Ties that Bind Part One

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Javier wakes up sometime later in the passenger seat of a truck with his hands bound.

Javier: Hey, my family, where are they?! What did you do with my family?! Please, man!

Rufus: Just do us both a favor and pretend you're still asleep. I wouldn't start talking if I were you. You're lucky we do things a certain way. I'm already tempted to put a bullet in your brain for what you did to Lonnie back there. If we start talking, I'm gonna get angry.

Javier: You have to go back! My family's back there! Hey, you gotta listen to me. There's a herd coming. A massive one. And we--

Rufus: Yeah, and that's why we're drivin' away from it.

Javier: Please, just--

Rufus: Stop! Alright? You don't want me riled up, kid. Not another word, or God help me, I'll put you to sleep myself.

A tree starts to fall.

Javier: Stop. Stop!

Rufus: Oh, shit! No, no, no!

A tree falls in the road, and the truck swerves into a ditch. Rufus hits his head on the steering wheel and passes out. Javi takes a gun on the dashboard right before Rufus regains consciousness. Both of them get out of the truck, and Rufus runs away.

Javier: Hey!

Javi points the gun at him. Rufus stops running and raises his hands.

Javier lowers the gun and Rufus runs off.

A shotgun is pointed at Javier's back.

Javier: Fuck... Yeah, alright...

Javier drops the pistol.

Clementine: That's good. Just keep looking forward.

Javier: Look, I'm no threat to you, okay? I surrender.
She will remember that.

Maddie: Well, that's obvious. Seeing how you didn't shoot that guy.

Javier: Please. I just... I need help.

They will remember that.

Kenny: Well, that's obvious. The way your friend there ran off. I don't think he's likely to come back and save you.

Javier: Look, I'm already having a bad fucking day here. This is not what it looks like.

They will remember that.

Clementine: Looks like you let him go. I doubt he'd have done the same for you.

Clem picks up Javi's pistol.

Maddie: Okay. Now, don't do anything stupid.

Kenny: 'Cause I'm not as nice as you. I won't hesitate.

Clem, Maddie, and Kenny walk off to inspect the truck, and Javi follows them.

Javier: You're a kid and you two are adults... Whoa, wait. Did you three do that? With the tree?

Clementine: I was trying to stop the truck

Clementine climbs into the front seat of the truck, grabs an apple, and climbs out again.

Maddie: Shit.

Javier: Yeah, you three stopped it, alright.

Kenny: Tree fell slower than I thought it would.

Clementine: (eats apple) Put your hands up and close your eyes.

Javi does as she says.

Javier: Look, I'm the victim here.

Maddie: We're all victims.

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