The Walking Dead: Red Glasses
hey guys, new chapter after doing my assignments for a few weeks. Anyway we are introduced to the Cabin group and our good girl Sarah.
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(Disclaimer: I do not own the walking dead or anything affiliated with it, it is owned by TellTale Games and Blue Sky Industries)
Spoiler alert
All That Remains: a girl, a shed and a cabin in the woods.
(Blake's POV)
I slightly panicked as clementine hit the ground.
"Is she alright?" I quickly asked Luke who was checking her.
"I don't know, she lost a bit of blood though and probably passed out from it" he explained.
"We need to get her to the cabin" Pete told us.
Luke had gently picked her up despite his earlier words and he began to walk towards the cabin.
I examined the cabin for a bit, it was a two story house that had a porch and the foundation was a bit above the ground on the far side of the cabin.
"Nice place" I complimented the two residents.
"Thanks" Luke simply replied.
We reached the front yard of the cabin and stopped.
Luke put Clementine on the ground softly and went inside to get a doctor.
Someone was looking through the window and saw an African American woman.
She walked out with a big African American man that look like her husband and a young man around Luke's age.
"What is going on, who are these people?" the lady said, she was extremely suspicious.
"The girl looks like she's hurt" the big guy said.
The young guy looked at clementine and drew his rifle.
"She's fucking bitten!" he said aiming it at her.
"Then fucking kill her!" the pregnant lady said.
"Not if I have anything to say about it" I said drawing my crossbow.
Me and the young guy were in a Mexican stand-off now, each of us eyeing each other for a simple movement.
"She says it was a dog and Blake here saw it" Pete explained trying to calm the situation.
"Don't you tell me that! Not with what fuckin' happened" the young guy said while still aiming at me.
"Would someone please tell me what the fuck is going on!" the lady said.
"Now hold on Rebecca" Pete said to her trying to calm her.
"We got this don't worry" Luke said to the woman named Rebecca.
"Like hell you do. Did anyone even think to ask where she came from?" she replied in an aggravated tone.
"For all we know she could be working with Carver" she continued.
My ears perked at this.
'It can't be?' I asked myself and lowered my weapon slightly.
The man aiming at me lowered his gun as well.
"We have an eye witness" Pete explained.
"And you fucking believed him? you should have put her out of her misery right there. 'Dog bite' my ass" she said coldly.
"Are you calling me a liar" I turned to her accusation.
"Yes, I am" she confirmed.
"I need a doc…" I heard clementine say weakly before the rifle in the young guy's hands fired.
At first I was startled for a second and then I felt a hot pain in my foot.
I looked down at my foot to see that it was bleeding, it hurt like hell.
"Fuck!" I cursed as I collapsed and grabbed my foot in pain.
(Clementine's POV)
I saw Blake drop and I glared at the shooter. The whole group fell silent as Pete yanked the weapon out of the man's hands.
"How many times have I told you to keep your finger of the trigger, boy!" he yelled at him.
"Whoa! Whoa! What the fuck?!" Luke said as he sprinted out of the cabin.
"You idiot! Every lurker for five miles probably heard that" Rebecca scolded him.
"You're the one telling me to fucking shoot!" the shooter argued.
"Everybody just calm down for a second!" the big man said as he tried to calm the situation.
I looked at Blake, he was whispering curses as he tried to stop the bleeding.
Pete went over to Blake and supported him by the arm, they walked over to the porch and sat down as Pete checked the wound.
"Oh shit, Blake what happened?" I heard Luke say.
"Your friend over there shot me!" Blake hissed at Luke.
"What the hell Nick?" Luke said as he walked over to the group.
"I accidently pulled the trigger" the shooter named Nick said.
"Clementine, you okay…?" Luke asked me in concern.
"I just need a doctor… and then… and then Blake and I will go. I just don't want my arm to get infected" I stuttered.
"None of us want to get infected. That's the point" Nick said insensitively.
"Look after our doctor is finished with Blake he'll take a look at it" Luke told me.
I saw a man with black hair and a beard walk out and over to Blake, probably checking on him.
"Now what the hell is wrong with you people?! Okay she's just scared!" Luke scolded the group.
"We're all scared, Luke. Don't act like we're the ones being irrational cause we don't buy this bullshit story" Rebecca argued.
"No way the two of them survived out there on their own, why are we even arguing about this!?" Nick added.
"You're forgetting that we were once surviving on our own" Luke countered.
"But their just kids" Nick said.
"Age doesn't matter in this world, you're not young, you're not old, you're alive and that is what matters" Luke said, he reminded me of what chuck once told Lee.
"Let me take a look" the doctor said, he had a deep voice and Hispanic accent.
'He must be the Carlos they mentioned' I said to myself.
I noticed that everyone had moved out of the way and I felt nervous.
He held a hand out to me to take a look at my arm, I didn't give it to him but I stared at Luke.
"It's okay. Go ahead, he's a doctor" he assured me.
I pulled up my sleeve to show him the bite, it hurt and I closed my eyes in pain.
"Damn, that must've hurt" I heard the big guy mutter.
Carlos knelled down and checked my arm, I gasped a bit as he grabbed it.
"Hmm. Whatever it was, it got you good" he commented.
Nick looked impatient, "this isn't how we do things, man. When you're bit, you get put down. End of story. I'm not going through this again" he said in a sort of panic to Carlos.
"No one's suggesting that" Luke said calmly.
"We could take her arm off" Pete suggest as he walked over to us.
The whole group turned to him in shock.
I gasped at this, I didn't want to have my arm taken off just to make sure I would survive with a bite or not.
I breathed harder and harder in anxiety.
"I know that worked for a cousin down in Ainsworth, we could try that" he explained.
"Are you crazy" the Rebecca's husband in shock.
"You'll just be making it worse for the girl" Rebecca said, in concern for me this time.
"It's crazy. No one's ever going to volunteer to do that" her husband continued.
"I would, if it means saving her life" Pete said.
"Then what? How would we know it worked?" Nick questioned him.
"Just let Carlos take a look at it!" Luke said sternly.
(Blake's POV)
I couldn't believe what I was hearing, the group was debating on whether to amputate Clementine's arm when she wasn't infected in the first place.
I heard the door creek next to me, a young girl around my age looked out at me.
"Hi" she whispered shyly.
I slightly waved before another wave of pain went through my foot.
"What happened?" she whispered in shock.
"Your friend Nick shot me" I explained as calmly as possibly.
She gasped.
"It was an accident" I said quickly, I had forgiven him for his actions.
'Still doesn't change the fact that it hurt like hell' I thought to myself.
She calmed quickly and looked over in the groups direction.
"Who's she?" the girl said to me.
"My friend, her name's Clementine" I said.
"Like the fruit?" she asked.
I chuckled quietly.
"What's so funny?" she said with a frown.
"Nothing, it's just that Luke and I said the same thing when she told us her name" I explained.
"Oh" she said now smiling.
Carlos turned around and looked at us.
"Sarah what did I tell you? stay inside, he needs to rest" he said firmly but not angrily.
"Sorry" she apologized and turned to go inside.
"The name's Blake by the way" I told her.
"I'm Sarah" she walked inside.
"Sarah" I repeated under my breath.
(Normal POV)
"I don't mean to be any trouble. I just want to stop the bleeding and then I'll go. You'll never see me again, I promise" Clementine said honestly.
"What about your friend?" Carlos asked.
Clementine didn't think about blake, she was to wrapped up in her situation to remember her friend was shot as well.
"You two wouldn't make it five feet, you're both injured" Nick pointed out.
"I'd make it further than Clementine" Blake joked while wincing from the pain.
"With a bullet to the foot?" Clementine replied.
"I'm taller and can walker further strides" Blake added.
"I'm tougher" she countered.
"Enough, Carlos we've been through this before. We all agreed that we don't wait for shit like this. End of story" Nick said firmly.
Carlos stopped checking Clementine's Arm and walked to the others.
"So, what do you think?" Rebecca's husband asked.
"Was it a Lurker?" Nick asked.
"A bite like that… could be anything. Only one way to find out" carlos gave his diagnosis.
Clementine and blake held their breaths nervously.
"How?" pete asked.
"We wait" Carlos answered.
"What!?" Rebecca asked.
"By tommorow morning. If the fever's set in. we'll know if she's gonna turn. In the meantime, we'll lock her in the shed" he explained.
"What about my arm…? It needs to get cleaned, and stitched, and bandaged…" clementine tried to reason with him.
"The girl is in bad shape, Carlos" luke said trying to avoid locking her in the shed.
"We have all that stuff inside the cabin, we could probably get by with…" the big black man attempted to reason be for getting cut off.
"ALVIN, please…" Rebecca silenced him.
"But yeah, we can't do nothing" he resigned.
"I'm not wasting supplies on a Lurker bite. If it turns out you're telling the truth, I'll clean it and stitch it up for you in the morning" Carlos said seriously.
"But she'll die Carlos!" Blake said as he attempted to get up with one bad foot.
"You need to stop moving" Carlos advised.
"The wound is going to get infected anyway without proper medical treatment, then you won't be able to tell the difference between a fever from infection or fever from a Walker bite" he explained while limping on one leg.
"Stop moving before you make the wound worse" he avoided the statement.
"Do you want the death of a little girl on your hands" Blake challenged while wincing from the pain.
"If she's telling the truth I'll fix her, you on the other hand need to stop moving before you…" he replied as Blake passed out from shock.
"Blake!" Clementine yelled.
"Get him inside!" carlos ordered the group.
Luke and Alvin lifted blake up and moved him into the house.
"You two get her to the shed and lock her in" carlos said to Nick and Pete.
A silence was apon them.
"Finger off the trigger, son" Pete said to Nick.
"I ain't your son" he replied angrily and took the rifle.
"Please stop" clementine said sadly.
"It's all right, boy's got his mom's temper" Pete explained.
"Come on" Nick said in annoyance.
They Clem nick and pete walked towards the shed.
"This is just a waste of time, you'll see. And when she turns, I ain't gonna be the one cleaning up the shed" Rebecca said coldly.
"Rebecca" Carlos said telling her to stop.
"I hope Blake is going to be all right" Clementine said in sadness.
"It was just a foot shot, he'll probably make it. luckiliy my nephew's a shit shot" Pete explained.
"Hey!" nick growled.
"It's relevant, considering you nearly killed the poor boy" pete said.
"Screw you Pete" Nick said to him.
They reached the shed, it was a wooden shed of brown and white.
Pete opened the door to let clementine in.
Clementine examined the room, it was mostly empty.
Nick moved his rifle to tell her to go in.
Pete closed the doors behind her.
(Clementine's POV)
I heard the two men's coversation fading as they were muffled through the wood.
'Okay I need to find something to fix my arm, just like christa showed me' I thought as I search the shed for any left over materials.
I looked onto a high bench and saw a hammer, it was pretty high up though.
I moved my hand to grab it but ended up pushing it further out of my reach, I moved to an unfoldable table and pulled it into place, I stepped on it and tried to grab the hammer from there.
I moved further onto the bench to get the hammer, it began to break from the weight.
I fell down with the bench and landed on my bad arm.
I screamed in pain but stopped and composed myself.
'Anymore of that and it might start bleeding again' I reminded myself.
Over in the corner of the room was a small tackle box, I looked inside and found some fishing lines.
"I guess if I have to I could use this for stitches" I said out loud and moved the tackle box out of the way.
The wall behind the box was weak and had one plank nailed onto it.
I wedged the sharp edge of the hammer behind the plank and pryed it off, I then began kicking the deteriorated wall behind it, after two kicks it broke apart leaving a hole big enough for me to crawl through.
I crawled through onto the wet muddy ground, it was raining and it was dark.
The cabin was lit up like a beacon and the doors were closed.
'The front door is too risky' I noted.
I checked around the back of the house but couldn't find a way in.
On the slightly elevated side of the house there was plywood covering a hole in the foundation.
I pulled the board and loosened the nails and used my hammer to take them out, the hammer pulled the nails clean out.
I moved the board quietly to the side and climbed underneath the house, on the ground was a used up shotgun shell.
"House meeting in five minutes" I heard carlos say.
'Good, all of them will be in one place' I thought to myself.
"Go easy Blake, no need to rush" Luke said in concern.
"I'm fine, no need to worry" Blake replied.
'He's okay' I thought in relief as I moved further to a trapdoor
"It won't take long there are a few things we need to dicuss" carlos said.
I used the knife i got from earlier to stab it into the slide of the door, I forced it in and it broke, the door was opened though.
I climbed through the hole and into the house.
"Here goes nothing" I muttered to myself.
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(Blake's POV)
I woke up feeling woozy, I couldn't remember where I was, in front of me was the Doctor, Carlos.
"Good, you're awake" he said.
"What happened?" I asked him.
"You passed out from the shock, the others took you inside and I stitched up your foot" he explained.
I looked at my foot to see it stitched up and a bit of blood around it.
"It looks bad" I said.
"Not as bad as t could have been" he said, "you were shot by a hunting rifle from close range and I'm surprised it wasn't worse, but the bullet went straight through and you were wearing leather shoes" he explained.
"I guess I'm really lucky" I mused.
"Yes, you were" he said.
He went over to the sink to wash his hands.
'Running water, been a while since I've had that' I thought.
A few seconds passed as he dryed his hands.
"Where's Clementine?" I asked in concern.
"She is in the shed, we are waiting until the morning to see if she was telling the truth" he explained.
"I was there, it was a dog" I said in annoyance.
"And how do I know if you're not lying?" he countered.
"You don't, but I'm sure you wouldn't lock your own daughter in the shed because she was bitten by a dog" I told him.
"Leave my daughter out of this" he growled at me, he was intimidating.
"My point is, why don't you give her the benefit of the doubt?" I questioned.
"I don't know who you people are, but I do know you aren't to be trusted until proven otherwise" he turned to leave the room.
"And stay away from my daughter" he warned me.
Luke walked into the room after Carlos left.
"What was that about?" he said.
"I tried to convince him to let Clementine out of the shed, it didn't end how I wanted it to though" I lamented the situation.
"Look, I'm sorry about that, Carlos isn't a very trusting person, especially after Nick's mother died" he explained with a look of sorrow.
"What happened? If you don't mind me asking" I asked.
He sighed, "we took in this woman who was bitten, we thought we could control it by giving her meds but she died, Nick's Mom was right there when it happened, she turned and took a chuck out of her neck. Nick had to kill both of them" he ended on a sad note.
"I'm sorry to hear that, I had to kill my mother too" I told him.
"After that Carlos stopped trusting strangers, all he wants is to protect Sarah" he explained.
We stayed silent for a few minutes.
"How old are you?" he asked me.
"What?" I said.
"How old are you? just curious because you don't seem that old" he said.
"I turned 15 back in summer" I told him.
"Well happy late birthday" he joked.
I laughed a little.
"I hope Clementine can make it until morning" I said in a somber tone.
"I do too" he added.
"House meeting in five minutes" carlos said.
I got up but stumbled a bit.
"Go easy Blake, no need to rush" he said in concern.
"I'm fine, no need to worry" I told him as I limped into a better position near the bench.
Carlos re-entered the room with the other members except Sarah.
Nick looked at me with a bit of regret, "I'm sorry about the foot" he apologized.
"It's okay, I forgive you, you were just trying to protect the others" I told told him.
"Thanks" he said simply.
Rebecca didn't say a word as she looked at me with annoyance.
Alvin slightly smiled at me, he seemed like a nice guy, he defended Clementine out the front.
"How's the foot?" pete asked me.
"It's a bit difficult to walk, but I'll be fine" I shrugged it off.
"Where's Sarah?" Luke asked Carlos.
"She's got her book. She doesn't need to be a part of this" he told Luke.
Carlos cleared his throat getting everyone's attention.
"I think we all know why we are here. We're here to discuss about the girl named Clementine who showed up with blake" he told the group.
"What is there to discuss? She's gonna die or turn anyway" Rebecca said coldly.
"She's not bitten" I corrected her.
"Even if she wasn't, how do I know you two aren't connected to Carver?" she questioned.
'There's that name again, it could be a coincidence but maybe…' I thought to myself.
"Come on there's no way" luke said in disbelief.
"They could be, we don't know" Alvin spoke up.
"Blake and Clementine only just met, there is no way they could be connected to him" Luke reasoned.
"Well the girl is connected to somebody, there is no way she survived this long on her own" Nick said.
"She said she was with a friend and they got attacked" pete defended.
"He told me the same thing" I added.
"Yeah, right" nick said sarcastically.
"Whoever she's with. They'll probably come looking for her" Carlos said.
"Great. They show up and we've got her locked in a shed" Alvin shook his head.
"What, you think we should bring her in here…" Rebecca said incredulously
"No. I'm Just saying it wouldn't look too good" he interupted her.
"I'm gonna have to agree with alvin on that one" I said.
"It's just a precautionary measure. Anyone else would do the same" Carlos reasoned.
"You really think Carver would come after us?" Luke asked.
"You think he wouldn't…?" Nick said.
"He's not exactly the type to let things lie" pete said.
"What happened, happened. There's nothing we can do about it now" Carlos tried to calm down the situation.
"Let him come, I really don't give a damn" Alvin said confidently.
"Alvin…" Rebecca said to her husband.
"What, I don't" he defended himself.
Nick looked over to the door suspiciously.
I stopped paying attention for a minute as I looked at the door.
"Look you started that shit, not me" nick defended himself.
"What were we s'possed to do, huh? Leave her out there to die…?" luke said reffering to Clementine.
"Better her than us" Nick said.
"You'dve done the same, Nick" pete told him.
"It wasn't the brightest idea" Nick reasoned.
"Oh and firing your rifle was, huh…? Next time we'll just put up a neon sign that says 'lurkers welcome' and 'free foot piercings'" Luke countered.
"That's uncalled for Luke" I scolded him.
"Yeah, I already apologized" Nick said to Luke.
"Well, maybe think things through next time and you won't need to apologize" Luke said.
"Enough, you two" pete broke up the argument.
Rebecca started to leave the kitchen.
"Where you goin' hon" alvin asked.
"I'm going to get my sweater" she told him.
The conversation went on for several minutes, talking about wether Clementine was bitten, where they are going from here and now they were onto what to do with clementine.
"We are going to have to check the fish traps tommorow, what are we going to do with the girl?" Nick asked.
"We can't leave her locked in the shed. We're not animal's" luke said to carlos.
"She ain't staying here with me" Rebecca said.
"Then take her with you" carlos suggested to Nick.
"What?" he asked Carlos in disbelief.
"You want to keep an eye on her, them take her with you" Carlos explained.
In the corner of my vision I saw clementine peeking through the door.
'How did she get out? I gotta make a distraction' I panicked internally.
"Are we almost done here? I want to make sure Sarah's ready for bed" Carlos said as he opened door to the living room.
"Ah crap!" I hissed as I dropped one knee and held onto the bench.
"What's wrong?" Carlos said as he went to check on me.
"I slipped" I lied through my teeth.
'Hopefully clementine is gone' I thought.
"You better take it easy, rest for tonight and you'll be better in the morning" he bought the lie.
"Anyway, I wanted to talk to you about something" Pete told carlos.
(Clementine's POV)
I silently thanked Blake for the distraction.
'Serves myself right for eavesdropping' I scolded myself.
I went up the stairs quietly, they creaked ever so slightly, I silently hoped that they would alert the others.
I went into the room closest to my left, it was a small room with a few drawers.
I looked in the draw on the desk to my right and I found a watch.
'It could be helpful if I want to tell the time' I took the watch and put it in my pocket.
I also took some rags that could be used as bandages.
I left the room and went into the bathroom.
I looked in the medicine cabinent and found a yarn needle that I could use for stitchs.
I went to leave the room when I heard a voice near the door.
"That man sometimes, I swear!" Rebecca said in annoyance.
I panicked and hid in the linen closet, I saw the preganant woman walk in.
She held her hands to her head in distress, "damn it" she cursed.
"Just need to have this baby and… oh god" she gasped at the sink.
She washed her face and stared at the mirror.
"Let it be okay and… and… let it be his" she said in a teary voice.
She composed herself and left the room.
I got out of the closet and exited the bathroom.
Only one room was left and it was straight across from the bathroom.
My hand shook as I grabbed the door knob.
I twisted it and peered into the room.
I saw the young hispanic girl sarah, she had red framed glasses.
We both gasped simulataneously.
I did a shushing sound to silence her.
"You're not supposed to be in here" she whispered rather calmly.
"Hi, can you please help me?" I stutered arlready feeling weak from the bite.
"I'm not supposed to talk to you. My dad can't know" she told me.
"What are you reading?" I asked.
"… A book" she said like it was obvious.
"What book? I like books" I said trying to make conversation.
"It's called 'The Gurgles', it's about trans-dimensional body snatchers" she explained.
"Cool" I said.
'I have no idea what that is' I thought.
"What happened?" she asked me.
"A dog bit me" I answered.
"Sounds scary… I bet it hurts" she said in concern.
"I could die if I don't take care of it. Do you understand? I told her bluntly.
She just nodded.
"I need something to clean it with" I told her.
"I know where to find something, it's with my dad's supplies" she informed me.
"I'll help you clementine" she told me.
"How do you know my name?" i asked her in suspicion.
"Your friend Blake told me" she answered, "I hope he's all right" she said.
"I do too" I agreed.
"I'm sarah" she said.
"Thank you" I said in gratitude.
"We're friends" she suddenly declared.
"Right? We could be best friends… I haven't met another girl my age since way before" she explained.
I felt a little uncomfortable with her eagerness to be friends, but I just rememebred I was like that once.
"Yes, we're friends" I agreed with a little smile.
"Promise?" she asked me.
"I promise" I gave my word.
"Me too. Friends" she said as she held out her pinkie finger.
I accepted the pinkie swear.
"A pinkie swear is forever" she said with a smile.
"I'll get you the stuff my dad uses when I get a cut" she told me and grabbed a bottle of peroxide out of the beside table.
"Someone will find you if you do it here" she warned me.
"Don't worry, I won't" I assured her.
I opened the door with caution and walked out.
"Thanks, Sarah" I told my new friend.
She shushed me because I said it a bit loud.
'Now back to the shed' thought as I went on my way.
Well there we go ladies and gentlemen, another chapter by me, this one is a big one so I hope you enjoy. Also for those who are wonder about my Rise of darkrai story that is going to be the next updated story.
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Until next time, I'm FunFX.