I was supposed to update yesterday but I moved houses so there's that. And because of the last crappy chapter, I shall reward y'all with a 2,500+ word chapter! One- because I love y'all and two- because I can't make anymore chapters of "In Harm's Way"
And Something bad will happen to Duck in this chapter. Let's just say he will go...Carl Grimes in issue 83 in the comics style.
Anyway, Hope you enjoy reading!
Duck was laying on the top bunk as Clementine returns to the group. "We gotta get back to bed, Troy'll be back any minute." Mike reminds.
"Well?" Kenny looks at her. A smile on his face appears as Clementine shows him the radio. "Thank you, Clem."
Duck chose to be quiet as he was really tired. Just when he's about to close his eyes, He cracked it open again.
"I thought about Duck today...About his dumb little face..."
"DAD!"
"Sorry son, It's just hard to think about it, y'know? How my boy has grown. Well, Long day tomorrow. Long day."
The next morning, "Alright, We're all here." Kenny says as he looks at all of them gathering.
"Someone's gotta get the radio out to Luke. What's the problem?" Rebecca asks.
"We should probably figure out who's doin' what before we-"
"Alright, Time for work. Rebecca, Sarah, Nick and Jane. Take a piss now cause the next break won't be for a while." Tavia interrupts them by arriving and escorting Rebecca, Sarah, Nick and Jane are escorted out to work. "Troy'll be back for the rest of you."
As Tavia leaves the room, "I'll bring the radio out to Luke." Mike suggests.
Kenny shakes his head in disagreement. "No offence Mike. But I think either Clem or Duck will be better for the job. I don't trust you that much."
"Are you fucking kidding me? They're just kids man!" Mike crosses his arms. "Just give me a reason why."
"There's a thousand reasons why! They know Luke, Luke trusts them and a lot more!"
"Alight, Chickens. Time for work. And don't think it will be like yesterday, You'll be workin' real hard startin' today, Got that?"
When Kenny, Mike and Duck nodded. Troy glares at Clementine. "I need an answer, Girl."
"Whatever." Clementine rolls her eyes.
"C'mon. Let's get to work." Troy says as he begins walking away.
"Clem! You've got all your pockets loose! Lemme help ya with that." Kenny swiftly and stealthily places the radio in Clementine's pockets.
Troy looks at them, Kenny shrugs. "Just come the fuck on." Troy sighs.
On their way to work, Bonnie comes across them. "The kids workin' with me?" Bonnie asks Troy.
"Fuck, I forgot." Troy sighs and looks at them, Then pushes them to Bonnie. "Fine, Take 'em. I don't care."
"Wait, Shouldn't they be better off with us?" Kenny reasons.
"Nope. Now let's get to work, Chickens." Troy commands as he walks away with Kenny and Mike.
Walking with Bonnie, as she talks about how shocked she is when Carver killed Reggie. She notices them nervously looking around. "You two look anxious, Anything the matter?"
No answer, Bonnie looks around and opens the door to the armory then gestures them to go inside.
Once inside, Bonnie looks at them. "You know you can tell me anythin', Right?"
"Luke's waiting for us." Duck informs. "He wants us to give him the radio." Clementine adds and shows Bonnie the radio.
Bonnie looks at them with somewhat shock. "Clem! You know we can be punished for this!"
"I know, But all I want from you is to not care where I am. For 15 minutes."
Bonnie sighs. "Fine. But if you dare mention my name, Carver'll be the least of your problems. Got that? Now go." Seeing Clementine leave the room, She looks at Duck. "Why aren't ya coming with her?"
Duck shrugs. "I'm not useful for that kind of stuff." He looks at her. "So...What would we be doing today?"
"Ya know how to use a rifle?"
"Not much."
"I can teach ya."
"Cool!"
After learning a thing or two about rifles. Troy barges in and grabs the boy by the collar. "COME HERE YOU 'LIL SHIT!"
Bonnie stands up. "What's going on?"
"The fuckers plannin' on escapin' and used that fucker Luke to get them a radio."
"Dammit, Troy. At least don't hold that child in that manner."
"Shut the fuck up, Bill's gonna discipline them. I need to hurry it up, Where's the girl?" Troy shakes the boy. "Where is she?!"
"Looking for Luke, Duh."
"Dammit." Troy mutters and drags Duck out to the pen. Being brought to the pen, where it is revealed that Luke has been captured by Carver. He expresses his disbelief over the deception, and how the group has repaid his trust and kindness with betrayal. He holds up the the walkie-talkie confiscated from the rest of the group. "Whatever you were planning is over, It's done. you can't just run from your problems. You can't just up and leave when it gets tough...Cause there's no way else you can go where it ain't . Tough is all we got, Now. Get that through your fucking skulls." Carver walks around in disappointment. "Luke here, He can't help you know ..You gotta help yourselves. You gotta help me find the strength to forgive you. You can start by tellin' me where the other one is." Carver says as he waves the radio around.
"I g-"
"I got it..uh, Sir." Duck interrupts Clementine and takes the radio away from her. As Carver extends his hand, Duck hesitantly drops the radio on his hand. "Alright, That was easy. Ain't it?" Carver smiles at Duck. "Now, Go stand right there." Carver points at a corner.
Duck obeys and walks to the corner, Looking around. He sees shocked or scared faces, Especially from the cabin survivors. As he arrives to the spot, Carver brings out his gun and backs away. "Alright, If this bullet misses your skull or any part of your body, Then consider yourself lucky. If not then..." Carver then points the gun at the boy. "You know what happens."
"YOU FUCKER!" Kenny growls at Carver as he runs to attack him, But was pinned down by Carlos and another man.
Carver then closes his eyes with his finger on the trigger.
Clementine couldn't just stand and watch her friend to be killed like this. She runs towards him but was stopped by Troy. Who hits her in the face with his rifle. knocking her to the floor and giving her a cut along her face. knocking her to the floor and giving her a cut along her face. "You little shit..."
"One...two...three." Carver pulls the trigger.
BANG!
Everyone's eyes widens. As the boy has been shot on the side of his head. Specifically near his left eye.
Duck was in shock. "D-dad?" he calls out for his father as he falls down.
After Carver opens his eyes again, He clicks his tongue. "The boy isn't much lucky, Poor kid." He looks at Kenny who is in tears and still being pinned down by the two. "Let him go."
Kenny runs to his boy, dropping to his knees and examining his son's face. "O-oh my fucking god...D-Duck...? Can you hear me buddy? You're gonna be okay...It's just a scratch..." hearing his son's short breaths. He widens his eyes and turns to the group. "H-he's still breathin'!"
Carver widens his eyes in surprise. "That's impossible! How could a kid still survive a gunshot to the head?" He turns to Carlos. "Carlos! Check this boy's injury if he has any chance of survival."
Carlos nods and walks to them, Examining the gunshot wound. He shakes his head. "His left eye is permanently damaged, Some of his flesh are burned off. And maybe it damaged a part of his brain." Carlos stands up and looks at Carver. "Possibly of...55% of survival with proper medical treatment."
"Not bad, fine. You have the medical supplies you need." Carver leaves the pen. "Save that boy if you can, If not. Then you wasted our supplies and you'll be facing the same punishment."
Bonnie enters the room, Seeing the two kids unconscious and injured. She widens her eyes. "What happened here?!"
"Fucking Bill shot my boy and knocked Clem unconscious." Kenny explains as he carries Duck to a comfortable bed and sits down. "Fuck..."
"Okay, What do y'all need?"
After saying what they need, Bonnie nods and walks away. Getting the stuff.
Arriving with the stuff, Bonnie gives it to Carlos and attempts to comfort Clementine. "Do your best with him, Carlos. You need to get the boy able to move. 'Cause we're leavin'. Tonight."
Surprised faces everywhere.
"We're leavin' tonight." Bonnie repeats.
Clementine wakes up a few hours later. "Uhh. Oww...dang it.."
Looking around, Kenny seems depressed while Sarita comforts him, While Luke and Mike speak with Bonnie at the gate.
Rejoining the group by the fire, Luke and Mike comes back, "What'd she say?" Rebecca asks.
"She said she can get us out of the pen if we can get the PA system going. Second she hears it, she'll run over and spring us."
"That's great!"
"It's not great." Luke disagrees.
"What're you talking about?"
"We can't stay here!" Clementine enters the conversation.
"Look, I hear what you're saying, But it's risky."
"It is pretty damn risky, guys." Nick agrees.
"Risky? Did you see what that sonuvabitch just did? Look, The plan works. Nothing needs to change. It's all set up. The hard part's done, This guy's fucking crazy. Who knows what he'll do next." Mike argues.
"Yeah but now we're dealin' with a kid shot on the eye, Kenny's in no shape to do anything, And I'm a goddamn mess. Look, We should rest up. Okay? We should bide our time and we should wait for an opening."
"Bonnie's agreeing to help us tonight,"
"And that doesn't mean she can't help us on some OTHER night."
"I don't know, Guys...Luke's makin' sense. Maybe we should wait."
"We're NOT waiting." Rebecca disagrees.
"Ain't nothing out there, guys. Trust me. I looked! There's no food, No supplies. They picked everything clean."
"Where's Duck?" Clementine asks.
"Doc's over there workin' on the kid. It don't look good."
Eventually, Carlos comes back over to the group. Shaking his head.
Clementine looks at unconscious Duck laying on the bed. "Is he okay?" Clementine asks.
"His orbital is damaged...The eye has permanent damage. I got him as stable as I could. Removed the bullet, Cleaned it got some of the swelling down, Bandaged it as best as I could. But until he wakes up...We won't know if there's any damage to the brain."
"Okay, Look...Maybe I'm just playin' devil's advocate here, But if...Dammit. If y'all are serious about goin' tonight. Then we're gonna have to start talkin' about...leavin' some folks behind."
"What the fuck are you talkin' about?" Kenny glares at Luke.
"There is no other way." Luke argues.
"This is bullshit."
"Well, I don't like it either, But guess what? it's what we're at."
"Me, Sarita, Duck and Clementine are only here because of y'all. And now you're leavin' us behind?"
"Yeah." Duck gets up and walks to the group. "Why leave me behind? I'm typically the 'Carl Grimes' of this story. Now all I need is a cowboy hat."
"Duck!" Kenny runs to his son and gives him a hug. "I knew you'd survive this. I just knew it!"
"How about let's just leave tonight, I hate this place anyway.' Duck smiles.
Clementine approaches Duck and playfully punches his shoulder and hugs him. "You didn't have to do that."
"Okay now, So where are we goin'? In case things get squirrely and we gotta make a break for it, We need a place to meet up." Kenny suggests.
"We could meet up at Parker's run."
"the hell is that?"
"It's a civil war site a few miles north. Tourist trap. Got signs all over, Just follow the road."
"Then we just need someone to go set off that PA thing, right? I mean, You never bothered to explain who's supposed to do that."
Everyone looked at Clementine. "Why is it always me?"
"Duck could have been a good choice but with his condition-"
"I can do it." Duck steps forward. "Clem did the other two dangerous missions, Maybe it's about time I should do it."
"But you're in no condition to, Are you sure?"
"Hell yeah." Duck cracks his knuckles.
Being sent off by the group, Reaching the roof, Duck drops down the skylight into Carver's office. Alvin is still sitting in the chair, still lying unconscious. Duck attempts to wake him, to no avail. Afterwards, Duck turns on the microphone and the outdoor speakers, only to notice that there is no CD in order to play sound. Finding a CD, he puts it in the DVD player, which begins to play generic mall music along with advertisement announcements. Duck looks down from the office to see Bonnie heading towards the pen to free the group, having heard the signal, As Duck watches Bonnie move, Alvin approaches the desk quietly, much to Duck's surprise. "Alvin?Are you okay?"
"Carver talks all that tough guy shit...Then keeps the tiniest universe...Somethin' funny about that..." Alvin tries to chuckle.
Duck looks back out the window to see Carver and assorted guards splitting up to track down the survivors and to shut down the PA system. Duck turns to Alvin. "We've gotta go, Now!"
"I ain't fit to move, Kid. I've...I've run outta road. Y-you've gotta get outta here, They'll be here any second."
"Thanks.." Duck thanks him as his runs off but stopped.
"You take care of my girls..."
Duck looks back.
"I've got a feeling it's gonna be a girl...just a hunch. Go on."
Exiting the office and heading to the storage room, Only to find Carver has located and caught the group once more. Holding them at gunpoint. "You wanna disrespect me, Fine. You wanna throw away the life... I'm tryin' to build for us all, Then fucking fine! You wanna run off with this dogshit group of crippled fucks? Then fine! Be my guest. But I will put a bullet in you and that bab- aGH!"
'HERE'S JOHNNY!" Duck yells as he jumps on Carver's back, Which stuns him. As he attempts to regain his footing, Kenny punches him on the face, While Luke moves in by his side to disarm him, And holds him at gunpoint.
Carver holds his hands up in surrender as the group contemplates what to do with him. "Wait, Where's Alvin?" Rebecca notices his absence.
Duck remained silent, Which Rebecca realizes. Luke attempts to comfort her. "Shoot him." Rebecca says.
"AAARgh!" Carver screams as Kenny shoots him both on the legs. Collapsing on the floor.
Kenny grabs a crowbar, and tells everyone in a menacing tone to wait outside. Sarita attempts to convince him to leave instead of killing Carver, but Kenny refuses, stating that he only needs a minute.
"The kids already seen more than you can imagine."
"Shut your mouth, Bill!"
"I'm not going anywhere." Duck crosses his arms.
"It's gonna get messy."
"I've watched The Human Centipede when I was 5."
As Sarita and Clementine leave, "Oh come on, Clementine. Don't be like that, Even Duck will be watching. Don't run away...You know you wanna see the show. Who do you think you're foolin'? I know you. I know who you are."
Just after Clementine and Sarita leaves, Carver looks at Duck. "You know that feeling you got right now, Kenneth JR? That's what makes you stronger than the rest of 'em. "
After Kenny kills Carver, They go outside and covers themselves in walker guts. Suddenly Troy appears and Jane intervenes by calmly approaching Troy while holding a gun, and attempts to sweet talk him by proposing to run away together, to which Troy eventually agrees. Catching him off guard, Jane shoots him in the groin, takes his assault rifle and leaves him to be devoured by the walkers.
Now that they're covered, They're now off to the herd. While walking through the herd, Carlos gets shot and killed while Sarah snaps and runs across the herd.
Then, Sarita get bitten by a walker on her hand.
The ending sucked and looks rushed, I know. I'm just tired.
Anyway, Reference time!
Just give me a Reason- A song by P!nk
Carl Grimes- No, Not Coral Grimes. I mean Carl from the comic series. He was accidentally shot on the eyes so you get what I mean.
"HERE'S JOHNNY!"- A 'The Shining' reference
The Human Centipede- Disgusting movie.
Oh, And I forgot. I will be saving some characters! Who do you want me to save? Luke? Nick? Sarah? Rebecca? Anyone? Then say it now before I kill them off!
Thanks for reading!