On her way back to the group, Rebecca's pained screams alerted her to sprint back. She forgot that reckless movements would most likely stem more nausea but strangely enough, it wasn't any worse than it was before she began sprinting.
"Okay, just breathe like I told you," Clementine heard Carlos repeating to Rebecca. It seemed like she was getting closer to giving birth, probably any minute it'll start coming.
How exactly are they going to take care of it? Clementine wasn't exactly thrilled on the idea of having a baby in the group. In fact, she was already thinking of ways they could get rid of it because all it was going to do is cause problems for the group. Time, effort, and energy for baby supplies? No, no way was she going to risk her life for baby food; something that she wasn't going to eat but she can't voice her opinion on the matter everyone else would disagree with her, probably even scold her for thinking like that.
It wasn't personal to the child, it was logical thinking. The baby would draw walkers, it would also be disrespectful to Alvin's memory; almost like spitting on his grave. But then again, it's more important to keep others alive... maybe use it as bait? Clem let out a little chuckle.
Carlos was sitting by the fountain, in front of Rebecca; comforting her through her contractions. The doctor needed to be kept alive as long as possible, who else was going to monitor her eye?
"Clem?" Kenny waved the child over. He stood by a broken column, near Sarita. Clem could swear, every time she came near the group it would have this silent tension in the atmosphere, weird animosity but that wasn't something she cared enough to think about.
"Hey, Kenny?" Clem offered a small smile.
"Hey, Clem. Did Jane get the deck open yet?"
"Yeah, but Luke is up there with her."
"Yeah well, hopefully he finishes up with her. He needs to get back on watch."
The child paused. "He was doing something weird with her."
"Whadoya mean?" Kenny curiously asked.
"He was on top of her, doing something..." Clementine trailed off, frowning in confusion.
Sarita chuckled, folded her arms and began rubbing her forehead.
"Why would he be on top of her?" Clementine asked.
Kenny shook his head, an obvious look of annoyance on his face. "Nothin', he was being a fucking idiot." He marched off in direction of the observation deck.
"Oh yeah!" Clem exclaimed, as she remembered what Luke asked of her. "He said to bring everyone there!"
After Kenny yelled at Luke for not doing his work like he was supposed to, he went back to the group and informed everyone about the deck. The group agreed to move there for shelter.
Clementine was leaning against the rail of the observation deck, the sky was growing darker. She was listening to the river flowing in from one side to the other.
"Walkers!" Luke shouted from the courtyard. "Walkers! A herd's approachin'!" The man ran up the stairs, to the balcony. He slammed the gate door shut.
Clementine then saw the herd he was talking about and unfortunately... Rebecca's contractions came back once again and this time, it seemed as though she was going to give birth. Carlos helped Rebecca to the floor, laying on her back.
Everyone walked outside, getting ready to face the herd that was already climbing up the stairs. Sarita had stayed back with Carlos to help Rebecca through the birth. Sarah stayed with Clementine. Under normal circumstances, her father would've told her to stay with them but he had to take care of the birth.
"We... we can't let 'em up here!" Luke said, aiming his rifle at the ascending walkers.
Jane walked over to Clementine, offering her a casual white glint revolver. The group began firing a few rounds into the walkers that were at the gate. After four or so rounds, Clementine's pistol had clicked empty and she idly watched the group continue to fire.
Rebecca's ear-gutting screams of pain began to slightly annoy the child. Please, scream a little louder. That would help.
"Shit! We don't got the ammo to take them all!" Mike exclaimed.
"There's way too many of 'em!" Bonnie added. Noticing the door begin to rattle from it's hinges, the group rushed over to keep it stabilized. Well, as much as they could. The door was grated, if any member of the group was up against a gap, a walker could quite possibly bite through.
"We need to find something to block this gate!" Luke began stabbing walkers through the gaps of the door.
Clementine quickly scanned around deck, instantly found an old ancient cannon. "What about this!?" She pointed towards it.
"Better then nothin'!" Kenny ran over to help the child push the cannon over to the gate. Not a moment later, the cannon miraculously snapped through the planks of the decks. A loud metallic grinding began echoing out through the air among the growls of the walkers. Kenny then began to notice the hinge that was holding one side of the deck begin pulling from it's screws. "Oh shit! Everybody get the fuck back!"
The hinge gave way, flinging like an elastic rubber band that could possibly decapitate anything in it's path. Half the deck had snap, sending a ground breaking shake throughout the vicinity.
Clementine was recovered just in time to see Jane dangling from the ledge of a broken deck. Luke was already by her side, assisting her. The child went to help but then noticed Sarah... stuck under the debris of the collapsed deck, calling for help. Clementine quickly glanced back at Carlos, he seemed as though he hadn't noticed. "Jane, save Sarah!"
"Are you crazy!? There's no way she's gettin' outta that! Pull me up!" Jane selfishly replied.
"Who cares!? Just go down there and help her!"
"She's not getting out of that!"
"Clem! I need help!" Luke urgently interrupted, hanging onto his girlfriend.
"You need help!? Drop her!" Clem shouted angrily. She failed to notice, her nausea was beginning to flare up again.
"What!?"
"You heard me! Drop her, are you stupid!? Sarah's still down there!"
"B-but-"
"Oh, you are so fucking worthless!" Clem snatched the pistol from Luke's gun holster. She was going to walk over to the deck but stopped when she saw Kenny going down the other side of the deck, over to Sarah. The man knelt down, on the side of the debris and attempted to lift it up.
Spotting a couple of walkers approaching Kenny from behind, Clementine aimed Luke's pistol at the walkers and fired. Taking them out. Luckily, the mag in the pistol held just enough rounds for Kenny to get Sarah out of the risky predicament. Understandably so, Sarah's legs looked mildly injured to Clementine's surprise. You'd think being crushed by debris would've caused more damage. But it didn't matter, Sarah was fine and that was more than enough.
With Kenny's help, Sarah was able to safely limp her way back up onto the deck. The teen collapsed on to the floor, inside the shop. Clementine knelt down to her level. "Sarah, are you okay?"
The teen's sobs broke through her. "N-no, it hurts!" Sarah exclaimed, clutching to her injured blood drenched legs.
"Sarah!?" Carlos's frantic voice, made Clem jump. The man gasped at the sight of her daughter's injury. "Oh my god." He knelt down and began tending to it.
Clementine ran back out to the deck, finding Kenny and Luke stomping on the edge of the deck. "What are we doing now!?"
"We're tryin' to drop the rest of the deck!" Kenny replied.
The rest of it? The child looked towards the other hinge that was holding what was left of the deck. "Hey! Somebody boost me up!"
Mike ran over, lifted the child onto her shoulders. Clementine hacked relentlessly at the hinge until it finally gave way, the rest of the deck falling to the cold hard dirt sending another earth shattering shake. Clementine sighed in relief and was let back down.
"Holy shit... that was really close. We're lucky enough that nobody died." Kenny commented, as he was leaning against the wall.
"Yeah, real lucky." Clementine glared at both Luke and Jane.
"Hey, I couldn't-"
"Oh shut up! Kenny could save her but you can't? Yeah, whatever!" That seemed to have kept the woman quiet whilst Luke had a look of guilt on his face.
The sound of a baby crying, only seemed to have angered Clementine more. Great, another issue to deal with...