Always the Quiet Ones

Chapter IV: Fuck All The Sheep

"You know that joke about the two hillbillies and all the sheep?" Jane asked, the two of them were trying to pick a lock to get inside the interior of the observation deck, the two of them had agreed that it would be a good place for Rebecca to have her baby. Clementine shrugged at her question, she never had heard anything about that.

"It's a good one. This father and son are walking through the country, and climb a hill. And down below them, they see a field full of sheep. And the son gets all excited and says: Let's run over there and fuck one of them sheep! The father looks at him and shakes his head, and is disappointed in him. The father says, That's just wrong. The son hangs his head, and the father says, Let's walk down there and fuck ALL of those sheep. " Jane laughed as she finished her joke, and looked at Clementine, "You get it?" Jane asked. Clementine raises her eyebrow.

"No…" Clementine said, a bit weirded out by the joke. She was an eleven year old girl, she didn't know what it meant.

"Heh, I didn't think you would. Oh well, it doesn't matter." Jane chuckled again as she continued to pick the lock to open the Observation Deck.

"Shit!" Jane muttered, Clementine looked back.

"You okay?" She asked. Jane looked back and nodded her head, and went back to picking the lock.

"Hey, Sarah." Nick said, greeting her with a nervous expression. Sarah didn't reply. Nick kneeled down to her, which she had pulled her knees into her chest. She did that a lot. Nick partly blamed Carlos for sheltering her for far too long, but he wasn't mad at him about it. She needed to know the real threat. What was really going on.

"Look, I was hoping we could talk for a minute. Are you up for that?" Nick asked, Sarah looked up to him, and didn't reply.

"I know what you're going through. When I lost my mom, I didn't know what to do with myself. Part of me wanted to live in the past, pretending I was talking to her. I knew she wasn't really there, cause she was dead. I know that. I tried not to think about her." Nick sighed, remembering the walker taking a bite of his mom's neck, and feasting on her.

"I'll be alright, honey. Don't…" Nick's mother said, his voice was hoarse.

"Please…don't give up…" Nick's mother said after a few seconds of silence, and lost consciousness. Nick held her in his arms, sobbing as he lay his head down to her chest.

"Mom…" Nick sobbed, hugging her tightly. Luke, Carlos, Rebecca, and Pete were standing around Nick and his mother.

"Sarah, stay inside." Carlos said, shutting the door so Sarah couldn't see what was happening outside the cabin.

"No, Janet.." Pete cried, kneeling down to her lifeless body. The man that they had sheltered for the time being was bitten, and they were hoping they could contain him and possibly save him, but they were dumb to think they could change that. The man had changed into a walker and bit his mother. Luke yelled in anger as he sliced the walker's head open with his machete. Luke dropped his bloody machete, and hid his eyes with his hands.

"Nick, man… We gotta.." Luke said, with his empty voice. Nick pushed Luke back, while holding onto his mother's dead body.

"Go away." Nick muttered. Luke sighed and walked away, and Rebecca, and Carlos walked away with him. Pete stood there, looking down to his sister's body.

"Then I lost Uncle Pete. I wanted to die. I was reckless. I killed the man on the bridge because I was fucking reckless. I can't be reckless, not anymore. I need to stand up for myself, fight the fight. Remember that you aren't alone in this world, even if the people that raised you, are dead. You can't do a damn thing about it in this world. You just gotta… find something to fight for." Nick said, hoping to get a reply out of Sarah this time.

"What are you fighting for?" Sarah asked. Nick gave her question a big deal of thought. What did he fight for? What did he want to survive for? Was it just because he was afraid to die? Was it because of Uncle Pete?

"The two people who actually seem like family to me. You and Clementine." Nick confessed.

To be continued…

Sorry for the short chapter. Next chapter will be longer, I assure you. And soon: MORE EDDIE. Because I really need to spend some time with his character.