Vernon was able to help Lee find his way out of the sewers; there was an exit right before you reached the mansion. The two men stopped in front of the gate.

"Well, this is where we are," Lee said. "I should know if Clementine made it back safe."

"I should get back to my people, too," Vernon answered.

Lee nodded. "Thanks again for helping me," he stated gratefully. "You stay safe."

"You too," Vernon replied with a light smile. "I'll be going now." And with that, he turned and left, never to be seen again.

Lee opened the door to the kitchen, and all seemed quiet. "Clementine? Clem?"

He heard a noise, and turned to his left. Molly was searching through the kitchen cabinets and drawers, which kind of seemed suspicious. "Molly?"

"Oh, hey," she turned around to look at him. "You made it back."

"Where's Clementine?" Lee asked, looking around and still seeing no sight of her.

"She's in the living room with the others," Carlos answered as he walked into the kitchen to greet Lee. "I'm glad you made it back safely."

Molly interrupted once more, "I think you have something that belongs to me," she said, stepping closer to Lee. The man handed her back the ice pick without a word. He just wanted to go see Clementine, and check up on the rest of the group.

Lee turned to look at Carlos. "How is everyone else?" he asked, knowing the group was in bad shape before he and Kenny left to go look for boats.

"Ben and the girls are fine, but Lilly and Kenny are obviously not doing so good," Carlos answered. "And Omid will only get worse without medical supplies. Until we find some, there's nothing I can do."

"Damn," Lee said, crossing his arms. He was silent for a moment. "I'd better go check on Clem."

He left the kitchen and went into the living room, where Clementine, Sarah, and Ben had moved their board game and were now playing on the floor. Kenny, however, was on the couch, still drinking that wine bottle. Omid, Christa, and Lilly were presumably still upstairs.

Clementine's eyes lit up at the return of her guardian. "Lee!" she cried, running over to hug him.

"Hey, sweet pea," Lee answered, returning the hug. When they let go, he turned to Kenny. "Where did you get that bottle?"

"Oh, hey. You made it back," Kenny said, already intoxicated enough to dodge the question. "Good job, good job."

"I asked you a question," Lee scolded. "Where the hell did you get that bottle?"

"Found it," Kenny responded in an almost sing-song voice.

"Getting wasted in front of the girls is not going to help anything."

"To hell with you!" Kenny yelled, standing up and barely being able to keep his balance.

"Look, Kenny, this isn't going to help anyone," Lee tried to reason, and attempted to take the bottle from Kenny's hand.

Kenny jerked away. "Oh yeah? Well, what is? We are fucked!" he yelled, sitting back down on the couch that he had just stood up from. "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, if now ain't the time to drink..." He sipped the bottle once more, then offered it to Ben.

Lee shot Ben a glare, as if telling him not to take the bottle. And he was about to walk upstairs, until another question caught his mind, "Ben, how did Clementine sneak out of the house?"

"Hey, don't pin that all on me, I thought Carlos was supposed to be the one in charge," Ben retorted.

Lee looked over to Carlos. "I had to help Christa with Omid," the doctor explained. "When I came back, she was gone. Sarah said she had went to the bathroom."

"I-I didn't know that she left, though," Sarah jumped in, looking sheepish. "I'm sorry."

"Hey, don't worry about it," Lee assured her. He turned to Ben. "Ben, I gave you one job when I left the house - take care of Clementine. Then she shows up on River Street looking for me. What the hell happened?"

Clementine looked pretty ashamed, and spoke up at that moment before Ben could. "I just wanted to help," she innocently stated. "I wanted to look for my parents, and help out in case something bad happened. I'm sorry, Lee."

Lee's expression softened once more. He sighed. "Alright, Clementine. But next time, let Kenny and I handle it, okay?"

"Okay," Clementine replied with a slightly glum nod.

Christa then came bounding down the stairs. "Lee, thank God you're back!" she exclaimed.

"How's Omid?" Lee asked.

"He's sleeping right now, but he doesn't look too good, honestly," she replied. "I was hoping we could go look for supplies when you got back," she added hopefully.

"That sounds like a good idea, but Molly said that Savannah is swept clean," Lee explained. "I don't think we'd find anything we needed."

Suddenly, Carlos came running back downstairs. "Lilly's gone," he said simply.

"What?" Lee asked.

"I went upstairs to check on her, and she wasn't there anymore..." he explained. "I don't know where she could have went, but she should not be alone in her mental state." The group knew that this was a bad situation already, because they couldn't lose another group member already, especially not Lilly. She was a great asset to the group.

"We have to find her!" Sarah cried.

"To hell with Lilly," Kenny drunkenly chimed in, taking yet another swig of the alcoholic beverage. "We have more important things to worry about."

"Maybe she went outside to visit her dad's grave when no one was looking?" Ben offered with a shrug. He wasn't exactly the biggest Lilly fan, but he wanted to at least try and be useful by helping out.

Carlos and Lee went outside with Sarah following behind them, as she was worried for Lilly. Apparently she hadn't even left the yard, as she was using Molly's ice pick (where she had gotten it, no one knew) to knock down the vines covering the shed door.

"Lilly..." Carlos trailed off, taking a step forward.

"What?" the younger woman snapped, not making eye contact. No one was sure if she even knew who she was speaking to. She violently cut down some more vines with a frustrated yell. This caused the shed door to open a little.

"Are you okay, Lilly?" Sarah asked, watching the woman with fear.

Lilly turned around. "I just need to be alone for awhile, okay? I don't want you on my back." She was still grieving, and she didn't want somebody babying her every two seconds. She just needed to deal with this process alone, and unbothered, or else she was never going to be over the death of her father that only happened just a few hours ago.

Lee scoffed, "So you're just going to sit in a shed all by yourself?" he asked. "Lilly, we're all worried about you."

"Just leave me alone," Lilly replied simply, opening the door to the shed all the way, but stopped when she saw what was inside. "Holy shit," she gaped, staring ahead at the contents inside.

The group was definitely confused. "What is it?" Carlos asked, stepping forward to see what she was looking at, and there he stood, gaping at it too. "Lee, you're going to want to see this," he said, motioning the man over to them.

"What?" Lee asked.

He walked over as well, and his mouth opened in shock. There, in the shed, was a new and unused boat. Maybe their luck was finally starting to turn around.

"Holy shit," he repeated Lilly's statement.

Sarah ran over and looked at the boat too, her expression brightening despite Lilly's comment towards her. The four of them turned around and noticed Kenny, who smiled when he saw the boat. He even dropped the nearly empty bottle of wine.

"Well, I'll be damned," he said with a small laugh. He quickly walked towards the boat. "Fuck yes! Let's see if she works!"

The group then waited inside while Kenny worked on the boat to see if it was still usable. Lee was pacing the floor, while everyone else sat there and watched him. "I wonder what's taking Kenny so long..." he trailed off.

"Will you stop pacing?" Molly asked. "You're making everyone nervous."

"Why are you even still here?" Christa shot back at Molly. Clearly she wasn't very fond of the other woman.

Molly stood up. "Hey, if your friend can get that boat working, you're taking me with you as payment for saving your asses. I figure that's fair enough, don't you think?" she asked, pointing a finger at Christa in the process.

Kenny then came back into the house. "Well?" Lee asked.

"You want the good news, or the bad news?" Kenny questioned.

"Let's get the bad news out of the way first," Lee insisted.

"Bad news is, she's not taking us anywhere now with the shape she's in. Gas tank is empty, and the battery's dead," Kenny told the group.

"What's the good news, then?" Carlos asked.

Kenny shrugged. "That's it. That's all she needs is some gas and a battery. Other than that, she's good to go."

"How are we supposed to get that stuff?" Christa inquired.

"What about Crawford?" Lee suggested. "And we could get stuff for Omid's leg too."

"Surely we have to try!" Christa spoke up in support of Lee's plan. "If there are people left in this city who are still alive, who still have supplies...what harm can it do to ask?"

"Please," Molly scoffed. "You showing up with a wounded guy? Might as well put a noose around his neck. They're not exactly welcome to kids, either."

"What the hell kind of place are we talking about here?" Christa demanded.

"The worst kind. But I don't see what other choice we have."

"And just exactly how do you figure we do this?" Kenny inquired. "Because from what I've heard, that place ain't exactly friendly to outsiders."

"We negotiate with them like civilized people," Lee told him. "We must have something they'd be interested in taking to trade."

"Negotiate? With Crawford?" Molly argued. "You really don't know what these people are like! They'll take what they want and decide whether or not to let any of you live!"

"And how do you know this?" Carlos questioned.

"I've heard stories," Molly said, but the look in her eyes said something different. "Believe me, I don't have to be from Crawford to know what a bunch of shitholes they are."

"So...what? No one has any ideas?" Kenny asked.

"Maybe we could sneak in," Lee suggested. "When I was in the sewers, I met a man named Vernon and he said that the system could take you anywhere you wanted to go in this city," he explained, and he remembered that he still had the map from the train, so they shouldn't get lost. This plan seemed like a good one.

"That's actually not the worst idea I've ever heard," Molly commented. "I mean, it's close, but I don't know...maybe it could work."

"So, it's decided, then?" Kenny announced. "We're going to Crawford?"

"Anyone else have a problem with this plan?" Lee questioned. "Because we're gonna need every one of us to pull this off."

"Man, I don't know..." Ben trailed off.

"I don't know about you, kid, but I'd rather take a chance instead of just sitting here waiting to die," Kenny told him. "That boat out there's an answered prayer. We just gotta push a little farther. Are you in, or out?"

"We should go tonight, under cover of dark," Carlos suggested.

"That might be best," Christa agreed.

Lee nodded, and then the discussion was over. He started to head towards the stairs when he saw the girls there, eavesdropping. When Sarah noticed him, she scurried back upstairs, hoping not to get into trouble.

"I told you to stay in your room," Lee scolded Clem. "How long have you two been there?"

"Is it going to be dangerous?" Clem asked, ignoring Lee's question. Obviously, the two girls had heard everything.

"I can't lie to you, Clem. Yeah, it'll be dangerous. But it's the only way to get all the things we need, that's why we have to do it. Do you understand?" he questioned, making sure she wasn't confused on any of this.

"I don't want anyone else to die..." she trailed off.

"Neither do I, Clem, but sometimes you have to take that risk," he explained to her.

"I guess me and Sarah should go get ready then." She stood up.

"Say what now?" Lee asked.

"You said you'd need all of us to do this, and you said I'm a big help, remember?" Clem reminded him. "Molly said that Crawford is the only place in Savannah that still has people. That means it must be where my mom and dad are, right?"

"Where I'm going, it's too dangerous," Lee pointed out. "For children especially." All he wanted was for Clementine to stay safe, even if it meant keeping her here.

"You said I'm supposed to always stay close to you!" Clementine whined. "Can't we come with you?"

Lee seemed to think about it. He really didn't want Clementine to see any more of what Crawford was like, and he knew for a fact that Sarah wouldn't take it too well either. She probably wouldn't be allowed to come along, either.

"No, I'm sorry."

Clementine, in defeat, sadly walked up the stairs. Lee couldn't help but feel a little bad, but it was for her own safety.


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