Chapter 4- New faces.
Disclaimer- I don't own The Walking Dead.
It was already nigh when they finally arrived at the farm.
It was a simple farm, with plantations, a house painted in with, and a barn, plus a fence to separate the propriety.
Shawn stopped the pickup and everybody got out, "Hey, Shawn… I´m a' run on home. My mama's gonna be in a snit." Said Chet.
"No sweat, man. i'll catch you tomorrow night." Shawn said.
But before Chet could go he turned to Lee, Clementine and Rafael "It was nice to meet the three of you." he said before taking of.
Right after, the door of the house opened, there came out the owner of the farm.
It was an elder man, he had gray hair and a gray beard and a gardener costume (Raf basically saw the good type of American, strong, hardworking and honest)
When the man saw Shawn he seemed relieved "Thank god you're OK." He said while hugging his son.
"I wouldn't have made it back without Chet." Shawn said.
"Well, I'm glad you took him with you then." After that the man noticed Lee, Clementine and Rafael "You've brought a couple guests."
"Your boy is a life saver." Said Lee.
"Glad he could be of help to somebody." The man commented.
He then looked at Rafael "Where did you get those guns boy?" He said raising a brow.
"I got them from a dead police officer sir, he had half of his face blown up"Rafael said a little bit disturbed by the image of that police man.
The owner of the farm understood, he then looked at Lee "So it's just you, your daughter and this boy scout then?"
"He's not her dad, he's just some guy who found her alone" Shawn corrected his dad.
"Honey do you know this man?" The owner of the farm asked knelling down to Clementine's size.
"Yes." Clementine shyly answered.
"Alright then." He said while raising up. But then his attention went to Lee again "Looks like you hurt you're leg pretty bad there"
Raf didn't noticed at first but now he saw Lee's leg, it had a big opened cut on his knee, plus it was blending "Yeah, it's not doing so good." Lee said.
"You go sit on the breach and I see what I can do, Shawn go check on your sister." He ordered.
Shawn and the owner of the farm went back inside the farm, while Lee sited on the breach, Raf and Clementine were watching him.
A few seconds later the elder man came back with a bandage "Let's have a look, yeah this is swollen to hell." He said inspecting Lee's leg.
"It could be worst." Lee said.
"Thought guy aren't you." The man commented.
"You haven't told me your name yet" The man asked.
"It´s Lee."
"Howdy Lee, I'm Hershel Green." He Introduced himself. "So, how did this happened?" Hershel asked Lee.
"It was at a car accident, we it one of those things on the road." Lee explained.
"Where were you headed?" Hershel continued asking.
"I was heading out of Atlanta."
Hershel raised his head "The news say stay."
"But that's a mistake, I just came from there It's not good." Raf intervened.
Hershel stopped fixing Lee´s knee for a moment and looked at Raf for a few seconds "What´s your name boy?"
"Rafael."
"By the uniform I can see that you're not from around here, where's your scout group?" Hershel asked.
"They're…. Gone." Raf simply said, even know they LEFT him, he decided not to explain everything, Hershel raised a bow, he didn't seemed to believe that a hole scout group could just disappear, after all a scout never separates from his group.
But he decided to not get into it "That's a shame." He simply just said before returning to fixing Lee's knee. "Who were you with during the wreck, the girl?" Hershel asked Lee.
"I was with a police office, he was giving me a ride." Lee said a little bit unsure.
"Awful nice of him." Hershel said.
"I'm an awful nice guy." Lee said joking.
"House is full up with mine. we've got another displaced family of three sleeping in the barn. You the scout and your daughter are welcome to rest her, when we´re done here." Hershel said, "I didn't catch your name darling." Hershel said facing Clementine.
"Clem-clementine." Clementine said a little shy.
"Can't imagine what you've been thought, Clementine." Hershel said giving her a worried look.
"I'm looking after her, until we find her real parents, and Raf is going to the same location that I'm going so, he agreed on coming with us." Lee informed Hershel.
At that moment Shawn appeared "Hey dad, so i'm thinking, first thing tomorrow, we gotta reinforce the fence around the farm."
"That doesn't seem necessary." Hershel simply said.
"I don't know what you saw on tv, or heard in the radio, but there's some serious… SHIT hitting the fan, I don't think anyone knows how big it is yet" Shawn said trying to convince his dad.
"You're son is right, you might wanna fortify this place." Lee said taking on Shawn's side.
"Stuff like that doesn't happen around here Shawn." Hershel insisted.
Shawn was about to protest to Raf decided to get in the middle of it "Excuse Mr Green, but I can see that you clearly don't know what's going on, but let me tell you something, those things roaming around are REAL." Raf said with a serious voice "Back in Atlanta I saw a woman getting her belly ripped open and her intestines were being pulled out and eaten." The description made Clementine and Shawn flinch a little, "So long story short, I haven't spent 5 days in this country and I have seen some SHIT that would turn you withe"
This seemed to be enough information for Hershel "Well, do what you think you should. we've got plenty of chores as it is."
"Lee, Raf and those folks in the barn can help out in the morning. We gotta do it, really." Shawn said.
"I already said OK." Hershel confirmed.
With that Shawn went back inside and Hershel finally bandaged lee's knee "Well, I'm all done here. It should start to feel better tomorrow."
"Thanks." Lee said.
"If your leg gets hot or the swelling doesn't go down; you're probably dealing with an infection." Hershel informed.
This scared Lee a little "What do we do then?"
"We'll probably just have to shoot you." Hershel said pointing at Lee witch made Raf and Clementine flinch a little "We'll clean it, re-dress it and you'll be fine." He said revealing the joke.
"OK that'd be preferable." Lee said.
"There's blankets and such in the barn. we'll be seeing you bright and early." Hershel informed "Come tomorrow witch way do you think you're headed?" Hershel asked.
"Towards Macon I suppose." Lee said.
Hershel had no more questions and went to the house, Clementine, Lee and Raf went to the barn to sleep, they got some blankets and made an improvised bed (it wasn't very comfortable but Rafael had sleeted in worst places in his scout days).
The three laid there in the barn floor, but they weren't sleeping yet "It smells like..." Clementine said not knowing how to say it.
Rafael and Lee smiled "Merda (Shit)." Rafael answered Clementine's sentence.
Clementine looked confused at him "What does it mean?"
"I think it´s a swear in his language Clem." Lee informed her.
Clementine raised both her bows at Rafael "Swears are bad."
Raf chuckled a little "Sorry Clem I shouldn't talk like that."
After that funny situation, Clementine made a confession "I miss my mom and dad."
Lee looked at her "I bet Clem."
"I miss mine too, and they're really far away" Raf said a little bit sad.
"How far is Savannah?" Clem asked.
"Pretty far." Lee said.
"We'll worry about that in the mourning, now we should all try to get some sleep." Raf said yawning.
"Oh, ok." Clementine said before drifting off to sleep.
Lee did the same, but it wasn't has pleasant has Clem's dream, on his dream he could hear her wife laughing telling him that how she loved him, and then the sound of broken glass and her wife screaming.
At that moment Lee woke up from the nightmare sweating.
But it wasn't just him who was awake.
"Nightmares?" Rafael asked Lee.
"Yeah… did you had one too?" Lee asked.
"No i simply can't sleep." Rafael said.
"What's on your mind?" Lee asked.
"I miss my country, miss the food, the people there, the monuments, the beach, but mostly I miss my loved ones" Raf said looking at the barn's ceiling "I understand what Clem is felling, I wanna go to Savannah to find something too."
"Find what?" Lee asked.
"A boat." Raf responded.
"Why?" Lee asked.
"It's the only way to get to Portugal, if I can't find one, then I don't know what to do." Raf said in a serious tone.
Lee gave Raf an understanding nod "We'll get there, that I can promise you."
Raf smiled a bit at Lee's answer "Let's get some sleep my American friend, it's gonna be a long day tomorrow." Raf said.
And with that they went to sleep.
"Hey, get up." Said a redneck voice.
Raf opened his eyes to see a man standing there wearing a fisherman shirt, some jeans and a orange cap, the first thing he noticed about him was that epic mustache he had.
Lee and Clementine got up, but Raf had a little more difficulty on getting up "Come on scout, dont't make me get the ice bucket." The redneck said (obviously joking).
"Name's Rafael." He said while getting up "Nice mustache bro." He added.
"Thanks." The redneck said.
"I'm itchy" Clementine said while scratching his arms.
"Well, you've slept in a barn little lady. lucky you don't have spiders in your hair." Said the redneck.
This made Clementine gasp and she immediately checked her air for spiders "But I bet your daddy scared 'em all away, huh?"
"I'm not her dad. Name's Lee."
"I'm Kenny." The redneck introduced himself.
"Dad! We're gonna build a fence! There's a tractor and everything!" Exclaimed a little boy with short brown hair and a squared shirt (Clearly Kenny's son).
"We better get going or we won't hear the end of it." Kenny said
They walked out of the barn "That's my boy Ken Jr. We call him Duck thought." Ken said.
"Dodging or quacking?" Lee asked jokingly.
"Quacking."
"DAAD!" Duck yelled to his dad.
"See." Kenny re insure.
Duck was right next to a woman (obviously his mom) she was blond (a little stuffed on the sizes) and she was wearing a flowered shirt and some jeans, Kenny stood right next to his wife "The word is, you two were on your way to Macon."
"My family is from there" Lee said.
"Well Macon's on the way and, personally, I'd appreciate the company of a guy who could knock a couple of heads together if he has too." He then looked at Raf "I surely will need the help of someone with fire power" Kenny said looking at Raf's shotgun and holster.
They had just meet Kenny, but they needed the help of strangers "Sure, we´ll tag along." Lee said.
"It's a plan then" Kenny said before facing his family "Honey, Duck, this is Lee, the scout is Rafael and uh, what's the girl's name?" Kenny asked Lee.
"Clementine." Lee responded.
"Clementine." Kenny confirmed.
"That is a very pretty name." Kenny's wife complimented.
"Thanks." Said Clementine, who was hiding behind Lee.
Right after that Shawn appeared "well, we should get to work. we've all seen, what those things can do out there so the faster we get this fence up, the better."
"I wanna build a fence" Duck said.
"Yeah? Well I need a good foreman. You can sit on the tractor and yell at me whenever I take a water brake." Shawn proposed.
Duck seemed exited with the idea "On he tractor? Cool!" Duck went running to the tractor.
"Duck and I will hop to it" Shawn reassured.
So Shawn and Duck went to the tractor.
"I can keep an eye on your little girl here on the porch. We can visit." Kenny's wife said.
While that was happening Kenny went to fix a blue truck. Raf and Lee were alone, So they decided to get to know Kenny's wife a little.
"Hey there girls" Lee greeted Kenny's wife and Clementine.
"You haven't told us your name yet madam, or what did you used to do when dead isn't roaming around." Raf said in a jokingly matter.
"My name is Katjaa, I am a veterinarian back in Fort Lauder dale, like Hershel, here, except more with dogs and cats and not horses. What is it that you do Lee?" Katjaa asked.
"I used to teach up at the university of Georgia." Lee said.
"We need to hope that we go back to our jobs soon, Lee. Back to normal. It can't stay like this." Katjaa said.
"I can tell you this this miss Katjaa, when there's life, there's ALWAYS hope." Raf said in an optimistic tone.
"I guess your right, it's good to know that optimism still exists." Katjaa said smilling.
"You two actually look relaxed." Lee said looking at Katjaa and Clementine.
"I think we're doing just fine, Clementine just just telling me about first grade." Katjaa said.
"How is it Clem, I used to hate first grade because of homework" Raf said.
"It's easy, although I really hate math. " Clementine said.
"I used to hate math too" Lee said.
"So y'all are good?" Raf asked.
Katjaa expression became a little sad "Anyway it's almost like we didn't see people eating each-other for the past three days. it's peaceful here no?"
Raf then decided to ask something different "How did you and your husband managed to get out of the city?"
This made Katjaa sad "Kenny… just drove. We passed so many people that needed help. And... we just… passed people, over some. Just… just."
"It's ok it's fine, you don't have to say anymore." Lee said knowing this must of be hard for katjaa to talk about.
"I was lucky that I was close to the city's exit, if not I might of not been able to escape." Said Raf remembering those people screaming.
"I want to go home tomorrow, but even then I can't take away the thing we… the things Duck… went through. Don't you two wanna go back to the moment before you knew about all of this?" Katjaa asked.
The answer was easy "Anyone on their right mind would. Families and BBQ's and beers with good friends." Lee said.
"All of those things." Katjaa agreed.
"Those are the things we live for, right? With those gone, what's the point?" Lee asked.
Raf decided to get involved "It's not all bad, there's ALWAYS something good about a bad situation."
Katjaa and Lee looked at him confused "Raf there are people eating each other." Lee said not agreeing with him.
"I know that's bad, but it doesn't mean it's ALL bad, for example, if this goes bad it means, no more taxes, no more corruption, no more early waking up and best yet, if the government falls it means Donald Trump is no longer gonna be president, I mean that's good right?" Rafael said.
"I gotta say, I couldn't agree more" Said Kenny who was hearing the conversation while fixing the truck.
Raf smiled "You being a redneck I would of though you were a Trump supporter."
Kenny chuckled "Not me kid." He said before going back to fixing the truck.
There was nothing more to talk about "See ya in a bit." Lee said before heading to Kenny.
"Hey Kenny need any help with the truck?" Lee asked.
"Naw I think I got it. Do you need any help" Kenny asked.
"What do you mean?" Lee asked confused.
"I mean in taking care of that little girl. You know what you're doing? You got kids of your own?" Kenny asked.
"Nah, no kids." Lee said honestly.
"Woulda like one then." Kenny said smiling.
"You know" Said Lee.
"How's your son Duck Kenny?" Raf asked.
"Good I think. Katjaa's got a sister up in Memphis; we were coming back from visiting her. We were in a gas station and some guy grabbed my boy." Kenny stopped fixing the truck "I though he was kidnapping him. I was on the fucker in about two seconds and… Christ. Just lucky I was there. We saw a lot of bodies before we stumbled upon Hershel's. But we're a thought family, Lee and Raf. Ain't nothing gonna faze us." Kenny said before heading back to the truck.
Lee had one more question "So what's your family's plan?"
"Get back on down to Lauderdale and let this mess and let this mess get sorted out. Government will start handing out shots and the national guards will do it´s thing. On the odd chance things go too bad, we could hop on my boat I guess" Kenny said.
This raised Raf's attention "Wait you have a boat?"
Kenny nodded "I'm a commercial fisherman, catching mackerel, Dolphin, whatever's biting and paying. Katjaa wouldn't be wild about it, but the boat is not that bad."
This was such good news for Raf, even if he couldn't find any boats in Savannah, maybe he could use Kenny's boat.
But he decided not to talk about that now "See ya latter Kenny." Raf said before walking out to go check on Shawn who was reinforcing the fence while Duck was on the tractor happy.
"Hey Shawn need any help with the fence?" Lee asked.
"That'd be great. If you could cut those two-bys to length, that'd sure speed things up." Shawn said.
Lee saw one of the wooden blanks, he picked up a saw and started to cut it (Raf was holding the blank).
While doing that Shawn decided to speak a little bit more "My dad doesn't know how bad it is."
"He sure doesn't." Raf said.
"I saw a guy in Atlanta kill a kid. A boy. Just shot him right in the face." Shawn told.
Raf knew thongs were bad, but not this level of bad "Was the boy one of the dead people?" Raf asked.
"I don't even know. He was either attacking the guy or asking for help." Shawn informed "He didn't even hesitate. He just turned, put the barrel of the gun right between the kid's eyes and pulled the trigger." Shawn said disturbed.
"You don't see things like that. It's not like in the movies." Shawn added.
"They don't fall like you think." Lee said.
"Did you had to do it?" Shawn asked.
"Do what?" Lee said while finishing up the first blank and picking the second one.
"Kill. Have you had to off one yet?" Shawn asked.
Lee thought for a moment "I bashed a poor girl's brains in."
"Caraças. (Damn)" Raf said.
"Whoa, I couldn't do that." Shawn said.
"I'm just glad we're getting this fence built. Dad just wants to keep the family safe and thinks inviting people in is a bigger threat than whatever's out there" Shawn said.
While he was talking Lee managed to cut the second wooden blank.
"How about yours? How's your family." Shawn asked (While that Lee was cutting another wooden blank).
"Mine are in Lisbon, Alive I hope." Raf said.
"Do you know how things are in Europe?" Shawn asked.
"I have no idea." Raf answered.
"My brother and parents are in Macon, I hope." Lee said.
"Oh man I hope so too. Maybe it's not too bad there." Shawn said.
After that Lee cut the third wooden blank.
"That's probably all I need cut now. Thanks." Shawn said.
Lee dropped the saw "And Shawn, Thanks again for the ride" Lee said.
"Yeah man, if it wasn't for you, who knows what would of happened." Raf added.
"No problem. Couldn't leave you two behind." Shawn said "Anyway, if you see my dad around, he might want some help in the barn." Shawn added.
Lee and Raf saw Hershel with a pitchfork entering the barn, so they went into the barn. Hershel noticed both of them entering the barn.
"How'd you get how of Atlanta?" Hershel asked Lee (again).
"I got on a ride then I was in a wreck. I walked until your boy found me." Lee said
"Hmm. You're no worst for wear." Hershel said. "What about you son?" Hershel asked Raf.
"I was having a picnic in Atlanta with my scout mates, I heard a woman screaming so I went to check on her, has I told you yesterday, it wasn't pretty, then a small group of those death people appeared, so I went back to the group… they were no where to be found. So I just grabbed my stuff and went to the city's exit, thank god I was close to it, then I found Shawn and he gave me a ride." Raf told.
"My condolences, it must be hard for a scout to lose his group." Hershel said.
Raf nodded.
"This farm is a nice pot of land." Lee commented.
Hershel chuckled to Lee's comment "Heh, if told me twenty years ago i'd still be doing this, I would told that you were full of crap." Hershel said "Never was the plan, having a place like this. It was in the family, and I guess so was I. Family is important; it's all that matters. You agree with that?" Hershel asked.
"Was brought up to, yes." Lee said.
"Couldn't agree more." Raf said.
"Where's your family now? Parents? Wife?"Hershel asked.
"Mine are in Lisbon." Raf said.
"My parents are in Macon with my brother." Lee said.
"Well I hope they're alright." Hershel said. "But now you've got this little girl to take care of. Clementine is it? You just stumbled upon her." Hershel asked.
"Yeah Lee you never told me how did you met Clementine." Raf said.
"Well, I was being attacked and she came to my rescue." Lee said.
This statement made Hershel to grunt and he trew his pitchfork to the haystack, he clearly knew Lee was hiding something (obviously his past) "Can I give you a piece of advise?" Hershel asked Lee.
"Sure." Lee said.
"I don't know who you are or what you did." Hershel started. "Let's say things don't get better back in the cites. Or they get worse before they do. Your gonna have to depend on the honesty of strangers if you're going to make it. And if those same people get to question yours, you're going to be in trouble." Hershel finished.
"But at least you have the common sense to listen to a man giving you advice." Hershel said proud.
But then the sound of an engine started, and a scream could be heard (By the voice, it sounded like Shawn) "What the-!" Lee said while getting out the barn.
"GO! I'll get my gun!" Hershel ordered.
Raf and Lee sprinted to the sound of the screams that took them to the fence, there he saw Shawn pinned to the grown, with his leg stuck under the tractor wheel, it was obvious that Duck must of accidentally start the tractor, and by his confused expression he didn't realized what he did, Clementine was watching the scene horrified, but the worst part was that the sound of the screams had brought 3 walkers. Then suddenly one of those walkers grabbed Duck, The only thing stopping them for biting either of them was the fence, but that could chance at any second.
"That fence is not gonna hold!" Raf said. "Let's get Duck first then we'll help Shawn."
Lee and Raf sprinted to Duck who was screaming for help, Lee immediately punched the walker in the face, he didn't budge, then Kenny came to help and grabbed Duck, Raf hit the walker with the butt of the shotgun, and that freed Duck from the walker who was now on his father's arms.
"I got you." Kenny said to his son.
"Now we need to help Shawn." Raf said.
"GET THIS TRACTOR OFF OF ME!" Shawn screamed.
But Kenny who was clearly more worried about his son just ran of.
"LEE, RAF, PLEASE HELP ME!" Shawn begged.
Raf took out the revolver from the holster and decided to kill those walkers himself, but when he got the gun out something unexpected happened, the gun was far more heavier than what he thought, his hands were shaking and the gun was difficult to aim (something that didn't happened in video games). And before he could pull the trigger the fence collapsed.
"AHHHH!" Shawn screamed while both walkers chomp him (One in the torso the other in the neck) Clementine flinched horrified of what had happened.
At the same moment Hershel came to the scene with a rifle, who was traumatized by seeing his own son getting devoured. He shot all three walkers and went on checking his son, he was dead (obviously).
Then something changed in Hershel "Get out." Hershel said before getting up "GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!" Hershel said raising his voice.
Kenny was sad "I'm sorry."
"SORRY?! Your son is alive. You don't get to be sorry!" Hershel screamed at Kenny.
He then turned to Lee "And YOU. You didn't even tried to help." Hershel said.
"I thought I could help them both." Lee tried to justify.
"Look at him. You thought wrong and now..." Hershel said getting sad.
He then turned to Raf "And you had a GUN . You could've done something!"
Raf didn't know what to say, there was a felling of blame and remorse, plus his hands were still shaking.
Hershel noticed that "You don't even know how to shoot a gun. Do you?"
"No I don't." Raf admitted.
"Then you better learn how to. If you don't want your new group to be GONE too." Hershel said.
"Please just go. Get out and never come back!" Hershel finally said.
Lee and Raf looked at Kenny with a sad look, Kenny was looking at then with the same look, he then looked at Clementine "you two got that ride to Macon. If y'all want it" Kenny said.
So they all went to the truck and rode out of the farm, all of them full of remorse and not Looking back.
So that was the fourth chapter of this story (Sorry if I took so long).
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