Well, hello, hello, hello. Welcome to my B-day chapter. December 1st. That's right. This infamous writer is now 1 year older. That's horrible isn't it? Life just goes by like tick, tick, tock! Well, not for our heros! Get ready for my newest chapter. It's going to be boring as shit.

Oh, and whoever said that thing about dialogue in paragraphs, this is how I write. Sorry, this is my first story and I don't have a lot of experience.

Disclaimer: I don't own either franchise.

Jane's POV:

Jane woke up startled. Then everything came back to her in a flood. The gunshot, the swerving, and stumbling of her body as it went down a hill! Where were they?! She jerked up and felt pain in her chest. She heard someone say "Sit still. You're no good to the others dead."

She looked over and saw Molly! Molly saw the gobsmacked expression on Jane's face and said "Stop looking at me like that! I'm not a piece of meat!"

Jane snapped out of it and asked "Where'd you go?"

Molly replied "I was looking for supplies a few towns over. When I came back, you guys were gone. Leaving a couple of bodies and a few hundred bullets. What happened?"

Jane told her about the Russians, how Rebecca had turned, and what happened afterwards. Molly took it all in and said "Damn. That's crazy. I went back to Howe's to get supplies when lo and behold, I hear gunshots and tires squealing. By the time I got there, they were gone. I found you passed out and about to become an all-you-can-eat buffet for a walker. I patched you up the best I could."

Jane winced as she sat up and said "We have to find them. Something's going to happen, and I need to make sure Clementine's safe."

Molly laughed as she said "Looks like Clem got a new Lee."

Clementine's POV:

Andy had taken them to the "Compound." It was a settlement guarded by a wall of trash. Cars, trucks, sinks, toilet, anything made of metal was made into a part of the wall. It was lined with spikes and all sorts of sharp objects. Guards had some of the biggest guns Clementine had ever seen. Clementine looked up at it sadly. There was no way they were gonna make it out of here. Not without a tank. Andy saw her looking and said "That's right Clementine. No escape, but don't worry. We aren't cannibals unless absolutely necessary. Come with me. We have a lot to discuss."

Andy led her to a pretty big cabin that was decorated nicely. She saw a mantle over by the fireplace that she realized was a picture of his family. Brenda, Danny, a man she didn't know. Andy went over to where she was looking and said "That was our dad. Before all this shit happened. Before he died. Before they died."

He told her to sit down and said "You know, when you and Lee left, I ran to the barn. Found Danny. By then, the walkers were right behind me. I knew I couldn't save us both. So I left him and locked myself into the meat locker. I had to hear my brother being ripped apart for I don't know how long. When I got out, the walkers were gone. All but one. You know what it was like to see Danny like that?"

Clementine snapped "Was there really any difference between before and after he was bitten?"

Andy got an angry look on his face and he slapped her with a backhand. Andy angrily said "Don't talk about my family like that. He may have been crazy and violent, but he was still my brother. Now, lets be civilized. I'm sure you're wondering how I built this place?"

At Clementine's nod, he said "This place used to be a junkyard. I started recruiting as I traveled north. When we found the junkyard, we worked hard to make the wall. We lost some people to walkers or accidents."

Andy, tired of talking, got to the point "Where's Lee? Is he out there? I want to make him suffer after what he did to me!"

Clementine answered "He's dead. Bitten. I killed him."

Andy stood there, shocked, until he started throwing things around as he shouted "NO! I was supposed to kill him! ME! You're lying!"

He pulled her outside and gave her to one of the guards, telling him to take her to the others.

The guard brought her to a building that looked red. She wasn't sure if it was rust or blood making it that color, though she hoped it was the former. The guard opened the door and shoved her in as he said "Get ready to work tomorrow. The sun's nearly down, so go to sleep!"

With that, he slammed the door shut and darkness swept the room. Clementine looked around the room and saw no one else. A few minutes later, she heard "Clem? Clem, you okay?"

When she realized it was Kenny, she whispered back "I'm here Kenny."

He asked "What did he do to you Clem? Did he hurt you?"

She replied "No. He asked me a couple of questions. He asked where Lee was. Kenny, he was really mad when he heard what I said."

Kenny sighed and said "I would be too, Clementine. In his eyes, he lost everything because of Lee. But he's wrong. He brought it on himself. Lee took everything from him and humiliated him. If he did that to me, I'd kill people for the chance to get back at him. Andy is going to hurt us bad Clem, but we've escaped him once, we'll do it again. Now, get some sleep. Gotta rest up."

As Kenny went to sleep, Clementine couldn't help but hope that Jane was alive and she would be there soon.

Jane's POV:

Jane and Molly grabbed everything they could from Howe's. Weapons, medicine, and more. As they loaded the stuff into the truck Carver's group had been using. Jane, seeing a dry blood trail, went to investigate. It led to a walker clawing at a closed door. It was missing it's legs and was trailing its organs behind it. As soon as she saw it's face, she regretted following it. It was Carver. Half of his face was missing and his jaw was mangled. She guessed the walkers hated his talking as much as she did. Still, she said "No one deserves this. Good or bad. I have a feeling that you were a good man once, like Kenny is. Just wanted a family. Then this world took everything and hacked at who you were, until nothing was left." With that, she stood and drove her machete that she'd found through the walkers skull.

Molly saw her coming back and asked "How are we going to do this?"

Jane replied "Find them, shoot the bad guys, find the damsels in distress, including the grumpy old one, and get out."

Molly smiled and replied "Well, in that case, we better armor up our stallion for us, the knights in shining armor."

Jane and Molly closed the garage and soon the sound of banging and a blowtorch filled the air. They took the sheets of wood and metal and started plating the truck with it. They placed most of the weapons in the back and cut firing slots into the metal.

They welded a movable metal shield on the windshield and a thick metal sheet on the engine. For the final touch, they placed a makeshift ram on the front of the truck. They had taken multiple shelves and welded them into a single piece. It looked like a large spike that could pierce a tank. Once it was as ready as it could be, Jane pulled the garage door up, Molly got in the driver's seat and Jane sat next to her. As they drove their war machine out of the garage, someone got in their way.

Molly pushed on the breaks before she hit Bonnie, who was sitting with hands on her hips. Standing next to her was a blonde man with glasses and a full beard, a tall woman wearing a hoodie with a small girl behind her, an African American teenager, and an Asian man with a scowl on his face. Opening the door, Jane asked "What the hell are you doing here, Bonnie? And who are these people?"

Bonnie replied "I came to scavenge. These "people" are my old group. They were camping near here when I found them. We decided to go south together. Then we heard your banging and went to see what it was. I was personally amazed you didn't attract a herd."

Jane sighed, annoyed, and said "Just get out of the way. Me and Molly need to rescue the others."

Bonnie gasped and asked "What happened?"

Molly poked her head out of the window and asked "Why the fuck do you care?! You were going to leave them without food, water, or any supplies. Now you're acting like a saint. Nice timing."

Bonnie replied "You try being in the same place as a man who almost beat a kid half to death! He could've done the same to me! I would like to look as good as I do for as long as I can. I only left to preserve the life I had left, but you're saying they're in danger, so I'm not leaving until I know they're safe!"

Jane, realizing she wasn't going anywhere, asked "Okay, so who are these guys?"

Bonnie replied "The one with the glasses is Wyatt, the woman with the hoodie is Shel, the girl behind her is Becca, the teenager is Russell, and that's Vince."

Jane asked "Do all of them know how to use guns?"

Vince, smiling, said "You have to in this world. I'm the most experienced and Wyatt is a good driver."

Jane relented and said "Fine. You can come with us. Wyatt, you can get up front with Molly. Bonnie and the rest of you, you're coming with me to the back of the truck. There's plenty of weapons in the back, but Becca, you and I need to talk."

Time Skip:

Jane's talk with Becca had gone smoothly and she was about to go to the truck when she felt a buzzing on her arm. She looked at it and saw the orange display of her Omni-Tool flicker into existence! It had been trying to restore power after she had used it on the turbine back at the lodge. She heard "Comma-zzz-der! Can you-zzz- me? - me, Joker!"

Pulling the Omni-Tool close, she whispered excitedly "Joker? Is that you?"

The orange hologram stuttered back "It's- zzz- Commander. Zzz- are you? We can't- zzz- you with your Omni-zzz."

Before he could continue, she asked "Is Garrus with you?"

Joker replied "zzz- here, Commander. So's the rest of the-zzz-, too."

Jane said "We're somewhere near Michigan. Just look for explosions."

He managed to reply "We'll-zzz try our-zzz- best, Commander. Just-zzz- alive, Commander."

He suddenly was interrupted by static and the Omni-Tool disappeared. She tapped her arm twice before giving up and joining the others. When they were ready, they sat off down the road.

Clementine's POV:

The next morning, Clementine and Lilly were taken to the outside of the wall. Clementine walked around the part she was assigned. As she walked around, she saw that despite the wall, the Compound wasn't indestructible. There was arrows and bullet holes littering the wall. When she turned a corner, she saw a walker pinned on the wall by a blade. Using the blade she was given, she pierced the brain and moved on. Once she was finished pulling arrows out of the metal, she was put on watch duty. A few walkers wandered through, but other than that, nothing really happened.

As she worked in the scrap yard, she looked for something she could keep. She found endless trinkets, but they weren't what she was looking for. As she looked, she thought of how far she had come. She had survived against all odds. So many had tried to kill her, but she survived. Suddenly, she caught a glint of gold in her eye. Rummaging through the metal, she eventually found what was making the gold shine. It was a locket, a glossy black embroidered with strings of gold. Stunned by the beauty of it, she quickly put it gently in her pocket and kept looking.

Then, it was lunch time. She was carted back to her cell and given what looked like mud. Kenny shouted out "Don't eat it, Clem! It's pig slop."

Clementine felt bile rise in her throat, but quickly shoved it down. About an hour later, she was put back to work. As she worked, she thought about the wall. Apparently, Andy had someone after him, but so far, that wall was his saving grace. That and all those weapons. The wall wasn't indestructible, but the entrance was guarded 24/7 and climbing it is a death sentence with the sentries and Clementine was sure she didn't want anywhere near those spikes. That takes the "breakout" option. So, unless something happens like a herd coming through, they weren't getting out.

She was soon escorted to her cell. Looking out her window, she watched the sun disappear over the wall and eventually was replaced by the moon and stars. It was something she hadn't thought about in a while. She saw the three showing stars of Orion's Belt. They brought some comfort as she let sleep consume her. Before she lost her train of thought to the black, she thought "Please be alive Jane. I can't lose anyone else."

I know this probably wasn't very good, but I'm saving all the good stuff for the finale. You know what they say, "Rome wasn't built in a day." Let's just hope I can do an ending that does both of these great franchises justice.

Until next time, this is Dragonfire signing off!