Going to Crawford" Kenny Said

"Anyone Else Have a Problem With this Plan? Because Were Gonna Need every one of Us to pull this off" Lee Said

"Man I Don't Know" Ben Said Shaking His Head

"I Don't Know About You, Kid But I'd Rather take a Chance on doing Something Than just sitting around here waiting to Die" Kenny Said to Ben "That Boat Out There is An Answered Prayer. We Just Gotta Push A Little Bit Farther. Are You In Or Out?" I Looked at Ben As He Looked Down

"We Should Go Tonight, Under Cover of Dark. I'll Go Let My People Know, Give You all a Chance to Prepare. I'll Be Back Before Midnight" Vernon Said Before Heading Out

"Be Careful"

"That's How I'm Still Alive" Vernon Finished Before Walking Out

"I'm Going" I Walked Up To Lee. Lee Shook His Head

"No Way,You Stay Here and Watch Clementine"

"I've Watched Clementine Since Day 1, I Wanna Join And Feel Like I'm Able to Help, I Just Don't Wanna Be Some Charity Case Because You Folks Think Of Me Of Some Kind of Little, Vulnerable, Un-Helpful Girl"

"Ale-"

"Just Let Her Come, It'd be Good To Have Her Help Out" Kenny Said.

"Yeah and She Seems Cool Enough" Molly Supported

"Alright Fine" Lee Decided. I Squealed Before Leaping into Ben's Arms...

Night...

The Gang Were Now Gathered In The Back Yard Getting Ready For the Plan...

"Check Out What I Found Inside the Garage, Hatchet, Hacksaw, Some other Tools. Might Come In Handy For This Little Break-In" Kenny Suggested

"Nice"

"Can I Talk To You For a Minute?" Kenny Asked Lee As They Walked a Little Bit Away As Me and Clementine Stayed Close to Ben, Christa and Molly...

"Hey Ben You Seem A Bit Down, What's Up?" I Asked Going Over to Ben

"It's Just That Situation I Had With The Bandits Which Resulted in The Deaths of..You Know..." Ben Explained

"Look Kenny Needs to Know, He's All About Trust Now And I Think It's Best For Him to Find Out Now or Later Before Something Happens" I Suggested. Ben Sighed

"You're Probably Right, I'm So Glad I Have You With Me, Alex" Ben Hugged Me. I Smiled and Hugged Back As I Kissed His Cheek

"Promise Me One Thing" I Asked. Ben gave a Confused Look

"What's That?"

"Don't Ever Break My Heart Like Kevin did..." I said. Ben Smiled and Nodded

"You Got It, Princess" Ben Said As He Pecked My Lips

We All Turned to The Gate's Direction to See Vernon Walking Inside With Someone Else With Him...

"Who the Hell is This?" Kenny Asked Noticing the Woman

"This is Brie She Could Help Us" Vernon Introduced.

"Help Us How?"

"I Was a Student at Where Crawford keeps Their Supplies. I Know The Layout." Brie Answered

"With Her Help, Were In And Out Faster. Anyone Got a Problem With That?" Vernon Asked

"I Guess Not" Lee Answered

"Then What Are We Waiting For? Let's Get Moving" Molly Said As She Pulled Up Her Hoodie As We All Headed for the Gate

"Hold Up Just a Sec" We Stopped as Lee Bent Down to Clem's Level "You Ready?"

"Ready"

"Whoa Hold on a Minute Your Not Taking Her With Us. Did You Not Hear What Kind Of Place The Crawford Is. If You Take Her In There and They Find Her..." Vernon Explained

"This Little Girl's Not Just Excess Baggage. She's Gotten Us Out of a Tight Spot More Than Once" Lee Defended "She's Coming. Deal With It."

"You Heard The Man. Let's Move Out" Kenny Said Before We Were On Our Way...