The Walking Dead: only trying to do the right thing
Chapter 9: temporary home
I bring you chapter 9 to whom is reading this story. Enjoy.
Lee had spent minutes trying to find a way into the house they had stumbled across when escaping from the walkers, but there was no such luck. He walked back to Kenny to make another plan in case they could not get in before he spotted a pet door at the bottom of the back door. "What's this? Looks like there's some kind of pet door here."
"Already tried it, it's locked." Kenny replied, kneeling down to the small pet door, studying it carefully. "I mean, who the hell ever heard of a locked doggie door?"
"I have." Omid answered, calling out to the older man from where he and Christa were sitting, beginning to explain the purpose of a locked pet door. "My neighbor had one just like that. It's radio-controlled, the dog wears a collar with a in it so the door only opens when the dog gets close to it."
"Well, shit. Every day's a school day." Kenny joked, still learning something new everyday, especially in this day and age.
"Sooo, where's the dog...?" Carley asked, studying the area carefully until she spotted the grave next to the dog house where a symbol of the cross was stood out. "Oh, great."
Lee followed to where she was looking and he too spotted the grave where it was most likely assumed that was the dog's grave. He walked over to the shed where a shovel was leaned against the shed that he soon took, preparing to dig-up the grave in hopes the collar was still there in working order.
Lee walked over to the grave and prepared to dig it up until Omid had suddenly warned him of what might come out of the grave if he was not careful.
"Hey, be careful." he warned, he and the others watching as Lee was about to something disrespectful yet necessary. "Digging up dead things isn't what is used to be, know what I mean?"
"Yeah, I hear you." Lee understood, shoving the shovel down into the dirt as he began to dig out the grave, making quite a mess around the area.
"What's buried down there?" Clementine inquired, though she got no answer from anyone and merely watched as her guardian continued to dig up the grave.
It took Lee a couple of moments to dig out the grave until finally, he spotted a sign of a corpse sticking out from the grave. He dug up the grave a couple more times until the full remains of the dog's corpse were in their sights, and lucky for them, the dog appeared to be long dead, and by the looks of it, it never came back as a walker, despite the fact the group had never seen an animal walker before.
"Clementine, honey, come sit with me and Omid, let Lee work work." Christa said to Clementine, not wanting the young girl to see the dead corpse.
Clementine listened to the older woman she had taken a liking too and walked back over to her, sitting down beside Omid.
"Oh God, that smells bad." Carley gasped, covering up her noise in an attempt to block out the smell.
Lee set the shovel down and knelt down to the grave while carefully sticking his right hand out to get the collar that was still attached around the dog's neck, but the question was: did the chip still work?
Lee grabbed the collar with his two fingers and tried to pull it up, but he could not get it off the dog's neck, and he did not plant to carry a dead dog around with him all day. "Ugh...I can't get it off."
Before he could act further, the dog's carcass neck suddenly snapped off, giving Lee the collar like he wanted, but this had caused all of the group to groan in disgust (including Lee). "Aaaa."
"Oh, God." Katjaa gasped, covering up her mouth with her hand.
"Okay, that it just disgusting." Carley said, throwing her hand over her eyes, not wanting to look at the headless dog anymore than she needed too.
Christa was the one who seemed to take it so bad that she vomited against the nearby wall, coughing slightly as she wiped her mouth, but it did cause a few eyes to set on her, especially her boyfriend Omid.
"Are you okay?" Clementine inquired to Christa, keeping calm about the fact she had just witnessed a dead dog lose it's head.
"I'm fine, honey." Christa answered, wiping her moth slightly again, but deep down, she was lying to the young girl about a secret she and her boyfriend were keeping between themselves. "It's just the smell."
"Are you sure you-" Omid was about to ask until Christa cut him off.
"I said I'm fine, okay?" Christa repeated, slightly being irritated at the fact of something her boyfriend was about to say.
What was wrong with Christa would have to wait for now, but the most important fact is they may have just found their way in. Now that he had the collar, Lee made his way back towards the back door, silently praying that the collar could get them into the house.
"Here goes nothing..." Lee said, kneeling down to the pet door, moving the collar towards the pet door where the red light suddenly switched to the green light, meaning that it was unlocked.
"Yes! Goddamn!" Kenny whopped, relieved that something had finally gone right for them.
Although it was open, Lee now how to get the rest of the door open. He reached his head and right arm through the pet door in an attempt to reach the door handle from the other side, but it was out of his reach. "Uugh...It's no good, I can't get it."
"Do you want me to try?" Omid offered, thinking he could reach. "Maybe I could-"
Omid didn't get the chance to finish when Clementine had somehow sneaked past him and crawled through the pet door, out from everyone's sights. Lee watched in shock for a few seconds as there was no response from the young girl. "Clem! What do you see in there?"
There was no response and the silence remand for a few more seconds until the door had opened where Clementine emerged from the inside, with her hands in the air. "Ta-da!"
"Good job, Clem!" Lee praised her, deep down, he was extremely worried and wanted to yell at her, but he knew how sensitive she was.
"Nice going, Clementine." Carley said, kneeling down to her height with her hand raised for Clementine to high-five her which she did.
"That was awesome, Clementine!" Duck enthusiastically said.
"I did good, right?" Clementine asked Lee, crossing her arms slightly.
"Yes, you did." Lee answered, kneeling down to Clementine's height with a smile across his face. "You did good."
"I suppose we should get inside now." Christa said, getting a slight nod from everyone else in agreement while she helped Omid get back up onto his feet due to his bad leg.
"Yeah, let's go." Lee said, standing back up to his full height, leading the group into the house, and hopefully, it was deserted and had no surprises in store for them.
And chapter 9 is complete. This would have been a bit longer, but I am not feeling to well. I got a bug, and it's kinda making me weak. I'll get back to it when I can.