Guest-Lee isn't really being a psycho he being extremely protective. That being said he is trying to pull back and be who he used to be.
Smeake-Thanks, Glad you liked it.
Guest-Indeed, and who knows how the match up will go.
Ph4nT0mE4G1e-At the moment it does seem that Kenny and Lee are the same temper wise and to an extent that is true but Lee will always have better control of his emotions than Kenny. As for Caver, read on.
ArktosFTW-Things will indeed go downhill as for Lee and Clem they are in the process of meeting each other again. It's been over a year and a half since they lost each other so they are both different people now, just as Kenny was when Clem met him again.
Guest-Glad you're enjoying it, and as long as I have a plan I'll keep putting chapters up.
Fewpolecat93-Yeah Kenny gets a bad wrap but to be honest he's one of the few characters that's built for this world. Sure he can be a bit emotionally unstable but compared to everyone else in season 2 he was the only one who knew what the hell to do next.
GaterWaters-Clem is going to be independent but at the same time Clem is going to look to others as well. I get some want her to just be forceful and able to survive but she's still a kid and she is a team player in the end.
Worker72-Nick always reminded me of a more capable Ben. He was a younger guy who didn't know exactly what to do but did his best to do what he thought was right. As for Carver and Lee, I think a lot of you will like their interactions, because I have a bit of a plan for them.
Guest-Well Clem notices that Lee is different. From her perspective Lee is constantly on edge but this particular Lee in season one killed the St Johns and killed the stranger so she doesn't expect him to be some pure nice guy who always does the moral thing. And Lee always realizes he's been away from Clem longer than he was with her so he needs to learn who she is all over again.
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A lingering silence held as Kenny silently ate his food while Luke and Nick awkwardly sat unsure what to say. Suddenly, Clementine let out a little wince and held her wrist, "What's wrong Clem?" Lee asked concerned,
"It's my arm, I think it might be infected." Clem mumbled out as she rolled up her sleeve,
Lee and Kenny's eyes widened as they saw the bandage that had a large blood stain on it, "I don't know Clem, Carlos gave you clean bill of health the other day."
"Yeah? Well maybe he's wrong. He couldn't even tell a dog bite from a walker bite." Clem shot back a bit angrily,
"Come on now Clem, you know we were just being cautious." Luke said a bit defensively,
"Yeah, locking a bleeding girl in a shed is real cautious." Clem grumbled out as she lowered her sleeve again,
"What?" Lee said narrowing his eyes,
"The hell is she talking about?" Kenny asked with a furious look,
Luke let out a little gulp, "Calm the fuck down man." Nick shot out quickly,
"Shut the fuck up." Lee said coldly and looked over to Luke, "You locked her in a shed? With a bleeding wound?"
"Look guys I tried to help her out but we couldn't tell if she was bit by a walker of not. Carlos said putting her in the shed until morning would let out know if she was infected or not." Luke said quickly trying to calm them,
"Are you fucking kidding me?" Kenny spat out, "Why would she lie about a fucking bite?"
"I-I, uh-" Luke fumbled out,
"You did treat her at the least? Clem did they treat you?" Lee asked looking over to her,
Clem let out a small worried look before lowering her head, "Yeah, well not until I sewed my arm up myself." Luke looked over at her wide eyed, "What?" She said looking over at him, "I'm not gonna lie about it."
"That the type of people you are?" Lee said icily, "Just leave a little girl bleeding, cold and in a shed? Making her stitch herself up?"
"I'm sorry, I've told her that and I'll tell you the same. We fucked up but she's alright now." Luke said sincerely,
Lee opened his mouth to say something but Clem spoke up, "Lee?" She said causing him to look over, "Please stop, it's alright." She said softly causing Luke to let out a relieved look,
Lee stared at her and looked back to Luke before letting out a sigh, "Alright Clem, if that's what you want." He said halfheartedly,
The group went silent again and after a few moments Walter's words broke the silence, "Hey Clementine, could you help me outside for a moment." He asked from just behind her,
Clementine let out a quick nod and got to her feet following Walter down the stairs out to the front of the lodge. Lee watched her walk away and hung his head while closing his eyes, he felt like he had been letting her down ever since she got back. As Walter and Clem slowly walked around the lodge Walter spoke up, "I'm so sorry about that. I used to be a teacher and I know what it's like when you're caught in the middle of two cliques. I suspect they will find common ground soon enough."
Clementine lowered her head and let out a small nod, "It's so different now."
Walter let out a nod a put a hand on her shoulder, "I understand it's a bit hard now but these things take time. But that's how these things work, everything will be fine."
Clementine shook her head, "It's not just that, it's Lee." Clem said with a shaky breath, "He used to be nice but now he's different."
Walter looked at her sympathetically, "Clementine, Lee may be different but he is a good man. He told me of how he met you and how much you meant to him. The two of you have a connection that is special and you can't let that go away." Clementine glanced up at him and she let out a small smile, "Relationships are like machines, you don't just scrap them when they break down, you get your hands dirty and grease the wheels."
Clementine let out a wider smile and seemed to light up, "I want to stay with Lee and Kenny. I want to do what you said, fix what I had with Lee."
"Then stay you shall, I know that will please them both." Walter said with a nod,
"I missed them, I just thought they wouldn't have changed." Clementine admitted,
"Well they missed you, I can assure you of that, I'm sure they are noticing your changes as well." Walter looked back down to her as they got closer to the lodge corner, "You all just need to become reaquainted with one another again." Walter stopped and looked down at her, "You know they say the world is over but can I tell you a secret; it's not. People are more political now than they ever were. In the end, we can't change the world. All we can do now is continue to learn from each other; to empathize and use our heads." Walter took a deep breath and looked up at the night sky, "All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. Steinback, have you read him?" Clem looked up at him with a confused look and shook her head, "Well that will change, Matthew has dozens of books that I'm sure you'll love. In any case, my point is: as long as we have our wits and continue to work with each other everything will work out fine. Right?"
"Right." Clementine said a bit halfheartedly,
Back in the lodge, just as Clementine and Walter headed outside Lee got up from the table and made his way back up to his room. He was feeling nearly depressed and just needed a minute to gather his thoughts, as soon as he got to the top of the stairs Molly was right behind him, "Hey...you alright?" She asked a softly,
"Huh?" Lee said turning back to her, "No, yeah, i'm fine." Lee said with a small nod,
"Hey," Molly said walking up to him and taking his hand, "Talk to me, what's wrong."
Lee stared at her sadly and started to well up a bit, "I, I don't know if I'm good for Clementine anymore." He said hardly, "She seems more afraid of me now than ever before. All I've wanted since I lost her was to find her again but now that I did I think she's better off without me. Hell you've seen what I've become over the year."
"Stop it." Molly said quickly but firmly, "That girl idolizes you, just because things are rough right now doesn't mean she should just leave. You two are family, and family doesn't quit on each other. Especially now, so don't just sit here sulking, you've got a little girl down there waiting to see you again." She said with a bit of a smile,
Lee stared at her for a moment and took a long inhale, "You don't think I'm a bad guy, do you?"
"Lee, bad guys are like Crawford. You don't shoot on site, you just want everyone to be safe, that's not bad." She replied without a hint of doubt before kissing him deeply, "Now go on, get back down there before Clementine starts idolizing Kenny or Walter. Now that would be a travesty." Lee let out a soft chuckle and nodded walking back down the stairs heading down towards the door,
"Hey hold up a sec." Kenny called out as he ran over,
"Oh, hey man." Lee said a bit awkwardly unsure if Kenny would be pissed at him because of dinner,
Kenny instantly picked up on this, "Don't worry pal, I get why you did that at dinner. You didn't want to upset Clem, but you gotta admit these guys seem a bit off."
"I don't know man but I guess it can't hurt to keep an eye on them." Lee said with a small nod,
"That's what I was thinking." Kenny said as he knelt down and grabbed his rifle and Lee's pistol, "Here, let's go see what Walt got up to." He said handing him his pistol.
The pair walked outside and spotted Walter and Clementine finishing their conversation, "What are you kids talking about?" Kenny asked with a smirk,
"Politics." Walter replied with a smirk,
"The hell?" Kenny said with a scoff,
"Really? I figured with you being from Florida you'd be very political." Walter said with some surprise, "Lee you must be political, a huge part of history is politics."
Lee let out a nod, "Politics is a big part of everything, the ability to talk changed the world constantly." Lee said causing Walter to let out a smile,
"Exactly what I was telling Clementine here. Politics-" Walter started to continue,
"No matter how you cut it Walt: politics aren't interesting to kids." Lee said with a smirk causing Clem to let out a little giggle,
"Hey was gonna check around the lodge before this storm hits. You want to help us out Clem?" Kenny asked with a eager look,
Clementine quickly nodded and the four of them started walking to the side of the lodge. As they walked Lee put his arm around Clem's shoulder and she leaned over letting him hold her close. However this quickly ended at they spotted a red headed woman looking through the window. Kenny's eyes narrowed and he was about to raise his gun but stopped as he felt Walters hand on his shoulder.
"Miss?" Walter called out calmly as Lee and Clem both pulled out their guns,
The woman stared at the four of them in shock and fear. She stared at Kenny's rifle in particular before putting her hands up and saying, "Please, do you have any food?"
Walter immediately stepped forward, "Are you okay?" He asked genuinely concerned,
"I saw the house...I have a family and we're starving." The woman said slowly lowering her hands,
"Of course, why don't you come in miss…." Walter said waiting for her name,
"Bonnie." She finished,
"Walt I don't know about that. Are you really gonna let her in just like that?" Kenny said a bit wary,
"Maybe we should just talk to her first." Lee said not wanting to put the others in danger,
"It's fine guys." Walter replied,
"Naw, we outta listen to Lee on this one." Kenny said a bit firmly, "We don't even know this girl."
"Then we get to know her." Walter said looking back at him,
"And we can do that right here." Lee said sternly not backing down,
"We should check her for weapons." Clementine said while crossing her arms,
"Yeah..." Kenny said with a nod while Lee glanced down at her in a bit of surprise,
"Thank ya'll, but it'll storm soon and I've got to get back to my family." Bonnie said inching away,
"So what, you just come up here to stare through our windows then leave?" Lee said in disbelief,
"Lee relax." Walter said easily, "I'll bring something out for you instead." Walter said with a smile,
"You really don't need to do that." Bonnie replied,
"No, no, it's fine. You just stay put, I'll be right back. We've got plenty." Walter said quickly walking back to the lodge.
Bonnie stood there avoiding eye contact with Kenny and Lee who both were sizing her up, for Lee something felt extremely off with this woman's story. "I...have a little girl like you." Bonnie said with a small smile to Clementine, "What's your daughter's name?"
"She's not my daughter." Lee said a bit coldly, "But i'm looking out for her." Clementine stared coldly at Bonnie not answering the question. The silence lingered until Walter returned with a large box full of food, Lee grimaced at the amount but it was clear Walter wasn't going to be diswayded,
He handed it to her with a smile, "Here you are miss."
"This is too much." Bonnie said shocked,
"Don't mention it, just help someone else along the way." Walter said with a warm smile, "Now you take care, and stay safe."
"Thanks, you too." Bonnie said sincerely before turning around and walking away,
As they watched Bonnie walk away Kenny looked over to Lee, "Hey why don't you two head back inside, I gotta talk to Walt for a second."
Lee let out a nod and the pair headed back towards the lodge, "That was dumb." Clementine said as soon as they were out of earshot,
"You're probably right." Lee said with a nod as he rubbed his head and sighed, "Christa made you pretty capable huh?' He said with a little smirk as he looked down at her,
Clementine looked back up at him and smiled, "Yeah but you helped a lot." Lee put his arm back around her as they got to the lodge door,
"Lee?" Clementine said softly stopping him before they went inside,
"Yes honey?" Lee said turned back and crouching down,
"I'm sorry for being so mean. I don't want you to think I'm not happy to see you." She said as she reached over and took hold over her other arm with her hand,
"Oh sweetie you weren't being mean." Lee let out a little smile and shook his head, "I guess we both have changed but just know I'm still here for you." Clementine smiled and reached out hugging him tightly. Lee hugged back and after a moment the pair headed back inside.
While Lee and Clementine walked back into the lodge Nick walked over to Matthew who was sitting in the den. "Hey Matthew, right? That's your name?" He asked a bit awkwardly,
Matthew put down his book and looked up at Nick, "Yeah? What's up Nick?"
Nick let out a sigh and rubbed his brow, "Look, about what happened earlier today. I really fucked up. I didn't know who you were and when I saw you and that girl…"
"Molly." Matthew finished his thought,
"Molly right, when I saw you two I thought you were gonna rob my friends." Nick walked over and sat down on a chair, "Look man I've been going through some shit, I lost my uncle two weeks ago and I don't know if he even knows how much I cared about him. I haven't even been thinking straight and now I almost fucking killed you. I just wanted to say how sorry I am for that."
Matthew took a moment to take it all in before letting out a sigh, "Alright, I forgive you." He said with a quick nod and picked up his book again,
"Wait, just like that?" Nick asked surprised,
"Just like that." Matthew said not looking up at him,
"But I...I mean I shout at you man." Nick said confused,
Matthew shook his head and peered up at him, "Do you want me to be pissed at you?"
"Well no but if I was you I'd want to kill me." Nick said hanging his head,
"Good thing I'm not you." Matthew said but noticed Nick wasn't leaving, "Nick." Matthew said looking up at him once again, "It's alright man, it was a mistake. It could have been back but I didn't get just need to let it go alright?"
Just then they both heard a extremely loud humming noise coming from outside. "What the hell is that?" Nick asked getting to his feet while everyone else ran down the stairs to the den,
"Oh shit." Lee groaned out as he realized it was the wind turbine spinning wildly,
"Swear." Clementine said with a smirk from behind him making him look down at her with a grin,
Just then Kenny pulled open the lodge door, "Lee! Get out here man, need your help!" He called out quickly. Lee wasting no time ran over to the stairs and started running down them heading outside. Clementine waited a few seconds before following and the others quickly followed suit. "It's the turbine again, that thing will draw walkers for miles. We gotta shut it down." Kenny said Lee as everyone shuffled outside,
"Nick help me with the guns." Carlos quickly said as he turned back heading back inside. Within minutes Carlos and Nick passed out pistols and rifles to everyone. Lee and Kenny lead them to the wind turbine but just then they both heard a zap. "What was that?" Carlos asked looking around,
Suddenly the lights shut off in the lodge, "Shit, transformer musta gone." Kenny groaned out, "Gonna have to get it running again. Could use a hand." He said looking around,
"I'll go." Lee said only for Kenny to shake his head,
"Need you up here." Kenny quickly replied,
"Don't worry, I'll go." Luke said stepping forward.
Kenny eyed him for a minute before nodding, "Alright. Lee get this fucker turned off!" Kenny shouted out as he and Luke ran off towards the transfuser,
The group closed in around the wind turbine, "Does anyone know how to turn off this thing?" Carlos asked concerned,
"Just buy me some time." Lee replied quickly as he pulled open the small door on the side of the turbine,
Carlos nodded and everyone dispersed forming a half circle around Lee and Clementine. As soon as Lee opened the door he let out a groan at how dark it was but Clem pulled out a lighter and lit it bringing just enough light to see. Lee started peering around and Clem pointed to his left, "Look there's a key."
Lee quickly grabbed it and found a small red button that had a key hold and a sign on top of it that said emergency stop. Lee pushed the key in a turned it, then pushed the button in. Within seconds the wind turbine let out a groan before coming to a halt. The group stood there in silence, "I don't like this, something's wrong." Nick said with a worried tone,
Just then the group heard the growls of the dead as they started to pour out of the woods around them. "We don't have much ammunition." Carlos said as he aimed his pistol up,
"Stay calm, we can just need to get back to the lodge." Lee said as he pulled out his pistol,
"Son of a bitch, behind us." Molly said with an annoyed sigh as she pulled out Hilda and ran forward stabbing a walker through the skull.
Everyone began to spread out taking shots at the walkers while moving back towards the lodge. Clementine ran over to a larger rock and crouched down before standing back up aiming her gun, fear filled her eyes as she saw half a dozen walkers shambling towards her. She started firing and took out three of the before she heard a click from her gun. Just as the walkers neared her two shots came flying out a struck them in the head, "Clem get back to the lodge!" Lee shouted out only for a walker from behind him to latch onto him,
"LEE!" Clementine screeched out and ran over to him as he was wrestling the walker doing his damndest to keep it away from him. Clementine reached Lee and quickly picked up his gun put the barrel to the walker's head and pulled the trigger. Lee tossed the corpse to the side and looked up at her, "Are you okay?!"
"Fine, I'm fine. We gotta get inside." Lee said getting up and taking his gun back, "Thanks Clem." Lee added on as the pair started running back to the lodge,
Just then a few more walkers rounded the corner and cut them off from the door. Lee yelled out and got their attention and started leading them away, "Go on, just get inside!" He shouted to Clem while backing away. Clementine looked fearfully at Lee but quickly shifted her attention to a single walker that was now going after here. She ran back and spotted a rifle underneath a walker.
While Clem was trying to pry the rifle out from under the walker Molly ran over to Lee and started taking shots at the walkers quickly, "You're a popular guy, you know that?!" She said with a smirk as she reached his side,
"Yeah, real hard to be me." Lee replied sarcastically as he fired his last round into a walkers skull. The three walkers fell to the ground and the pair started moving back to the door, "Where's Clem? Did you see here?' He asked quickly only for Molly to shake her head. Just then they heard a rifle shot go off and turned to see Clem fall to the ground as the rifles kickback was too much.
Lee took off in a dead sprint at the walker as Clementine crawled back in terror. Within seconds Lee was behind the walker and he jammed his foot down on its ankle breaking its leg and sending it to the ground. He moved forward and quickly slammed his foot down on it's skull caving it in with a bellowing yell. He looked back at Clem, "I'm okay, thanks Lee." She said with a half smile as she got to her feet.
The now trio ran back towards the lodge and spotted Nick struggling with a walker doing his best to hold it back, "Nick!" Clem exclaimed,
"Please, help me!" He cried out only for the walker to get shot in the skull from the side,
Nick turned over and was shocked to see Matthew standing with his rifle aimed up, "Now you owe me two! Get your asses inside!" He commanded as he ran along with walker towards the rest of the group to continue to take shots. Nick along with Molly, Lee and Clem ran into the lodge quickly and just as they got into the den they heard the sounds of assault rifles firing. They ran to the window and watched confused and fearfully as four people marched out of the forest, one was Bonnie and the other was a man Clementine met not two weeks ago.
"Howdy folks." The man said with an easy smile as everyone outside was corralled, "Where's Rebecca?" The man asked Carlos,
"Carver!" Rebecca exclaimed from inside the lodge,
"Nick, Molly, go see if you can find more guns or ammo." Lee commanded causing them to both run around the lodge checking for weapons,
Just outside Carlos spit in Carver's face, "Nice to see you to…" Carver replied as he wiped his face and then gave him a full force punch to the face sending him to the ground.
"Dad!" Sarah exclaimed and took off running outside,
"Sarah!" Rebecca exclaimed in fear as she watched Sarah run up to Carlos and hug him. Carver let out a small grin and pointed towards the lodge and motioned for the group to be lead inside. Walter stared at Bonnie in shock and a bit of anger as he realized who she was.
"Shit." Lee said leading the group away from the window and up the stairs just as they got inside. They watched as everyone was knelt down and had their hands tied behind their back, all except Carlos.
Carver took hold of Carlos and brought him towards the front of the lodge and slammed his fist in his gut sending him to his knees, "Where is Rebecca?' He asked coldly,
Sarah was crying out for Carlos. Carlos completely ignoring Carver looked up at her and said, "Look at me, Sarah. Everything is gonna be okay."
Carver grabbed Carlos's hand and quickly snapped one of his fingers causing him to yell out in pain, "Rebecca!? Rebecca, our baby deserves to be raised in a place of safety!" Carver called out causing Alvin to clench his fist in anger, "I know you're out there, you, Alvin, Luke, the girl." He said causing Lee to look over at Clem in concern, "If you want this over quick, you all play nice and show your faces. It's real simple." Sarah continued to cry as Carlos held his finger and winced in pain.
"We gotta go down there, he'll kill them." Alvin said sternly,
"We can't, he'll kill you." Rebecca said in almost tears,
"Maybe we should try to find Kenny and Luke." Clementine spoke up,
"Yes, we should try to do that." Rebecca said quickly agreeing only from them to hear Carver break another one of Carlos's fingers and Sarah to yell out again,
"Won't work, only way outside is through those windows." Lee explained and pointed to some very small ones, "None of us can fit."
"I can." Clementine said quickly,
"What? No, Clem it's too dangerous. He knows about you." Lee said extremely concerned,
"Lee, I can do this. We need Kenny's help." Clementine said firmly,
Lee stared at the girl and let out a slow exhale, "Fine, you find them. Keep your head down and if anything bad starts happening in here you tell Kenny to surrender. We don't need everyone to die."
"Lee, we can't surrender." Molly exclaimed through a whisper,
"Yes we can, hopefully Kenny and Luke will be able to handle this before that." Lee said as he lead Clem to a window and helped her climb out. Molly started to walk over to him to say something but Lee stood up, "Okay, we're coming out!"
Carver let out a grin and watched as Lee lead the five of them downstairs. Carver walked over to Rebecca and let out a smile, "Hey sweetie." He said only for her to spit in his face, he wiped her spit away and said, "That's alright, we'll reteach you in manners as soon as we're back home."
"Hey Bill, what do we do with this one. No other arm to tie together." Carver's second in command asked,
Carver walker over and stared at Lee who stared right back into his eyes without looking away for a moment, "Easy Troy, I don't think we'll have a problem will we…." Carver asked leading to his name,
"Lee. Lee Everett." Lee replied coldly,
"Lee." Carver said with a small nod, "Lee, where are the rest of your people."
"I don't know what you're talking about." Lee replied easily,
Carver let out a laugh and hit Lee in the stomach had. Lee doubled over in pain for a second but took a deep breath and remained standing, "Don't fucking lie to me. Where's the girl, Luke, the asshole in the ballcap. Bonnie told us what she saw." Carver asked as he jammed his finger in Lee's face,
Lee stared at him not answering and after a moment Carver's face let out a small smirk. "Sit down, you want to drag this out that's fine. We have all the time to find these people." He said as Troy forced Lee down onto his knees.
Just then a gunshot ran out and one of Carver's men by the window were struck in the head killing him instantly. Bonnie let out a yell of fear as Carver's eyes narrowed and pure anger flowed through him. He marched over and grabbed Walter and lead him towards the window, "What, No! What are you doing!?" Matthew shouted out as he fell to his sides trying to get out of his binds. Carver put him to his knees and quickly put a round from his revolver into Walter's skull, "No!" Matthew shouted out as he broke down into tears,
"That was for our man! Now I didn't want to do this, but you ain't leaving me much choice. So here's what's gonna happen. I'm gonna march another one of your friends out here and put a bullet in them until you finally decide to give up. A shot rang out and hit the beam that Carver was hiding behind near inches from his face. Carver walked over and grabbed Alvin using him as a shield and started marching him forward.
"Kenny stop! Someone tell him to stop!" Rebecca cried out,
"Kenny, enough man!" Lee called out only for Troy to hit him roughly on the back of his head,
Yet another shot rang out this time from a different area and actually hit Carver. He fell to the ground and everyone stood in shock for a few seconds thinking it was done. Suddenly Carver seemed to spring back to life. He held his arm where the bullet hit him and quickly shot Alvin in the head causing Rebecca to break down. Carver walked back over to the group and grabbed hold of Lee, holding him like a shield once again and pressing the revolver to his temple.
"NO! DON'T!" Clementine screeched out from outside,
"Stop! We're coming out!" Kenny said and dropped his rifle. Clementine and Kenny slowly walked forward towards the lodge and Bonnie lead them in at gunpoint. Carver, as his word said, let Lee go and while Kenny and Clem were being tied up checked his shoulder,
"No sign of Luke outside." Troy said walking over,
"Fuck 'em, we don't have time for this anymore." Carver replied as he ignored his wound, "We need to get moving."
"What about there new friends here?" Troy asked,
"There friends are coming home with us." Carver said with a eerily calm smile to the whole group as they were forced to stand up and lead out of the lodge.
Alright here we are, two deaths. Yes they are cannon deaths, well not exactly Alvins but they were in game. Nick was saved and Carver and Lee have finally met. So next chapter the group is brought to Howes and that's where things get really good. I hope you liked this chapter and if you dead just send me a review, I always look forward to reading them.