Episode 3: A Long Road Ahead Part 1
"Why am I Doing this Again?" I asked as I Aimed the Gun at a Wall
"To Defend Yourself When Needed" Carley Answered, Steadying my Grip and Aim.
"I Don't Need to Defend Myself, I Have Lee For that" I Said. Carley Sighed
"And What If Lee Is Not there to Save You When Needed?" Carley Asked. I Sighed thinking She Probably Was Right "Shoot"
BANG!
Was What I Heard as I Pulled the Trigger, I Opened my Eyes to see a Hole In front of Me
"You Gotta Keep Doing this to Get Used to the Movement and Sound of it" Carley Explained
"Okay Can We Stop For a While, My Hand is Cramping from Holding the Gun" I said putting the Gun Down.
"Alright Let's Talk About Something Else" Carley said as We Took a Seat on the Side Walk "What's Up With You?" I Shrugged
"Does it Even Matter?" I said Casually
"Yes It Does, We All Stick Together and Help Each other, Were A Group, Let's Keep it that way" Carley Answered.
"Nothing Much I Guess, Just So Much Things Going On and I'm So Bored at this Motel, Lucky Clementine, Duck and Ben are keeping my Company" I Smiled
"Speaking of Ben, What's Going on With You Two?" Carley Asked Me. I Blushed a Little
"I Don't Were Just Friends, He's Been Here For Like a Few Weeks, And He Totally Gets Me, Unlike This Guy I Dated..." I Rolled my Eyes at the Thought Of Kevin..."It's So Weird Because, I Used Adore Him and Love Him When We Were Dating But After We Broke Up, I Hate Him, I Can't believe I Had to kill Him..."
"Well Is this Kevin Guy Anything Like Ben?" Carley Asked. I Shook my Head
"Nah. Kevin's a Lot More Tougher, Outgoing And Ben's Really Sweet, Friendly, Has a Soft Side, Charming Sometimes and..." I trailed off thinking about a Million things of Ben
"You Seem to Be Very Descriptive of Him" Carley Smirked
"I Can't Believe I'm Telling You About my Love Life When I Barely Even Know You" I Said.
"You Know Me, Were Friends, Right?" Carley Nudged. I Gave a Side Smile
"Of Course" I Said
"So Tell Me about How Much You Like Ben?"
"He's Cute, Alright, But I'm Not Ready to Suddenly Get a Boyfriend, Not With this Whole Zombie-Thing Going on" I said
"So What's To Lose? Life's Short For Everyone, Don't Miss out on Someone Stupid But Sweet" Carley said
"When The Time is Right, I'll Be able to Find Love...Hopefully With Ben But For Now, I'm Focused on Surviving" I Declared
"Good Girl, Come on Let's Get Back Inside the Gate" Carley Said as We Stood Up and Walked Inside the Gate.
I Looked up to See Ben on Watch, As He Was Sitting on Top of the Van
"Your On Watch?" I Asked Walking up to the Van Looking up at Him. He nodded at me
"Yeah Lilly Is Warming Up To Me, I Guess" Ben Said
"Can It be Cool For me To Watch With You?" I Asked. He Smiled and Nodded
"Of Course" I Smiled and Found a Way To Climb On Top of the Van as I Sat on the Van Roof
"Have You Ever Had a Girlfriend?" I Suddenly Asked
"Actually I Did Date One Girl" My Heart Sank When those Words Came out, Ugh He Probably Still Has Feelings For Her
"Did You Love Her?" I asked
"Kind Of, I Guess. I Did Everything For Her, Went Everywhere With Her, But We Soon Fell Apart and Broke Up" Ben Explained.
"I Bet She was Prettier than Me"
"No Way, You Both Were Pretty at the Same Time" Ben said. I Nodded
"Thanks" I Smiled
An Hour Later...
It's Been Like an Hour Since We've been on Watch, I Was So Freakin' Bored
"Bored Huh?" Ben asked Me
"I Guess" I Lied
"You Don't Have to Stay here For Me" Ben Said
"Who Said I Was Up Here For You?" I Asked Playfully. Ben Smirked. "Anyways, Clementine Probably Needs Me" I Said Before I Dropped Down off the Van and Went Towards Clementine...
A Half an Hour Later...
"Hey Alex, Look what Ben did for my Walkie-Talkie" Clementine Exclaimed as She Held up her Walkie-Talkie Where is was Covered in Little Stickers on the Bottom
"Did You Tell Ben Thank You?"
"Yeah" Clementine Answered
"Good.."
"Hello, Clementine Are You There?" I Heard an Unfamiliar Voice Cut On, Coming from the Talkie. I Looked at the Talkie, Who Is that?
"Clem, Who's That?" I Asked Giving a Suspicious
"He Knows Where are Our Parents Are Alex!" Clementine Exclaimed Happily. I Shook my Head in Disbelief, Could He Really Know?
"Clem, Do You Know this Person" I Asked. Clementine Shook his head. I Sighed. "Clem, We Barely Even Know this Person, Please Tell Me You Didn't Meet Him Person, Did You?"
"No, But He Knows Where are Parents, He's Planning On Getting Us and Taking Us Back to Our Families, Don't You Want That Alex?" Clementine Asked in Amazement.
"It Would Be Cool To See My Parent's and Calvin's Faces" I Said Thinking About my Family. I Would Do Anything to get back to them..."Us?Did You Tell Him About Me?" Clementine Nodded. Oh Boy...
"He Told Us They Weren't Dead"
"Clem, You Can't Just Believe What Everyone Tells You...But What About Lee, He's like a Father to Us" I Said sitting Down as Clementine Joined Me
"I Would Miss Lee to But I Really Wanna See My Parents" Clementine Answered
"Me Too Clementine, Me Too..." I Trailed as Clementine Leaned her Head on My Shoulder...
With Lee
I Sighed as I Walked Out Of Lilly's Hotel Room With Katjaa, Carley and Kenny...
"She'll Get Over It" I Finally Said Talking About Lilly After We Had a Rough Conversation With Her
"She's Riling Everybody Up, Otherwise" Kenny Said.
"You Understand, Kenny."
"All I Know is Whenever this Shit Happens I'm the fucking Bad Guy. I'd Like a Thank You For Once. FOR ONCE." Kenny Said Before Walking Away. I Watched As Kenny Walked Away With Katjaa, Eventually Following Behind
"Oof. Things Are Coming to a Head" Carley Spoke Up as We Was the Only Ones Left Standing
"You Could Say that" I Said As I Started Walking
"Well I Think You Did Good Today and I Find Myself Thinking that Most Days" Carley Said. I Stopped and Smiled at Her.
"Thanks"
"It's Probably Worth Following Up with Lilly about what she way saying about the Missing Supplies" Carley Suggested as She Caressed My Cheek As I Smiled. I Really Liked Carley, She Was So Good at Helping My Self-Esteem "With Her Wound up the Way She Is. I Don't Wanna See her Paranoid"
"No Question" I Answered
"And I'd Like To Talk When You Got a Minute" Carley Smiled. I Nodded Before I Watched Her Walk Away...
Great. Now It Was Time to Go Back to Lilly...
"I'm Sorry" Lilly Said. I Took a Seat in front of Her
"You Don't Have to Apologize" I Answered
"Did You Come in Here to give me hell or to Coddle me?" Lilly Asked
"I Wanted to Follow up on what you said about Stolen Supplies" I Answered
"Do You Know What's Going On?" Lilly Asked
" I Don't I Just Heard You Mention it"
"Things are Missing And I Could Use Your Help" Lilly Explained "There's a Traitor, Somebody, One of Us, Out There. He Or She or They Have Been Taking things"
"For Real? Who? Who Do You Got?" I Asked Curiously, I Hope Alex isn't on her List, Alex Said She Ran into a Bandit During her Hunt With Carley and Ben...
"Yes For Real and I Don't Have Shit. I Just Know" Lilly Answered
"Lilly-"
"The Count's Off and it's the Good Stuff. Antibiotics, Oxy, Fuck Anything with Optium in it" Lilly Said.
"I See the Count and It's Fine"
"I Keep My Own, that one's getting messed with" Lilly Pointed "I'm a Fucking Mess Right Now But I'm Not Stupid. I Know what Happens If I Start a Witch Hunt"
"So You Want me to start one?" I Asked
"I Want you to Poke Around"
"What's There to Go on?" I Watched as Lilly Pull Out Something From Under Her Bed, It Was a Flashlight
"I Found this Tossed into the Garbage" Lilly said as She Handed Me the Flashlight, I Examined it to see it had a Broken Glass and Light
"Hmm?"
"We Don't Toss out Equipment. We Fix it. You'd you only try to get rid of a flashlight if you were using when you shouldn't" Lilly said.
"Okay. I'll Poke around a little bit" Lilly Nodded
"Thank You." I Got up and Went On my Out of the Door
"A Mystery..." I Heard Someone Behind, I Turned to see it was...Duck
"Jesus Duck!..." I Said annoyed. Man Was he Everywhere...
"I'm Sorry, I Heard you Guys talking" Duck said
"Oh You Need to Un-Hear all Of that" I said before walking off
"Can I Help?" Duck Called out.
"What Did I Just Say"
"Your the Greatest Detective and I can be Dick Grayson! Your Ward!" Duck Suggested. I Gave him an Annoyed Look "That's Robin"
"I Know who it is" I Answered. I Sighed and Shook My Head "You Can Help. But Don't Tell Anybody"
"Secrecy!"
"Yeah, Good"
"What Do I Do?" Duck asked
"I Don't Know. Go Look Around. Let Me Know if you Find Anything Weird" I Answered Irritated
"I'm on the Case" Duck said Walking off as I Watched Him, Shaking My Head Again...
Awhile Later...
Alexander's POV
"Have You Guys Seen Anything Weird Going on Around Here?" Duck asked as He Popped Up Next to Clementine and I. We Shook Our Heads
"Dang It, Off to another Location, I Go" Duck said Dramatically before Running Off.
"What Do You Think of Duck?" I Asked Clementine Who was Sitting In Front of Me, Rubbing a Leaf on her Paper
"He's Fine, I Guess. He's Fun to Draw and Play With" Clementine Answered. I Nodded Watching her Color her Leaf
"Alex Can I Tell You Something, It's Really Important" Lee Asked Me. I Nodded As I Walked Off With Lee to a Spot Where Clementine Won't Hear Us.
"What's Up?" I Asked. Lee Sighed
"The Day When I Met You and Clementine Was the Day I Was Riding in a Police Car, Off To Jail" Lee Revealed. My Eyes Widen
"Oh My God, W-What did You Do?" I Asked Worriedly.
"I Was Convicted Of Murder, Of a Guy Who Had an Affair with My Wife" Lee Answered. I Scoffed in Disbelief
"Oh My God..."
"You Don't Have to be Scared of Me Alex" Lee Reassured. I Nodded
"Was There Other Times?" I Asked
"No"
"Well, Alright, Thanks For Telling Me, Sorry About Your Affair" I Said. Lee Nodded
"It's Alright, Just Keep Clementine Company and Hang in there" Lee said. I Nodded Again and Walked Back to Clementine
I Watch as Lee Talked to the Others, Probably Telling them About His Conviction...
Ben's POV
I Was Still On Watch, Nothing Seemed To Happen, What Really Shook Me was Lee When He Told About his Conviction, Man, Whatever He Did, I Hope it wasn't a Old thing For him, I Hope He Wasn't a Murderer. Speaking Of Lee, I Really Couldn't Get his Girl Out of my Head, I Know I've Only Known Alex For Like 6 Weeks, But All I ever Think of Doing When She's Around is Flirt With Her or Ask Her Out But Who Would Go Out With a Guy Like Me...A Sissy? That's What Travis and the others Would Always Call Me Before They...Were Devoured, I Guess, But Now, I Feel Like Alex is the Only One That Makes My Life Worth Living, Cause She was the only one who believed in me and Trusted Me Way Better than the others Along With Clementine...Now To Get To Her Romantically, I Need to Get Close to Her Protector, Lee and Her Little Friend, Clementine, Giving her those Stickers Was A Score As Alex Gave Me a Smile and a 'Thank You'
I Watched as Lee and Duck Were In Front of the Gate, I Really Hope Lee I Didn't Land On My Exports I Was Trading for the Bandits, I Know Trading with the Enemy Was a Really Bad Idea But It was the Only Way For Them to Leave Us Be. If Anyone Knew It Was Me, They'd Probably Send Me Out On My Own And I Really Don't Want that Not With The Position I'm in with these Folks and My Growing Friendship with Alex...
Lee's POV
I Reluctantly High Fived Duck As He Found More Clues...
"Cool!" Duck Exclaimed After I High Fived Him.
"More Chalk..." I Said Mostly to Myself as I Looked Down to see Pink Chalk Like I Saw Before on the Wall, Scattered Underneath The Two Dumpsters that were Blocking the Gate Entrance. I Bent down and Pushed One of the Dumpsters to see More Chalk "Somebody Was over here too"
"See I Did Good Huh?"
"Yeah Duck, You Did. I Suppose I Should Go out there and look around." I looked Over at Duck "You Stay Here this Time. Seriously"
"Okay" Duck Answered
I Decided to Talk to Duck About the Flashlight, His Notice of This Scuff and The Pink Chalk and Anything Else He Found...
"Stay Inside the Gate" I Ordered
"I Will, I Will" Duck Frowned
I Waled over to the Main Entrance Gate and Pushed Open One of the Gate Door Before Sliding Out. Now Outside and In The Open, I Walked To My Left and Found a Grate. I Bent Down and Pulled Open the Grate Cover and I Took out the Brown Bag that Was Placed Inside and Looked Inside to See Many Medicines...This Person Was Sending Out Medicine!
"Son of a Bitch!" I Exclaimed Before Running Back Inside the Gate and Off to Lilly's Room...
"You Haven't Come Up With Anything, Have You?" Lilly Asked Me as I Entered the Room
"I Came Up With this" I Answered Showing her the Brown Bag "It's Got a Bunch Of Meds in it. It was in a Grate on the outside Wall and there's a Sign on the other on one."
"Holy Fuck"
"Yeah"
"Okay We Line Everybody Up. Everybody" Lilly Explained. I Gave a Look Thinking About Alex and Clementine "Somebody is Killing Us. Stealing From that Supply is the Same as Slipping into your Room and Cutting your throat While You Sleep. You Die. What if Clementine Or Alex Gets Sick and we don't have what we need-"I Gave a Disappointed/ Unapproved look just thinking about that Situation "What The Hell!" Lilly Jumped Up and Looked Outside
"YOU DON'T FUCKING STEAL FROM US!" We Heard Some Exclaim outside
"Who the Fuck is that!" I Exclaimed/Asked Lilly "They've Got People out there!"
"Oh Shit! Their Gonna Start Kicking in Doors Any Second" I Watched As Lilly grabbd her Shotgun
"Lilly What the Hell Are You Doing?" I Asked
"Stall Them"
"What?"
"Just Keep Them Talking" Lilly Answered as She Pushed Up Her Window Glass "Do Whatever it takes to stop him from pulling the trigger!" Nervousness and Anxiousness Came over Me as I Was Assigned to Handle this Situation
"YOU MADE THE BIGGEST MISTAKE OF YOUR LIVES!"
Outside of Lilly's Room
Alexander's POV
I Shook my head, Closing My Eyes to Prevent Tears From Coming Out. I Don't Wanna Die, I Don't Wanna Die, I Don't Wanna Die...
"Enough of this Bullshit! Drew, Start Putting your Boot to these Doors!" One of the Bandit Yelled/Ordered
"Yeah!"
"Take it Easy" I Heard Lee Say "We Have more Supplies. We can Keep the Deal Going"
"Too Late Shithead! We Ain't Giving Second Chances!" One of the Bandits Responded
"It was a Mix-Up! We Can Make it worth your While!" Lee Pleaded/Reasoned
"..I'm Listenin'."
"What Will It Take to Reach A Deal?" Lee Asked
"'Bout Twice as Much as You've been giving Us!" The Same Voice Answered
"You Got It. Done"
"...Is That So? Well I Suppose We Oughta Hash Out Some Terms, Then!"
I Don't like no Hash!"
"SHUT UP OR I"LL-" I Jumped When I Heard a Gun Shot, I Opened my Eyes to see Everyone Running Away.
"Christ!"
"Oh Shit!"
I Did the Same as the Others and Ran Off and Hid Where Katjaa, Duck and Clementine Were
"Alex!" Clementine Exclaimed as She Saw Me
"HELP!" Katjaa Called Out Holding onto Duck. I Watched as Lee Covered Us, Once it was Clear We All headed for the Van Until Out Of NOWHERE, A Walker Launched on Me, I Was Screaming As Loud as I Could For Lee's Attention as He Kept Shooting At the Walker that Was on Me...I Felt Scared, Lonely During this Moment, I Felt Defenseless...
"Alex!" I Heard a Familiar Voice Call Out As I Saw Footsteps Running Towards Me, Kicking the Walker Off Of Me and Picking Me Up, Bridal Style. I Held onto the Figure As It Ran to the Van...