Chapter 1: A New Day
Narration
My name is Noah Kane. I'm a survivor of the outbreak that started in Atlanta, and I'm twenty years old. It was just a normal day. I was riding with my friend from college, heading to Macon for some place to eat. It was with me talking to Francis and his girlfriend Haley, so nothing much happened. That was until we hit something, causing the car we were driving to crash into the woods. After a whole ten minutes of gaining consciousness, I was alive but my friend and his girlfriend were already dead covered in a pool of their own blood together. Francis was impaled in the chest by a sharp tree branch, Haley on the other hand was dead because of a pencil stuck her neck. I didn't know what to believe anymore, both of my friends were dead. At least that's what I thought. All of a sudden Francis started struggling to move away from the branch, but Haley rose up from the ground and... and she tried to bite me. She was trying to feed on me like some damn animal. In the next minute, I struck her down three times with a rock I grabbed nearby, even hit her in the head with the rock one last time to make sure she was actually dead. I didn't even understand it all. One minute they're dead, and in the next they start moving with one of them trying to eat me.
That's when one thing crossed my mind. They were turned to zombies. Walkers of the living dead. I wanted to go on with my theory more, but I heard unnatural groaning leading to be more zombies nearby. So there was only one option for me: run like hell!
End Narration
20 year old light skin black american Noah Kane ran through the forest, avoiding zombies trailing behind him as he climbed up a fence wall. He was wearing a long sleeve orange shirt and faded blue jeans, along with a pair of tennis shoes. He moved further away from the fence wall, trying to catch his breath as he noticed a sharp survivalist knife on the porch step. He grabbed it and strapped it under his belt while Noah continued catching breath. However, that was call short when he heard a scream. A child's scream. Noah ran toward the direction as he noticed a black little girl, possibly eight years old wearing a D baseball cap over her head and a African-American man in his late thirties. Down below was one of the walkers of the dead, lying in a pool of its own blood. Its head struck with some sort of blunt object, with Noah seeing the bloodied hammer the man had in his hand.
"Everybody alright?" the two looked at Noah. "I heard screaming, so I came to see if anyone needed help. But looks like you guys are okay."
the man shifted his gaze at Noah. "Who are you?"
"My name is Noah." he walked in, heading for the sink as he took a gulp of water. "What about you two?"
"I'm Lee." said person gester his hand toward the young little girl. "This is Clementine."
"Are you her dad or you two just met?" Noah asked
"We've met only just recently." Lee stated. "She's been here alone all by herself."
Noah blinked. "Seriously?" Lee nodded his head in answer. "Damn."
"What do we do?" Clementine said with her hand on her arm
"We should start leaving right now. This place won't be safe after dark." Noah suggested, walking toward them while moving away from the spilled blood spot on the kitchen floor
"He's right. We need to find help before it gets dark." Lee told Clementine
"Yeah, it's not safe at night." she said in understanding as Lee approached the porch door with Clementine holding his hand
"Stay close at me." he said to Clementine, while Noah followed both of them out
The three of them step out, with Issiah closing the porch door behind him. They moved out of the porch. Clementine ran ahead, while Noah noticed Lee limping on his right leg. But he ignored it as the three moved on, heading toward the gate. That's when they spotted two people trying to move a car out the way. Judging by the looks of them, the look gave off that were from a ranch in rural Georgia. Both of them were men, with one having a slim build and the other overweight. Noah was the first to open the gate, but stopped to see Clementine looking down as Lee crouched down.
"What's the matter?"
"Should I stay?" Clementine asked in a worried tone
"What do you mean, Clem?" Noah asked, giving her a nickname
"I don't want to sleep in the treehouse tonight," Clementine paused to glance back at her house. "But I don't know if I should leave. What if my parents come home?"
"I won't leave you here alone." Lee said
"Me too." Noah agreed, giving his finger a tap on Clementine's hat with a smile crossing his face. "We won't leave you here by yourself."
"Let's go somewhere else that's close, okay?"
"That's a good idea." Lee got up with Noah opening the gate, catching the attention of the farm boys
"Holy shit!" said the slim one
"Don't eat us!" the overweight farm hand yelled
"Relax. We're not... one of them." Noah reassured motioning his hands calmly. "And we're not going to hurt you."
"Phew. Thought for a second you two and the little one were BOTH going to get us the chomp."
"We need help." Lee replied
"Are you trying to get out of here? You should be." the slim farm boy said. "Those things are all over the damn place. I haven't seen anything this gnarly as this neighborhood since downtown Atlanta, fifteen miles back. I'm Shawn. Shawn Greene."
"Lee. This is Clementine and Noah." Lee introduced with Mike shaking Shawn and his friend's hand, with Shawn's friend crouching down to Clementine with a smile on his as he waved
"I'm Chet."
"We shouldn't be out in the open like this." Shawn stated. "How about you help us clear the way and we'll you and your daughter along with your friend out of here, and down to my family's farm. Should be safe there."
Lee shook his head in a no. "I'm not her dad. I'm... just some guy."
Shawn quirked his eyebrows as soon as Lee said that comment. "Some guy?"
"Yeah."
Shawn looked down at Clementine. "She's alone?" he asked with Noah nodding his head with a yes. "Let's get going. Staying put for too long is a mistake."
"What do you want to do?" Lee asked Clementine as she looked at her home
"I..." she trailed off until they heard a non-living sound ahead of them
"Them monsters comin'! We gotta go!" Chet said as he hid in the front side of the truck, with Shawn, Lee and Noah moving the car using their strength
"We gotta move this thing, quick!" Shawn said as Clementine helped in moving the car away from the pick up truck
"Everybody in the truck, now!" Noah yelled as he jumped in the back of the truck with Chet while Shawn, Lee and Clementine went in as Shawn drove away from the horde
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It was now night time dusk as the truck continued to drive in the road, out now in rural Georgia. So far, the coast seemed clear with no sign of walkers anywhere. Noah had to think back about what was going on in Atlanta. He wondered if anyone made it out alive or was it too late. He pinched the bridge of his nose, balling his fist as he pound it to the side of the trunk. Noah looked around and started seeing fields of corn, which meant they were now at Shawn's family farm. The truck came to a stop as Noah and Chet jumped out, with Lee and Clementine getting out after Shawn turned off the engine to the truck.
"Hey, Shawn... I'm a' run on home. My mama's gonna be in a snit." Chet said heading off
"No sweat, man. I'll catch you tomorrow night." Shawn said back
"It was nice to meet ya three." Chet said with Lee and Clementine waving goodbye as they heard a door open, seeing an old man with a white beard
"Thank god, you're ok." the man which could mean that this man was Shawn's father said in relief
Shawn hugged his father. "I was worried it'd be bad here too."
"Been quiet as quiet the past couple of days. Ol' Breckon down the way thinks his mare's gone lame but that ain't nothing new."
"I wouldn't have make it back without Chet."
"Well, I'm glad you took him with you then." Shawn's father then glanced at Noah, Lee and Clementine. "You brought in a few guests."
"Your boy's a lifesaver." Lee stated to Shawn's father
"Glad he could be of some help." he looked down to see Clementine. "So it's just you and your daughter. Plus your friend here."
"Oh, not his daughter, he's... well... Just some guy who found her on her own."
Shawn's father crouched down staring at Clementine. "Honey, do you know who this man is?"
"Yes."
Shawn's father nod his head. "Ok, then." he glanced at Lee's limping leg. "Well, looks like you hurt your leg pretty bad there."
Lee sighed. "Yeah, it's not doing so good."
"I can help you out." the father glanced at his son. "Shawn, run on in and check on your sister." he looked at Lee. "You, take a seat up on the porch and I'll go see what I have."
Noah started looking at his cell phone, seeing if he could at least get a signal. But unfortunately, there was no success whatsover. Everything was all fine today, until the living dead started walking on the earth as he threw his phone on the ground. So Shawn's father, Hershel allowed Noah along with Lee and Clementine to sleep in the barn tonight with the others.
"It smells like..."
"Manure? You know, shit?" Noah said, seeing Clementine stare at him with a sad look on her face and gasp. "What?"
"That was a swear."
"Oh, sorry." Noah apologized, forgetting that Clementine was a little girl. "Anyway, manure's when a horse you know, poops... and I should probably stop talking."
"I miss my mom and dad." she said sadly
"I bet, Clem." Lee said
"How far is Savannah?" Clementine asked
"It's pretty far." Lee replied
"Oh, okay."
Lee, Clementine and Noah went to sleep as they needed to be well-rested. Noah kept dreaming back to his days before the outbreak. How when he was an orphan on the streets, searching for food and shelter. How he end up being taken in by a shop keeper after he saved her from being ran over by a car name Tessa. He even remembered her being like a real mother to him. But now, he wondered if she was dead or still alive. Noah knew he couldn't think of false hopes as he closed his eyes, now heading to sleep.
"Hey, wake up." ordered a male southern voice that woke Noah and Lee up as they opened their eyes, seeing a man in his early forties wearing a trucker hat with a mustache
"I'm itchy." Clementine said already awake
"Well you slept in a barn, little lady. You're lucky you don't have spiders in your hair." the man in the trucker hat said with Clementine bug eyed looking up at her hair
"There's no spiders in your head, Clem." Noah ruffled her hat a bit before glancing at the man with the southern accent.
"But I bet your daddy scared 'em all away, huh?"
Lee turned to face the man. "I'm not her dad. Name's Lee."
"I'm Kenny."
a eight year old ran in the barn. "Dad! We're gonna build a fence! There's a tractor and everything!"
Kenny sighed. "We better get going or we won't hear the end of it." he said with Lee, Clementine and Noah following Kenny
"That's my kid. Ken Junior. We call him Duck though." he stated
Noah quirking his eyebrow. "Duck? Dodging or quacking?"
"Yea. Nothing bothers him. Like water off a duck's back, y'know. Quacking mostly."
"That's a valuable trait lately." Lee said to Kenny
"No kidding." Kenny said. "But frankly, I think it's because he's dumb as a bag of hammer."
"Dad!"
"But he makes up for it with enthuasiam." Lee remarked making their way Duck and Kenny's wife. "The word is you were on your way to Macon."
Lee smiled. "My family's from there."
"Well Macon's on the way and personally, I appreciate the company of a couple guys who can knock heads together if they have to."
"I'll see what the girl would like." Lee said
"Ah," Kenny looked at Clementine. "Gotta consult the missus. I understand. Honey, Duck, this is Lee and uh, what's your friend and the girl's name?"
"Noah. This is Clementine." Noah said to Kenny.
"That is a very pretty name." Kenny's wife said smiling. "My name is Katjaa by the way."
"Thanks." Clementine said, covering between Lee
Shawn walked toward them. "Well, we should get to work. We've seen what those things can do out there so the faster we get this fence up, the better."
"I wanna build a fence." Duck said
"Yeah?" Shawn looked at Duck. "Well, I need a good foreman. You can sit on the tractor and yell at me whenever I take a water break."
"On the tractor? Cool!" Duck glee in excitement
"Duck and I will hop to it." Shawn said with him and Duck heading to the fence
"I can keep an eye on your little girl here on the porch. We can visit." Katjaa said as Isaac went to help Shawn with the fence
"I'm gonna drive the tractor!" Duck said playfully touching the steer wheel. "I'm the foreman! Lift with your back, Shawn!"
"Need a hand, Shawn?" Noah asked
"That'd be great." Shawn pointed at the two-by fours laying on two supports, with a saw on top of it. "If you could cut those two-bys length, that speed things up."
Noah went toward the support, sawing down the two-bys to their lengths. "You alright, man?" he asked Shawn
"My dad doesn't know how bad it is."
"No, he doesn't."
Shawn now had a sad look on his face. "I saw a guy in Atlanta kill a kid. A boy. Just shot him right in the face."
"Was the kid one of the dead one?" he asked Shawn
Shawn sighed. "I don't even know. He was either attacking the guy or asking for help. He didn't even hesistate. He just turned, put the barrel of the gun right between the kid's eyes and pulled the trigger. You don't see things like that. It's not like in the movies."
"And they don't fall like you think either." Noah added
"Did you had to do it?"
"Do what?"
Shawn looked at Noah. "Kill. Have you had to off one yet?"
"I had to bash a girl's skull." Noah said. "She was my best friend's girlfriend. But she was one of the dead ones."
"I could shot one, if it were far maybe." Shawn replied. "I'm just glad we're getting this fence built. Dad just wants to keep the family safe and thinks inviting people in is a bigger threat than whatever's out there."
"How about yours?" Shawn asked. "How about your family?"
Noah sighed. "I never knew about my actual family truth be told. I was an orphan and I was raised by this woman that took me in. she's the only family I got, and I don't even if she's alive. I hope to god she is though."
"Oh man, I hope so too. Maybe it's not too bad there." Shawn said to Noah as he cut last of the remaining two-bys. "That's probaby all I need cut. Thanks."
"And Shawn," Noah said catching the attention of the farm boy. "Thanks again for the ride."
"No problem, Noah. Couldn't just leave you guys behind." Shawn said back. "Anyway, when you see my dad around, he might want some help in the barn."
Noah caught a glimpse of Lee and Hershel walking in the barn. "Alright then. Thanks for the info."
Noah head toward the barn to see if he could help Hershel around with anything. He remembered the small notebook he had in his pocket. Noah thought he could write down survival tips since the apocalypse was happening. Then suddenly, he started hearing screaming as he turned around and ran for the direction to where the screams came from. His eyes widened when he saw four walkers. Shawn's leg was caught in the tractor as he struggled to break loose from the hold. Two on the makeshift fence, the last two trying to grab Duck on the tractor. Lee and Noah went to save Shawn while Kenny went to save his son, with Noah hitting a couple of walkers on the head with a two-by before it broke off. Shawn pleaded Kenny to help Lee and Noah, but he just ran out saving his son instead. Lee went to pull Shawn off the tractor while Noah tried to move it out of Shawn's leg. Unfortunately the fence broke off as the walkers began to feed on Shawn, killing him in the process. Before Noah could react, one of the walkers were shot in the head by Hershel along the other. Noah crushed the last walkers head on the tractor, leaving its brain now on the ground as Hershel crouched down to his son.
"I'm okay Pop... I'm okay..." Shawn said losing amount of blood
"I can fix you. Don't worry, we'll stitch you up."
"It... it almost got me. Lee... Lee and Noah tried to save me."
Hershel glanced at both Lee and Noah. "I know, son. I know."
"I..." Shawn trailed off, now dead as he exhale his last breath
"Jesus." Noah said as Hershel slowly glanced at Kenny
"Get out." he said back in contempt anger. "GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!"
Kenny looked down with a sad expression on his face. "I'm sorry."
"SORRY?!" he yelled enraged
"Hershel..." Noah started with Hershel ignoring him
"Your son is alive. You don't get to be sorry." he glanced at Lee and Noah. "You two tried to help him, but this piece of shit let him to die."
"You can't blame Kenny." Lee said. "It's not his fault."
"The hell I can't!" Hershel shouted. "You watch your back. Wait until it's your daughter and you two need his help. Please, just go. Get out and never come back." Hershel declared with a breaking tone in his voice as he kneel down crying over the lost of his son
"You've got that ride to Macon if you want it." Kenny said to Lee as he nodded his head, with everyone heading out to the pickup truck leaving the farm
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After a four hour drive, they finally reached Macon. However, the entire town turned out to be deserted. No signs of life anything, practically a ghost town. Cars left and half broken, and stores completely abandoned. Noah was writing up his survival tip in his small notebook, seeing the entire town completely abandoned and deserted.
"Rule 27: Abandoned and deserted towns are a bad sign. Be on the lookout for walkers." he said writing it down as the pickup suddenly came to a stop as everyone step out. "What happened?"
"Truck's run outta gas."Kenny said as they started walking through the street
"Look!" Duck pointed a figure in the distance, crouching down
"Hey there! You friendly? Truck's ran out of gas." Kenny shouted to the figure, with Noah's eyes slowly being wide
"Oh, shit." Noah swore as the figure turned out to be a walker. "Run!"
A walker suddenly pounced on Duck. "Aaah! No! No! Help!"
Then all of a sudden, the walker was shot in the head with Duck now covered in walker blood. Noah and Lee saw a medium-length brown haired woman wearing a white collared dress shirt with a black skirt along with stockings covering her legs. She looked to be some kind of reporter for a news station. There was also a Asian man with a cap on his head
"RUN!" he yelled as everyone went inside the drugstore, locking the entrance shut
"Thanks." Noah said
"No problem." the newswoman said out of breath
"We can't take risks like this!" said a shoulder lengthed brown haired woman in her mid twenties to early thirties glaring at the female reporter
"And we can't just let people die, either." the female reporter said shooting back a glare at the shoulder length haired woman
"When I SAY that door stays shut no matter what, I fucking meant it. We don't know who these people are. They could be dangerous!"
"Or worse, they could've leaded them right to us!" said a man in his late-fifties
the female reporter placed one hand on her hip glaring at the middle aged man. "Where the hell is your humanity? They would have out there!"
"We got kids with us, man." Noah stated, folding his arms while he glared at the middle aged man
"I see one little girl." he stated with Clementine pulling on Noah's shirt
"What is it, kid?" he whispered
"I... I have to pee." she said
"In a minute, Clem." he replied
"They got kids, Lily." said the asian man with a basball that had a S and W
"Those things outside don't care." Lily said back to the asain man with the cap
"Maybe you should go join 'em, then." Kenny spat out. "You'll have something in common!"
"God dammit, Lily! You have to control these people."
"Carley and Glenn just ran out there." she said giving her father a hard stare
"I don't give a flying fuck. We're in a warzone!"
"She's the leader here." Lee said to Kenny and Noah. "But it looks like she's losing control of her people."
Lily glared straight at Lee. "If you were in my shoes you'd be-"
"Holy shit. Son of a bitch, one of them is bitten!" the middle aged man said wide eyed seeing Duck covered in blood while Katjaa was wiping the blood of him with a wet towel
"He wasn't bitten." Lee stated
"Hell he wasn't!" the middle aged man headed for Duck. "We have to end this now."
Kenny stood in front of the middle aged man, shoving in a glare. "Over my dead body."
"We'll dug one hole."
"No! I'm cleaning him up! There's no bite! He's fine!" Katjaa pleaded
"Don't you fucking people get it?!" the middle aged man yelled. "We've already seen this happen. We let someone in with a bite stay and-and we all up bitten."
"Shut up." Kenny growled
"We got to throw him out! Or smash his face in!"
"Kenny! Stop him!"
Kenny kept his glare focused on Larry. "Guys, what do we do about this asshole?"
Lee folded his arms giving a frown at the man in his late-fifties. "It's either him or your son. I'd say it's him."
"I agree with Lee on this one." Noah agreed folding his arms. "Let's kick this old fuck out of this store."
"Goddamn right; out on his ass with those things." Kenny said in complete agree
"Everyone, CHILL THE FUCK OUT!" the reporter yelled, trying to detain the situitation
"Nobody is doing ANYTHING."
"Shut up, Lily!" the middle aged man glare at the female reporter. "And you, shut the fuck up! They will find us, they will get in and none of this won't fucking matter." he glared back at Kenny. "And now we're about to the trapped here with one of those things."
"The fuck you talking about, old man?" Noah said glaring at the middle aged man
"He's bitten! That's how you turn!"
"He's not bitten! Lee, stop this! It's upsetting him!" Katjaa replied
"Oh? It's upsetting him getting eaten alive?"
"For christ sake, man. This is his son!" Noah stated
"Look around, dumbass. I got a daughter in here." he pointed at Lee. "He's got a daughter in here. Get your head out of your ass, boy?"
Noah glared at the middle aged man name Larry. "What the fuck did you just say, old timer?"
Lee glared at Larry. "We've all got people in here and we can figure this out without killing anything. There's another way."
"Yeah, with a shovel."
"I'm gonna kill him, Kat. Just worry about Duck!"
"Lee?" Clementine called out
"Yeah?" he said staring at Clementine
"There's someone in there."
"It's probably locked. Key's are by the counter, maybe."
"I'm not the bad guy here! I'm just looking after my daughter!" Larry exclaimed
"No, you're just the outstanding citizen arguing to put down a kid." Noah muttered in sarcasm
"He's covered in muck." Larry snarled. "She'll find the bite. Watch!"
"She won't."
"And if she does, the first thing he's going to do is sink his teeth on his mom's face."
Noah folded his arms keeping a straight face. "Well, deal with it then. If there's a bite, we'll handle it."
"The hell I will! We're tossing him out now!"
All of a sudden, Noah started to get a bad feeling from something. Something that was overlooked. He heard Clementine mention someone was inside the restroom. And that's when everyone especially Noah heard a scream from Clementine as a walker tried to grab her. Lee and Noah ran to save Clementine as Noah bashed the walker's head toward a cabinet, with it pouncing on him. He grabbed its chin and jaw in order to prevent it from bitting him. Fortunately, Lee managed to grab the walker from behind as the reporter shot the walker in the head.
"You ok?" she asked Lee
"Just great, thanks." he replied as Noah stumped his foot on the dead walker's head, making sure it was still dead
Noah pulled out his notebook, writing down another survival tip. "Just like Rule 2: Beware of Bathrooms. Rule 28: Remain caution of walkers in abandonded places." he said hearing banging noise outside, leaving to believe the walkers heard the gunshot. "Everyone get down and stay quiet."
"They're going to get in!" Larry whispered
"SHUT. UP." Kenny whispered back as they heard more gunshots leading the walkers away from the drugstore
"Is that the military?" Lee inquired
"Whatever it is, it's keeping those walkers busy." Noah replied
Carley quirked her eyebrow at Noah. "Walkers?"
"That's what I call the dead now." he explained
Doug the camera man looked at Noah. "You mean the zombies, right?"
Noah glanced at him with a annoyed look on his face. "Don't say it."
"What?"
"That."
"What?"
"That. The Z word. Don't say it."
"Why not?"
"Because it's ridiculous."
"We almost die because of this bitch's ictchy trigger finger! That was stupid! That was-" Larry then suddenly collapsed with his hand on his chest.
"Dad!" Lily ran toward her downed father
"What the hell's wrong with him?" Noah demanded
"It's his heart!" Lily exclaimed
"My pills..." Larry trailed off weakly
"Nitroglycerin pills?" Katjaa inquired
"Yes. We're out. We've been trying to get into the pharmacy since we got here!" Lily glanced at Lee with a sympathetic look on her face. "Please try to get in there."
"There's probably another entrance. Maybe through the office." Lee stated
Carley placed a hand on her hip, staring at Lee. "How do you know there's an office?"
"Educated guess." he shrugged
"It doesn't matter. We need nitroglycerin pills." Lily said looking at Lee and Noah. "Please get in there. I'll keep an eye on my dad."
Kenny decided to take command of the group. Doug was a lookout outside, while Carley was looking for a way to get the radio working. Katjaa finished wiping off the blood that covered Duck as Kenny needed Glenn to find gas, while Noah was browsing around anything to eat in the drugstore. A candy bar, chips, energy drink. Anything he could find. Fortunately, he stumbled upon seeing a energy bar by the counter but decided to give it to Clementine. After Lee helped Carley fix the radio once he found the batteries, reports were getting bad with the minute. No good news from Atlanta, the same going for Jonesboro as Noah rubbed his eyebrows in frustation. Everyone was being told to stay indoors and avoid contact with anyone exposed. During the remainder of the time, Lee and Clementine went inside to find anything. Noah then followed Carley to the office where they were as they step inside the office, with Noah ruffling Clementine's hair.
"Find anything?" Carley asked
"It's a photo of the family who owned this place." Lee stated. "Might help us track down where the keys to the office are."
"I know who you are." Noah glanced at Carley and Lee. "You're Lee Everett. You're a professor at Athens who killed a state senator who was sleeping with your wife." Noah and Clementine looked at Lee. "This is your parents' store; folks around town know the owner's son got into a life sentence, but I'm a reporter for WABE in Atlanta. I paid attention to that trail. Maybe you're a murderer. But I don't really care. Frankly, that's a skill that might come in handy."
"Hmph." Lee grunted with his arms folded
"Did you tell anyone out there who you were, that you were tied to this place?" Carley asked Lee
"No. I've been sticking with first names for a reason." he said looking away for a moment
Carley then showed a sympathetic look."You seem like an okay guy, and the last thing we need is drama out there. You got this little girl to take care of and look..." she paused narrowing her eyes. "Don't me wrong on this."
"I don't plan to."
"Good. Because of this last longer than a few days and you're a detriment to the group, then we'd have a problem."
"I hear you."
"I'll just keep it to myself."
"Thanks." Lee said trusting Carley about his past
Carley looked away, hiding a small blush. "Don't mention it."
"I'll keep your secret to myself then." Noah said with Lee and Carley glancing at him
"Noah-" Noah cut him off by motioning his hand
"Save it." he said. "You could've kill me if you wanted to, but you didn't. Besides, you don't look like the homicidal killer type to begin with... for a U.S. history teacher."
"Uh, thanks... I guess."
"Don't mention it, Lee." Noah said now preparing to leave the office. "One other thing. We got a hold of Glenn. He's got enough gas for us, but he's trapped at a motor-inn hotel when he saw a chance to get some supplies. Kenny wants you go help him out and take someone with you."
"I'll go with him." Carley glanced at Lee. "You might need someone watching your back."
"Appreciate it." he said to Carley as he looked at Clementine. "Clem, Carley and I are going to get Glenn. Can you stay with Noah?"
Clementine nodded her head. "Okay." Lee was about to leave when... "Lee?"
"Yeah?"
"You're not bad right? That lady said you killed someone. Was that because he was one of things trying to eat you?"
Lee showed a saddened look. "No, he wasn't."
"Oh. Was he bad?" Clementine asked as Noah and Carley glanced at Lee
"Yes, he was." Lee answered back as him and Carley left out back
"Noah. Get over here." Kenny yelled as him and Clementine step out of the office, with Noah heading toward Kenny. "I need you to help Doug on the lookout. Your turn to fill in for him."
"Alright." Noah walked toward Doug. "What's going on out there, Doug?"
"Nothing. I can't see anything. Want to step outside and take a look?"
Noah nodded his head. "As long as that gate's closed, yeah. We need to know what the hell is going on outside."
Noah and Doug step outside, leaving the door slowly closed in order to not make any noise. Once they step outside, there were walkers scurrying around like parasites during the night out. Some were moving while other walkers were feeding on anything in their path. They were seeing hell itself right in front of him, with Doug trying to hold his vomit.
"I think I'm going to be sick."
"These fuckers are just... eating." Noah said in shock
"I think it might be couple of days before all of this is sorted out."
"I somehow doubt it." Noah replied. "Anyway, we need to keep it down. We don't want them to know we're here. Any idea where those pharmacy keys might be?"
"We searched everywhere for them before you guys came. They weren't on the dead old couple we threw out either."
"If the keys aren't in the drugstore, think they could be out..." Noah paused when he noticed a walker in pharmacist clothes trapped by a downed pole. "Here. I think they're on that walker over there." he stated pointing at the walker pharmacist to let Doug know where the location of the walker was. "But no chance in hell getting past those walkers." Noah also spotted a electronics store. "That store over there has TVs and electronics. Maybe we could use that to our advantage. Use this remote and get their attention by turning on those TVs."
"Good thing you batteries then." Doug joked as he use the remote to turn on the TVs, while he throw a brick toward the store window. As expected, the walkers started making way toward the TVs. "They're distracted. Go." he said as Noah quickly walked by toward the trapped pharmacist walker, noticing a tag that said Bradley Everett
"Shit. This is Lee's brother." he said crouching down as he pulled out his knife. "Probably got caught when the outbreak came here to Macon."
"You got them yet?!" Doug whispered loudly to Noah
"Give me a second, man." he whispered back while he looked at the pharmacist walker who turned out to be Lee's brother. "I better get back to it, then." Noah then lunged his survivalist knife inside the walker's eye, digging it deeper as the blade impacted on the brain. He stabbed it twice in the forehead, just in case it wasn't dead yet as blood spilled out leaving a piece of brain on the blade. "Brain's dead." he picked up the keys from its pocket, while wiping the knife on the walker's clothes as he quickly ran back to the gate as Doug closed. "Got it. Now let's get inside."
As they were inside, they saw that Lee, Carley and Glenn made it back. Lily was still keeping an eye on her father, Larry while Kenny was with Katjaa and Duck. Lee and Carley made their way to Noah and Doug.
"We get the keys." Doug stated. "We can get in the pharmacy now."
"Alright then." Noah gave Lee the keys as he went toward Lily, while the two of them heading for the pharmacy with Kenny making his way toward them
"We got enough fuel. How's things on your end?"
"Doug and me find the keys. Hopefully, Lee and Lily can get medical supplies along the way. And we can leave here without those walkers ever-" Noah was cut off when unfornately, a alarm bell ran. "Noticing. Shit, that's going to lead walkers here! Everyone get ready to go!"
Carley was loading her gun while Kenny to go get his pickup, with Lee giving him an ax. Katjaa and Duck went in the office to barricade it. Glenn, Carley and Doug were covering the door, barricading so walkers wouldn't get through. Glenn went to help Katjaa while Lee and Noah helped Carley and Doug barricade the door as more walkers kept barging in.
"Hey, Noah... Lee... if we don't know make it through this, you should know that I think your great guys."
"Shut up, Doug." Noah said. "We're gonna made it through this!"
"Doug, if we don't make it you should-" Carley was cut off when a walker was barging through, only for Lee and Carley to slam the door on it
"I should what?"
"Huh?!"
"You said I should-" a couple of walkers broke through the window as Carley shot two of them in the head.
"Clementine, could you find something to stick-in between the handles? Something strong?"
"Ok!" she said looking around anything that would hold the door
"God damn it!" Noah swore blocking the door from walkers. "Clem, you find anything yet?!"
"Nothing! Oh wait!" Clementine went left as she found something nearby
"That window's screwed!" Doug yelled
"Go! We'll hold the door!" Lee said as him and Noah barricade the door while Doug went to cover the window left of them. That's when Clementine ran toward Lee and Noah with a cane in her hands
"I found something!"
"Thanks, Clem!" Noah exclaimed as he used the cane to block the handles, leaving the door covered
"NO! AAAH! Get off! Get it off of me!" Doug yelled with two walkers
"SHIT! I'm out!" Carley yelled as a walker had its hand on her leg. "Lee! Help! Ammo in my purse!"
"Lee, go help Carley! I got Doug!" Noah shouted as he ran toward him, stabbing the heads of the walkers trapping him while Carley shot another walker along with the one that grabbed her leg. "Everyone, move it out! We're getting the fuck out of here!" he yelled as him and Doug ran through the office and out the back. Carley made it out also, but Lee and Clementine didn't until Larry ran off grabbing Clementine. "Where's Lee?"
"Leave him!"
"Fuck that! Come on, Noah!" Kenny and Noah make their way back to the drugstore as Kenny lunged the ax at a walker crawling toward Lee, with Noah pulling him up off the ground. "I'm not letting someone else get eaten today. Especially a good friend." Kenny and Lee ran out with Noah slamming the door closed shut
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The group were now at the Travelier motor-inn hotel, with Lily, Doug and Noah throwing walker bodies on the pile of dead ones. Doug spewed some gasoline on the corpse as they lit them on fire, ready to incenerate the corpses. Glenn left a few minutes ago, heading toward his friends trapped in Atlanta. Kenny was with Katjaa while Larry was all of a sudden talking to Lee. Clementine was leaning on the RV as Duck was talking with her. Doug went off to talk with Carley as Noah pulled his notebook off his pocket, staring at his survival tips before he set it back in his pocket. And at that moment, Noah knew this was only just the beginning.