Welcome to Chapter 3! I was wondering how this story was going to be taken, but reading the two reviews made me smile.

RelentlessDarkness - I have to agree with you. I spent some time thinking about how long I will write before the reunion, and I have figured out some plot points that will tie in with Clementine's story.

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Chapter 3: Doubts

Delmon had been driving for about an hour now, while everyone in the back was doing their own thing. Jesse was in the front with Delmon, looking at the map that he got back from Owen, who was sleeping in the back. They had stopped at a gas station a few miles back to search for gas and possibly more supplies, but as you would expect, they didn't find much. But they ate there before they continued towards McDonough, it was only a couple miles away now.

They would reach their destination soon, and Delmon was set on searching for her there. Delmon sighed and looked in the rear view mirror, he looked at Richard, who was cleaning his gun to pass the time. While doing so, Richard had asked Seth if he knew how to shoot, in which Seth just shook his head, but said it would probably be easy if he needed to use one, and Richard replied with saying it isn't just point and shoot.

Delmon rolled his eyes as Richard began to show Seth the basics on how to shoot a gun. Delmon understood that it would be useful information, but he couldn't help but hear the similarities of Richard's lesson and the one he heard at the police academy. He then looked over to Reynaldo, who was staring out the window, probably thinking about his girlfriend. Delmon sighed as he looked back at the road in front of him.

Reynaldo and himself had known each other since freshman year in highschool, almost ten years. He met Richard in the academy, who was friends with Jesse and Owen, which is how Delmon met them. They had become close friends over the last four years, like Owen said, they were basically his second family at this point. Jesse was right when he said they couldn't risk going towards Atlanta, he didn't want to risk getting everyone eaten.

"We're almost there," Jesse said breaking Delmon's train of thought, "We can look for your sister, and try and find a place to lay low while we wait for the military to clean this mess up."

"Hopefully it will be fixed in a week or so."

"You guy's didn't see what it was like in Atlanta," Seth said, "I don't think the army can fix this."

"Hon…" May spoke.

"You were there too, you saw what it was like. There had to be thousands of them!"

"Thousands?" Reynaldo asked, removing his gaze from the window.

"The whole city was practically falling apart, barely anyone would be able to make it out of there."

Reynaldo looked down at the floor of the car.

"Don't worry man, we'll find her." Delmon said trying to comfort him.

"We don't even know where she could be!"

"Doesn't mean you should give up."

Reynaldo looked back out the window, and Delmon once again sighed as he looked forward. He once again saw a road sign.

McDonough 4 Miles

**20 Minutes Later**

Delmon stepped out of the car as he stuffed the keys in his pocket, "We should probably search those." He said motioning towards the array of buildings as everyone else stepped out of the car.

"Do you think we will find anything?" Seth asked.

"Couldn't hurt to look." Delmon answered.

"Seems like a waste of time."

"Well you're welcome to stay with the car."

Delmon muttered in annoyance.

"Whatever," Seth said going with Owen and Richard.

Delmon, Jesse, and Reynaldo began searching a coffee shop, while Seth, Owen, and Richard went and searched a gun store, which was going to be a longshot. The first group hadn't come across much in the shop except some old pastries, dried blood, and a hostile(Which they quickly took care of), and without finding anything worth mentioning, they walked out and began to search some houses nearby.

In the first house Delmon searched, there wasn't much in it either, but in the next one they found some canned goods. They began searching some more of the houses, finding food, more Hostiles, and a little bit of medical supplies that were in a bathroom cabinet.

"This used to be people's stuff." Reynaldo said.

"Most of them are dead or gone." Jesse said, about to search through the back of a closet, "They aren't going to be using this stuff anymore."

"I know that," He said, "It's just hard not to think about."

"Well it's best not to think about." Delmon muttered.

"I think i found something," Jesse said as he pulled something out of the back of the closet, "It's a safe."

"It looks like a gun safe," Delmon said as he looked at it.

"Well, you just took the mystery out of what could be in it." Reynaldo said.

"It's a three digit code." Jesse stated.

"You could try every single combination."

"Or I could bust it open."

"Good luck with that…" Delmon said.

"Or you know, you could start from 000, it could only take 999 tries." Reynaldo added.

"Whatever." Jesse said pulling his knife out so he could pry it open.

"Let's head back to the car."

When they got back, Owen, Richard, and Seth had already returned.

"You guy's find anything good?" Delmon asked.

"There were a few bullets scattered across the floor in the gun store, but no guns, there was only a few knives left." Richard answered.

"It's lucky we got these guns from the police armoury." Delmon said looking at the weapons they had at the moment

"Then we searched some of the houses and got a little food." Owen added.

"I knew this was a waste of time." Seth muttered.

"Well, Jesse found a gun safe, he's trying to get it opened now." Reynaldo announced.

"Either way, I want to leave this city." Seth said.

"I want to search as much of this place as possible." Delmon told him, "We can use the car and drive further into McDonough."

"Could probably make it close to Macon with the gas we have now, we can't waste it on searching the city." He argued.

"It's our car, not your's."

"That doesn't mean only you can decide."

"We were the ones who helped you!"

"Does that mean I have to listen to every word you say?" Seth questioned.

"You're welcome to leave if you can't!"

"I'm trying to protect my family!"

"I'm trying to find mine!" Delmon yelled.

"You mean the ones that are more than likely dead!?" He yelled, "We can't waste time on searching for bodies!"

Delmon took a step forward towards Seth, only to be stopped when Jesse stepped in between them, "Calm yourself Delmon."

Delmon looked at Jesse and then back at Seth, he stomped towards the car and got in as he slammed the door shut. He grabbed his backpack and began searching through it, as he did he heard the car door open and saw Reynaldo get in and shut the door, "You okay Del." He asked.

"All of this shit is stressing me out," he said putting his face into his hands.

"We're all stressed man," Reynaldo said before sighing, "You're already turning on the people you were trying to help less than a day ago from it."

"He's being an asshole."

"I know… He shouldn't have said that."

"What if it's true? What if they're gone."

"Say's the one who told me not to give up less than two hours ago. And what happened to 'Protect and Serve'?"

Delmon sighed before he lifted the photo of his family out of bag and looked at it. He had to look at the bigger picture, save as many people as possible, it was his job after all.

"The smart choice would be to go towards Macon, but not go into it, get as far away from cities as possible." Delmon stated.

"You okay with that?"

Delmon nodded.

"Then let's go. I'll drive." Reynaldo said getting out of the car to tell the others the plan.

**2 hours later/near Macon**

"Car is out of gas." Reynaldo said.

"We should try and find some," Jesse stated, "I would rather not be forced to walk instead of drive."

"Gas stations are probably empty, we'll need to get it from cars." Delmon added.

"We don't have a gas pump."

"We can suck gas out from cars, we just need a long tube."

"Where do we get one of those?" Seth questioned.

"I don't know… It's either that or we hotwire a car with gas in it."

"We need a car that will fit all of us." Jesse stated, "And that might be kind of difficult to find."

"Well… I say we split up. We can search for a tube or a big enough car, which ever one we find first is what we use."

"Yeah, that will work… how do we split the group."

"I'll go with Reynaldo." Delmon said.

"Seth can go with his family." Jesse added, "Owen, Richard, and me can be in a group as well."

"We meet back here in an hour, and if you find something good come right back and wait for the rest of us." Delmon said as he grabbed his bag.

Everyone seemed to agree to this and they all grabbed their stuff as well. Delmon and Reynaldo both began their search through some houses, finding some food and other supplies, taking care of hostiles that they found as they did so. They also looked around at the cars nearby, most of them were five seaters.

Delmon looked at a map, and noticed that there was a highschool nearby.

"You think that there's anything good there?"

"I'm not sure..." Delmon said.

"There might be a school bus." Reynaldo spoke, "that would fit all of us."

"Buses also take a lot of gas, so there might be a bunch in one if we can pump it out."

"You want to check it out?"

"Let's wait for the rest of the group to do that."

They continued searching the streets and nearby houses, finding some things here and there. The hour was almost up, and they hadn't found a lot. Delmon hoped that maybe the rest of the group had hopefully found something good. He also noticed that they came across quite a few hostiles, probably since they were close to Macon, Delmon they should get further away from it.

Eventually Delmon told Reynaldo that they should probably head back, since he thought that they weren't going to find anything. Reynaldo agreed and they began to head back towards the car. They had walked pretty far from it during there search. But as they walked they started to hear yelling.

"Ah shit!"

"There's too many of them!"

The voices were followed by the sounds of hostiles, the moans and groans filling the air. Delmon and Reynaldo looked at eachother before Reynaldo nodded, they started running towards the source of the sounds. And they came a across three teenagers, and watched as one of the hostiles lunged on top one of them.

"Ah! Ben! Help! Get it off!" A Boy yelled.

"I- I-…" The Boy referred to as Ben stuttered.

"Travis!" A girl screamed.

"Rey! Cmon!" Delmon ordered as he ran forward.

Delmon ran up to the hostile that was on top of the kid and pulled it off, throwing it to the ground. Delmon then took his knife and stabbed it in the eye, and spun around towards the rest of the hord, "Shit." He thought, backing away as he looked at the large number of hostiles.

Delmon grabbed the kid that was on the floor and helped him up, "Run!" He yelled as he and everyone began to book it, dodging out of the way of incoming hostiles. They must have ran for almost two minutes strait, the adrenaline keeping them going, Delmon came to a stop and looked behind himself. Seeing no more danger, he turned towards the kids who were out of breath, 'Thank god for police training.' Delmon thought as he realised that he wasn't breathing as hard as Rey and the teens.

"You guys okay?" Delmon asked the kids.

"Any of you bitten?" Reynaldo asked as well.

"N- No, We're… okay." One of them answered out of breath.

"Thank you." The girl said.

"What are you doing out here?" Delmon asked.

"We're held up in the highschool nearby, we were out of food."

"We came out here looking for some."

"What are your names?" Delmon asked.

"I- I'm Ben… Ben Paul." Ben said, "That's Travis and Alexis."

Ben and Travis were wearing the same uniforms, the only difference being their names sewn on the front right of their blue vests. Alexis' unimorm was similar except she was wearing a skirt with leggings. Delmon looked at them for a few seconds.

"Well, my name is Delmon, and he's Reynaldo"

"Are you kids by yourself?" Rey asked.

"No… there's about ten more of us, including two teachers."

"Only you guys were sent out looking for supplies?"

"No, we had a bigger group, we got split up when those things attacked. Our teacher told us to run the other way." The girl spoke up.

There was a moment of silence, "Can you take us to this school?" Reynaldo asked.