Authors Notes: Just to clarify since I never explicitly mentioned it this is set in the show universe it strictly follows the canon up to season 7, but it's loosely based on the events after the season 8 premiere also there will be an occasional slight spoiler from the show mentioned. Louis walked over and grabbed them guiding them towards the basement.
Louis made them open the cellar doors and walk down.
"Wow so gloomy in here, I'll get you guys a lantern," Louis said.
They turned the corner and saw Logan and Nico tied up in chairs.
Nico nervously chuckled and said, "Hey guys."
Louis forced Bethany and Anne into chairs tying them up and then grabbed an electric lantern setting it to the side and turning it on producing a bright blue glow that illuminated the cellar. "Clementine will talk to you in the morning," Louis said on his way out.
"Is she gonna kill us or something?" Logan asked.
"Well I'll just say don't stare at the prosthetic," Louis chuckled as the cellar doors slammed shut. "Wait where's Henry, Hazel, and Mary?" Nico asked.
"Well Henry got pissed like a five year old and stormed off into the woods," Anne explained, "Then Hazel and Mary went looking for him after a while."
"Oh shit," Logan sighed.
"They'll be fine, maybe," Anne assured him.
Fourteen hours later. Louis, Violet, Aasim, and Willy untied them and escorted them out into the courtyard. Where they saw a woman with a prosthetic and realized that this was Clementine. "Get them on their knees," Clementine ordered.
They were kicked down onto their knees with guns placed at the back of their heads. Clementine inspected all of them noting their long, dirty, and unkempt hair. She shifted her gaze to Logan and Nico's clothes with black pants a weathered white short sleeved shirt and a relatively undamaged black vest. Then looked at Anne's dirty white hoodie and cargo shorts before turning and seeing Bethany's old Washington Redskins jersey and sport shorts.
"I'm going to ask you some questions and you better answer them truthfully since I'm not playing any games," Clementine said, "Do you understand?"
They nodded their heads.
"What are your names?" she asked.
"I'm Nico, their names are Logan, Bethany, and Anne," Nico replied.
"Alright, now what community did you come from?" Clementine asked.
"This place, called Riverside it's near Alexandria and some others," Logan explained.
"We're the only people for miles. Why did you come so far from Riverside?" Clementine questioned.
"It was attacked by a group called the Whisperers," Anne responded.
Clementine recognized the name from when James told her about his origins and asked, "So how come you didn't go to Alexandria or the other places?"
"They're in a war with The Whisperers," Bethany replied, "And there was a massive horde coming from their direction."
"What's the name of their leader?" she asked.
"Rick Grimes," Nico replied.
"It sounds like you doubt his ability to lead," Clementine replied.
"Rick Grimes is a very capable man, but The Whisperers are different not like The Saviors or The Wolves they're something else," Logan stammered, "At one of the communities they had at least twenty people with them and in their camp, there were another forty."
"How long have you been traveling?" She asked.
"About a week," Nico replied.
"So you just deserted them," Clementine scowled.
"Well when they killed Jesus who was one of the coalition's best fighters it's kinda over," Anne explained.
"Wait, Jesus?" Clementine asked.
"That's his nickname, his real name is Paul Rovia," Bethany replied.
"I know," Clementine replied, "I knew him."
"Oh, you were in that baseball guys group?" Nico asked.
"Yeah, I was," Clementine replied, "Well if he was allied with your community then you must be good people. And we'll need all the help we can get with those new raiders."
"We don't know these people," Violet protested.
"Well Jesus made a pact with their group and if he didn't think they were good people he wouldn't have done it," Clementine replied,
"Well get up I suppose we have to find you proper rooms." Clementine held out her hand to Logan for a handshake and Logan shook it.
"Alright now Willy, move that furniture blocking the rest of the hallway and find them two proper rooms for them to stay in," Clementine ordered.
Willy nodded and left towards the building.
"But while he's doing that, I need Nico and Logan to follow me," Clementine said.
They followed Clementine towards the admin building. Once they were inside they noticed it was completely falling apart. Nico peered in a room as they were walking by and noticed a piano sitting in there along with two chairs and a clock. They had gone up the stairs and entered an old office Logan presumed was for the principal of the school.
"Alright, I just wanted to ask you away from everybody," Clementine began, "You don't know any of the people that shot at Aasim and Violet?"
"We don't," Nico answered, "The only people we could possibly know are or were about a three and a half day walk away and that wasn't the length of our journey since we had to find each other after the attack and the herd we had to navigate around."
"The closest thing we encountered to a person was a guy who hung himself about two hours before we passed him," Logan added.
"So it's just you four?" Clementine asked.
"Uhhh, actually there are seven of us, but three kinda disappeared," Nico replied, "Around three hours before Anne and Bethany met your people."
"We'll find your people," Clementine promised.
"Do you have a map?" Logan asked.
Clementine pulled out a map and slid it across the table towards Logan.
"Aasim said that we were in the fishing shack so I'd assume that they went in the general direction of the train station," Logan assumed.
"Alright, so we'll send a search party tomorrow we need to let the people get to know you so they'll feel safe going out with you," Clementine explained.
"Alright," Logan agreed.
"I'm sure Willy will have found your rooms by now so if you want to check them out," Clementine said.
Logan and Nico left the building and went to the dorm building.
They walked down the hallway and turned the corner to see Willy pushing the last piece of furniture.
"Why did you even have furniture blocking the rest of the hallway?" Nico asked.
"Well we didn't have any use for it since we lost a lot of people and if walkers somehow got in that's just another place to look," Willy explained, "Oh, and that one right there is your room the girls have a separate one."
Logan and Nico walked into one of the rooms and immediately noticed the paint peeling off the walls. Not to mention the metal frame on the bunk beds looking wobbly. Nico plopped down on one of the beds and exhaled brushing his blonde hair off of his face. While Logan started going through drawers to see if there was anything of relative interest. Eventually, he found a pair of sharp scissors and an electric shaver.
"I see they overlooked this room," Logan said holding up the scissors and shaver.
"Damn you mean we can cut our hair?" Nico asked.
"Yup," Logan chuckled, "I'm not using that shaver though I don't want a buzz cut."
Logan took the scissors and left in search of the bathroom so he had a mirror to do it in front of.
He decided to look for someone to ask where the bathroom is. He saw Louis and popped the question.
"Do you know where the bathroom is?" Logan asked.
"Yeah man it's in the admin building it's the room on the right when you walk in," Louis replied.
"Thanks," Logan said.
Logan found his way to the bathroom and began cutting his hair. When he finished cutting it was short and he parted it with his hands to the right. he went outside and sat at a picnic bench and started reflecting on the past few weeks. After he did that Logan looked around the courtyard he could see Aasim writing in a journal. He contemplated on whether or not to try and strike up a conversation but ultimately decided not to since he thought it would be too awkward.
Logan just sat there trying to enjoy the nice spring weather. Anne eventually came outside and sat across from him.
"Well it's a nice place isn't it?" Anne asked.
"Yeah, I suppose it is," Logan sighed.
"We're gonna find them they're going to be okay," Anne assured him.
"We said that about Jordan and we found his corpse in the woods and that was miles away. There are real breathing people literally less than a mile away. So forgive me if I'm not enthusiastic about our chances of finding them," Logan retorted.
They looked over and saw Omar dumping rabbit meat in the stewpot and he started stirring.
"Oh yeah do we still have any of that food?" Logan asked.
"Not much," Anne replied, "Why?"
"We could give it to Clementine and the others," Logan suggested.
"Yeah we can go get that tomorrow," Anne agreed.
Yesterday…
Henry recoiled as a man slapped him. "You little shit," he grumbled, "Where the fuck is the food you stole?"
"Go fuck yourself," Henry snarled.
"We got a brave one boys!" the man chuckled, "Let's show him how far being brave gets you!"
Two gunshots echoed through the air and Henry felt a sharp pain. He felt the blood gushing through his shirt before he could attempt to cover it to stop the bleeding he blacked out.