AN: Glory be to God
Sandra woke up to someone pushing and pulling her shoulder. When she looked down she saw an eight year old girl with a terrified face on her. Sandra quickly forced the sleep out of her and sat up.
"What happened, Clem?"
"Something's wrong, there were l-loud noises outside and when I looked through the w-window t-t-there were people attacking each other. Then the TV stopped playing SpongeBob and started beeping loud and said that we're under a na-national emergency" Clem said with a shaky voice.
Now this really woke Sandra up."What!?", she got up and ran downstairs. Already she could hear chaos and screams in the neighborhood. When she got to the window she saw the street and lawns covered with cars trying to move. People were out in the streets, some running and others brutally attacking. Are they eating those people? Sandra was about to vomit when she saw one of the cars zooming past the rest until it hit the fire hydrant in front of their house. The driver got out and starting panicking until he saw her staring from the window. Sandra gasped and quickly closed the window, she went and grabbed a knife from the kitchen. She didn't know what was going on but obviously she needed to prepare to defend herself.
Someone started pounding at the door and yelled"OPEN THE FUCKING DOOR! I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE!", Sandra quickly went to find Clementine and found her standing the bottom of the stairs. Clementine went to reach for her hand but Sandra whispered " Go wait at the sliding door, if anything happens run and get to the woods using the secret rope of your treehouse", Clementine nodded an ok and waited at the sliding door.
"Go away. I have a weapon" Sandra threatened.
"I SAID OPEN THE FUCKING DOOR!", The man started kicking the door and busted it open. Sandra was able to slam the door so he wouldn't get in but not enough to fully close the door. Slowly he started to overpower her and just when he was about to slide through a walker came and chomped on his shoulder. "AHHHHGGGG! FUCK!", the man screamed as he fell over and three walkers forced their way through the door.
What the fuck are these things, Sandra turned to run but the man grabbed her ankle. " I'm not dying alone you bi-" Sandra gave a swift kick to his face and scrambled to get back up. Sandra saw that Clementine had opened the door but didn't make a run for it yet. "CLEMENTINE RUN!"
Clementine gave a scare "ok" and ran for the treehouse. Sandra was about to run after her when she heard a blood curdling scream. She glanced behind her and saw two of the walkers eating the man alive. "Please. Help. Me." The man said quietly. Her legs went completely stiff with terror and her eyes couldn't move from the sight before her. I have a weapon I can help him, Sandra was too laser focused on the man getting eaten alive in front of her, she didn't notice the third walker limp around the others, making a beeline towards her.
It wasn't until she felt the cold hands that she snapped out of her trance. The walker toppled over her and they both fell to the ground. The walker keep trying to chop at her but she keep him a bay. Shit my strength is leaving me, as she continued pushing the walker away from her. Tears started streaming down her face as she knew the battle was a losing one. I'm sorry mom.
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Lee was almost at the fence. The closer he walked the loud the sound of chaos became. It sounds like hell over there, maybe the whole world is being attacked by those walker things, Lee paused and thought about if it was better to go back the came. At least it sounded quiet over there, but thought better of it as he needed to find people, not mentionthe need to patch up his leg. It wasn't bleeding bad but he knew he needed to disinfect a gash like this one.
A piercing scream wailed through the air and Lee didn't waste a second running to it. I hope I'm not too late, he started to curse the leg that was slowing him down. Quickly he jumped the fence once he got to it and flopped to the floor, Damn leg.
When he got up he saw a house with its sliding door wide open. Inside it was a teenage girl struggling with one of those monsters. Shit, Lee quickly pulled out his gun but hesitated when he aimed at the walker. Not trusting his accuracy he ran into the house and threw the walker off of her.
After he pulled it off her, he pulled the glock out and shot it in the face. He was about to check on the girl when a sight made him vomit in disgust. Two of those things were eating someone they killed. After he finished puking he shot the other two dead. He didn't have time to rest as more walkers were coming through the door.
"Come on we need to leave", he said to the girl still on the floor. It seemed she was trying to get a hold of herself and slowing down her breathing.
"Right", she took his help to get up and ran out the house. Once they were out she closed the sliding door. Lee grabbed the top of one of the railing bars of the patio and used all his weight to snap it, then he stomped on it to break the bottom off. Quickly he used it to jam the sliding door shut against its frame.
The walkers came to door and started pounding on it. But that was all they did, not trying to use the handle to open it. Not an ounce of intelligence, Lee was taken out of his thought when he felt someone cling to his body.
The girl was hugging and sobbing into his chest. "Thank you so much for saving me. I thought I was dead" she cried as she wiped her boogers on his clothes. Lee awkwardly hugged her back and said "It's alright, I'm glad they didn't get you… um who are you?"
Sandra laughed and broke from the hug, "I should be asking you that. My names Sandra, what's your's?"
"I'm Lee. Do you know what the hells going on?"
"No I wish. I just woke up to all of this, when that guy tried to break in and let those monsters in"
"Damn, it's a pretty similar situation with me. I was on my way out of Atlanta when there was a huge accident caused by one of those walkers-"
"Walkers?"
"That's what I decided to call them, since all they can do is walk"
Sandra chuckled,"I guess that's a good a name as any, but isn't it a little early to be naming those things?" She frowned, "and what if they're still human"
Lee frowned too, " I don't think they are, a man of the crash was for sure dead and he became one of those things trying to to eat me, people just don't come back from that and especially not like that"
"I don't know if I hope you're right or wrong"
There was a long pause.
"Anyway you said you were in an accident" Sandra said trying to keep the conversation going.
"Yeah, the accident knocked me out and I woke up in a car wreck in the woods. When I got out of my car one of the walkers tried to eat me. I was able to… You know, take him down but more kept coming so I grabbed the nearest weapon to me and ran deeper into the woods. That's when I heard you scream and helped you out"
"I see, and it wasn't me screaming but the guy that …" Sandra shook the memory out of her head, she tried not to think about how it just happened and that man eating monsters took over the house she was sitting at. Crap
"Clementine, are you there?" Sandra said worried.
Clementine crawled out her treehouse and replied "yeah I'm okay. Are you?" She face was racked with worried and what seemed to be guilt.
"Yeah I'm okay Clem, this big strong man here saved me, come on down" Sandra said, she decided Lee was trustworthy enough, he did save her after all and he didn't seem like a bad guy.
Clementine hurried on down and hugged Sandra. Crying an apology about how she left her. "Shh, it's okay Clem, you did what you were supposed to and everything turned out fine"
"But what it didn't turn out fine? What it he didn't come and save you? You would have died and I'd be left all alone" Clem started to cry harder.
"Then be glad he did", Sandra tried to comfort but in her mind she was asking the same questions and trying to prevent herself from having a nervous breakdown.
They stayed like that for a while until Clem calmed down. As they stood there Lee noticed something. Floating above their heads were grey labels. The one above Sandra read Human lvl 3 and the one above the little girl read Human lvl 1. He didn't know what to make of it and decided to deal with it once they were in a safer position.
When they did break the hug, Clem looked at Lee and said "Thank you for saving Sandra"
Lee got down to eye level with Clementine," You're welcome little lady, my name's Lee what's your's ?"
"I'm Clementine"
"That's a pretty name"
"Thanks I think so too" Clementine beamed.
The good mood was spoiled as the banging of the screen door got louder. Sandra looked to Lee"What should we do? I don't know if that door can handle that abuse"
Lee looked around and observed the area, "You two rest in the treehouse, I'll hide in the shed. Hopefully they'll get tired and decided to look for… food else where", he felt disgusted saying that.
"Are you sure? I'm sure we can all fit in the treehouse, even if it'll be a tight squeeze"
"I'm sure, I don't think I could get up there if I wanted to, not with this leg" Lee show his leg for emphasis.
Sandra gasped. She didn't even notice the injury. "Shouldn't we take care of that? It took pretty bad"
"It's not too bad, the bleeding only started from the action and it's already slowing down", although now that he thought about it, it was kinda strange. Are wounds supposed to heal this quickly, I mean I put it through quite a bit yet it hasn't bleed that much and it's already stopping Lee thought back to the first textbox he got. Maybe it has something to do with that bloodline thing.
"I'll make sure to clean it up and bandage it, for now we should take cover and rest. I don't want to risk them breaking the door, besides it's starting to get dark" Lee said
"Ok well goodnight, hope that's better in the morning" bid Sandra and Clem also said goodnight.
"Goodnight you two", Lee walked to the shed. It had a lawn mower and some pool supplies but otherwise had enough space. After lying down, he used his undershirt to bandage his wound. Some time passed and the banging noises stopped so Lee could only guess that they left the house or at least gave up on the door. Sleep began to consume him and he drifted off into it. He hoped, all three of them really, that this was all just some terrible nightmare.
AN: Hope I didn't make Clementine too out of character, will try to work out writing her character. Anyway that's it for this chapter. Also don't worry Sandra and Lee are NOT a ship. Honestly I don't know if I want to do a sibling relationship or a dad and daughter relationship or what. Let me know in the comments
InfiniteGrandAdvancer thanks for the review I appreciate it