"Sarah! Run!" Clementine said as Sarah ran away in fear, with Luke and Nick seeing her and chased after her.
"Let's just hope she's safe!" Ethan said as he slashed a walker, but also accidentally tripping over and lost his grip of the hatchet, until they heard Sarita screaming. "GO!" Clementine grabbed the hatchet, Crystal helping Ethan up, and all of them ran to see a walker biting into Sarita's hand, shocking them. "No...No...Not again... Not again!" Clementine gripped onto the hatchet and cut off Sarita's arm off in two hits, shocking everyone until she saw the wound and screamed.
...Don't let this happen to Kenny again...
"Y-You...You..." Sarita said in complete shock as she was about to scream but her mouth was covered by Ethan.
"Quiet! We can't make any more noise!" He said until he grabbed some of the bandages on him and tried to cover her wound as best as possible, with Kenny looking at the sound of what happened.
"Sarita?!" He asked with wide eyes as he ran over, in which Mike noticed too.
"Where are you going?!" He asked as he followed, with Kenny seeing the scene.
"W-What happened?!" He said in fear until he saw the chopped off limb. "Who did this? Who the FUCK did this?!"
"She was bit! I had to!" Clementine said, with Kenny staring at her in anger.
"What the fuck did you do?!" He asked. "You have no right Clementine! No FUCKING right! You stupid FUCKING KID!"
"Hey! Easy! We have to go!" Crystal said, with Sarita looking at Kenny weakly, making him look back and nodded while closing his eyes.
"This is on YOUR head Clementine!" He said as he held Sarita's remaining hand and ran off with Mike while Ethan looked for Clementine through the horde.
"Clem?! CLEM?!" He yelled but was then getting knocked around with Crystal. "Damn it... DAMN IT! We lost her!"
"Oh god..." Crystal said in fear while looking around, being surrounded. "W-We're not going to make it. We're not going to..."
"Crystal...Stay calm." Ethan said as he then held her hand in support. "Just follow me, and we should be ok. Just stay calm, and relax. Noise is what will get us caught." Crystal breathed heavily and rapidly until she took a deep breath.
"Ok...Ok." She said calmly before the two of them walked through the horde quietly hand in hand, and kept doing this until he saw a rock, with him pointing at it, indicating for them to hide behind there for cover. She nods and the two of them duck behind it. "What now?"
"We look around to see if we can find someone from our group. Maybe then we can move on from there." Ethan said while he looked around until he stopped to see Rebecca and Clementine following Jane, who held a walker without it's lower jaw. "There they are! Clem and Rebecca!" He looks at her, the both of them nodding, and quietly walked behind them along with them noticing.
"Ethan!" Clementine said silently but happily, with him smiling.
"Nice to see you too. Glad we found you guys." Ethan said, making Jane frown a bit but allowed it as the five of them kept walking.
In The Woods
The five of them walked through the woods, with Ethan, Clementine, and Jane walking while Crystal tried to help Rebecca, in which she was breathing heavily.
"Are you going to be ok Rebecca?" Crystal asked in worry. "Maybe we should rest somewhere."
"No...I'm not alright. But I'll be better when we get to the others." Rebecca said while Ethan and Clementine looked at her in worry so they decided to lag behind to get to her.
"Yeah. I agree. I hate to know what happened to them." Ethan said while looking down. "Kenny especially..."
"I'm sorry Ethan." Clementine said sadly. "I was the one to cut off her arm."
"But you did it for a good reason. Anybody would have done that." He said, but then shook his head. "But we have to make sure that they're there first."
"If they're not, nothing we can do about it." Jane said, making Rebecca angry slightly.
"Don't you dare say stuff like that." She said, with Crystal holding her hand in support to calm her down, making her slightly. "I know we should feel glad to have escaped... But I can't help but worry about the others. How...How could I leave Alvin behind? It was stupid."
"What was? Escaping?" Jane asked. "I know some of your people didn't make it, but Carver was crazy. Staying could have prolonged the inevitable. I'm just saying that if people hadn't panicked, things might have turned out better."
"Of course they did! They were scared! Even I was!" Ethan said in a slight bit of anger. "How can you help fear when you're in an eye of a herd? You make it sound like it was suppose to be perfect!"
"I'm not saying that, but the plan worked." Jane countered. "The execution was the messy part." Hearing this angered Rebecca.
"That sounds a awful lot like you're saying it was their fault." She said, surprising Jane.
"What? No! That's not what I'm saying!" Jane said until Rebecca immediately stopped after groaning in pain while holding her stomach, making them all stop to look at her with wide eyes.
"I-I think I need a break...Please? I don't want to slow us down..." Rebecca said, making Jane sigh.
"Alright...Whatever. Just take a minute." She said while Ethan stared at Rebecca's stomach in worry. "...What are you going to do with it?" Hearing this shocked everyone.
"What do you mean by that?" Rebecca asked in anger. "Do with what? My baby?!"
"I'm just looking at the worst case scenario." Jane said. "You guys won't be able to raise a baby by yourselves. Not out here."
"How would you know?" Crystal asked, with Jane looking at her. "You don't know any of us, and what we're capable of."
"In fact... Do you know a single thing about what I can do?" Ethan asked in anger. "I don't think you understand a SINGLE damn thing of what any of us can do? I took care of THAT little girl for TWO YEARS, and had to help take care of my baby sister when she was just a NEWBORN from any dangers like my dad. I'd LIKE to see you think not even I can do it!"
"Look! I've seen in before!" Jane said while looking down slightly. "Back when it all started, my sister and I-"
"What? She died?!" Ethan asked in anger, making Jane's eyes widen. "Well guess what? MINE IT TOO! Doesn't make YOU anymore special!"
"And I don't need your pity!" Rebecca said while Jane stared at them, but then turned into anger.
"You don't..." She said, with Rebecca looking in her eyes as it made hers widen slightly. "You don't have the right..."
"And you have the right to just-" Ethan said until Jane started to walk away, with him watching until Crystal held his shoulder. "...Oh god...I did it again, didn't I?"
"They didn't mean it!" Clementine said, with Ethan looking down sadly.
"Damn it...I'm becoming more and more like him." He said with Crystal shaking her head.
"No you're not... You're nothing like him." She said as he looked at her, nodded, and they all followed Jane to see an old Civil War tourist site, which also had a statue of a soldier carrying another, and also saw both Mike and Bonnie talking to each other. "Hey guys!" They both turned to see them with wide eyes.
"Holy shit." Mike said in surprise while they walked to them.
"It's been so long." Bonnie said. "We were starting to worry no one else would make it."
"Well...Besides..." Mike said as everyone turned to look at Kenny, who had Sarita lying down on his lap weakly, for she was now pale because of the amputation and blood loss.
"How's Kenny?" Clementine asked. "He doesn't look good."
"I tried to talk to him and he flipped out on me. Started yelling." Mike said while shaking his head. "I've been nervous to even go near him."
"What? You think he's gonna shoot you?" Jane asked.
"It's just that...He's not thinking straight." Bonnie said while Ethan stared at Kenny.
"...He's been like this before." He said, with everyone looking at him as he looked at Clementine. "We've both seen it. His son, Duck, was bitten and his wife, Katjaa, shot herself because she couldn't take it. Left him with a huge hole in his heart. Right now isn't much different."
"I should talk to him. This is my fault." Clementine said, with Ethan nodding.
"I'm coming with. We both know on how he can be." He said.
"Look, you did what you thought was right. That's all anyone can do in that situation." Jane said to Clementine, with her nodding as the two of them walked over to Kenny, seeing he was petting her head.
"It's alright Sarita... It's gonna be ok. I'm gonna be here with you. Right till the end." He whispered to her, with both Clementine and Ethan watching him sadly.
"Hi Kenny..." Clementine said, making Kenny slowly look up to them coldly, surprising them.
"...You think I don't know what ya'll are whispering about back there?" He asked in a small bit of anger, caused by him being broken. "I just said we wanted a little fucking time alone to say goodbye."
"Kenny...Look, I get what you're going through." Ethan said with Kenny looking at him coldly as well. "I REALLY REALLY do, but we need you to help plan-"
"Ethan, grow the FUCK up!" Kenny said in anger, scaring him and Clementine a bit. "Look around you! Take a good look at how our LAST plan worked out. There's ain't no boat, or some train or some other bullshit outta this one." He looked at Clementine next. "Don't you think you've done enough for today?"
"I tried to save her-" Clementine tried to say.
"LOOK at her! NOW!" Kenny said, filled with rage with her looking. "She is going to die! Because of you. And you think just because you're a little girl means you can just get people killed and no one will care?! That because you're 'sorry' it'll all magically go away? That's not how it works!" Hearing this angered Ethan, finally having enough.
"She did what she had to! She was bitten and we tried to save her! What ELSE do you fucking want Kenny?! Everything can't go YOUR way all the time!" He yelled, making Kenny angirer.
"FUCK you Ethan!" He said until he started to calm down slightly. "Now for the last time, just leave us alone to say goodbye."
"...Fine." Ethan said as he walked off to the group, with Clementine following. "Well we tried."
"How did it go?" Rebecca asked.
"Kenny's really mad at me." Clementine said with Ethan nodding.
"He's really starting to crack, hell, maybe even I am." He said sadly, with Crystal smiling at him.
"At least you're trying." She said, with him smiling back.
"Still, doesn't exactly help us with figure out on what we're gonna do now." Mike said while shaking his head. "We've got no food, water, it's getting damn near cold, and we're losing daylight fast."
"When the others get back, they'll know what to do." Bonnie said to Mike. "Luke will have a plan."
"We thought Kenny would have a plan." Mike said back.
"Mike's got a point." Jane said while crossing her arms and everyone looking at her. "You can't just keep sitting around and waiting. Things are difficult enough right now and soo you'll have a baby on your hands too.
"We should fine Luke, Sarah, and Nick then. If they're in trouble, we have to find them." Clementine said, with Ethan nodding.
"I agree. If they can't come to us, then maybe we should come to them." He said. "Beside's, we're a group. And we stick together. Our friend Lee said that. He was always right."
"I'll go." Jane said. "Clem and you can some with me."
"I'm coming too." Crystal said, with Ethan looking at her.
"Crystal...Maybe you should stay with them." He said, which surprised her. "It's not like I don't want you to come with me, but...I think the less of us there are, the more of a chance nobody dies. And you getting killed is the last thing I want."
"I don't want you to die either!" Crystal said. "What if that happens?"
"It's not. I'll make sure I'm careful." Ethan said until he held her hands, which made her look at him. "I promise I'll be ok. You just have to trust me." She stared at him until she nodded slowly.
"Ok...I'll stay here and help them as best as I can." She said, making Ethan nod and smile.
"Rebecca, if anything goes wrong, you got something to protect yourself?" Jane asked Rebecca, with her taking out a pistol, Carver's pistol.
"I've got this. You don't think I need to-" She tried to say, with Jane shrugging.
"I don't know. But you better keep that close." She said until she looked at Clementine and Ethan. "Come on you two." They nodded and walked off, leaving them while Crystal watched until she ran over to Ethan.
"Ethan!" She yelled, making him stop to look at her before she made it over. "...Be careful. I don't want to think about losing you."
"I will..." Ethan said before pulling her into a quick kiss, and let go with a smile. "We'll be back soon." Crystal nodded with a small smile as they all walked off, with her watching until she walked back to the group.
Near The Trailer Park
"...Listen, the both of you. I'm gonna level with you." Jane said while the three of them walked through the woods. "You should know that finding your friends... That's a shot in the dark."
"Then why are we here?" Clementine asked in question.
"I wanted to talk to you both, away from them." Jane said, surprising Ethan a bit.
"Never thought you'd want to talk to me." He remarked with Jane looking at him.
"You and her are smart, you wouldn't have made it this far if you weren't." She said as she stopped, making them stop as well. "That group is cracking. I've seen it before. And a lot of times, it's better to be on your own."
"They're not bad people, but there have been problems, before." Clementine said while Jane looked at her. "I don't agree with what they say, or do..."
"Neither can I." Jane agreed. "Look at Kenny. I don't even know where to begin with what a liability he is. And Rebecca's 'Situation' is not making things any better back there. You get enough broken people together, and all you're going to get are broken decisions."
"Rebecca is just worried about the baby is all. We all are." Ethan said. "You're making it sound like as if it makes her a bad person."
"That's not what I'm saying. I like most of your people in your crew, but groups fall apart. People get killed." Jane said as they all noticed an old and ruined car, with her look in it. "I brought you two here to give you the tools you need to survive." She saw something and took it out, showing an old, Grey jacket. "Like a jacket. It looks warm, but a walker will bite right through that." Ethan looked at Clementine's, seeing she was looking at it until Jane threw it to him, with him catching it. "Use that. Dangerous as it can be, it'll keep you warm." He stared at it until he nodded, took off his hoodie, and began to put it on. "My sister Jamie use to have a leather one...Wish I still had it. One of you coulda..." She looked down slightly and kept walking, with them following until she saw the trailer park. "Alright! Jackpot!"
"You think they're in there?" Ethan asked.
"I don't know, but I bet these walkers got some good stuff." Jane said as she walked over and began to look through one of them.
"Shouldn't we be looking for, I dunno, our people? I mean, that's why we're here. Right?" Ethan asked, with Jane looking at him.
"Yeah, but wouldn't hurt to look around. Right?" She asked while Ethan stared at her in suspicion. "Clem, check the other one." She nodded and checked the other one, making him sigh.
"Alright...You guys just search while I keep a look out." He said while looking around as they searched the dead bodies. "Find anything?"
"Aside from a nail file, nothing." Jane said with Ethan nodding and was about to turn until he found something and picked it up, revealing to be Sarah's glasses, with one of the lenses being broken.
"Hey guys! I found something!" He said as they turned and walked over to him. "I found Sarah's glasses! She must be nearby or something!" They all heard a yelling from within a trailer, making them look with wide eyes.
"Shit...Ok, come on! We've got to find a way in." Jane said as the three of them then walked to the side to find an entrance and found one, showing there was a hole in the metal fence, but something was in the way that shocked them. Nick, now reanimated, was in the way, to which shocked Ethan the most.
"O-Oh my god... Nick..." He said quietly and in shock, making him grip his forehead in stress. "I-I'm so sorry Pete... You told me to... God...DAMN it!"
"Look, he's both of your friends. One of you should do this." Jane said while Ethan and Clementine looked at Nick.
"...I can do it Ethan." Clementine said, making Ethan shake his head.
"No...I-" He said until he looked at her, showing she meant it, and sighed. "Alright... Just... Make it quick." He turned away so he wouldn't look as he began to hear Clementine killing off Nick with the hatchet, making him sad. "I-I should have been there...I-I'm so sorry Nick..."
"Listen, if it comes to it, if anyone else needs to be put down, you gotta be ready for it." Jane said, with them nodding.
"Yeah...I know..." Ethan said while shaking his head, then turned to see Nick's destroyed head. "Alright...Let's go." Jane pushed his head body off, and they all entered into the park while hearing Sarah crying and what sounded to be Luke trying to calm her down. They kept walking before seeing a large group of walkers.
"That's a lot of walkers." Clementine said. "Seems like their really interested in something."
"People always catch the interest of the dead." Jane said, with her nodding.
"How do we get in?" She asked as Ethan began to start thinking.
"Maybe if we can make enough noise, we can drag them away from them." He said before looking around the area, and kept doing so until he saw a truck with a walker nearby, making him smile. "I've got an idea." He walked over to it while they watched him, with him opening the door, dragged the walker inside, and pushed him against the horn, making it honk indefinitely. "And there we go." He looked to see the walkers near the door walk over to them.
"Let's go!" Jane yelled as they all went through another trailer so they could get to Sarah and Luke until the honking stopped. "Crap! We gotta move it!" They ran quickly to the trailer and tried to open the door, only to see it's locked.
"Shit! It's locked!" Ethan said in worry as he began to kick the door, hoping to break it open until on the last kick he did it with Clementine, opening it. "There! Let's move!" He and Clementine ran inside, with Jane not far behind, and closed the door behind them.
"Help me block this!" Jane said as Clementine looked around to see a desk near the door.
"Over there!" She said, with them grabbing the sides and pushed it against the door to stop them, only for it to land on it's side and caused a large noise, making Sarah scream.
"Sarah! Calm down! Who's out there?!" The voice asked as he opened the door, revealing it was Luke, and sighed in relief. "Guys! Thank god." He walked out and to them. "Did Nick find you? He made a run for it, looking for help." Their eyes widened a bit and looked down.
"Nick was outside...But he...He's dead." Ethan said, shocking Luke and putting him in a state of disbelief.
"Fuck...Fuck!" He swore quietly with Ethan walking to him and patted his shoulder in support
"Luke, where's Sarah?" Clementine asked, making Luke look at the room he was once in.
"I-I don't know on what to do about her." He said.
"Then let's see her. See if she's ok." Ethan said, with Luke nodding and led them to the room he was in, showing Sarah against the wall and holding her knees in fear. "Sarah? Hey! Sarah! You ok? It's me, Ethan and Clementine." Sarah only looked at him, seeing the crushed feeling inside her eyes, with him looking at Luke. "What's wrong with her?"
"I don't even know. I can't snap her out of it, ok?" Luke said. "I tried to carry her, but I guess... I guess Carver messed me up pretty bad back there. After Carlos she just...Lost it. Started running in the woods like a maniac. I chased her for I don't know how long until...Until she found this mobile home and made a beeline right for it."
"Well you don't need to worry too much Luke. We're here." Ethan said until they all heard the walkers banging on the door more.
"We're not out of the woods just yet." Jane said.
"Well what are we going to do about her?" Luke asked, with everybody staring at her.
"Maybe I can talk her out of it." Clementine said, with the walkers starting to knock down the door.
"Look, they're going to tear this place down any minute. We can't stay. We gotta get her up or we gotta..." Jane said,making Ethan frown.
"We're not leaving her behind if that's what you're thinking." He said.
"I've been trying for hours. I can barely get her to look at me." Luke said in worry.
"Try talking to her Clem, maybe she WILL listen to you." Ethan said, with Clementine crouching down to her.
"Sarah...It's me." She said, catching Sarah's attention and looked at her.
"Hi." She said in a monotone voice and looked back down.
"...Maybe it seems like you're alone right now, but you're not." Clementine said. "You have Luke, Jane, Ethan, Crystal, and me. We came here because of you. All of us in the group, we're your family now." Sarah looked back up to her while Ethan smiled until he gave Clementine Sarah's glasses, to which she grabbed it and gave it to Sarah, with her taking it and putting it on with a smile.
"There we go. Now, how about we get out of here. Huh?" Ethan asked, with Sarah looking at him and smiling until they all heard the window being knocked on, seeing it was from a walker.
"Crap! We're surrounded!" Jane yelled while she looked around but stopped to see the skylight. "What about that?"
"All we got." Luke said before the walkers started breaking down the door even more. "We're gonna need to find something we can stand on!"
"One of you find something! Luke, help me with this!" Jane said until she ran over to the desk and tried to hold it against the door, with Luke running over to help.
"Clem! Find something! I'll keep Sarah safe!" Ethan yelled as Clementine ran out, with him picking up a sharpened pencil to stab any walker in the head with, and prepared for any walkers until he heard the desk moving. He looked to see they were doing so. "We're moving that?!"
"Not the best time Ethan! Just help us pull!" Luke yelled, making Ethan nod and help him with Clementine into the other room, with Jane entering in and losing the door behind them.
"Luke, you first! We need you on top!" Jane said, with Luke nodding and her helping him up until he was able to.
"Ok, come on!" He said, with Jane looking at Clementine.
"Clem!" She said, in which she looked at Sarah.
"Sarah, come on! We've got to go!" Clementine said, with Ethan then holding to door closed long enough.
"Clem! Help her! I'll hold it closed until then!" He yelled just before he was knocked back but recovered to hold it closed.
"I can't do it..." Sarah said quietly in fear, making Jane angry.
"NOW Clementine! If she doesn't want to go, you can't make her! Don't let her take you down with you!" She yelled, making Ethan angry.
"You want to leave a fucking FIFTEEN YEAR OLD TO DIE?! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" He asked in rage, with Clementine crouching down to her.
"I can't, I can't! I CAN'T!" Sarah yelled in sheer fear.
"Don't make me leave you!" Clementine said sadly. "Dying like this is stupid!"
"You can't save her Clem! We have to go!" Jane said before looking down. "Believe me...I know about this..."
"OH BULLSHIT! YOU DON'T KNOW JACK SHIT!" Ethan yelled in rage. "We are NOT LEAVING HER BEHIND!" At that moment, Clementine then slapped Sarah, shocking them.
"MOVE!" Clementine said, surprising Sarah until she got up and went to Luke and Jane to be helped up, with Ethan closing his eyes and ran to them as well but left the door open. He ignored this and went up with the others.
"That...Was close..." Ethan said while breathing heavily, then recovered as he saw the walkers still coming in. "We better go." They all dropped down to the other side and ran to Parkers Run, while Ethan felt better for what just happened, knowing he helped save a life in a way and he started to feel like he was slowly recovering his sanity.