Guest
Great chapter can't wait for the next one. Excited to see how you're going to write season 2.
Thanks, I have a decent plan for season two and what twists are going to happen. The impact of Lee, or this more tougher Lee is going to be quite eventful.
smeake
Can't wait for the next one, can't wait to see Clem reunite with Lee
Coming up very soon, I am so ready to have them back together. I mean it's been over a year for them both.
Worker72
The reason the death scenes were so over the top in season 2 was b/c telltale made everyone but Clem so wimpy. I actually wanted to see everyone get mad and crazy at times. There were times when Bonnie talked about the kindness of strangers that I want to tell her about the 'nice people' who lived on the Dairy Farm offering to feed everyone and then drop the bombshell that the meat they offered were Mark's legs. People like Walter and Matthew needed to be shocked just like that if they were going to survive. I really preferred the evil play through for season 2 since your choices matter the least in that season. Lee and Molly needed to get over that hump sometime. It be unfair to keep Molly waiting for someone forever. Looking forward to Lee and Clem's reunion and hope Lee can keep Kenny from getting to trigger happy when Carver shows up.
You know I have to agree, Kenny was the only character who treated the world in the harshness it deserved. That's the problem too, Kenny (While one of my favorite characters) isn't someone who should lead, his emotions run him. So all throughout season two because everyone else was so incompetent he took charge but of course he started to become jaded as he lost Sarita. I mean the whole thing with Arvo, and Kenny being the only one who treated him like the enemy he was really made me pissed off because they wanted us to think Kenny was going crazy but really the rest of the group was so dumb to just give the kid a free pass after he lead a group to rob/kill them.
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When Clem comes back in could you kind of have her be like season 3 Clementine (maybe less swearing tho) but i feel like clementine should have been less of a wimp in season 2 and i want her to be such a badass that everyones like woah she doesn't need help
I have a plan for Clem and I am not going to make her into a wimp but I am also going to treat her like a kid, because that's what she is. Yes she's mature and that's due to her loss but in season two the things that she did seemed a bit crazy for an eleven year old.
ArktosFTW
Man, I found this story only today, but I couldn't keep my eyes off it. You have an amazing ability to reshape the strict, although amazing, story TellTale gave us, and I love it. Keep up the great work, and I hope my boy Matthew doesn't die, but I'm expecting it. Even later on, if/when Carver shows up, I can't wait for one armed Lee to meet one armed Reggie. That'll be hilarious. Anyways, love the work, keep it up!
Yeah the impact of Lee into the second season will be pretty big but you'll all see that soon enough. Glad you like it so far and thanks for the review.
Enjoy
Two months have past since the group arrived at the lodge, Molly's leg had healed up nicely and for the last week she'd started to get back into practicing her parkour again. Lee and Kenny lead construction detail on covering up the windows. To the constant surprise of the group, the dead rarely showed up around the lodge and if they did it was always in lower numbers.
Not only has the group's life been going well on the walker front, there mental life had been at it's best yet. Lee and Molly as well as Kenny and Sarita had been closer than ever before. Lee had finally been able to calm down, start moving past his losses. On the dawn of the sixty fifth day Matthew spoke up during breakfast, "So I think I'm heading down the mountain today, it's been a few weeks."
"Hopefully you can find some music or good books while you're out." Sarita said with a smile,
"I'll look hard for you Rita." Matthew said with a nod,
"Hey would you mind some company?" Molly asked with a smile,
"Sure, tired of the lodge too?" He said with a little chuckle,
"Nah, this place is great. Though beans and peaches are getting old. Figure I can use today to hunt us some fresh meat." Molly said with a small shake of her head,
"Sounds like a plan to me." Kenny said eagerly, "You make a mean can of beans Walt but I'm starving for something else."
Walt let out a smirk and shook his head. "Sarita would you mind helping me clean up?" He asked standing up,
"Absolutely, you know Walter I was thinking we should set up those Christmas supplies. This place would look beautiful." Sarita said looking around,
"That sounds like a terrific idea." Walter said with a smile as the two of them picked up the bowls and started heading back towards the kitchen. Lee followed Molly up to their room while Kenny headed outside.
"So, heading out hunting...with Matthew." Lee said as he watched Molly grab her gear,
"Jealous?" Molly asked with a little smirk,
"Hardly, just worried." Lee said walking over and taking her hand,
"Don't worry, I'll be fine." Molly said warmly and she turned back to him, "You know what you can do for me today?"
"What's that?" Lee asked curious,
"Shave! Please for the love of god shave your beard off. Get it back to your shorter one, like when we met. I'm sick of it scratching me." Molly exclaimed with a wide smile, "Besides I cut your hair just last week, now you need to the beard to match."
"What about you? Are you gonna cut your hair again?" Lee asked moving his hand out and running his hand along her now shoulder length hair,
"Me? Nope, it's kinda grown on me, like your beard has on your face. Get. Rid. Of. It." She said firmly.
"Fine," Lee said running his hand through his beard, "Should have done it awhile ago."
"Good." Molly said pushing in for a short kiss, "Now just relax, I'll see you in a few hours with some fresh food."
Lee felt a small pit form in his stomach as he watched her walk away but he took a slow breath and calmed his nerves remembering how she survived alone for so long in Savannah all the way back when. Lee walked over to his dresser and grabbed a change of clothes and when he peered up he let out a chuckle. He was staring directly in the mirror at himself and could do nothing but shake his head and laugh at the sight. He beard now trumped Kenny's in size and he couldn't take it anymore either.
He headed into the bathroom and dug around the cabinets until he found a buzzer, "Gonna be harder to do this with one hand." He mumbled to himself as he plugged it into the wall socket and heard it immediately start up. It took Lee fifteen careful minutes of buzzing to cut his beard off his face but once he was done it looked almost as if the past year didn't happen. Lee stared into the mirror and let out a small sigh, he looked at his reflection bitterly before turning around and heading back out of the bathroom.
Lee walked down the stairs and headed outside where he could see both Matthew and Molly walking down the mountain. He watched her sadly as she disappeared from view, just then he heard Kenny from behind him, "Well, well. Look who's all cleaned up." He said with a bit of surprise in his voice,
Lee jumped ever so slightly then turned back to him and let out a chuckle, "Yeah, Molly hated the beard. Wasn't too fond of it myself to be honest. What about you, when's yours coming off?" He said pointing to his bushy beard,
"Don't think it's coming off pal, Sarita loves it and with it getting colder out can't help but think it's gonna help me keep warm." Kenny said with a smirk as he turned back around and started walking to the west side of the building. Lee put the thoughts of Molly out of his head and started walking with him, "Took awhile but the front is finally blocked up, same as the east side now all we got is these three windows." He said looking at the large glass windows,
"Yeah, only thing we have going for us up here is the walkers are always thin. If they were this place would have been screwed over a long time ago." Lee said shaking his head,
"Yeah, Walt's a good man but he wasn't too keen on us doing this." Kenny said with a shake of his head,
"Like it or not, this needs to get done." Lee said firmly then he let out a little groan, "We forgot to tell Matthew to gather up some more wood today. We aren't gonna get anywhere with what we have left."
Kenny ran his hand across his jaw and thought for a minute, "You're right, but I think I know what we can get done today."
Lee looked over at him with a raised eyebrow, "What?"
"Sarita really want's this place spruced up. I mean I don't even know if we past Christmas yet or even if we past Thanksgiving but I think we should go grab a tree." Kenny said with a little smile,
"Are you fucking serious?" Lee asked surprised and a bit sarcastically,
"Hell man why not? When was the last time our lives were this good, let's just fucking enjoy this day." Kenny said with a smirk and a shrug,
Lee looked at him confused and let out a little scoff, "Alright, if that what you think we should do. I'll go grab the ax I guess." Lee said turning back around and heading back into the lodge.
While Lee and Kenny worked on finding a suitable 'Christmas' tree for the lodge Matthew and Molly reached the bottom of the mountain by mid day. They split up and each started working on their own things, Matthew searched around looking for any abandoned camps for ammo or good books while Molly got to work on catching some fresh meat. By four they both returned to the station house to start their journey back to the lodge. "So how'd it go for you Molly?" Matthew asked with a hopeful look,
"Few squirrels, and a rabbit. Ain't much but it will spice up meal tonight." Molly said with a little shrug, "I wonder if Lee misses squirrel, used to have it every week but he always prefered rabbit." She said with a smirk,
Just then they heard a shout coming from the bridge, "What the fuck is that?" Matthew asked wide eyed turning back to the bridge,
Molly pulled out her binoculars quickly and peered through them, she immediately spotted a small girl hanging off the side of the bridge with a walker reaching out for her and a man desperately trying to pull himself up from the very bottom of the bridge, "It's a girl and a guy, there getting attacked!"
"Alright come on then! We gotta help them!" Matthew exclaimed pulling out his rifle,
"Wait hold on we don't know anything about these people." Molly said putting the binoculars down, "They could be dangerous."
"Yeah, well you guys could have been and I still helped you. Now let's go already." Matthew said firmly,
Molly let out a deep sigh and pulled out her bow, "Fine let's just get this over with." The pair of them started sprinting down to the bridge and just as they reached the halfway point they saw the man standing protectively next to the small girl with his hand over his gun,
"Stay cool." Matthew whispered to Molly, "Well, who are you!?" Matthew called out sternly which surprised Molly a bit,
"Well who's asking!?" The man called back,
"I am!" Matthew shouted back,
"I'm Clementine and this is Luke!" Clementine shouted back to the pair,
Molly went wide eyed and she looked over to Matthew. Matthew looked back to here a bit confused then realized what she was attesting too. "Clem?!" She immediately called back,
Luke looked down to Clementine, "You know that woman?"
"I-I don't know." Clementine replied squinting into the distance at them. Slowly they started to walk forward and Luke held his hand tightly on his pistol but still didn't pull it out. Just as they got closer Clementine's eyes went wide as she finally saw Molly's face clearly, "Oh my god Molly? Is that you?"
"Clementine, holy shit! It's...you're alive!" She exclaimed shocked as well as thrilled, especially for Lee,
Luke slowly eased his hand off his gun, "You wanna tell me who she is?" He asked looking down to Clem,
"This is Molly, I met her when I was in my last group." Clem replied with a smile while looking at her,
"You need to come with us, right now." Molly said quickly,
"Whoa now, let's hold up." Luke said a bit firmly,
"You don't have to worry." Matthew said relaxing, "We're not assholes, we have food and supplies to share. It's just a hell of a walk up to the lodge."
"The lodge?" Luke asked suspiciously,
"Listen pretty boy, Clementine needs to follow me." Molly said firmly, "Now you can join us and get a hot meal or just sit her on the bridge all night."
Luke frowned at her, "You ain't taking her if she doesn't want to go."
Clementine quickly spoke up, "Molly, I'm sorry but I'm not leaving Luke alone."
"Everyone relax." Matthew said easily, "No one is being forced to do anything. We would just like you to come to dinner at the least. If you want you can come back with us to the station house back there and we can talk it over."
"That's awful nice of you, what's the catch?" Luke asked suspiciously,
"No catch. We have plenty." Matthew said with a smile,
"Well alright, thank you." Luke said letting out a sigh and smiling,
"No problem, and if you want...What the fuck man?!" Matthew exclaimed as he and Molly both saw a man running towards them with a rifle,
"Who the fuck is that?!" Molly shouted out while reaching for her pistol this time,
"No! No! He's With Us! NICK NO!" Luke shouted frantically while waving his arms,
"Don't shoot!" Clem shouted but Luke quickly pulled her down to the ground. A gunshot went off and Luke and Clem looked up only to see Molly laying on top of Matthew. They both looked up at the pair wide eyed, "Are you okay?" She asked quickly.
Just then a second gunshot went off hitting the bridge right next to them. Matthew and Molly frantically crawled to the other side of the bridge, "NICK YOU DUMB ASSHOLE STOP!" Luke shouted out at the top of his lungs,
Nick ran forward towards Luke and Clem and aimed directly at Matthew, "Screw you assholes." He said icily as put his finger on the trigger. Luke quickly jumped at him tackling him to the ground punching him in the face,
"STOP! YOU! STUPID! FUCK!" Luke screamed out slowly making Nick finally hear what he was saying,
Clementine ran over to Matthew and Molly, "Are you hurt?" She asked yet both of them quickly shook their heads no,
"Jesus Christ." Matthew said taking deep breaths, "That your friend?"
"Yeah, my very dumb, very deaf friend." Luke said slowly standing up, "I am so sorry, he's been going through a lot recently."
"You gave me the clear shot, it looked like they were holding you up." Nick said defensively as he got up. Molly quickly walked up to him and gave him a swift kick to the balls sending him back down, "FUCK!" Nick shouted out holding onto his groin,
"Asshole." She spat out turning around,
"You deserved that one man." Luke said stifling back a grin. He quickly looked back to Matthew, "Listen I am telling you that we are good people, actually this isn't even all of us. I promise you that no one else will try something like that. That is if your offer still stands."
Matthew let out a deep breath, "Yes, it still stands. As long as nothing else happens."
"Okay, Nick go get the others. Tell them that these are good people and I swear to god Nick if I so much as see you holding another gun when you come back here." Luke said coldly,
"Yeah, yeah, asshole." Nick grumbled out as he slowly limped back to the other side of the bridge,
After fifteen minutes of awkward waiting Nick returned with the rest of Luke's group which consisted of Carlos, Sarah, Alvin and Rebecca. Matthew greeted them all yet only was met with cautious responses. Matthew made one quick pit stop at the station house grabbing a few items before locking it up and leading them up the mountain. It took them three house to get to the lodge and as soon as they got there they were met with Kenny, Walter and Sarita. Kenny was holding a rifle aimed at them, "Matthew who the hell are these people?" He asked furiously,
"Calm down man, it's okay." Matthew replied holding up his hands,
"Please we can all go inside and talk this through." Walter said trying to defuse any confrontation,
"Fuck that!" Kenny shot back, "Sarita go inside and tell-" Kenny started to say only to stop dead as he saw Clementine push through the crowd, "C-Clementine?" He asked softly while wide eyed,
"Clementine? Like Clementine, Clementine?" Walter asked surprised only to see Clem jump out and hug Kenny tightly. Kenny slowly pulled back and put a hand on her shoulder giving her a warm smile, "I'll take that as a yes."
"Come with me, you need to see something." Kenny said quickly taking her hand and leading her into the lodge,
"Please I can answer any questions you have." Walter said as Molly too pushed past the group and ran into the lodge behind Kenny and Clem.
As they walked up the stairs Kenny looked around and spotted Lee looking out the far window with a gun in his hand. He remained inside watching for anyone else who might have been sneaking around to attack them, "Hey." Kenny called out causing Lee to turn around,
Lee dropped his pistol to the floor as his eyes locked on Clementine whose jaw was dropped and tears were forming in her eyes, "Clementine?" He whispered out,
"Lee?" Clementine squeaked out with a quivering voice.
Alright so here we are, we have now entered season two territory and already we have some changes! Matthew surviving longer thanks to Molly's quick reflexes as well as Luke's and next chapter we have Lee and Clementine fully reuniting. So please tell me what you thought of this chapter because I put some thought into how I wanted Clem to meet everyone again. Anyway, I'll talk to you all in the next chapter!