Episode 4: Around Every Corner Part 4
Alexander's POV
We All Nodded At Lee's Orders Before He Climbed Up The Ladder And We Waited Until it Was Clear...
"Let's Go" Lee Called Out as We Climbed Out Of the Sewer Hole, We Hid Behind Some Bushes
"Where is Everybody? There Should Be Guards Patroling" Vernon Said Confused
"What? You Disappointed?" Kenny Asked
"It's Just Strange, Is All" Vernon Answered
"I Think I See One, Over There By The Door" Christa Called Out as We Watched the Guard
"Okay Me And Kenny Will Sneak Up, Try to Take him out Quiet. The Rest of You Wait For Our Signal Then Follow Us over" Lee Planned "Everybody Got it? Okay Kenny Let's Do This Quiet. No Shooting Unless There's No Other Choice"
"Right Behind You" I Watched As Lee Sneaked Up to the Guard As Kenny Slowly Followed Him Out, I Watched as Lee Took Out the Supposed Guard..
We Looked Around to See Spots Where Walkers Were...
"Get Inside, Fast!" Lee Ordered as We All Ran Inside
Inside...
We All Ran Inside As Vernon and Brie Shut the Doors Closed
"Fuck!Fuck! Do You Think They Saw Us?" Kenny Asked
"Definitely" I Answered, I Comforted Clementine As I Saw Her Tense Up a Bit, Scared
"What the Hell Happened Here?! I Thought this Place Was Supposed to Be Secure!" Christa Exclaimed Confused
"What Always Happens I Guess. In The End, The Dead Always Win"
"Oh Man We Are So Screwed..." Ben Panicked, I Held Him Back
"Ben Calm Down.." I Reassured
"No This is Good" Vernon Reassured
"What? How the Fuck Is This Good?" Lee Asked
"Before, Everyone in Crawford Was Smart and They Had Guns. Now They're Dumb and they Don't. Hey, Trying to Look on the Bright Side here" Vernon Explained
"I Agree Aslong as We Don't Let them Box Us In, We can't Still Do this. The Plan Hasn't Changed" Kenny Reassured
"The Plan Hasn't Changed? Every time the Walkers Show Up, The Plan Changes! Do You Even Know How Many of them are out there?" Ben Asked
"No. You Wanna Do a Headcount? Or Do You Do You Wanna Get What We Need And Get the Hell Out of Here?" Christa Asked
"Come On I Think I Know Which Way to head" Brie Said Before We All Followed Her But I Stayed Back and Looked at Ben
"I Got a Bad Feeling About this..."
"It's Gonna Be Okay Ben, I've Been In Many Situation With Lee and Clementine Like this Before..." I Reassured
"But I Feel Like This is Different, I Know it is..." Ben Said Before Joining The Others. I Sighed and Catched Up With them Also...
"Just Keep Moving" Molly Said to Lee As We Heard Noises Inside a Door Near Us
We All Stopped By a Door Brie Led Us to As Lee Checked Inside "Look's Good. Everybody In" Lee Called As We Entered Cautiously...
"Figures" Lee Said to Himself as He Tried to Open a Door that Had Armory Boarded On...
"Looks like they Were Using as Some Kind of Command Center" Kenny Said
"Okay So Now What? Where Do We Start Looking?" Molly Asked
"Here" We Heard Brie Said As We Walked Up to The Room's Map "Just Give Me a Sec."
"Any Idea Where We Could Find a Battery?" Lee Asked
"Maybe at the Auto Shop? There Used to Be one in the Alley Outside the Fire Escape" Vernon Explained Pointing at the Location on the Map
"Yep. It's Called Herman's You Can't Miss it" Brie Said
"Where Can We Find Some Fuel For the Boat?"
"There's a Maintenance Shed across from the Playground here, If they Were Storing Fuel that's probably Where It'll Be" Brie Pointed
"What About the Medicine?" Christa Asked
"Right Here Nurse's Station, They Were Using it as a Medical Facility" Molly Answered Pointing at the Location
"How Do You Know That?" I Looked at Molly Who Gave a Look
"Just Makes Sense, Doesn't it?" Molly Answered Nervously
"Okay I'll Make the Run to the Maintenance Shed for the Fuel" Kenny Suggested
"It'll Be Faster If I Go With You I Can Take You Right to it" Brie Advised
"I'll Come too" Ben Suggested
"No, Two People's Enough You Stay Here See If You Can use Any of those tools we bought to get that armory door open" Kenny Ordered "We Might Need to Shoot Our Way Out of Here"
"I'll Go for the Medicine" Christa Planned
"I'll Come With You, I Know what to Take" Vernon Advised
"Okay, I Guess that Leaves Me to go Find us A Battery" Lee Said
"I'll Go With You Watch Your Back" Molly Advised
"Okay We've Got a Plan. Everyone Be Careful, Stay Close to One Another. We'll All Meet Back Here. Good Luck" Lee Finished As They Went off to their Mission, I Watched As Molly Gave Lee a Look Before Going on Her Way...
"What About Me? What Can I Do?" Clementine Asked Lee
"I Need you to Stay Here With Alex and Ben and Watch Over Our Command Center. I'm Putting You In Charge of it. Okay?" Lee Ordered. Clementine Looked over At Ben
"You're Leaving Me With Ben?" Clementine Asked
"I'm Not Leaving You With Ben, I'm Leaving Him With You and Alex, Understand?" Lee Corrected
"Oh. Okay." Clementine Agreed
"Back Before You Know it" Lee Finished Before Getting Up
"You Better, I Don't Wanna Babysit" I Teased As I Walked Up to Lee
"Don't Worry, I Just Need You to Help Ben With the Door and Keep An Eye On Clementine Would Ya?" Lee Ordered. I Nodded and Walked Off...
"Hey Alex, Want Me to Draw You?" Clementine Asked. I Smiled and Nodded As I Listened to Lee and Ben's Conversation...
"Ben You Can't Tell Kenny, You'll Know What He Do Will Do To You? How Will I Ever See You Again?" I Said As Lee Walked Out of the Room...
"I Know Alex, But It's Eating Me Out Inside, I Practically Killed Katjaa and Duck, I Can't Keep a Thing Like That To Myself And Plus You'll Back Me Up When I Tell Kenny Right?" I Nodded
"Thanks Babe, I Knew I Could Count On You" Ben Thanked as He Hugged Me "You Know When We Make it Through And Live Through This, One Day I'll Get to Say Those Three Words" I Gave Him a Confused Look
"What Three Words" I Asked Crossing My Arms. Ben Blushed
"You Know, 'I Love You'." Ben Answered. My Eyes Widen...
"I Really Hope So..." I Said Back As I Kissed Him "Can I Help You Over There With That Door?" Ben Sighed Before Going Back to The Door Knob
"Yeah" Ben Answered as We Messed Around With the Knob...
"Do You Have a Bobby Pin?"
"No Way, I'm A Boy, Do You?" I Shook My Head
"I'll Go Get the Last Tool" I Said Before Walking Around Looking For The Last Tool...I Glanced Up at The Paste On The Shelf...So Much Memories...I Remember Kelly Would Always Eat The Paste When We Were in Kindergarten...Me, Bianca and Kelly Would Always Make Fun of Our Teacher, Drawing Insulting Pictures Of Her...I Just Wish I Could Go Back And Apologize To Her, Mrs. Hampson, We Gave Her So Much Crap...We Were Young and Dumb...Where Did The Time Go?
Lee's POV
I Dropped Into the School Hallway Escaping From The Walkers With Molly...
"Come On" I Urged Molly Looking Up At Her
"Later, Something I Gotta Do First. " Molly Said
"What?"
"Catch You Later" Molly Headed Off
"Wait! You've Still Got The Battery!" I Called Out
"Yeah I Think I'll Hold On To it, Make Sure You Don't Leave With out Me. See You Back In Class!" Molly Teased Before Vanishing Off
"Molly! God Damnit What The Hell Is She Doing?" I Sighed Before Heading Back to The Class Until I Got Stopped By...
"A Little Help Here!?" I Heard Kenny As Brie and Him, Held The Door Shut as The Walkers Were Prying In. I Quickly Obeyed And Tried to Push The Two Door Close As The Walkers Tried to Pry In "Fuck! Door Won't Close all The Way!"
"Lee Do Something!" Brie Urged. I Took My Gun Out and Shot A Walker Down And Closed The Door Quickly Shut
"We Got It!"
"Brace the Door With Something!" I Looked Down And Grabbed The Hatchet I Gave Kenny Earlier and Placed Between the Handles After Pushing the Door Fully Closed..
"Think That'll Close?"
"It Damn Better Be" Kenny Said
"There's So Many of Them..."
"You Got The Fuel!" I Exclaimed As Kenny Picked Up A Tank
"Let's Not Start High-Fiving Each Other Yet. Let's Get The Hell Back to the Classroom. Give Us a Hand with these Fuel Can, They Weigh a Goddamn ton" Kenny Said Before I Grabbed The Other Tank and Headed For The Classroom...
Alexander's POV
"You're Back!" I Heard Clementine Say, I Turned to See Kenny, Lee And Brie Back. I Ran Up to The,
"Yeah And We Made out Pretty Well Too" Kenny Said
"Great Work, Kenny" Ben Praised Still Messing With The Door Knob...
"How You Doing With That Door?" Kenny Asked Ben
"Not So Good" Ben Answered
"Here, Let Me Give You a Hand" Kenny Said as He Walked Over to Ben "You Get That Battery Yet?"
"Yeah Molly Has It. She Should Back Here Soon" Lee Answered
"She Better Be" I Watched as Lee Walked Over to Ben And Kenny
"...And Then We'll Be Good To Go..." I Heard Lee Reassure
"So Where's This Battery You Found?" Kenny Asked
"Molly Has it. She Ran Off to Do Something" Lee Answered
"Well She Better Bring It Back Here. I Dunno Why You Trusted that Girl With it, We Hardly Know Her" Kenny Said Not Taking a Fond Of Molly
"She Saved Your Life, Didn't She" Lee Defended
"Hmpfh Yeah But What Has She Done For Me Lately?" Kenny Asked before Going Back to The Door...
I Pulled A Gun Out Of My Shoe...Carley's Gun, I Kept It In My Shoes And Hiddened Under My Jeans, I Should've Have Used It When Me And Clementine Were Surrounded By Walkers, Stupid Me, I Guess, Didn't Know I Had a Gun At The Moment, Either Way I Still Would Be Afraid to Use it, I Hated The Sound, The Movement it Made When You Pulled The Trigger, Just Looking at it Haunted Me as Robbers And Other Bad People Use It...I Though Back to The Words Molly Said When We Met On The River Street...
"...You Just Gotta Move Fast, Get in and Out Before they start to Wonder Back Again..."
Was The Words That Went Through My Brain...Omid Was Right, I Was So Not A Tough Girl...How Was I Gonna Survive Through This? I Was The Total Opposite of Molly and Carley, Two Tough Girls Who Were Able to Outrun Things If They Wanted Too...
Lee's POV
"Jesus Christ, You Scared the Shit Outta Me, Where The Fuck Have You Been?" I Asked Molly As She Hopped Down
"Sightseeing" Molly Answered. I Gave Her A Look
"I'll Take That Battery Now" I Said
"Oh Yeah About That." Molly Looked Down. Oh Crap, Please Tell Me.."I'm Just Kidding" I Watched As She Bent Down to Her Backpack And Pulled out The Battery "Here ya Go" Molly Handed Me The Battery, I Grabbed As We Looked At Eachother Before I Looked Down At Her Hand...
"What's That?" I Asked Looking at The Picture She Was Holding
"Nothing" Molly Answered Putting The Picture Away
"You Can Quit With The Act, I Know You're From Crawford" I Said
"What? Who Told You That?" Molly Asked With a Shocked Reaction
"I Saw You On The Security Tape, Why Did You Lie to Me?" I Asked Crossing My Arms
"I Said There Were Stories About Crawford. I Never Said That's How I Knew About it. I Never Lied to You. And Even If I Did, So What? I Don't Owe You Anything" Molly Answered
"You Saved My Life and You Can't Tell Me The Truth?" I Asked
"Are We Really Gonna Do This Now?" Molly Asked
"I Guess That's Up to You"
"I Used to Live Here With My Sister. She Was Fourteen Years Old. When The Dead Started Walking and Crawford Shut itself In, It Seemed Like A Pretty Good Deal At First. We Were Safe, We had Everything We Needed to Survive" Molly Explained "Then The Rules Started Coming Down,. No-One Who Couldn't Justify Their Place, Earn Their Keep. No One Who Required Special Care." Molly Looked Down "My Sister Was Diabetic, And With Crawford's Rules that made her a Liability, I Kept her a Secret, I Kept Her Safe for as Long As I Could. But in the End, I Couldn't Protect her. That's When I Got Out. Crawford, They Always Talked About how their System Worked, How Anything Was Better than 'becoming one of them' But I Saw what they'd already become. I Just Wish I Could've Seen it before it was too late. Before They Came and Took My Sister Away." I Watched Sadly as Molly Wiped a Tear Away. Man... "This is All I Have Left Of Her..." Molly Took Out The Picture Revealing a Portrait Of Her Sister..."I Didn't Have time to take it before I Got out of Crawford, I Just Wanted it Okay?"
"It's Okay, Molly. I Understand, She's Pretty" I Sympathized, I Turned to See The Bell Toll...
"What The Hell.."
"I Think it's Our Que to Get The Hell Out of Here" I Said Before We Started Heading for the Classroom, I Became Alerted As We Heard a Creek...But Calmed Down Before Continuing Our Walk As We Got Startled By Ben...
"Oh Jesus! Shit! Ben!" I Exclaimed
"I'm Sorry, Sorry I Just Got Spooked By Those Bells And Then I Heard Someone Coming" Ben Apologized
"Did You Leave Clementine and Alex Alone?" I Asked
"No Kenny's With them, We Still Can't Open that Armory Door, He Sent Me Out to Look For Something We Can Use To Bust it Open. I Found This" Ben Explained Holding The Hatchet From The Door Handle...Oh Shit
"Uh Ben Where Did You Get That?" I Asked Making Sure He Didn't Take it From Where I Think He Did
"I just Found it, It Was Stuck in the Door Handle at the End of the Hallway back there" Ben Answered As My Eyes Widen
"Oh No..." I Turned Around to Look At The Door As It Got Pushed Open By Walkers Coming In
"Oh Shit!" I Pulled Out My Gun Aiming at The Walkers As Molly Dealt With Them, Her Style...
"Lee Shoot This Fucker!" Molly Called Out as One Walker Caught Her...I Aimed The Gun and...
"Thanks" Molly Praised Looking At Me, I Gave a Confused Look Down at My Gun
"It Wasn't Me!" I Looked Over to See Alex, Holding The Gun Up, Shaking
"Good Going Kid, Nice Shot" Molly Praised As She Ran Off Inside the Classroom
"Thanks..." Alex Said Back. I Smiled Down At Her Before We Ran Off Inside The Classroom...
"What The Fuck is Going On?" Kenny Exclaimed as We Ran Inside
"They're Coming" I Answered
"Ah Shit"
"That Oughta Hold Him" Vernon Said
"Sure But Now How Do We Get Out?" Brie Asked Holding the Door
"Through The Armory, If We Can just Get This Damn Door Open!" Kenny Said Trying to Pounce Through As I Took The Hatchet Away From Ben As He looked Down In Shame "Come On...Damn You!"
"This is My Fault...All My Fault!" Ben Panicked
"What The Hell He's Babbling About" Christa Asked. I Gave Ben a Look
"Ben, We Talked About This" I Warned Ben
"No Wait, I Wanna Know What He Meant" Christa Spoke Up "What Do You Mean This is All Your Fault?"
"Kenny, I'm So Sorry, I'm So Sorry, Man..." Ben Started, Shit Things Were Gonna Happen...
"Kid This Ain't The Best Time" Kenny Exclaimed Still Pouncing The Door "Whatever You Did, Save it For Later"
"I Opened The Door, I Let Them In..." Ben Revealed
"Ben Shut The Fuck Up!" I Ordered
"Fuck You Lee! I Can't Do This Anymore!" Ben Exclaimed "It's Been Me All Along. Putting All Of Us In Danger. Katjaa and Duck...it was all me. It Was all Me!" Shit, Shit, Shit...
I Watched as Kenny Finally Kicked Open The Door Open...
"Wait a Minute...What Are You Saying?" Kenny Asked Ben
"It Was Me Who Made The Deal With The Bandits at the Motor Inn, Slipping them Supplies. I Thought Maybe I Could Keep them Off our Backs. When it Got Discovered, That's When They Attacked. That's When Duck..." I Held Kenny Back As He Launched For Ben and Alex Tried to Comfort Ben
"I Don't Know Why You're Comforting Him, Alex. He Killed My Family! You Bastard!" Kenny Exclaimed Madly at Ben
"Kenny Man, I Agree With You- You Should Kick His Ass! But Now's Not The Time! We Gotta Focus on getting out of here!" Lee Said
"LEE!" I Heard Alex Exclaimed in Disbelief
"You Little Pissant! You're Fucking Dead! You Hear Me!? Dead! My Wife And Child, You Got Them Both Fucking Killed!" Kenny Exclaimed Angrily at Ben
"Kenny Listen to Me! You Can Whoop his Skinny Little Ass later, But Right Now We Gotta go!" Lee Said Before Kenny Gave Up Struggling
"Nice Group You Got Here" Molly Smirked
"Not The Time, Molly!" Lee Scolded
"If This Asshole, Thinks He's Getting On My Boat After What He Did! He's Out of His Motherfucking Mind! You Hear Me Shitbird!? You Can Stay Behind And Rot!" Kenny Exclaimed at Ben
"No!" Alex Exclaimed Going on Ben's Side...
"Kenny We'll Sort This Out Later. AFTER we get out of here." Lee Reasoned "Okay?" Kenny Turned to Me.
"Ain't Nothing to Sort Out! I Just Told You How's it Gonna Be!" Kenny Exclaimed Angrily "The Boat's Not Big Enough For Both Of Us! Somebody's Gonna Get Left Behind! Might as Well Be this Piece of Shit right here!"
"Well I Vote We Leave Him. I'm Sorry Ben, I Know You Mean Well, But All I Wanna Do is get back to Omid And You Put That at Risk" Christa Voted. Alex Shook Her Head As Tears Were Coming Out
"Well Of Course I Vote to Keep Him, He's My Boyfriend For Christ Sake's! I Need Him!" Alex Voted
"Your's Don't Count Alex!" Kenny Exclaimed Angrily Back at Alex, I Glared at Him For Awhile, I Get Why He's Angry But Don't Take it out on My Girl...
"Wait, Don't I Get a Vote?" Clementine Asked
"Of Course You Do"
"Ben's Nice. He's My Friend. We Don't Leave Friends Behind. That's My Vote" Clementine Voted
"Thank You So Much Clementine" Alex Praised Hugging Clementine. I Sighed
"On Second Thought, I Think I'm Gonna abstain, Lee?" Christa Asked As Alex Looked Hopelessly at Me and I Looked at Ben
"I've Seen Enough of Crawford to Becoming like them is the Beginning of the end. I Vote Ben Stays With Us." I Voted, Alex Happily Smiled at Me. I Only Voted Because of Her, I've Seen Them Together, Alex Seems Really Happy Around Him and So Does Ben, Ben's a Good Guy, He Didn't Mean Much Harm, I Know He Does...
"What about the Rest of us? Don't We Get a Say in-" I Looked Over as a Walker Caught Brie, Biting Her and Almost Devouring Her.."AAH!"
"Brie!"
"Now Can We Go?" Molly Asked Backing Up
"Damn Right. Vernon Come On!" I Ordered Before the Rest of Us Went Inside the Amory...
"So Much for the Armory.." I Said After I Tried Pouncing it Close
"What's Left of it" Kenny Said
"A Few Rounds That's it" Christa Said Before I Pushed the Door Close
"You Didn't Close That Door Behind Us?" Kenny Asked
"I Couldn't the Lock Was Busted" I Answered
"Great Just Fucking Great...There's Gotta Be A Way Out Down Here..." Kenny Called As The Other Walked Downstairs...
"FUUUUUCCCCKKKK!" Kenny Exclaimed as I Closed The Door Shut, As Walkers Were Inside
"That's Not Gonna Hold, Everybody Back Upstairs!" I Ordered as Everyone Obeyed
"Lee Look!" Kenny Called Out Holding a Shotgun Before Throwing it to me. I Cocked it Getting Ready for the Walkers, Who Just in Time Busted the Door Open Walking In...I Shot and Shot Every Walker as I Made My Way Up the Steps, I Stumbled as My Leg Got Caught inside a Staircase...Shit...I Shot and Shot As I tried to Get My Leg Loose. Finally Loose I Stepped Up a Few Steps But Turned to See A More Set of Walkers My Way...BANG! BANG! Were The Bullets that Shot Every Single Walker As I Looked Up to Alex and Christa With Their Guns Out Before The Gang Ran Off. I Took Out My Hatchet, Slashing Every Walker I See Before Running Freely Up The Steps Joining the Gang
"Come On!" Kenny Urged As Clementine and Alex Ran Up to Me, Hugging
"It's Alright Girls I'm Fine" I Reassured
"Just Because You Were a Dick Back There Doesn't Mean I Still Don't Care For You" Alex Said. I Nodded
"Any Way Out of Here?" I Asked
"This Leads to the Roof, We Might Be able to Find a Way Down There" Christa Explained
"You Didn't Come into the town from the railroad Didn't You?" Vernon Asked
"Yeah, Why?" Kenny Asked
"Nevermind. I Can See The Sewer Where We Came in from here. I Think We Can Do This" Vernon Said
"Well What Are We Waiting For? Go! Go!" Kenny Exclaimed As We Obeyed, I Decided to Be Last to Make Sure Everyone Else Came Down Safe
"Come On Ben Let's Go!" I Ordered As The Bell Tolled, It Was So Loud Because it Was In Front of Us, I Took My Gun Out and Aimed as Ben Was Held By a Walker And Shot the Walker As They Both Went Down As Ben Held On...I Quickly Went over to Ben and Grabbed His Arm
"Hold On Ben! I Got You!" I Reassured "Ben Climb Up! Come On! You Can Do It!
"There's No Time You Have to Go. Now!" Ben Denied
"Quit Fucking Around Ben! Come On!" I Exclaimed Not Letting Him Go
"Let Go Damnit! Get Alex and Clem and The Others out Of Here!" Ben Ordered
"Lee." I Looked Up to See Kenny Standing Through The Window As He Gave Me a Look, I Looked Around to See The Walkers Coming Close...
"Lee. We Both Know. I Should've Protected Alex and Clementine More Better, Tell Alex I'll Miss Her and I'm Sorry For This, Tell Her She's In My Hear Forever,Tell Her I Might Love Her But Right Now...Let Me Go..." Ben Said Sadly. No I Couldn't Do This...I Looked Up to The Walkers Coming Really Close, Should I Drop Him or Pull Him Up...Shit...
With All My Strength I Pulled Ben Up...Not Gonna Let Alex Loose Someone She Might Love...
"Why?" Ben Asked Me
"Go! Go! Go!" I Urged Him Out of The Bell Tower and Off to the Roof We Go...