Author Note: I do not own The Walking Dead or any of its characters.

I own Axel Dixon and Cath Carver

Emily Carver belong to HiddenTruthandsLies2

Benjamin "Ben" Rugby and Timothy "Tim" Rugby belongs to AquaDestinysEmbrace

Chapter 71: November

Cath's POV

I watching around in the forest, right outside of a main road. Every leafs is getting orange and then brown later. Soon they will fall down off the trees. It's getting winter when the wind of the air blows so cold.

No one is there except us, not at least those bandits who attacked us back in the motor inn.

It has been almost two weeks after the incident back in Savannah. How we lost Ben, Kenny, Molly, Carley... Doug and... Lee.

My head lowered down sadly after remembered about our lost friends. We found Clementine back at the high grass in the countryside without Lee. She was really happy that she found us, but she refused or can't tell us about Lee's fate.

More likely he... didn't make it...

We both are sitting on seats in the car. The others are outside and arguing about something, it reminds little Lilly/Kenny thing even it's not so seriously.

Wonder about what they planning...

Emily came in the car to check on me and Clem.

"Hey, Cath. How are you doing?" She asked.

"I'm okay. Just... Can't believe how this happened with our friends..." I said sadly as Emily lower her down gloomy.

"I know... I know." Emily says and look at Clem who still looked quiet, either pay her attention by Emily. "How's with her?" She asked worriedly.

I look at her and thinking.

Honestly, I don't know how long she will get over with Lee's and the others's deaths.

"I won't lie, I've already tried to cheer her like playing something, but... It didn't never work." I replied sadly.

"Just give her a time. She has been through enough." Emily added and I nod.

Axel's POV

I standing between in this argument because it's getting out of hands.

Will they ever stop with this shit?!

Argh! This is like when Kenny and Lilly arguing and never ends!

"Where the hell were you thinking?! You rather stay here when there's some geeks limping around and try to eat us?!" Benjamin exclaimed annoyance.

"I'm just saying we're not taking any chances for now. Not forever!" Christa hissed strictly.

Christa and Benjamin has been arguing about what next are we gonna do. Benjamin and Tim wanna try find any communities on the north later while Christa refusing take any chances to encounter some new people, in the other word; strangers.

I get between of them with a serious look.

"Alright, that's enough! This won't help anything good for us!" I exclaimed.

"He's right. It's not worth it." Omid agreed with me.

"We won't get anywhere by arguing each other." Tim said as Benjamin walk away and take his own distance from us while Christa huffed out her annoyance sigh.

I sighed. Phew, that wasn't so hard to deal with it.

Tim walk over to his twin brother to talk with him.

I turned to Christa and Omid and walk over to them.

"Alright then, Christa. Look, maybe we shouldn't take any chances for now, but the brothers and Molly has already planned this about find some community on the north. And we're stuck with them, we can't force them to change their plans like that." I tried to make some sense with her, but she shake her head.

"The reason why we are stuck with them is because we didn't have much options than go on our own foot after we got out Savannah. But now we're no more exhausted and we have opportunity to split up if this boy keep going with his shit on us." Christa shot back.

I widened my eyes of a bit surprised about split up. Seriously?!

"No way. I know I have tried to that too, but... it just I can't and so as you too. Not after Clementine lost someone who deeply cared about her." I explain.

Christa sighed and take a look at the car, it was gesture for Clementine. She doesn't wanna make her more sad.

"Besides, first we have to find a place, a good shelter for us from the cold. The winter is almost here." I make sense with her as she looked down and looks like she knows that I has right.

There's one place that I know it could be safe, if... someone isn't there now.

"And I think I know where we start." I guess as Christa and Omid widened their eyes in surprised and shock.

"Really?" Omid asks.

"Of course, I hope." I said as Christa shook her head.

"Axel, for real? Hope? I don't know what you got in your head, but hope is getting people so devastated and what happened next? Most of dies." Christa stated.

I looked down. True, but better than have no idea where we'll going.

"Better wandering around in the street and then later probably to die alone here. I mean have you better idea than this one?" I retort.

Christa opened her mouth to say back, but interrupted when Omid placed his on her shoulder.

"Christa. Axel's right. We've been so goddamn scared of strangers and I know that. But into this point, we gotta take this chance when the winter is coming." Omid ensures his girlfriend. "Think about the baby, honey. We, especially you won't be good in the winter."

Christa just look at her boyfriend and thinking about his words.

After a little moment, she sighed and looked defeated now. "Okay, but if there's getting worse, we'll change our minds." Christa said and walked away as Omid follow with her.

I just starring at Christa and her words. Well, I hope not we'll not change with our minds because of him if he's still there.

Then I turned around and saw the twin still talking each other, probably about Christa's personally view.

"Hello, boys. Are you guys caught up something in your head?" I ask.

"What do you think? A woman who believed we will be fine in the road on our own. She need to learn one or two things about hope." Benjamin snap over Christa and her opinions.

I rolled my eyes and crosses my arms.

"It has almost been two weeks since we lost half of our people. I think Christa is just scared to take some chance." Tim added as Benjamin got a displeased expression on his face. "We all are scared. Don't act like I have wrong about her or anyone." Benjamin chimed.

I sighed and take a breath.

"Maybe you're right. But right now, we can't go to the north yet. It's getting cold now. The winter is almost on the next month and I don't think Cath and Clementine are not ready to handle that cold." I explain as the brothers start pay their attention from me.

"So what are you suggest?" Benjamin questioned and crosses arms over his chest.

"There's a old big ranch house somewhere on mountains of North Georgia where I grown up along with my relatives by grandfather and his goddamn cousins. We have plenty gas enough to get there. It will take 5, 6 or more hours if we got much trouble on our way." I replied which earned couple of disbelief glances from the brothers.

Tim has almost dropped his jaws while Benjamin holds it back, but still looked shock.

"No offense, but have you become homesick or something like?" Benjamin asked as Tim nod little. "Yeah, and besides, like you said that the winter is coming and every mountains has probably got snow now. In the other word, it's already cold there." Tim stated.

I hate to admit, but he's right. It's probably already cold there, but the shelter is not what I just focus on except what we need when we're hungry. There's a lot of wild animals that slow-ass walkers can't barely caught them just like back at the woods in Macon.

"There's more than shelter that we bother about. I might be miss that place, but that's the good spot where we can probably stay there until the winter move on." I said with a strict tone in my voice. "Besides, Christa has no ideas where we should go and then stay, but you two? Have you any better ideas?"

The brothers just look at me before they start pondered my words. They have been silent in a moment until Tim nod at Benjamin which they look at me again.

"We'll listening." Benjamin tell me to go on.

Later after I explained about my old family place on the mountains of North Georgia, we decided to try get there before the winter will come soon.

I'm the one who's driving the vehicle while Tim sitting next to me as the others are sitting behind of us two. I focus to drive and have my eyes on the road to be careful like don't hit a walker or some wreck vehicle.

Then I feel Emily grab my seat from behind, but I still keep my eyes on the road to focus.

"Axel? Are you sure about this? What if your grandfather and who knows what..." But she trailed off as she don't wanna talk about my grandfather right to me, but I wouldn't bother.

"Then I'll figure out with him." I say while keep driving.

"How?" Emily ask.

"I'll came up something better." I said so confident.

To be continued

A/N:

I forgot to mentioned that these last ten chapter will be time-skip too.

I hope you fans are enjoyed of this little chapter. ;)