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Woo! Kenny's back, can't wait for the next chapter
Yeah Kenny return, that will be good for the both of them because right now they are both broken men.
Enjoy
"Holy-Holy shit." Kenny said wide eyed as he stared at Lee, "Lee, is that really you man?"
Lee let out a wide smile, "Yeah, it is."
Kenny jumped to his feet and took Lee's hand pulling him up, "Well what do ya say?!" Kenny exclaimed pulling him into a quick hug, "I thought we lost you for sure!"
Lee shook his head, "Me? What about you, last I saw you were in an alley that was surrounded by walkers."
Kenny let out a nod, "I-I don't really know what happened. I put down Ben and just started to push through them, in the end I just got lucky, really lucky." He said thinking back to the day then he let out another smile, "God it's so great to see you, where's Clem?" He said looking around,
Lee's face dropped and Kenny's eyes turned to sorrow, "I don't know." Lee whispered out,
"That fucker still has her?" Kenny asked furiously,
"No, I saved her but she had to leave me. I don't have any idea where she is now." Lee said as he wiped his eyes that were starting to tear up,
Kenny's face softened and he reached out putting a hand on his shoulder, "I'm sorry pal, but you did your job. You saved her." He said softly,
Molly slowly let go of the woman and walked over to them dropping her hood, "Good to see you're still kicking grandpa." Molly said with a smirk,
Kenny looked over at her in a bit of shock, "Guess you're the reason he's still kicking too?" He said pointing his thumb back to Lee,
"Yeah well what can I say? You guys are always in need of my help." She said with a grin as she crossed her arms,
"Thank you." Kenny said sincerely, Molly shifted a bit unsure how to respond.
Molly gave him a small nod before they heard the woman from behind them, "Um, Kenny? Who are these people?"
"Shit, sorry. Guys this is Sarita." Kenny said with a wide smile as she walked over,
"Hello." Sarita said with a small wave,
"Sarita this is Molly." He said pointing to her, "And this is Lee. Lee here is one tough sonofabitch. He was in charge of our last group."
"Was I?" Lee said with a raised eyebrow,
Kenny looked over to him dismissively, "Well it wasn't Lilly and it sure as shit wasn't me." Kenny said with a smirk, "So that just leaves you pal."
Lee let out a small smile but didn't exactly agree with him. "So are you two alone?' Sarita asked curious,
"Yeah, we were stopping here. Planning on holding up here for a few days till we could come up with a plan." Lee explained, "What about you guys?"
Kenny let out a wide smile, "Well pal, we already got a plan. Sarita here heard about a place up north, Wellington."
"Wellington?" Molly asked crossing her arms,
"Yes, it's a community located right over the line of Ohio. It's supposed to be the perfect location." Sarita said with a nod,
"Hear that Lee? I mean just think about it, cold at shit winters so the walkers slow down and friendly people. What's not to like?" Kenny said with a smirk,
Lee thought about it for a moment before letting out a single nod, "I guess, beats sticking around here. This place has seen better days." Lee said as he looked around the destroyed shop, "What do you think Molly?"
Molly let out a smirk and rolled her eyes, "I guess I can't really argue with that, this place is shit."
"That's fantastic, it will be so lovely to have more people around." Sarita said warmly,
"Yeah, here Lee why don't you and me go siphon the gas and clear these buildings." Kenny said as he turned back to him,
Lee gave him a quick nod, "Alright, you two think you can handle the other two buildings here?" Lee asked turning his attention to Molly and Sarita,
Kenny's eyes quickly narrowed, "Let's hold off on that, we should handle that together."
Molly let out a little scoff, "I'm sure we can handle it Kenny."
"We don't need to be taking any risks." Kenny said firmly then looked to Lee for support, "Come on Lee you know I'm right on this, hell you lost an arm picking up a hat."
Lee frowned at the comment, hearing it made it sound idiotic but he was right. Before he could say anything Sarita spoke up, "Kenny what if Molly and I search this building, we know it's safe. Would that be acceptable?"
"Yeah come on gramps let's get this show on the road already." Molly said growing irritated,
Kenny's jaw locked for a moment as he had a short internal discussion with himself, "Ken, it'll be fine. Let's just get this over with alright?" Lee said a bit sternly,
Kenny let out a soft grumble and let out a nod. Lee and Kenny both headed back outside and headed towards Kenny's truck. As they were walking Kenny paused and stared at the station wagon Lee drove up in, "Is that-"
"It is, it belong to the guy who took Clem. He wanted to get back at us for taking his food." Lee explained quickly while his voice started to turn more and more angry,
"But, how did he-" Kenny tried to ask but Lee interrupted once again,
"Clementine told him we did it. He tricked her, used her, tried to turn her against us...me." Lee said as the reached the truck. Lee suddenly slammed his fist into the car door denting it, he took a deep breath, "And it worked...but I killed the motherfucker." Lee grumbled out,
Kenny stared at Lee in surprise, everything that had happened between them and he'd never seen Lee go off like this. Not only that but it seemed he was always right on his edge ready to explode at the slightest thing. Kenny slowly walked to him and reached in the back grabbing a gas can and a siphon tube, "We, uh, we can siphon the gas out of this truck and put it in yours, this one ain't doing so hot."
Lee took another deep breath calming himself, "Alright, I'll take a look at these other cars." He said walking to a few parked cars in the lot without looking back at Kenny.
Back in the store Molly and Sarita were finishing lifting up a fallen shelf. Molly let out a smile as she saw a few cans and small snacks laying on the ground, "Perfect, just what we needed." Sarita said gleefully,
"Yeah, nice that people can still overlook some things." Molly agreed while kneeling down and picking up a can,
"So you were in Kenny's last group?" Sarita asked as she began to put food in her backpack,
"No, I just met up with them for a day. Then I left...or at least tried too." Molly said with a little smirk,
"Oh? Why did you do this?" Sarita asked curiously,
"Well they had this boat, wasn't big enough to take all their people with them. I was going to try and trade my way onto it but I guess I couldn't bring myself to do it." Molly said with a shrug, "I figured that group needed it more than me, But that didn't happen so whatever, right?"
Sarita gave a small nod, "So then you don't know anything about what happened to Kenny before then." She stated a bit saddened,
"No, but Lee should. He's been with him since the beginning." Molly paused then looked over to her, "Why do you want to know what happened to him before?"
Sarita let out a little sigh, "He's a wonderful man, extremely sweet and protective but something weighs on him. He won't talk about it but I feel if I knew then I could help him get past it."
Molly shook her head dismissively, "That's a dumb idea if you ask me, everyone's got shit they just want to forget. Bringing it up doesn't do anything but make it worse."
Sarita looked up at her sympathetically for a moment, then she continued to pack up the few food supplies. The two women got up and continued to look around the store grabbing any small item left behind. Finally after fifteen minutes, while they were checking over the counter Sarita asked, "So this man Lee, are you two involved?"
"What?! N-no! Why would you ask that?" Molly replied blushing ever so slightly,
"You seem to hold him in high regard." Sarita said with a smile,
"What are you talking about?" Molly asked looking at her confused, "I haven't even talked about him."
"My mother always told me to look at the way someone looks at others. When I see you look at him your eyes almost seem to light up." Sarita said with a warm smile,
"Look lady, keep you wacky theories to yourself alright?" Molly said quickly and picked up her bag walking to another part of the gas station. Sarita watched her a let out a small smirk before shaking her head and continued to check the counter.
Meanwhile outside Lee and Kenny were working on siphoning out the few cars that had fuel in them. They were able to gather just about half a tank which wasn't great but it would get them moving. "Getting colder out." Kenny mumbled as he picked up the gas can and started to walk back to the station wagon,
"Yeah." Lee replied with a small nod, "Figure it must be august, maybe september by now." He said looking around at the trees that's leaf's were all yellow and orange,
"This trip ain't gonna be easy, but what choice do we got?" Kenny continued as he started to pour the gas into the car,
"Can't be harder then what we've already been through." Lee said while leaning against the car, he took hold of his stump and rubbed it,
Kenny peered up and frowned, "How's that treating ya?"
"It pisses me off, can't do half the shit I used too. Hell can't even tie my shoes." Lee said irritated,
Kenny let out a small nod unsure how to respond, "Well pal, I'm sure you'll get-"
"Ken." Lee said stoically while looking at the highway,
Kenny looked up and his face twisted into anger, "You've gotta be shitting me."
They both watched as a horde of dead lumbered towards them, there may have been at least forty. Lee reached into his pocket and tossed Kenny the keys to the station wagon, "Go get Molly and Sarita."
"What about you?" Kenny asked confused. Lee didn't reply he simply pulled out his meat cleaver and started to march towards the horde. Kenny quickly ran into the gas station while Lee began to slam his cleaver into one of the walker's skull. "Grab your shit! We gotta go!" Kenny shouted out immediately,
"What's wrong?" Sarita asked running over,
"Shit load of walkers is right outside, we need to get into the car and get the fuck outta here!" Kenny exclaimed while taking her hand,
"Where's Lee?" Molly asked as she ran over,
"Holding 'em back!" Kenny replied as he ran out the door. Molly quickly pulled out Hilda and started to run out towards him. She spotted him slowly getting swarmed while swinging wildly, killing walker after walker. She ran forward and quickly swung Hilda driving the pick through the bottom of it's jaw and into it's brain.
"Christ! What is it with you?!" Molly yelled out as she pulled Hilda out of the walker,
"What?!" Lee shouted back while kicked a walker off his cleaver,
"You know you only have one arm left, you can't afford to go making mistakes!" Molly shouted back with a grin as she swung Hilda to the side smashing it into a walker's head. The two of them began to back up heading towards the station wagon while Kenny was starting it up and reversing it quickly.
"Get your ass's in here!" Kenny shouted from the car. Lee and Molly put their weapons away and turned back sprinting back to the car. The dead were nipping at their heels, Molly swung open the back door and dove inside.
Lee jumped into the back as well and slammed the door shut just as a walker smashed against the window of the door, "Drive!" Lee shouted, Kenny slammed his foot on the gas pedal and the station wagon tore out of the parking lot leaving the remaining walkers in the dust.
"Everyone okay?" Kenny said peering into the rear view window,
"In one piece." Molly said with a heavy huff while sitting up,
"So to speak." Lee said with a smirk while looking over to her. Molly peered over and let out a grin and started to laugh. Lee let out a chuckle and let his head fall back against the headrest, he shut his eyes. He was asleep within minutes, physically exhausted from his fight. Kenny let out a smirk while driving, despite everything that had happened he was happy to have Lee back along for the trip.
Alright so another chapter down and a nice reunion between Lee and Kenny. We also see that Lee has become more jaded as evident by his short fuse and willingness to charge a horde. Tell me what you think about this new Lee and if you think he'll eventually get past it. So anyway I'll see you all in the next chapter!