AN: Sorry for taking so long to update. The reason for that is going to be at the end of this chapter.
-Review response-
Guest: Um okay?
jon12231223: Long wait I know but here it is.
DodemGM: I downloaded dark souls 1 and it came out for free back in 2014 and I became a huge fan. Not to mention I enjoy playing challenging games.
Jakobkevin: Its possible. And if that's the case then that would mean the stranger would probably so up too. Clementine might not take that well...
Worker72: Thats what Clementine will have to improvise is those do end up not showing up.
Ericdragon: Badass Lee is definitely back.
Guest:Yup and soon.
UnspokenTheWriter: I am a huge fan of dying light and do plan to add different variants of infected. Unfortunately the volatiles are no go because this virus isn't mutagenic and volatiles are kind of OP. The goons have a much better chance of making it but they would be quite rare. Since the virus isn't mutagenic the person who becomes a goon would have to be crazy buff already. If you have any ideas on how it could work PM me.
sephchipmuch: Yeah maybe a little but Ibthink it was worth it.
Darthcat13: I can see why. Those things are quite relentless.
Lord Raven Reborn: Thanks!
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Sandra tried to stop the the bile from rising from her stomach but failed miserably. The sight of a smashed open human skull proved to be too much for her handle.
Clementine couldn't fault her for her strong reaction. In fact, she thought it was better this way.
Sandra needed this.
It wasn't going to be the first or last time she saw something like this so Sandra needs to build up her tolerance for sights like this.
Clementine inwardly cringed at how morbid that sounded. She strolled past Sandra and made her way towards the body but Lee saw her approach and stepped in front of the body.
Clementine looked up at him with confusion etched on her features
"A kid your age shouldn't have to see things like this." Said Lee.
Her eyebrows scrunched up in annoyance at that."I need to verify something." She said in a straight foward manner.
Lee opened with mouth to reply but someone beat him to it.
"Let her..." Sandra said mostly recovered
Lee looked at her like she grew a second head."You couldn't hardle looking at this mess, what makes you think that she could?"
"Because she isn't just any kid. If she was then we'd both be dead already.."
Clementine definitely isn't a normal kid, his patched up wounds and the girl's strangely advanced vocabulary was proof of that. Even so it still didn't sit well with him.
"Lee..." Sandra pushed.
Lee turned his gaze towards the little girl.
"You sure you can do this?" Lee asked seriously.
Clementine nodded.
Lee stood there for a few moments and with sigh, Lee begrudgingly stepped aside and let the girl pass.
Clementine's reaction, or rather the lack thereof shocked him.
She merely gave a casual glance at the monster's smashed in skull before moving her eyes lower to inspect the exposed parts of the body. First starting at the neck then down to its forearms and finally its calves. Unsatisfied with her findings she continued to look until she found something that caught her eye.
There was blood on the corpse's upper sleeve that matted the cloth to its skin. The sleeve didn't appear to have any damage which suggested that it was inflicted beforehand and perhaps there was an attempt to hide it.
She knelt down and pulled up its sleeve to see a poorly bandaged wound. It was obviously done in hurry and looked like it was ready to fall off. So much in fact that the only thing keeping it on was old blood sticking to the bandage.
One of her small hands reached for the bandage and before Lee could protest she snatched one of the cleaner sides of the bandage and ripped it off in a single motion.
"Bitten..." Lee heard the girl mutter under her breath.
With the bandage removed a deep bite wound was visible. The flesh was pulled back and there was multiple teeth groves embedded in the flesh.
Clementine looked at it with an unreadable look on her face until asynchronous moaning started coming from the backyard with the sound of something banging on the fence.
"Oh shit..." Sandra said outloud.
"Don't worry they won't get in." Clementine said confidently.
"What if one like that guy comes?" Sandra asked.
"If there were more then they would already be on top of us by now."
Sandra stayed silent for a couple of seconds before nodding in agreement.
Sandra looked at the body and flinched.
"So what do we do with...that?"
"Leave it be. Those thing out there eat human flesh and if we drag it outside the monsters won't loose intrest and leave."
"So what did you find out when you took a look at the body?" Lee asked.
Clementine looked at Lee.
"I'll tell you after you get that cleaned up." She said pointing at his bloodied nose.
"While you do that, me and Sandra will decide on what are gonna do about the door."
"Okay but call me if you two need help." Lee said before walking off.
Clementine moved to couch that had been knocked over during Lee's scuffle with the monster.
"Can you help me move this?"
"Yeah sure." Sandra said as she got on the opposite end.
Together they pulled and while they were lifting Sandra spotted the shotgun that was displaced during the scuffle. With the couch sitting up the pushed it up against the broken sliding door.
In all honesty it looked absolutley pathetic.
But it was better then nothing.
(Meanwhile)
Lee was in the bathroom washing the blood from his hand. He was taking what happened just in the last ten mintues.
He had killed someone, again.
The first time had been an accident but that didn't make it any better.
Murder was still murder.
Then he did it today, right infront of a little girl and her own babysitter. In his defense, he did it to protect those two and himself.
Sandra told him about the dead coming back but that guy definitely wasn't dead. Well, untill he put that hammer to his skull.
Even so could he have handled the situation better?
He thought back and realised no, he did all he could. Lee tried to reason with the man but it had no effect.
He remembered the look in the man's eyes reflecting nothing but the desire to maim and kill the person before it. Even so, Lee pull the guy into a headlock and tried to pin him to the wall or the floor but it wasn't possible.
The guy seemed to possess almost inhuman amount of strength and Lee found himself being dragged around the room even though he should have had the advantage. But in the end it all amounted to nothing.
While he was thinking back on it he realized something strange happened. Stranger than some crazy guy attacking them and coming back from the dead? No. But it was still something nonetheless.
It happened when Sandra gave him a heads up when the dead guy tried to get a hold of him when he wasn't looking. Before he could even think about his next action his body had moved on its own volition
He splashed some water on his face and washed away the reminisce of his bloodied nose before washing the blood off the rest of the rest of his face. He opened his eyes and looked into the mirror only to see Sandra.
Or rather her corpse.
She stood behind him with her hair wild and unkempt, her clothes were torn and at the base of her neck she sported a nasty looking bite. Her skin seemed to be entering that later stages of necrosis yet she was still standing before him in all of her rotting glory.
For a moment Lee froze as dozens of questions shooting though his mind. What the fuck happened? He was only away for 3 minutes at most and he didn't hear anything at all. He didn't even hear her enter the room!
With aggressive groan she lunged at Lee. Lee snapped out his initial shock and spun around to face her but nothing was there.
He leaned against the sink for support and a rubbed his eyes.
'First the dead start walking, a crazy guy come crashing through the glass and now I'm having hallucinations?'
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Sandra and Clementine where still inside of the living room. Clementine had thrown a cover over the body so Sandra wouldn't have to look at it. Sandra was currently armed with the shotgun though it still only had one shot. Clementine told her that she should avoid using it unless it was the only option.
Clementine wondered briefly if Sandra could actually shoot it properly. She doubted Sandra had much experience with guns but didn't dwell on it.
It was a shotgun after all. It's not exactly hard to hit your target with one of those.
Clementine was more worried about what would happen if it were to come to that. If that gun is fired the sound would draw every single walker left the neighborhood would make there way here. So their time would be limited to make an escape. They couldn't take much because it would slow them down too much along with Lee's messed up leg. Not to mention that there could be would more of those crazies that might be drawn to the sound of the gunshot that would both further decrease the time that they have to escape and the likelihood of them surviving.
With this in mind Clementine needed to do something. She didn't want to just sit here and hope that everything goes as planned when there was so much that could go wrong. It was possible that those two boys that showed up before might not have made it this time. If that's the case then she would need to a change of plans.
Those boys arrived late in the afternoon maybe sometime around 6. If they don't make it here by then she would do things her own way.
But until then she wanted to increase there chances of survival even if it meant that she would have to give up something of her own.
"Sandra I need to tell you something." Clementine said out of the blue.
"I'm listening Clem."
There was a brief pause then Clementine huffed showing how much she didn't want to do this. "I...I haven't been completely honest with you lately."
"How so?" Sandra said sounding confused.
"That shotgun isn't our only defense." Clementine admitted.
-Chapter end-
AN: Sorry for taking so long to update. I have no excuse other then I was enjoying my grace period far too much. I'm going to start college soon so expect more updates. The reason why I say this because when I stuff to do I won't play video games as much and it gives me more time to write. And if you didn't already pick up on this before I'll say it right now. I'm an avid gamer and if you notice a slow in my updates you should check and see if any new games came out because it might be possible that I am playing it. This chapter could have came out ages ago if I wasn't grinding borderlands 3 damn that game is fun.
Fun fact: This chapter was about 93% complete until borderlands 3 came out. The rest is history.