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Nearly forty-eight hours after Lee cauterized his stump he finally awoke, his eyes flickered open slowly. He looked to his left and saw his stump wrapped up with fresh bandages, and at this point he realized that he was now laying on a bed and not on the floor. He looked around and saw that he wasn't even in the same building anymore. He let out a deep groan as he sat up, "Fucking Finally!" A voice said from across the room,

"Molly?" Lee asked shocked as he saw the short blonde woman sitting on a dining room table,

"Oh you remembered my name, how sweet." Molly said sarcastically as she hopped off the table and started walking over to him,

"How long have I been out?" Lee asked slowly swinging his legs around and placing them on the floor,

"Well you've been in and out but if you don't remember that then I guess two days? I think so at least." Molly said as she dug through a bag and grabbed a bottle of water. She walked over to him and handed it to him, "Here, drink up."

Lee quickly snatched the bottle and after a moment of struggling to take the cap off he downed the bottle in the matter of seconds. "Thanks." He said after taking a deep breath and dropping the bottle. His face dropped and he began to rub his eyes slowly,

"So, what? They decided to leave you behind when they got on the boat?" Molly asked leaning against a nearby couch,

"No." Lee said hardly as he continued to rub his eyes, nearly in tears,

"So you got bit and split? Come on Lee what happened?" Molly said pressing him,

"Vernon stole the goddamned boat. And some fucker...some evil fucker took Clementine." Lee replied,

"Who? Do you know where she is?" Molly asked quickly,

"Not with him, I told her to leave me." Lee finally looked up at her with red eyes, "I got bit and cut off my arm. I killed the guy who took her but I thought I was dead, my body was failing me." Lee said hanging his head, "She walked out that building where you found me and I don't know where she is. I told her to look for Christa and Omid, that's all I have to go on." Lee said with a small shrug,

"Jesus, what about everyone else? What happened to that guy in the baseball cap, the kid and Christa and Omid?" Molly asked once again confused with what happened,

"Kenny and Ben…." Lee said with another drop in his voice, "He tried to do right by him."

"Who?" Molly asked,

"Ben, he was trying to make it up to Kenny and all of us but something happened. We were leaping over to a different rooftop and the balcony he was using collapsed under him, impaled the poor kid." Lee said shaking his head,

"Shit." Molly said shocked,

"Me and Kenny went down to help him, but he was just too loud. The walkers heard his screams and they cornered us in the alley. Kenny...he just pushed me away and stayed out there. He made sure Ben didn't suffer but….I don't see how he could ever get out of there." Lee said with a small sniff remembering the loss of his friend, "Then Christa and Omid got separated when we got closer to Clem, I told them to meet us by the train. They are gone by now, with or without Clem."

Molly's eyes went soft and she walked over to him carefully putting his hand on her shoulder, "I...I'm sorry Lee." She said with a drop in her voice that came off very sincere. After a moment's pause Molly let out a sigh, "We need to leave Savannah, that herd that showed up has infected this city even worse than before. And who knows, maybe we can find Clem along the way." She added trying to sound hopeful,

"We?" Lee replied peering over to her,

Molly looked at him and narrowed her eyes, "Yes we, you seem to forget that I just saved your life. Add to the fact this herd was brought here by your loud fucking train, so Lee you owe me one." Molly walked over to a shelf and began to stuff items into a bag, "I mean I drag you from that shit jewelry shop and treated your wound so I don't see this as asking for much."

Lee paused and took in everything she said for a moment,"So this is where you stayed ever since Crawford?" Lee asked getting up,

"Yeah, first floor has a truck blocking the entrance," Molly said as she walked over and grabbed another backpack, "Not that it matters now, This whole city is just swarming with the dead, we need to get out while we can." She said shoving the bag into his hand, "Fill that with whatever you can find."

Lee let out a small sigh and started to look around the room, he felt so hopeless more than he ever had. "Alright." He said as he picked up a bottle of water and dropped it into the bag,

"Perk up, you're alive." Molly said rolling her eyes,

"Doesn't really make me feel any better." Lee said shaking his head, "Alive or dead, everyone I knew is gone."

Molly paused for a second trying to find something to counter that with but she couldn't find a thing. She knew how he was feeling right now, despite everything that Crawford was that's where her sister was safe, at least for a time. Yet when she died and she left that place, she felt so hollow. It really wasn't until she met Lee's group that she started to feel something, and that freaked her out so of course she left. Yet here she was again, with Lee heading off to help him again.

Molly let out a soft exhale before saying, "So I figured out a plan, if we can find a car that can work I can distract the dead using the bells while you get it started and we just drive out of this place. Only problem is finding a running car without stepping foot on the street."

Lee looked over at her then thought for a second, "I know where we can get one." Lee said causing Molly to turn back in surprise, "The son of a bitch who took Clem had a station wagon, it's parked right in front of the Marsh House."

"How do you know it runs?" Molly asked with a raised eyebrow,

Lee's eyes narrowed and clenched his fist, "I know because he followed us all the way from Macon in it."

Molly's eyes went a little wide in surprise, "I guess that's gonna have to good enough." She said with a small nod. Lee finished packing his bag and slung it over his shoulder then struggled slightly to put it over his other one. Molly looked over at him sadly as she saw him struggle but she quickly stopped staring not wanting to insult him in some way.

"Hey Molly, do you have a gun?" Lee asked looking at her hopefully,

Molly let out an annoyed sigh, "Yeah, but don't fucking use this thing." Molly replied as she dug through her bag and passed the pistol over to him, "The last thing we need is for you to fire off a shot and drawing them all to us." Lee let out a silent nod and tucking it into the back of his pants, "Here, this is yours too." Molly said passing his meat cleaver back to him,

Lee let out a weak half smile, "Thanks." He mumbled out and slipped it into his belt. Molly gave him a small nod before turning around and leading him out of the small apartment. Lee followed her down a hallway way that lead to a small staircase, they walked up it and walked out a door that brought them back to the rooftops. Lee put his hand out blocking his eyes from the sun, "Damn, never thought I'd see the sun again." Lee said with a small smile,

Molly let out a grin, "Enjoy the little things where you can." Lee let out a ever so soft chuckle as they walked across the rooftops. After several minutes Molly grinned and pointed to her right, "There's your Marsh House, and there's our ride." Lee let out a nod in agreement. "So," Molly said looking around, "There's our church bell." She finally said after scanning the rooftops, "Should take me ten minutes to get there, ring it and get back. Think you can get that running by then?"

"Yeah, let's just get this over with." Lee said with a nod while he headed back towards the fallen sign that had separated him from Christa and Omid. Molly let out a nod and took off running towards the church tower. Lee reached the sign in two minutes and waited patiently for the bell to sound off. He looked down at the street and could see the swarm of walkers lumbering about. Finally three minutes later he heard the bell let out a large ring.

The walkers looked around and quickly started to shuffle towards the noise. Lee carefully made his way back down the sign once again and with a small jump landed on the ground. He started to remember his last march down this street when he was fighting his way through the herd. Now he walked through an empty street stepping over the walkers he had killed. He got to the station wagon a swung the door open.

He started to look around the car for keys, he was sure that they were in the car. He checked the glove box and let out a small grin as he saw the keys sitting there, "Still didn't learn." He grumbled out thinking back to the stranger as he put the keys into the ignition. The car immediately turned over, Lee threw it into reverse and spun the car around. He drove forward just a bit and looked back to the rooftops where he saw Molly sprinting towards him. He turned around and saw the herd slowly walking back towards him. "Oh shit." Lee said wide eyed as he slowly began to drive forward, "Molly! Come on!" Lee shouted from out the window.

Molly pulled out Hilda and stopped quickly, she jumped off the edge but quickly caught herself with the edge of her ice pick. Lee watched in amazement as she started to hop from window to window making her way down the buildings. Lee continued to let the car roll forward while the herd got closer and closer. Molly hit the ground and started to sprint at the car while the dead we just at her heels. Lee reached over and pushed the passenger door open for her. Molly got to the car and pulled herself inside, "Go! Get us the fuck out of here!" Molly shouted as she looked back at the herd that just started to hit the back window.

Lee slammed on the gas pedal and the car sped down the streets. He continued to head towards the outskirts of Savannah but he kept hitting roadblocks and hundreds of walkers, "Shit where do we go?!" Molly exclaimed as they started to get closed in, Lee narrowed his eyes and hit the gas pedal turned off road up a small hill. The station wagon just barely made it up the hill while they drove out of the city leaving it in the dust finally. "Where to now?" Lee asked as he let out a sigh of relief.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter, and the return of Molly. Now that they got out of Savannah they have to find out where to go next. Lee wants to find Clementine but with nowhere to look that idea is dead in the water. Anyway leave a review telling me what you thought of it.