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


A/N All right I've been getting some reviews stating I have to make Carley fall for Doug or can't do Mollee. Not saying I am doing those pairings but pairings isn't the main point of this fanfiction. Remember even in real life not everyone you like, likes you back. Even if Lee ended up with Carley in this story, doesn't mean that Doug has to end up with someone else. Once again not saying either of them will or won't just saying simply because A and B like C and C chooses B doesn't mean that A has to end up with someone else in this story. God bless.


"Will you quit pacing? You're making everyone nervous." Molly told Lee.

He couldn't help it. It was a God given miracle that Clementine found what might be the last boat in Savannah right in the very house they had chosen to take shelter in.

"Why are you even still here?" Asked Christa.

"Hey if you're friend really can get that boat working, you're taking me with you as payment for saving you're lives. I think that's fair enough don't you?" Molly replied

Christa didn't answer. At that moment Kenny came through the backdoor. Everyone's interest peeked as he approached the group.

"You want the good news or the bad news first?" He asked

"Get the bad news out of the way." Said Lee.

"She ain't going anywhere like she is now. The gas tanks on empty and the batteries dead."

"What's the good news?" Asked Christa

"That's all she needs. A battery and some gas." He replied

"And just where are we supposed to get those things?" Inquired Lilly

"Sounds like the only place we can get them is Crawford." Said Lee

"Oh right, let's just walk up on their front door and ask nicely. "Uh can we borrow some gas and a battery?" Vernon sarcastically stated.

"Good a plan as any." Said Lee.

"You don't know these people." Replied Vernon "They'll take what they want and decide whether or not to leave you alive."

"What kind of people are we talking about here?" Asked Christa

"The worst Kind." Answered Molly "But I don't see much of a choice."

"Now just wait, let me think a minute." Vernon suggested. He stroked his beard and scratched his said for a few seconds.

"If we're gonna do this I can only see one plausible way." He said finally "Any of you guys have a map on you?" He asked.

"Actually yeah" replied Lee remembering the one he had found in the train. He handed it to Vernon.

"Perfect." Said the old man. "With this I think I could lead us right to the heart of their town where they keep the supplies."

"And just what do you need in return for all this?" Kenny asked suspiciously.

"Crawford doesn't just have what you need. It has medication that could do good for both my people and yours." Vernon replied. "This isn't the first time I've thought about this. I've just never had enough people to do it."

"If they have the antibiotics Omid needs then we have to try." Pleaded Christa.

"Anyone got a problem with this?" Asked Lee.

"Well I don't know…"

Lee didn't have to look to know it was Ben who spoke.

"Kid I'd rather take a chance at doing something, than sit around and do nothing." Kenny answered him

"That boat is an answered prayer, we just gotta push a little further."

"It has to be tonight, under cover of darkness." Stated Vernon. "I'll let my people know and give you guys a chance to prepare. I'll be back before midnight."

With that the old man left the group only to be replaced by another around his age.

"What's this?" Asked Larry "Group meeting without me?"

"No dad, Kenny found a boat in the backyard an…."

"A boat?" Larry nearly shouted, cutting Lilly off. "You mean to tell me this guy's plan may actually come through? That's a first."

"Listen old ma…" Kenny began, but Katjaa put her hand on his shoulder in an obvious attempt to calm him down.

"Listen the boat's missing a battery and gas bu…" Lee stated, but once again Larry was not interested.

"Oh so it's useless then. For a second there I thought you two had actually done something right. Wishful thinking I guess."

"Well your just a big old bundle of enthusiasm aren't you?" Said Molly.

"And just who the hell are you." Larry asked as he approached the young woman.

"She rescued us back at River Street." Lee answered.

"Let me guess you just let her join our group without question. Got enough smart alecks as it is."

"Hey big nose. You got something you wanna say, say it to my face." Molly replied.

"Who you calling big nose?!" Larry asked as if no one had ever called him that before.

"Dad calm down." Lilly said

"Stay out of this Lilly." He retorted. "First we got these two clowns we picked up on the side of the road and now we got little miss attitude."

"Excuse me?" Christa asked from behind.

"Well it's true. This groups big enough without us letting in every single homeless person we come across. Especially those who have no use."

"Oh I wouldn't talk about having no use if I were you." Kenny jumped in. This time Katjaa could do nothing to hold him back.

"Speaking of homeless where's that Charles fellow?" Asked Larry while simultaneously ignoring Kenny's statement.

Lee thought to himself. He had yet to let the group know about Chuck's outcome. He decided the best thing to do was just tell it straight.

"He's dead." He said plainly.

"What?" More than one member of the group shouted.

"I found him while I was in the sewers. It ….. a wasn't pretty."

"Well good, one less mouth to feed." Stated Larry.

"Dad!?" Lilly shouted.

"Could you be any more of a douche?" Asked Molly.

"Oh first big nose, now douche! I'll tel….." Larry shouted before he reached over and grabbed his heart.

"Dad, take it easy." Lilly said as she walked over and grabbed his left arm.

"I'm fine Lilly, just a little indigestion."

"You haven't eaten anything in a day." She replied.

"Maybe that's the problem." He said. His right arm still clutched the left side of his chest however.

"Come on Dad you should rest." Said Lilly as she guided him to the stairway. He stopped right as they past Lee.

"How come every new person you bring gives me more stress?"

Lee didn't answer as Lilly took her dad upstairs.

"Well that was… something." Said Kenny. "I think we could all use a rest before heading out tonight."

Lee agreed though he was not that tired. The thought of what they were planning to do made him both excited and nervous.

"You okay?" A nearby voice asked. Lee turned to his left to see Carley.

"I'm fine." He replied.

"You don't have to be." She said.

"That was my line." He replied.

She smiled at him. "Well it's a good line."

Lee thought back to the events of about three months prior. Had he known all they were about to go through, would he had done it the same way. Not that it mattered, unlike in video games, in life there was no reset button.

"Hey guys" Said Doug as he approached the two. "So let me get this straight. We're going to infiltrate hostile territory under cover of darkness. Take well-guarded supplies and rendezvous back here. All without being seen?"

Lee chuckled slightly. Doug made it sound like a movie. Then again the things that were happening around them was much stranger than any movie Lee had ever seen.

"That's the gist of it Doug." Answered Lee.

"Well I don't know about you to, but I'm gonna take Kenny up on his offer and get some rest before tonight." Said Carley.

As she walked up the stairs Lee noticed how skinny the young reporter had gotten. She had taken off her purple sweater which revealed a much more bony texture than before.

"Can't take your eyes off her huh?" Asked Doug breaking Lee's concentration.

"Just noticed how different she looks from three months ago." He replied.

"Uh huh. Come on Lee let's stop playing games here." Doug stated.

Lee looked at him confused. Though he really shouldn't have been. Doug was a pretty strange guy.

"Listen we both know just like in the highlander series. "There can be only one" Said Doug definitively.

"One what?" Asked Lee.

"Seriously?… All right I see your game. Pretend to be all innocent and then dive in for the kill. Smart, very smart."

"Seriously Doug." Lee said "I got no idea what you're talking about."

"Ah, pleading ignorance. Cunning." Doug replied. "Well may the best man win." He said as he left.

Had it been anyone else Lee would have asked for an explanation, but by the time Doug finished explaining himself it would most likely be time to head to Crawford. So he left it be.

"Lee, a word." Said Kenny as he and Katjaa passed Lee on the stairs.

"Hun go check on Duck I'll be up in a minute." Kenny told his wife.

Katjaa nodded and walked up the stairs to the room where Duck still resided.

"Need something?" Lee asked his friend.

"You could say that. I need for you to pick six people to come with us tonight."

"Six?" Lee inquired.

"Large enough to last in a fight but just small enough to slip through unnoticed." Kenny replied.

"Which ones?"

"I don't know which ones Lee that's why I'm asking you to choose. I don't know how but you've been able to stay remotely friendly with everyone in this group…. Well other than Larry." Replied Kenny. "Pick six people, no more, no less."

Kenny walked by Lee and went up the stairs. Before reaching the top however he turned around. "And Lee do me a favor" He said. "Leave Lilly here."


"You have got to be kidding me." Said Carley

"I think the jokes on me." Replied Lilly.

"No joke ladies." Kenny said. "Sorry but this is all we got."

"You can't seriously expect us to go through with this." Lilly stated.

"Listen I know it ain't ideal but just be happy yall got something to sleep on." Insisted Kenny.

"Isn't one of the couches available?" Asked Carley.

"Sorry the two college boys got them. You're dads on the one in the study, while Doug's sleeping on the chair in the Dining room. Me, Katjaa, Duck and Clementine are sleeping in the master bedroom. Christa and Omid got the other one, Shoot we had to put Mark up in the Attic."

"Think I would rather bunk with him." Said Lilly

"Hey this ain't exactly a pleasure cruise for me." Carley added.

"Listen ladies deal with this however you want, I don't care. Just do it quietly, me and my family right through that door behind you."

Kenny walked past them and went to the door which lead to the master bedroom.

"Hey Kenny." Lilly called.

"What is it?" He asked

"Where are Lee and Molly sleeping?"

"They ain't" He replied. "Those two volunteered to keep watch just in case."

With that Kenny walked through and shut the door behind him leaving the two women alone.


At least this inflatable mattress is big thought Lilly as the two women lied back to back on it.

They had been this for about 15 minutes though Lilly doubted Carley had fallen asleep. It was awkward to say the least. Though she didn't hate her, she never really got along with Carley. Though she didn't really get along with any adult member in the group, other than Lee, her father and now Christa. Still she was on all right terms with most of them.

"Sleeping yet?" Asked the woman next to her.

"What do you think?" She asked back.

"I think I would rather sleep in the broom closet downstairs."

"Well this isn't a picnic for me either." Lilly replied.

Lilly shifted her position slightly so now she was a little farther from the other woman.

"Hmm a picnic, hadn't been on one of those in….. forever." Carley stated.

Lilly noticed the sadness in her voice.

"Yeah well I've never been on one." She said.

"Really?" Carley asked "One of my exes's used to love them. He always said he felt happiest when out in nature."

"Sounds like a real charmer."

"He was."

"So what happened to him?" Lilly asked.

Carley let out a deep sigh and Lilly began to wonder if she asked too much.

"Well I wanted to be a reporter and he wanted to save the rainforest. Last I heard he was somewhere in Malaysia protesting against some cooperation."

"In the rainforest huh? Well maybe he survived all this." Lilly reassured her.

"Maybe." Carley replied.

Lilly shifted back to her original position.

"Strange when you look back isn't it?" She asked Carley. "It seems like it's been years when just a few months ago, I was dealing with pricks at the air force base, while you were reporting for WABE."

"A few months." Carley commented. "How much has happened in just a few months?"

Carley let out another long sigh. "Hopefully this boat can take us someplace where we can forget the past few months."

"You think wherever that boat takes us this won't be happening?" Asked Lilly.

"I hope so." Answered Carley.

"For all we know we'll never find a battery for that thing. We need to start forming a plan B."

"Can't ever just be happy can you?" Asked Carley.

"I was happy, back at the motor inn. We had a good set up. Individual rooms, Fortified wall, and close to the pharmacy. We even had food finally and some trader just ruined all that."

At this statement Lilly felt Carley shift in position. "Let's not go back to that."

"Why not? Unless it was you."

"Careful Lilly. I have my gun this time." Carley answered.

"And I got my own." Replied Lilly.

Lilly turned around to see that Carley's previous shift had been to face her. "You think you can just go around making random accusations? Like it or not Lilly you no longer lead this group." She said

Lilly felt anger build up inside her though she knew the statement to be true. "Best let someone else be a Nazi for a change" She said.

"We treated you like a Nazi because you had us running around like we were in some sort of concentration camp." Replied Carley. "You can't treat people like crap and not expect it in return."

"I never treated anyone like crap. I handed out the food and everyone hated me for the decisions I made to keep the group alive."

"That wasn't it. People didn't hate Lee after he handed out the food."

Lilly pondered the statement. She had always wondered why everyone's demeanor had changed when she gave Lee the rations. Four people had even turned him down and Carley was one of those four.

"It was never what you did but how you did it." Said Carley. "Lee handed out food to those who he thought needed it most. He didn't show any bias. If I recall he even fed your father which couldn't have been easy."

Lilly thought again. She never had found out why Lee chose to feed her father. She practically guaranteed he would go hungry when she handed Lee the food.

"Let's face it." Carley concluded. "You're the hardest on Lee and yet he gives you and your dad every benefit of the doubt. I don't know where he gets that strength from."

Carley shifted back in the other direction. Lilly wanted to say something but she chose to remain silent. She turned back around and eased off the mattress.

"Where are you going?" Carley asked as Lilly put on her shoes.

"I'm thirsty." She replied.

"There isn't anything to drink here. Well accept one more bottle of whiskey Kenny left."

"Sometimes these rich people have a private pump disconnected from the city. I'm gonna check outside see if I could get some water." Replied Lilly.

It was a weak lie, one which Carley probably noticed, but the reporter said nothing so Lilly continued on. She didn't need to know the real reason Lilly wanted to head downstairs.


"So then my dad tells me women should where dresses, and if I keep presenting myself like this I'll end up old and alone." Said Molly.

Lee laughed at the story. The two had been conversing ever since the others else went to sleep. He had enjoyed every minute of it. It was good to talk to someone who wasn't too serious. He needed some lightening up after the day's events.

"Yet the statement couldn't be more false. I had to beat men off with a stick most of my sophomore year." Molly Continued.

"I bet." Lee said.

"Well I wouldn't want to bore you with more of my life." She stated.

"No, I enjoy hearing how things were before…all this." Lee replied. "Like how did you learn those skills?" He asked. "I bet there's a great story behind that."

"Believe me there is, though I wouldn't call it great." Molly said. "As a kid I was always into acrobatics but never was one to balance on a beam or do a bunch of flips. Then one day my dad brought home this video game. You ever heard of Assassins Creed?"

Lee nodded. He wasn't much of a gamer but he remembered some of his students going on about that game.

"In the game the main character does all these kinds of stunts, but what caught me was the fact he could run on walls like he could on the ground. Later I found out that what he did was called parkour and I've been practicing that ever since."

Lee leaned against the kitchen counter. Molly was a unique individual. Yet during her story, Lee couldn't help but think she was hiding something. Every time he asked about other members of her family, Molly would simply give a vague response then go back to talking about her father.

"So uh Molly." Lee said. "I never did thank you back there for getting us out of that alley." He said.

"Don't mention it. Once I saw that little girl I couldn't just leave you guys."

"Actually you could have. In this world I've seen a whole lot worse. Abandoning strangers would be considered normal nowadays. So Thanks."

Molly looked away for a moment. Lee couldn't help but smile. He hadn't had a pleasant conversation like this in a long time.

"Don't give me that look." Molly told him.

"What look?" He asked.

"The "I'm starting to have ideas" Look. Listen I'm flattered and you're a nice guy but…. You're a little too old for me." Molly stated.

Lee realized she had completely misunderstood why he was smiling.

"Uh Molly I thi…." He began before she started talking again.

"And you're Collage friend over there is just a little too young." She said.

"Don't say that in front of him" Said Lee. "It'll break his heart."

"I'm sure" Stated Molly "Plus it does kinda feel good to be admired by old and young alike."

"I'm not that old." Lee replied.

"You still trying? I told you if you were a bit younger maybe, plus it seems like you already got your hands full here."

"What do you mean by that?" Asked Lee

"Wait you don't know?" Molly asked back.

"Don't know what?"

"Having fun?" Came a voice from behind.

Lee looked back to see Lilly standing behind him.

"Shouldn't you be resting?" Asked Molly.

"I'm not really tired." Lilly replied. "I could probably take your place at watch if you want."

"No, thanks I'm good." Replied Molly. "Why don't you go Lee?"

"What?" Both Lilly and Lee asked at the same time.

"Yeah well you've been crawling around the sewers all day. Bet you're tired."

"Oh well…. If you're up to this Lilly." Lee said.

Looking at the woman he wondered why she appeared so angry. I mean she had offered to take his place.

"Of course I'm up for it." She replied though Lee could tell she didn't mean a word of that.

"In that case, I'll go get some rest." Said Lee. "Thanks by the way."

Lee walked by the brunette and back toward the stairs. Hopefully he could get some much needed rest before the journey to Crawford.


A/N Thanks for all you readers. God bless you all. Remember I'm still open for prayer request.