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A/N Here is another installment. I may not be able to write again for a couple weeks however since I am going on vacation tomorrow and won't be back until the 25th of August. Pray for me to have safe travels and a fun time please. God bless you all and thanks for the reviews, favorites and follows. They really mean a lot.


"It's done!" Kenny shouted

"What's done?" Asked Lee.

"The RV I got it running." Came the reply.

"Wait, for real?"

"Yes for real…. Heh that sounded kind of urban for you Lee."

"And what's that supposed to mean?"

"Ah don't mind me I'm Floridian."

"Anyway you sure the RV is running."

"Yup now all you got to do is convince Carly and Doug to come and we could be at the coast in no time."

At this point Lee's enthusiasm dropped to nil. What he had feared had become a reality. Kenny was not planning on taking everybody. Lee rolled his eyes and focused on hammering the fence though he had no hammer so his axe would have to suffice.

"Are you listening man?"

"Yup just focused on working right now." Lee replied hoping Kenny would end it there.

"Didn't you hear me though; we won't have to work on this wall no more."

"Hey what are you two jabbering on about?" Asked Larry from behind.

It was one of the very rare occasions that Lee was actually glad him.

"Nothing that concerns you old man." Replied Kenny

"Anything that involves this group concerns me."

"Well maybe we won't be apar…"

"Kenny!" Lee shouted interrupting what he knew Kenny was about to blurt out.

"What was that?!" Larry questioned.

"Nothing" Lee replied.

"I wasn't asking you."

"It was nothing." Kenny said.

Larry looked angrily at the two but in the end let the matter drop.

"We've got the stuff from the rooms to board up the hotel room. If you guys are done talking about "nothing" then maybe you could give us a hand."

Lee and Kenny walked over to assist the others at lifting the furniture. It had been 4 days since the bandits' initial strike. There had been two more attacks since then and it was a God given miracle that no one had been killed or even injured.

Lee grunted as he and Kenny struggled to move the bookshelf to the left side of the wall. Ever since the first attack they had been moving any furniture that was not currently being used to board up the wall and strengthen their defenses. It was not an easy task. Last time Lee had nearly lost his head to a bullet while trying to fortify the wall.

Lilly sat on watch, eyes constantly on the forest in front of the motor inn.

"You idiot!" Shouted Larry

Lee looked over to see Doug had dropped the table on Larry's foot.

"Sorry man my grip slipped." Doug tried to explain.

"Oh something's about to slip all right!" Larry screamed.

"You two done?" Lee asked as he and Kenny placed the bookshelf on the right side of the wall.

"Don't get me started Lee!" Larry shouted back.

Lee looked up at Lilly. She usually tried to calm her dad down at times like these, but she seemed too focused on making sure they got no surprises as they placed cover around the motor inn.

"Anyway shouldn't those two kids be helping us move this crap!?" Larry yelled.

"Yeah Lee where is Travis?" Asked Kenny

"How should I know?" Came the reply

"Well you two been pretty good friends ever since he got here." Kenny said.

"Ah forget it!" Shouted Larry "I'll find them myself"


"You did what!?"

"Keep your voice down." Ben told his friend. "Yes I gave some medicine to the bandits but not much."

"Are you out of your mind!?" Travis shouted back. "We'll get thrown out or worse….. Wait."

Travis took off his Stone Mountain jacket and threw it over his back. "There we go, now they won't associate me with you."

"Come on Travis be serious." Ben stated

"Oh I am serious; they take stock three times a week. They're gonna know when some of their supplies just up and walk away."

"No they won't I didn't take it from the main inventory." Ben replied.

"Wait, then where did you get it from?"

Ben swallowed hard and looked around just to make sure no one was nearby.

"From Lilly's stash."

"Whattttttttttttt!" "That's it, I don't know you."

"Come on Travis."

"No, there will be no coming on. You would have had a better chance stealing from the group but from her?! She'll string you up on the lamppost and if she doesn't her dad will."

Ben placed his hand over Travis' mouth.

"SHHHHHH" He said "Not so loud."

"Hey you two!" An angry voice called from behind.

Ben turned to see Larry standing just a few feet away from them.

"I can explain!" He immediately shouted.

"No, please don't. Listen I don't know whatever thing you two got going on back here and in truth I don't wanna know, but you two need to move those lazy bums of yours and help us fortify this place!"

Larry walked off leaving just Ben and Travis.

Travis pulled away from Ben and put his Stone Mountain jacket back on.

"Listen Travis they said they have some of our friends back there. If I give them enough medicine they'll return them." Ben said

"You really are gullible aren't you Ben? They made that up!"

"How do you know that? We never found out who made it out other than you me and Mr. Parker."

"Because their bandits Ben. If they took anyone prisoner they would be dead by now. They would have no reason to keep them alive. Now you're gonna stop giving them stuff before this gets out of hand."

Ben looked down at the ground. He now realized Travis was right. There was no way the bandits were keeping any of his friend's hostage. However he also knew that stopping now wasn't an option.

"I can't stop." He replied

"Why not?"

"If I do they may attack the camp again."

"That's nothing new." Travis stated.

"Hey boys!" Larry's voice once again interrupted their conversation.

"I don't think I made myself clear last time. Get those bums to the front of the motor inn or Mark won't be the only one here who needs crutches!"

Ben turned to Travis, who still bore the same worried look. Ben wanted to further explain the situation but he was about 90% sure that Larry wasn't bluffing.


"You made up your mind yet?" Kenny asked Lee.

"About what?" He replied.

"When it comes to getting out of Macon. I bet you're in the "Let's stay put camp" since I've been pushing everyone to leave."

Lee focused on the road ahead. He had been avoiding this question since Kenny informed him that the RV was finished just two days prior. He had remained neutral through Kenny and Lilly's arguments about staying or leaving. However now he couldn't stay as Kenny put it "On the fence".

"Kenny in truth leaving sounds great but we have no idea what's out there." He said.

"I know what's out there." Kenny replied. "A boat with our names on it and freedom from... all this."

"How do you know we'd even find a boat?" Asked Lee.

"Please with almost everyone turning into those things. I'm sure there were more than a few people who left their boats at the dock when they fled."

Lee checked the tools store though he knew that place had been raided pretty early on.

"Kenny we got food now, medicine, and most of all we got a roof over our heads. I'm sure that's better than most people have nowadays."

"We only got food because I didn't pay attention to you and took it from that station wagon. Speaking of which you know Lee I haven't seen you eat any of the food from that station wagon."

Lee took a deep sigh. In truth Lee had not once eaten anything that came from what his group had stolen. He at first would claim he wasn't hungry. When that wore off he simply found other things to do during meal times. Whether it was fixing the wall or on watch or even scavenging for supplies. He survived on whatever food he found while scavenging. Well that and the food Lilly gave him which was initially from the rations the group had before they robbed the car.

"We have to go through this again?" Lee asked.

"Oh I'm sorry sir." Kenny replied. "Would eating that food be too low for someone of your prestige?"

"Look I'm Lee." Kenny said in a mocking voice. "I'm so good I saved a guy from a meat locker who wants to rip my guts out and I won't eat any food from a trailer that was sitting abandoned on the side of the road!"

Lee slowed his pace slightly. What Kenny said had struck a nerve of some kind.

"You have to bring up Larry again? In this situation?"

"Yes I do Lee, because you could have gotten us killed in there. Just like you could have gotten us killed with that stupid suggestion to leave the food in that station wagon. I mean what if Larry had turned? What if we hadn't raided that car?"

"What if!? What if!?" Lee shouted back. "You want a what if Kenny? Alright what if Duck had been bitten back in the Pharmacy?"

"He wasn't" Kenny retorted.

"What if the St. John's had killed Katjaa before we escaped that meat locker?"

"They didn't!"

"And what if someone was actually coming back to that car in the woods and because of what we did they died of starvation."

At this Kenny went silent. Lee felt sorry for him. He knew that Kenny was still holding on to a lot of guilt. Though he tried to hide it Kenny felt guilty for attempting to kill Larry in the meat locker. He even felt guilty for stealing the supplies from the station wagon and He especially felt guilty about what had happened to Shawn Greene.

"My point is." Lee said in a much calmer voice. "You can't live your life based on what if's…. and you can't justify your actions on them either."

Kenny appeared angry but Lee detected a hint of sadness in his eyes.

"Now come on. Let's get these meds before any walkers decided to jump in on our conversation."


Lee put his hands over his face. They had been able to recover a lot of supplies but that did not stop Kenny and Lilly from giving him an earful. What made things worse was that the whole group had gotten in on it. Even Doug gave his two cents.

Lee walked out near where Clementine was playing with chalk. At least she always seemed calm. He looked around and noticed Duck was nowhere to be found.

Strange He thought

"Things are coming to a head." A familiar voice said from behind.

Lee turned to see Carly.

"You could say that." He replied.

"Well I think you did good today and I find myself thinking that most days." Carly said.

"Thanks" Lee replied.

"Um Lee can we talk?"

"We are talking."

"I mean in private." She replied.

"Lee you got a second?" Asked another voice from behind.

Lee turned around to see Lilly had poked her head out her room door.

Lee looked to Lilly and then back at Carly.

"uhhhhhh" was all that came out.

"It's okay" Carly said. "Come find me after."

Lee watched as Carly headed up the stairs to the balcony. He then turned around and headed toward Lilly's room.

Upon entering he noticed Lilly was sitting on the bed massaging her temples.

"That was something huh?" Lee asked.

"He pressed in much harder this time." She replied.

Lee took a seat on the chair in front of Lilly's bed.

"So what did you want to talk about?"

Lilly looked him straight in the eye which told him the matter was serious.

"What I'm about to tell you cannot leave this room. Not yet anyway." She said.

Lee gulped as the words left her mouth. The situation suddenly felt tense.

"There is a thief among us." She said.

"What are you talking about?"

"Someone's been stealing our medical supplies."

"No they haven't the inventory shows we have just as much as expected." Lee stated.

Lilly's eyes moved away from him for a moment which made Lee realize she knew something he didn't.

"I keep my own." She said finally.

"What?"

"I keep my own stock of supplies just in case we run out."

"You kept your own supply a secret from the group?" Lee asked.

"I know how it sounds but it's so we don't run out. We should always keep items in reserve just in case." Lilly replied.

"Just in case your father runs out of nitroglycerine pills?"

Lilly's eyes averted him again.

"What's that got to do with anything?" She asked.

"Everything! The reason you don't want to leave is because you're worried about him."

"That's not true. We have a good set up here and we got food now. We have no reason to leave." She said.

"We have plenty reason to leave. Those bandits in the woods alone could be reason enough to get out of here."

"What are you on Kenny's side now?" She asked.

"There are no sides. And no I don't think we should leave either."

"Then why are we even having this conversation?"

"Because you need to be honest with yourself and with the group." Lee stated.

Lilly bit her lip and once again was trying to avoid eye contact with him.

Finally she put her head down and looked at the floor.

"What if something happens and we lose everything? I almost lost my dad in that meat locker Lee. I'm not going to take the risk of losing him again."

"We all take risk every day. Keeping your dad here won't guarantee his safety." Lee said.

Lilly didn't respond. She simply kept staring at the ground.

Lee got up to leave and only then did she direct her attention to him.

"Where are you going?"

"To see if I can track down those stolen supplies." He replied.

"Personally though I hope you're wrong on this one"

Lilly looked back at the ground.

"So do I."


Carly watched as Lee exited the motel room. He had been in there longer than expected but she assumed Lilly had an important reason for wanting to speak with him. She watched as he walked up the steps and walked up to her on the balcony.

"So what did Lilly want?" She asked.

"She thinks someone is stealing supplies. I'm gonna look into it." He replied.

"Thanks for doing that."

The two shared a somewhat awkward silence for a moment. "What I wanted to say was I've been thinking a lot, about you."

Carly felt her insides turn upside down as the words left her mouth.

"I think about you too." Came the reply.

Carly smiled.

"Well our group is small."

"You're small."

She leaned against the railing and looked down at the motel.

"You're a convicted killer." She said.

Lee gasped "Carly?"

"I think it's time the group knew." She stated.

"What are you talking about?" He asked.

"Not because you're a bad man or because they have a right to know. I actually think the opposite of those two things. However every time Larry gets mad at you I can't help but think he's gonna shout it out for all to hear. Better if they hear it from you."

Lee seemed in deep thought. However Carly knew this was for the best. If Lee was open about what he had done then Larry wouldn't have anything to use against him.

"I'll do it." He said.

Carly smiled. Suddenly she was hit by an array of emotion towards Lee. She moved closer and got on her tip toes so she could give him a kiss on the cheek. She held back from aiming for his lips.

"Don't call me small" she whispered in his ear.

He seemed surprised and happy at the same time.

"Is there anything else you need to talk about before you do this Lee?" She asked.

"Not now I'll come back after I've told them." He replied.

Lee headed down the stairs as Carly couldn't seem to take her eyes off him. When she finally did however she looked over to where Doug was working on the wall. He was staring at her and even from this distance she could see the sadness in his eyes.

This is gonna be hard she thought to herself


*Bang* *Bang* *Bang*

Lilly let loose as many bullets as she could. It had all happened so fast. Lee had shown her the bag of stolen meds and then the bandits had attacked. At this point it seemed like an endless flow of them were emerging from the forest and invading their home.

Lilly ducked behind the wall to reload. As she did she saw her father hiding behind a red dumpster. Behind him were Clementine, Duck and Katjaa. She was about to assist them when she saw Lee shoot both bandits nearby. He then signaled for them to come to the RV. Clementine made it safely but Katjaa and Duck were attacked by a walker.

Lilly aimed down the sites but couldn't get a shot which she was sure wouldn't hit either Katjaa or Duck. Just then however Larry appeared behind the walker and smashed it's head against the same bookshelf that Katjaa had fallen on.

"Lilly, get in the RV!" Lee called from below.

She looked across the motor inn. Bandits were still coming from the woods and more walkers could be seen approaching from the horizon.

"Lilly! Last Chance! Get down here!" Lee called again.

"Crap!" Lilly shouted as she ran down and jumped in the RV.

Kenny immediately floored it once she was in… or slightly before she got in. She wasn't sure.

Once inside however she realized what had just happened. It was all gone. The motor inn, the food, the medicine! Everything was gone….. and someone who was on this RV was responsible.


A/N Thanks for all who made it to the end. If you have been following from chapter 1 you may realize I am trying to show the differences people like Larry and Travis make because they are alive. Larry stopped the walker from biting Duck which is kind of ironic seeing as Kenny was the one who wanted to kill Larry. Thank you all for reading and God bless