Hello my Clementeers! its nice to see you again! thanks for sticking around with me this long and being positive! This chapter i got hit with writers block and the negative bug, i hated this chapter, but... i just went with the flow and continued to type. before you start reading i just wanted to say a few things. I forgot to mention that Jane isn't in the pen, i don't think i have any use for her in this short story. i also don't remember if i stated the story's events are all going the way i want and i forgot to mention instead of Sarah being 15 i made her 12. oh there was one person in the review section that asked if i could keep the lines smashed together. of course i can! that's not a problem at all! at some point in the chapter i have it switch from Clementine to Luke's pov i wanted to try something new. alrighty enough chit chat. enjoy!
Clementine hurried around the corner, determined to see Luke before anything bad had happened to him, she needed to figure out what she was going to do, in order to prevent Bill from killing him or injuring him half to death. Kenny finally hurried over to her, catching up to her one again "Clementine, i'm sorry." "Kenny...it's alright... we just.. we need to find out a way to save Luke, he's our only ticket out of here. If Carver kills him..." Clementine sighed softly keeping her pace quick as she walked with Kenny" we will be stuck here doing who knows what, and we will probably end up like Reggie." "i know, Look Clementine, if we are going to save Luke we need to do something that will-" Kenny stopped talking as Troy made his way over to them. Clementine stopped walking as soon as Kenny stopped, she could see that Troy had his eyes set on her, and the look on his face wasn't pleasant. "You get over here." he said in a threatening tone and grabbed her by the collar of her shirt pulling her over to him. "hey asshole wait just a god damn minute, what the hell did Clementine do to piss you off?" Kenny snapped at Troy, Troy stared at him "this little bitch lied to me, she said she was going to help you, but when Wyatt and Carver both walked over to the area i was told that she was never in the area. AND! i was also told when she was released, that she was supposed to report back to the pen" Clementine swallowed hard, there was no way she could talk her way out of the current situation she was in, if she told Troy the truth about her sneaking off to go meet Luke, and sneaking around in the comic book store while Wyatt and Carver where both inside discussing what was going to happen, she was probably going to get in more trouble than she wanted to. Come to think of it, she was already in trouble, no matter what she said she was going to have to face the music. Kenny exchanged looks with Clementine saying whatever he could to get Troy to believe him. While he spoke Clementine closed her eyes as a faint, yet sharp pain hit her head, all of the stuff happening was just, too much for her, she hadn't stressed this much since the night Carver came to collect them from the ski lodge. The scenario played back I her head as both Kenny, and Troy argued with each other. "Alright that's it, shut the fuck up or i'll kill her." Troy shouted and held the barrel of his gun to Clementine's head, bringing her back to reality, her eyes opened wide, she met Kenny's gaze and spoke "Kenny, please... calm down." she pleaded, Kenny sighed and backed up. Carver walked over to them. "what seems to be the problem here?" Bill asked crossing his arms, his brown eyes went from Troy to Kenny, to Clementine. "This piece of shit is given me bullshit as usual, all I was doin was coming to collect who you asked for, and he gets all up in my face, you know I hate when people get im my god damn face!" Troy shouted, still angry from arguing back and forth with Kenny. Bill placed a hand on Troy's shoulder "Calm down Troy. as for you Clementine I have something for you to see." he said to the girl uninterested in Kenny or Troy's problems he walked Clementine toward the pen where Wyatt had a gun pointed to the back of Luke's head, while Luke was on his knees with his hands behind his head, Clementine's eyes opened wide as she called out "Luke!" she didn't mean to shout his name, however shouting his name made him look, her stomach flip flop when their eyes met and he gave her a sad look. Bill placed his hand on Clementine's shoulder. the rest of the members in the pen where all watching Troy came to the room with Kenny making him join the rest of the people in the pen. Bill stood before the group with Clementine by his side "You know what I can't stand in my community? a liar, a theif and someone who decides to run away from my camp, and return and steal from me." Carver began his speech, and the whole time he spoke Clementine stared at everyone, there where 3 things on her mind. 1st she thought about Luke, and what was going to happen to him, the way Wyatt had him posted meant that he was going to get killed. the 2nd thing was she was, she was never going to get to tell him how she felt, and lastly, Carver was preeching bullshit, all the things he said where things where things he had did. "Clementine here, disobeyed an order, i told her to return to the pen with Sarah, and she decided to do whatever she wanted." Bill said to the group, catching Clementine's attention once her name was mentioned. "and Luke, he decided to attempt to steal from me. Maybe if he would have stayed here in the community along with the rest of you, i wouldn't have to do what i'm about to do to him." Carver reached into his back pocket pulling out his pistol and walked over to Luke. Clementine spoke up "please don't kill him! please!" she pleaded, as tears formed in her eyes and began to stream down her dirty cheeks. Bill thought it was amusing to see Clementine cry; especially after all the times she looked him in the eye and showed that she was tough. "Clementine, i want to show you whats going to happen to you the next time you think about disobeying an order, or doing something as stupid as Luke would do." Bill turned to Vince who was standing near the door, he gave vince a look, Vince nodded walking over to clementine to restrain her, and Wyatt turned to face the rest of the group "if any of you make one move toward these two i'll pull the trigger and make sure each and every one of you is dead, excluding rebecca." Wyatt warned them, Clementine knew trying to break free wasn't an option, her only option was to wach Carver do what he was going to do to Luke, Clementine's eyes where full of tears she couldn't clean them away so she could get a better look at Luke. Carver clenched his fist punching Luke in the side of his face, Clementine wanted to look away, but she couldn't, even if she closed her eyes she would still here the punches, or hear luke make a sound trying not to yell out in pain, once Carver kicked Luke in the ribs Clementine screamed breaking free from Vince's grasp and ran toward Bill, however Troy who was standing near Bill scowled at her and quickly used the butt of his gun to hit Clementine in the head once she got close enough. this hit sent her flying back and she hid the ground hitting her head loosing conciousness.
Luke's Pov
Luke gasped for air, as Carver kicked him in his ribs, he felt an intense pain as his bone started to crack, his brown eyes looked over at Clementine laying on the floor "Clem..." he said softly through the pain whille trying to steady his breathing, which seemed difficult due to the kicks the powerful kicks that seemed to take his breath away. he closed his eyes only hearing Sarah crying, and Rebecca trying to tell Bill to stop. Luke thought this was it, he was going to die, because Carver wasn't going to stop until every bone in his body was broken. Once his lids where shut for a while a female voice spoke "Bill i need you now! its an emergency." the voice said Causing Bill to stop doing what he was doing. "what kind of emergency Bonnie?" he replied in an angry tone, the redhead spoke loud "a walker emergency! Shel and Becca need help" Bonnie as there where gunshots heard in the distance, Bill turned to his men "lets go all of you... Bonnie i'm leaving you in charge of them, if any of them give you shit, just kill em." Bill left and the group all started to move around. Carlos had Sarah stay with Rebecca, Sarah held onto rebecca tight still sobbing. once Carlos reached Luke's side Luke forced words out "forget...about... me... help Clementine." Carlos turned his head back to see Kenny and sarita by his side, he then saw Pete, and Nick walk over to him "you alright?" Nick asked, a worried look was on his face. "guys, i'm alright i'm just in pain, i'm more worried about clementine, Carlos, please take a look at her before you look at me," Carlos nodded upon hearing Luke's request, and walked over to clementine who was now on her bed. Bonnie had left the room and returned with some medical supplies she gave all of it to Carlos, and walked over to the group waiting for Pete and Nick to finish helping Luke stand up. they all walked to the center of the pen where the group of chairs where. Bonnie spoke up "Luke, everyone, im sorry... i didn't mean for this to happen." Kenny crossed his arms "because of you Walter is dead, and because of Vanilla ice over here Matt is dead." Kenny clenched his fist, Nick looked down and Bonnie sighed walking to the entrance of the pen. Finally after a awkward silence Luke spoke "everyone listen, i have a plan on escaping. When i arrived here at night, the place was packed with security, i almost got busted a few times, and i ended up finding my way through a loose bored in the fence and took refuge in the comic book store. the following morning i snuck out of the comic book store and went to get a head count on security outside, i only saw very little gaurds. i made my way to the center room and saw Bill was awake watching something on a small tv, we can escape during the early morning and-" before luke could finish Kenny cut him off "where the hell would we go Luke?" Luke shrugged "anywhere is better than being here." Luke said back to Kenny. Just then Clementine walked over to the group with Carlos, she had a gently smile on her face, there was a ugly mark on the side of her face from the angle troy hit her, everyone looked at Clementine and Carlos briefly filling them in. As Carlos listened he started to patch Luke up, and Clementine sat beside Luke taking a deep breath, she said nothing and relaxed in her seat sitting down waiting for the painkillers to to kick in. Luke made faces and grunted at speaking through his pain as carlos tended to his injuries.
Bonnie walked over to Luke and the rest of the group "I want to help you guys escape, we can all work together and get out of here, after seeing what Bill did to Luke I...I cant stay here any longer." "how do we know you aren't lieng? hell.. how do we know you aren't just saying that bullshit to get us all in trouble." Kenny snapped at her, clearly showing his hatred toward her. Bonnie rubbed her arm looking Kenny in the eyes "I gave you guys medical supplies didn't I? listen, everyone has a key to the pen door, I could sneak here in the early morning when security is low, and let all of you out." Bonnie tried to reason with them and Luke nodded "see we are all on the same page here. Bonnie can let us out and we get the hell out of here." "but where will we go?" Carlos said, and Bonnie thought for a moment "during the night I will bring you all some supplies for your bags that way we can travel prepared. and if we encounter danger we will have weapons and ammunition instead of just running out there without food water or medical supplies. I mean." the group continued to discuss tactics and finally they all agreed on escaping in the morning, they had an emergency plan which was if they all got separated they where to meet up at the bridge know was the swaying bridge. Bonnie had pulled a map from her back pocket showing the group which direction they should head in and she showed the emergency meet up spot "I have a question." Sarah said causing the group to look down at the 13 year old girl, normally she didn't get involved in the adults business, but she wanted to help too. "I have crayons and paper In my backpack can I draw the map on papers and give one to everybody so they can have a map when they get lost?" Carlos looked back at Sarah "that's a wonderful idea babygirl." Carlos praised her, and so did the rest of the members in the group, "besides I don't think anyone here can draw as good as you." Luke added giving Sarah a soft smile. Kenny leaned back in his seat "Clementine is pretty good at drawing, a few years ago she would draw amazing photos."
Clementine's pov
Clementine set her attention on Kenny, she soon realized her backpack was left at the ski resort, all of her memories where gone, however she didn't want to bring the group down there was a small ray of hope and happiness. "yes I can draw, but Sarah has mad coloring skills." Clementine complimented, the child smiled and started to draw important things on the paper such as landmarks and the meet up point. Just then Clementine remembered something important once Rebecca looked at her "Rebecca we haven't lost Alvin yet, we can still rescue him." she said to Rebecca, and Rebecca's eyebrow lifted as she sadly spoke "Clementine what are you talking about? Alvin is dead... Bill he... he took him away from us and killed him, remember?" Clementine shook her telling the group exactly what Carver had said to Wyatt. Rebecca sighed in relief "How are we going to get Alvin?" she anxiously asked. "Alvin is probably locked in one of the rooms that can only be opened from the outside unless you have a security card, and on the inside with it can be opened normally." Bonnie said to Rebecca. "how do we get Alvin out." Rebecca asked and Bonnie "there is a small window on the bottom that us used form sliding the tray in and out of the room, someone small would have to climb through it and open the door." when Bonnie said it Carlos glared at her "Sarah is not climbing through there." Bonnie then looked at Clementine along with everyone else and Clementine nodded already knowing she was the only one who could squeeze through the window. "Alright i'll do it. since I am the only one who can fit through the door." "oh and one more thing clementine "Bonnie said looking down at the girl with amber eyes "I will be waking you up earlier than everyone else, while you get Alvin we will will make out way out, will you be able to handle it on your own with him?" Clementine nodded, Luke frowned "you know i'm not too comfortable with the idea of Clementine being separated from us, but I believe she knows what she's doing and the girl is as tough as nails." he said while looking at her and smiled, she smiled back and looked down at her hands blushing. Troy returned to the gate leaning shouting loud "Bonnie your job here is done, return to your post, and for the rest of you dinner will be here in an hour." Troy left once Bonnie left the room and everyone finally got to relax. Luke stood up and walked over to Clementine "hey uh Clem I need to talk to you in private about something that has been on my mind for quite some time." Clementine nodded and stood following Luke away from the group so they could chat alone.
-Chapter 5 end.
even though I dislike... I hope you all enjoyed it. i'm going to tell you than the next chapter will hopefully be sweet! this short story is coming to an end, i never planned on making this an actual story this was just a for fun thing. so yeah! as always feel free to leave a review drop a like follow me message me. do whatever in the hell you want xD i love you guys and i hope to have chapter 6 posted hopefully soon if writters block doesn't attack me again.