A/N: Okay the reviews I'm getting mean a great deal (I have strange goal to get 80 plus reviews by chapter 20, It's just an odd ambition of mine)

AquaDestinyEmbrace- Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed the group finally forgiving Clementine as I couldn't make them hate her forever, it would seem too childish of them to hold a grudge for that long, (considering Clem is a useful ally)

obsessed naruhnina fangirl- I always look forward to your reviews and we seem to agree on a lot regarding our distaste on episode 4. Because not only for me did it kill off Sarah and Nick pointlessly, but it made me hate Luke and Jane who were previously my two favourite characters. I mean Jane was a cold hearted survivalist and I liked her that way and Luke was a big brother who'd always put the group first, so the whole "sex" scene between the pair of them was completely out of character and destroyed any respect I gained for them.

But don't worry there won't be any "Lane" in this story (well not of yet and certainly no sudden sex like we saw the game) Jane was brilliant throughout the whole of episode 4 up until that "scene" I will not destroy such a good character the way I felt Telltale did. And as for people liking Troy... please... please tell me that's a joke? After what he did to Clementine?

Martial Arts Master- Glad you enjoyed the chapter, however I imagine that in the heat of the moment Kenny (with his lack of knowledge on Autism) would say something like that. He means for well for Sarah but his short on patience and fails to think about the consequences of his actions (the shooting at the lodge, the meat locker...) however that's why I like him, because his such a complex, flawed, yet loyal character.

I'm trying a slow, steady approach with Sarah's autism, rather than just suddenly turning her into a badass, not everyone can be like Clementine yet Sarah's evolution throughout this story I imagine will be great to write about. (Season one was great because we could teach Clem how to survive and watch her grow, why not do the same for Sarah?)

Anyway for anyone reading you've reached the end of this Author's note or story within itself. Now I'll shut up and let you read on...

Clementine felt her heavy eyelids slowly flutter open, at first the silence pressed against her eardrums and she feared the worst as her heartbeat quickened, threatening to tear out of her ribcage, that was until she heard a grating snore from Kenny.

"Typical" she thought, she closed her eyes once again and for a few seconds she could pretend she was back in the motor inn, with Lee sleeping by her side. She used to lie by him when she got scared or had a nightmare... through the open window they could hear Kenny's snores from the opposite room, which Lee used to joke about on occasion. Closing her eyes tighter she could feel the chilly air sweeping through her fingers, just like it had done at the motor inn...

She opened her eyes only to find the dull grey of the bed above her. She sighed, wishing that she could have gone back further, that Lee was here. That she could have saved him by not trusting that stranger...

"No, you're here now these are your friends, you can't save Lee but you can save them" she thought to herself, all these people combined weren't a scratch on Lee. His death had devastated her in more ways than she could have ever imagined, her parents and Lee were gone, yet his final instruction to keep moving and surviving had given her a burning will to go on. To make him proud, when her new friends died she felt aimless and she physically lacked the food and supplies to go on.

Not this time.

As she opened her yellowish eyes once again she deduced that by this point in time, Carlos, Sarita, Nick and Sarah would be dead and gone. Yet the four of them were safely asleep in their bunks rather than dead and lurking as rotting walkers out the pen, she smiled as she changed that fact.

A morning mist had descended eerily on the hardware store as those lurkers that lay truly dead lay in their hundreds outside of the pen, lay there rotting slowly as flies swarmed and crawled across their grey flaky skin. The store had held out as the majority of the herd had moved onwards, for now the community was still solidly standing.

...

Clementine watched as everyone woke one by one, she noticed Rebecca place her hands to her stomach and the 11 year old suddenly realised that today was the day Rebecca's waters would break and tonight she would give birth.

"I hope she'll pull through" Clementine thought, Carlos was here, Carver had the medical supplies and surely she could rest easy here rather than moving after a mere few days. She would need a lot more rest and recovery and Clementine could ensure (that despite his psychopathic habits) that Carver would ensure the safety of the mother of his child as well as his own child...

Before anyone could utter a "Good morning" there was familiar clang at the shutter as Troy's loathed face popped up behind the steel shutter. "UP! GET THE FUCK UP! Y'ALL GOT A LOT OF SHIT TO DO TODAY!" He bellowed at them.

"Haven't we everyday?" Nick muttered to himself as he stood up tall approaching the shutter. Clementine trailed after his tall form as he stretched and tried to wipe the increasingly dark rings from under his eyes as Troy, Tavia and Carver himself spilled into the pen all looking rather fatigued as their guns remained trained on the pen group.

"Okay, as you probably heard last night we had a little herd on our hands, now as you'll be glad to know the herd was dealt with... however there were major damages to the barricades around this place and we had a few breaches..." he gave the pen dwellers a sinister smile at this.

"Seeing as y'all weren't fighting that herd, today you'll be repairing the barricades around this place to a top notch standard" He commanded with a snarl which meant harm upon anyone who failed this task.

"So much for the promise" Clementine thought bleakly, her eyes nervously found Sarah who still had a look of nervous apprehension on her face, then again as long as she wasn't in the greenhouses today.

"Sarah, Carlos and Nick you're with Vince by the expansion!" Carver ordered as they were led off and the groups were allocated

"Rebecca and Sarita you're with Hank..."

"Kenny and Mike you're with Russell..."

"Jane you're with Vera..."

"Clem and Luke you're with Bonnie on the southern expansion!" Carver ordered,Clementine had to check her ears to see if she had heard that right, if Carver had deliberately put her with two people he knew were her friends? Was this some sort of trick?

She looked into his past his crusty eyebrows and into his evil green globes.

"Well what are you waiting for? Off you go!" He demanded.

Clementine set off after Luke wondering what on earth had propelled Carver to allow this. Was he trying to get on her good-side?

...

"Guess that makes us workmates" Luke muttered happily to her the second they were out of Carver's range of hearing, escorted to Bonnie by a flat faced man who looked interested in the camp around him rather than what Luke or Clementine were saying.

"But why would Carver put us together though? I thought he was trying to turn the camp against me?" Clem asked of him.

"I dunno Clem" he said his brows furrowing in deep thought before he abruptly changed the topic "Do you know anything about DIY, or did your parents work in DIY?" he asked of her.

"No, my dad was an engineer and my mum was a doctor" she replied.

"Shoot, let's hope Bonnie knows what she's doing because I've been in business too long to know how hammer a nail on a wall" Luke joked as Clementine found herself laughing this was the Luke she grew to like, not the wired up excuse of a man she had been with during her final days.

"Didn't your parents ever work in DIY?" She counter asked to learn a little more about him.

"Nah Clem, they were entrepreneurs like me, it ran through our family" He mused with a small smile playing on his face, however before Clem could dig further into his past they reach where Bonnie stood waiting for them.

"Hey, Clem, Luke" she acknowledged them both with a somewhat shy voice.

"Howdy, so what are we hauling today?" Luke asked rather merrily this seemed to break through the tension building in the air as Bonnie let a familiar smile "Erm... yeah about that y'all probably wondering about why Carver would place us three together" she told them both.

"Well yeah, I mean if Carver's trying to turn the camp against Clem why put with us where we can stir the witch's cauldron?" Luke asked as they stepped into the chilly morning.

"Because of this" Bonnie said as Luke and Clementine gazed ahead.

A 10 foot wide gap was evident in the barricade as the rest of the barricade had been flattened and lay beneath the rotting corpses of dozens of walkers. Luke single cursed summed up everything Clementine felt at the moment.

"Shit"

"Yeah, Carver wants us on the most risky part of the barricade so if there's an accident all three of us will be pushing up the daises" Bonnie told them sadly as Clementine began to move the first walker of the barricade.

"Well then let's prove him wrong" she panted as she prepared to lift the second walker.

"Y'all keep on that Clem I'll be with you a second I need to talk to Luke about something" she said as they walked off, Clem rolled her eyes, she remembered what happened the last time Luke was alone with a woman... yet thankfully this time they returned after barely a minute and both were smiling warmly at each other although they weren't pulling any clothes back on...

"Me and Luke have cleared the air" Bonnie explained as she helped Clementine with a particularly chubby walker.

"That's good, so you trust us now?" Clementine asked as the rolled the walker around and off the fallen wooden barricade.

"After what happened to Becca yesterday I'm with you, Bill's... not the man he used to be" Bonnie said as she worked on lifting her next walker, however as she grabbed it by the arms it suddenly lunged forwards with a snarl and snapped at Bonnie's wrist...

"SHIT!" Bonnie yelped in surprise jumping back, the walkers rotting molars missing her pale skin by millimetres, as she fell backwards as it crawled towards her, Clementine could only watch in shock. However Luke had acted fast, bringing his foot down onto the walkers skull as it cracked with a sickening crunch and blood oozed from it's decomposing head...

"T-thanks..." Bonnie eventually stuttered to Luke, who helped the shaken woman to her feet, as Clementine rolled the walker from the barricade and onto the heap of growing bodies just outside of the compound, leaving a trail of brains behind it. She used her jacket to wipe the sheen of sweat away that had been building on her forehead and she also used her sleeve to try and block out the all to familiar yet horrible stench of decomposition...

"Still think staying here is any good any more Bonnie?" Luke asked with a raised eyebrow as she grinned shakily back at him "Okay, I get your point pretty boy I know it ain't safe here, but we got to play carefully if were plannin' to escape for good" Bonnie replied.

"Yeah you can help us from the inside, I know you can Bonnie, I trust you" He muttered in that southern drawl which seemed to convince Bonnie in an instant, those last three words made her swell with some sort of pride "Well if that's the case I'm the woman for the job" She mused happily.

"Yeah..." Luke replied.

They seemed to be gazing at each other in a very soppy manner, Clementine rolled her eyes and coughed "We've kinda got a job to do here" she reminded the pair of them, when the sparks flying through the air got to heated for Clementine's amusement.

"Ah! Right sorry Clem, just... making sure Bonnie's one of us" was Luke's excuse.

...

It took them another half an hour or so to remove the last of the walkers from off the barricade, during this time Clementine asked Bonnie about the bodies she found at the river and whether Carver and her were responsible for the onslaught in which she shook her head "No, we didn't come across anyone by a river or stream" she told her.

"You don't have to lie to us Bonnie. it's okay" Luke reassured her.

"If that was me or the others I would have told you by now, but I swear on all things holy it wasn't us" she repeated her statement causing the topic to close, with the primary suspects now being Arvo's group or some other bandits around the woods. Looking out to the horizon she couldn't see any approaching walkers across the large car park, but they always had a habit of turning up with no warning... and that was just walkers... these holes in the barricade could have let anyone in...

As they slowly (but surely) began to lift the chunks of barricade back into place, Clementine was about to ask Luke about his relationship with Nick. However before the first question could leave her tongue the door behind them burst open and a white faced Stephanie ran out to them.

"GUYS! HURRY! SOMETHING HUGE IS GOING ON BY THE EXPANSION!" She shouted.

"What is it!?" Bonnie shouted back a feeling of dread clouding the air as much as the morning mist was.

"I dunno, but I think someone's been killed! Everyone's gathered around there, Bill's giving a speech and all!" Stephanie informed them.

They didn't wait for her too finish, Luke flew off first towards the expansion with Bonnie and Clementine trailing him closely, with Stephanie bringing up the rear, bursting open the red emergency door, Clementine was shocked to see (what must have been everybody in this compound) funnelled into the walkway staring ahead of them. Using Luke has a blowtorch to blow through the crowd, Clementine hung close to his back as she squeezed past the familiar forms of Wyatt and Eddie...

"...What is this the lottery with one loser a day?" she overhead Eddie tell Wyatt.

"...I dunno but that's the third death in three days" Wyatt confirmed the news she had dreaded to hear, yet she didn't know who had died yet. Luke finally managed to get in front of the crowd and muttered "My God..." upon the sight, Clementine peered from behind his back...

The barricade had been broken in a place and three walkers lay dead with the all too familiar bullet wounds present on their forehead, however the site of a lifeless and bled out Carlos underneath them is what caused Clementine to gasp and her gut to sink. She thought she had saved him but now the doctor lay cold and still, bite marks littering his corpse as a red hole in the middle of his head told Clementine he wouldn't be coming back.

But that was not all, she spotted a hysterical Sarah twitching wildly, her eyes like a never ending waterfall as her screams were muffled by a binding across her mouth. Troy held onto the girl tightly, with an evil glint evident in his eyes "Stay fucking still you little bitch" Clementine heard him snarl at the grieving girl, never had she wanted to hurt someone more than she wanted to hurt Troy at that moment.

Turning, she also saw Nick bent on the floor, blood dripping from his face as he panted in pain, his cap blocked out how badly his face had been beaten, but Clementine knew it can't have been good. Another man in his late 20's or early 30's also looked fairly beat up with bruises dotted on his face, and blood flecked in his greasy black hair. The Asian man was gazing at Carver in fear as he Clem could tell (by his deep breathing) that he was trying to remain calm.

Carver stood in the midst of it all, his eyes instantly found Clementine as she stood forward next to where Rebecca was watching the scene with eyes as wide as saucepans.

"Now were all here, I'd just like to clarify what happened and what's gonna happen..." he pointed back to Nick, Sarah and the Asian man "To these three".

Clementine gulped, she wasn't going to like this. Not in the slightest. Her head felt dizzy she needed to lie down and... and take a break!

Yet (as she knew he would) Carver spoke...