The gunshot is heard, a body drops to the ground. As the thud is heard across the road, everyone quickly piled up into the R.V with horrified faces. They keep silent as the truck moves further and further down the road. Away from the tragedy that had just occurred, everything just happened so fast.
"Does anyone want to talk about what just happened?" Lee exclaimed, but nobody replied.
"Lily! You've just robbed an innocent person of life!" She sat quietly and kept her head in her hands.
"Believe me, I wasn't aiming for him" Lily responded. She had seen a lot over the past few weeks, she had just lost her dad to salty circumstances and the road wasn't getting any easier. She never wanted things to pan out like they did at the Motor Inn, but somebody needed to make a decision. She thought she had done the right thing. After all, everybody got what they wanted. Kenny and his family got to leave the motor inn. Lily left only when they had to and Lee… Well, Lee was just happy to see Clementine alive and well after the raid.
Lily's hands quivered as if she had just fired the gun. Tears rolled down her eyes at a very slow pace, but she accepted it. She wiped them away and pulled out her gun.
"Take it!" She yelled, "Take the God damn gun Lee! It's in the wrong hands".
Kenny was the first to give his remark "You're God damn right it is".
Lee followed "It was the wrong thing to do, you're lucky those walkers came out when they did."
Least we forget, the problem at hand within Kenny's family.
"Lee, a word please?" Katjaa said, as she held Duck in her arms. Lee made his way to the front glancing at all the people he had managed to save, but he took a split-second to remember the ones that didn't make it: Doug, Larry, the St. Johns (who were assholes albeit). He just couldn't help, but wonder what might have happened if the had listened and not gone to the St. John's Dairy. As Lee peered into the front section of the R.V, a pain in his chest had begun and he had no words to explain this. It was almost as though he was being warned that something bad was about to happen. He could only muster up the phrase "What's up?"
Lee quickly analyzed his surroundings and realized that the only thing that was out of place, was Duck. "Is Duck feeling all right?" Kenny and Katjaa exchanged a worried glance between one another before responding to Lee. Katjaa rolled up Duck's sleeve and exposed Duck's new weakness to the group.
Duck was bit
"What the fuck…" Lee whispered. Kenny with eyes only on the road replied
"Happened during the raid". Lee knew what was going to happen already, he had seen it time after time.
"He's going to turn". Instantaneously, Katjaa retorted, "We don't know that", but Lee stood firm "Katjaa"
Yet she still insisted, "What do we really know? None of us have been bitten. We don't know what the timeframe is for a child. We know nothing." Although she did have a point, no one from the group had been bitten, but Lee was certain that this was it.
"I'm going to monitor him and focus on the wound and see if his condition changes" Katjaa was willing to take on this challenge, but at the same time, had a slight worry at the back of her mind.
Of course, Kenny was adamant to persevere "We keep the same plan unless something changes. East…" Lee doubted them and the way they were going about this, as Kenny had no problem killing Larry, if Larry were to have died in the meat locker. Yet, they trusted Lee.
Katjaa spoke out "What else is there to do!? We thought you should know."
Lee was confused and was slightly bothered by this outcome, what would be the consequences to the rest of the group? Kenny turned to him, the one time he took his eyes of the road. "Important to stay honest with each other"
Katjaa instantly followed her husband "Anyway if you could tell Clementine we would appreciate it." Lee was tasked with a heavy burden, but understood it was something he had to do, as Clementine and Duck were close friends to an extent.
However, there was one person in the van who was relieved and slightly happy with the way things had turned out. She cuddled Clementine, as if she was a bear and did not look like she was going to let go. Clementine accepted this, she hadn't felt a mother's touch in a while and realised that things might have not gone so well. Although, Clementine was deeply depressed, as she had just lost another playmate to the plague known as death. How many more lives would Clementine continue to loose? She wanted to shut herself away in the bathroom and cry to relieve herself of all the stress, but felt so calm in this warm embrace.
"Carley, could you give me and Clementine a minute." Lee was so happy to say that name once again, as he knew it could have been her body lying out there on the side of the road instead of Ben.
"Yeah…Sure…" She walked over to Lily and remained silent, but the investigative nature of Carley took over.
"You know, Lee has to explain to Clementine over there about why Ben is dead. Care to share some light on that and maybe help him explain."
Lily remained silent, but like father, like daughter. She aggressively explained herself. "It was Ben! Ben was the one who was trading with the bandits and in my book that's worse than murder."
Carley was shocked, but knew that this was the truth. Obviously she knew that she hadn't done it. Lee had a child to take care of and Kenny had his family, it was clear who was the weak link.
"You didn't need to kill him though, it was just uncalled for."
"Lee and Kenny are both murderers, how come they are allowed off the hook and I just have to sit here like a prisoner" Carley sighed and understood that it was a fair point to make, but she had a responsibility to defend Lee because she convinced him to trust Lily with his secret.
"It's because Lee is a murderer that you're still in the R.V. who knows? If he wanted he could have left you on the side of the road."
Lily distanced herself from the conversation, she was distracted by Clementine and Lee's connection, she was amazed at how Lee was such a good parent, even though he did not have kids of his own. She felt guilty, but only for a moment. She missed her father so much, she could see a bit of Larry in Lee, without the asshole part. Carley was also staring at the two of them and she was also amazed by Lee's amount of character throughout this entire ordeal. Lily and Carley did not speak the remained silent.
Clementine had fallen asleep, it was only a matter of time and Lee shortly followed. Carley made her way over to the two of them and put a blanket over them and leaned against Lee. She felt more comfortable with Lee after seeing how he handled Clementine an hour ago. Carley pulled Lee's arm over her, as she used it as a pillow she could cuddle up on. That's when she knew. She might have a little crush on Lee.
