A month Later:
Clementine and Omid and Christa have been walking through the countryside towards the north for awhile now. Clementine was standing behind Omid and Christa as the aforementioned couple look at a gas station.
"What do you think? Omid asked.
"Omid...you cant be serious." Christa said, exasperated.
"I am!" Omid said.
"We are NOT doing that." Christa dismissed as she began walking to the gas station.
"Why not?" Omid said, following his wife.
Clementine following the both of them.
"Because!"
"Come on, Christa. What's wrong with Omid?" Omid asked with a grin.
Christa grinned back at her husband. "We're not calling our baby Omid. One of you is enough." She said, shaking her head at Omid's antics. She looked back at Clementine. "Clementine, A little help here?" She asked the girl.
Clementine looked deep in thought.
"Omid the second." Omid offered.
"No." Christa rejected.
"Omid Junior." He tried again.
"No!" Christa said, trying her hardest not to laugh.
"You have to admit it has a ring to it."
Clementine interrupted Omid's tangent with a question. "What if it's a girl?" She asked.
Omid looked over to Clementine. "Then we name her Christa." He said simply.
Christa looked at her husband with a snicker. "But I'M Christa. I don't wanna call her Christa. That's just confusing." She said.
Omid shrugged. "So name her Genevive. I don't care!" Omid said.
Christa looked over at Omid. "How can you NOT care? You're not taking this seriously." Christa said as the three of them came to a stop in front of the gas station.
"I take everything seriously. Especially little Omid's future." Omid said, punctuating his sentence by pointing at Christa's pregnant belly.
"Keep talkin' and you'll be sleeping in the rain tonight." Christa said as Clementine examined a can on the ground.
"Remember that time in Barstow?" Christa recalled with a smile.
Omid returned the smile. "Vegas weekend."
Christa opened the door in front of her and nodded to Omid before heading inside.
Omid turned around to Clementine. "Why don't you, uh, get cleaned up in the girl's room, Clem." Omid suggested.
"I hope the sink works in there." Clementine said hopefully.
Omid shrugged. "I wouldn't count on it. Just be careful, and make sure to keep track of your things. We'll be right next door." Omid told the nine year old.
"Okay." Clementine said with a nod.
Clementine entered the bathroom. She checked all the stalls and there was nothing in them. She sighed to herself sadly as she put her bag and gun down on the sink counter. "Please let there be water." She said hopefully before turning the faucet. Nothing.
"Figures." She said annoyed. She used the water bottle she had to clean her face off. When she finished, she accidentally knocked over her bottle and it rolled underneath a stall.
"Fuck." She said as she face palmed.
She went to get it, but turned around and grabbed her gun. "Just in case." She said to herself.
She then opened the stall door at the end of the bathroom and saw her bottle there. She picked it up and thankfully, none of it had spilled. The nine year old let out a breath of relief when the door to the bathroom suddenly opened. Clementine put away her water bottle after quickly screwing it and got her gun ready. She looked through the crack in the stall door and looked at the mirror and saw that a girl she didn't recognize had entered the room. She saw her go through her bag and she grabbed the photo of Lee.
"Heh, he looks like a bozo." She said.
Clementine froze when she heard that and kicked the door open and aimed her gun at the girl.
"Take it back!" She said angrily.
"Woah woah! Kid what the fuck?!" The girl said a little scared as she raised her hands.
"Take back what you said or I'll fucking shoot you!" Clementine said pissed, but the dying words from Lee rang through her head.
"I don't want you getting used to it, Clem." Clem remembered.
"Okay! Okay! I take what I said about your dad back! I'm sorry! Just don't shoot me!" The girl said, gently placing the picture down and back in the bag.
"Turn around, Slowly." Clementine ordered.
The girl did as she was told.
"Walk up against that wall."
The girl did as Clementine ordered. "Please don't kill me." She begged as Clementine pressed the gun against her back.
"I'm not going to if you don't do anything stupid." Clementine said as she searched her pockets.
"I-I don't got nothin'! That's why I was trying to rob ya!" The girl said before shoving off the wall and grabbing Clementine's arm.
"Hey!" Clementine growled as she wrestled the bigger girl for her gun.
"You fucking bitch fish! How DARE you threaten me!" She screamed as she tried to punch Clementine in the face. Clementine dodged it and managed to direct the gun towards the girl and pull the trigger.
*BANG*
The gunshot rang out as Clementine had shot the girl in the stomach. She pushed the dying girl off of her scooted away.
"Nonononnonono." She said. "I didn't mean to!" She shouted.
The door to the bathroom was thrown open as Omid and Christa came rushing in.
They arrived to see Clementine shaking the girl the dying girl. "I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to! Please don't die!" She cried.
The bigger girl slowly stopped breathing as she bled out. Clementine looked over to Omid and Christa. "I didn't mean to." She cried as she hugged them.
"Clem, calm down honey, she was trying to hurt you." Omid said as Christa went over to the dead girl and stabbed her in the head so she doesn't turn.
"But, but Lee said killing is always bad! He didn't want me getting used to it! I didn't want to kill her but she..she." Clementine trailed off as she cried.
Christa walked over to Clementine and pulled her into a hug.
"Clementine, listen to me." She demanded. "You definitely are NOT used to killing people, and Lee was right, You shouldn't get used to it. But she was trying to kill YOU. So let's just forget about this, alright?" Christa told her.
Clementine nodded solemnly. "O...Okay." She sniffed.
Christa hugged her again. "The shot may have drawn some Walkers, we should get out of here." Christa told Omid and Clementine.
"You're right. We should get going." Omid said.
The three of them get all of their stuff together and got out of the gas station.
Lee and Molly were on foot now. The station wagon had broken down on them a week ago. Luckily, they were able to get the remainder of their stash in their backpacks. "As convenient as it was having a car, I think I prefer being on foot. Is that weird?" Molly said as they walked down a road.
"Eh, if it is, then we're both weird." Lee said.
They were walking into a small town. "As much as Cities suck, we do need more supplies." Lee sighed.
Molly rested her hand on Lee's back. "I know, but we'll just keep the high ground and climb around. Who knows? Maybe we'll find some fucking food. Maybe even silencers."
Lee grunted. "That would be so fucking helpful." He said as he pulled out Annie before jumping up.
He latched onto a pipe and pulled himself up to the rooftop of the house. "We need to find you a radio like mine so we can split up more efficiently." Lee said as reached his arm out for Molly.
Molly jumped up and grabbed his arm. "Oh hell yeah that sounds useful as hell. Let's do that!" Molly said as Lee pulled her up.
"Well, there's an electronics store over there, so we should try there first." Lee said once they both were on the roof.
Molly looked to where Lee was talking about and saw it. "Eh, it's probably picked clean, but fuck it, let's try." Molly said before jumping to the next roof.
Lee followed suit. "That safe house on the left looks like it's being used. We should check that out, too." He said pointing towards the big safe house he spotted on the other side of town.
"Hmm. That could have some useful supplies. Which place do you wanna check first, Lee?" Molly asked him.
Lee thought about it for a moment before coming to a decision. "I think we should go with the Electronics Store first." He decided.
Molly nodded. "Alrighty. Welp! Let's get to it!" She said before running towards the edge of the roof and jumping for the close by power pole, catching it with Hilda.
She swung back and forth until leaping towards the building across the street. She hooked onto the edge of the room and climbed up. She turned back around to Lee. "Ya coming?"
"Yeah, just gimme a minute." Lee said before getting a running start and doing the same thing as Molly.
"All right. Let's go hopefully get you a radio." Lee said before heading towards the store.
Molly followed close behind him. After a some more daredevil stunts they managed to reach the store within about ten minutes. Lee climbed up onto the roof of the store and looked for an access point.'
"There's a skylight over here." Lee waved Molly over.
"Well we know how we're getting in at least." Molly said as she came over and peered inside of the skylight.
"We got about four geeks inside. Is there a way to open this or are we gonna have to break it?" Molly said as she pulled out Hilda.
Lee looked around the skylight and found that there was a latch. "Looks like we can go in quietly." He said as he opened the skylight before jumping inside, right on top of one of the walkers.
Lee stomped the walker's head in and pulled out Annie and stabbed the other one in the head. "I got mine, you get yours!" He said to Molly.
Molly jumped inside the store, landing on a shelf. She hopped over to the next shelf and spotted her two walkers she needed to kill. She pulled out Hilda lunged at one of the walkers, stabbing in the back of the head. She turned around and sliced the last walker's head off.
Lee walked over to Molly as they both sheathed their picks. "All right, let's search this place for anything left." He said as he began thoroughly searching through everything.
Molly followed suit and began going through everything on her side. Lee turned to see how she was doing only to see a walker somehow getting the drop on her.
"FUCK!" He shouted, pulling out the meat cleaver he got from Savannah and threw it at the walkers head, slicing it in half and getting the cleaver stuck in the wall.
Molly jumped up, startled by all of that. "Holy fucking shit. Thanks!" Molly said gratefully before pulling the cleaver out of the wall.
Lee smiled at her. "No problem." He said as he resumed scrounging through the store.
After they finished, they came up with about 100 spare batteries in total, a voice recorder, a camera, and a radio identical to Lee's. Molly handed the cleaver back to Lee and Lee handed the radio back to Molly. They put all the supplies in Lee's backpack, since he was the one with all the hardware stuff and Molly was the one with food and water.
"Alright, let's go to that safe house you spotted, Lee." Molly said as she clipped her walkie-talkie onto her pants. They both made sure they were on the same channel.
"Let's go."
A few minutes later, Lee and Molly hear a loud bang come from inside a small building next to them. They turn to look in the direction to see an Asian man come running out of the building. He was carrying a shotgun and was being followed by a bunch of walkers.
"Oh fuck!" Lee said as he pulled out his pistol.
The Asian guy turned around and fired into the crowd of walkers until he was out of ammo. He killed about 8 of them, but there was about 10 more left. He turned to run away but tripped on a tire.
Lee aimed and shot all of the remaining walkers. He hopped down from from his vantage point and went over to help the guy up.
"Oh man, I have no fucking idea who you are, but seriously, thanks." He said as Lee pulled him up to his feet.
"Don't sweat it, Man. Names' Lee. This is Molly." Lee said, gesturing to Molly as she caught up with Lee.
"Vince. And once again, thank you Lee. You really saved my ass." Vince said gratefully.
Molly then noticed the bag of supplies Vince had. It wasn't enough for someone who was constantly moving from place to place, so that could only mean one thing. "You living in that safe house?" She asked the Asian man.
Vince nodded. "Yep. Me and my pal, Danny."
Lee gave a hardened look to Vince when he said 'Danny'. "His last name wouldn't happen to be St. John, would it?" Lee asked Vince.
Vince looked at him a little confused. "Uh, no. His last name is Palmer." He answered.
"Whew, okay. Forget it, then." Lee said.
Molly gave him an understanding look. "Anyways, we were hoping to check out your safe house if that wouldn't be a problem." Molly asked Vince.
"Sure. I owe you two for saving my life." Vince answered with a smile.
"All right, let's head over there then." Lee said.
The three of them head over to the safe house. Once they got close, Lee and Molly heard the familiar buzz of electricity. "Having power is always nice." Lee commented.
"That's not all we have. We got working water and plumbing too." Vince said as they continued to walk towards the safe house.
Molly and Lee looked at each other and smiled. "Sounds like a nice place to hold up." Lee started.
"But we're eventually going to keep moving." Molly finished.
Vince looked at them. "Why not?" He asked them.
"We always keep moving, plus we're looking for somebody." Lee answered him.
Vince nodded in understanding, "I understand, feel free to take some supplies with you for the road, just don't take everything." Vince joked.
"You aren't going to rob me and my buddy, are you?" He asked Lee and Molly.
"No, we aren't." Lee said.
"We don't even have the room, dude." Molly said, gesturing to her and Lee's backpacks.
"Wow. You guys travel light." Vince commented.
"It's what's been working for so long." Molly replied.
Finally, the three of them come reach the safe house. Vince walked up to the door and knocked. "Yo Dan! I'm back and I got some good news!" He said.
The door opened to reveal a tall man, only about two inches shorter than Lee. "Jeez, Finally man. I hate being alo-OH SHIT!" He said, pulling out a pistol and aiming it at Lee.
"Vince you were fucking followed, man!" He shouted.
Molly pulled out a gun and aimed it at Danny.
"Drop it, Asshole!" She said, pissed off.
"Whoa whoa, hold on Dan. It's fine, these guys saved my life." Vince hastily told Danny, trying to get the situation to calm down before someone get's shot.
"Wait, seriously?" Danny said as he lowered his.
Vince nodded. "Yeah, man. The dude, his name is Lee, killed a bunch of walkers that got the drop on me. I was out of ammo and backed into a wall." Vince told Danny.
"Oh, fuck. I'm sorry, man." Danny told Lee as he put away the gun.
"It's fine." Lee said neutrally as he crossed his arms.
Molly put away her gun after that.
Vince let out an exasperated sigh after the situation had calmed down. "Now that that's over with, let me introduce everyone. Lee, Molly, this is Danny. Danny, this is Molly and Lee."
Danny looked at Molly with a smile before turning over to Lee. He reached his arm out for a handshake.
"Sorry again, Lee." Danny said.
"I already said it was ok." Lee said, leaving Danny hanging for a minute before deciding to give the guy a chance and took the handshake.
"Ow. Jeez you have a firm grip." Danny said.
Lee shrugged. Danny did the same with Molly and offered her a handshake too. Molly took it.
"OWOWOWOWOWOWOW!" Danny said after Molly let go.
"Dude I barely even squeezed." Molly said with a chuckle.
"Let's all get inside before a bunch of them find us." Vince said before heading inside of the safe house.
The other three followed him inside.
One week later:
Lee and Molly decided to take a break from their traveling for a little bit and stayed with Vince and Danny for a week. Lee and Molly were taking stock of their stuff. Molly had about fifteen cans of food left and four bottles of water. Lee had all the stuff they got a week ago, plus a can of gasoline.
"Lee and I are good. How about you guys?"
"We're running low on water, and you don't have enough to share with us, so I'll go out and look for more supplies today." Vince said as he got up from where he was sitting.
He grabbed his shotgun and turned around. "I'll be back in a bit everyone!" Vince said.
"You want some help?" Lee asked as he stood up.
Vince shook his head. "Nah, I'm good. I'll be sure to be much more careful than I was last time. I could borrow your cleaver though." Vince said.
"Sure man, here." Lee said as he handed the cleaver over to Vince.
"Thanks, I'd rather borrow one of your picks..." Vince trailed off.
"Not a chance." Lee and Molly said at the same time.
"Yeah, didn't think so." Vince said with a chuckle before heading out of the safe house.
Lee and Molly sat back down and had a conversation. "How much longer are we going to stay here?" Lee asked Molly.
"I was thinking we should leave tomorrow. One week is enough of a break. We need to get back to looking for Clementine." Molly said.
Lee nodded in agreement. "That's what I was thinking, too," Lee agreed.
The two heard footsteps as Danny came down from upstairs, yawning.
"Look who's awake." Lee greeted.
"Hey guys." Danny greeted. "Where's Vince?" He asked when he didn't see the Asian guy.
"He went out looking for more supplies. You guys are running low on water and Molly and I don't gotta enough to share with ya." Lee answered.
"Oh all right then. He took extra ammo this time, right?" Danny asked.
"Yup. He also took my cleaver so he has a way to kill walkers quietly." Lee told him.
"Welp. I'm gonna go pack all of my stuff up from my room." Molly said.
"I'll do the same after I'm done usin' the bathroom." Lee told her.
Danny looked shocked. "What? Why are you packing?" He asked them.
"We're gonna leave tomorrow. We need to keep moving."
Danny looked deep in thought about something. He seemed to make a decision after a minute. "All right, well. I hope you two find whoever it is you're looking for. Alive." He said with a smile.
Lee smiled back at Danny. "Thanks man, 'ppreciate it." Lee said before standing up. "Gonna go use the bathroom than I'll meet you in our room help pack the rest of our stuff."
"All right. Take your time, Lee." Molly said as Lee ascended the stairs.
Molly headed towards the room she was staying and and put down her bag. As she began packing someone came up behind her and covered her mouth with their hand and blocked usage of her arms with the other.
"Mmmm?!" Molly gave a muffled curse as her assailant began undressing her.
"I've been waitin' to do this to ya since I saw your pretty face." Danny said. "And now you're leaving tomorrow. I'm not gonna let you slip away from me~." He said before licking Molly's ear.
"MMMMPH!" Molly tried to call for Lee, but to know avail.
Danny licked his lips as he started pulling down Molly's pants. But before he could. Molly jumped up and pressed her feet against the wall, then pushed off of it, knocking Danny and her over and breaking Danny's grip.
"Ow! You cunt!" He screamed.
Molly reached for her bag to grab Hilda but Danny tackled her before she could grab it, knocking the bag over the bed. Danny began undressing her again as Molly desperately reached out for Hilda. She managed to grab her climbing hook and smacked Danny in the head with the blunt side of Hilda, knocking him off of her.
"AAAH!" He screamed.
Molly then straddled his chest to make sure he didn't get away. She gripped Hilda with both hands and raised it high up. Danny let out a scream of fear before she brought down the sharp end of Hilda right into his face. She repeated her actions again and again.
"YOU! MOTHER! FUCKING! PIECE! OF! FUCKING! HUMAN! SHIT!" Molly screamed, accentuating each word with another another stab to Danny's head.
Lee kicked the door in and came running in. He saw Molly screaming as she stabbed Danny with Hilda repeatedly.
"Molly! MOLLY!" Lee shouted as he grabbed her from the side. "Jesus Molly calm down!" Lee said as he stood Molly up.
Molly broke out of Lee's hold and ran over to Danny's lifeless body and began stomping his head in.
"FUCK! YOU! FUCK! YOU! FUCK! YOU!" She screamed with every stomp. Lee pulled Molly away again.
Molly turned around and hugged Lee tightly and buried her face into his chest. She began whimpering in shock and horror from the situation.
"L-Lee...he tried to...to..." Molly trailed off as she began crying.
Lee hugged her back tightly. "Oh my god..." He said as he realized what happened.
He did his best to comfort Molly. "It all happened so quickly...I didn't think I would be able to escape or grab Hilda in time." Molly said shakily.
"That fucking piece of shit!" Lee said angrily. "I knew we couldn't trust him." Lee said.
after a little while longer, Molly calmed down and separated from Lee. She walked over towards Danny and kicked his unrecognizable head one more time before going over to her fallen bag.
"None of the food or water spilled, thankfully." Molly said with a sigh of relief as she packed up everything food related in her bag.
Lee quickly packed all of the hardware and bullets he could into his bag, leaving a little empty space so he could put anything interesting he finds on their travels inside the bag.
"Hey everybody I'm back!" Vince's voice called from the front door.
Lee went outside the room and pointed his gun at Vince. Vince jumped in shock and placed his shotgun down.
"Woah! Lee what the fuck man!" He said as he raised his hands.
"Your buddy Danny tried to rape Molly!" He screamed angrily.
Vince's eyes widened at that "Oh...shit." He said in shock. "Is he dead?" Vince asked Lee.
"Yeah. Molly killed him in self defense." Lee answered.
Vince's arms flopped to his sides in disappointment. "Dammit. I thought he was a good guy! I should have shot off his foot instead!" Vince said solemnly.
"Wait what are you talking about, Vince?" Molly asked as she stepped outside of the room.
Vince told the two of them his story about what happened when the outbreak started for him. How he was on a prison bus for murder, and eventually came to a decision to shoot off Danny or this other guy, Justin's foot so that himself in the other guy could escape. He chose to shoot Justin and now he regrets it.
"Well, fuck." Lee said.
"I know...Look, you guys take anything you want. I'm packing up and leaving to go find a group. I was planning to do that anyways, soon." Vince said as he gave Lee back his cleaver.
"I'm sorry you had to deal with that, guys." Vince said as he grabbed a big hiking bag and began packing.
"Okay. Vince, we'll see you around maybe." Lee said as he grabbed the two silencers and threw one to Molly, who caught it and put in on her pistol.
Lee did the same and they both put their guns in their holsters.
"We have two cars parked around back, you guys take one and go. The red one has a full tank." Vince said as he exited the Safe House.
Lee and Molly looked at each other and nodded before going out the back door and headed towards the red car. It was unlocked and the keys were kept in the glove box. "Here we are, on the road again." Molly said as she climbed into the passenger seat.
"Eeyup." Lee said as he started the car.
They drove out of the town, running over a couple walkers in the process.
"By the way, Lee." Molly said after ten minutes of them driving.
"Yeah Molly? What is it?" Lee asked in response.
Molly leaned over towards Lee and kissed his cheek. "Thank you for coming to my rescue~." She said seductively.
Lee looked over at Molly who was wearing a sultry grin on her face. "You saved yourself, remember?" Lee said with a chuckle.
"Well yeah, but it's the thought that counts." Molly said as she kicked her feet up on the dashboard. "We've waited too long to resume our travels. Clementine could be anywhere now." Molly said.
Lee sighed "Yeah, I agree."