Lord Revan Reborn-My plan is to introduce almost every character from The Walking Dead game. Some of them won't show up where they did canonically in the game, so Christa and Omid may be in a group already, or someone like Vince not even be with Howe's.

Jason Chandler-Kenny never fully understood that there were some people he needed just to shut his mouth around, and if Lee could take Kenny down, so could Tyreese Ha Ha. I agree as well, Tyreese was such a powerhouse, I think the only reason Abraham could take him was his military background.

Gracie Miserables-Yeah what the show did for Carol's character was terrific; the comic book just used her to show that some people couldn't hack it in the apocalypse. As for deaths, ideally I'd love to keep everyone, especially the season 1 crew, but if I did that there wouldn't be much story. So time will tell, but I'll at least say Lee and Clem are safe for a long time.

thedarkpokemaster-Yeah I'm enjoying the dynamic of having the four kids becoming friends and sharing their thoughts as they try to comprehend things. Of course, as they get older, Clem and Carl clearly understand the world and know how to survive but having Carl and Duck interact is really fun because at this point they both have been through so much. Also glad you're liking the Lee and Clem scenes they are fun to write. Happy that you've stuck around this long and are still reading.

Don 77-Yeah Sophia goes through such a rough time, and it sucks, but she eventually makes it through, so that's always something to remember. As for Violet, I never kill off characters I don't like, whether they are villains or allies, I use them all for a purpose before any death. And yes while I understand Violet had her issues and rough times, I personally just didn't enjoy the way she dealt with things. The main thing is if you let Lilly take Violet over Louis she initially is entirely against Clem until the end of the mission, going so far as even to fight Clem. Meanwhile, Louis, after getting his tongue cut out, understands Clem's decision and doesn't hold animosity. I know people are different, but I identify with Louis as a character way more than Violet.

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Chapter 15: Changes

Lee and Carly walked down by the fences of the prison, each armed with a sidearm with only a few shots loaded. Carly had her pistol tucked comfortably in the back of her pants, the weapon now almost a part of her, no different than her arms or legs. Lee, however, held his pistol in his hand, inspecting the foreign object as they walked, "You okay over there?"

"Yeah, I just haven't ever used one before," Lee admitted, "I wasn't a big fan of them, course things are different now," The ex-professor explained,

"I used to think the same thing, leave these with the professionals," Carly nodded back, "Then I started reporting and the places I went...well, let's just say, this thing saved me more than once,"

"I can imagine," Lee replied before sighing, "There was just a lot of gun violence where I lived as a kid, and I'd be lying if I'd say my dad didn't get held up once or twice in our store. It was hard to see that as a kid, and I just grew a distaste for them after that. But these days, heh, I feel way better having this now, just hope I can use it."

"It's not that hard, just aim and shoot, simple," Carly smiled back. Lee returned the smile and continued to walk with the short woman, "Hold on," The reporter frowned, "You challenged me to a contest, and you've never even fired a gun before?"

Lee let his head drop and let out an easy laugh, "You got me, that's exactly what I did,"

"Why the hell would you do that?" Carly asked with a confused giggle. Lee simply looked over at the girl and held a soft gaze on her. Carly's eyes widened for a moment before she blushed and looked away, "W-Well, you're going to lose, s-so get ready," Carly stammered, "Especially because were shooting from the top of this tower," She continued as they closed in on one of the guard towers, "The plan was to give us both a challenge, but now I'm challenged, and you're screwed,"

"Heh, I'm not a quitter," Lee retorted with a laugh, "I'll still take you on,"

Carly's cheeks returned to their natural color, and she glared at the prisoner, "We'll see just how far your talking takes you." The pair reached the door of the tower and opened it, walking up to the top floor and walking out onto the balcony. Lee slowly looked out at the world outside the prison; it seemed so peaceful, he still hated being caged like a rat even if it was for his own safety. "Okay," Carly said, shaking Lee from his thoughts, "See that cluster right there? That's where we're shooting, we each have only a few shots, so we're only looking for kills. Whoever gets the most wins,"

"Alright," Lee nodded as he flicked the safety off his pistol, "You wanna go first?"

"Age before beauty," Carly smirked back,

"I'm thirty-seven, easy," Lee replied with a small side-eye before stepping forward and aiming. He let out a slow breath and took his first shot; it landed left of the group sending a burst of dust into the air. Lee tightened his lips and shot again, this time a shot did land, though it only ripped through a walkers shoulder, "C'mon," Lee muttered. The man let fire another bullet, this one hitting it's mark, right between the eyes of a walker. He smiled and took a follow-up shot before getting set sending it into a walkers gut, with his final bullet Lee fired and killed one last walker.

"Hey, two's not bad for a beginner, Tyreese couldn't hit an elephant from this distance," Carly remarked with a smile, "Now allow me," Lee stepped back and raised a brow as Carly pulled out her gun and smoothly took three shots killing three walkers in perfect unison. Lee's lips parted, and he went slightly slack-jawed, "I'll save my extras," Carly smirked while looking back at the man, "Told you, Lee, I know how to handle a gun,"

"I guess so," Lee nodded, "Good job," Carly smiled back gleefully, "Well if I ever had to be stuck inside here with anyone, I'm glad it's you," Lee added on,

"O-Oh, thanks," Carly replied as her eyes darted away from Lee's while she tucked her gun away, "We should, uh, head back,"

"Yeah," Lee nodded, "Thanks for this, it was fun," Carly nodded and began to walk towards the stairs before stopping. She spun back and moved to close to Lee, standing up on her toes she quickly placed a small kiss on his cheek. Lee was surprised by the sudden action, but he stayed quiet, not wanting to spoil anything. Carly just as swiftly spun back and headed down the stairs, a little grin on her face.

Back in the cellblock, Tyreese's fist connected with Kenny's face sending the middle-aged man stumbling back from the sheer force. Tyreese quickly caught Kenny by the collar and followed up with a second even more powerful punch, "Fuck you!" He hollowed out while Kenny dropped to the floor like a ton of bricks, "Fuck both of you!"

Rick stomped forward and grabbed Tyreese by the shoulder, "Enough! You don't get to take your guilt out on Kenny!"

Tyreese's eyes inflamed, and he took a swing at Rick next, connecting with the thinner man's jaw and sending him back into the concrete wall. "My girlfriend just tried to kill herself, don't you think I feel guilty enough already!?" Tyreese rammed a fist into Rick's stomach, "Fuck you! Now I gotta listen to you two pricks telling me this is my fault! Have you lost your minds?! You really think I need to hear this now?!"

"It doesn't matter what you think," Rick groaned back, "You practically slit her wrists for her,"

"Shut up!" Tyreese boomed as he kneed the doubled over cop in the face now sending him to the ground,

"You know what you did," Kenny's voice low as he attempted to get to his feet, "Now you're trying to take it out on us. Can't accept your fault, like a real fucking man,"

Tyreese charged the fisherman slamming him against the cell bars, "I! Didn't! Kill Her!" Tyreese screamed, hitting Kenny with each word. "I didn't kill her," Tyreese said lowly as he hung his head,

"Are you finished?" Rick growled out, causing Tyreese to look between the two men in some shock. Each man's face was starting to swell and blood leaked from their mouths and noses,

Kenny pushed himself back to his feet and spat some blood onto the floor, "Get it through your head, if she's dead, you did it," The fisherman weakly stated,

"And calm the fuck down," Rick continued, "Truth getting to you?" He asked antagonistically, "Don't hit me or anyone else ever again!" He warned the NFL player,

"You're insane," Tyreese scoffed as he shook his head, "The both of you have lost your goddamn minds!"

"Us?!" Rick screamed, "You think we've lost it?! I remember what you did to Chris! What you did to that kid's body!" Kenny's eyes widened in confusion, and he looked over at Tyreese, "I remember exactly what you did!"

"I took him apart, so what!" Tyreese shouted back as he tossed his hands up, "He was gonna kill my daughter, and he was already dead, so who gives a shit what I did to him after!" The others slowly began to exit their cells and listen to the trio fight, "And you're damn right I enjoyed it! After everything we've been through, the hell we endured, taking apart that kids body piece by piece was the only thing I've enjoyed!"

Rick stumbled to the balcony outside the cell, leaning against it while Kenny held onto the cell bars for support, both trying to regain their strength. "I mutilated him, over and over again! I had to take the pieces outside and burn them before anyone could see what horrors I performed on that boy! And I enjoyed every last fucking minute of it; I'm not ashamed!" Tyreese proclaimed before looking around at the others, Julie included, "I'm not ashamed!" He affirmed,

"Y-You're a sick fucking bastard, no different than Thomas," Kenny growled,

"You, you're gonna say that?! You?!" Tyreese spat back, "I killed Chris after he died, who gives a shit, it was just another damn walker, but what about you! You shot Andrew dead, murdered him in cold blood!" Kenny gritted his teeth, "And you!" Tyreese said, pointing over to Rick, "You shot Dexter! I saw it; you blew his fucking brains out while his back was turned! You want to tell me I may have murdered Carol, but your murders are justified?!"

"You're out for blood, Tyreese," Rick muttered in disappointment,

"Those bastards were gonna kill us, all of us, I shot Andrew, and I don't regret it for a fucking minute and if Rick shot Dexter than good, saved one of us the bullet of having to do it a minute later only after he killed one of us!" Kenny screamed, "What we do is for the good of the group!"

"Really? Good for the group or good for your son?!" Kenny's eyes widened, and he took a step forward, "Was it good for Hershel's son when you left him for dead and saved Duck?!"

"You piece of fucking shit!" Kenny nearly howled and lunged forward, Tyreese smoothly spun around the diving man, letting him collide with the balcony bars,

"What, truth getting to you?!" Tyreese spat,

"Alright, guys enough!" Glenn begged as he and Maggie stumbled from their cell just to their right, "You're all friends, and this has gotten way outta hand, you're really gonna hurt each other,"

"Seriously, please stop!" Maggie begged,

Tyreese glared back to the pair and huffed a few calming breaths, "You people put me in charge," Rick said in a firm tone, "You gave me the task of shouldering everyone's responsibility, of making the hard choices for the good of us. I shot Dexter to protect us, and I'd do it again. I wouldn't have hidden it, but I knew I'd look like a hypocrite in front of everyone. It wouldn't have been long before everyone would have started questioning my effectiveness as a leader, and that would have been bad for us all."

"You had the groups best interest in mind? Bullshit!" Tyreese scoffed causing Rick to clench his fists and glare at the man, "At first, yes, but after everything that's happened and what you've done, killing dexter especially, it's changed you! It's given you a fucking bloodlust!"

"You don't know what you're talking about," Kenny retorted while standing up,

"I've seen it on your face; you're starting to enjoy it, you're always the first one to act when things go wrong, just like when you mutilated Otis, you enjoyed it!" Tyreese finished,

"How dare you!" Rick screamed while lunging at Tyreese, pushing him against the balcony, nearly pushing him over it, "I did it to save him!"

"What are you gonna do kill me now?!" Tyreese accused, cracking Rick across that face, "C'mon killer, do it, kill me!" The man exclaimed as he wildly punched Rick's face,

"Fuck you!" Kenny screamed as he ran over slamming his foot down on Tyreese's knee, the athlete let out a scream and fell to the ground,

Rick stumbled back sputtering out, "I'm not a killer,"

Kenny jumped on Tyreese, punching him across the face while he was immobile. It was at this point Lee and Carly returned to the cell block shocked to the fight. Immediately he jumped into action, "Jesus, guys, stop! Enough, Kenny, get off him!" Lee exclaimed as he ran up the stairs, tackling Kenny off of Tyreese this time, "Everyone just relax, you can't all be doing this!"

"Listen to him; this is insane!" Glenn agreed,

"Rick, you okay?" Lee asked as he did his best to hold Kenny, "Relax man, take a breath, it's over!"

"Lee, let me go! This fucker deserves it! Let me go!" Kenny demanded,

"N-Not a killer," Rick whispered out before his body went limp and he tipped over the balcony falling two floors,

"Rick!" Tyreese exclaimed, pulling himself up and jumping over the railing trying to catch the man, "Fuck!" Tyreese howled, landing on his bad knee a few feet away from the unconscious Rick, "Rick? Rick? Are you okay? Answer me!"

Both Lee and Kenny got up, "Fuck! Hershel! Get Hershel!" Kenny exclaimed,

"Rick!" Lee yelled as he ran down to the first floor however just as he reached the duo Rick awoke and promptly kicked Tyreese in the face sending him flying back,

"Off me!" Rick screamed, "Y-You, call me a killer then try and kill me?!"

"I didn't, you blacked out and fell over!" Tyreese replied as he held his face,

"Bull shit!" Rick snapped back,

"It's true, Rick, we saw it, just stop before you kill each other!" Lee yelled,

"I-I can't," Rick groaned as he let his head fall back against the floor,

"Fuck this," Tyreese agreed, collapsing as well,

"Guys...Jesus," Lee said while looking between the two of them,

"Rick!" Lori cried while running out of Carol's cell and to his side, "What happened?"

"They had a fight," Lee replied as she held his face,

"Is anything broken?" Lori asked in near tears,

"I don't know, feels like everything is," Rick groaned back,

"Can you stand?" Lori whimpered,

Rick let out another low groan and pulled himself to his feet for just a moment before collapsing against Lori then down to his knees, "I guess I can't," Rick struggled to get to his knees and weakly pointed to Tyreese, "Everything I've done is for the good of the group, you can't deny that, that's what makes me right,"

"Whatever, I don't care anymore," Tyreese retorted,

"Oh god," Doug's voice suddenly interjected as he slowly walked down the stairs,

"What?! What happened, Doug?!" Lori asked with urgency,

"C-Carol is dead…" Doug lowly replied, wiping a few tears from his eyes,

The group froze, each taking in the truth that Carol had successfully committed suicide. Tyreese cupped his face in his hands and began to weep, Lori fell next to Rick crying as well, while the others stood stunned. Rick tried to get up but failed, unable to bear the pain, "I'll shoot her," Lee lowly stated, "No one else should have to bear doing that,"

Rick looked up at Lee and nodded, "Thank you, Lee," He softly said,

Lee moved to Carly and held out his hand, the woman shakily took out her pistol and handed it over. She watched as Lee slowly made his way up the stairs into Carol's cell, where she laid dead on her bed. He raised the gun and pulled the trigger, putting a bullet through the woman's head and stopping her reanimation. Lee hung his head and let out a near pained exhale, just behind him Hershel and Michonne stood, the latter having a few tears. "We did all we could for her, if not for Michonne's help; she'd never had a chance. But in the end, she just lost too much blood,"

"I...I didn't mean for this to happen...just for...I'm sorry," Michonne softly stated,

"Lee, we know you didn't have to do this, but it's appreciated, Carol was close to a lot of us here, and someone else having to do this...it would have been hard," Hershel added on with a bit of gratitude,

"Yeah," Lee nodded back, "I'd just hope we never have to do it again," Hershel nodded in agreement,

"Rick?!" Lori suddenly cried out from outside the cell, the trio ran out and looked as Rick laid flat on the ground, his eyes rolled back and his body completely limp. "Hershel! Doug! Someone! Help my husband!" Lori cried out.

Alright everyone so this was a relatively short chapter I know, but I felt that the next chapter was too much of a start of something new to just continue it with this chapter. That being said, I think we got some big things happening in this one, the beginning of CarLee and of course the official rivalry between Kenny and Rick with Tyreese. Not to mention that Carol died early, I toyed with this idea for a bit, and I figured having this happen will shake things up, and it'll cause some intense scenes with Julie in the future so hope you'll all enjoy those. So anyway, please tell me what you thought in the form of a review, always helps to keep me inspired to continue and I'll catch you all in the next chapter!