We Continue On

Amid The Ruins

Sarita began to hyperventilate as her arm fell to the ground, and Lee looked around frantically. He rushed forward, catching Sarita before she could get bitten some more. She held onto what was left of her arm.

"You...you..." she continued to say.

"You need to get out of here, Sarita," Lee practically ordered. "You can't stay here!"

"Sarita!" Kenny called, rushing over immediately. His eyes widened in horror as he noticed her arm, then turned around, glaring at Lee. "What the FUCK did you do, Lee? You had NO fucking right!"

"Kenny, listen to me for once!" Lee demanded. "Get her out of here, they're going to smell her blood."

As if on cue, some walkers began advancing towards Sarita, but Kenny quickly pulled her along. No doubt he would have to begin carrying her if she passed out right here.

"I'm goin' after Sarah!" Luke yelled as he and Nick ran by. A bullet zoomed past Nick, just barely missing his shoulder. Lilly had no choice but to cover herself some more, a disgusted look on her features.

Lee looked around, shielding Clem from the walkers, and that's when he noticed that he and the little girl were completely alone. They had lost the other members of their large group, or at least none of them were in sight at the moment. Nonetheless, he and Clementine continued on. The walkers were advancing on them, so they had to get out of there quick. Everything was going well, until Rebecca grabbed Lee from out of nowhere, pulling he and Clementine to the side.

"Thank God," the pregnant woman managed to get out.

"I can't find anybody," Lee admitted.

"I know," Rebecca said, looking down at Clem. "What do we do?"

"We need to keep moving," Lee said with a nod. "The others have to be around here somewhere."

"We can make it if we stick together," Rebecca added. "I'm glad you and Clementine are here."

"We'll stick together," Lee answered. "If we can get a clear path to the trees..." He looked around for an opening until he saw a path leading over to some bushes, which, eventually, would get them out of the horde. "There!"

The three of them began to emerge from their hiding place, but there were too many walkers. "Go back, go back!" Rebecca urged.

As Clementine backed away, she bumped into another figure. "Jane!"

"Jane, thank G-" Rebecca began.

"Slow down. Relax," Jane cut her off. Carlos was no longer near her, he was already out of the horde by himself, not even knowing that Sarah had made it out. "You need to walk, slowly. You'll. Be. Fine."

"She's right, we better go," Lee whispered.

"We have to push through that cluster of walkers."

"There's too many!" Rebecca exclaimed.

"We'll use a cow-catcher," Jane said, looking around until she noticed a thin walker. "She looks light enough to carry. Lee, I'll need you to distract her."

Lee nodded, and walked up behind the small walker, he touched it lightly, and then got ready to attack in case Jane didn't follow through. But she grabbed the walker in time, and cut off it's lower jaw so that it couldn't bite anyone. "Follow me," she whispered, and used the walker as a shield to get through the horde. Lee, Clem, and Rebecca all walked behind her.

"Stay close, Clem," Lee warned as they neared the edge of the parking lot.

When the four of them finally made it out of the horde, Jane turned around to face them, "Let's go," she managed to say. And they walked for quite some time, still not seeing any of the others, which was a shock because their group was so large. Especially with the joining of Reggie, Mike, Bonnie, and Jane, that was four extra people alone. Morning time came quickly, and yet there were still walking.