Smeake-Glad you liked it, hope you like this one.
EroSlackerMicha-Lori is a bit of a pain but I always felt that she needed to be like that, she needed to signify Rick's connection to the old world. Once she dies Rick completely abandons the old world and accepts the hell he is in. As for Carly she's snooping because Lee is confusing to her, she feels like she should not like him since he's a murderer but he seems like such a nice man.
Worker72-Too true, while I get learning that will have to happen soon I still think giving the three of them their own little story line sounded interesting. Hope you like where it goes.
Thedarkpokemaster-Yeah it's a bit funny but everyone else is basically picking their favorite prisoners, while Ben is getting truly concerned with Chris and his creepy/aggressive ways.
FocUs24-Funny you mention it, that will be a main part of this chapter. So I hope you enjoy it and look forward to see what you thought about it.
Enjoy
Chapter 5: We're All Infected
Ben and Julie had been walking back to the cell block together and still they had been holding hands. Julie had been thinking about everything all day and she was torn, on one hand she and Chris had been through so much but on the other hand she couldn't lie to herself about having a close connection to Ben. As they stopped at Ben's cell she turned to him blushing slightly about to tell him how she felt.
Just then Chris, who had been watching them for awhile, showed up behind Ben and spun him around. Without warning Chris hauled off and punched Ben in the face splitting his lip and sending him to the floor. "Chris! What the fuck are you doing!?" Julie exclaimed as she reached out to stop him.
Chris slapped her hands away and jumped on top of Ben, "You piece of fucking shit!" Chris shouted out as he began to punch him again as hard as he could, "I'll kill you! I'll fucking kill you!" Chris continued to shout as he punched Ben into unconsciousness,
"Chris stop! Stop it now, please!" Julie screeched out in fear as she cried hardly and tugged at his shirt, Chris full of rage looked back and shoved her away. He took hold of Ben's neck and started to squeeze it. Julie got up and looked around, "Help! Someone help!" She shouted out,
Tyreese who was walking in with some supplies from Hershel's Farm heard his daughter's cries and dropped the boxes in an instant. He sprinted into the cell block and spotted Chris who was strangling Ben to death, "What the fuck?"Tyreese said to himself in shock and quickly sprinted over to the trio. He tackled Chris off Ben and pushed his head into the floor, "What the fuck is going on?!" Tyreese shouted out as he held a struggling Chris,
"Chris went crazy and attacked Ben, he was trying to kill him!" Julie exclaimed through her tears as she ran over to Ben's side,
"Is he okay?" Tyreese asked concerned,
"He's breathing." Julie said after a moment, "But he's not waking up."
"And he won't for awhile, Chris knocked him out for sure." Tyreese said standing up while restraining Chris, "I'll put him in a cell and go talk to Rick. Hershel's here you should go get him and Katjaa for Ben." Tyreese said while dragging Chris along,
"Julie." Chris finally said,
"Shut it." Tyreese said coldly,
"Julie, I did it for us. He was trying to take you away from me. I love you Julie." Chris said softly,
Julie looked back to him with a disgusted look, "Love me? Fuck you! I don't ever want to see you again!" She yelled out,
"No Julie! Julie you can't do this to me! Julie please!" Chris shouted out in horror as Tyreese continued to pull him away.
Tyreese brought Chris to the bottom floor of the cell block and lead him into an empty cell. He pushed him inside and closed the door, "I'll be right back, don't you even try to leave this cell." Tyreese said coldly then turned around. He took a step then paused, he looked back to Chris who slowly sat down on the bed. He walked back to the cell door and stared directly at Chris, "If you ever put your hands on my daughter or anyone else in this place again I will kill you. Do you hear me?" Tyreese asked with an icy tone, Chris kept his head lowered and didn't respond. Tyreese quickly pulled the door open and walked right up to Chris, "I said do you hear me?" He asked a bit more forcefully,
Chris looked up at him fearfully, "Y-yeah, yes I hear you." He stammered out,
Tyreese watched him for a moment then walked back out of the cell. He slammed it closed again and quickly went out to find some chains to keep it locked. It took him a few minutes but he found a chain and returned to the cell to find Chris still inside, "Huh, gotta admit you surprised me. Figured you'd have run, but then again where would you go." Tyreese said to himself as he laced the chain through the bars and locked it together with a padlock, "Now i'm gonna go talk to Rick and then we'll see what happens with you." Tyreese said as he made sure the lock was secure then walked away as Chris stared at the floor unmoving.
Meanwhile Lee had exited the cell block once he heard the more people had shown up, he saw Hershel and his children carrying their stuff into the cell block along with Glenn, who was staying close to Maggie, he also spotted Doug who was walking around the perimeter with a little smile on his face. Lee felt he should take some initiative and introduce himself to the newcomers as to make himself seem less standoffish. He headed over to Doug since he was clearly not busy, "Hey there, names Lee." Lee said as he extended his hand out,
"Hmm? Oh hello, i'm Doug." Doug replied with a smile as he shook his hand, "So I figure you're one of the prisoners that Rick found here."
Lee let out a small frown and nodded, "Yeah, I am."
Doug immediately could see that Lee was a bit touchy on that subject, "Sorry, I'm sure you're a good guy." Doug said with a bit of an awkward smile. The two of them went silent for a minute before Doug spoke up, "So Lee, where were you from?"
"Macon, grew up just down town. My parents had a drug store down there." Lee said a bit sadly, "I wonder how they are doing."
Doug looked at him sadly, "I'm sorry Lee, that must be awful not knowing where your loved ones are." Doug let out a little sigh, "I remember what it was like down in Macon, our group was down there a few months back."
"Really? All of you?" Lee said a bit surprised,
"Well not really all of us, Rick's group didn't come until later. We had held out in a drug store...wait was your family's store in the center of downtown?" Doug asked curiously,
"Yeah it was, had a huge sign on the front that read out drugs." Lee replied,
"Then...well that means we were in your drugstore, Lee in the office...there were a few bodies an elderly couple." Doug said causing Lee's heart to drop. Doug waited a few moments before continuing, "It was only a few of us, me, Carly, Glenn, Mark, Kenny, Katjaa, Clementine and Duck. I guess Kenny had been on Hershel's farm before hand but they kicked him out after Hershel's son Shawn died. At any rate we couldn't stay in town, it was just too dangerous. After a close call we all got out and fled out of town, Glenn wanted to got to Atlanta and with no better option we joined him." Doug said then he let out a little smile, "That's where our luck changed, we met a group run by a man named Shane, he brought us to a camp just outside of Atlanta. He told us the city had fallen so we thought we'd just stick close to town until the military rolled through." Doug explained,
"Shane? I thought Rick was in charge of your group, no one even mentioned him before now." Lee said confused,
"Yeah that's not too surprising since what happened when Rick showed up." Doug said while rubbing the back of his neck,
"What, did Rick have a fight for power or something?" Lee asked as he crossed his arms,
"No nothing like that, or well something like that. Let's just say Shane kind of lost it, when he saw people agreeing with most of Rick's leadership decisions he snapped. He punched Rick and when Rick tried to talk to him he put a gun to his chest. Rick would have been killed but Carl, Rick's son, he shot Shane. He killed him to save his father…" Doug explained as he looked past Lee to Carl who was playing with the others in the yard, "I couldn't imagine how that must feel, especially for a kid."
"My god...it really is that bad out there. If kids are having to...kill, it can't ever get better can it?" Lee said with a drop in his voice,
"I don't know, I've seen glimpses of hope after we left our camp. We almost had it in a place called Wiltshire Estates but it was as dangerous as the city. That's where we lost Donna and Allen, the parents of the two twin toddlers. It was a hard loss, then we moved onto Hershel's farm." Doug hung his head for a moment, "Thing is grief can destroy people, I saw it early on and it almost happened to Hershel. The loss of three of his kids, he couldn't handle it. He forced most of us off his land, I was surprised when he asked me to stay. Still, I hope that we can all keep it together in this place, there may be some bad blood here but I feel we can all get past this." Doug said with a little smile,
Lee let out a smirk and nodded, "Maybe, if this place is as safe as you think it is then I guess we have a chance of making the world into the way it once was."
"Exactly." Doug said with a nod,
Lee looked around at everyone else and figured he should move on. He still had a lot more introducing left, "Thanks for talking to me Doug, I'm gonna head out." Lee said with a nod,
Doug nodded and just as Lee started to walk away he called out, "Lee, I just want to say that, even though we don't know each other well, I think you're a pretty good guy."
Lee let out a soft chuckle, "Thanks Doug." Lee replied while shaking his head.
Just as Lee was walking away from Doug, Tyreese walked up to Rick who was walking with Lori, "Oh hey man, what's up?" Rick said with a grin that quickly dropped as he saw Tyreese's face dead serious. "Fuck, what happened?" He asked stoically,
"We have a situation, follow me. I'll fill you in on the way." Tyreese said turning around,
Rick looked down at Lori's worried face, "I'll be back, you just finish you walk." Rick said softly as he kissed her forehead. He turned around and caught up to Tyreese, "So, what's the problem? One of the prisoners?" He asked quickly,
"In a sense, he is locked in a cell." Tyreese said with a little smirk, "It's Chris."
"Chris? What the hell did he do?" Rick asked a bit dismissively expected that Tyreese caught him and Julie together,
"He tried to strangle Ben to death after beating him into unconsciousness." Tyreese said to Rick's shock,
"W-what?" Rick stammered out so confused, "How the-what the fuck?"
Tyreese let out a nod, "I know, I thought he was a little shit but I never thought he'd be a murderer. I showed up just in time and saved Ben, Julie is getting Katjaa or Hershel for help now. We need to decide what to do with him." Tyreese said firmly,
"What do you mean? What do you want done?" Rick asked with a raised eyebrow,
Tyreese let out a shrug, "I don't know, to tell you the truth I don't know the whole story. I figure we hear from him first then we figure out what steps we should take." Tyreese replied,
"Fair enough, let's go and-" Rick started to say only for Billy to come sprinting up to them, "Billy? Billy, what's wrong?"
"It's-it's." Billy said taking some deep breaths, "A gunshot, we heard a gunshot from inside the cellblock, my dad wanted me to tell you while he got my sisters."
Rick looked over to Tyreese, "You did take Chris's gun didn't you?"
Tyreese slowly shook his head, "I didn't-I didn't even think about it." Tyreese said wide eyed, "Rick...Julie just broke up with him when I left."
"Oh hell." Rick said with a groan, "Let's go." Rick added on as they took off running into the cell block.
Meanwhile Lee had been wandering around when he heard a little yelp of pain from his left. He turned and saw Clementine holding her finger while holding back tears. He immediately ran over to her, "Hey, you okay?" He asked kneeling down,
"My finger...I cut it on the fence." She said showing him her bleeding finger,
"Oh, here let me take a look at it." Lee said reaching out and taking her hand. He slowly looked over the cut, "Well...it looks like a bad one huh?" He said with a little smile,
"It hurt." Clementine said nodding,
"I bet, but look at you not crying or anything. You are a tough girl aren't you?" Lee said with a nod,
Clementine let out a little laugh, "Yeah, I was living in my treehouse for a few days by myself."
"Really." Lee said a bit surprised, yet the fact that he parents weren't mentioned in Doug's story probably meant they were dead, "Well how about you tell me all about it while we go get a band aid."
"Okay." Clementine said with a smile as Lee got up and started to walk,
"So this Treehouse, did you like it?" Lee asked as he held her hand,
"Not really, I don't like being up high. It's really scary." Clementine replied,
"I understand that, not to fond of heights myself." Lee said with a nod,
"Heights?" Clementine asked confused,
"That's a word for being afraid of being up high." Lee explained,
"Oooohhh." Clementine said with a drawn out breath, "You're smart, like my dad."
"Your dad, was he with your group before?" Lee asked carefully,
"No." Clementine said lowering her head, "He and my mom went to Savannah, they were going on a vacation. They left me with a babysitter when it all happened. I really want them to come back." She said with a little sniffle,
"I know, I wonder where my folks are now, my brother too." Lee said with a bit of a sullen tone,
The pair went silent for a moment but Clementine bounced back pretty quick, "So Lee, can I ask you something?"
"Sure." Lee said with a nod,
"How old are you?" She asked curiously,
"Thirty Seven, how about you?" Lee asked looking down at the little girl,
"I'm eight, well eight and a half." Clementine said proudly,
"Well I'd say you're very mature for a eight year old. Your parent's would be proud i'm sure." Lee said patting her back lightly,
"Thanks." Clementine said with a grin.
Just then the pair walked over to Katjaa, "Excuse me miss, you are the doctor right?" Lee called out as she stood up,
"Well not a doctor but I have been patching people up." Katjaa replied, "Why, are you hurt?"
"No, not me. Clem her cut her finger, nothing bad but could use a band aid." Lee said as he reached her,
"Oh well I was just about to run inside for a moment, think you could handle it?" Katjaa asked as he held out a small first aid kit,
"Uh, yeah. Sure." Lee said with a slow nod while taking the kit. Katjaa let out a small smile before turned around and heading into the prison cell block. Lee looked down at Clementine only to see her looking at him expectantly, "Right, so take a seat." Lee said with a smile. Clementine nodded and sat down on a small metal bench. Lee knelt down and popped open the kit and took out a small alcohol swab, "Okay so I'm gonna need you to be brave because this is gonna sting a bit, but it'll keep you from getting infected alright?" Lee explained as he looked up at Clem,
"O-okay." Clementine said nervously as Lee took hold of her hand. Clem let out a little whimper as Lee began to clean off her cut, "Are you done?" She asked quickly,
"Yes, all done. Good job." Lee said warmly as he reached back into the box and took a band aid, "Okay, now the easy part." Lee said while taking the wrapper off the band aid and putting it over Clem's cut. "Alright...all done!" Lee exclaimed happily, "Sorry don't have a sticker or lollipop but you did great Clem."
Clementine let out a smile and jumped up, "Thanks Lee, you're the best." She said before running off to go find Sophia.
Lee watched her run away with a grin, it was nice to see that despite all this madness kids could still be kids. "You're a very good care giver." Lee suddenly heard from behind him only to see Carly staring at him with crossed arms,
"Uh, thanks?" Lee replied as he stood up,
"I've been with Clem since the beginning and she rarely warms up to people so quickly. You have a way with her." Carly said walking up to him,
"Really? She seems pretty outgoing." Lee said standing up,
"Yeah she is, but she doesn't usually talk about herself too much. I heard you two, she was going a mile a minute." Carly said with a smirk,
Lee smiled to himself and waited a moment before looking over to the smaller woman, "So Doug told me what you guys went through, sounds like you guys had it worse than me by far." Lee said trying to keep the conversation rolling,
"I don't know, Chuck told me about that you and Dexter. If it were me, being stuck in one room with a guy like that...I don't know if I could control myself." Carly admitted,
Lee raised an eyebrow at the fact she was talking to Chuck about him. "Hey you want to go grab some dinner?" He asked easily,
"Get dinner? Together? Wow, aren't you bold, hasn't even been a day." Carly said with a grin,
"I didn't mean it like that." Lee said rolling his eyes. Carly narrowed her eyes and glared at him, "That didn't come out right either," Lee said with a sigh then paused, "Is that a yes or a no?" He finally asked,
"I suppose so, I mean we do have to eat." Carly said turning around with Lee in tow, he had a small grin on his face the whole time.
Meanwhile both Rick and Tyreese got to Chris's cell and looked inside, "Oh shit." Rick said softly,
"Fuck." Tyreese said with a worried tone. The pair pulled out their pistols and turned around, just at their feet Chris's padlock sat, shot breaking it. "You check around the cell block, I'll check the cells." Tyreese whispered over to Rick,
"Got it, careful we have no idea what state of mind Chris is in right now." Rick said while not looking at Tyreese,
"Rick, if you got something to say spit the whole thing out." Tyreese said firmly,
"Look, i'm not saying it's gonna happen but Chris may try a murder suicide." Rick explained. Tyreese stared at him fear overcoming him before he started to search the cells. Rick wasted no time and slowly moved out of the cell block.
A few minutes earlier Julie sat at Ben's side while Hershel checked him over. After a few minutes Hershel looked over to her, "Well the boy took a hell of a beating but is mostly fine. His eye socket may be cracked, not sure just know it's not broke. His neck is bruised but everything else looks just fine." Hershel said as he packed up him medical supplies,
"God, what did that monster do to you." Julie said taking Ben's hand while a tear rolled down her cheek,
"Missy could I give you a bit of advice?" Hershel said looking at Julie,
"Okay." Julie said as she wiped her eyes,
"You don't leave his side. Watch over him. If you care about him, which it looks like you do, then you want to make sure Chris doesn't do anything else." Hershel said then stood up, he peered back to her when he reached the door, "If he wakes up try and get him up and moving, I don't think any ribs were broke but he'll know if he tries to walk."
Julie nodded then lowered her head. Minutes past then Ben let out a groan, "Ben!" Julie exclaimed as she threw her arms around him,
Ben let out a wince of pain, "W-what happened?" Ben asked weakly,
"Chris...he attacked you. I'm so sorry Ben, it's all my fault." Julie whimpered out,
"How?" Ben asked confused, "You didn't do anything."
"If I hadn't been spending so much time with you then Chris wouldn't have gotten so jealous. I'm so so sorry Ben." Julie said as she lowered her head in shame,
Ben stared at her sympathetically for a few minutes before asking, "Julie, were you and Chris...you know, gonna like commit suicide?" Julie looked up at him in shock, "It's just, the way he's been talking, it's the only thing that would make sense."
"Yes." Julie whispered out, "He was talking me into it, he said we'd live together in paradise. He made it seem like there was no point to living in this life anymore. I know he was wrong, you changed my mind Ben." Ben stared at her in some confusion and shock. Without any hesitation Julie leaned in and kissed Ben slowly. Ben was dumbstruck as she slowly pulled back, "Come on Hershel said you need to walk, need to see if your ribs are broken." Ben let out a rapid head nod while blushing furiously.
Julie slowly helped him up and the pair began to walk out of the cell and out of the cell room. While supporting him Julie led him down the hall, a few minutes later they heard a gunshot go off from behind them, "W-what was that?" Julie asked fearfully,
"Maybe someone like dropped a something or slammed a cell door shut." Ben replied halfheartedly,
Julie watched the hallway behind them for a moment looked back to Ben, "Come on let's get out of here, I don't want to be here anymore." She said almost frantic,
"Okay." Ben said with a nod. Ben started to limp forward with his arm over Julie's shoulder.
Just then they heard a click from behind them. Julie and Ben both stopped, nearly frozen in terror. "I should have shot you, I thought about it too. But I just wanted to enjoy it." Chris said madly from behind them, "Look at me." He said coldly causing them to turn around, "The both of you, you've killed me. You know that don't you?"
"Chris you don't-" Julie started to plead,
"Shut up!" Chris snapped out, "Julie I loved you with all my heart. We were going to spend all eternity together! Then you let this, this little fucking prick tear us apart!" Chris shouted out as tears flowed down his cheeks, "But it's okay, I forgive you and you'll have plenty of time to forgive me. I know you've been tricked to think our chance for paradise is a sham but I'll handle it." Chris cocked his gun causing Julie to jump a bit, "I'll see you in there, and then you'll know I was always right." Chris pulled the trigger of his gun as Ben grabbed Julie and pulled her to the ground.
Both Rick and Tyreese heard the gunshot and took off towards the sound. They met up in the hallway, "You heard that right!" Tyreese exclaimed,
"Yeah, it was a gunshot for sure!" Rick said with a nod. Just then they heard a second shot go off. Without waiting they ran towards the shot and not thirty seconds they found the three teens. "Holy shit." Rick said as he slowly backed away,
In front of the pair they saw a grizzly sight. Julie said holding a smoking gun, she could do nothing but cry. Ben let out some deep groans of pain while holding his arm which had a gunshot in it. Chris had a round put straight through his chest, and laid there in a pool of his own blood. "Julie, Julie baby, are you okay?" Tyreese asked softly as he moved up to her as Rick moved over to Ben,
"He was going to kill us." Julie said weakly as tears streamed down her cheeks,
"Julie, you did what you had to." Tyreese said as he embraced his daughter. Just then Tyreese felt a hand clamp around his ankle he turned back and saw Chris letting out a hungry groan. "What in the hell!" Tyreese exclaimed as he kicked Chris's reanimated corpse in the face.
Rick took hold of Ben and started to pull him away from danger as Julie scrambled away. "Tyreese! Move!" Rick exclaimed as Tyreese got to his feet. Then to the shock of the three of them Tyreese let out a monstrous roar. He kicked Chris in the face laying him out flat and began to stomp his face in. Blood splattered up coating him from head to toe as he continued to slam his boot into Chris's face. Rick watched stunned seeing what Tyreese was doing to Chris, Chris was long dead after the first stomp but Tyreese didn't stop until Chris's skull was mush. Tyreese spit on his corpse and began to kick it's chest, "Come on, you don't need to see this." Rick said taking both Julie and Chris leading them out of the hallway.
As they walked Julie was in a stunned silence while Ben looked over to Rick, "How did that happen? He wasn't bitten, we know that." Ben asked as he held his bleeding shoulder,
Rick was silent then he silently said, "We're all infected. It must not matter which way you die, whatever kills us...we must carry whatever brings us back as one of them." The two teens looked at him almost fearfully, "Let's just get you two to Hershel, yeah?" Rick said turning his head away from them. Rick had a pit forming in his stomach, one thing was in his mind. If people turn no matter what, then what of his old partner Shane, who was shot in the throat then buried.
Alright everyone finally we got a little bit of a kick off! Now I don't want to toot my own horn but I think Chris dieing this way was a ten times better improvement than what happened in before. Anyway please let me know what you think of not only Chris's death but also the scenes with Lee, this whole chapter once again was original, only based off of skimmed over stuff from the last version of this story. Meaning this chapter means more to me with reviews than the others so please take the second to let me know. Anyway i'll see you all in the next one, just saying by the way, it only get's worse from here and pretty quickly.