Chapter 13
A New Beginning
Climbing back up, Carley and Louis are beyond relieved that Clementine had survived that ordeal. "Clementine!" Carley brings her into her arms, tears in her eyes.
"Wow, Clementine!" Omar speaks, clearly amazed at her courage to stop Lilly from attacking Lee.
"That was incredibly brave!" James exclaims, also really relieved that she is safe.
Turning to Louis as she leaves Carley's hug, Clementine says with a soft sigh as he pulls her into her arms, "Louis."
"Oh, Clementine." Louis holds her close.
Watching them be so affectionate, Lee comes to a new decision. "Louis." The boy approaches the man, Clementine still beside him. "I was wrong. You do belong here." At those words, Louis smiles up at Lee, Clementine overly happy that now Louis can stay with her. "Let's us all go home." he had said, a smile towards the Raiders now that the broken up community is now whole.
With that, everyone in the field start the long trek back to the fortress. Waiting right outside the main gates, Ruby is in shock to see that among the Community are Raiders, but they all had their weapons lowered. Once she had spotted Lee, Ruby runs up to him, asking, "Why are the Raiders here?"
"It's ok, Ruby." Aasim says as he takes his place beside her.
"Clementine helped me realize that the Raiders are still part of this Community that should never had been broken up in the first place." Lee explains as the girl in question smiles at her friends. Then Ruby notices that a few of the Raiders, well ex-Raiders, have smiles across their faces.
But then she notices that there's not a certain face among them. "What happened to Lilly?"
"She didn't make it. I tried to save her from the Walkers so she could also live peacefully with us. But Lilly decided that it's best if she just becomes a bad memory." Clementine answers, sad that she couldn't save her with Louis comforting her. At first, after hearing the news of Lilly's death, Ruby and a few others were relieved that she's gone, but eventually started to pray for her lost soul to find peace.
Now that the Community has been restored and grown so much, Clementine and Louis decided to take charge of having to expand the fortress as the new appointed leaders, Lee and Carley absolutely proud of the girl they had raised after she had been found outside the fortress walls all those years ago.
Watching the love radiate so brightly among them all with Louis and Clementine, Lee and Carley, James and Mitch, Violet and Minerva, Marlon and Brody, and among many others, Aasim and Omar can't help but be emotional as Aasim holds Ruby close.
Before the work officially began, the old and new leaders of the Community stand before all of the members, with high hopes that all that are ahead of them is a bright future they can all build up to. The first task was to construct and build a memorial for all those loved ones and they have lost in order to get to where they currently are, where they all stand as one.
With the hatred that caused the Community to be torn apart now finally put to rest with love in its place, Kenny could now only smile up to the bright sky, as he also thinks back to the beloved family he had lost, knowing that now they can rest in peace and he can live on in this life of peace.
Happily watching Louis and Clementine always being together, Violet is glad that her plan may not have been the reason that everyone is now together in one Community, like they always should have been.
Now that there's only a bright future ahead of them, Clementine and Louis could only think about staying by each other's side, seeing it all go through right beside their strong love.
We are one