The Walking Dead: Origins

Chapter 4: Clementine

Ladies and gentlemen, and readers and writers, today I give you the story of Clementine. Hope you all enjoy the story. Thanks for reading so far. I always got the feeling not a lot of people liked prequels.

Nevertheless, here's the next chapter.

Today could not be a better in Rural Georgia. The sun was shining, sending a beautiful orange mist throughout the sky, the area was peaceful and everyone was in a good mood. It was not always peaceful due to the fact the Interstate 85 highway made a lot of traffic background noise on a daily basis, but today was a change and not one car could be heard.

In a small residential neighborhood near a wooded forest, a young eight-year-old girl named Clementine played by herself in the backyard of her garden.

With her was her babysitter; a young woman in her late teenage years named Sandra, whom Clementine's parents, Diana and Ed, had hired to watch Clementine whilst they were away for their vacation in Savannah.

Whilst Clementine began to play on her own, Sandra was inside the the house, making a sandwich for Clementine's lunch. She liked taking care of Clementine, always imagining her to be like to the little sister she never had. They both even played a game where they pretended to be sisters sometimes.

Before long had passed, Sandra finished making Clementine's lunch and placed the plate and it's contents on to the dining table. She turned around and proceeded towards the glass door. "Clementine! You're lunch is ready!"

"Okay, Sandra, thank you!" Clementine called in return as she placed down her toy teapot and ran back towards her house. She sat up against the dining table and began to eat her lunch politely.

Sandra was about to sit down on the couch and watch some TV for a while, but she halted to a stop when she heard what sounded like someone screaming outside. "What the fuck..." she mumbled quietly for Clementine not to hear.

Slightly cautious, Sandra stood up and approached the front door to investigate to commotion outside. She turned back towards Clementine before she left to make sure the young girl was safe. "Clementine, stay here and don't leave, okay? I'm just going outside just for a moment."

"Okay." Clementine nodded, but she was uncertain on what was happening. Her parents never left her alone in the house before.

Sandra slowly opened the door and looked through the gap, surveying the area to see what was happening. She could not see anything for now and decided to open the door fully and step outside, closing the door behind her.

Now all alone, Clementine finished her lunch and decided to color for a while until Sandra had returned. She moved over towards the kitchen counter and began to draw a picture with some crayons. She decided to draw a picture of a pony.

After a couple of minutes had passed, Clementine was alarmed when she heard a loud screech from outside her home that sounded a lot like Sandra's.

Speaking of Sandra, the teenager had suddenly came spiriting inside the house, slamming the door behind her as she panted heavily. She clutched her hand against her arm for some unknown reason and ran into the kitchen.

Clementine could only watch in confusion as Sandra practically whacked open the cupboards and draws and pulled out as much food as she could, stuffing it all into an empty box. After that, Sandra ran out from the kitchen and outside towards Clementine's tree house, her expression full of fear and shock.

Clementine still looked puzzled as she got off the stool and walked outside and approached Sandra. "Are you okay, Sandra?"

Sandra threw the box of food up towards Clementine's tree house before she turned her attention towards the young girl standing before her. She suddenly knelt down to Clementine's face and placed her hands upon her shoulders, her face now looking serious. "Clementine, listen to me! Go up into your tree house and stay in there until your parents come home! Can you do that for me!?"

Clementine merely nodded in agreement, even despite the fact she never really liked that tree house, but she was grateful to her father for building it for her.

"Good. Just stay inside and don't come out for anything!" Sandra ordered in a loud and serious. She did not want to yell, but she had no choice. "I got to go!"

Before Sandra had departed, Clementine shifted her sight towards Sandra's left arm and noticed what looked like a bite mark in the center, bleeding quite heavily. Maybe that's why Sandra had requested Clementine go into her tree house: to go and see a doctor and make sure she was safe.

The second Sandra had ran back inside the house and closed the glass door behind her, Clementine climbed up towards her tree house and got inside, making sure she had the food with her. She sat huddled against the corner of her tree house, slightly afraid now that she was all alone outside.

She had nothing much in this tree house to do and wished she brought her coloring book. All she had was a pink sleeping bag, her box of food, one of her walkie-talkies and a hammer laying in the corner of her tree house that her dad must have left behind.

For now, all Clementine could do was wait until her parents or Sandra to return. She certainly hoped she would not be here for long.

A couple of days had passed since Clementine had climbed into her tree house as Sandra requested, and she had not left since. She was extremely bored and did not have anything to do. But to her worry, she heard Sandra screaming a couple of times one day after she had been inside the house, but since then, only silence from her home.

But to pass most of the time, she used her walkie-talkie and pretended to talk to her mom and dad on it to make herself feel better. She had to admit it was a little silly, but no-one else was here and she did not care.

As Clementine rested on her sleeping bag, she gasped a little when she heard someone outside in her garden. Maybe it was Sandra, or better yet, her parents. She quietly made her way to the entrance/exit of her tree house and opened the wooden door slightly, just enough to see through it.

To her surprises, a man had emerged from around the side entrance of her home that led into the garden and made his way up towards the patio, and then proceeding towards the back door. Clementine looked through the glass to see inside the house and began speaking to himself.

"That's a nice TV in there." he admitted, leaning back up as he prepared to break inside.

Clementine was now even more worried on what was going to happen next. Not only was he planning to rob her parents TV, but what if Sandra was still inside? This man looked to be in his late thirties, meaning Sandra would never stand a chance against him.

Before the man could attempt to break inside, he panicked when he saw he was not only, and Clementine had also seen this. Two more people emerged from the same entrance the man had arrived from, but to Clementine's horror, they did not look like the kind of person you see everyday.

They looked...Horrible, hideous, and most importantly, dead! Their skins were torn and dry, their eye balls looked completely white, and their torsos were skinny as the average body should be. Whatever they were, they made groaning and snarling noises as they limped towards the man.

Clementine was scared when she saw this monsters roaming in her garden, but she was relieved when she saw those monsters had scared the man off and they even pursued him.

Clementine could not believe what she had witnessed. They looked like those monsters on the movies her parents forbid her to watch because of her age, but she did catch a glimpse of them a couple of times when she woke and came downstairs late at night.

Whatever those monsters were, Clementine had no intention of going face-to-face with them and decided to keep quiet until they were gone. She leaned back into her tree house and sat on top of her sleeping bag, silently wishing her parents were hear to protect her.

Two more days had passed since Clementine had been in her tree house and she was running low on food. She only had a few items left inside her box. But today was the day she decided to leave her tree house and search for help.

Once Clementine was out of her tree house, she was about to go towards the street to search for help, but she froze and was startled when the sound of a loud gunshot ran through her ears. She followed the source of the sound that sounded like it came from the forest just behind the fence in her garden.

She decided to go and investigate what was happening and hopefully, she found help. Her parents had always told her not to go into the forest as it was dangerous, but after witnessing those monsters in her garden the other day, she decided that every was dangerous at the moment.

Clementine exited her garden via the fence door and made her way into the forest, looking around the area to see if anyone was there. She made it towards a high spot in the forest and looked down below into the dark forest, despite the fact it was still in the afternoon.

Down below, she could just about make it a two men below. One of them was sitting up against a car that looked badly damaged, but as for the other man, he was laying motionlessly against the ground. She could not tell what was happening from the distance they were in.

The man sitting up against the car had called out to Clementine, waving his hand a couple of times whilst doing so. "HELP! Go get someone! There-There's been a shooting!"

Clementine turned around and ran back into her garden. She was going to get help like he requested, but instead, she retreated back into her tree house, still too afraid to go out into the open after witnessing those monsters the other day.

She still had no idea what she was going to do without anyone here to protect her, but hopefully, just hopefully, her parents or someone she knew would return to her home and protect her from whatever was happening lately.

And that my fellow readers was the story of Clementine, or at least what I imagined it to be. I was going to end the story here, but I am considering doing Omid and Christa's story, and maybe go onto season 2 characters, but that would be tricky since there's not much information about them.

We'll see how it goes. Hope you all enjoyed the chapter and be sure to leave a review.