This is where you start to notice real differences between the story of Lea and the story of Lee. There are going to be characters in this story that either didn't make it out okay in the game, or straight up OCs. If you have problems with OCs then I suggest you don't read this story.
And in this story our dear main character Lea is going to be a bit more logical, in my opinion, than Lee is. Why didn't he and Clementine raid her house, at least for a change of clothes for her.
ANGRY RANT AFTER THIS POINT:
I mean come on, we all know that no one went in there because Clementine's babysitter was still in there, and still 'alive' so to speak, so no one went in there and got rid of her, and there wasn't any other walkers in there from what I can tell so no one went in there for supplies and got bit, and if you're thinking "What about the empty kitchen?" that's because Clementine took enough food up to her tree house to survive the beginning of the infection, and she had to be there for a minimum of three days.
Why? Because the infection most likely started in a big city, like New York (I think it came from Jersey, to be honest), and then spread to smaller cities and towns in other states, with the highway making it easy to spread across the country, but it would take days to infect an entire town, especially a small one, because all it would take is like a walker to bite someone, then everyone would hear about it and leave town. With only like ten to fifty people sticking around to see if it's true, and that is not a lot of walkers if you just got in a high up place and snipe at them with a fishing bow and arrow (arrow with a line attached to pull it back).
However this wouldn't be so for towns dotting the interstate, because they would be overwhelmed by the herds of walkers wandering the highway in hours (the highway would be loud and attract walkers, the noisy normal life of people would draw them off the highway).
Seriously Lee, are you kidding me, you take down the only walker, on the entire street until those guys starting making noise and attracts them, from what I saw, and you don't go around raiding the houses for food and stuff.
From what I can tell, the infection snuck up on Clementine's neighborhood, so the most plausible scenario is that, they either got bit, or they fled in panic, so if you go by that logic all of those houses they just drive by on the way out of the city and to Hershel's are full of the stuff they need like food, better clothes, water in bottles, maybe a few weapons, heck you could totally steal some kitchen knives and they would do the job.
I also don't get why no one, in the whole game, carries a butcher knife or something, that's what they are made to do, cut up once living things, but no, they're all carrying around pocket knives, or axes, or guns. Get one of those HUGE turkey carving knives, your life will become so much easier my zombie killing friends.
I thank you, my dear viewers, for reading chapter one. Sorry about my Lee logic rant above.
Lea's eyes fluttered, blinking heavily a few times, she frowned.
'Are cabs supposed to be sideways?' she drowsily thought to herself with a frown, then unable to think straight, shook her head, much to her neck's irritation.
Wincing Lea held her neck, rubbing it tenderly. 'What happened?'
She turned to her driver, looking though the wire mesh separating them, "You okay man?"
He was slumped over, almost kissing the floor, he let out a low moan, "Wha apend?" He asked, holding his head.
Lea shrugged, "I think we hit someone, or something..." she mumbled staring at the blood- now dry- covering the windshield.
He turned to the windshield and stared reproachfully at the blood and spider cracks covering it, he groaned, "Forget whoever we hit, my boss is gonna fry my ass."
They were both turning and searching around in our spaces inside the cab, looking for useful things to help climb out of our cubbies. Getting bored with the silence she opened her mouth and asked, "What's your name Mr. Cabdriver?"
He arched a dark brow, "Why don't you tell me first, Miss I-need-a-ride," a small smirk on his pail face.
"My name's Lea Everett, just got back from Australia," said Lea, "Your turn."
He gave a resigned sighed, "My parents where bastards and gave me the incredibly stupid name of... wait for it... Ace Riddle." he admits begrudgingly.
"Pleasure to meet you Ace," Lea replied with a polite nod.
After finding her carry-on wedged under her seat, she didn't hesitate for a second she opened it, and pulled out a couple souvenirs she got from Australia (one for her brother), two shiny butterfly knives (she got some mock ones too, like spoons and other silverware, for her mom and dad as a joke), one was white and had a large fishing hook like barb on the back of the blade, and the other one was was a standard silver one, that had a shiny, plastic, black, belt-clip on it.
Ace gave her a look when he saw what looked like 6 knives in her bag, "Are have all of those necessary? I know Australia can be dangerous, but damn."
Lea rolled her eyes, "They're not all knives, I also got a fork, spoon, comb and bottle opener in this style." Picking up a silver 'knife' and opening it to reveal a spoon, she gave a grin, "See."
Ace could only stare at her, with the most confused face a person can contort their face into, that has long since been labeled in society the WTF look.
"Don't give me that look," Lea snickered, "The silverware is for my parents, and the white one and bottle opener is for my brother."
Ace gave a slight nod, 'That makes much more sense. Thank God I'm not stuck in this cab again, with nothing but a little wire to separate me from yet another psycho.'
"All though I did get a knife, a comb and a short sword in this style for my personal collection," Lea remarked with a care free smile, flicking around the standard silver one in her hand expertly.
Ace gave her a long hard stare, as if trying to decide if she was crazy or just enthusiastic about seeing her family again.
Lea turned to the back rest of the back seat, she pushed on it a few times, then frowned, turning to Ace she nodded in the back rest's direction, "Hey is the back of this seat directly connected to the trunk?"
Ace frowned and looked out of the corner of his left eye, he looks at Lea and says, "I... think so. I'm not to sure. Why do you ask?"
Lea smiled, turned to the seat, reached up to the up high right side of the seat, standing slightly, and stabbed as close to the seam as she could get, then let herself drop back down into a sitting position slowly.
Ace could only watch in horror as this girl he hardly knew destroyed his bosses cab, 'She's gonna kill me when she finds out.' Ace was pale and shuttering as he watched Lea rip the foam stuffing out of the back of the back seat.
Lea pushed on the last barrier between her and the trunk, the black material giving easily under her hand. Reaching up once more and slicing a person sized hole in the material, she stared into the trunk, there was a softball sized hole in the top of the trunk, but she didn't care to look out side before she got her stuff and ate something. She grabbed her hiking backpack and pulled, heaving the large bag though the space where the back seat used to be, grabbing the top and unzipping it, she took out the bag of dried fruit she was going to eat when she got to her hotel, which if her watch is right should have been 4 hours ago.
Then she paused and turned to Ace, "Want some?" She shook the bag for emphases.
Ace gave her an irritated look, then gestured to the wire barrier, that's pretty standard in every cab.
"I could get it off, I know I've got something to get those bolts off in my bag, you don't spend 6 months in another country with out picking up stuff like tools to fix everything you break there," Lea said with a mildly embarrassed look, and a far off look in her eye, as if remembering the things she broke in Australia.
Ace looked at her and said, "Well hurry up, I haven't eaten since breakfast."
Lea nodded and started opening up all the pockets in her backpack and other luggage, 'I wonder what we'll find, I haven't checked what's in here since I packed most of my stuff three days ago.'
And that is the end of chapter two, I hope you didn't think it was too slow, or boring because it was just Lea talking to the cab driver we now know as Ace Riddle, and if you want to know Ace's ethnicity it is not English-white like some would think when I described him, he's parents are both from South Italy, but he was borne in America (my excuse for not wanting to write an accent), he's really pail though because he is a night cab driver (7:30 P.M. - 6:30 A.M.), so he sleeps in the day.
And with that information the time of day this is set at is 5:15 A.M., and if your question is about Ace's breakfast, it happens around 7:00 P.M.
If you want to know when Walkers show up, that will be chapter 3 or 4, I might want some more character time before I introduce them, but they will be there, I promise, I say again I'm good with suggestions on the story, if you say kill off Ace in the next chapter though I'm gonna say no, his death isn't going to occur till much later, and that is only if it is voted on.
If you want to know more about how Ace looks he has dark brown hair, blue eyes (freak mutation not genetic, it happens, there's even Asians with blue eyes sometimes), he's kind of tall, about 6'2" (feet' inches" for those who don't know), and he is quiet afraid of his boss as you could see from his thoughts on what's gonna happen when she sees what he did to her car.
Most updates are going to be between Monday and Wednesday, not both most of the time, I've got school work to do, so the next time you guys are going to see an update this fast is the next long weekend or if it comes to it thanksgiving break. So don't get used to this, cause it's not going to happen every week.
And a special thank you to FaithfulReaader92, Rebloxic, fanfictionisahobby, and Loyaldeer for your lovely reviews.