The Walking Dead: Fight for Survival
Chapter 9: attacked
Greetings everyone, this is is going to be the last chapter until the next episode has been released. But the good news is there has been a new character confirmed for the next episode: his name is Regi. Just thought I would let you folks know.
Any who, here is chapter 9, and enjoy.
The members from both groups sat quietly while they continued eating their Christmas dinner in peace. Each of them were seeming to have a good time while they were there, and even though the food did taste a little weird, it seemed to be to everyone's delight for the evening.
On the left side of the cafeteria area where Lee, Carley, Clementine, and all the others from the cabin were, Luke turned around for a moment and had his attention focused on Lilly, whom was unaware he was looking at her. He shifted his attention back towards Lee, who was sitting opposite of him with Clementine on his right and Carley on his left sides (from Luke's P.O.V). "So what's the deal with your friend over there?"
"Yes. We were just talking about this Lilly." Carlos joined in on the conversation as he had only just sat down in between Luke and Rebecca. "What do you make of her, Lee?"
Lee had almost answered his question with the truth, but that would not do good and lead to nothing but chaos. He quickly changed his answer before anyone (except for Carley and Clementine) would take any notice. "Lilly's a good friend. She always helped us out and tried to keep things right. I trust her."
"With your life?" Luke asked him.
Lee thought about the younger man's question for a moment. He and Lilly did have problems in the past, especially ever since she shot Ben that caused their relationship to drop. But Lilly was grateful to him when he tried to revive her dad, even after everything he had done to him. Heck, Lilly even saved his life from Andy St. John during the fight at the farm.
He finally answered Luke's question after a moment of silence. "I think so. Yeah, I would."
Luke, along with Nick, shifted their attention back over towards the other dinner bench table where Lilly looked somewhat sad as she looked down towards her dinner. He turned back towards Lee before she would notice him keep constantly looking over his shoulder towards her. "Walt was telling me her dad died."
"That's horrible." Sarah who was sitting in between Alvin and Carley admitted, unable to imagine what it would be like if she lost her dad now that he was her only family left.
"It's true." Clementine sighed, remembering back to that day in the meat locker when Larry had passed out from a heart attack after getting himself too angry, followed by when Kenny had dropped a salt lick on his head without hesitation, crushing his entire skull.
"Thing like that can hit someone pretty hard." Luke told them, knowing what it was like to lose someone you care for, especially when he lost his parents.
"She lost her whole family?" Alvin asked. "Damn."
"She did the best she could." Lee assured, but knew one-hundred percent fact that ever since the events that day, Lee was not the same as she as before and was truly devastated by it.
"I'm sure she did." Luke replied, turning away for a moment to keep everyone from noticing his sad expression.
"It was hard on everyone." Carley added.
"I bet." Luke agreed with her.
Before long, Carlos was the first to finish his dinner and stood up to excuse himself from dinner. On the other dinner table, Lilly and Walter had finished their dinner too and stood out from the dinner table, and both of them made their way over towards the kitchen.
Now that the conversation about Lilly was over, Luke changed the subject to a more important and pressing member that involved every member of their group. "So, Lee, where were you, Carley, and Clementine heading before you met up with us?"
Since they were now an official part of their group and there was no avoiding the question, Lee finally decided to inform them of their destination. He turned towards Carley and Clementine for support, and got a supportive nod from Clementine but got a mere shrug from Carley."
"Well, me, Carley and Clementine were heading somewhere up north." Lee answered. "You ever heard of a place called Wellington?"
"Wellington?" Luke repeated, not being familiar with this name in his entire life. "The hell is that?"
"A place." Lee simply answered, not giving much detail about his destination he just mentioned.
"What kind of place?" Luke inquired.
"It's suppose to be a big camp up near Michigan." Lee added.
"Michigan?" Nick repeated.
"Yeah, Michigan. Fresh Water, lots of land, and winters, so the walkers get slow." Lee explained,
"Sounds like bullshit." Nick admitted, suspecting this place sounded too good to be true.
Lee frowned slightly, beginning to get angry with Nick's attitude, but he kept himself calm after remembering he still needed to be there for Nick like Pete had requested, and had to keep himself from getting angry to not cause any trouble and help further improve their relationship. "Well, that's just your opinion, Nick, but we're heading there, like it or not."
"Well that would be just fine by me." Nick agreed.
Before long, Walter decided to request a little favor from Clementine for a moment. "Hey, uh Lee, do you mind if I take Clementine to lend me a hand outside for a moment?"
"Sure." Lee agreed, being able to tell this man was kind and would not do anything to risk them getting in trouble.
Clementine agreed and stood up and followed Walter to the exit of the ski lodge. The duo made their way towards the exit of the ski lodge, but what Clementine did not know is that Walter had no favor at all, and merely wanted to speak with her.
Walter escorted Clementine outside of the ski lodge. He looked back at Clementine while they were walking slowly around the ski lodge. "I'm sorry about that. I just wanted to speak with you about Lilly for a moment.
"Okay." Clementine skeptically trailed off. "What about Lilly?"
"Let me explain: relationships are like any machine: You don't throw them out when they break down." Walter explained, speaking in a kind yet smart language to Clementine. "You get your hands dirty and you grease the wheels. What do you say? Will you help me work on them? I really do want both of "
"We're going to leave in the morning." Clementine admitted, hoping it would not upset the older man.
"No, no. You gotta stay." Walter replied, not wanting his new friends to go back out there in this God-forsaken world.
"We have to keep moving." Clementine told him, but was unable to tell him the reason why.
"Clementine, in this world you don't "have" to do anything." Walter assured, another attempt to convince her and her friends to stay. "They say the world is over, but I'll tell you a secret: it's not. People are now more political now than they ever were before. In the end, we can't change the world. All we can do is continued to learn from each other; to empathize and use our heads. "
Clementine had no idea what he was talking
""All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal." Steinbeck. Have you read him?" Walter inquired, but his happy expression changed when he noticed Clementine had a confused expression. "Well, we have plenty of time to catch you up on your reading. My partner Matthew is amassing quite the literature collection. I think you'll like him."
"In any case the point is: as long as we have our wits about us, we can always make the right choice. Right?" Walter asked, placing both of his hands to his hips. He paused for a moment when noticing Clementine with her head lowered down sheepish, looking worried about something.
"Right." Clementine agreed.
"What's the matter, Clementine? Is there something you want to tell me?" Walter inquired, being able to tell there was something wrong by the expression on her face. He knelt down to her in a friendly manner to make her feel more comfortable. "You can talk to me, Clem. There's almost nothing you could tell me that would surprise me. I can promise you that."
"I'm worried about your friend." Clementine answered, shrugging her shoulders slightly.
"Don't worry, Matthew will be back soon and everything will be fine." Walter reassured, standing back up to full height as he beckoned for her to follow him. "Now, let's go and check out the windows while we're here before that storm hits."
The duo walked around the side of the ski lodge to check the boarded-up windows. However, as they go there, they spotted someone looking through one of their windows. Walter did not seem affected by her skeptically, and greeted her in a friendly matter. "Miss?"
The woman leaned up and jumped in fear when she noticed the two. She looked around in her middle twenties, she had long red hair that was tied back, she wore a long green t-shit with a brownish hunting vest, and to top it off, she wore blue jeans with brown boots.
She moved her eyeballs up for a moment, and pleaded towards them both in a worried matter. "Please. Do you have any food?"
"Are you okay?" Walter inquired, immediately believing her lie.
"I saw the house, and...I have a family. We're starving." she explained, gesturing her left arm back towards the way she came from. "We live down there."
"Of course. Why don't you come in, miss..." he paused as he did not yet know her name.
"Bonnie." Bonnie introduced herself, keeping her sad expression across her face.
"Walt, I'm not so sure." Clementine told him. "You just going to let in a stranger like that?"
"Its fine, Clementine." Walter assured him. "We just have to get to know her, right? How much damage can this poor woman do?"
"I don't think she can hurt anyone." Clementine admitted, and this caused Bonnie to smile for a moment.
"Thank you both, really, but that storm will be on us soon and I got to get back to my family." Bonnie replied, appreciating all they were doing for her even though they had only just met seconds ago.
"I'll bring something out to you then." Walter offered.
"You don't have to do that." Bonnie declined, not wanting to seem too rude and take whatever they had. "What about your people?"
"No, no, it's fine. " Walter assured her, taking a couple of steps back to go and get some supplies for her. "We've got plenty. You stay put. I'll be right back."
Clementine remained silent as she dared not to take their eyes off from her, fearing she might try something. Clementine had to admit she suspected she could be working for Carver, but then again, why would Carver send only one person out here?"
"I have a little girl like you." Bonnie spoke up, raising a smile as Clementine folded her arms together. She leaned down slightly with her hands placed to her knees. "How old are you, sweetie?"
"I'm eleven." Clementine answered, somehow being able to keep track of time.
"I would have thought older than that." Bonnie admitted, leaning back up to full height when Walter had returned, carrying a box full of food in his hands
"Here you are, miss." Walter smiled, handing the box of food over to her.
"This is too much." Bonnie said, feeling the weight as she accepted the box into both of her hands, but at the same time, feeling a little guiltily for taking so much. "I don't really know how to thank you."
"Don't mention it." Walter assured, only asking for one favour in return. "Just help someone else down the line."
"Thank you so much." Bonnie thanked, smiling as she thought it was time to leave now. "I'll be going now."
"You stay safe." Walter told her.
"You too." Bonnie agreed.
Before long, Bonnie had eventually left them and took the supplies back down the hill for her family she claimed to have. Clementine and Walter began to make their way back towards the ski lodge. Clementine hoped Walter had not just mad a mistake by handing out their supplies to a complete stranger.
A short while after their Christmas dinner, mostly everyone had tucked in for the night to get some sleep. The former cabin group would need it if they were to keep moving before Carver had the chance to catch up to them if he truly was following them.
Downstairs, Lee was making his way towards the stairs, but he froze for a moment and was startled by a voice that called out to him. "Lee."
Lee turned towards one of the support beams in the ski lodge to see it was Luke who had called out to him, and by the looks of it, he was hiding from something or someone. "Don't freak out." he said, beckoning for Lee to come over towards his position.
"Luke, what the hell are you doing back there?" Lee inquired whilst marching his way towards the younger man.
"Lee, I got to tell you something." Luke whispered, holding up a photo frame for him to accept. "The guy on the bridge who Nick shot was Walter's friend."
Lee accepted the photo frame and his eyes widened when seeing a photo of Walter and Matthew standing together with Walter placing his hand on his shoulder. Now they were doomed, especially if Walter found out. "Oh, shit!"
"See I knew something was off, so I asked Sarita about their friend. Now they're all worried he's not back yet." Luke explained.
"I already figured it out." Lee replied, knowing something was wrong when seeing the same food cans as before in the station. "For sure."
"Dammit...Dammit, Nick." Luke silently cursed under his breath. He knew there was going to be fallout if things get any more worse than they need to be. "I don't think Walter knows yet. So we have to keep this quiet. I mean, who knows what the hell he's do if he found out."
"Shit, man, I don't know." Lee admitted, crossing his arms together for a moment to think this through. "I think we should just tell him."
"He's gonna ask who did it. And you're gonna tell him?" Luke asked.
"It's the right thing to do." Lee told him, not wanting to keep anymore lies than he had to in the past.
"It's right to get Nick killed?" Luke clashed, the worse thoughts of his best friend dying raced around his mind if Walter was to find out. "Because that's what gonna happen."
"You don't know that." Lee replied.
"Still, I don't want to take any chances." Luke admitted, but knew there was more than they needed to do in order to keep Walter from finding out the truth. "Now, do you still have that knife you found in the station? Because if it was Matthew's and Walter sees it, he's gonna put two and two together."
Lee placed his hand into his back-pocket for a moment, but discovered he was not it his possession. "Oh, damn. I gave it to Clementine before we headed up here. It must be in her backpack."
"Okay, well, go get rid of it. And I'll find Walter and run interference." Luke planned out, but did have another request they for him too. "Oh, and, uh...keep an eye out for Nick."
At bad timing, Nick had emerged out of nowhere and began making his way over to the duo, and he saw the picture of Matthew and Walter, then there was definitely going to be chaos. "I'm right here. What's up?"
Luke quickly attempted to think of an excuse for mentioning his name while Lee stood beside him, hiding the photo frame behind his back. "Oh, uh, it's nothing, man. I just wanted to check and see if you're okay."
"You coming to tuck me in?" Nick joked with a grin across his face, and this was the first time see him smile since the death of his uncle.
"Yeah," Luke chuckled. "yeah something like that."
"We have to tell you something." Lee told Nick, unable to hold in the truth from Nick since he was a manger part of this whole incident.
"What is it?" Nick inquired, noticing the worried expressions across their faces. "Hey, if there's something going on, I want to know..."
"Nah, just...go back to bed, Nick." Luke requested.
"I'm serious. You guys can talk to me." Nick assured them, wanting to prove to the duo that he can be trustworthy.
"I know." Luke agreed, but this was technically a lie when looking back to the stupid things Nick did in the past.
"What, you don't trust me now?" Nick asked them, suspecting lack of trust due to him almost shooting Lee when they first met, and the whole incident on the bridge.
Lee held his head down for a moment, followed by a regretful and concerned sigh. He removed his hand from behind his back and offered the photo frame towards Nick.
Nick accepted the photo frame into his hand, puzzled to why he handed him a photo. His eyes widened when they met the photo inside the frame, and it was now all coming together for him. "Oh Jesus. Oh God!"
"Goddammit..." Luke sighed, getting the reaction from Nick like he suspected would happen. "Hey, Nick, shut the fuck up."
"I can't, guys. I can't." Nick refused, unable to live with the guilt of killing Walter's partner.
"Do not fucking blow it." Luke told him, sensing he was about to scream out the truth the second he saw Walter.
"Blow it?" Nick repeated, a sad and regretful expression across his face as he was shocked to what his best friend had just told him. "It's over. I have to tell him, Luke."
Luke felt like he was going to exploded if Nick was being serious about telling Walter the truth. He placed his hands to his head for a moment, at the same time, trying to convince Nick to change his mind. "What? No! You...hey Nick, you cannot do that? Are you fucking nuts?"
Lee remained silent for a moment as both men continuing arguing with one and other. He sighed and lowered his head down, feeling somewhat stupid for telling Nick the truth about Matthew.
"I got to. I can't live with that on me." Nick explained, the whole bridge incident raced around his mind again like it was haunting him.
"Okay, I hear you, but...I mean, fuck, man, do you know what's he's gonna do?" Luke inquired, only being able to imagine the worse thoughts in his mind.
"You don't know he'll do anything." Nick clashed, trying to look at the good side of this whole situation.
"Are you kidding me? Nick, you SHOT his friend." Luke reminded him, unable to know anyone who would not want vengeance for someone killing their friend.
Lee finally spoke up after he had been a silent while they were arguing, and could only think of one way to make this whole situation right. "Nick, I think you should tell him."
"Yeah. Yeah." Nick agreed, taking note of what the older man had just told him.
"Nick, I am warning you, this is fucking suicide." Luke warned.
"I'll live with it." Nick assured, but deep down, he was extremely worried to what was going to happen when Walter reacts to his partner's death.
"Jesus Christ." Luke sighed, realizing he was out of options to convince Nick to change his mind.
"Jesus. I can't handle this." Nick admitted, turning around and marching away from the duo.
Luke sighed as he prepared to follow him and attempt to talk some more sense into him, but for now, he still had that little task for Lee to be getting on with. "Lee, just...go do that thing. All right?" he finished his sentence and began following Nick through the ski lodge.
The second they were gone, Lee did not hesitate to waste any time and quickly ran towards the exit of the ski lodge where the other weapons were present. He quickly jumped down to Clementine's backpack that was unzipped for some reason, and dug his hand inside, but was shocked to see the knife was not inside. "Shit, it's gone!"
Lee stood back up full height whilst trying to figure what he was going to do next. Maybe Walter did not find the knife and Clementine merely misplaced it, or better yet, she never took it with her in the first place. He shifted his attention over towards the doors when he noticed Walter standing just outside, messing around with Matthew's knife. Now there was officially no going back.
Lee, knowing he had to do something now before it was too late, made his way outside of the ski lodge, slowly opening the glass door. When he was outside, Lee stood only a few feet behind the older man, not daring to say anything that may get him angry.
Silence seemed to fill the air for a moment or so, the wind whistled the the wind turbine spun gracefully. Lee finally spoke up after a moment of silence, hoping he could reason with him before things got out of hand. "Hey Walt...You okay...? You mind putting that knife down...?"
"...I always like this knife." Walter admitted, twirling the knife around in both of his hands whilst holding a smoked cigarette in the corner of his mouth. He pulled the knife out from it's casting, leaning down against the wooden railing. "Gave it to Matthew when all this started...I know he's dead."
"Shit!" Lee silently muttered to himself, turning away for a moment when knowing Walter knew the truth.
"Who did it?" Walter asked him, keeping his eyes focused into the distance of the woods. "Was it that kid? What's his name...Nick? I heard him talking earlier. Something about shooting a man...I could see it...I could see it on his face. Wasn't sure now, but now..." he fell silent, unsure if he could continuing speaking.
Lee knew there was no purpose in telling any lies to him and had no choice but to confess the truth of what happened to Matthew on the bridge. "...I'm not going to lie to you, Walter. It was us, Nick shot him...He didn't mean too, though, I swear..."
Walter's expression changed into a shocked one when hearing the confession from Lee. He struggled to get his words out while he took another drag of his cigarette to help calm his nerves. "Jesus. I...I don't feel good." he took another drag from his cigarette when he felt tears were beginning to fill up in his eyes. "Lee...Is...Is Nick a good man?"
His expression changed into a slightly angered one as he turned around to face Lee for a moment. "Or is he just like everyone else? Is he just one of those...those fuckers that don't give a shit about anyone but themselves?"
Lee thought about his question for a moment, obviously knowing his answer could effect Nick's relationship with Walter, and possibly Nick's fate. He had to admit Nick has done some stupid decisions in his life, but he was a good man and his heart was in the right place whenever trying to help his friends and family. "He is. He is a good man, Walter...He just makes stupid mistakes sometimes."
Walter took note of what he just told him, knowing Lee was telling him the truth. He continued smoking for a moment, unsure of what to do next.
The door to the ski lodge has opened a second time, revealing it to be Nick. His expression soon changed into a shocked one when seeing Walter, and with the knife in his hands, that told him everything he needed to know.
"He was always going out alone. I told him something like this would happen." Walter admitted, leaving the duo unsure if he was speaking to them or to himself. But he wouldn't listen. No, Matt always knew best."
"What's going on?" Nick asked Lee in a whispering tone, a hint of worry in his voice.
"You need to tell him what happened, Nick." Lee suggested.
"Tell him what?" Nick inquired, pretending like he did not know anything at all.
"You know what." Lee clashed, being able to tell he was trying to talk himself out of it, but was no use now that he told Walter everything. "What happened on the bridge."
Walter disposed of his cigarette turned around fully when seeing Nick had arrived, his expression as angry as it could get. This world is hell. People like Matthew aren't coming back. This is IT. And now he's GONE. What did you do? Did you hurt him? Hm? Did you hurt Matthew?"
"From a distance it looked like anyone." Nick explained, raising his hands in the air slightly just in case Walter did anything regrettable with his knife. "I...I thought he was going to shoot my friends. And I...I shot Matthew. But it happened real fast. I didn't, I didn't know if I hit him. But I did, and...I didn't mean to."
Walter was shocked and devastated by all this news that he just had to take in regarding the truth of his partner. "Do you know what you've done to me? Do you have any idea?"
"I didn't mean to. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry, Walter." Nick apologized, showing his full honesty that he did not mean to kill Matthew, and would go back in time if he could take it back and prevent his death.
Walter did not respond further and merely stroked his fingers against Matthew's knife. Deep down, he wanted nothing more than to make Nick pay for his actions, but he couldn't. He would never forgive him for what he did. Without saying anything further, Walter tossed the knife away in a random direction, followed by him turning around with his eyes closed, silently mourning the loss of his partner.
Before heading back inside, Lee and Nick shifted their attention towards the wind turbine, and noticed it began to spin faster than usual from the storm, causing it to make a loud noise.
The duo merely watched as they stood outside of the ski lodge when everyone except for Sarah, Rebecca, and Alvin had ran outside, coming to either investigate the noise form the wind turbine or to see what Lee, Nick and Walter were doing outside.
"Walter, what's going on?" Lilly inquired.
"Lee, what you three doing out here?" Carley asked him, placing both of her hands into her pockets.
Lilly shifted his attention towards the wind turbine and panicked when hearing it's loud noise and realizing it was going to attract unwanted attention. "It's out of control. That sound's going to draw walkers. We got to shut it down, now!"
Carlos nodded as he turned his attention to Nick, needing some assistance. "Nick, help me carry the guns."
"Guns?!" Sarita repeated, not liking this idea as she merely watched them both head inside to fetch the weapons.
Lee shifted his attention over towards Walter, who did not seem to bothered about the current situation. He kept his eyes closed whilst keeping his back turned from everyone else. He felt sympathy for him, of course, but there were bigger problems right now.
Carley and Clementine merely watched as Carlos and Nick ran as fast as they could to fetch the guns, and it only took them a matter of seconds to return. Carley accepted her Glock 17 that Nick gave back to her, knowing they were going to need her and her good aim as a marksman.
"Lee, catch." Carlos told him, tossing over a Winchester Model 17 that they were obviously going to need.
Lee caught the rifle in his hands but shifted his attention back over towards Clementine, knowing this was going to be dangerous. "Clem, I need you to stay inside with Sarah, Rebecca and Alvin."
"I can do it." Clementine assured, moving her hand into her pocket for a moment and handed him something. "Here, take my lighter. You mind need it."
"Thanks, sweat pea." he thanked, raising a smile for a moment but it soon dropped when he needed to join the others. "Okay, let's get moving!"
Lilly caught the Winchester Model 17 that Nick threw to her, preparing to head out there as soon as possible. "That thing's gonna attract walkers! Let's go!"
Everyone was armed with a weapon and made their way over to the wind turbine, except for Walter who decided to guard the ski lodge. Each of them were armed with different types of various weapons such as: Glock 17 Winchester Model 17, Beretta 92FS Inox, and one machete.
The group turned their attention towards the same direction when they heard something break, or worse, exploded.
"What the hell was that?" Luke inquired, looking off into a random direction where he suspected the noise had came from.
Lilly looked back towards the ski lodge and noticed the lights had been turned off, meaning the power was now gone. "Shit! Transformers must have gone. I need to check it. But I could use a hand."
"I'll go with you." Luke offered.
"Me, too" Sarita said.
"No. Two of us are enough. Everyone else needs to stay here and defend this place!" Lilly ordered replied, not wanting to risk anyone else getting hurt or killed for that matter. She turned back over to the others and gave them their orders. "Rest of you, get this thing shut down."
As Lilly and Luke departed, Sarita opened up the power box to the wind turbine. The remaining people watched as they could see nothing but darkness in the inside of the box, unsure of what to do next. "Does anyone know how to do this?" Carlos asked, only to shrugs from everyone in response. "Dammit."
"I can do it." Lee assured, taking out the lighter that Clementine had lent him.
"We'll watch your back." Carlos assured, raising his weapon up as he turned towards the others. "Nick, Carley, scan the trees with me."
While the others defended Lee, he turned on the lighter to see inside the power box better. He spotted the red button that must be the one to turn off the wind turbine.
"Dammit. It's too dark." Carlos admitted, just about able to see anything around the area. "We have to shut this thing down."
Lee grabbed the key from the hook inside and placed it inside the red button, followed by turning it and pushing the button.
The wind turbine slowly came to a halt, and the remaining group all looked up towards it, praying they shut it off in time before they attracted any walkers.
"Something ain't right." Nick admitted.
"Yeah." Carlos agreed.
"I don't see..." Carley trailed off as she looked into the distance, and spotted some familiar faces. "Fuck!...Company!"
Out from the woods, snarling and growling could be heard from a distance. The group watched in shock as walkers emerged from the trees; making their way over to the wind turbine. This sure was not going to end well for them.
"We don't have much ammunition." Carlos declared, raising his pistol up.
"We got to get back to the lodge." Nick suggested, realizing they were outnumbered. He quickly turned around when he heard footsteps from behind them. "They're behind us!"
The group stayed in a circle as they began to fire their weapons in different directions, shooting whatever walkers they could see in their sights. They would have to make their weapons last, otherwise they would be using them as melee weapons.
Lee turned back towards the ski lodge and panicked when two walkers were heading towards him. He aimed at the closest walker and did not hesitate to fire. The first shot he fired in between his eyes, and the second shot he fired hit the walker in the forehead
"Fuck." he cursed as he ran over towards the ski lodge, looking back over his shoulder to see Nick firing at a walker before running away. He aimed his weapon a second time when seeing at least six walkers making his way over towards him, looking for a fresh tasty meal.
He fired his remaining bullets at the six walkers, managing to kill five in the process. He attempted to fire more and finish off the last walker, but discovered his gun did not fire and rather clicked. He took a couple of steps back as the walker moved in on him.
A gunshot was suddenly fired, followed by the closet walker collapsing to the ground with a sickening thud. Lee looked back to meet his savior from death who was no other than Carlos.
"Run! Go!" Carlos ordered, suddenly jumped back when he felt a walker had grabbed onto him from behind. He narrowly cheated death and shot it, and quickly ran away before anymore of them go the jump on him, shooting a walker before leaving. "Keep moving, get to the lodge!"
Lee was about to follow him, but froze in his steps when seeing a walker had emerged from behind a bulldozer. He did not have time to wait, and without thinking, he charged towards the walker and shoved it out of it's way, knocking it to the ground. He continued charging towards the ski lodge, but froze in her tracks when he spotted Nick fighting with a walker, struggling to hold it back as he held both of it's hands to keep it from biting him. "Nick!"
"Please help me!" Nick begged, unable to told the attacking walker back any longer.
Lee was about to charge over and assist him, but his eyes met the entrance to the ski lodge when he spotted Walter merely staring towards Nick. He aimed up his Glock 17 towards Nick, but hesitated for a moment as he tried to decide if he should save him or not.
Lee could only watch and pray that Walter would not wait too long and let the walker bite him, or shoot Nick in revenge for killing his partner. A few seconds passed, and all of a sudden, the walker moved in on Nick, taking a bite from his neck. He clutched his Nick as he collapsed to the ground.
"Nick!" Lee yelled, shocked to what he had just happened. He ran towards the other members of the group and by the looks on his face, he was angry.
Carlos turned his attention towards them for a moment when noticing there was someone missing. "Where's Nick!"
"You motherfucker!" Lee yelled, punching Walter directly in his face, blacking one of his eyes in the process.
"Lee, get inside! Protect the others! Go!" Carlos ordered after seeing more walkers were approaching them in the distance. He, Carley and Walter were the only one's with examination left, and they all fired their remaining bullets towards the order of walkers.
Lee was about to leave, but remembered Carley was still out there and turned back to get her. "Carley, come on!"
"Lee, don't worry about me!" Carley assured him when he was about to run back and get her. "Go!"
Lee hesitated for a moment, but remembered he had no choice than to get back inside since he was out of ammunition, and ran back into the ski lodge. When he was inside, the ski lodge was now dark without any power, making it a little difficult to see in. He ran up towards the small living room where Clementine, Alvin, Rebecca, and Sarah were watching from the inside.
Clementine ran towards her guardian and hugged him, glad that he was okay and was not hurt. "Lee!"
"Lee! Are you okay?" Rebecca inquired with a hint of worry in her voice.
Before Lee had the chance to answer her question, gunfire was heard back outside, but it did not sound like any of the guns they owned. Instead, they all sounded like automatic rifles being fired.
"What the hell...?" Alvin wondered, running towards the window to investigate what was happening.
Lee Clementine also quickly ran towards the window to see what was going on outside.
All of the attacking walkers fell down one by one as the automatic gunfire continued to fill the air. Near the ski lodge, Carlos suddenly turned around when a walker almost sneaked behind him again, but before he could fire, someone else had beaten him to it.
The last walker collapsed, and out from the woods, four figures emerged from the woods, marching their way over to the ski lodge. Three of them were carrying Ak-47's, but the leader of the group was unarmed.
Carlos gasped slightly to see it was William Carver, who approached the group with his men following behind. Carver grinned as his soldiers surrounded the remaining group, who could not fight them without ammo, and Carlos could not take them all on with his pistol. "Howdy, folks.
The three of Carver's soldiers surrounded Carlos, Walter, Matthew, Sarita, Luke, and Pete in a circle.
Three of Carver's men did not look familiar to them. All Except for one of them, that is, whom Walter immediately recognized the second his eyes met her.
"Where's Rebecca?" Carver asked Carlos.
"Carver...!" Rebecca gasped, watching the entire thing through the window.
Carlos did not reveal her location, and instead, he spat in his face, refusing to cooperate.
"It's nice to see you, too." Carver sarcastically replied, wiping the spit off from his face. He curled his hand into a fist seconds later, and hit Carlos directly in his face, almost knocking him down.
"Dad!" Sarah panicked, immediately running towards the exit of the ski lodge.
"Sarah!" Rebecca gasped, but was not able to do anything to stop her.
"Sarah, stop!" Lee ordered, but he was not quick enough to catch up when she was already gone.
Sarah ran outside of the ski lodge, completely ignoring the danger ahead. She embraced her father in hug, and he returned to his daughter. She hid from Carver as her father kept his arm around her in a protective manner
Carver looked towards the ski lodge where Sarah had run out from and pointed his finger towards it. "Inside."
As Carver's people moved everyone inside, Walter turned towards the other soldier and was shocked to see it was someone he knew. "It's you."
Bonnie showed a sad and regretful expression on her face for a moment, but she quickly shrugged it off before any of them noticed. "Keep moving."
Inside the ski lodge, Clementine, Alvin and Rebecca slowly began to make their way upstairs. Lee gasped for a moment when Carver had made his way inside, and hid behind a couch for cover.
Bonnie whistled as she observed the inside of the ski lodge while everyone else escorted the prisoners over to the end of the room. "Look at this place."
Near the other side of the room, Alvin, whom was standing at the bottom of the stairs, gave a little signal for Lee to keep an eye on the man with the beanie hat since he was heading her way. He nodded and carefully leaned up over the couch, keeping an eye on the man he needed to spy on.
"You believe this fucking place, Bonnie?" he admitted, scanning the around the area for the rest of them. "Power and everything. A lot of windows, though. It's fucking huge. Bill's going to hate it. The rest of them could be anywhere."
While he was not looking, Alvin beckoned for Lee to make her way over here now that he had the chance. Lee quickly sneaked over towards Alvin while the man was not looking his way.
"How we going to cover these guys and look for them too?" Johnny asked, turning towards his people for a moment.
"Johnny, cover that window. " Bonnie ordered them, turning her back to Walter when he looked her way.
Back upstairs, Lee Clementine,Rebecca and Alvin kept crouched down as they silently discussed a plan. Lee peaked her head up just for a moment to see all of his friends were being forced down onto their knees, sitting in a row with their hands tied behind their backs. All except for Carlos that is. He watched in shock as Carley had also been captured, and he prayed they would not hurt her.
Now that everyone was secured, Carver carefully scanned the area for Rebecca, her being the only reason he was here. He marched back over to Carlos and grabbed him by his hair, throwing him into the middle of the room. He hit him in his stomach that knocked Carlos down onto his knees.
"Dad!" Sarah gasped, unable to do anything to assist her father.
"Listen, I'm only going to ask you once. Where's Rebecca?" Carver asked, watching as Carlos coughed a couple of times while struggling to catch his breath back.
Carlos still refused to cooperate on what he wanted to know, and looked towards his daughter, whom he could tell was dramatized by all this. "Sarah, look at me. It's going to be okay."
Carver pulled Carlos up by grabbing his hair again, and grabbed his right hand and bent his middle finger back in the quick of a flash, pulling out completely out of place. Carlos screamed in agony as he collapsed to the ground.
"Rebecca? Rebecca, our baby deserves to be raised in a place of safety." Carver called out to her as he knew she was hiding her somewhere. "I know you're out there, Rebecca. And Alvin. And Luke. And the guy. And the girl. This is real simple. You want this over quick; you all play nice and show your faces."
"Don't hurt my dad! Please!" Sarah begged, crying tears out from her eyes.
Despite Alvin being shocked by the news about the baby, he ignored it for now and got back to the situation at hand. "He'll kill him."
"No, Alvin." Rebecca replied, already knowing what he was going to do just by looking into his eyes.
"We got to go down there." Alvin suggested, showing a worried expression across his face.
"I can't do that." Rebecca refused, fearing that he would kill her husband without mercy.
"Bec...the baby...you need a doctor." Alvin reminded, needing Carlos to help deliver to the baby when it was time.
"No. Where is Luke and Lilly?" Rebecca asked, only just realizing those two were not amongst the prisoners downstairs.
"How the hell am I supposed to know?" Alvin replied.
"They're still outside." Rebecca reminded, realizing they were their only hope to get out of this. "They can help us."
"We have to help Carlos." Clementine admitted.
"She's right." Lee agreed, unable to imagine what was going to happen if they did not do something soon.
"Only way to help him is to do what the man says." Alvin explained.
"What about Luke and Lilly?" Rebecca asked, repeating her same suggestion again.
"Look at those guns." Alvin told her, noticing their automatic rifles made them powerful and dangerous to take head-on. "We start shooting and people are going to do, on both sides.
Carver grabbed another one of Carlos' fingers and without hesitation; he broke it back out of place, merely watching as Carlos cried out in agony. "ARRRRGG!"
"DAD!" Sarah cried out, not being able to watch her father suffer like this.
"Lee, Clem can sneak out. Find Luke." Rebecca suggested, noticing the nearby open window that looked big enough for Clementine to squeeze through.
"What the hell's she going to do?" Alvin asked, unsure if Clementine could assist them much due to her being only a little girl. "And you heard him. Carver knows she and Lee are with us."
"Just stop!" Sarah begged, but her pleas were no use. "Don't hurt my dad. Please."
Alvin was unable to watch his friend suffer anymore. "We're going down there."
"He'll kill you." Rebecca said, knowing how cruel Carver would be.
"Look, guys-" Lee was cut off by the sounds of Carlos' screams.
"Fuck you." Carlos swore, practically begging for anyone out there to just kill him and end this tyranny. "Shoot him! Somebody just shoot hi-"
Carver grabbed the back of Carlos' hair and pulled him back while he held his knife against his neck, preparing to end this unless Rebecca came out.
Rebecca turned her attention back towards Clementine, needing her to get Luke and Lilly right now! "Clem, go get help."
"He'll kill him, Bec!" Alvin argued.
"He'll do it anyway!" Rebecca clashed, thinking there was nothing they could do now to help him.
"You don't know that." Alvin countered.
"Say goodbye, Carlos." Carver said, preparing to slice his throat upon so he would suffer before dying.
"Don't look, sweetie." Carlos told his daughter, not wanting her to witness what was going to happen next. "Don't look."
"Dad!" Sarah stuttered slightly as she could not take her eyes away no matter how hard she tried.
Clementine looked back at both Rebecca and Alvin while they were arguing about what to do. She had to get help; otherwise Lilly and Luke might return and run into a trap. "I'll find Luke and Lilly. Stay here."
"Alright, Clem..." Lee sighed, knowing it was their only option to seek help. "Go, but be careful."
"Goddammit." Alvin sighed, fearing they had just made a huge mistake.
Carver pulled Carlos back further as he did not yet kill him, but that did not mean he was going to spare him. "You never listen." he mumbled.
Lee opened up a small window for Clementine to go through and although he did not want her to go out there on her own, he decided to help out the best he could. "Hurry Clem."
"Let's see if I can get your attention." Carver said, beginning to torture Carlos further until he coaxed Rebecca out of hiding.
Clementine jumped down out from the window and quietly began to make her way around the cabin. She peaked through one of the boarded up windows and cringed as she witnessed Carver hitting Carlos and hearing Sarah sob in sadness.
She leaned back up and carefully made her way around the ski lodge. She leaned around the corner of the building and was relived to see Lilly in some kind of booth, aiming her rifle towards the ski lodge window. Luke, however, was not present with her.
"Clementine!" Lilly called to her in a yelling whisper.
Clementine began to make her way over to her but suddenly froze when she could see the man known as Johnny had walked over to the large windows, and she quickly reacted by leaning back as much as she could.
Fortunately, he did not see her and turned back around from the window, and began complaining about the weather instead. "Goddamn it's dark. I can't see a fucking thing."
Clementine finally made it to the other side of the ski lodge, and looked back for a moment when she heard Carlos crying out in pain as Carver continued to torture him more. She quickly ran over towards Lilly, who stood up for a moment to greet her. "You alright, Clementine?"
"Where's Luke?" Clementine inquired, noticing he was not here or anywhere to be seen.
"I don't know." Lilly admitted, getting back into his sniping position. "We got separated on our way to the transformer. I thought he would be with you guys."
The two looked back over into the ski lodge when Carlos' screaming had stopped. Did Carver finally put him out of his misery? They looked inside to see Lee, Rebecca and Alvin had finally surrounded themselves to Carver, unable to be responsible for Carlos' suffering any longer.
Carver shoved Carlos to the ground and raised a grin when Rebecca had arrived, and placed his hand against her cheek.
"Fuck you, Bill!" Rebecca swore at him.
"Looks like they got everyone." Lilly admitted, stating the obvious whilst trying to figure out a plan here. "Clem, who are these people?" she aimed down her rifle, aiming at the man with the beanie hat. "I think I can shoot that one, if he just moves a little more to the left."
"I don't know. Maybe we should find Luke." Clementine suggested.
"There's no time." Lilly clashed, staring down the barrel of her rifle, preparing to open fire on them. She pulled the trigger, and with good aim, she hit Johnny directly in his forehead. "I got him."
Inside the ski lodge, Sarah screamed when hearing the gunshot, and their enemies watched in shook for a moment when seeing one of their own die. In anger, Carver marched his way over to their group of hostages and forced Walter up onto his feet, placing his arm around his neck and forcing him over towards the window.
He shoved Walter to the floor and pulled out his python, preparing to murder him. Walter, knowing it was his end, eyed the photo frame near him that was a picture of him and Matthew together long ago. He leaned up for a moment, but collapsed onto the ground when Carver had shot him directly in the back of his skull, avenging him for the death of his soldier.
"No!" Carlos screamed.
"Walter!" Lilly gasped, shocked to what she had just done that caused the death of the man who helped her survive. She growled and aimed her gun a second time, but was unable to get Carver in her sights.
Carver took cover behind one of the wooden support beams with his python holstered, calling out to Lilly as he prepared to fire just in case. "That's for our man. Now, I didn't want to do this, but you ain't leaving me much choice. So here's what's going to happen. I'm going to march another one of your friends out here and I'm going to put a bullet in the back of their head. Or you can give up now. Your choice."
The only response Carver got was another shot from Lilly that hit the wooden support beam he was taking cover behind.
"Bastard!" Lilly growled, cocking her rifle back and firing another shot that hit the same support beam again.
Carver merely flinched a little in response as he made his way over to the other prisoners, preparing to take one more of them hostage in an attempt to coax them out from hiding.
Clementine realized she was not going to be able to get another shot from his position, and she spotted another covering position they could use. "Lilly, over there!"
The two ran over to where Clementine was pointing and jumped into the small circle that was surrounded by a metal fence for cover.
"Hi, Alvin." Carver greeted, forcing Alvin to stand onto his feet as he marched him over towards the window.
"Bill, no!" Rebecca begged, attempting to stop him from using her husband as a hostage, but was held back by Troy. "Tell her to stop. Lilly, stop!"
"Alvin!" Clementine gasped, seeing Carver force Alvin over towards the window where Johnny had been shot; unaware that Lilly had changed her sniper position.
"Dammit. It's a tough shot." Lilly admitted, trying to get a good aim on him without hitting Alvin. She asked Clementine for advice since she was quite smart in situations like this. "What do you think?...CLEMENTINE? I think I got a shot!"
"Shoot!" Clementine ordered, suspecting this may be their only hope to save everyone, especially Lee.
Lilly closed her eye and fired a single shot, and as luck would have it, she managed to hit Carver, and he collapsed down onto the ground. There was silence for a moment as the prisoners merely watched while Bonnie and Troy watched in shock of their leader's possible death. All of a sudden, Carver's eyes had widened open and he stood back up, holding his free hand against his right should where Lilly had managed to hit him.
Lilly panicked when she saw him stand back up and attempted to finish him off, but her gun did not fire. She quickly tried to reload before Carver took anyone else hostage that may cost her dearly.
Carver clutched his shoulder and without hesitation, he fired his python, hitting Alvin directly in his forehead. His expression did not show any remorse for killing him, and instead, he marched back over towards the prisoners to continue his work.
"NO! ALVIN!" Rebecca screamed, crying heavily as she fell down onto her knees.
"Alvin!" Carlos gasped, unable to imagine how Rebecca was feeling right now. "Rebecca. Don't look. Just don't look, Rebecca...Oh my God. Oh my God."
The next victim to be taken hostage was Carley. Carver forced her up and marched her over towards the window now that he knew where Lilly was hiding.
"Don't you fucking touch her!" Lee shouted at the top of his lungs, trying to get up and attack him, but Bonnie forced him back down.
Carver stopped when he was close enough to the window, and held Carley at gunpoint. "I can keep this up all night!"
Lilly's expression changed when seeing Carver had taken Carley hostage, and for the sake of Lee, she finally decided it was time to give up, realizing there was nothing more she could do to have them. She had only just earned Lee's trust back, and to get responsible for Carley's death may break that trust forever.
"We're coming out!" she declared, tossing his rifle aside and moving out from her sniper position.
The duo surrounded and walked towards the ski lodge entrance where Bonnie was waiting for them. She kicked the door opened and aimed her AK-47 at them. "Let's go."
Clementine and Lilly were tied up and forced down onto their knees with the rest of the group. Now that they were captured and were unable to do anything, Carver was still smart enough to notice someone was missing.
"Where's Luke?" Carver inquired, pacing up and down with his hands placed to his hips. He did not get an answer from anyone, and assumed he had run away. "Finally cut and run, huh? Why am I not surprised? I warned you. I wanted you not to follow him. And look where he has led you. ..But you're safe now. We're going home. As a family." he continued speaking whilst marching towards Rebecca whom was still crying over the death of her husband.
Carver walked over to the exit of the ski lodge while the remaining survivors gazed upon. He ordered his people to take them with him. "Alright. Round them up. We're heading back to camp."
Each of the prisoners were forced onto their feet, one-by-one whilst being held at gun point. Lee was the last one to still be there. He watched in sadness for a moment before Bonnie forced him onto his feet, placing him with the others as they began escort everyone back to their camp.
The end of Episode 2. I apologize if this was a little late, I got busy, but I'm back now and Episode 3 will be here very, very soon. Nick and Alvin are dead, and the rest of their group are being forced back to Carver's community. Stay tuned for the next chapter.
Assassin's Creed Master out.