A/N: Okay by the looks of the poll Clementine is the leader, with Nick, Sarah and Bonnie tied 2nd and Wyatt, Eddie and Kenny tied for 3rd. Thanks for everyone who voted!

Obsessed naruhina fangirl- I started with the game, before reading the comics (which were awesome at the start but have been going downhill lately) the characters Glenn and Hershel are from the comic. But also appear in the TV show. But the TV show is a separate universe to the comic book/game universe. I've watched the TV show and it has it's good moments but is not as good as the game or the comics.

However the game remains the best, my first issues with it only rising recently with "Amid The Ruins" (as I've listed my reasons beforehand) however watching the TV show or comic doesn't affect how I make my decisions in the game. Anyhow glad you're still enjoying the story!

Night-Chan-DragonEyes- Thanks for your review! I'm really making Carver a douche aren't I? If you read the comic governor seems more like Carver than the TV version, as the comic governor goes full on psycho and before he does... his acts of cruelty (e.g cutting off Rick's hand) reflect Carver's actions of destroying one of Kenny's eyes. So I can see Carver going more comic governor than TV Governor. and don't worry I think everyone whose reviewed wants Carver to suffer the most painful death possible.

AquaDestinysEmbrace- Thanks (as always) for your reviews!

P.S. I always want to say thanks to everyone for giving me a lot of long reviews, with lots of tips, advice and suggestions in them. Really it fuels me to carry on writing when I get such reviews! So cheers and keep em coming!

The group trailed behind Tavia in a united cluster as they all moved forwards like a crab, in the sea of blue uniforms Clementine felt comfortable as she knew she was surrounded by her sturdy tower blocks of friends, who would remain standing and would remain protecting her... she had already gotten them this far. She wasn't going to back down now.

Entering a dusty room in the expansion, Tavia held open the door as she growled "In" at the pen dwellers who filled inside in a single file. Looking up Clementine could once again see everybody in Howard's Hardware had been gathered. The masses still stood at around 40-ish people, while the higher privileged, (Like Troy or Tavia) stood around Carver, their guns trained on the crowd as Carver spoke to them all, pacing up and down...

"... I keep telling you, were dropping like flies! Do you think I want to wipe you all out!? Well!? Cause I don't! But I have too if were having sings of rebellion in our midst..."

Clementine interest was fixated on Carver at the mention of the word "Rebellion" what was this? What was going on?

"Thankfully Anna was a lone wolf, she tried to steal our supplies and try to draw walkers into this community, henceforth destroying it. Thankfully we were able to stop her and when you go outside you can all see what becomes of people who try to rebel...!" Carver was ranting, his face red as he had to deal with the stress of trying to force control upon these people.

"His lying" Kenny stated what was already obvious to the rest of the pen dwellers.

"Why lie about a suicide and turn her into a rebel though? Won't that inspire more rebellions?" Vince asked of the group as Luke sighed and ran a hand through his straggly hair and answered Vince's question.

"It's clever, think about it Bill's trying to enforce his power here. So what's gonna frighten people more into submission than the mutilation of a lone rebel added to what he did to us last night? His trying to show that whoever rebels against him, ends up like us, or her" he explained as Vince nodded dumbfounded.

"His just ruling through fear now then" Shel said gazing up at him, her eyes burning as she muttered "Becca, Anna, Nick and Sarah, Reggie... the list goes on. He has order but no respect" she concluded.

"Anna wouldn't rebel! She respected you Bill! I just can't believe she do something like this!" A woman shouted from the front of the group as Carver shook his head sadly, with an perfected look of sorrow on his face, "I'm truly sorry for your loss Vera... but... it appears Anna wasn't really your friend if she planned to rebel alone" he said patting her shoulder slowly as she dissolved into sobs.

"THAT'S BULLSHIT! WE SAW THE GIRL JUMP!"

Oh how Clementine wished there was a filter between Kenny's head and mouth.

Carver's head snapped upwards as he glared at Kenny through silts as he coughed and muttered "You're suggesting suicide? Anna was a strong woman she wouldn't dare just give up"

"She did seem shocked after what you did last night Bill" a man from the crowd commented.

"and she rebelled! and we stopped her! That's the end of the story! Now you know what will happen to the rest of you if you dare to step out of line! Those people...!" he pointed an accusing finger at the blue clump of the pen dwellers, as Clementine felt forty pairs of eyes rest on the group around her. "They want nothing but trouble! They'll sprout any sort of bullshit to get you people hyped! Remember they've done wrong and their in reform!" he ranted on to his group who were shuffling awkwardly.

"But you've treated them like slaves!" A woman cried.

"You went too far with their punishment Bill!" Another man bellowed.

It was like a crescendo, more and more angry shouts were building up from around Clementine and her head felt light... were the group... rebelling against Carver?

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Carver finally roared over the clambering of angry voices as he aimed his gun upwards and fired, the gunshot brought a shocked silence over the remainder of the group. As the commotion died down Carver piped up again, looking utterly insane as he spat...

"YOU'RE UPSET HUH!? YOU'RE ANGRY HUH!? I'M TRYING TO LEAD THIS UNGRATEFUL GROUP AND ALL YOU PEOPLE DO IS MOAN ABOUT THOSE WHO SUFFER! THOSE THAT SUFFER AND DIE!? THEIR WEAK! THEY DON'T DESERVE PITY OR GRIEF FROM US! YOU'VE ALL GOT TO TOUGHEN THE FUCK UP AND LEARN THAT TOUGH IS ALL WE GOT NOW! GET THAT THROUGH YOUR FUCKING SKULLS!"

He was panting heavily as he finished, the group looked petrified at this words, as Carver had truly blown his top, whatever sort of dignity he had as a calm and level headed leader faded in that instant. As everyone had seen the paranoid, insane, brutal, viscous psychopath that lay behind the hologram image of a leader who was kind to all and capable of making the tough decisions.

But the beatings... unnecessary murders for the greater good... exiles and the manipulation of this girl's death, revealed to Clementine something she should have clocked on in the second that Carver had walked through that cabin door.

He was a bully. A power hungry bully, claiming to kill and beat the weak for the greater good was a load of crap. Maybe it started off like that but over time Carver had steadily grown more insane. Killing and beating the weak more for his own amusement rather than survival. As Eddie (of all people) wisely whispered to Eddie.

"Saving us? At this rate he won't have a group left to save"

Carver gazed across the silent room and addressed the observers with one last snarl "I do this for the greater good, you think is harsh but were all still here after 2 years, we have to do want we need, not what we want."

Lies.

"It's Bullshit" Clementine found herself thinking darkly, he had come all the way to hunt down the cabin survivors because he wanted his baby. He killed Reggie for no reason probably other than to scare Clementine and Sarah. He killed Becca for a similar reason, he exiled Sarah and Nick (killed them as well probably) for the same reason. He lied about the girl (Anna's death) for the same God damn reason!

He did what he wanted.

Now his image of this great leader was fading and he knew, hence his increased angry behaviour and more psychopathic side coming to the surface. As he left the room with Troy beside him leaving the rest of the crowd to get funnelled off to their work posts Clementine could only worry that he might do something drastic. She remembered her hair standing on end after Kenny's outburst, yet now he was leaving the room with not only his eye but also his life. (Which for a few seconds) Clementine didn't think he would be.

"You're with Vince today Clementine, you're working on the building the new expansion to the east" Tavia snapped at them.

"Of course I am" she thought bitterly, hardly surprised that the other pen dwellers got similar jobs by building further "new" expansions. No doubt these were the most risky jobs and Carver wanted them dead. They'd be shot for not working and probably killed by walkers in the exposed car park, all a way for Carver to try and indirectly kill them without coating his hands in more blood and provoking a rebellion.

Well, it was a bit late for that.

...

She and Vince were escorted to the car park, Clementine couldn't help but look up as she noted several of the other workers around the store were pointing to her and whispering amongst each other. No doubt about her or the others, she caught a few curious glances coming her way but pretended to ignore them all as she headed towards the car park.

"You're out here, you know what to do and how to build, just don't die on the job" Were Tavia's only words as she slammed the door shut behind them, leaving Vince and Clementine with a toolbox and a few planks of wood.

Vince walked up to the toolbox and held up a small saw and muttered "Reckon we could take down Carver with this?"

Clementine laughed lightly as she dug her hand into the toolbox and pulled out a small hammer "Well... Carver beware we have DIY equipment" she commented dryly holding the hammer up to the heavens as Vince bent over in doubles, wheezing and chuckling at Clementine's comment. When he finally regained himself he smiled down at her while wiping his eyes "Jeez kid you're funny" he gasped as he finally glanced at the planks of wood and sighed.

"I guess we better actually do some work, or else get eaten" he said as picked up a large plank of wood and held it in the air "Clem can you put the support at the bottom of this? So it will stand?"

And that's how it went for the next half an hour, with a crude blueprint drawn up by Carver, the two had to follow the semi-circular pattern of the expansion to cover the door behind them that led right into the hardware store. "I'm surprised it took them this long to get this done" Vince panted as Clementine stuck another triangular support beam at the bottom of the plank. At Vince's touch the plank's swayed horribly but they stood never the less. "A few walkers on these and they'll collapse, barricades take time to make strong" he commented as they finished the last plank.

"Yeah, but I'm more worried about Carver now than the walkers" Clementine admitted.

"I feel you kid, that guy has snapped and I'm worried his going to go Al Pacino on all our asses, pulling out a gun and just slaughtering everyone in the pen..." he sighed as he rubbed his hands through his jet black greasy hair. "Still, we haven't got to speak a lot have we Clem?" he told her.

"Yeah, so many of us are in the pen now it's been hectic" she said.

"You could say this, but I'm glad I rebelled against Carver, well I screwed up but still... I don't want to be involved with a dictator" he muttered as he and Clementine slowly got to work on hammering more planks of wood onto the existing backbone of the barricade. "I know what it's like to make a tough decision, at the start of all this I had to leave someone behind to save myself..." He said as he got lost in memory lane.

"What happened?" Clementine asked intrigued looking past Vince's bruised face and into his eyes as she shook his head.

"I was on a prison bus, don't ask why... but I just was okay? I did something bad I'll leave it at that... anyway walkers start piling onto the bus when this thing started... me and two other guys were trapped on these chains on the bus... we couldn't find the key to get ourselves free. So I managed to get a shotgun from one of the police guards and since I couldn't break the damn chain with it I had to shoot one of the guys in the foot to release the chain..." he sighed as he glanced upwards.

"When Tavia first brought us here, I thought Bill was that guy... the guy who could understand decisions like that. He seemed like everyone's saviour and at first he generally meant well... but now, now his too far gone" Vince told Clementine as they continued to hammer into the screws into the barricade.

"Yeah, I've had to make decisions like that" Clementine said thinking sadly of Lee.

"One of those decisions, involve you getting that scar there?" Vince asked gazing down at the beet red scar that stood out on her bare arm. Clementine decided to open up to Vince as he had done for her.

"A dog bit me I had to stitch it up myself because the guys at the cabin thought I'd been bitten by a walker. After that they were kind to me though" She added not wanting to land Rebecca and Luke in hot water despite Vince's questioning look.

"A dog? Damn must have really hated you" Vince remarked.

"It wanted my food" Clementine said.

"Man's best friend my ass, in this world I swear to God nothing can be trusted" He puffed as they continued to work.

After a short while however Vince turned back to chat to her again "I know you guys were thinking of escaping this place but..."

"No" Clementine said her mind was made up since she had seen Carver cracking "Escaping now would be stupid, at first I thought it would be the best thing to do... but now..." she shook her head as Vince raised his small saw once again.

"Rebellion it is then? because this community would be perfect if we could just get Bill and a few of his lapdogs out of the way" he suggested with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes, but let's take it slow" Clementine told him, no doubt every other pen dweller would be thinking of the same thing, especially after today.

And no doubt it wasn't just the pen dwellers either.

Sarah crouched over the fast flowing river as she slowly filled her canteen with another water to keep her and Nick hydrated for a couple more days. Nick watched her curiously, was he actually helping her to survive? He couldn't even help himself so how on earth was he helping her?

He smiled warmly in the weak sunlight, it was actually quite calm here... no walkers... no bandits (from what he could tell) for once he actually felt relaxed. Which was a strange feeling indeed after all the stress and paranoia of being constantly chased by Carver and oppressed by him and then the threats of the walkers...

"Hey Nick! Can we patch up our wounds now!" Sarah called to him as she turned to face him.

Nick jogged forward lightly, for once actually anticipating something rather than dread it.