Guest

For some reason I can't help but think that the minute Clementine sees Lee she's gonna faint!

You never know, I will say it's going to be extremely emotional for them both.

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I just started reading your story and I read all the chapters at once. I like it so far I can't wait to see when and how Lee is going to reunite with Clem. I'm not sure what you have planned but I'm sure both Lee and Clem will be crying their eyes out.

Glad you are enjoying the story and no worries you'll see their reunion in a few chapters actually!

Smeake

Good chapter, can't wait for the next one

Thanks bud, hope you like this one.

Enjoy

Nearly another two months past as the group scouted around Ohio trying to find Wellington. They had searched nearly all of south Ohio and finally figured that Wellington must be located on the north part of Ohio. As they continued to hike through the woods they spotted some train tracks and decided to follow them to see where they lead, hoping to find a small town to gather some supplies and even some winter clothes.

After two days of following the train tracks the group came to a screeching halt when they found what they had to cross, a giant red bridge over a river. "Fuck." Lee grumbled out as he looked at the bridge, "If anyone sees us we're gonna be sitting ducks."

"No way around it, gonna have to cross." Kenny replied looking the the bridge while crossing his arms,

"Molly, could you get us an eye? See if anything is on the other side?" Lee said turning to her.

Molly let out a quick nod and ran over to a tree and started to quickly pull herself up it. Lee grimaced slightly, worried that she could fall but Molly handled the climb with ease and got to the top within a minute. She pulled out a pair of binoculars and started to scan across the bridge for anything of note, her eyes rested on a very small station house. "Hey! I think I see a place we can hold up in for the night!"

Sarita looked over to Kenny and smiled happy knowing they weren't spending yet another night outside, "Anything else?!" Lee called back to her,

Molly looked around again and started to spot a ski lift that lead up the mountain which held an extremely large ski lodge, "Yeah! Top of the mountain has a huge building, ski lodge I think!" She called back causing Lee to look to the top of the mountain, yet all he could see was the very tip of a spinning wind turbine,

"That All?" Kenny called out to her,

Molly rolled her eyes, "Oh yeah and a huge buffet with a cure to this thing! Did I forget to mention that?!" She said with a sarcastic grin before tucking the binoculars away,

"Smart ass." Kenny grumbled out before turning back to the bridge, "What do ya think? We could work our way around, could cost us a few days."

Suddenly the group heard a bunch of twigs snapping and the deep groans of the dead, "Oh no." Sarita whispered out wide eyed as the three of them turned back to see dozens of walkers shuffling towards them,

"I don't think we can work around anymore." Kenny said taking Sarita's hand and slowly backing up,

"Yeah…" Lee replied as he instinctively reached for his pistol pulling it out. The walker closet to them let out a loud roar before lumbering after them followed by the others. "Run!" Lee shouted as he took a shot hitting a walker in the head. Kenny and Sarita took off towards the bridge while Lee held his ground waiting for Molly, "Molly we gotta move!"

"Shit, shit, shit." Molly hissed to herself as she started to climb down the tree quickly. Below she could hear taking shots as the dead and her heart started beating widely worried that he would get overrun. Just as she past the halfway point a large crack was heard and the branch Molly was hanging onto snapped sending her to the ground.

Lee turned back to her as he heard a loud scream before she hit the ground with a sickening thud. An audible crack was heard coming from her left leg, "FUCK!" Molly screamed out while clutching her leg in pain,

"Molly!" Lee exclaimed as he tucked his pistol back into his pants and ran over to her,

Molly took a sharp breath through her teeth while looking around seeing the dead closing around them both, "Go, get the fuck out of here Lee."

"Shut up!" Lee shot out to her while roughly grabbing her arm and pulling her off the ground over his shoulder.

Kenny and Sarita both stopped at the bridge when they noticed Lee and Molly weren't with them. They looked around fearfully until Sarita spotted Lee doing his best to run to the bridge, " There!" She exclaimed as she pointed over to them,

"Ah shit!" Kenny said as he pulled his rifle off his shoulder and aiming it up, "Lee! Come on, move!" He shouted to him while taking a shot hitting a walker that was closing in on them. Sarita pulled out her pistol and took a few careful shots hitting walkers that were closing in on the bridge,

Just as Lee was about to reach the bridge he tripped to the ground dropping Molly making her let out another yell of pain. Lee rolled over onto his back and pulled out his pistol once again taking shots at the dead, "Lee just go! You can't save me!" Molly yelled out to him furiously,

"Fuck that, I'd die first!" Lee shouted back as Molly too started taking shots with her gun. Lee continued to pull his trigger before hearing a click from his gun. A walker jumped onto him, however Lee was able to force his foot on its chest keeping it away from his face. The walkers jaws snapped and a black ooze dripped out of its mouth onto Lee's shirt.

Just then a gunshot ran out and hit the walker dead in the skull. Lee quickly kicked the body off of him while Kenny and Sarita turned back confused from the shot. A young asian man stood holding a semi automatic rifle, "Go get your friends quick!" He exclaimed as he took another shot hitting more walkers easily,

Kenny without waiting took off running over to the pair, Lee got to his feet and saw Kenny running over to them, "Get Molly!" He commanded while sliding out his spent clip and slipping in a new one,

Kenny slipped his rifle over his shoulder and took hold of Molly picking her up quickly. The two men quickly ran back to the bridge while the man and Sarita provided cover fire. As they got onto the bridge the man lowered his rifle, "Great you made, come on let's get a move on!"

"Who the hell are you?" Molly asked quickly,

"Let's save introductions for later." The man replied as he turned around leading the group across the bridge quickly, "Stay off the tracks, woods rotten. Could break and you'd fall right into the river." He said quickly while they continued to sprint across the bridge,

"Sorry to bring this up but running will only work so long, these things don't tire." Kenny said through some deep huffs,

"Don't worry, we just need to get into the station house." The man replied as they got to the other side of the bridge. He quickly swung open the door of the house and slammed it shut, "Blinds close them quick." The man commanded as he pointed to the windows. While Kenny carefully laid Molly down on a cot Lee and Sarita quickly closed the blinds blocking any sight into the building, "Now quiet." The man whispered out as he crouched down.

Everyone slowly knelt down and went extremely silent waiting to see if it would work. After a few minutes they heard the growling of the walkers as they reached the building, "Is this going to work?" Sarita whispered out,

"Ssh." Lee said slowly as he raised a finger to his lips. They continued to hear walkers shuffle past the building for the next few minutes, finally they sound stopped and not a single walker stopped at the building.

The man slowly walked over to a window and carefully pulled back the curtain looking outside, "Don't worry, they're passing. We should stay here for the night though." He said with a small smile and sat down on the ground,

Everyone let out a sigh of relief, Lee quickly moved over to Molly and took her hand into his. Kenny on the other hand turned his attention to the man, "And who the fuck might you be anyway?"

"Names Matthew, looked like you guys needed some help." He said with a small smirk,

"Thank you, you probably saved all our lives." Sarita said sincerely,

"No problem, am happy to help." Matthew replied as he pulled his hood down off his head, "Besides it's been awhile since I've seen new people, must have been a few weeks at the least."

Kenny raised his eyebrow suspiciously, "What happened to these other people?"

"Moved on," He said with a small shrug, "Happens all the time, every group I run by moves on within a few days. All of them have a new story or idea, but it's nice to have the company while it lasts."

"Why don't you go with them?" Molly asked looking over to the man,

"No reason to, I like where I am just fine." Matthew replied wholeheartedly,

"You like living here alone? In a station house?" Lee said in disbelief,

"Oh no, I don't live here. Me and Walter live up at the ski lodge." Matthew replied as he moved over to a trunk and pulled out a few cans of peaches, "Hey you all look pretty hungry, here take these. I got plenty."

Sarita took the cans a bit confused while Lee and Kenny looked at each other, "Uh, who the fuck is this Walter guy?"

Matthew let out a little chuckle, "Right, sorry. Walter is my partner, we live up at the lodge. I come down here some days to scavenge around. Lucky for you folks I came down today." He took a second looking around at their faces before smiling again, "You know if you want to you could come up to the lodge tomorrow, Walter loves meeting now people and we could make you a hot meal. Perks of having power."

"You have power?" Lee asked taken aback,

"Yeah the ski lodge runs off a wind turbine, it was trying to go green before the fall, lucky for us. Early on me and Walter found a big food truck stacked with cans of peaches and cans so we have more than enough to share." Matthew explained as he leaned back against the wall letting out a relieved sigh,

"Sounds good...what's the catch though?" Kenny asked suspiciously,

"No catch, just nice to have some friendly people around." He said let they all heard Molly let out a guttural groan of pain as Lee lightly put his hand on her leg, "What's wrong?" He asked fully concerned,

"She fell out a tree," Lee replied then looked back to Molly, "How bad is it?"

"Scale of one to ten, got to be a fucking forty." She said while gritting her teeth, "It's definitely broke." She said as Matthew got up and walked over,

"What are you doing?" Lee asked defensively,

"Relax, I used to be a volunteer EMT. I just want to check and see how bad it is, if that's alright?" He said looking at Molly, she stared at him for a moment before nodding quickly, "Alright just take a deep breath, I'll be a gentle as possible." He said as he rolled up her pant leg. Molly let out a few small whimpers and groans as he inspected her leg, "Well I don't think it's broke actually, maybe cracked."

"Great." Molly said taking a deep breath, "Still hurts like a bitch though."

"I bet." Matthew said with a smirk, "Don't worry though, you can rest up at the ski lodge for as long as you need."

Kenny peered over to Sarita and narrowed his eyes a bit, "Don't know if we're gonna be sticking around too long, we're heading up to Wellington."

"Oh Wellington." Matthew said with a roll of his eyes, "I always keep hearing that name."

"Do you know where is it?" Sarita asked quickly,

"Nope, but I hear that from almost every other group that passes through here." Matthew replied, "If the place doesn't exist the amount of people looking for it could totally build it from scratch." He said with a laugh as he propped up Molly's leg, "Why don't we get some rest, we'll head out first thing in the morning."

Kenny looked over to Lee who let out a slow nod, "Yeah you all catch some sleep, I'll just stay up for awhile, make sure we don't have any surprises."

"Cool, sounds like a plan." Matthew said laying down resting his head on his backpack.

The group had a rotating shift each taking watch for walkers as well as a trap that Matthew may have been trying to spring but to their surprise everything went exactly as Matthew said, they slept and woke up the next morning ready to get a move on. "Now it's a bit of a walk, but you just tell me if we need to stop. It's no rush." He said looking over to Molly,

Molly let out a little grin as she got to her feet slightly raising her left leg, "Don't worry Lee here will carry me, right?"

Lee let out a little chuckle, "Up a mountain, I don't know about that." He said playfully,

"Alright enough sapp, come on let's get to this ski lodge." Kenny said firmly as he opened the door slowly. Molly put an arm around Lee's neck and the two slowly walked out the door followed back Sarita and Matthew.

"Alright follow me." Matthew said as he closed the door to the station and locked it before running to the front of the group. It took the group nearly four hours to hike up the mountain, stopping several times to let Molly and Lee rest. Finally they let out a deep sigh of relief as they reached the steps of the lodge, "God he's gonna be so pissed at me for staying out all night." Matthew mumbled to himself as they reached the door.

Suddenly a older man burst through the door almost in tears. Kenny instinctively reached for his gun but stopped as he saw his run over to Matthew pulling him into a hug then a kiss, "I thought you got into trouble, I was so worried."

"I know I'm sorry, We had to hold up in the station house for the night." Matthew explained with a smile before turning back around, "Walter this is….shit, I never did ask for your names."

Sarita let out a small laugh, "It's alright, I'm Sarita. I'm assuming you must be Walter?"

Walter let out a warm smile and held out his hand to shake her's, "That's right, pleased to meet you." Walter looked over to Kenny, "And who are you?"

"Name's Kenny." Kenny said as he gave him a firm handshake,

"Firm grip you have there." Walter said with a smirk then looked just behind them, "Hello, who are you two?"

"Lee." Lee replied with a little huff as he helped support Molly,

"Molly, sorry but could I please come in and sit down." She said with a small pleading in her voice,

"Are you alright?" Walter asked worried,

"Shit, sorry. She cracked a bone in her leg yesterday." Matthew said quickly,

"Oh well please come in." Walter said quickly, "I think we might have some aspirin around her somewhere, won't do much but it will help a bit."

"I'll take whatever you got, might need twenty though." Molly said with a little smirk,

Walter let out a soft chuckle, "Sense of humor, always good to see. Now please follow me," He said leading them back to the door and opening the door to the lodge.

Okay so here we are closing in on season 2. I also hope you enjoyed how I created Matthew character, due to his quick death in canon. I will say both him and Walter were amazing people, though a bit foolish with their charity. Anyway let me know what you think and I'll see you in the next one.