The Walking Dead: only trying to do the right thing
Chapter 7: the journey continues
Here I bring you chapter 7. Mwhahahahaha! Wait, I do not know why I laughed like that. My bad. :D Anyway, enjoy reading.
Lee watched as Omid was sitting on one of the crates inside of the boxcar while Katjaa was sewing his wound after he had injured his leg from jumping onto the train. He looked to his left where Carley was sitting by the edge of the boxcar with her legs dangled out.
Christa had gotten to know Clementine a little better during the train ride. The two girls sat together at the other side of the boxcar. As for Kenny, he and Duck were in the train cab together. Although Kenny was fine driving the train on his own, he had Duck there just in case he had fallen asleep and Duck would be the one to wake him up with his happiness.
As for Chuck, he was happy to be on his own at the front of the train cab.
"Okay, I think that should do it. You're going to be fine. " Katjaa declared, finishing wrapping some bandages around his leg. "Just try to stay off your leg for a while."
"Thanks Katjaa." he thanked, followed by a sigh of relief that he was going to be just fine.
"It's the least I can do." Katjaa smiled before leaving the boxcar to be with Kenny and Duck in the train cab.
After she was gone, Christa stopped talking with Clementine for a moment to check on her boyfriend. She walked beside him and examined his leg that was now cleaned, sew back together, and bandaged. "Omid, how are you feeling?"
"I fine, thanks, babe." Omid answered, trying to get comfortable on the crate since he may be there for a while after Katjaa made it clear that he needed to stay off his feet for a while. "I'll be alright. Just gotta rest for a while."
"You had me worried for a while, Omid." Christa admitted, placing her hand upon his forehead to feel for any sort of temperature.
"I'm fine, babe, really." Omid assured, taking her hand that was upon his forehead and planting a kiss on it.
Lee smiled at the two couple, happy that Kenny and Katjaa weren't the only couple who were still alive in this God forsaken world. He turned his attention from them for a second when he saw Clementine tugging on his hand to get his attention.
"Lee, can I talk to you, please?" Clementine requested, still tugging his arm.
"Sure, sweet-pea." Lee answered, taking her hand and leading them both on the other side of the boxcar for them to talk in private.
When they were quite far from everyone else so they couldn't see them, Lee knelt down to Clementine's height as she stood in the corner of the boxcar. "Okay, what do you wanna talk about?"
"...My parents, Lee. They were in Savannah. Do you think we can look for them while were there?" Clementine requested, obviously still having hope that her parents were still alive out there somewhere.
Lee did not how to respond to her request. He knows how bad cities are, and to make matters worse, he remembered the message from the answering machine the day he met Clementine.
"Maybe there's something on there." Lee said, as he lifted his hand up and pressed his finger against the answering machine button.
Three new messages. Message one. Left at five-forty-three p.m.
"Hey, Sandra, this is Diana. We're still in Savannah. Ed had a little 'incident' with some crazy guy near the hotel, so we had to get him back to the ER and have it checked out. Anyway, he's not feeling well enough to drive back tonight, so we're staying an extra day. Thanks so much for looking after Clementine, and I promise we'll be back in time before your spring break!"
After message one had finished, Lee assumed that she was the mother of the family he saw on the photo frame. However, before he could investigate further, the other two messages were yet to play.
Message two. Left at eleven-nine-teen p.m
"Oh my God, finally! I don't know if you're tried to reach us; all the calls are getting dropped. They're not letting us leave and aren't telling us anything about Atlanta. Please, please, just leave the city and take Clementine with you back to Marietta. I've got to get back to the hospital. Please let me know that you're safe."
Message three. Left at six-fifty-one a.m.
Lee payed closed attention to the finally message. This one wasn't for the woman he heard named "Sandra". Instead, Lee assumed this message was the one left for the little kid he saw too in the photo frame. The woman on the answering machine spoke like she had been crying.
"Clementine? Baby, if you can hear this, call the police. That's 9-1-1. We love you...we love you...we love y-"
Lee watched in shock a little as the message cut out. Just what was happening? First, the car he was in crashed after hitting someone and damaged his leg, next he was forced to kill the cop who was trying to kill him, more of them chased him, blood on the kitchen floor, and now this? What was happening?
"Lee...Lee...Lee!"
Lee dazed out from his thoughts about that day. How could he tell a little girl that her parents were dead? If he did, how would their relationship turn? For now, Lee made up some excuse to her question for now. "I suppose we could. But we're not there yet, so let's worry about it when were there, okay?"
"Okay." Clementine nodded, almost fully believing that her guardian was telling the truth.
"Alright, I'm gonna go and speak to Kenny." Lee said as he got up from where he was sitting, "Why don't you go and talk to Christa or Carley some more?"
Clementine nodded as she went to go and sit with Carley for a while.
Now that, that was taken care of, Lee exited the boxcar and made his way to the side of the train cab where he could see nothing but trees pass by as the train moved at great speed.
Although they were good for now, there is something that was on Lee's mind for a while. Say that got to Savannah, what then? What if there was no boat left in the city? What would they do then? They couldn't just stay on this train forever, it will eventually run out of gas.
For now, Lee did not have the time to think about it that. Instead, he had to hope there will be a boat there...Wait a minute?
Lee had just remembered what Kenny had mentioned to him the day they met: Kenny's boat. Then it hit him, why would Kenny try and find a boat in Savannah when he mentioned he had one? Lee was about to find out.
He walked into the train cab where Kenny's eyes were locked onto the train tracks while Katjaa had fallen asleep in the other chair. As for Duck, he watched the outside of the windows, finding it to be cool.
"Hey Kenny." Lee greeted, as he watched Kenny not even bother taking his eyes from where they were locked.
"Hey Lee." Kenny returned the greeting, while he caught Duck looking at the control panel behind him like he wanted to touch them. He spoke calmly to his son, yet serious. "Duck, please don't touch any of those buttons. They're important."
"Okay, Dad." Duck obeyed and walked to the other side of the train cab and gazed out of the window. .
Now that Duck was occupied for now, Lee got ready to ask Kenny the question he thought while outside the train cab. "Hey, Kenny, there's something I wanted to ask you?"
"What is it?" Kenny inquired.
"The day we met, you mentioned you had a boat, right? If you have boat, why are you bothering taking us all the way to Savannah in hopes of getting one when you have one back home?" Lee asked, crossing both of his arms together while the man from Florida arched a curious eyebrow to his question.
Kenny turned his attention towards Lee by turning himself around using the chair to answer his question. "For one reason, Lee: my boat's in Florida, and that's a LONG way from here. No matter how much gas we had in the RV, we would have never made it, and walking isn't an option. Why do you ask anyway?"
"In case we had to go for a Plan B, you know." Lee answered, feeling kind of embarrassed at the question he had just asked.
"There won't be a Plan B, Lee. There will be boats there." Kenny said, turning himself around to continue his shift. "There has to be...Has to be..."
Lee nodded after a few seconds before preparing to leave the train cab. As he was walking to the door, he froze in his steps and shifted his attention towards Clementine's backpack when he heard a static noise that also caught the attention of Kenny and Duck too.
Lee arched a curious eyebrow as he knelt down to the backpack and pulled out the walkie-talkie Clementine kept to pretend to talk to her parents. He picked iy up and held onto the button at the side while Kenny and Duck merely watched as they stood next to him.
"Hell...o...oo...there?..." a static voice greeted from the other side of the walkie-talkie.
"What the...?" Lee gasped, not believing someone had just greeted him through a walkie-talkie.
"Can't wait for you to get to Savannah, Clementine." the voice on the other end continued, shocking both Lee and Kenny as they listened. "I've got your parents right here, and you be sure to find me whether Lee wants you to or not. Now, what I need-"
Lee could only watch in stock as the voice on the other end was cut off. "Holy shit..."
"I thought that fucking thing was broken." Kenny inquired, knowing that walkie-talkie had been broken since the day at the drugstore.
"So did I." Lee said.
"Well, it sounds like somebody knows where we're headed." Kenny said, obviously worried now that they had a stalker on their hands, especially since Kenny had his family to watch out for.
"Who the fuck..." Lee did not have any words to express how shocked he was at this moment.
"Dad, who is that?" Duck asked, him too hearing every last word from the radio.
"I don't know, Duck. But I doubt we're going to be happy when we find out." Kenny answered, nervously rubbing the back of his neck while sitting himself back in the drivers seat.
Despite Lee still being shocked, he had to get some answers right now, and the only one who could answer this was Clementine. He was shocked by this, however he was not angry with Clementine, but worried instead. She's just a kid, and God only knows what strangers can see to kids to make them believe lies.
Before long, Lee placed the walkie-talkie at the side of his pocket while he exited the train cab and made his way back to the boxcar, ready to ask Clementine some questions.
Dun! Dun! DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN! Who is the mysterious voice on the radio, and how does he know Clementine? Stay tuned for the next chapter.