Author's note: And now we would like to take the time to check in on the cast of Season 2 of the Walking dead's game series…. They're all dead. Probably… Except for Carver and his gang, including the DLC cast of: Bonnie, Vince, Wyatt, Russell, Shell, Becca and Tavia.
Let's be real for a second here… without Clementine's intervention, Carver would have killed Luke, Pete and that whole gang. Including the very annoying Sarah. We would have never seen Sarita, as Kenny was not at the forefront of that gang, but even if they did follow the same path. Carver and Bonnie would have still killed them.
And now we return to your regularly scheduled programming of What If Lily missed….
The sun comes up a lot earlier on the water. The tips of the sun reflect off the waves in a consistent collage of yellows and blues. Two colors that shouldn't go together blend to make something unexpected, but it should make sense regardless of the conflict. Just like a yin-yang relationship, these two stereotypical sights have bonded to create something perfect. The fog and mist from Georgia cleared up fairly quickly after leaving the docks of Savannah and the speedboat takes our characters to a new horizon. A new future had begun with Christa at the helm.
"Soon we'll make it to Florida. That's gonna be fun! Won't it Clementine?" Omid tried his hardest to break the silence.
In a way, his wife caused the awkwardness and he needed to settle the problem. Lee and Carley fell asleep in each other's arms with Clementine trapped in the middle leaving her speechless.
"We'll be close to Orlando. We'd get to see Disneyland. Wouldn't that be exciting? I don't think I have ever been." Clementine wiggled herself out of her family's recovery session. "Shut up."
Christa turns around. "Excuse me." Clementine responds as quick as she can. "I'm not a kid anymore and I'm sick of you ogling and flirting with my mom, you disgusting man-child."
Clementine has a thought about what she just said and Christa jerks the speedboat to a halt. "First of all, you're eight or nine, you don't get to question me. Secondly, my husband is a committed man and he's just very weird, but main thing, she isn't your mom! You just placed your role model values into the next best thing. She doesn't even look fit to parent."
All the yelling had awoken the beast that was Lee. He gently put Carley aside to let her sleep and confront whoever was yelling at her adopted daughter. "What is all this yelling?" Christa crossed her arms. "She's not your daughter, she needs to understand what's going on here."
Clementine stood away from both sides. "I am their daughter and I understand everything going on here. Also, I understand the severity of everything that's going on here. Don't you understand what it means to have the walking dead everywhere? How many belief systems have been crushed because of everything going on here? It's the end of the world, you condescending bitch."
Lee pulls her aside. "Clementine, just take care of Carley we'll talk about you later." Clementine follows her orders as usual "Will do, just… never mind."
Lee looks at Omid and gestures him to do the same. Lee walks right up to Christa and stares her down. "She is my daughter." Christa steps up to Lee. "You can't think like that."
Lee steps up and makes Christa step back. "I can and I will, if you don't like that… What are you going to do? Aim a gun at my family again?"
Christa goes back to starting the boat and Lee returns to the rest of the Everett family. Total silence emerges from this conflict, as the tension builds.
The boat begins to hit the lands of Jacksonville and the team gets off the boat with guns and all. There were no walkers in sight and the boat was peacefully parked. Everyone began to walk to the closest city center.
Carley, Lee and Clementine were assigned the tourist booth to create a plan. "Well, I think we need another house just like the one in Savannah. Tactically, it worked well setting up a perimeter and we could create layers of defense."
Clementine wanted to chip in on the plan as well. "Maybe an apartment might be the way to go. Higher ground, less chance for walkers." Carley nods her head. "Perhaps, but they are harder to break into and it really depends on what we come across.
Clementine picks her head up one more time. "What about a hotel?"
Christa and Omid were somewhere else in the center. They were trying to pick out some new clothes, as winter was coming. Also, they were looking for some food and supplies, but they had easily given up on that search. They knew they had enough to last them for a month or two, so they needed to make sure that they were warm.
"You know he made a point." Christa turned from her engrossing section of window-shopping. "Who Lee?"
Omid spun her round, "Yes, you can't point a gun at someone's family." Christa was confused at Omid's reaction. "But they're not real, stop believing it. It's going to get us and them killed."
Omid chuckled. "That's exactly how your mother pictured us, but even though the world ended, here we are."
Christa smirked and continued to rebut. "But there they are, their relationship was born in hell, at least we had time and normality."
Omid begins to walk out of the store with dissatisfaction. "I think love is love you know? That's what I thought when our families didn't approve of us and all."
Christa catches up with him. "Yes love is love, but that was something to fight stigma and stereotypes. Not to support any old claim. It just seems inappropriate, especially when they got the kid believing in something that could turn out to be a disaster. What if they don't work out, apparently they've only been together for a month. Trust me, if they split up, the repercussions will just blow up in their face."
"Then we can't let that happen." Omid tried his best to support Carley and Lee. He thought Carley is his role model of sorts and Lee seems cool, what's the worst that could happen? But, Omid appreciated the fact that Christa had a viewpoint that wasn't just stemmed from pure emotion.
The team grouped up found a car and used the spare fuel from the speedboat to be on their way to the "hotel". Omid sat next to Clementine and Carley as Lee took the wheel.
Omid felt bad "Listen, I just want to apologize for everything Clementine, I'm sorry if you felt offended."
Clementine also decided to apologize, "I'm sorry too Omid, you did nothing wrong." Carley looked proudly at Clementine and held her closer, as she was drifting off to sleep. Clementine didn't realize it up until now, but she had been fighting the exhaustion for so long.
"Carley where are we going?" Omid was genuinely excited to see where they were heading. Carley winked and gestured her head forward. Omid turned his head and saw a place of wonder, joy and fulfillment. Something that he had never seen and he probably never would have guessed. The Disneyland Hotel.
The only problem was that hundreds surrounded the gates of green that surrounded the garden, maybe thousands of walkers. Lee stopped the car and looked at Christa.
"You stay here." Lee stepped forward from the car, but he was still well away from the walkers, and they couldn't pick him up at all. Carley awoke Clementine to let her know of the situation. Lee analyzed the entirety of the park and he picked up a couple of things. He re-entered the car with a choice for the group.
"Ok with that many walkers its safe to assume that there are a whole bunch of people in there. They've guarded up the park's check in points and used the garden as a minefield of sorts. So, we can either try our luck going in or we could turn around and find somewhere else."
Meanwhile, back in Savannah. The red ooze drips through the brown and rotting compound. Kenny isn't sure where he is, but he's carrying Molly along. He lays her down on one of the mattresses he finds, as instructed and leaves her there after stitching up her wounds.
"Thanks." Molly says with added regret.
Kenny watches as Molly passes out, he looks around and sees another blood patch that is clearly not Molly's. He follows the trail all the way to a curtain.
"No don't go back there." Kenny stops in his tracks in shock.
Author's Note: Thank you guys so much for reading my work and sending me comments pushing my lazy ass to work harder on the series. It really motivates me to see how many of you care about what happens to my writing and to be so engaged in the story. Sorry for the shorter chapter, I just wanted to get the new chapter out as soon as possible and hear back from you guys about the new direction the series has taken.
Next Time on What If Lily Missed:
We find out what Lee and the gang are going to do outside the gates of Disneyland. Will they triumph like Mickey mouse or are the gonna be sitting like Donald Ducks? Also, Kenny has found something in Molly's bunker. What do you think it might be? Will the Everett Family ever find out what's wrong with Clementine. So many questions and the answers will all be revealed soon.
