Lee and Molly jumped from rooftop to rooftop until they saw the Marsh House once again.
"There it is." Lee said, pointing to the station wagon.
There were more Walkers shambling around all the dead ones Lee killed. "God dammit. This'll be tough." Molly said.
"No, not really." Lee said as he remembered something.
"Look, I know your immune, but I'm not." Molly said a little irritated.
"No no, it's just that I remembered something I forgot to tell you." Lee said.
"Oh? Well what is it?" Molly asked as the two of them came to a stop.
"If you can cover yourself in Walker guts, they wont notice you and will think your one of them." Lee explained.
"Oh shit. Seriously?" Molly said in disbelief.
"Eeyup." Lee nodded.
Molly was at a loss for words. "Well fuck me. That will make things so much easier." Molly said.
Lee smirked at Molly. "I know right?" He said. "The only catch is that we can't run, but that wont be that much of a problem." Lee said.
"Well let's go find a walker then." Molly said as she opened the roof access door.
Luckily, there was one sitting right there down the first set of stairs. Lee whistled for it's attention, causing it to stand up and slowly tumble it's way up the stairs. Once the walker finally made it up the stairs, Molly sidestepped it and stabbed it in the back of the head with Hilda.
Once it was dead, Lee took his cleaver and cut open the walker's stomach.
"Euggh, the only problem with this is the fucking smell. Bleh." Molly gagged. Lee nodded in agreement.
Soon enough, the two were covered in Walker guts. "Welp. I guess this is good enough." Molly said.
"Alright. Let's climb down now." Lee said before hanging off the edge of the building.
"We need to find you your own Hilda...I mean, Climbing Pickaxe." Molly said as she followed Lee.
Lee couldn't help but chuckle at that. Lee slid down a drainage pipe before leaping to a balcony close to it. He inched around it and reached out to a pipe that went all the way to the ground. He jump for the pipe and then slid down it to the ground. Molly joined him on the ground a few minutes later.
"All right, let's go. Slowly." Lee said.
Molly nodded.
The two of them slowly moved their way through the horde of walkers. After awhile, they both made it through the horde and were at the parking lot of the Marsh House. Lee tried opening the car door and was happy to find that it was unlocked. He searched around for the keys and checked the visor. Sure enough, the keys were there.
"Heheh. Dumbass didn't even learn." Lee chuckled as he waited for Molly to get in on the other side.
"Wow. He seriously left the keys in the visor after what happened to him? Now I wish you stole from him too." Molly laughed as she climbed inside of the car.
Once they were both secure in the car, Lee started it up. "Oh damn. Well he at least managed to somehow find a full fucking tank of Gas." He said.
He then put the car and reverse and backed up over a few Walkers, and then shifted it into drive and drove through a bunch more until they were through the horde.
"Hahahahahahaaaaaa! Fuck YES! We're out of here! Wooooo!" Molly cheered, glad to be getting the fuck out of Savannah.
"Now to go into the countryside. I told Clem to find Omid and Chirsta and I told Christa to take her to the Countryside. So we'll look there." Lee said as he drove out of Savannah.
"You know the chances of us finding her are pretty slim, right?" Molly said a little nervously, not entirely sure how Lee would react.
Lee looked down and sighed to himself before looking back to the road. "Yeah. I know." He said simply. "But that ain't stopping me." He continued.
"I know it isn't, and I'm sticking with you for good, so it isn't stopping me either." Molly said with determination.
Lee looked over to the blonde woman and smiled slightly. "Thank you, Molly." He said sincerely before looking back to the road.
Molly smiled back at him. "No problem Lee." She said as they passed a sign saying "Now Exiting Savannah."
Clementine was crying to herself as she walked through a field.
"Why...-hic-...why?! It isn't fair. What did I do wrong?" She cried as she sat on a log.
She thought she had been a good girl throughout most of her life, so why did she have to loose all the people she cared about. "Was...my -hic- one mistake really that horrible that it got Lee killed?!"
After a few more minutes of crying, she tried to wipe away her tears. She noticed a bullet on the ground, so she leaned over to pick it up. When she sat back up, she noticed to figures in the distance walking. Her eyes widened. Were they Omid and Christa? She considered just letting the duo walk on in case they were bad people that would hurt her even more, but they stopped moving and seemed to have spotted Clementine.
As they started coming towards Clementine, she briefly considered shooting them, but remembered what Lee said to her.
"I can't get used to it." She said to herself.
She held the gun at ready but not pointed at the two running towards her. She closed her eyes and took some deep breaths.
"Please just let it be Omid and Christa." She begged to...anybody that would listen. "Haven't I been through enough?"
After a couple minutes, Clementine could just make out what the two looked like. She let out a great breath of relief when she saw that they really were Omid and Christa.
"C-Clementine? Is that really you?" Omid asked once they reached the little girl.
Clementine was so relieved when she saw that they weren't more strangers. "O-Omid! Christa!" She greeted, finally feeling something other than depression and worry.
Christa knelt down to Clementine's level. "How you doin' kiddo?" She greeted.
"I'm doing terrible!" Clementine bawled.
Christa felt her heart ache at the little girl's crying. She pulled her into a hug.
"Lee...Lee is -hic-...-hic-...Lee is..." Clementine tried to get out.
Christa rubbed her back comfortingly. "I know, hon. I know." Christa said sadly.
"It's all my fault! It's all my fault! It's all my fault!" Clementine repeated like a mantra as she cried into Christa.
"Now you hush up all that talk. You know damn well Lee would have died for you a million times over if it meant saving you." Christa said as she pulled Clementine off her and held her shoulders and looked into her eyes.
Clementine looked down "I...-hic-...I know." She sniffled.
Omid knelt down and ruffled the kid's head. "Have you decided what to do?" He asked her.
Christa looked up at him. "Omid-"
"Christa, it's her decision!" Omid interrupted her. That shot Christa down.
"Well, Clem? What do you want to do?" He asked again.
Clementine sniffed and sobbed some more before moving back into a hug with Christa. "Lee...-hic-...Lee said to find you two." She said as she hugged Christa. "So..I-I guess I'll stay with you..." She said.
Christa and Omid nodded at that. "We'll take good care of you, Clementine." Christa said with determination.
Clementine nodded sadly in Christa's embrace and slowly fell asleep. Christa picked her up after she did and began walking off, Omid following her.
"She's been through a lot, so let's let her get some rest." Christa said.
Omid nodded. "Sure thing, babe."
A week later:
Lee and Molly have been driving for about a week now, getting to know each other pretty well as they did. Molly was eating a candy bar from the stash they accumulated. And Lee was laughing his ass off.
"I can't believe you wanted to be an artist!" Lee said in between his laughing.
Molly blushed and crossed her arms and rolled her eyes, but couldn't avoid the soft smile on her face. "Yeah, well I did, believe it or not. I went to school for it. I was just getting out of college when everything went to shit.
"I was too." Lee said, causing Molly give him a look that said 'Really?'
"I mean, I was a teacher up at UGA." Lee clarified.
Molly's eyebrows raised in realization. "Oooooh. That makes much more sense. How long were you teaching there?" Molly asked, interested in Lee's past.
"I was going on my sixth year." Lee told her.
Molly smiled at him. "Nice! Anything else you wanna tell me about?" She asked, an air of interest around her. She was glad she was getting to know Lee and that he was getting to know her.
Lee seemed apprehensive about something, which caused Molly to worry. "Lee, is everything all right?" She asked him.e
He sighed solemnly, deciding he would get it over with and just tell her. "Molly, before all of this shit happened, I...I was on my way to prison." Lee said.
Molly raised an eyebrow and remained silent for a bit. "It wasn't for rape, was it?" She asked him.
"No, Molly! Jesus!" Lee said in shock, the reaction getting a small chuckle from Molly.
"Sorry, just checking. So what was it for?" She asked him.
"It...It was for murder." Lee admitted.
Molly's posture relaxed at that. "Oh, is that all?" Molly said, getting a shocked look from Lee.
"Why does everyone react like that when I tell them I'm a fucking convicted murderer?!" Lee demanded, a little confused why nobody has been at the very least disgusted with him when they learned he was a murderer.
"Because we've all killed, so it doesn't matter. Plus, I know you, Lee. For you to murder someone in the days from before, it must have been for a good reason." Molly answered him. She looked at him with concerned eyes. "Do you want to tell me why?" She asked him.
Lee decided he would tell her. "I murdered a state senator because he was trying to...sexually assault my wife. But if you paid attention to the news story when this happened, it said I killed him because he was sleeping with my wife." Lee told her.
Molly looked at him in shock. "W-Wow. That's just...wow." She said, felling terrible for him.
"You're the first person I told the whole story too. I've told everyone in my group that I was a murderer, but how it actually happened." Lee said.
Molly laid her hand on his shoulder. "Lee, I'm so sorry that had to happen to you." Molly said solemnly. "You didn't deserve that."
Lee shook his head. "Like you said, Molly. What happened before doesn't matter. I've put that all behind me."
Before Molly could respond, Lee turned back to the road. "OH FUCK!" He said, slamming on the brakes and swerving out the way of a crashed semi. Molly grabbed onto Lee's arm to support herself.
Lee managed to swerve out of the way of everything and stopped the car in front of a store. Lee and Molly let out a breathe of relief.
"Jesus fucking Christ." Molly said as she caught her breath.
Lee looked at Molly apologetically. "I'm sorry, Molly. I shouldn'ta let myself get distracted." He apologized.
Molly shook her head. "It's fine, Lee. Let's just get out and search that store. It could have some useful stuff." Molly said as she opened her door and got out of the station wagon.
Lee followed suit and got out too. He made sure to lock the car, being way more careful with the stuff inside than the stranger was with it.
Molly walked up to the front doors and tried to open them. "Figures. Of course they're locked." Molly sighed as she walked back to the station wagon and hopped onto the hood.
"Now I know you're perfectly capable of following me, but please let me get the door for ya." Molly told Lee as she jumped and latched onto the railing with Hilda.
Lee sat on the hood of the care and pulled out his gun. "Sure, I'll wait." He said as he kept his gun at the ready in case anything happened.
Molly smiled at him thankfully and climbed up to the roof of the store and looked for a way in. About five minutes later, the front doors unlocked as she opened them for Lee.
Lee grinned at her. "Nice." He said as he walked over to the door.
As they head inside, Molly motioned for Lee to crouch behind an overturned shelf.
"There are seven geeks roaming around inside. There were ten, but I already got three of them." Molly whispered to Lee.
"All right, I can get one of them silently." Lee whispered as he grabbed a pillow from on the ground in front of him.
"We seriously need to get you your own Hilda." Molly whispered with a grin.
Lee grinned back at her. "Yeah, I agree." He whispered back to her.
"All right. I'll get the six left after you kill yours." Molly whispered.
Lee nodded as he snuck behind a big fat walker and tackled him over. He shoved the pillow into his face and buried his pistol into the pillow and pulled the trigger. The walker went limp after the muffled gunshot rang out.
Molly took out Hilda and climbed on top of a shelf and leaped onto a frail walker, stabbing it in the head. She jumped off the walker and stabbed the another walker through the chin into it's brain. She pulled Hilda out of him and kicked him into the next walker, knocking her over. She got on top of both of them and stabbed the live one in the head. She stood up and sliced off the head of a walker that was behind her. She threw Hilda into the Last walker, stabbing it right in the face.
Lee whistled as he stood up. "Damn."
Molly rolled her eyes as she retrieved Hilda. "I kill six geeks and that's impressive to you? After you walked straight into a horde of them and killed them all?" Molly said, recalling all the dead geeks lining the street to The Marsh House.
Lee shrugged. "Well, let's get to searching the place." Lee said, heading towards a door in the back of the store.
"Alright! I'll search out here for anything useful!" She said to him as he opened the door.
Molly turned away from Lee and looked around the store. "All right, let's see what we got in here.
Lee entered the room, it seemed pretty ransacked. There was a pile of dead bodies and a walker was impaled on pieces of the broken wall. Lee went over to finish it, when he noticed a climbing pick identical to Molly's just a bit bigger. It was impaled into the back of the head of the body on top of the pile of the dead bodies. He smiled as he pulled it out of the dead body. Went over to the impaled walker and finished it.
"Things are looking up." Lee said to himself as he tossed his new Climbing Pick.
He searched the rest of the room back here, but found nothing. "Well, this is definitely a win." He said to himself.
He exited the room after a few more minutes of searching.
Lee met back up with Molly who seemed to have finished her searching. Molly walked up to Lee when she saw him. "Did you find anything useful?" She asked him.
Lee smirked and held up his Hook. Molly gaped at it. "Wow. Good find. It looks just like Hilda but a bit bigger! It suits you! Keep it!" She shot off like a machine gun.
Lee chuckled at her antics. "Did you find anything, Molly?" He asked her.
Molly nodded as she handed Lee his own small hiking bag. "Now we match~." She teased him.
Lee couldn't help but laugh at that. "Well, I think that's everything. Let's get back on the road.
Molly nodded in agreement. "Let's scram."
The two of them leave the store and get into their station wagon and drive off.
"So, you wanna name yours?" Molly asked Lee.
He thought about it for a little while as he drove down the road. "Hmm. Fuck it. Sure, why the hell not?" He said after awhile.
Molly smiled at him. "That's the spirit! So, what do you want to name her?" Molly asked him.
Lee thought for a bit as he pulled out his hook and stared at it for a bit. He smiled as he decided on a name. "Her name's Annie." He smiled. He put Annie away and returned his attention to the road.
"Nice." Molly said before leaning back into her seat.
After a little while more of driving, Lee made a turn into a road that Led to the Countryside. Molly stretched her arms then put them behind her head. She kicked her legs up on the dashboard. Lee glanced over at her and smirked.
"Comfy?" He asked her.
"Eeyup." She answered, popping the P.
Lee chuckled and kept driving. Molly looked over at him with a concerned gaze. "We will find her, you know that right? No matter how long it takes." Molly said.
Lee nodded. "Of course we will."