Episode 2: Starved for Help, Part 1

Alexander's POV

*Screaming and Crying Was All I heard As I Walked Closer up the Road, Searching For my Family and Hoping my Friends Are Still Alive..."Help Me!" Was All I Heard From a Female Voice as I walked Closer and Closer to Stumble Upon an Abandoned House, Inside I Heard Thumping, Screaming and Sobbing...

"Mom?! Dad!? Calvin!? Kelly!? Bianca!?" I Called Banging on the Door

"Alex! Help Us!?"

With all my Anger and Strength, I kicked the Door Open and Ran Inside Looking Frantically Around Everywhere...Please Let them Be Alive and Okay...

"You Didn't Come For Us Alex, You Destroyed Us! Now You're Here To Die!" I Jumped and Turned to See a Figure In Front of Me I've Been Trying to Avoid Happening. Zombie...Mom?

"Mom?" I asked Hopelessly, Stepping Slowly Back. The Thing Grunted and Moved Her Hands Towards me

"You Destroyed us Alex, We Loved You and You Didn't Come Looking For Us! Look What You Made Us Become! Monsters! Walkers!" The Thing Grunted and Scream Out. I Kept Stepping Back Until I Hit the Wall...

"No! Not You too Dad! Calvin! Kelly! Bianca!" I Screamed Out in Shock as Other Familiar Walkers Started Walking After Me, Cornering Me.

I Felt Sick, Depressed, Alone, and Defendless

"We Love You, We Love You, We Love You,We Love Alex..." The Walkers Formerly Known as My Friends and Enemies Repeated as they Stepped Closer to Me, Hovering Me

"STOP! LEAVE ME ALONE! LET GO! HELP! I'M SORRY! AHHH-" *

"AHHHHH!" I Screamed Out Loud, Quickly Shooting Up From My Bed.

"What The Hell!" I Heard the Door Bust Open Revealing Lee, Lilly, Kenny, Mark and Carley Running Inside, With Clementine Waking Up Beside Me, Holding Me.

"What in the World is Going On?" Lilly Demanded, Looking Sternly at Me. I sighed feeling my Neck, Which was Wet and Sweaty From this Horrible Dream I had.

"She Just Had a Bad Dream, I Can See It From her Face...And Temperature" Kenny Explained, Looking at Me.

"Well, If She has Another Bad Dream Again, We Might Wake up the Walkers!" Lilly exclaimed.

"Give it a Rest Lilly, She Just had a Bad Dream, It's Not Her Fault, She's Been Traumatized and Worried about Her Parents, Honestly, Haven't We All Been there?" Carley Defended. I gave a Weak Smile at Carley. Lilly Rolled her Eyes before Giving Me one Last Look and Walking Out.

"Well, She Seems Shooken Up a bit, Let's Give Her a Minute" Mark Said staring at me Worriedly before Escorting Kenny and Carley Out.

"Alex, What Happened? I though you were Okay?" Lee asked Me sitting on the End of my Bed, facing me. I sighed and shook my head.

"It's Just Every Night, I Feel Like I Killed My Parents..." I confessed as Tears Started Rolling Down my Cheek. Lee Looked at me With Sorrow and Confusion.

"What? Why Would You Feel that?" He asked.

"Cause, I Basically Let them Drive off, With Walkers Around Waiting For their Flesh, If Only I knew They Would..." I shook my head looking Down as More Tears started rolling.

"Don't Cry Alex" Clementine Comforted Me as She Hugged Me.

"I Can't Help It, I hate those Walkers and The Day My Parents and Calvin Drove Away" I said.

"I Know It's Tough, Hell Most of these People Left Their Parents Unaware What was Gonna Happen to them, But They Still Went through their Lives and Survived, If They Can Do It, You Can" Lee said. I looked up at him "Plus You Have Me and Clementine, Lilly, Carley, Kenny, Katja, Duck, Mark and Larry..." I Scoffed.

"Larry, Really?" I rolled my eyes.

"Well, Maybe Not Larry but those other People Out there, Were Like a Family and We Stick together, I'm Sorry For Saying Your Parents Were Dead Three Months Ago, It Was Stupid and Ignorant Of Me, But Right Now,Were All Focusing and Surviving, Maybe You Should Do the Same" Lee Finished.

"Thanks Lee, You Can Go, I wanna be alone with Clementine So We Can Get Some Sleep" I said. Lee Nodded and Got Up.

"See You Girls in the Morning" Lee Said before Walking out.

(5:40 PM)

"Hey Alex, You Finally Came out" Mark Greeted Me As I walked out of my Hotel Room. Long Story...Mark Was A New Recruit While We Were Staying Here, We Found Him Alone at his Base and We Wanted to Take Him But Lilly Didn't Agree but Invited Him in Anyways Because He had Useful Supplies that can Help Our Group. During His Stay, Me and Him Formed a Brother and Sister Relationship and Since then, We've been on Good Terms, Never Any Trouble. With the Other Group, Lilly was Still the Leader of the Group and Acting Self-Centered But I Knew Behind that, She was a Troubled Girl Taking Care of Us and Her Father, Me and Her are On Good Terms and Are Actually Friends, She always Comes to me For Small Tasks. For Kenny, He's like an Uncle to Me, Since Lee was Like a Dad to Me and Him and Kenny were on Good Terms Enough to be like Brothers, So I started Acting Like Kenny was an Uncle to Me and He'd Always But Sometimes Become Protective of Me. I'd Even Get to Wear His Hat Sometimes, If He was in a Good Mood. For Katja, We are on Good Terms, She's like an Aunt To Me, If I wanted Someone to talk to, She's alway be on my Speed Dial on #2. For Duck, We Have a Brother and Sister Relationship, He's Always Bug Me to Play With Him and Clementine, He Reminded Me So Much of...Calvin that I Spend Half My Days With Duck and Clementine. For Larry, Nothing Actually, He Barely Talks to me and Always Has his Grumpy Attitude With Mostly Lee. I think Me and Him are on Good Terms Since he Seems to treat Me More Less Rudely. For Carley, She was like a Mentor to me, She Recently Taught Me How to Use a Gun and Defend Myself, She Teached me that I'm Not always Gonna be dependent and to Rely on Myself and Survive on my Own, I made myself to remember those words just incase. For Clementine, We Were Inseparable, She was like a Sister To Me, And You know the Rest...

"Where are You Guys Going" I asked Mark, Kenny and Lee who held their Guns, Heading Outside the Gate that was Fenced Around Us, Keeping the Walkers Out...

"Were Just Gonna Hunt Darlin'. If the Walkers Come Near Us, We'll Shoot their Brains Off" Kenny Reassured Smirking at me. I Smiled.

"Please Be Lucky" Clementine Said Running Over to my Side. I put an Around Clementine.

"Don't Worry Clementine, We'll Be Right Back, Promise" Lee Reassured. Clementine Smiled as We Watched them Walk Off into the Woods...

"Hey Wanna Write With Some Chalk, Mom Gave Us these Awesome Chalks!?" Duck Exclaimed Running up to Us. I Smiled and Followed Duck and Clementine to a Small Table...

An Hour Later...

I was Enjoying Messing Around With Duck and Clementine and Also Getting Some Work Done From Lilly and Katja...

"Need Anything Else" I asked Looking above the Trailer Bus, Where Lilly Was Sitting on Top Watching Over Us. Lilly Shook her Head at Me. I sighed and Sat Down Next to Duck and Katja and Smiled.

"You Know Your a Great Mom, Katja" I Complimented. Katja Smiled at me.

"Thank You Sweetie"

I became Alarmed When We Were Told to Be Quiet As Lilly Heard Something From the Woods...

"Get the Gates Open! We've Got Wounded!" Lee Shouted Coming Our Way. My eyes Widen as this Scene Unfolded...

"Shit! What they Hell are they Doing!?" Lilly Exclaimed Angrily putting Down Her Shot Gun, Coming Over to the Crew...

My Eyes Widened Even More When I Saw Mark, Carrying a Guy that Had Half Of one of his Legs Cut off. I Covered my Mouth in Shock "Oh My God.."

I Looked Between Everyone as They Started Complaining.

"Who Are These People" I asked Looking at a Boy who Seemed to Be in His Late Teens and Had on a Blue Leather Jacket, Tall and Had Orange-Brownish Hair and The Unconscious Guy Who was laying on Mark's Back With One of his Legs Chopped Off...This is Insane...

"What's Going On?"

"I Don't Have Time to Explained"

"Lee Are You Okay?" Clementine asked

"Get Him Into the Truck, I'll See What I Can Do" Kat Said.

"Kat Can You Fix him?" Kenny asked

"Jesus Ken I..I-"

"Lee! Lee!" Lilly Exclaimed "What the Hell You Can't Just Be Bringing New People Here! What Are You thinking?" Lilly Exclaimed As We All Watched Quietly.

"Hey You Wanna Calm Down For a Fucking Minute!?" Kenny Spoke Up Annoyed With Lilly's So Called Selfish-Ness.

"Hey Watch Your Fucking Mouth!"

"No I Don't! I Want to Know Why You Thought Bringing more Mouths To Feed was a Good Idea!" Lilly Demanded.

"He Would Have Died, If We Left Him!" Lee Spoke.

"So What?" Larry Spoke.

"We Are NOT Responsible for Every Struggling Survivor We Come Across. WE have to Focus on OUR Group! Right Here, Right Now!" Lilly Explained

"Well Hang On, We Haven't Even Talked to these People Yet. Maybe they Can be Helpful!" Carley Defended.

"Come on Lilly These Are People! People trying to Survive Just like Us! We've Got to Stick together to Survive!" Mark Spoke. As He was Talking, I took a Glance at the Boy with the Orange-Brownish Hair, Wow He looks like he's been through a lot...But So Have I...So Join the Club...

"The Only Reason Your Here Is Because You Had Food. Enough for All Of US. But That Food Is Almost Gone. We've Got Maybe a Week's Worth Left and I Don't Suppose you Guys are Carrying any Groceries are you?" I turned to the Boy.

"Um, No" The Boy Answered. I gave him a look of Sympathy as He Glanced at Me. Man I Felt Sorry For Him, Right Now. He Didn't Deserve this kind of Welcoming...

"Fine, You Guys Fight it out then. Welcome to the Family, Kid" Mark finished. I shook my head.

"Come over Here and See What I Drew" Clementine asked the Boy. The Boy Seemed, Kind of out of it, Just like I am, When My Traumatized Faze Comes on.

"What? No. I-" Clementine Pulled him away.

"Just Come on" I Watched as they walked off. I watched as Kenny Walked up to Lilly.

"You Know You Like to think that your the Leader of this little Group but We can make our Own God Damn Decisions! This isn't your Own Personal Dictatorship!" Kenny said as Lilly looked Annoyed.

"Oh Come on Your Being Dramatic!" Carley said beside me. "Everything always turns in a Power struggle between you two, I'm Not Gonna Be Apart of that" Carley said walking off.

"Hey, I Didn't ask to lead this Group!" Lilly exclaimed "Everyone was Happy to have me distributing the Food when there was enough to go around but now that's it out, Suddenly I'm a God Damn Nazi!" Lilly exclaimed reasoning herself.

"It Doesn't Matter Who's In Charge. Those People are Here Now. I guess We just have to decide what Happens Next." Lee said

"No Lee It Does Matter! ONE Person can't be in charge of EVERYTHING!" Kenny reasoned "You Know it might feel safe for you to sit on the Fence but sooner or later your gonna have to decide whose side your on" Kenny said before walking off. I stood there Awkwardly, Listening to the Conversation.

"I don't See Any of you stepping up to make the hard Decisions! My Girl's Got more Balls than all of you combined" Larry Spoke up. Oh Shut up, Larry...

"Dad Please Why Don't you go Help Mark with the Wall?" Lilly asked. I Watched as Larry Glared At Lee Before walking Off.

"You think this is Easy For Me? Everyone's Starting To Hate Me because I'm the One that Rations the Food. But NOBODY else wants to" Lilly complained walking over to the Van "You Know what? I'm not Doing it tonight. You Do it. There's Today's Food Rations, but there's not enough for Everyone! Good Luck" Lilly said handing Lee the Rations. I watched as Lee Grabbed them. I hope he knew the Right Choices...

"So Who your Gonna Start With" I asked walking up to him. He Turned to me. He sighed.

"Four Rations for Ten People, Man this is Tough" Lee said in frustration. I sighed

"Well Make Sure you give it to the right people" I warned before Walking Around. There Was Nothing to Do Except Hang With Clementine and Duck But I decided to try something.

"Hey Mark, Can I Help?" I asked. Mark Turned around and Smiled nervously before Scratching his Head. I Crossed my Arms

"Yeah About That, Lee Told Me I Couldn't Let Near Dangerous Things" Mark explained. I Rolled My Eyes.

"But A Hammer's Not gonna Harm and Plus I'm a Big Girl, I'm 17!" I reasoned.

"Sorry Al, Me and Larry Already Got it, Thanks Anyway" Mark thanked before going back to the Fence

"Whatever.." I said before walking over to Duck, Clementine and the New Boy. I Decided to Take the Spot next to Duck and In Front of The New Boy Who Seemed to be in Deep Thought...

"Hey Look I'm Drawing a Rainbow!" Duck exclaimed. I looked at his Paper and Smiled as I ignored the Convo Between Clem and Lee.

"Awesome Duck!" I exclaimed high-fiving Duck. Kids...

"Here Clem You Need Something To Eat" Lee said taking out a Piece of Apple and handing it to Clem.

"I Love Apples Thank you. Are there More?"

"No. That was the Last One"

"Oh...Um..."

"Enjoy it. You Deserve it."

"Hey Duck and Alex Why Don't you Share Half a Jerky" Lee said Handing us a Piece of Jerky.

"Oh Yeah! I'm Hungry!" Duck Exclaimed. I rolled my eyes as I Tore the Jerky in Half and Gave one to Duck and the other For me.

"Enjoy. You Guys Deserve it" Lee said before walking off.