Someone was shaking her to wake up. Clementine swatted at the hand in the hope the owner would leave her alone.

"Come on, city mouse." Came Bonnie's voice. The woman gave her another light shake. "Wakey-Wakey."

Clementine let out a moan, opening her eyes. Bright light made her close them again.

The last thing she remembered was talking to Rebecca. She must have fallen back to sleep, seeing as though she couldn't remember too much after that. She wondered who moved her, not that it mattered.

Bonnie gave her another shake. "Clem,"

She didn't want to get up. Not now. Not ever. She had been dreaming of times when things were happier, why did Bonnie have to interrupt that.

"Come on. Upsy daisy." Bonnie said.

Clementine finally let out a sigh. Rubbing her tired eyes, Clementine pushed herself up. Sleepily, she took the hand offered in front of her. "What time is it?" She wondered innocently as the woman helped her to her feet.

"It's pretty early. You're the first person awake." Bonnie smiled down at the child, holding her small hand in hers, she began to lead Clementine from the pen.

"Where are we going?" Clementine inquired. She wanted to know why she was up so early in the first place and where Bonnie was taking her.

"To see Bill." Bonnie responded, still smiling.

Clementine's eyes widened, fear evident on her face. "NO!" Clementine yanked away. "NO! I'm not going there!"

Bonnie frowned, giving a small flinch of surprise at the sudden outburst. "Clem..." She reached out to the girl, but Clementine took a step back, shaking her head and glaring at the woman.

"NO! NO! LEAVE ME ALONE!" Clementine yelled, dashing pass the woman and out of the pen. She quickly darted into the comic book store, making sure no one saw her.

She sat herself on the floor, silently hugging her knees and rocking back in front.

Spotting a single shard of glass on the floor, she reached out a hand to pick it up. She slowly brought it to her wrist and gave a slice.

Bonnie was surprised that the girl's shouts hadn't woken anyone. She immediately ran after the child after Clementine had took off like a bat out of hell.

She searched for a long while, without any luck.

This wasn't good. She had no clue where the little girl had run off to. And Clementine was so tiny, she could have crawl into some small space. Bonnie knew that the kid could be anywhere.

"Bonnie?" Bonnie nearly jumped as her radio sounded.

She quickly answered, "Yeah, Bill."

"I asked you to bring Clementine to me half an hour ago. Where is she?" He sounded impatient, angry almost.

"I don't know." Bonnie admitted. "I... I had her hand. Then she just yanked away and made a break for it."

"She ran?" Carver asked.

"Yeah." Bonnie confirmed.

"Where to?" Carver questioned.

"I don't know." Bonnie repeated, unsure. "She's around here, somewhere."

"Well, find her and bring her to me." Carver said.

"Right." Bonnie gave a nod, even though she knew he couldn't see her. "Bonnie out." Bonnie quickly continued her search for the little girl. She saw Troy, who looked like he had just woken up and approached him. "Troy, you seen Clem?"

"Clem?" Troy repeated, raising a brow.

Bonnie nodded. "Clementine. Have you seen her?"

"No... Ain't she in the pen? Asleep?" Troy asked.

"No. Bill wanted me to bring her to him. So I went and got her, but she ran off." Bonnie explained.

"She's pulling this shit again. You gotta be fucking kidding me." Troy huffed, shaking his head. He started to call out for the child, "Clementine! Get out here where I can see ya!"

There was no response.

Troy looked around. "Get the hell out here now!"

Nothing.

Clementine jumped the moment she heard Troy's voice. Startled, she dropped the glass shard and quickly crawled to hide underneath the counter.

"Clementine!" Hearing Bonnie's voice didn't make her feel any better.

The girl tucked herself further into her hiding spot, trying to make herself as small as possible so she couldn't be seen.

She heard the door open and Troy's voice loudly call, "CLEMENTINE!"

She tried her best to fight noises from escaping her lips, even muffling her breathing. She didn't want to be found. She didn't want to be touched or hurt anymore.

"You're starting to piss me off, kid. Where the hell are you?" Troy called.

"Clem! Please!" Bonnie cried. "Just come out."

Clementine bit back a whimper. Why were they looking for her? Why couldn't they just leave her be?

"Clementine! I swear to Christ, you're gonna get it if you don't get out here NOW!" Troy threatened.

Bonnie decided to take a kinder approach, speaking gently, "Clementine, just come out, sweetie."

She could see them looking around and prayed they didn't come over to her. When she lost sight of them her breathe stopped and she looked up over her head. After a few moments she peeked around the corner, just as she heard the door shut. She let out a sigh of relief as they left. She could still hear them calling her though, so she crawled back into her hiding place and stayed put. No way she was coming out now. That'd be handing herself over to Carver.

"Clementine, where are you?!" Bonnie asked.

"Leave me...Leave me alone." She begged quietly, covering her ears with her little palms and rocking back and forth.

"CLEMENTINE!" Troy was yelling again. Clementine was sure he was pissed.

"Troy, calm down. You're probably scaring the poor thing." Bonnie said.

"Think I give a shit? I'm real tired of this fucking brat." He said, before speaking louder to address Clementine,

"The minute you get out here, I'm gonna paint ya black and blue, I swear."

That made Clementine slightly nervous. She'd like to think that Troy was all talk and no game, but after all the hits to the face he had given her, the girl knew that wasn't that case. And part of her was scared that he might actually do what he says and beat her until she was black and blue.

"Troy, that's only gonna make it worse." Bonnie spoke.

Clementine was sure she was probably glaring at the man.

"Let me look for her. You go...wake the others." Bonnie said.

Clementine wanted to laugh. She wasn't coming out for Troy, what made Bonnie think she could do any better. Clementine had decided wasn't coming out for anyone, not when she knew what would happen if she did.

"Fine." Troy said.

Clementine heard footsteps as Troy walked off before Bonnie began calling out to her once again.

"Clem!" Bonnie called.

Clementine gave no answer.

"Clementine!" Bonnie was starting to get worried. She had no idea where the girl was. She didn't know if the child was alive, if she was asleep, or if she had somehow left Howes altogether.

"Clem, sweetie, come out. Please..." Bonnie begged. She just needed to see the girl was okay. And then she would get to the bottom of why Clementine ran the way she did. "Clem!" Bonnie tried again, before sighing.

"Still ain't find her?"

Clementine tensed in her place when Carver's voice reached her ears. Why did he have to come look himself? God only knew how much she hated that man.

"No. I'm searching...I don't know where she'd go." Bonnie admit. "Troy and I looked for her. We have no idea where she is."

Carver seemed to let out a sigh. "Just go on and get to work. She'll come out eventually."

Clementine cringed, knowing that if he found her he would most likely punish her again. She couldn't imagine how bad it would be this time.

"She'll have to." He said.

He was stupid if he thought that. She'd die before she let him touch her again.