Without The Bite

People Who Care

"Lee? Lee! where are you?"

I heard the door open as I turn around. Oh shit. Christa, she's coming and she doesn't know clementine is lost... She'll mock me, like when we first met aw said herself I won't be able to keep her safe.

"I'm over here! I'm okay." I say, trying to cover my stressful voice with a cough.

She comes around the corner along with Omid, who is still limping, Kenny, who is still fucking pissed at Ben for everything that happened at the shit motor-inn, and Ben, who has been really quiet.

"Why the fuck are you out the fences? It's dangerous." Kenny says still with a slight slur from the whiskey.

"I... Just..."

"Just say it Lee." Omid hesitated.

"I can't find Clementine, anywhere! I just found her walkie-talkie out here by a walker..." I frowned and looked at Kenny.

"Did you find anything else of hers?" Kenny asked with a straight face.

"Her...hat." I held her hat and tried to fight back tears. Fuck man, stay strong...

"Holy shit." Bens voice cracked like he felt like he was the cause.

"I need to find her. Fast, before something bad happens... If not already." I look in the distance and imagine Clementine crying, alone, hurt.. Dead.

"I'm coming with you! I don't want to see her hurt. We're gonna help!" Omid said with a high level of confidence.

"Me two" Christi says and smiles.

I smile back. "Are you sure?"

"Of course Lee."

"Thanks" I look at Kenny. He is being quiet now as well. Which is definitely unusual.

"Lee. I'm sorry, and I know we agree a lot on the same things, and help each other.. But.." Kenny begins. "But I just keep thinkin' if this was Duck and I, would you risk your life for my boy? My real family?"

"Of course I would... And Clem is all I got Kenny! She's MY family. You gotta help me man."

"Okay.. Okay man... I'll help," Kenny said reluctantly."

"Thank you. And Ben," I said as Ben looked at me with sadness in his eyes. "You stay here, watch the house."

"Yeah.. Okay."
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"Do you know where she could be?" Kenny said flatly.

"Vernon." I whispered roughly. "Last night, after Omid got his medicine, he... He talked to me. Offered to take clementine, said he could keep her safer than I ever could."

"Holy shit man! What did you say?"

"I told him to walk away because.." I sighed deeply shaking my head. "Because Clem and I we've been through a lot of shit together and anyone that gets inbettween us will end up dead."

"Damn Lee."

We arrived to Vernon's Cancer Survivor groups base camp. I went to open the door but the was locked.

"Why are we here?" Kenny asked clearly getting irritated. The walk to the camp was long and tiring.

"This was where I found Vernon, and I think Vernon took Clem."

"What son of a bitch thinks of taking a child?" Omid whispered as I kicked the door opened and pulled out my gun quickly bracing myself for the cancer survivors.

"Hello? I don't want trouble, I just want my girl back!" I slowly walk into the room seeing that everything was ruined and moved to a new camp. Nothing was left. Shit...

I heard the static come through Clem's walkie-talkie that I attached to my worn leather belt... "Lee? Lee!" Clem's voice. I could sense fear in her voice and sadness.

"Clementine? Clementine! Are you okay? Did he hurt you? Sweetpea..." I took the talkie and answered immediately.

"Hah..." I heard a scratchy, low, mysterious voice come through. "I got clementine right here.. With me, and she's fine but if I were you, I'd be VERY careful with your next words"

"Please, don't hurt her!"

"Hurt her? Oh. Trust me I'm not the one who hurts people. There's an ocean worth amount of dead dangerous people in between you and her. And I'm thankful."

"Vernon you son of a bitch!"

"It's not Vernon..." The static continues as I lower my head.

"No..no.. Oh. Fuck.. No." I said as I shook my head. "Hang on clementine... I'm coming for you sweetpea."

"What the fuck is this shit?" Omid yelled clearly confused in this fucking mess.

"Well, Lee do you know any idea who it is?" Christa said softly as she slowly walked up the the window. There's a ton of walkers out there.

"I don't know.. But I need to find her." I ran towards the door and opened it as fast as I could. "Up here! Come on!" I grabbed on to the ladder tightly and began to climb, I look down. Kenny's under me, Christa underneath then there's Omid.

We're close to the top and the ladder started to look extremely unsafe and rusty. Every step is creating loud, strange, and un-nerving. But it's every step closer to saving Clementine.

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Heyyyy.
Sorry for any mistakes in grammar/spelling/punctuation. It's New Year's Eve and I wanted to get it up, I couldn't wait!
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