Episode 4: Around Every Corner Part 2
Lee's POV...
I Looked Around The Place As Christa Helped Omid Over to a Couch
"Argh!" Omid Yelped in Pain
"Sorry! Sorry!" Christa Apologized
"No. It's Okay. I'm Good. Feel Better Already Being off My Feet. Thanks, Babe" Omid Thanked as We Kept Looking Around As Clementine Looked Around Also and Alex Was Accompanying Ben
"So When Were You Gonna Tell Us About The Radio?" Christa Asked Joining Me and Kenny
"Tell You What?!" Kenny Spoke Up, Annoyed
"That's It Working"Christa Answered "That's it Someone Else on the End of that That Thing. You Didn't Think That Might Have Been Worth Sharing With The Rest of Us. Well...?"
"I Was Gonna Tell You Kenny and I Only Found Out Yesterday" I Said Truthfully
"So Both of You Were Keeping it From the Rest Of Us? Great." Christa Said
"Who Gives a Shit Damn About the Radio? I'm More Worried About Whoever it was out there ringing that bell and bringing the Dead down on top of us! It's Like They Didn't want us to make it to the River" Kenny Explained
"What Makes You Think It's Not the Same Person? Whoever Was On The Radio Was Close Enough to see us in the street" Christa Spoke Up "And We Didn't See Anyone Else Other than the Guy in the Bell Tower"
"Because that doesn't make a lick of Damn Sense! Why Would They Bring out the Dead like that and then Try to Warn us About it?" Kenny Asked
"How Much Sense Does Anything make anymore? In Case You Haven't Noticed There's A lot of Twisted Folks out there these Days At Least the Dead Don't Play Games With You" Christa Said
"Whoever that was on the Radio, I Think they were trying to help us. They Did Warn, Didn't They?" I Asked
"Maybe You're Right. But Whoever it was, They're Watching Us, Following Us, And they Don't Want us to Know who they are. I Can't think of any explanation for that, that would make me feel Better. Can You?" I Looked At Kenny But Back At Christa
"I Think We Could All Use Some time to Rest Up and Gather Our Thoughts, Kenny. At Least Until Those Walkers Outside Wander off and Omid's Feeling Better" Kenny Smiled
"He'd Best Feel Better Quick, I Ain't Gonna Wait Around too Long"
"This Place Seems Secure At Least" Ben Walked Inside the Living Room With Alex Watching Clementine
"I'll Feel Better When I Know that For Sure. We Need to Check The WHOLE House" Christa Demanded
"Alright Fine. You and Me'll Take the Upstairs" Kenny Ordered Ben And Him "Lee, You've Got Down Here. Make Sure You Check Every Door, Understand" I Nodded
"Okay" I Answered Before Kenny Walked Off With Ben Behind
"Can I Help? What if there's another Locked Door?" Clementine Asked
"I Think You've Been Helpful Enough For One Day, Kiddo. Why Don't You Mess With Alex For a bit or See if Christa and Omid Need Anything?" I Suggested "Okay?"
"Okay" Clementine Said Sadly Before Walking Back Over to Alex, Christa and Omid...
Alexander's POV
"I Really Hope He Makes it" I Said Looking at Omid
"He WILL" Christa Said Back. I Nodded
"Alex, Why Won't Lee Let Me Help Him?" Clementine Asked
"Cause His Priority Is Too Keep You and Me Safe, You Just Sit Back and Watch Lee Get Us Through This, Hopefully" I Answered. Omid Smiled
"You Seem Like a Soft One..." Omid Joked. I Gave Him a Confused Look
"What't that Supposed to Mean?"
"I Think What He's Saying Is, He Thinks Your a Good Girl With No Bad Side" Christa Answered
"You Mean? You Think I Have No Girl Power, I'm 17 Of Course I Have Girl Power, I Just Don't Show It" I Answered
"I'm Not Saying That, It's Just You Seem To Scream Alot and Freeze When Near a Walker, You Have to Learn to Fight Them Off Somehow..." Omid Explained "You Can't Just Stand There Hoping Lee Will Save You Every Time.."
"He's Kind Of Right Alex" Christa Agreed
"Well I Didn't Ask For Your Guys Opinion, Anyways" I Said Before Laying Down
"So Clem, Who was on the Radio, Were You Talking to Him?" Christa Asked. Clementine Looked Down
"Like it's Any of Your Business" I Said Back
"Hey I'm Just Trying to Figure Out Why He Rang The Bell Earlier..." I Rolled My Eyes Before Christa Narrowed Her Eyes At Me "Have You Been Talking to Him, Too?"
"So? What If I Did? It's Not Your Business"
"What Did He Say? What Did He Want?" Christa Asked Me
"Like I Said None Of Your Business" I Said Back Annoyed
"Look Alex I'm Trying To Help You-"
"Hey Guys" Lee Greeted
"How's The House Looking?" Christa Asked
"Not Done Searching The First Floor Yet. But So Far So Good" Lee Answered
'How's that Couch Treating You, Omid? Your Leg Feeling better yet?" Lee Asked
"I'm Alright" Omid Answered With a Painful Look
"I Feel You" Lee Said Looking at The Pain in His Eyes
"Finding This House was a Hell of a Stroke Of Luck" Lee Said
"I'll Like it alot better when we know for sure it's safe" Christa said
"I'll Make Sure. But Right Now It Feels like just the Break We Needed. Maybe Our Luck's Starting to Turn Around" Lee Smiled
"I'd Like to Believe that Really, I Would" Christa Said
"What Do You Guys Think About this plan of Kenny's?" Lee Asked
"The Guy'd Loosing it, Look Lee" Christa Started "I Know He's Your Friend and all, But You Need to Be Careful. That Man is on the Edge. And I Don't Know if I Want to be around when he goes over it" Christa Warned
"Kenny's Solid. He's Just been through a Lot That's All" Lee Defended
"I Hope Your Right For All Our Sakes" Christa Said
"Sit Tight, I'll Keep Checking the First Floor to make sure it's Safe" Lee Said
"Thanks Lee" Christa Said before Going Back to Omid
"How Ya Hangin'?" Lee Asked Me
"Just Resting While You Check the Room, I Really Hope this Place is Safe" I Answered
"Okay Be Back" Lee Said Before Getting Up
I Feel Weird Being in A Home That is Not Ours, I Glanced up at the Portrait Too See A Big Happy Family, Before...Shit Happened. They Reminded So Much Of My Family...
"Jesus!" Lee Exclaimed. We All Turned to See Him infront of a Door
"What? What Happened?" Clem asked
"It's Nothing. Just...Nothing" Lee Answered as I laid my Head Back Down
"Well The Place Ain't Got Much. We Should Be Okay for Awhile, At Least Until It Quiets Down Outside" Lee EXplained
" " Christa Smiled
"Is He Okay?" Lee Said Looking Down at Omid
"Yeah,For Now. But I'm Worried his leg might've gotten infected. Don't Suppose you turned up any meds while you poking around?" Christa Asked
"Nah Just Dog Food and There's Some Whiskey in the Back" Lee Answered Before Christa Turned to Clementine
"I Was Just Asking Clementine if she knows the man on the radio is. It's Okay Honey, You Can Tell Us Who is He? What Does He Want?" Christa Asked. I Looked Up At Clementine...
"Go Ahead Clementine. Tell Us, You're Not in Any Trouble" Lee Reassured
"It's Just a Friend...I Don't Think He Wants to Hurt Us" Clem Answered
"What Has He Been Saying to You? What Have You Been saying to him?" Christa Asked
"I Told Him I Was Trying to Find My Parents, In Savannah. He Really Seems Nice, I Think He Wants to help me Find Them" Clementine Answered
"Clementine Honey, Trust Me, That's Not What He Wants, He-"
"LEE!" We Heard Ben Call Out From Upstairs "Lee You Need to Get Up Here Now" Ben Ran Down
"What's Wrong?"
"It's Kenny" Ben Answered...
Lee's POV
I Was Now Facing the Attic Ladder...
"Kenny Said He Thought he Heard Something Up There, Went to Go Look" Ben Explained
"He's Up There?" I Asked As I Walked Over to the Ladder
"I Can't Get Him to Come Down" Ben Said As I Gripped the Ladder
"Stay Here" I Ordered Ben Before Slowly Climbing Up...
Attic...
"Kenny?" I Called As I Looked Over at Him, Who Was Just Sitting There. I Got Up From the Ladder and Walked Closer To Him
"Kenny? You Okay Man?" I Asked Before Walking Over to Him and Looking At The Sight Infront In Disgust..."Oh Jesus! What The Hell is That? Oh My God..."
I Watched as The Meatless Little Boy Walker Crippled Up...Oh My God...
"Kinda Looks Like Duck Don't He?" Kenny Asked after the Walker Fell Down, Reaching His Hand Forward
"It's Just a Kid, What The Hell Happened to Him?" I Asked Looking at the Walker
"Ain't Nothing On Him. Guess He Must've Been Hiding Out Up Here. Starved to Death"
"Jesus Christ"
"I Don't Know If I Can, Lee. Couldn't Do It Before. Can't Do it Now" Kenny Said
"I Can't Ask You to Do This Man. I'll Take Care Of it. Like I did Before" I Suggested
"Are You Sure?" Kenny Looked up at Me
"I Guess We'll Find Out.." I Answered. I Walked Over to His Mattress...Poor Kid. What a Way to Live...I Walked Over to the Walker...
"Poor Kid Must Have tried to hide out here until he Starved to death. This Could Have Been Clementine and Alex If I hadn't found them when I Did" I Said to Myself. I Looked Down at the Walker
"Someone Should Put Him Out of his Misery" I Pulled Out My Wrench Before Giving Kenny a Look before turning back to The Walker "I'm Sorry" Next thing I Knew, His Head Was Smashed And Laid There Lifeless...
"We Should Bury Him" Kenny Suggested Walking Next to Me
"I'll Take Care Of It" I Said As I Picked Up The Walker ad Walking Him Down the Attic, I ignored Ben's Looks and Kept Walking Downstairs as The Others Looked At Me and the Walker With Remorse and Sorrow As I Headed Out And to the Grave
I Put the Body Down Inside the Grave and Started Shoveling In Dirt to Cover Up The Hole I Re-Digged Earlier. As I Started, I Looked Over At Clementine Who Gave the Same Look When She Saw Me Walking And Carrying The Poor Kid Out. I Looked Over At Christa Who Came Out Too With Alex Behind, They Both Gave Me The Look That Matched Clementine's...I Continued as They Walked Back In. Dirt and More Dirt Were Covered as I Can Only See The Boy's Bone Part Sticking Out...Sad...I Felt Someone Watching Me And Looked Up As I Saw A Figure Watching Me Through the Fence In Front Of Me...
"Hey! Hey!" I Called Out As The Figure Ran Off "Who are You? What The Hell Do You Want From Us!?" I Yelled
"Lee? What's Going On?" I Heard Christa Behind Me
"I Saw Someone Standing there by the Fence. Watching Us." I Answered
"A Walker?"
"No. Too Fast. Took off Like a Bat of a Hill When I First Spotted Him" I Said
"Was it a Man or a Woman?" Christa Asked
"Didn't Get a Good Look" I Answered
"What Does it Matter?" Ben Asked
"I'm Wondering if it was the same guy that's been following us. The Guy on the Radio" Christa Answered
"Kenny?" I Asked as He Walked Out
"I'm Fine" He Reassured "Just...I'm Fine. What's all the Ruckus?" Kenny Asked
"Lee Saw Someone watching us. From Outside Of the Gate" Ben Answered
'What? Who?"
"I Can't Be Sure, They Ran Off Before I Could Get a Good Look" I Answered
"I Don't Like This One Bit. Not One Bit" Ben Said Worried
"Me Either. Walkers Are One thing but the Thought of Someone out there stalking us..." Christa Agreed
"All Right That's it. We Stuck Around Here Long Enough. It's Time to get back on track. Time to get down to the River and find ourselves a Boat" Kenny Ordered
"I Don't Know if Omid's Better Yet to Move Yet" Christa said.
"Well He Better get Ready Because I'm Going down to River Street Right Now to Find A Boat" Kenny Said "And as Soon as She's Ready to Go We're Moving Out"
"We Only Checked the house to make sure it's Secure, We didn't really toss the place. We're Low On Food, Water, Meds, Ammo...We Should Make Sure There's Nothing here We Can Use Before We Move out" I Reasoned
"You Search it, If You Wanna. I'm Done With this House. We Came to this City to Find a Boat, and that's just what I'm gonna do" Kenny Determined
"Maybe it's not such a Bad Idea to check the place one more-"
"I SAID I'M DONE WITH THIS HOUSE" Kenny Exclaimed As We Looked at Him
"We Can Do Both. Ben You Take one Last Look Around the Place, Grab Anything that Looks Useful, While Me and Kenny go down to the river to go get us a Boat" I Suggested
"Wait, Can't Me and Alex Go? My Mom and Dad Can't Be Far Now, Maybe We Can Look for them on the way to the River" Clementine Suggested
"We Need to Focus on Finding a Boat Right Now. Like We Talked about on the Train, Remember?" I Reasoned
"Okay"
"Daylight's Burning. Gonna Go Grab my Grab and Then We'll Head Out" Kenny Planned
"Come On Clem, Let's Go Back Inside With Alex and See If Omid Needs Anything" Christa Suggested Before Walking Back Inside With Clementine and Kenny
"So Your Just Gonna Leave Me out on the Bench Here?" Ben Asked Feeling Left Out
"That's Not How it is, Ben. I Need you Stay Here With Alex and Keep an Eye on Clementine" I Ordered
"I Can Do That" Ben Said
"Well Just So Were Clear, While I'm Gone, Anything or Anyone tries to get inside this house, You Shoot them. Don't Even Think Twice About it. Understand?" I Said
"I've got no Problem Shooting Walkers" Ben Answered
"Did You Hear What I Said? Anything or Anyone" I Repeated. Ben Nodded "Good"
"And About Alex, We've Made Up..." I Narrowed My Eyes
"That's Good to Hear, I Guess, I Know She's 17 and Can Handle Herself But Please Keep her Out of Danger Along With Clementine" I Ordered
"Got It, Of Course Alex and Clementine are My Top Priorities..." Ben Answered Before Walking Inside...
River East...
"What The..." I turned around as The Stalker Grabbed My Weapon and Knocked Me Out With It, Falling to the Ground As I Slowly Looked Up to See The Stalker Walking Up to Me, Grabbing Out it's Other Tool...
"NO!" I Heard a Small Voice Call Out. I Looked Down to See Alex and Clem Behind Us
"...Clem, Alex?" I Asked in Confusion
"Please...Don't Hurt Him!" Clementine Pleaded The Hooded Stalker who Reluctantly, Backed Up Off Of Me as I Got Up and Walked Over to Clementine and Alex...
"I Tried to Stop Her But..." Alex Trailed
"You're Not From Crawford" I Heard A Girl Voice. I Looked Up At The Hooded Person As He Took Off His Hoodie and Mouth Mask To Reveal He is...A Girl...A She...
"Have You Been Following Us?" I Asked The Girl
"Following YOU?" The Girl Repeated Crossing Her Arms With a Smirk on Her Face. I Looked Behind Her to See Kenny Armed With a Gun Aiming at the Girl's Head
"Kenny, No! It's Not Our Guy!" I Stopped. I Watched as The Girl Sweeped Kenny off His Feet as His Gun Went Off and She Kicked the Gun Away
"No! He's With Us!" I Pleaded as The Girl Was About to Slash Kenny, I Watched as The Girl Looked Around, Aware of the Walker Sounds...
"Who the Hell Are You People?" The Girl Asked Looking at Us
"Everyone just Calm Down" I Reasoned
"I'll Calm Down once she tells who the fuck she is!" Kenny Said Not Taking a Liking to The Girl
"Back Off, Asshole, The Name's Molly" The Girl Introduced
"Molly. I'm Lee, This is Kenny, Clementine and Alex. We're Not looking for any trouble" I Introduced. Molly Faced the Two, Who Could Be Twins, Girls
"Hi" Clementine Greeted Friendly.
"Hey, Nice to Meet Ya" Alex Greeted Friendly. Molly Looked Between The Two Girls and Me
"You Guys Really Aren't From Crawford, Are You?" Molly Asked
"I Don't Even Know what that is" I Answered
"Everything Beyond That Barricade" Molly Gestured to The Other Side of The Street Where Walkers Were Held Up as Scarecrows Blocking the Way, I Looked Around the Place
"What the Hell Happened Here?" I Asked
"You Sure You Wanna Know?" Molly Asked. I Nodded "When Everything Started to go to Shit, Some People got together and sealed that whole neighborhood. Folks Willing to Do Anything to Stay Alive, Stop the Dead getting in. I try to Avoid 'em"
"Why?" Kenny Asked As Molly Turned to Him
"Let's Just say They have this Zero-Tolerance Policy for Anyone who Won't-or Can't live by their Rules" Molly Answered
"So How'd You Know We Weren't Them?" Kenny Questioned. Molly Shrugged Before Turning Back to Clementine and Alex
"Because There Aren't no Children In Crawford. Not Anymore" Molly Answered
"I Am Not a Kid, I'm 17!" Alex Said Back, Taken Back. Molly Smirked
"Still, You Were 16, Just Because You've Gone Up One Number Doesn't Mean You're Out of The Woods Yet, Alex..." Molly Smirked. I Looked at Alex Who Crossed Her Arms and Glared at Her
"What Do You Mean No Children? Why Not?" I Asked
"No Children, No Ederly, No one With an Advanced Medical Condition, Basically No one who might be a burden on the Community, Crawford's All About the Survival of the Fittest. That's How They Survived, While the rest of the World went to Shit Around them" Molly Answered as We Walked Up Closer to the Walkers Who Were Caught On Those Pointy Sticks...Represented as Scarecrows..
"Jesus Christ..."
"Well Just the Opposite When You think about it" Molly Said
"What Exactly Did Crawford Do With all These 'Burdens'? What Happened to them?" I Asked
"Well You Met Some of them Already" Molly Answered
"Fuck Me.."
"Yeah. Anyone who got too sick, Anyone too Old, Anyone they figured wasn't strong enough to Survive. To them those people were just mouths to feed, a drain on their precious resources" Molly Explained
"How Do You Know All of this?" I Asked
"Everyone in Savannah Knew. What was Going On Inside Crawford got passed around like a ghost story. Except this one was True" Molly Said As She Walking Back
"This Just Sick" Alex Told Me Sadly as We Walked Back, I Gave a Look of Sorrow Just thinking About it...
"Was That You at Our House This Morning? Watching Me though the Back Fence?" I Asked
"Hell No. Believe it or not, I've got better things to do with my time" Molly Answered
"Clem, Alex What The Hell Are You Doing Here? How'd You Get outta the House?" I Asked the Girls
"Omid Started Getting Really Sick, Christa and Ben Had to Take Him Upstairs. I Didn't Just want to Sit Around There, I Wanted to Come Help" Clementine Answered
"I Told You We Didn't Need Any Help" I Said. I Then Turned to Alex "And You, I Thought Ben Was Looking Out For You Too, What Happened"
"Hey We Got Bored and Clementine Begged Me to Come With Her As Ben and Christa Were Busy Nursing Omid, And to Be Honest I Wanted to Help too" Alex Answered
"Like I Said, You Guys Can't Help, It's Not Your Job, I'm Supposed to Protect You" I Said
"Look I'm 17 Years Old, I Can Do Whatever I Want, Dad..." Alex Said Back
"But in this World, Doing Whatever You Want, Leads to Trouble..." I Reasoned. Alex Scoffed and Shook her Head
"Whatever..." Alex Muttered Bitterly Before Turning Back to Molly and Kenny
"Really? Because if it Weren't for Them showing up when they Did I Would've beaten your brains out" Molly Defended, Smirking
"That's Debate-able" I Said
"Uh-huh" Molly Said
"Do You Know Who's Been Ringing Those Bells All Over Town?" I Asked
"Yeah, That Would Be Me" Molly Answered Like it was Obvious
"I Knew it! Lee! I Knew She was the One Whose Been Following Us! Fucking With Us!" Kenny Exclaimed Looking Angrily at Molly, Pointing At Her
"Get that Finger Out of my Face Grampa Before I Jam It Up Your Ass" I Heard Alex Snicker "I Haven't been Following You. I don't even know who the hell you people are" Molly Answered
"Calm Down, Kenny The Voice on the Radio Was a Guy, Remember?" I Reminisced.
"Yeah Well, Whoever You Are Ringing Those Bells this Morning Nearly Got Us Killed! Raised The Dead all Around Us" Kenny Said to Molly
"That's the Idea Genius, It's How I Get Around. I ring a bell in one neighborhood to attract the local geeks towards it, buys me sometime to scavenge the areas they Cleared Out." Molly Explained
"Smart..." I Heard Alex Compliment
"Geeks? That's What You Call Them?" Kenny Asked
"Yeah Like You Know at the Carnival. They'll Eat Anything Alive Or Dead" Molly Answered
"Like Alex Said. That's Pretty Smart With the Bells" I Complimented
"Doesn't Take much to outsmart the Dead, Bunch Of Dumb-asses. You Just Gotta Move Fast, Get in and Out Before they start to Wonder Back Again" Molly Explained "Look I'm Not Gonna Ask You People Again, You're Not From Crawford, so Who Are You? What Are You Doing Here?"
"We Came Down Here looking for a boat, hoping to get our people out of here and find someplace safe" I Answered
"Good Luck With That. Anyone with a Boat took it out of here as soon as people started eating each other. Anything that got left Behind, Crawford Stripped them For Parts. Cars too" Molly Said
"There's Gotta Be Something" Kenny Said Not Giving Up
"If There Was, You'd Think I Still Be here? I've Been Over Every Inch of this City, This Whole Place is Picked Clean" Molly Said
"God Damnit! Fuck!" Kenny Exclaimed
"Hey! Moron! You Wanna Keep You're Voice Down!?" Molly Asked Annoyed
"Shit"
"Since Your Not Getting On Any Boat, I'd Advise you folks to go back where you came from, before-" We turned to See Walkers Coming "Great. Just Great"
"Is That The-"
"The Way We Came" I Finished
"Fuck! Gunshot Must've Bought them Back" Kenny Said
"Isn't there another way back to the house?" Clementine Asked as She Held Onto Alex's Hand
"Molly is There-" I Turned to See Her Already Run Off Near an Alley...Fuck..
We Ran To Where She Was Headed and Watched Her Make her Way Up a Building...
"What the hell do you think your doing?" I Exclaimed
"I Tell You What I'm Not Doing, I'm Not Getting Eaten!" Molly Said Back
"And What About Us?"
"What About You?" Molly Asked
"Please You Can't Just Leave Us!" Clementine Piped Up
"Yeah We Started to Like You!" Alex Piped Up, As I Watched Molly Stare into Clementine's Eyes...
"Come on Make it Fast!" Molly Said Helping Up, Putting Her Hand Out, I Quickly Carried Clementine Up, Before It Was Alex's Turn Then Kenny's..
"Lee Come on!" Clementine and Alex Urged
"Come on Man, One Good Jump" Kenny Said Holding out His Hand
"Nooo! Lee!" Damn it! Kenny Really Needed to Work Out at the Gym...
I Scooted Away From the Walkers Before Getting Up and Pushing the Dumpster Off Headed for the Other Side to Other Walkers Blocking The Way...Shit...
"Come on Lee Get Your Ass Outta there!" Kenny Called Out. I Looked below to See a Sewer Hole, I Bent Down to Open it Free...
"Gah! Can't Get it Open!" I Exclaimed Pulling off the Cover
"Here Use That To Pry it Open" Molly Said Throwing her Weapon, I Quickly Grabbed It and Pryed the Cover off And Hopping In...
"LEEEEEEE!"