"Sure, yeah. We appreciate that." Lee accepted the offer, watching Clementine with careful eyes. She seemed to be okay with it, too.
"Then let's go, no time to waste." Kenny said, leading his family to the truck.
"Oh, and Lee.." Hershel started. Lee looked in the man's direction.
"Yeah?"
"If you ever need anything, food, gasoline, ammo, water.. Come on over. You've earned it." He finished, Shawn definitely agreed with that.
"Thanks guys. I hope we can meet again." Lee replied, giving them a smile before he took Clem's hand and made his way to the truck. He sat in the passenger seat next to Kenny while Clem sat in the back with the rest of Kenny's family.
"I'm uh.. Not sure what came over me there.." Kenny said, starting to pull out of the driveway.
"What do you mean?" Lee asked.
"With Hershel's son.. I just got too scared. At first I thought you should've saved my boy but.. I'm glad that kids blood ain't on my hands." The fisherman thanked, nodding his head at Lee.
"You did the right thing. What matters is everyone got out okay." He reassured.
"Yeah.. Yeah." The rest of the ride was a comfortable but scary quiet. Kenny was focused on getting everyone to Macon while Lee, Clem, Duck and Katjaa just watched the baron ghost town that used to be a thriving community. The truck was low on fumes just outside of the Everett family drugstore which was perfect for Lee.
"Well, we should start siphoning these cars for gas, we're runnin' low." Kenny explained, getting out of the car. "Everyone out, I don't want anyone else getting stuck today." He added, closing the truck door. Everyone else followed.
"Hey, this might be a good place to find food, water, maybe even medicine?" Lee suggested, pointing at the drugstore. Kenny nodded.
"We could use it, we didn't bring much." Kat replied, supporting Lee's decision.
"Yeah, okay. Let's just get some fuel first." The group searched around for a while, but none of the cars had much. That was until Kenny spotted a figure searching for something on the ground. "Hey there, you friendly? Truck's almost out of gas and-" The figure slowly got up, it's soulless eyes staring down the man as it limped toward him. "Oh shit.."
"Look!" Duck shouted, pointing at even more walkers who were carrying themselves closer to the group. One of them came out of an electronics store nearby and tackled Duck. He let out a loud scream, and Lee was about to run over and save him when a bullet zoomed by and struck the walkers skull. Duck crawled away from the thing, covered in it's blood before Kenny picked him up. It was a survivor, and she was shooting at more of them to help the group out!
"Move!" Another guy in a ball cap yelled, gesturing toward the drugstore where they presumably resided. The group made a mad dash for the door and made it in without any more trouble. The gate blocking the door was slammed shut and locked as everyone headed inside.
"You can't just be bringing people in here!" A long haired brunette woman coldly stated to the girl with the gun.
"And we can't just let people die, either!" She yelled back, a similar glare on her face.
"When I say that door stays shut no matter what, I fucking mean it!" The woman responded sternly.
"Worse, they could've led 'em right to us." An old but strong looking man added, crossing his arms as Katjaa carried Duck to a nearby counter and started cleaning him with a wipe from her pocket.
"Where the hell is your humanity? They just wanted some gas, they didn't want any trouble, I'm sure." Carley, as she would later reveal her name, said.
"Then we let 'em. Not our problem." Larry, the old man, responded. These people were not fucking around.
"We have kids here." Lee said, walking into the conversation with Clem next to him.
"I see one little girl!" Larry pointed down at Clem, glaring at Lee. Suddenly, Clem pulls on Lee's hand.
"What is it?" Lee asked the young girl.
"I-I have to pee." She whispered, looking up at him.
"Okay, bathrooms right over there." Lee calmly said, trying his best to stay composed for her as he pointed at the restrooms. She smiled and nodded, walking towards the room.
"They've got kids, Lilly, you really don't care about that?" The ball capped man asked.
"I'm not heartless, Glenn. I'm just saying those things outside don't care, and we're still a functioning group." Lilly told him off, gripping her fist in frustration.
"Maybe you should go join 'em then, you'll have something in common!" Kenny spat at the woman, giving her one mean glare.
"Goddamnit Lilly, you gotta control these people." Larry said. It seemed like the two were somehow related.
"Carley and Glenn just ran out there!" Lilly exclaimed.
"Guys, please you need to calm down." Doug, a pudgy dorky looking guy said, calling all attention to him.
"I don't give a shit about calm! We're in a warzone and for all we know these people aren't exactly docile." Larry replied, getting in the man's face, though he was making eye contact with Lee.
She's an asshole
She's the leader
She's not wrong
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Relationships:
Shawn and Hershel are forever grateful for your save.
Clementine still likes you and trusts you most.
Kenny is still on the fence, but is glad you prevented Shawn's death.
Katjaa thinks you're a sweet guy.
Duck thinks you're okay.
Carley and Glenn saved your life.
Doug is defending you.
Larry and Lilly seem.. Not so friendly.
((Alright time to reply to some reviews!
Kwing: "Well at least Hershel isn't angry this time, though I'm surprised he was nicer to Kenny, I imagine Shawn isn't the biggest fan of Kenny right now. Can't wait for the next update!"
Shawn is a nice guy, he doesn't really like Kenny but he understands why he did it. Thanks for the support!
Blitzwinger: "Interesting so far, it'll be cool to see how you handle the bigger choices of the game that come on later on. Loving the story though. Very difficult choice but I gotta go with Kenny. I want to see how you carry out the story we all know."
Honestly, same. There's so many choices involving the classic motor inn group I wanna change or create! Stay tuned.
TheWriter496: "Well it seems Kenny's a bit angry at Lee, still I think he'll get over it. Go with Kenny all the way, he's one of the best characters in the game. I hope we get to see what happened in between episodes and more interactions in the episodes.
So yeah, really good so far however I wish the chapters were longer."
I love how many Kenny fans there are here! Sorry about the chapter length, with a choice based game and fanfic they kinda gotta be short but hopefully this one was a bit longer as you were hoping.
Darkfire1330: "Pretty good idea and execution, I do hope we see some new dialogue from characters instead of just in-game dialogue though. Also, it'd be cool to see what happened between the times like of Episode 2 and 3.
I say we go with Kenny as it'll be good to see the old cast again."
Thank you and yeah, I tried to incorporate more original dialogue this time around, hope you liked it!
Worker72: "Tag along is for the best after all Lee does not know his family is dead and besides this will get Lee to see the two would have been love interests. Stories like this are always better with a love interest. I hope you are able to convince Kenny to get fuel just before they hit Macon. It always bothered me that the group didn't start getting fuel from abandoned cars until after they moved into the Motor Inn."
There will be more than one potential love interest this season and we've already met two of them so I'm more than happy to bring you that!
Hope you all enjoyed!))
