Everything was like a blur. Travis and I fell to the ground. My eyes flooded with tears from pain and fear. The gun shots around me wouldn't end.
"The baby," I managed to say.
Kenny was yelling at the other shooters, Mike and Luke too. They were all sheltered behind walls and trees, but we had no shelter, and neither did Clementine. I had no idea where Sarah was- I could only hope she hadn't run away again.
"Sarah!" I heard Clem call.
And then the girl appeared and the two of them ran together behind a wall. Both safe.
"I've got him," Travis' voice came over the bullets. "We need to move, come on!"
"I can't run!" I shouted at him through my tears. "Just go!"
"I'm not leaving you," he stated, suddenly lifting me from the floor despite my protests in pain, and then we were running and I felt like all the bones in my leg would crumble beneath me.
But then we were safe, behind a wall where the bullets couldn't reach us and it was a miracle we hadn't been hurt.
"Shit, okay. Okay, we've got to do something, y'all," Luke explained. "We're pinned down here."
"No shit," Travis replied. "I need a gun."
Then he was given a weapon and I was given the baby.
"I kill every one of you!" I heard one man shout suddenly, and more gun shots followed.
"We need to get the angle right," Travis told Luke. "Stay out of his sight, keep him distracted somehow."
"Cover me, alright?" Luke said. "Just shoot over to the woods."
"You're gonna get your head blown off!" Clem exclaimed.
"We'll be fine, you two just stay down," Travis instructed.
On his signal, Luke ran out of cover and towards the woods while Travis fired from above the wall. I heard the sound of a bullet enter someone's skin and the rapid firing of guns as I held Clem, Sarah and the baby close to me, praying we would make it out alive.
"You get out here, or we put a bullet in this kid's head!" Kenny ordered.
I peered around the wall and spotted the man and Luke holding Arvo hostage. Two of the attackers were both dead on the ground, meaning there was only Arvo and one other man left.
As I watched, Clementine began to ask me what Kenny was doing, but then I was distracted by the movement of the woman on the ground behind Kenny and Luke.
"Travis, walker!" I shouted.
He shot her head instantly, and Arvo spiralled out of Kenny and Luke's grasp, falling to the ground beside her body then looking in Travis' direction with an expression of rage and hatred. The man behind the rock stepped out and raised his gun to shoot, until then he just gurgled and turned- showing us the knife that was planted in the back of his neck.
Kenny fired the gun and put the man out of his misery.
"It's safe to come out," Kenny informed us.
"Are... are they dead?" Sarah asked me, her voice full of fright.
"Uh, yeah," I told her. "They can't hurt us now."
Bonnie took the baby from my arms while Travis and Clem helped me up. It was then that I noticed a new figure in the woods by Kenny- Jane.
"Jesus Christ... that was, uh... that was intense," Luke spoke.
"I thought... man, I thought that was it."
"Well we're all safe," Travis replied. "Anyone wounded?"
"I got hit," Mike answered, pointing to the blood on his arm.
"We're not all safe," I remarked, looking over at Rebecca, who was slouched in her seat with a bullet through her brain.
The group walked over to her, and I felt like crying with the weight of losing another person... And the baby had no parents anymore.
Clem and Jane approached us after their conversation and stood beside in silence.
"How did this happen?" Mike wondered sadly.
"She... turned. Just like that."
"Clem spotted her first... did what she had to do to protect the baby, and Marceline and Travis," Bonnie explained.
"We shouldn't have pushed her," I muttered. "If we'd rested a bit longer then maybe..."
"This isn't anybody's fault, okay?" Luke said, looking between Clem and I. "She just... She lost too much blood."
"We didn't know what we were doing back at that building. We didn't have the supplies to keep her well. It's nobody's fault," Travis continued after Luke.
"You saved their lives," Mike told Clementine.
The little girl looked at me, unconvinced. I knew it wasn't the first time she'd had to kill someone she knew, and the memory was probably eating away at her mind.
"She's with Alvin now," Clementine then remarked.
"Yeah, yeah she is," Bonnie responded with a broken tone. "Don't worry, Becca, we'll take care of your boy. You rest easy."
I turned my head away from the sight of the body as Sarah began to sob. Instead, my gaze fell upon Arvo, and I felt my stomach twist; Kenny felt the same.
The man marched over to him, grabbing Arvo's collar and snatching him from the ground.
"You piece of shit!" He yelled, raising a fist and bringing it down with force.
The others ran over to stop Kenny, and I knew it wasn't his fault that Rebecca had died but we would have saved a lot of trouble if he hadn't decided to participate in that ambush. I was on Kenny's side.
"It's over man," Mike insisted as he and Luke defended Arvo. "He ain't a threat to us."
"How can you say that?! Of course he is!"
The man raised a gun, but I wasn't sure I agreed with him that much.
"Kenny, no!" I shouted, hobbling quickly over and grabbing his arm. "This won't bring her back."
"His... his sister is dead," Clementine commented. "He's lost enough already. You don't have to do this."
"There is house, food, please... please, I can take you," Arvo tried.
"Bullshit!" Kenny declared.
"No, no! Is true. We have place... not far. Food!"
I looked over at Travis who stood on the other side of Kenny, waiting to see what his reaction was.
"Do you trust him?" I asked.
Kenny's eyes flicked from me to Travis, though the gun was still aimed at Arvo.
"I don't know," Travis shrugged. "But if he's telling the truth and we don't even go to check it out, we'll have lost out on supplies."
"Travis is right," Luke decided.
"Think about the baby, Kenny."
"Kenny," I pleaded as he turned and looked at me. "Please. We're going to starve and freeze otherwise."
He stared into my eyes for a second, and I had to admit I felt scared. He looked so threatening and I feared he would turn the gun around on one of us, but I tried to convince myself he would never do that. It was no secret that Kenny had issues with his anger, that was evident enough back in the city.
I relaxed when I saw his eyes calm, and then the gun was lowered and I let out a breath I didn't know I'd been holding.
"We got something to tie this shitbird up?"
I smiled slightly at Travis as he now relaxed too.
"Follow me, I take you," Arvo said, beginning to lead the way when Bonnie had restrained him from the risk of attacking us.
"Let's go," I said to Clem and Travis as the others began to walk ahead. "We might have some journey ahead of us..."