AN: Hey sorry for the wait everyone. I last week I graduated and if I was being honest I to busy enjoying myself lol. This chapter won't have a review response because I simply don't have the space to do it. I suppose its my fault for taking so long to update.

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Clementine was sitting down with an unreadable look on her face. She already knows that her mother dies in Sahvanna but it didn't change the feeling in her chest. She thought that she had gotten over it ages ago but when she heard her mother voice, An emotion that she had difficulty discribing filled her. It had taken her a few mintues to realise what it was but now she knew.

It was unbrialed joy.

Such an innocent emotion that she haven't felt in a long time. But as quicky as it came it was torn away. It was a reminder of how cruel this world worked. If you weren't well adaptable and quick on your feet then you would die one one why or another.

She knew her mother would die in Savannah and she just shake those useless thoughts working her up. There was nothing she could to change what happened. She rested her head on the arm of the couch and closed her eyes.

From there, an unspecified amount of time went by before the sound of running water rung in her dulled senses.

Clementine opened her eyes and rose from her half sleep state to investigate the noise. She when into the kitten and saw Sandra filling a three gallon water jug.

"What are you doing?" Clementine asked.

"I thought about what you said earlier. You know, about the food and water? I realised with all of this going on, we won't have running water for long so I decided to save some. There isn't really much that I can store but its better than nothing." She explained.

"I also took a look at our food and it isn't looking good. We don't have much food in the fridge and on top of that we there's barely anything in the cabinets. I'm not sure if we can hold out for long with this stuff..." she said while turn off the water facet and closing the jug.

"I have more food for us. I'll go get it while you finish up." before Sandra could reply she left the room.

Sandra started filling up a second 3 gallon jug while she waited for Clementine to return. Initially she has thought that Clementine probably was talking about a stash of candy or snacks like other kids sometimes hid from their parents. But then she remembered Clementine wasn't exactly a "normal" kid. She hoped that Clementine had something that would help them last longer in the safety of the house because she definitely did not want to risk going outside to look for food. However she would do it if she ran of options.

When the jug was just about full Clementine made her presence known.

"Look what I have!" she said in a tone similar to a kid showing their parent a drawing they made.

She turned to see Clementine lugging her overly filled backpack on the counter.

She pulled open the zipper to reveal over a dozen cans.

Sandra's eyes widened considerably.

"Woah where did you keep all of that?"

"In my tree house. I still have more but I didn't have enough room in my bag to bring it all."

"I think we just might make it through this mess..."

Before Sandra could get ahead of herself a man's voice call from outside.

"Hello!"

Sandra froze and looked at Clementine who had her pointer finger over her own lips.

"Can you guys spare me some food? A-anything would do fine please its for my family."

There was a period of slience between them and during that time Clementine started to creep back into the livingroom. Sandra assumed she was just scared and trying to find somewhere to hide.

"I know someone's inside. I heard the water running."

Sandra grimaced.

"What do you want? We have weapons so don't try anything funny!" Sandra bluffed.

"I-I just need some food."

"...How many of you are out there?"

"Its just me."

Sandra sighed and decided to look. She slowly peaked her head to the window and saw a young man standing in the grass in the front yard. He was in dirted business attire and had some blood in it proving that he has through a couple of scuffles. He had a duffle bag and a bat laying besides him to prove that he wasn't a threat.

"Hi" Sandra said kind of awkardly

"Hello." He said back with a shakey smile.

"...Are you bleeding?"

"No, this blood isn't mine." He noticed that could come off really bad if he didn't explain further."I-I was attacked by one of those sick people."

Sandra's mind flashed back to the events that unfolded right infront of her eyes. Their milk white eyes and their bloodied maws.

Knowing what he was talking about, Sandra nodded grimly.

"So you were talking about food..." She began

"Yeah, me and my family were trying to make it to out of the city but we got attack. My wife got hurt and she's in not condition to travel so I decided that we were going to hold out until the military cleans up this mess. I am gathering all the food that I can find so we don't go starving." He explained.

"So I can you spare me anything? It would be a great deal of help."

Sandra said silent and thought this through. The man didn't seem to be lying and he plea seemed genuine. He was just some guy looking out for his family.

However it wasn't like Sandra could give away some of the already limited supply of food that they had. She clenched her fist tightly.

"Sorry, but I can't do that. Me and my...group are trying to wait it out until the military arrives too. If you want to get food you can check some of these houses, the people that left were in quite a rush so there is bound to be something left." She offered some advice. She knew it wasn't much but it was all that she could do for the guy.

"Those houses aren't exactly safe. Some of those freaks get stuck inside."

"You have a weapon." Sandra said bluntly.

"...Fuck." He muttered under his breath.

"Alright fine, I'll be on my way. Thanks for the help." He forced out the last word hefore picking up his belongings and moved on.

Sandra put a hand on her head and sighed regrettingly.

"Is the man gone?" She heard Clementine say from her.

She turned to face the girl and replied."Yes Clementine, he's gone."

"Was he a bad guy?" Clementine said in a worried tone.

"No I don't think he was. He was just a guy looking for help." She said honestly.

"Why didn't you help him?" Clementine said innocently.

Sandra looked to her side dejectedly.

"...I just couldn't Clementine. I just don't have anything to give. "She said somberly.

Clementine already knew what was going on but decided to play dumb. She knew Sandra already knew that she was quite intelligent but she wasn't going expose everything she knew.

Clementine only retreated to be closer to her firearm just incase things went south and they got attacked. But Clementine was right about it being too early for people to be that big of a threat. Right now everyone is just scared and confused of what was happening. Either rushing to safety or trying to wait it out. One thing that they both were counting on was for the government to deal with the problem. However when the government collapses the people will have to take it upon themselves to survive. Those who couldn't cope or adapt simply died.

"I don't think we can stay here for long." Clementine said warily.

"What? We have everything we need here now? Why should we leave"

"Its not safe for us. That man outside heard you using the sink. What if it was a monster instead? We can't fight them off because we don't have any weapons." That last point was a blatant lie but that was all Clementine need to sway her opinion.

Sandra gave in and said.

"You're right. But where would we go? Traveling out there would be too risky for the both of us."

"I don't know."

Sandra furrowed her eyebrows.

"So why are you saying this?"

"Because we need a plan. We don't have to know everything right away but I think we need to have a fall back."

Sandra couldn't argue with her logic. It was sound and she did make a good point.

'This girl really is a step ahead of the game.' Sandra thought seriously.

"So what should we do first?"

"I think we need to have an escape route if when the monsters come for us."

"That sounds like a good idea." Sandra agreed.

"The front yard shouldn't an option because of we would be exposed. We also know that some of the monster get stuck in the houses and if we get caught out there they might break out." Clementine explained.

She turned her head and pointed to the the backyard.

"Out there is our best bet. If you open the gate there is some kind of trail. I haven't really looked back there much but I know that there is lots of trees and bushes that we could hide behind while we get away."

"I think we should check it out." Sandra said seriously.

Clementine had to force back a smirk from etching on her features.

-Chapter End-

AN: We just might find a familiar face soon...