Clementine dropped her gun in shock. "No...No...You...You're supposed to be...But...You..." Clementine mumbled.
Lee slowly approached the tall eleven year old. Clementine stared up at him as tears started streaming down her cheeks.
"...Lee?" Clementine said in a soft whisper. "Are...Are you really here? Am I hallucinating or dreaming?" Clementine said as she took a step forwards.
"Please. Please let this be real." Clementine begged as she placed a hand on Lee's chest, feeling him.
Lee smiled softly at Clementine. "It's really me, Clementine. I'm here. I'm alive." Lee assured her.
Clementine jumped onto Lee, wrapping herself around him and refusing to let go.
"LEE!" She exclaimed in pure unadulterated joy.
Lee hugged her back and rubbed her back soothingly.
"I thought you died! I was so so so so sad! Please don't leave me again!" Clementine begged the man.
Lee smiled down at Clementine. "I never will again, Sweet Pea. I promise." Lee said.
Clementine sobbed in joy.
Molly cleared her throat. "As heart warming as this is, I think we should take Clem and go now. I don't want to be here when the rest of them find those two dead bodies." She said.
Clementine looked at her in shock. "Molly?!" Clementine exclaimed in shock.
Molly smiled and waved at Clementine. "Heya kiddo. I'm surprised you remember me." Molly said with a chuckle.
"Pssh. Are you kidding?" Clementine said as she unhooked Leeya and twirled her. "I think I take after you now or something." Clementine said.
Molly looked at Clementine, then back to Lee, then back to Clementine then back to Lee. "When are we adopting her?" Molly said eagerly, causing Lee to chuckle.
Clementine suddenly shot up when she remembered what she was up here for. "Oh crap! I gotta find the skylight!" Clementine said out loud."
Lee and Molly looked at her with confusion.
Clementine seeing this, decided to elaborate. "I need to find the skylight to the room with all the walkie talkies to help my friends and I escape this place." Clementine explained.
Lee and Molly looked at each other and nodded before pulling out their two walkie talkies.
"...Oh. Well that makes this much easier. You should probably pick up those guards' guns." Clementine said as she picked up her pistol.
"Good idea, Clem." Lee praised.
Clementine smiled at Lee's praise. "Thanks." She said cheerfully.
She waited for Lee and Molly to get the assault rifles the guards had before climbing back down into the pen.
"Are you ready to meet everyone?" Clementine asked them.
Lee nodded. "Friends of yours are friends of mine." He said as he ruffled Clementine's head.
Molly shrugged. "As ready as I'll ever be, I guess." She said.
As Clementine began climbing down, she remembered something.
"Oh yeah, Lee, Molly?" She called.
"What is it, Clem?" Lee asked her.
"I've got a girlfriend." She stated before climbing down into the pen.
Lee blinked at that and looked over at Molly.
"Okay. Was not expecting that." He said, causing Molly to chuckle.
Clementine touched down on the ground, Jane waiting for her real close. She pulled her into a hug. "That was fast." She said.
Everybody came up to her. "How did it go?" Kenny asked her.
"Kenny, I've got some REALLY good news." Clementine said happily to the man.
Everybody looked at her expectantly.
They all went on guard when they heard two thuds from where Clementine came from. They looked over to see a man and a woman had followed Clementine.
"Shit!" Kenny whispered, getting ready to fight if he needed to.
Jane put her hand on Karen, ready to fight if need be.
"I don't think they're guards, I don't recognize them." Rebecca whispered.
Lee and Molly turned to look at the group, they all grew tense when they saw they were carrying assault rifles.
"Clem, are these your friends?" Lee asked.
"Yeah! They're all nice. When you get to know them." She told Lee and Molly.
Kenny looked at Clementine. "Clem?! Why are ya so buddy buddy with these two?" He demanded.
Lee and Molly walked up to the group, close enough that they could make out what they looked like.
Kenny's eyes widened and his jaw dropped.
"Holy fucking shit." Kenny said in awe.
Sarita looked at Kenny with concern. "What? What is it, Kenny?"
Kenny pushed his way through the entire group and came face to face with Lee, who was just as in awe to see him.
"How the fuck are you alive?!" They both called at the same time as they hugged each other.
"Wait, are these friends of yours, Clem?" Jane asked her girlfriend.
Clementine gave Jane the brightest smile Jane had ever seen on her face.
"Jane, that's Lee!" Clementine said, causing her to gasp in shock.
"THE Lee? As in the man who tore through a horde of walkers with a cleaver and a piece of glass while bitten to find you Lee?" Jane asked in shock.
Lee looked at Jane as he and Kenny separated from their hug.
"Yeah. That's me." Lee said, before being pulled into a kiss from Molly.
"And he's taken." Molly said protectively glaring at Jane, Causing Lee to laugh.
Clementine kissed Jane. "She is too." Clementine said.
Lee and Molly gaped at the two of them.
"Wait, she's your girlfriend?!" Molly asked in shock.
Jane held Clementine in a loving embrace. "Yeah. Is that gonna be a problem?" Jane asked the two of them.
"Hell yeah it is!" Kenny shouted.
"I didn't ask you, Grandpa." Jane said with an annoyed tone.
Lee looked at Clementine and leaned down to her level.
"Do you love her, Clementine?" Lee asked her.
"Yes." She said without missing a beat.
"Then I have no problems with this relationship." Lee said.
Kenny looked at Lee in shock. "Are you serious?! She's eleven and she's an adult!"
"Kenny, man. Come on. We live in the apocalypse now. And they are clearly in love with each other, so I don't care." Lee told him.
Jane smiled. "You're just as awesome as Clem portrayed you to be." She said.
Lee smirked at that. "Thanks. I'm glad I live up to the stories." Lee said with a chuckle.
"So what was the plan?" Lee asked.
"Ours was to get Clem and Leave, but that's not an option now." Molly said.
"Well the plan we had was to get this guy on the outside, Luke, a walkie talkie so he could stay in the loop about everything, and then use the herd nearby to sneak out after covering ourselves in their guts." Clementine told them.
Lee nodded. "Sounds decent, but you should think of a way to draw as many of them as possible, here." Lee told everyone.
"How are we supposed to do that?" Pete asked.
"Duh, noise!" Jane answered. "But what would be loud enough to draw a herd..." She pondered before her eyes lit up as she thought of something.
"Ah! The P.A. System Carver is always using!" Jane said.
Lee nodded. "Yeah, that'd do the trick. Does it have outside speakers?" Lee asked.
Rebecca nodded. "Yes it does. I used to do announcements back in the day. They are really loud."
Clementine sighed. "Looks like I have to go do everything. Again." Clementine said.
Molly put a hand on Clementine's shoulder. "Don't worry kid. I'll go take care of this." Molly said with a smile before looking at Rebecca.
"Can you tell me where his P.A. System is?" Molly asked her.
Rebecca nodded and told her where it was. "And if you see a tall guy named Alvin, please get him."
Molly nodded. "I will. Don't worry." She said before pulling out Hilda.
"Alright, once I get the thing started, Lee will open the gate from the other side. Be prepared to run for it." Molly said.
Everyone nodded. "What about Luke?" Kenny asked.
"I'll find him." Clementine said as she pulled out Leeya.
"Alright. Everybody be safe!" Lee said as the three climbing pickaxe wielders climbed out of the pen.
Molly had snuck into the office very easily. She looked around and saw a bloodied man sitting on a chair. "Oh. Shit." Molly said as she realized that this guy might be that Alvin guy she was told about. She tried to wake him up, but got no response.
"Damn." Molly swore, pissed that she couldn't help this guy.
Molly sighed as she went over to the P.A System. She flicked on the outside speakers and looked for a disc. She found one that said "Dragon Force" It was a DragonForce Album.
"This will be perfect." Molly said as she put the disc in and pressed play again.
As the music started blasting, Molly saw Lee hop down from the rafters and run towards the pen gate. She heard a bunch of commotion from outside the door. "Guess that's my cue to get out of here." Molly said before turning around.
She gasped when she saw Alvin rooting through the drawers of Carver's desk.
"Uh hey. Alvin, right. Are you okay?" Molly asked.
Alvin pulled out a really tiny pistol and laughed. "Heheheh. Carver talks all that tough guy shit, and then he keeps the tiniest gun in the universe. There's something funny about that." He said.
"Hey, Alv. I can carry you if you need me to." Molly said.
Alvin shook his head. "Naw, pretty lady. Look at me. I'm done for. At least let me buy you guys some time to get out of here. And you tell Clementine to take care of my girls! I have the feeling the baby's gonna be a girl!" Alvin said as Molly moved towards the vent.
"Okay. I will. Thank you for this, Alvin. My name's Molly by the way." Molly said as she climbed into the vent.
Alvin waved goodbye to her. "See ya Molly. Take care now, ya hear?"
A guard kicked down the door and shot Alvin in the chest. Alvin took the shot and shot the guard in the head, before succumbing to the sweet release of death.
Molly sighed sadly as she crawled away.
Clementine ran towards the Comic Book Store where Luke was supposed to be holed up. When she entered, she saw that two guards had found Luke and was currently 'Arresting' him.
Clementine silently snuck up behind them with Leeya in hand.
Once she was right behind one of them, she whistled.
"The fuck?" He said as she turned around, getting an Ice Pick to the face as he did.
He squeezed the trigger of his gun as he died, and Clementine directed the fire towards the other guard. As the other guard slumped over, Clementine walked over to him and stabbed him the face.
Luke stared at Clementine in awe. "Jesus Clem." He said.
"No time for that. Come on we gotta go." Clementine said hastily.
Clementine and Luke ran out of the Comic book store.
"You do yer Lara Croft thing and Ah'll meet ya back with the others." Luke said.
Clementine nodded. "Alright. See you soon." She said before climbing up to the roof of Howe's.
Clementine made her way to the skylight and climbed down silently. She saw Carver holding up everybody except herself and Molly. Molly came out of a vent next to Clementine. Clementine silently pointed to the scene bellow them and made a shushing gesture.
"You wanna disrespect me, fine. You wanna throw away the life... I'm tryin to build for us all... then fuckin' fine." Carver said as he angrily paced in front of the group.
"You wanna run off with this dogshit group of crippled fucks, then fine! Be my guest." He said.
Clementine slowly crawled till she was right above Carver. Before Carver could get another word out, Clementine jumped onto him, knocking him over and the gun out of his hands.
He reached towards the gun only for Lee to pick it up. "Get the fuck back." Lee said.
Everybody picked up the weapons they had to drop moments before as Carver put his hands up. Molly hopped down with the rest of them.
"Molly, right? Where's Alvin?" Rebecca asked Molly with a worried tone.
Molly gave her a pained expression, and that was all the answer Rebecca needed. "Oh god. Alvin..." She said in a pained whisper.
Luke looked at Rebecca. "Oh my god, Rebecca, Ah'm so sorry." He said sadly.
Rebecca grew an enraged expression. "Kill him." She said coldly.
"Rebecca, Rebecca, sweetie. My god. How did we end up here, you and me?" He said before looking at Clementine.
"And I regret not forcing myself on you when I had the cha-" Carver was cut off by Lee shooting him in the kneecap.
Kenny then shot him in the other kneecap.
"Leave his pedophile ass for the walkers." Lee said before walking away.
Everyone followed suit aside from Kenny who grabbed a crowbar. "Kenny? Man come on. If you want to cause him pain, just leave 'im for the walkers." Lee repeated.
Kenny looked like he wants to argue, but decided to just drop it. He dropped the crowbar before catching up with everybody.
Clementine ran over to a broken door and made sure it was opened for the walkers before leaving with everybody else to the other side of the building.
They all shivered for separate reasons when they heard his screams of anguish.