TWD: Hey Sweet Pea
Episode 5: No Going Back (Part 7) / Chapter 35
Griffin threw Molly, Luke and Pete into the storage locker. Molly looked up at the wall with a tool shelf against the wall. There was nothing on it, of course that would be too easy.
"We'll be back. We need to get the rest of your friends in here, and then we'll get busy." Griffin said to the three people.
"Son of a bitch. You were right about this place, Molly. Those psychopaths just cut their own man open! No hesitation!" Luke gasped. Pete sighed, "We've gotta warn the rest of 'em."
"How the hell are we gonna do that, Pete? Seriously? How!?" Luke yelled.
"Could you keep quiet? There's nothing we can do." Molly shook her head. Pete glared at her, "You're eager to give up."
"She's right. There isn't anything we can do. We're trapped. We're dead." Luke gulped.
"Calm down, son. That ain't gonna help anythin'." Pete sighed.
"Nothing's gonna help nothing! We're fucked!" Luke sighed, punching the wall. He then punched it repeatedly in anger, "Why did we come here? Why did we FUCKING come here!?"
"Because we wanted to stop running! We can't fault ourselves for that!" Pete offered. Luke rubbed his head repeatedly, he was crazy nervous and Molly was afraid he was about to implode.
"Those sickos said they keep their dead and they look for methods to turn them back into humans? By giving HUMAN blood to them? It's sick!" Luke yelled.
"Luke, calm down, okay? We can't lose our heads." Molly said.
"Calm down!? I can't fucking calm down!" Luke bellowed.
"It's nothing. Just a small cut." Lee said to Clementine. Lee had drawn blood from cutting his arm on the wood outside. Clementine had gotten worried once he did it, since he yelped in pain. Clementine sighed, "Why hasn't Kenny come back yet?" Lee shrugged, he knew that Kenny went on a fishing trip with one of Griffin's men, but he hadn't returned yet. He was beginning to feel suspicious.
"I'll ask the man in charge. I'm sure he just caught a big one." Lee told her, confidently. Clementine nodded, "Okay, Lee?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm not a little kid anymore."
"I-I know..."
"You should tell me what you really think. Not just what I want to hear." Clementine frowned. Lee sighed, crouching down to her - also slightly wincing from the pain. He grabbed a bandage from the first aid kit at the top of the shelf, wrapping it around his arm and he then faced Clem. She was right. She wasn't that eight year old girl he met three days into the outbreak. She wasn't that eight year old who was scared of walkers coming her way. She was an eleven year old girl who could take care of herself. Lee felt proud knowing that he was able to teach her, but also proud of herself too.
"You're right. I really think he's going to be back though, don't you?" Lee asked. Clementine hesitated, then nodded.
"And I want to hear what you really think. Not just what I want to hear." Lee smiled.
"I do think he'll be back. I do." Clementine nodded.
"I bet AJ's hungry." Lee said, walking over to where AJ was in his crib. The crib was provided by Griffin and his men, expect AJ wasn't in the crib. Lee looked to Clem, "Hey, where's AJ?"
"Wh-What? He's not in there?" Clem asked.
"No. He's not. Are you kidding me, where the hell- did someone take him?"
"I don't know! I don't know... god damn it!"
"You're supposed to watch him, what the hell were you..." Lee muttered, but then realized he was talking to Clem. He sighed, "Let's ask Mike and Troy, alright?" Lee and Clem ran over to the watch gate where the two of them were nowhere to be found.
"What the fuck?"
"Turn around slowly. This ain't gotta be any harder then it needs to be." Garrison ordered, Lee heard the cock of a gun. Evan came up from behind him, slugging him in the head. Lee stumbled forward, falling onto the ground.
"Lee!" Said Clem.
"Shut up, kid!" Evan yelled, slugging Clementine in the cheek. Lee felt like ripping the man's throat out, but the hit on his head was too extreme. He felt dizzy beyond repair, he then passed out.
Lee woke up, his eyes fluttering as he was being dragged across a cold surface. He was then lined up and saw Molly, Luke and Pete and Clementine around him. Griffin and Maurice had sharp blades with tons of ziploc bags on the shelf. Lee couldn't understand what was happening, why this was happening. They just randomly decided to kill us? The group was tied to a pipe that connected to the other end of the room, their hands were binded against it.
"Wakey, wakey." Evan slapped Lee's face so he was fully awake. Lee groaned, he felt the rope tighten around his fingers. Evan and Garrison were laying against the wall while Griffin and Maurice stepped forward.
"Okay. That's five of 'em. Lee Everett, Clementine Marsh, Molly Watson, Peter Randall, and Luke Hanson. I've sent Gavin, Amanda and Wendell to look for Kenny Fisher, Mike Jones and Troy Parker. The baby's missing too." Griffin said out loud.
Kenny, Mike and Troy weren't at Felicity? They took the baby. And they left the rest of us.
"I know. I know, Lee and Clementine. You don't understand why this is happening to you right now. I'm sorry it had to come to this, but Miss Watson fucked it up for all of you. If she kept her fucking nose where it fucking belonged, you wouldn't be here right now. Now, I don't like doing this... especially to new arrivals." Griffin sighed, running his fingers along the sharp side of the blade. Clementine shivered in fear. Lee looked at her, trying to calm her down.
"Especially not to young children, but it'll have to suffice. I don't like threatening to slit a little girl's throat out but it seems to be the only way you get answers." Griffin said, moving over to Clementine. He pressed the blade to her throat. Lee felt all the anger inside him building up, like he had never been this angry before. His wrists intensified, as if he was going to break through the rope with all his strength.
"You're going to tell me your blood type. Lee, Luke and Pete. Or else, the girl dies. I don't like killing little girls, but I am prepared to do so." Griffin said. Lee said, "I'm going to get out of this rope, and when I do... I'm gonna rip your head off and stick it up your ass. You and your brother." Lee then said, "I'm O-Negative."
"O-Negative? You're a lucky one, aren't ya?" Maurice chuckled. Lee flashed him a glare that Maurice actually flinched at, "Whoa. You mean business. I see you don't want to be messed with. I apologize." Lee almost laughed.
"Luke Hanson?" Griffin asked, Clementine shuddered and tears were running down her cheek.
"B-Positive..." Luke gulped. Griffin nodded, "You've got something in common with Miss Watson. Peter Randall?"
"A-Positive... Just don't hurt her." Pete begged. Griffin exchanged looks with Evan and Garrison.
"Is that so? I hope you aren't lying to us." Griffin smiled menacingly as he got up and walked towards Pete. Pete gulped, "I'm not lying. I swear. You don't have to do this. Together, we can create a community. We don't have to worry about the walkers. Come on, man. Killing us achieves nothing. It makes you worse than the walkers. You don't want to do this deep down, I know you don't! Just come on!" Pete begged.
Griffin coughed to him, putting his arm on his shoulder and pushing him forward. Pete gulped as Griffin poked the blade into Pete's shoulder. He didn't stab him, just slightly poke him.
"The world has been gone for a long time. We thought about keeping our humanity. Humanity was fading away the moment the army bombed the streets. We had to adapt to the new world. As much as we want to start over... we can't. None of us can. None of us." Griffin frowned, he then pulled his hand back and sliced Pete's neck open, which he then fell forward.
"No!" Luke yelled. Griffin was tossed a Ziploc bag by Evan. Griffin opened the bag, letting the blood pour into the bag. Clementine shuddered in fear once again, she began to hyperventilate.
"Shut the fuck up, kid! Jesus! You never seen a guy die before!?" Evan yelled.
"You shut the fuck up! You leave her alone, you sick son of a bitch!" Lee retorted. Evan stepped forward, "Well, I'll-" Maurice laid his hand on Evan's shoulder and pulled him back. "Back off, Evan."
Once enough blood had dripped out into the bag, Griffin closed the bag, and then tossed it in the air and then caught it again. Lee looked at Pete's blood that was inside the bag. Garrison cocked his pistol and shot Pete in the head, so he wouldn't turn.
"My wife... Marlene. She was bit six months ago. We had an idea... that we could change her back. It started with improvisation, then it turned into theory. Marlene's blood type was A-Positive. We took people in, like yourselves. After a while, we'd take them and ask for their blood type. If they had a similar blood type to our dead, then we'd kill them and feed their blood to the dead. In time, they have to change back. They have to."
"You're fucking insane. Once you get bit, you die and you come back as The Walking Dead! If you think you can control this, you're a fucking hypocrite and that means I'm definitely going to kill you." Lee threatened. Griffin chuckled, "You just don't understand. We're going to prove you wrong. And then you'll want to join us. You'll understand that it was all necessary. Miss Watson had killed one of our own, Jonas. She sliced his neck with her 'hook' or whatever the fuck it is. Another one of my men, Carlton - shared the same blood type as him. I had to kill one of my own men to save another. Do you know how that feels?"
"Yes. I do. But what you did is different."
"It's not different! WHY CAN'T YOU JUST UNDERSTAND!? My wife... I miss my wife! I just want her back! You throwing away my hope HURTS ME! I AM A HUMAN BEING, I HAVE FEELINGS! YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!" Griffin retorted, punching Lee in the stomach and then in the face. Maurice broke up and then threw Griffin at the wall.
"It's not worth it, bro. It's not worth it!" Maurice stopped him.
"I don't want to kill you! I like you, Lee Everett! I liked you since the day you arrived. Before you arrived, I had all the hope in the world that I'd see my wife again... as a human being. Now you come in my home and you throw it all away! You have hope! How would you feel if it was taken away!?" Griffin questioned running towards Clementine, he ripped off her sleeve. The jacket she was given back at Howe's, so her entire arm was bare. Griffin felt her skinny arm and then cut her slightly on the arm. Clementine winced in pain, "St-Stop!"
"THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS TO HAVE YOUR HOPE RIPPED AWAY FROM YOU!? DO YOU UNDERSTAND, LEE EVERETT!? DO YOU FUCKING UNDERSTAND!?" Griffin yelled. Griffin then stopped once he saw the blood, which was quite alot of blood from her cut. He gasped, and then backed up against the wall, clutching the knife in his hand.
"What have I become? What have I become? What have I become? What have I become!? WHAT HAVE I BECOME!?" Griffin yelled. Maurice gasped. Lee clenched his teeth and then looked at Clementine, "I love you, sweet pea." Lee then broke free of his binding somehow, and then jumped up and attacked Griffin. He grabbed the blade, and then stuck it in his stomach. Griffin gurgled out blood and then Maurice yelled, "NO! NOT MY BROTHER! NOT MY BROTHERR!" Maurice lunged at him, the two of them tackling against the group.
"Kill the girl! That'll teach him!" Evan ordered. Lee and Maurice wrestled a bit. Garrison and Evan heard the door open and they gasped.
"You fucked with the wrong group." Troy said, he shot Garrison in the neck, his blood splatting all over the wall. Mike appeared behind him and shot Evan in the head with the shotgun. Lee gained control of Maurice and then he was now on top. Lee grabbed Maurice's neck, beginning to choke the man as hard as he could.
"I told you... I was going to kill you. I told you, I FUCKING TOLD YOU!"
"Lee!" Mike yelled. Lee then grabbed the knife that was on the ground that had been dropped by the scuffle from Maurice and Lee. Lee then stabbed Maurice in the chest, repeatedly. Blood splattered all over his shirt and his face.
"LEE!" Troy yelled. "That's enough!"
"No. It's not." Lee muttered. He continued to stab Maurice's body, repeatedly. Lee then finally stopped and got back up, "I told him I was going to rip his head off." Troy looked down to see Maurice's head detached from his body. Lee walked over to Griffin who was coughing out blood. He crouched down, holding the bloody knife in his hand.
"Thank you. Thank you."
"For what?" Lee growled.
"You put an end to me. The person I've become. Marlene, please forgive me... Maurice... I'm sorry, my brother... I'm sorry, Lee Everett. Felicity is a lie. It's been a lie from the beginning. I need to be punished. I need to be punished for my sins. I'm so sorry, the people I've hurt.. I'm so sorry..." Griffin sobbed. Lee wiped his forehead, "You're just too far gone." Lee then stuck the knife into Griffin's head. He then took it out and then tossed the knife on the ground. He crouched to Clementine, "Are you alright?"
"You okay?" Mike asked Molly.
"You too?" Troy said to Luke. Luke nodded. Kenny walked in, with AJ in his arms.
"Are you alright, sweet pea?" Lee asked.
"What'd they do to her?" Mike asked.
"They cut her arm." Molly said to Mike.
Lee was tossed a bandage by Troy. "We took some bandages before we left. Mike and me were keeping watch when Kenny told us to get out of there, we got AJ and left. Kenny was going to leave you all behind. Until Mike and me came back for you."
"I don't give a shit if he wanted to leave us behind. You helped us, it's all that matters." Lee said, wrapping the bandage around Clem's arm.
"I told you all... they were gonna line all of you up for slaughter." Kenny said.
"Shut the fuck up, Kenny." Lee retorted. Luke sighed, "They killed Pete." Luke felt a tear running down his cheek. Troy poked the ziploc bag of blood on the ground, "Jesus."
"They killed Pete and put his blood in that bag. He was gonna feed it to his undead wife." Molly said.
"Can we get out of here? I'm grossed out from this room." Mike said. The entire group exited the room, shutting it. Lee then stopped, spotting a tank of gasoline on the shelf.
"Hey! What the hell!? What happened!? I heard gunshots!" Wanda yelled. Troy and Mike pointed guns at her, she gapsed, "Please don't!"
"Griffin and his men killed people and fed their blood to walkers. And you were apart of that. We killed them, and you're going to die too." Troy said.
"What!? I don't know anything about that I swear! I swear! Please!" Wanda sobbed. Troy cocked his pistol but then Lee stopped him, "No."
"What the hell, you can't believe this bitch!" Troy growled.
"Just let me go! I was just a visitor, like you! I don't know what they did! They never told me anything!" Wanda begged.
"It's fine. It's fine." Lee said to her. Wanda gulped, backing against the wall. Lee grabbed the can of gasoline and went back into the room, pouring gasoline over the floor.
"Lee, what the hell are you doing?" Molly questioned. Lee had finished pouring gasoline over it, then he closed the door. Lee knew the fire wouldn't leave the room, so he grabbed his lighter, "Anyone got any matches?"
Mike nodded, and he tossed Lee a matchbook. Lee nodded to him, and lit the match. He tossed the match into the gasoline, and then the room started to set on fire. Lee closed the door and shut the garage and people gathered around. The men who were butchering people and taking blood was gone. They were dead. Lee looked at the young kids he had started to teach, innocent people.
"The people you've been following... Griffin, Maurice... they killed people and gave blood to the walkers, in hope to change them back into human. They're dead now."
"Oh my god! You're lying! They have to be lying!" A teenage kid said.
"We're going to turn this place into something else. We're going to improve it. We're going to show the world that there are good people left. If you don't wanna believe me, then you can leave. Felicity is ours now, and the name will really be correct. We can't lose our humanity, no matter if the rest of the world's humanity is fading away."
"We can't become one of them. We can't."
That's the end! Woo! This story was fun to do, hope you guys enjoyed it. Thank you all for reviewing and reading it. I'm glad most of you liked the story (and if you didn't, I'm still glad you read it XD)
Thanks for the support guys!
This was Hey Sweet Pea!