The Walking Dead: only trying to do the right thing
Chapter 6: what did we learn?
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Lee Everette and Clementine walked their way into the abandon station, and the first thing Lee did was notice the room was completely dark. Although it did look safe, walking alone in the dark nowadays was a bad idea.
"Goddamn, it's dark in here." Lee said, stating to obvious as the door closed behind him.
"Maybe I can hold the door open?" Clementine suggested, wanting to make herself useful anyway possible.
Lee thought about it for a couple of seconds before he had an answer. It was risky, so his answer was no. "I don't like that. I'll prop it open with something."
Lee already has the perfect idea to keep the door open. He leaned down and pulled out the wretch he had in his pocket that he found inside one of the train cabins to hold the door open for now.
Now that they had some light to brighten up the room, Lee walked towards the cage door that lead into a slightly smaller room where he saw the perfect thing that needed: a blowtorch that could help them cut through the tanker.
Only problem was, the cage door was locked up.
"Locked up good." Lee spoke to himself, before he looked up where he saw a small gap above the cage door. "There's some space up there, but not much."
"We're lucky I'm so little." Clementine said smiling, knowing this was her chance to be useful right now.
"Yeah, we are." Lee agreed, turning around and making his way back to Clementine for her help. As much as he did not want to send her over there in case she couldn't get back, there was no other option. "You okay going over the top of this fence?"
"Yeah, definitely." she replied, so eager to help her guardian.
Lee nodded as he picked up Clementine and took her up towards the small gap above the cage door. He watched as she dropped down from the other side of the cage door, and the first thing he noticed was the keys to the cage door hanging on the wall. "Go on and grab the keys, Clem...Come on, scoot."
Lee looked confused as Clementine's expression changed into a fearful one until she suddenly spoke, warning him of the danger ahead. "Behind you!"
In a split second, Lee swirled around where a walker slowly approached him, emerging from the darkness of the room, ready for a sweet, tasty meal that just stood there for him to get.
"Fuck!" Lee panicked, immediately pulling out his pistol from his back pocket. He pulled the trigger and shot the walker, killing it instantly.
However, his troubles were not over yet. Another walker jumped out of nowhere and knocked Lee back, causing him to drop his pistol on the ground that slid under the cage door to Clementine's side.
Lee's only hope of self-defense was the wretch he was using to keep he door open. He backed away until he was close enough for the wretch to be within his reach that allowed him to grab it, and in a second, he smashed it across the walkers head.
He panted a little, realizing how close he just came to death yet again. First it was the cop that was taking him to prison when all this began, then Sandra, then the walker in the pharmacy, the St. John's, the Bandits, and now another walker. How long would his luck last?
Lee checked up on Clementine, who had been watching the whole thing, and to make things scarier, she had picked up Lee's pistol and aimed it, but she could not have squeezed the trigger. He walked towards Clementine from the other side of the cage to assure her it was over. "It's okay...It's okay...everything's fine."
Clementine nodded as she lowered the gun down.
Lee smiled until he caught something in the corner of his eye. He turned around were a figure yet again emerged from the darkness, revealing it to be another walker. And to make matters worse, it was on the same side as Clementine. The walker snarled as it made it's way towards the young girl, who was scared to death right at this moment.
It took Lee a few seconds to daze out from his shocked expression and when he did, he immediately shouted towards Clementine in a panicking tone. "KEYS! NOW!"
Clementine acted like she didn't even hear him. She froze in her steps, no matter how hard she commanded her body to move, she just couldn't.
"Clem, KEYS!" Lee panicked, seeing the walker was only a few feet away from her now. "GET THE KEYS!"
Clementine still remained still like frozen statue.
"CLEMENTINE!-"
Lee was cut off by the sound of his pistol firing. He jumped back as he watched the walker drop to the floor and as Clementine lowered the gun she has just fired. Lee was shocked by this. His nine-year-old adopted daughter had just killed a walker right in front of him, and God only knows he dramatized she may be right now.
After a few seconds of silence, Clementine finally had to strength to get the keys and unlocked the cage door. As soon as it was open, she dropped the pistol and ran towards Lee, who had knelt down and hugged her comfort her after she just killed someone.
"Shhh, it's okay, I know." Lee assured, gently patting her back with his right hand. "It's okay. It's over."
"What's going on?" a familiar voice asked, coming from the other side of the door. "Lee, Clem, you guys okay? I thought I heard a gun shot."
"We're fine, Carley." Lee replied, knowing who that voice was in a second's flat.
The former news reporter pushed the door open and walked into the train station where she Lee and Clementine hugging that gave her the feeling that something was wrong until the sight of dead walkers caught her glimpse. "What happened here?"
"Walkers got this jump on us." Lee answered, finally letting go of Clementine out from his hug while he picked up the Glock 17 and handed it back over to Carley. "Take this. We're fine though."
"Glad to here it." Carley sighed, leaning upwards on her feet so she was the same height level as Lee before she leaned forward and kissed the side of his cheek. "Stay safe."
"Thanks, Carley." Lee smiled, crossing both of his arms together.
"I'll go make sure everyone knows what happened." Carley said, turning around and exciting train station to be with the group and to resume her watch session.
After she was gone, Lee knelt down to Clementine's height so he could have a little important talk with her. "Now, Clementine, do you know what we learned today?"
"That I'm not good with guns." Clementine sighed, looking down towards the ground in sadness.
"We learned not to be afraid. They should have got us, but we got them." Lee explained, assuring her yet again so she could better understand what it was like to face walkers again in the future.
"Yeah, you're right." Clementine smiled.
"Fear is the thing that can kill us, but today, it's what saved us. If we you hadn't have shot the walker in fear, you may not have been here now." Lee explained. "Understand?"
Clementine nodded in agreement.
Before long, Lee picked up the blowtorch and left the abandon train station to be with the rest of the group and to finally get the tanker down by using the blowtorch he and Clementine just found.
A few minutes later; Lee and Omid had positioned themselves on top of the bridge with blowtorch, preparing to bring this tanker down ASAP. Lee leaned down to the blowtorch and turned on the gas, but there was no flame coming out. He noticed a leak in the hose. "Shit."
"What's up?" Omid asked, obviously knowing there was going to be a problem.
"The hose has a leak in it." Lee explained.
"Turn it off, dude!" Omid panicked, knowing that blowtorch could go off at any moment if the hose was broken and if it was exposed to flame. "I don't want my eyebrows burned off!"
Lee leaned back down and turned off the blowtorch before anything bad could happen.
"Better plug that leak with something." Omid suggested, while he moved his hand into his pocket a pulled out a roll of duck tape and handed it to Lee. "Here, try this. I found it in that van back there."
"Thanks." Lee smiled, rolling up the duck tape before he began rolling it around the leak to fix the hose. "This should nicely."
Now that the blowtorch was fuaxed, it was time to cut down this tanker. Lee leaned forward to the cufflink that held both tankers together and began cutting through it using the torch, but too make things difficult, he had to keep his eyes closed to avoid his eyes getting damaged by the sparks.
"That is crazy, look at it go." Omid said, until his expression soon dropped when he noticed the tanker was moving and that it would hit Lee. He knew Lee was unaware of this due to his eyes being closed, so without thinking, Omid ran towards Lee and pulled him out the way just in time.
"Whoa, thanks!" Lee said, managing to stand himself back up after cheating death yet again. He looked back at the tanker where he saw it was almost broken. "This thing's hanging by a thread. The smallest cut and it'll go."
However, the tanker was now out from Lee's reach, meaning there was no way he could reach it now. But lucky for him, he did have an idea. He smirked as he handed the blowtorch over to Omid. "Here. The weak portion of the coupling is out of my reach."
"You think it'll be in mine?" Omid asked, wondering what Lee had planned.
"No, but I'm gonna dangle you over that ledge." Lee explained, looking down towards the ground where the others were patiently waiting for them to get this tanker out of their way.
"The hell you are!" Omid countered, completely doubting this crazy idea Lee had for him.
After some "Persuasion", Lee placed both of his hands onto Omid's left wrist and dangled him over to edge so he could reach the tanker. Omid placed his left foot on the ground while using his right hand to hold the torch over the cufflink.
Omid sighed as he closed his eyes and began cutting through the cufflink of the tanker. "God, you're a real son of a bitch, aren't you?"
"Shut up and start cutting." Lee ordered, deep down, he was trying his best not to laugh at this little idea he had to get Omid to cut the tanker.
While Lee and Omid were dealing with the tanker, Carley had climbed back on top of boxcar to keep watch. She had her pistol in her pocket while she held the sniper rifle in her hands.
Carley spotted something coming from the direction of where they came from. She could not see what was there yet so she looked through the scope of her rifle for a better view. Carley gasped as she saw a horde of walkers coming straight for them through the scope of her rifle, coming straight for them. "Oh, shit! WE GOT COMPANY!"
Kenny, Katjaa, Chuck, and Christa looked towards the direction they came from where they could see Carley was indeed right. Walkers were moving in, and now it was time to go.
"Oh, shit!" Kenny swore, quickly holding up the shotgun they had with him, ready for anything. "We have to keep them back!"
"Agreed!" Christa said, pulling out her own weapon that was a Beretta 92FS Inox pistol from her pocket. "We need to keep them back until those two are down!"
"I'll go and start the train!" Kenny said, before handing his shotgun over to Chuck, hoping the man knew how to short rather than just sit there all day and play his guitar. "Charles, you know how to shoot?!"
"Just a pistol usually, but, I think I can handle it." Chuck replied, not seeming to bothered about the current situation as he accepted the shotgun into his hands. "I'll do what I can, son."
Kenny nodded as he made sure Katjaa and Duck were in the back of the boxcar for their safety before he got up into the train cab, preparing to start it as soon as he got chance. He looked up through the broken window at Lee and Omid, who were still cutting. "Come on, come on, guys!"
Carley, Christa, and Chuck all took a stand together, ready for the worse to happen. Carley remained at the top of the boxcar, aiming through the scope of her rifle, even though she would prefer her pistol any day. Christa and Chuck remained behind the boxcar, taking aim as the horde got closer.
Back at the bridge, Lee had noticed the trouble coming from nearby and forced Omid to go faster. "Fuck, Omid! CUT! CUT!"
"I AM!" Omid shouted, until he could hear the sound of the tanker going. "IT'S GOING! PULL ME UP!"
Lee pulled Omid back as the tanker finally dropped down from it's hanging position and dropped down at the side of the tracks, finally out of the train's way. But as luck would have it, it also knocked the ladders down, meaning Lee and Omid were trapped up there.
"KENNY, GO!" Lee yelled, wanting to get everyone (especially Clementine) out of there now!
Kenny pulled down on the lever and the train roared to life as it began to move. Christa and Chuck jumped back up into boxcar after they saw the train was moving again.
Omid watched as his girlfriend and the rest of the group were getting away in the train. He panicked, thinking they were never going to make it. "Shit! What the hell do we do now?"
Lee had only one option on his mind to get them out of there. He ran towards the other side of the bridge and climbed over the protective fence. "We gotta jump!"
"WHAT?! No way!" Omid refused, although he did climb over the protective fence to, not really sure what to do next.
As the train was passing, Lee could see Carley was still standing on the roof of the boxcar. She called out to Lee, not wanting to leave him behind with the walkers. "Lee, come on! Jump!"
Lee was willing to jump but he understood that Omid was not going anywhere. Lee was not going to push him , but yelling at him to go would not work either. However, he had one idea to change his mind. "Fine, you stay here and we'll go with your lady!"
"The hell you will!" Omid countered, immediately changing his mind as he jumped from bridge, heading directly for the train. He managed to land on the train, but landed wrong that caused him to damage his leg. "AHH!"
Omid almost fell from the train boxcar until he was luckily saved by Carley, who grabbed his hands just in time and made sure he didn't fall. She smiled as she helped him back up. "I got you!"
"Thanks." Omid thanked, until he suddenly notice his leg was split open completely that was causing extreme pain to shoot through his entire leg. "Ahh, my leg."
Before long, Lee had jumped too and landed down on the train. Unlike Omid, Lee managed to land fine without injuring himself in anyway. He gasped as he sat down next to Carley. "Whew, we made it."
"Yeah, we did." Carley agreed, surprised that they managed to make it out of there. "He's injured though Lee."
"My leg." Omid grunted, holding his leg in agonizing pain. "It's fucked."
"Let's get back down there." Carley said, as she and Lee helped Omid jump down from the boxcar to land on the part of the train that was in between the train cab and boxcar.
They got into the boxcar where Christa had been worried the entire time when she heard Omid scream. Lee and Carley set him down onto the ground before he could hurt himself further.
"Don't worry, Omid." Lee assured him, understanding how much pain he must be in right now. "Katjaa is a vet. She can fix your leg right up."
"Thanks man." Omid smiled, as he watched Christa sit down beside him. "Hey, babe."
"Omid, your leg." Christa said, clearly seeing the wound that was cut open in the middle of his leg.
"I'll be fine." Omid assured her, knowing now much Christa was worried about him that could make her go extremely concerned. "Like Lee said, one of them is a vet. She can help."
"I hope so." Christa said, sighing as she laid her head back at the boxcar, finally glad they got out of there.
Next stop, Savannah. With Katjaa, Duck, and Carley alive, things might play out better this time. Let's see how well they can do once they get to Savannah. Stay tuned for chapter 7.