Disclaimer: These characters belong to the Walking Dead game which is the property of Robert Kirkmen and Telltale games.


"So when were you going to tell us about the radio?" Asked Christa once they were settled inside.

"Tell you what?" Replied Kenny.

"That it's working?"

"I was gonna tell you eventually. Kenny and I just found out yesterday." Replied Lee

"So you were both keeping it from the rest of us." Christa stated

"I'm not surprised," Said a voice from behind Christa. "These two love keeping secrets."

It was Lilly.

"Now come on!" Kenny exclaimed. "Who cares about the radio? I'm more concerned with who's ringing that bell."

"What makes you think they're not the same person?" Asked Christa

"Cause that doesn't make a lick of sense. Why ring the bell and then warn us to get off the street?" Kenny replied

"What makes sense nowadays?" Lilly added.

"She's right; this guy's watching us from afar but doesn't want us to know who he is? I can't think of a good reason for that. Can you?"

She posed the question at Lee but it was Kenny who answered.

"I think we all just need to get our heads together and think things through. This place seems pretty secure."

"I'll feel better when we know that for sure." Christa said.

"Me too" said Lilly.

"You know what that's a great idea." Kenny stated. "Let me Lee and Ben take the upstairs and you three take down here. Come on Lee."

Lee nodded and the three hurriedly headed up the stairs. Kenny had no desire to continue that conversation. The way those two had ganged up on him and Lee. He could handle one Lilly, but two?

As Ben and Lee went to check the rooms Kenny thought to himself what would happen if those two became a united front…..

His worse dream had become a reality.


"I'm sorry but there isn't much more I can do." Katjaa said as she looked over Omid's injury.

"That's all right, thanks for cleaning it up." Replied Omid.

"Anything I can do to help?" Asked Duck.

"Not right now Duck, why don't you go find Clementine." His mother told him

Duck rushed to do so and found his friend in the Kitchen.

"What ya doing Clementine?" He asked

"Nothing." She replied. "Carley told me to stay put until the house was searched."

"Oh well…." Duck started before noticing a large bag on the kitchen counter.

"What's that?" He asked.

"Huh? Oh that's dog food." The young girl replied.

"All right!" he shouted as he grabbed the bag and opened its contents

"What are you doing?" Clementine asked him

"I've always wanted to know what this stuff taste like." He replied. Grabbing a handful he placed it in his mouth and begun chewing.

"Eww gross…." Clementine commented.

"Actually not bad" Duck replied in between chomps. "A little salty maybe."

"I should have known." Said a voice from behind.

Duck looked back to see Lee with a half-smile on his face

"Want some?" He offered.

Lee chuckled slightly. "Hope I'm never at a point where I accept that offer."

He walked past Duck and kneeled over Clementine. "Christa tells me you didn't say anything about the guy on the radio." He said.

Clementine looked as though she was on a witness stand. She tilted her head and was trying to avoid I contact.

"Don't worry Clem, you're not in trouble." He assured her.

Clementine looked up at him. "He's just a friend. I think he wants to help me find my parents." She replied finally.

"Clem I dou…" Lee began before he grabbed his nose.

"What is that stench?" he asked.

"It wasn't me" Duck protested.

Duck caught the odor as well. He first checked the dog food. That wasn't it. He then checked under his arm. Nope not it either. He then realized that the smell had originated from behind him.

"Hey Lee." Ben said as he passed by with the body of a boy about Duck's age cradled in between his arms.

"Ben what the hell is that?" Asked Lee

"Kenny and I found this body in the Attic. He said I should bury him but I was wondering….?"

"Yeah I'll take care of it." Lee replied

Duck watched as the boy was passed from Ben to Lee. A sad feeling suddenly rushed him. The kid looked so scrawny like he had starved to death. Maybe if they had arrived earlier they could have saved him. He would have loved to have another kid to play with. Especially a boy. He enjoyed hanging out with Clementine, but she never wanted to do any guy things, like practice fighting or tell scary stories.

He bet that kid would have wanted to.

"Who are you?!" Duck heard Lee scream "What do you want from us?"

The group ran outside and Duck followed. Christa, Lee and Ben were already talking by the time he reached.

"What was that about?" His father asked.

"Lee saw someone watching us from beyond the fence." Ben replied.

"That does it! We need to go find a boat and get out of here now." Kenny stated

"I don't think Omid is well enough to walk yet?" Said Christa

"Well he better get well enough because when I find one that's seaworthy we're leaving." Kenny replied

"And just screw everyone who can't go huh? You'll never change." Said Lilly who was standing next to Christa.

"You know what I've just abo…"

"Enough!" Lee shouted cutting off Kenny's statement. "Kenny you, me, and Travis can head down to the dock while everyone else gets some rest till we find a boat."

"Can I come?" Clementine asked. "My parents can't be far from here, we could check by the river."

"Sorry Clem best we focus on a boat for now and searching later." Lee replied

"Okay" She said but Duck knew she wasn't satisfied with just staying put.


"How is such a small guy so heavy." Said Ben as he and Doug lifted Omid up the stairs. "Just shut up and get him to the bed." Christa said from behind.

"Duck!" Katjaa called before joining them. "Don't go outside okay?"

Duck nodded. He had no intention of going to the backyard where that kid had just been buried. Plus there was still a full bag of dog food on the kitchen counter with his name on it.

He looked around to make sure no one was nearby. Just as he reached into the bag however he heard a slight creaking sound next to him.

Turning to the backdoor he saw Clementine sneaking out.

"Where you….." he started before she turned around and shushed him.

He walked closer as he realized this was top secret information.

"I'm going to look for my parents. Wanna come?" She asked.

Duck turned around and looked at the living room. Carley was admiring the art while Mark had replaced Omid on the couch. Larry had gone upstairs to take a nap and Lilly was….. Actually he wasn't sure where Lilly was.

"Mom told me not to go outside." He replied after making sure they were alone.

"O come on Duck. Aren't you still Robin?" She asked.

Duck struck a heroic pose. "Of course I am."

"And Robin always accompanies batman right?"

"Of course he does."

"So let's go." She said.

"But mom sai….." Duck began before the little girl grabbed his arm and practically dragged him out the backdoor.


"Are you sure you know where you're going?" Duck asked.

"Don't worry, Lee showed me a map. We just gotta head down East bay street and the Marsh house should be a few blocks from there."

"Where's East bay street?" He asked.

Clementine paused. To be honest she didn't know. None of the signs they had passed so far had matched the names she had seen on the map. But she couldn't give up looking for her parents. She just couldn't.

"It should be right up there" She lied hoping that would satisfy Duck's curiosity.

"Okay jus….." He said before the two heard a loud gonging sound. It was another church bell.

"Where's that coming from?" Clementine asked.

"Get down!" Duck shouted as he yanked her behind a nearby car. Across from them Walkers came from nowhere but they seemed to not notice the two children. Instead the whole lot headed for where the bell was ringing.

"Clementine we should head back." Duck told her.

She was beginning to like the idea. The walkers blocked any path forward at the moment.

"All right Du…." She agreed but the boy wasn't listening to her.

"Hey look" he said while pointing above.

Clementine tilted her head upward to see a street sign. One sign read Lincoln while the other read.. "East bay." She nearly shouted before remembering the horde of walkers nearby.

"That ways blocked though." Said Duck. "Come on let's take Lincoln and see if we can go around."

Clementine nodded and the two children headed down the road.

Looking at her friend she noticed he was constantly checking the area around them. She smiled as she remembered what had happened back at the abandoned station. For all his faults, Duck always seemed to be aware of his surroundings. He just never seemed to pay much attention to them.

Suddenly she heard scuffling in front of them.

"Hold on." Duck said.

The boy went into a crouch and she mimicked his behavior. The sounds continued as the children got closer to the river.

As Clementine cleared peered around the corner she saw someone in an orange hoodie with a raised weapon on top of Lee!

"No….. please don't hurt him!" she shouted at the top of her lungs.

The person turned around and slowly rose off of Lee.

"Clementine what are you doing here?" He asked.

"You guys aren't from Crawford." Said the person behind him.

Lee turned around as the individual removed the mask and hoodie revealing a young woman.

Clementine looked to her left and noticed what appeared to be an unconscious Travis.

"Uhhhhhh….." He groaned.

"You okay man?" Asked Lee as he went to help the teen up.

"Just…. Peachy considering I was hammered with a monkey wrench." He replied.

"Dad no!" Duck shouted causing Clementine to turn where he was facing.

Kenny was standing behind the stranger with a gun pointed directly at her head.

Almost instantly she spun and grabbed his right leg in between her own causing him to fall flat on his back.

"No wait, he's my dad!" Shouted Duck when he noticed she was about to deal a killing blow.

She eased up and placed her weapon on her back. "Who are you people?" She asked.

"First things first." Said Lee "Clementine what are you doing here?" he asked

The young girl froze. She knew he was angry at her disobedience. The fact that he was already mad about her conversations with the stranger didn't help.

"Um…. Well…. It was Duck's idea." She lied. Sorry Duck

"What!?" Both Lee and Duck exclaimed.

"Duck!? When I tell you to stay put I mean it!" Kenny shouted at his son.

"Hold on Kenny" Said Lee. He kneeled down and looked Clementine right in the eyes. "Was it really his idea?" He asked calmly.

"Well…. Uh….." She stuttered.

"No, she's right it was my idea to come. I wanted to help." Duck intervened.

Clementine breathed a sigh of relief. Though she didn't understand why he would take the fall for this one.

"We don't need any help!" Shouted Kenny.

"Please, if these two hadn't shown up I would have mushed your friend's brain into pudding." Said the girl.

"That's debatable" Replied Lee.

"hmm… so anyway who are you people?" She asked. "You're not from Crawford, that's for sure."

"What's Crawford?" Asked Lee.

She turned and pointed to the vast amount of walkers piled up on the street. "That's Crawford."

Clementine shivered as she notice not all of those bodies were dead in a sense. There were live walkers mounted on pikes.

"What are they?" Asked Kenny "How'd you know we weren't them?"

Molly turned to the children. "Because there are no kids at Crawford."

"Why?" Asked Travis.

"You sure you want to know?"

The boy nodded his head.

"When the dead started to rise a group of people got it in their heads to fortify that area of town. Let's just say they had a… strict survival strategy. This strategy included no children, no elderly, and no one with an advanced medical condition. As far as they were concerned these people were just more mouths to feed. Another burden on the community."

"What did they do with those burdens?" Asked Lee

"You met some of them already." She said as she gestured toward the pile.

"Names Molly by the way." She added

"I told you Lee. We need to get out of here as fast as possible. We gotta find a boat an…."

"A boat? Good luck with that." Molly stated cutting off Kenny midsentence. "Anyone who had a boat took it at the beginning of all this. Any boats left Crawford stripped for parts."

"There has to be one they missed." Said Kenny.

"If there was do you think I'd still be here?" Molly asked. "I've been through this whole town and I'm telling you right now it's been stripped clean."

At this point Kenny lost it. He began to shout all sorts of obscenities right in front of them.

"Hey Moron? You wanna keep your voice down." Said Molly

Kenny took a deep breath and went silent. "Listen wherever you guys came from you sho….." She started to say before something behind them caught her attention.

Clementine turned around to see a group of walkers heading for them.

"Great that's just great." Molly said from behind her.

"Isn't that…." Kenny began "...The way we came" Lee finished.

"Isn't there another way?" Asked Clementine.

"Molly is the…." Lee asked, but she was long gone.

The group followed her into an alleyway. Using some form of acrobatics she was able to scale a wall and jump onto the fire escape above.

"Molly what are you doing?!" Lee screamed

"I tell you what I'm not doing." She replied "I'm not getting eaten."

"What about us?" Asked Kenny.

"What about you?" She asked back.

"Please" Pleaded Clementine. "You can't just leave us."

Molly looked directly in her eyes and Clementine looked back.

She leaned over the railing and reach her hand out to them.

"Come on," She said. "Make it fast."

Clementine was the first to go. Followed by Duck, then Travis, and then Kenny, who once reaching up turned around and extended his hand out to Lee.

One good jump and Kenny grabbed Lee's hand, but as he tried to pull him up his grip slipped and Lee fell on the concrete floor.

"No Lee!" Clementine yelled.

He scrambled up and ran away from the walkers. However as he pushed a dumpster which was impeding his path Clementine noticed another group of the dead coming from the other side.

Running out of options Lee began to try and open the sewer lid, but it refused to budge.

"Here use this to pry it open" Molly called as she threw him her ice tool.

He used it to unlock the sewer and then disappeared inside.

"Leeeeeeeee!" Called Clementine as the walkers quickly moved around the open hole. One or two may have actually fell inside.

"Come on he'll be fine" Kenny said as they headed inside the apartments.

Once inside Clementine saw that the room was nearly empty, other than misplaced furniture.

"See what I mean?" Said Molly. "They stripped this whole town clean."

"You know how to get back onto the main road?" Kenny asked.

"Sure just follow me." She replied.

Molly went ahead but as she neared the door Travis walked in front of her.

"Allow me." He said as he opened the door.

Molly gave a light chuckle. "What a Gentleman." She said as she walked past.

Clementine headed for the open door though Kenny stopped just in front of them.

"Seriously Travis?" he said

"What?" Travis replied "Just being a gentleman."


"Oh Duck!" Katjaa exclaimed "Thank God you're okay."

She knelt down and gave him a hug.

"Don't you ever do that again!" She shouted as she squeezed the boy.

"I'm sorry mom." He replied "I jus…."

"Duck go to your room!" Shouted Kenny.

The boy turned around to face him.

"My room?" He asked.

Kenny realized they had yet to designate rooms in this house.

"Just go upstairs to the first empty room and sit there. Your mom will be up shortly." He said.

Duck obeyed almost immediately.

"So um…. Molly maybe I should show you around." Said Travis from behind.

"Might as well." She said.

The two walked ahead of Kenny. Who could only roll his eyes.

"How the hell did you let Duck get out of the house?" He asked Katjaa.

"Excuse me?"

"You let our son walk out into the streets of Savannah with a little girl!"

"I didn't let him do anything Ken. Listen Omid got worse so we had to bring him upstairs. I just came down a few minutes ago after tending to his leg. I was about to go out searching for him when you showed up." Katjaa replied.

Kenny felt his anger slipping away. "All right hun, sorry about that." He said

"It's okay, I understand."

Kenny watched as Carley, Doug and Lilly came up behind Katjaa.

"So did you guys find a boat?" Carley asked

"Not now Carley." Kenny replied

"So I guess that's a no" Lilly added.

"I said not now!" He snapped back.

This caused a sudden silence around him but he didn't care. There was no boat, no way out of this town and no plan.

"Wait, where's Lee?" asked Doug.

"What? He ain't back yet?" Kenny replied

"Wasn't he with you?" Carley asked.

"We got separated when the dead showed up."

"Let me guess, you just left him behind?" Lilly accused

"We couldn't get to him, but I'm sure he's fine." Kenny replied.

"We have to go look for him." Lilly stated.

"What?" Asked Kenny "No he'll be here, just give him some time."

"We should gather a few of the others. Travis maybe Ben and search the town." Carley said while ignoring Kenny's statement.

"All right we leave in 10 minutes." Said Lilly.

"Are you guys eve….. You know what I don't care what you do." Kenny said as he walked past the group.

In the dining room he found two bottles of unopened whiskey. He looked back at the three who were still going over search plans. He rolled his eyes and picked up a bottle.

"Now's as good a time as any I guess."


"All right everyone ready?" asked Lilly.

"Ready." Travis replied.

He had agreed to go back out and look for Lee. With him were Lilly, Carley, and Doug. They had asked Ben but he thought it best to stay in case something went wrong with Omid.

Travis of course knew this to mean he simply didn't want to go.

"All right let's go." Lilly said, but as the words came out the door behind her flew open.

"Lee!" shouted Carley

"You're okay!" Shouted Lilly.

The two woman suddenly charged at him, but both stopped short as they noticed the other.

"Uh… yeah I'm fine" he said.

"Who's the fossil?" asked Molly who was checking the kitchen counters.

Travis hadn't noticed the old man which was standing next to Lee.

"I'm Vernon. I'm a doctor."

"A doctor!?" exclaimed Christa from across the house.

"Please come check on my boyfriend, his leg's pretty bad." She begged.

"All right, calm down lady." Replied Vernon as he accompanied her up leaving just the six of them in the room.

"I believe you have something of mine." Molly said to Lee. He handed her the ice tool and thanked her for allowing him to use it.

As he did however Travis noticed that the two held eye contact just a tad bit longer then needed.

"So where'd you find the doctor?" asked Doug.

"In a sewer." He replied

"Sorry I asked."

"Well good to have you back." Doug said as he went to the living room. Carley and Lilly followed.

As they passed him Travis noticed the looks they gave one another. It was no mystery as to the why, but still how long was this going to go on?

"Glad to see you made it back in one piece." Molly told Lee causing Travis to once again focus on the two.

"Couldn't have done it without that tool of yours. Thanks."

"No problem."

"You plan on sticking around for a while?" Asked Lee.

"Why, you don't wanna slam the back of my head with a monkey wrench anymore?" She asked sarcastically.

"Ahem…." Interrupted Travis. "That monkey wrench hurt pretty bad." He stated trying to make conversation.

"Oh, yeah sorry about that." Molly said. "Well I'm gonna go check see if there's anything worth taking from this place."

Molly left them and headed up the stairs.

"Lee what are you doing?" Travis asked.

The older man gave him a confused look.

"What are you talking about?"

"Don't give me that….." Travis replied "You were hitting on Molly."

"What? You're crazy man."

"Am I? I may be young but I know flirting when I see it."

"What's it matter to you, unless you got a thing for her?"

"So what if I do." Travis replied "I mean you already have…. Ere ..um..uh…" Travis stuttered as he had almost let the cat out of the bag.

"I already have what?" Lee asked.

"Er…. Um…. Uh…. Uh…. Clem… Clementine… yeah, that's it, Clementine."

"Clementine?" Asked Lee. "What's she got to do with anything?"

"Er… well.. you know um… no time for romance when you got a little girl to watch out for." Travis replied trying to stop from spilling the beans.

"I think there's time, but in any case if you like Molly then go for it." He said

"Thanks Lee." Travis replied.

"No problem. Now speaking of Clementine, where is she?"

Travis thought for a moment. She had arrived with them but he hadn't seen her since.

"I not quite sure." He told Lee.

"What?!" Lee questioned

"Don't worry man, she came with us and it's only been about 20 minutes. I'm sure she didn't get far. Tell you what I'll check upstairs and you check down here. I'm Sure we'll find her."

Lee agreed and Travis went to head up the stairs to find Clementine.

And to check on Molly while he was at it.


A/N I know this was a bit lengthy but I didn't want to end this chapter without them reaching back to the mansion. Thanks to all who made it to the end. God bless you all. Remember I'm still open for prayer request.