Author's Note: Hey Guys, so I know I haven't been uploading, but I have a legitimate reason. Firstly, I had university applications, which I'm sure a lot of my viewers can relate to. Then, just my fucking luck. My computer completely breaks down, which explains the huge and massive gap. I'm sorry that this is a shorter chapter than usual, so enjoy this, as I prepare a separate Christmas fanfic based on the most recent star wars movie. It may or may not happen, but anyway point is... Thank you guys so much for reading my fan fic over the past two months. I hope I can raise the amount of viewers and the quality of the content back on track, as well as the love for CARLEE. Still obsessed guys! Don't worry more chapters will come.
Lee reached into his bag and pulled out a flare. The red flare light had come up and illuminated the rest of the sewer. He panted and worried, as he could see nothing in front of him. In a fit of panic, he began to run, further and further into the sewer. A quick jolt to the left meant that he didn't have to clean excrement of himself, but he preserved forward. He increased his speed gradually because he knew the more time he spent looking for her, the more danger Carley would be in. He heard a cry, a cry of a woman. At that instant he turned around and ran towards the sound. As he cut the corner, he saw a nightmare situation, Carley trapped under some boxes and a walker coming deadly close to biting her. Although she remained calm and composed, she was in pain. The weight of a walker and the pile of stuff she was buried under, the weight was unpleasurable to say the least. Lee quickly disposed of the walker with his trusty monkey wrench, but Carley's body and spirit was just crushed by the sheer weight of the junk on top of her. Lee began to use his beast's strength in order to quickly remove Carley from this awkward situation.
"Carley! Are you bit?" he cried out. She put her hand on his shoulder. Since he got there, the pain grew weaker and weaker.
"Yes Honey, I'm fine." Lee was too worried to take her word for it; he began to pat her down.
"Come on Car, if you are just tell me." Carley was disappointed in his lack of faith.
"Yes! I am fine!" but she was still proud of his charisma, it really showed how much he cared for her.
They began walking; they questioned how Lee ended up in a different place of the sewer. They shrugged their shoulders and continued walking.
Meanwhile, Clementine had woken up to the sound of a door slamming shut, it was already nighttime. She rushed down the stairs with a smile on her face, she thought Lee was back or Carley had rushed back for more supplies. However, it was Kenny, shouting and yelling as per usual.
She looked around and could not find Carley or Lee. "Well maybe, that wouldn't have happened if you hadn't showed up. I mean for god's sake, I hope Lee is ok."
Clementine ran up to Kenny, but Christa got in her way and picked her up. She tried to resist, but Christa dragged her into the next room. Luckily, no one caught wind of this and continued their argument. Clementine was released into the next room; Omid was on his own on the couch. Christa looked sternly at Clementine, Clementine looked back confused.
"Look, I get that you're just a little girl and I don't know why I'm coming to you, but your parents are leaders now and we need those supplies." Clementine was still confused
"But I don't know where they are!" In the next room, another door slammed.
Kenny had rushed into his room, Molly crossed sat on the couch relieved and Chuck paced back and forth. Clementine rushed into the room and knocked on Kenny's door
"Kenny! Kenny! Kenny! Where is Lee? Where is Carley?" Kenny grumbled and did not answer, so she ran up Chuck and tried to stop him, but he just wouldn't break contemplation.
She gave up and sat down, she just had to rest and hope for now. Lily rushes down from the stairs, knocks on the door, it opens instantly and Lily walks in. Loud yells are heard, a crash is heard and then the room goes quiet. Christa again tries to whisk away Clementine, but Molly stopped her.
"Oh give it a rest! Her parents are in the sewer system, they'll find their way back." Christa retreated back to Omid and cuddled with him.
Whilst Clementine crossed her arms and closed her eyes on the couch next to Molly. "It's turning dark, guess you'll just have to hope for the best and make sure they survive the night"
Carley pulled a blanket out of her bag, Lee decided to camp for the night in the sewer because they couldn't find the exit to the sewers and it would be better to wait till there was some daylight. They managed to set up some traps so that no walkers could enter without them knowing. Lee decided to take the first watch, which left Carley quite alone and quite cold. She was grasping to her blanket and shivering, as if she was alone all the time. Lee moved closer and closer to her, in her sleep Carley grabbed Lee's arm. He was surprised. Lee knew that when Carley was sleeping, she didn't like to be bothered. Yet, she kept pulling him even closer and closer, so Lee wrapped her arms around Carley and made sure that she was warm. Carley with grin, wide up to her ears decided that it was the time to get sexual, but Lee had a job to do and just kept cuddling her.
"Lee?" she whispered and he nodded. "Will our lives always be like this?"
Lee gave her a confused look because it was a very intense and nerve-wrecking situation.
After all, their lives depended on their focus and concentration. "What do you mean?"
"Well I mean that will we have time for anything else or will we always just be constantly looking over our shoulders waiting for the next ounce of danger?" Lee shrugged his shoulders
"I can't say for sure, I think it's what's the world come to. To be honest, its what the world has always been." Carley turned to face him "What do you mean?"
"Well I mean that the world has always operated like this. We've always backstabbed and eaten each other to survive. Although, we could have helped each other at many turns, look where we are." Carley stayed silent, she felt slightly colder than before somehow.
"But, at least we have each other, maybe not for too long, but long enough to say that we had love. Isn't that what it's all about?" Carley hugged Lee, although it was very morbid, he spoke the truth.
"That's completely what I needed to hear. It isn't the most positive thing you could have said. But, at least you tried." She smiled and looked at him.
They were finally at peace, she fell asleep and Lee followed. They weren't worried if walkers came and got them because they were finally happy with each other.
Clementine was not as happy however, she began falling asleep on the couch, but she couldn't let herself. She knew that she had to wait for them or at least go and find them, but what could she do? She was just a little girl, but a little girl filled with love for her new parents. Clementine so filled with doubt, needed something to believe in, even if it was a dire hope. She walked up to the stairs, but she was interrupted by a strange sound. It was a familiar sound, but one that shouldn't have known. She opened the door to Kenny's room and saw Lily lying there. She looked happy and relaxed, but this was an emotion rarely shown by Lily. Kenny walked out from the on suite bathroom that he had. Although, there was no water he had managed to clean himself up a considerable amount. Clementine was shocked to see Kenny topless with a dad-belly and much to her surprise a wide grin on his face. He had his pants on, but he proceeded to remove them and that was when Clementine had decided she had seen just about enough. Clementine closed the door and made sure she had cleaned her eyes properly with the water from the bottle on the table. She could hear really high pitched giggling coming from the room, but she quickly removed herself from this awkward situation and ran upstairs to her room. She buried herself underneath a pillow and quite promptly fell asleep.
One person who couldn't fall asleep was the unbreakable, Chuck. He decided that going on first watch was the best way to relieve him of the troubles that surrounded the group. To Chuck's credit, he did not close his eyes, not once! He eyes were dead fixed to the wall across the lawn. Chuck kept his rifle at hand without letting go. It seemed as though everyone was well aware about what was going on between Lily and Kenny. No one wanted any part of that, which left the living room filled with Lily and Kenny's sounds, but empty with regards to people. Chuck couldn't care less and continued to sit outside and wait for everyone to fall asleep, he set traps, but he knew he couldn't trust them all the time. Suddenly, Molly had opened the door, but as she put one foot out the door. She was under threat from Chuck. Chuck aimed his rifle right between her eyes.
"Hey!" Molly whispered, "Put that down!"
Chuck lowered his gun, but as she tried to walk away he put his hand up to her chest and restrained her.
"What are you doing old man? I'm just trying to leave!" She muttered.
"You can't leave… Otherwise, I would have left a long time ago." Chuck sat down and Molly stood in front of Chuck looked at his hopeless expression and sat next to him.
"I mean, come on this group is a dump: You got a hobo..."
"Ex-hobo, we're all hobos now."
"Whatever! You got the little girl, her adoptive mom and dad who are lost in the sewer systems, the Texan and Ms. Trigger finger."
Chuck began to giggle, as he found her last remark funny "Oh, by the sounds of what's going on in there, I think Kenny is Mr. Trigger fingers!"
Molly scrunched her face up "That's fucking disgusting… Anyway, you also got that injured man in there. What are you going to do about him?"
Chuck looked ahead, "What is there to do? He's probably going to die."
"What are you serious? Just going to give up like that?"
Chuck looked back at her confused "Lady, I don't think you get what's going on here. That girl's parents are the leaders of our little group."
Molly began to open up her body to Chuck. "Yeah, they seemed very…heroic."
Chuck and Molly looked away from each other. Molly suddenly had a realisation "Well, I guess I'm staying, I want some supplies."
Chuck felt slightly threatened "I hope you aren't planning to rob us."
Molly moved back slightly "No. I mean with your numbers we could get a raid going on to Crawford. I mean you could get some stuff for your legless buddy over there."
Chuck retired to his careless way and just wanted to be left alone at this point. "Well… When Lee and Carley get back, we can talk about it. For now, why don't you go inside and just relax. Possibly hope that they get back."
Molly was about to retort, but instead she simply went back inside parked herself into one of the rooms on the bottom floor and fell asleep.
The next morning, Omid was the first to wake. The sharp, agonising pain just absolutely destroyed his spirit, but he had to get some water. He tried to rush to his feet, but was stopped by the pain. In this moment he realised that his location had changed, just then his wife stepped out of the bathroom.
"Honey, where am I?" Christa giggled, "Wow, you must really be sick. You've never called me honey before."
Omid didn't crack up like he usually would have "No seriously, where are we?"
Christa came and sat down next to him. "Well, we have moved into one of the other rooms because of the sounds Lily and Kenny were making. I would say that they should get a room, but it seems as though they already got one."
Omid tried his hardest, but he just couldn't contain a smile. "Maybe, he won't act like such a jerk then?"
Christa and Omid were both filled with giggles "Yeah maybe, if we're lucky."
Suddenly, a wave of depression hit Omid "Do you think they're coming back?"
Christa joined him emotionally "Well everyone has seemed distracted with Lily and Kenny that I think everyone forgot. They'll be fine baby! I know they will. They got Clem to come back to."
Omid isn't convinced by these words. "Look Omid, we'll get those supplies. I'm sure there's a plan waiting to be hatched. Any minute now someone's going to yell from the next room and…"
Just then, Molly screamed from the center of the house. "Hey guys, I got a plan! Anyone wanna hear it?"
Meanwhile, in the sewer systems Carley and Lee had been walking for about an hour. They had easily found an exit, but it was flooded with walkers. So, they made their way to another exit. It wasn't hard for them to find at all, it took them another ten minutes to calculate how to evade the walkers at the top of the new exit they had found. Carley and Lee made their way up quite quickly. At this point they realised that they needed to get out of this sewer. Carley couldn't even distinguish the smell of herself from that of the sewer and that gave this journalist the tip to leave the site. Lee however was fine with the smell of the sewer, it was more so the look of Carley. Although, Lee didn't need make up to appreciate Carley's beauty, he still wanted to make sure he didn't attach her image and sexuality to a sewer. Once they opened the manhole and helped each other out Lee first followed by Lady Carley. Lee was not expecting to see the Marsh house in front of them.
"Lee, where are we?" Just then a herd of walkers charged towards them.
The streets were empty until that point, so Lee pushed Carley into the lobby of the Marsh house. A tiny yelp came out of Carley's mouth, but Lee remained silent, but not so deadly.
"Why couldn't you do that last night? I would've been a little bit warmer" Lee turned back and grinned at her. "Carley! Not right now!"
"Just letting you know, I like it rough." Lee turned back, grinned and gestured for Carley to stay quite.
The Marsh house was completely dark, but the stairs were still visible. They made their way up the stairs, no walkers in sight. Something simply incredible had happened here. Carley found a slightly open door. A man was sitting in front of a T.V, which was simply playing static. She gestured Lee over, something was not right in that room. Lee took a look in the room. He spotted the same mistake she did. What Carley and Lee had spotted was Clem's walkie-talkie, which was firmly attached to Lee's waist. This was clearly the man that Clem had been contacting and Lee didn't think she knew this man unless she was Clementine's father. Lee needed to make sure of this.
Lee pulled Carley aside from the room, he left the room slightly ajar and moved Carley into the room next to the stranger's room.
"Look Car! Did you see that? It's the walkie-talkie!" Carley nodded
"We should lure him out." Lee nodded. They had a mutual understanding at all times, even in high-pressure situations.
Lee pulled out the walkie-talkie and began to try and speak to the stranger. "Sir." Carley instantly face-palmed, but he had to persist.
"Yes! I'm here at the Marsh house! Clementine and I are here for her parents." Lee didn't know what else to say, he needed to make sure that he was there.
Suddenly a voice arose out of back of the walkie-talkie "Yes, sure. Come up to room 2B. I've got her parents right here, but I want to talk to you first. Lee is it?"
Without hesitation, Lee kissed the woman of his life and stormed into the next room. The stranger turned around and held a gun to Lee's face. Carley pulled her gun. After all she was the dead eye of the group. Hopefully, this time she could make the shot like she always does. For now all she could do was wait.
"So Lee, that didn't take very long. Where's Clementine?" Lee looked to his right.
He saw a body on the ground accompanied by another. "Ah yes, her parents. Lovely people. Saved them from their eventual death and in doing so saved Clementine, but I am the ordained guardian. They trusted me with her life before they died."
Lee began to get nervous, very nervous. The stranger was very aggressive. Something about his posture dictated his sanity: the arching back combined with the jumpy personality of a monkey did not necessarily paint the best picture of this man.
"So if you please… Where Is She?" the stranger said at the top of his volume.
Carley understood the gravity of this situation and did not move a muscle. The stranger stood up and all of a sudden Lee tried to make a run for the door. The bullet had just missed Lee's head. He instantly stopped and turned right back to face the stranger. The stranger stood up and put the gun to Lee's head. Lee reacted by stepping back, as the stranger began to speak.
"Look, you storm in here making demands. I lost my family because of you people and you have the audacity to jerk me about! I know how family works so just give me the girl and I'll be on my fucking way!" Lee and the stranger made their way to the middle of the corridor where Carley was waiting to get rid of the stranger.
Unfortunately, Carley's dead shot aim was so used to blowing up heads that she accidentally killed the stranger or maybe not accidentally. Lee pushed the carcass of the stranger back into the room. They examined the body of the supposed parents of Clementine. Lee reached into the man's right pocket and found all the evidence he needed to find. The same picture he found in Clementine's house of her family. Even though Carley, Lee and everyone else at this point knew that Clem's parents were dead, but it didn't soften the blow to find them actually dead. Lee kept the picture to hopefully show his now adoptive daughter. Carley held Lee, as he dropped from his knelled position. She kissed him on the head, as he just wanted to bury himself in her arms forever, but they couldn't stay there forever. Lee got up after being gestured by Carley and promptly put a knife to both their heads. They managed their way to the lobby in silence, but they were stopped, as they forgot to block the door behind them. Lee had to try something, but it was Carley who took the trusty monkey wrench and threw it at the window at the building opposite them.
"Told you it was light baby." She pushed him and quickly dragged him to the manhole.
They were back in the sewers. They needed a moment to collect their thoughts. It was a quick half hour that had just gone past and Lee just needed a moment to think. Carley pulled out a map and began planning their journey back to the others. However, Lee just stood silent for a while. He considered how to tell Clem the important things and how to tell her these things. He didn't want to push her further away. All it needed was time and space from what he could guess, as now her father.
They got back to the group's home in the afternoon. Everyone was packing getting ready, except for The sound of guilt was the only thing rung through Lee's ears.
"Lee! Carley!" The little girl yelled at the top of her voice and ran up to her new parents, but she was unaware of this.
"Where's everyone going?" Carley asked suspiciously. "We're going to raid Crawford Bitches!"
Next time on "What if Lily missed…" :
The main villain has been disposed of in the main walking dead storyline rather quickly, but stick around to see what happens next, as the crew raids Crawford. How is Lee and Carley going to break the truth to Clementine and what the hell is going on between Kenny and Lee. Only time will tell, until the next chapter.
