The RV came to a stop when daylight came about again. I didn't move to see why we'd stopped, I couldn't really because of my injured leg and lack of motivation.

Lee and Kenny stepped out to go and look at whatever was blocking our path.

"Maybe I should go look too," Ben suggested. "They might need some help."

"Yeah, Travis you should go too."

I rolled over onto my side so I was facing the teenagers and Lilly. "Kenny won't want a lot of people there. One of you go."

Ben left and Travis stayed.

"What is it?" I asked, pushing myself up but being unable to see what was ahead.

"It's a train," Lilly stated, bluntly.

I ignored her.

Kenny decided to get all of us except Lilly out of the RV.

I swung my legs down onto the floor of the RV and tested my injured leg, which had been bandaged up and stopped bleeding. I winced in pain, biting my teeth together when I put the pressure on it.

"You're not ready to walk on it yet," Travis noticed. "Let me help."

I nodded my head and put an arm around his shoulders, while he hooked an arm around my waist, helping me hobble towards the door.

"I'll lift you out," he offered.

"You can't do that, I'm too hea-"

I squealed a bit when I was lifted bridal style into his arms and carried outside of the RV.

Kenny and Lee immediately raised their eyebrows at the sight, looking both confused and protective. Ben blushed.

Travis placed me back so I was standing, looping his arms around me and helping me walk over to where Katjaa and Clementine were sat.

"You're okay?" He checked as I took a seat.

"Yeah, thanks Travis," I smiled at him the best I could, and he nodded his head before walking to Ben.

Clementine shuffled closer to me and played with the material of her dress out of boredom. I looked at Kat who held Duck in her arms.

"Kat?" I spoke softly and she looked up. "Is Duck okay?"

Kat looked upset and slowly shook her head. "He's been bit."

My stomach twisted. The energetic, lively and excitable boy was going to die. I didn't know what to say, so just slowly looked away. How had things been going okay and then taken a turn so quickly? Carley died, I got shot and Duck was bitten.

There was a loud thump, and my eyes were drawn to Lee who was lying on the floor near the RV, which suddenly began to move.

Kenny ran over, Lee shouted, but the RV just drove away into the distance, leaving us all abandoned. I had definitely decided- I hated Lilly.

"What now?" I sighed, asking nobody in particular.

Kenny and Lee went to investigate the train, leaving Katjaa, Duck, Clementine, Ben, Travis and I alone.

"I spy with my little eye, something beginning with 'T'," Travis said, breaking the silence.

Katjaa gave him a small smile, happy that he was making the effort to cheer the rest of us up desire that her and Duck were beyond the point of being cheered up.

"Tree," I said.

He shook his head.

"Travis?" Ben asked.

"Nope."

"Train," Clementine perked up a little bit.

Travis grinned. "Your turn, Clem."

The little girl looked around before finally settling on her choice. "I spy something beginning with 'L'."

There was a long pause as we tried to guess.

"Lots of people?" Travis smiled.

"I haven't got a clue," I shrugged.

"I give up," Ben sighed.

Clementine let out a small giggle, happy she'd won. "Lee."

With that, the man approached and took in our smiling faces.

"What did I miss?" He asked.

"We were playing a game," Clementine answered.

"Well I won't interrupt," he turned to Ben while Clementine spied something else.

"I spy something beginning with 'W'?"

My heart stopped and my muscles tensed in preparation to fight walkers. I winced in pain and my friends looked alarmed.

"What's wrong?" Clementine wondered, voice small and frightened.

"I... I just thought you meant that there were walkers."

"Is your leg hurt?" Travis checked.

"I'll be fine. What was it, Clem?"

"Wind," she mumbled to herself. "In the trees."

I forced a small laugh and stretched my wounded leg out in silence, hoping I hadn't ruined the fun of the game.


We met a new man a bit later on called Chuck, who was armed with candy for us all. I was slightly hesitant to take it, but figured I might as well since it was unlikely I'd get to taste it again anytime soon.

"Do you think this train will get moving soon?" I asked Ben and Travis.

"Lee and Kenny know what they're doing," Ben smiled before adding more words. "I think."

I rolled my eyes.

Long minutes passed before we were told to get into the train. Travis and Ben helped me there and I tried to avoid looking at Duck as he was carried in his mother's arms. The vehicle eventually set into motion and we were moving.

"Thank you," I whispered, looking up out of the train and at the sky with a small smile.

"You're religious?" Travis asked.

I shrugged. "I believe in God. It's difficult sometimes- when things get bad I mean- to believe, but I still do."

"I used to read the bible in the motel," Ben admitted.

I smiled. "Glad I wasn't the only one."


The train had been moving a while and I had no clue where we were going anymore, I just knew that I trusted Kenny and Lee to get us where we wanted to go.

"Got to be hard on you, eh?" Chuck commented while we sat in silence. "Three adults looking after five kids."

Ben and Travis shot him a frown.

"No disrespect," he added.

"We're not kids," Travis fought before Lee could respond. "I'm technically an adult."

Chuck smiled and slowly shook his head. "Naive and young. If the world was still how it was before the dead came alive, could you really handle yourself?"

"The world isn't how it used to be!" Travis spat back at him. "And you have no idea what I lived like. You don't know me."

"Please stop fighting," Clementine pleaded softly.

There was a cough nearby and everyone turned their head to see Duck with blood around his mouth.

"Lee! Lee, I need you right now. I need you to go get Ken," Katjaa said.

"What's.."

"Would you get that off his face? My hands are full here."

Lee did as Katjaa asked.

"He's out of time," Kat held her weak son and looked up at Lee with sad eyes. "We need to stop this train."

"Okay."

"Please."

Lee walked to the door to go and speak with Kenny, turning to us all with an expressionless face.

"Hold on."

I wanted to avoid looking at the child.

"Everything will be okay, Marcey." I looked up at Katjaa who cradled Duck. She looked down at her son like he was just a baby, her eyes full of emotion. Everyone was silent, saying nothing but having their faces give away their emotions.

The train stopped, and after a short time Kenny and Lee walked back to where we sat.

"Ken, it's... I think it's time," Kat told her husband. "We can't allow him to become one of those things."

"But what if... What if he doesn't?"

Katjaa had tears filling her eyes, making me want to look away from the sight of the parents losing their child.

"Kenny, I love you very much. I love our son more than life itself. I need you to hear me. What you are saying, that he may not turn, is foolish."

"But-"

"No!"

Everybody jumped. I felt Travis watching me.

"There's... come on, Kat."

"If you think of one, you let me know."

"Isn't there some sort of pill," Kenny had desperation filling his voice. "Or something we can just give him?"

"Stop it," Kat had a stray tear falling down her face.

"He can just drift off to sleep, right hon? I mean, Jesus, this is our son!"

"I know! But we know it's here," she tapped her head. "Or nothing."

"Well, fuck, just.. who then? You want me to?" Kenny asked, his voice raising.

"You don't have to," Kat told him.

"I'll do it," Kenny replied.

"No! You don't have to."

"Kat?" I asked, stopping the conversation between the couple.

She looked around at me slightly.

"Duck," I said calmly.

Kat looked down at her son, who had blood trailing from his mouth again and shallow breathing that made him look so still. He did look like he could just drift off to sleep like Kenny wanted.

"We have to do this now," she sighed. "I'll do it."

Katjaa picked up her child and carried him away with a gun into the woods.

I let out a small cough in an attempt to keep back my tears. I refused to be the person who cried when there was a man in front of me who was losing his baby, a small girl who didn't understand what was happening, and everybody else who seemed to be coping better than I was.

A hand was placed on mine.

"You're okay," Travis whispered to me, holding my hand properly.

"Why him?" I quietly asked. "Why did Duck get bitten instead of me? I'm a liability now anyway."

"Don't you think like that!" His voice was angered but he kept his volume down. "You'll be better soon, and what happened with Duck was nobody's fault, you hear me?"

I put my head on his shoulder and said nothing.

There was a gunshot.

"I'm gonna go get her," Kenny said. "She's probably a mess."

Lee turned to us in the train, then looked at Ben who stood outside. "Ben, get Clementine on the train, all right? And keep your eyes open."

Ben nodded and then the two men walked away.

Clementine climbed onto the train and sat down, wrapping her arms around her legs and resting her head on her knees.

"Clem?" I asked, lifting my head up. "You okay,sweetie?"

She nodded her head but kept resting on her knees. I looked at Travis and sunk back into his shoulder.

"I'm worried about her," I confessed to him.

"Me too."

"It's gotta be difficult for someone so young to be witnessing all of this shit," I watched her as I spoke, seeing her back rise and fall with her steady breathing so I knew she wasn't crying.

"How old is she?" Travis asked, wrapping an arm around my shoulders and holding me closer.

"Eight, I think."

"Damn."

"I know."

Travis' arms were warm around me and I shuffled slightly into his side so I could steal more warmth.

"How's your head?" I asked, tilting my head to look at where I remembered the gun being hit into his head. He'd since had the blood wiped off, which I presumed was while I'd blacked out in the RV.

"It hurt a little at first. Could have been worse though," he admitted, eyes flickering to my leg and then back to my face.

"It doesn't hurt much," I told him. "Who fixed it up?"

"Carley knew what to do. To be honest, I tried to avoid looking at it. They kept the bullet in."

I nodded my head. "I miss her."

Travis rested his head on mine and sighed deeply.

There was another gunshot.

"Probably a walker," Travis whispered.

We waited for a short minute before Kenny returned, his face miserable and cold.

"Kenny?"

The man looked at me, then slowly shook his head and walked through the door to the front of the train. Lee climbed into the train along with Ben. Soon, we were travelling again. There was no need to ask questions about Katjaa and Duck, we knew what had happened through what we had heard.

I felt sick with the thought of losing any more people than we already had. Everything was going wrong.


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