Eddy gawked at Lee's appearance, she looked rough, relieved and a few other emotions were visble but what shocked and terrified Eddy the most was that she, herself was scared. It's usually hard for basically anyone even Lee's sisters May and Marie to read her emotions because her hair usually covered it but now that her eyes were so visible, Eddy could clearly see the myriad of emotions that went through her. It confused Eddy on why was Lee scared and relieved, it's no way that she would be scared of the walkers that much, and it's definitely no way that she's scared of him. So it baffled Eddy on what could've possibly have her so spooked and why was she so relieved in seeing him out of all people?
Eddy looked at Lee's appearance and noticed a variety of cuts and bruises, but there were no major injuries on her and as Eddy surveyed Lee's appearance, Lee looked back with a blank expression continuing to remain speechless. She honestly had nothing to say, well she had many things to say but she didn't want to seem soft in front of Eddy, so she searched through her mind the right words to say in order to not alter her character that she managed to withhold for so long. But it all crumbled down when Eddy looked up at her directly in her eyes and said a few unexpected words to her.
"Lee? Are you um.. Are you ok?" Eddy inquired with a genuine worried expression, it scared him half to death when he uttered those words without even thinking. He never once in his life thought that he will be worried about a Kanker's wellbeing.
Lee looked at Eddy with a blank expression for a few seconds before breaking down and letting a few tears run down her face. She gripped her shirt as she failed to try to hold in the ongoing tears that fell down her face and the occasionally whimper that squeezed out of her mouth.
This surprised Eddy even more as he backed up a bit into Ed out of shock, and it startled him a bit because he forgot that Ed and Sarah was right behind him having a similar expression as he did. He continued to watch Lee for a few seconds before reluctantly and hesitatingly putting his hand on Lee's shoulder as a way to comfort her.
As soon as Eddy's hand made contact with Lee's shoulder her crying immediately stopped and she stayed unmoving after a few seconds before quickly standing up and drying her face with her hand while the tear streaks remained on her face.
"We need your help, my sisters and a two others are stuck in a small house surrounded by a lot of those things" Lee said with a serious expression.
"w-why should we help you guys?!" Eddy said while backing away from her a bit.
"Because if you don't I'll pound ya for two reasons, one for seeing me cry and two for being a prick" Lee said menacingly said while cracking her knuckles.
"ugh, fine" Eddy uttered as he followed her "Let's go and get this over with guys", Eddy said to Ed and Sarah as they gawked at his response.
"Hey we got our own problems to deal with, we don't have time to help them!" Sarah yelled at Eddy while pointing at Lee.
Lee then slowly turned around with an expression as if she was about to kill her and everyone if things didn't go her way. Ed quickly sweated and trembled in fear, Sarah hid behind Ed for protection and Eddy gulped and sweated profusely out of sheer nervousness and fear.
"Ha, ha, ha of course we're going to help Lee" Eddy swiftly intervened in order to calm Lee down, which worked quickly as she continued towards the destination. "Shut it twerp, you're trying to get us all killed?"
"It's three versus one!" Sarah whispered to Eddy nervously.
"I saw her take on four times as much and win, we're goner's if you think we can take her on. Let's just help her quickly so we can be on our way" Eddy said before following behind Lee.
As they tried to whisper to each other discreetly, Lee listened in and grinned in satisfaction that she didn't lose her edge regardless of recently crying in front of them. 'Dang I'm good' Lee thought to herself as she looked behind her and grinned at Eddy. She was shocked that instead of the usual reaction which was a scoff of annoyance, but instead he looked her straight on without his face even twitching in the slightest.
She squinted her eyes at him in confusion and eventually shrugged it off, while on the other hand Eddy wondered what exactly happened to them after everything started. Why did she cry and why was she even in this area, there were a lot of questions that swirled around Eddy's head but his mind didn't come to a single answer.
He looked over his surroundings and it bothered him on how quiet it was and how empty this neighborhood was. "Hey, why is this place so empty? What happened here?" Eddy asked Lee as they got closer to the end of the street.
Lee looked towards Eddy again and pondered if she should tell him on what his sisters did after all this happened. 'No, they're already scared shitless of us now, there's no way they'll help us if they know what we did' Lee thought to herself.
"… Beats me, it was like this when I got here" Lee said as she turned back around. "Let's hurry, who knows what could've happened to them after all this time. There were a lot of those things"
"What, the walkers?" Sarah questioned
"You gave them a name? Ugh, whatever yeah the walkers, I was out looking for supplies but as soon as I came back the place was surrounded so I was looking for a way to divert their attention"
"How were you going to do that exactly" Sarah rolled her eyes as Lee shrugged her shoulders.
"Look guys, a chicken truck!" Ed exclaimed as he spotted a chicken designed food truck that was crashed into a tree.
"Wow, he's actually not as stupid as I thought" Lee said as she withdrew her rifle and slowly moved toward the truck's door. She aimed her gun looking under the truck and then in the interior, she frowned when she saw a walker with a greasy apron on the driver seat secured in with the seatbelt as it struggled to break loose.
"Man it looks and smells like he was in here for days" Eddy gagged at the appearance and smell the walker gave off as it struggled and hissed from the seat.
"hmpf" Lee grunted as she pulled out her knife and opened the truck door to quickly stab the walker in the middle of the forehead. The walker quickly went limp and after making sure he was dead Lee cleaned her knife with his shirt before unbuckling the belt and letting the walker fall out of the truck.
"Get in, we can't waste any more time" Lee grunted as she took the driver's seat.
"Did you ever even drive a car before?" Eddy asked as he nervously got in the passenger side and Sarah and Ed reluctantly followed suite.
"Not legally" Lee said as she zoomed off in the truck.
~Meanwhile~
Ugh, where the hell is Lee" Marie said as she finished boarding up the door as walkers hissed and banged against it.
"She's probably looking for a good way to distract all of them" Cassandra said while pushing a dresser in front of the door.
"I'm scared…." Taylor said as hid her face onto May's shirt as May held her and attempted to comfort her.
"I don't know how long this will hold" Marie whispered to Cassandra as they finished boarding the door with almost everything that was in the house.
"Hopefully it'll hold long enough for Lee to get here and help us" Cassandra whispered back
"But… But what if she doesn't get here in time, I know I'm not supposed to think like this but what are we supposed to do if that happens"
"Marie, we have to have hope but if that does happen…. Just be ready to fight like you never fought before…" Cassandra replied with a serious expression.
Marie nodded her head in agreement before looking back at May and Taylor "Hey May, go take Taylor upstairs and hide with her until this all blows over"
"What?! But I-"May was about to object but Taylor suddenly squeezed onto her shirt , making May look down at Taylor and up at Marie and then to Cassandra and down to Taylor again. She then sighed as she picked Taylor up and carried her upstairs
"Okay, that takes care of that. Cassandra, go upstairs and keep an eye out for any sign of Lee while I stay here and keep an eye out if any of them gets close to coming in."
"Got ya" Cassandra replied as she hurried upstairs after grabbing the binoculars.
"Dammit Lee, hurry back" Marie said as her face was quickly filled with worry.
"Graaaahhh" A walker growled as its head went through a space between the boarded up window.
Marie grunted before swinging her bat down on the Walker's head making half of its head come off its body.
"Here they are" Lee said as she slowly parked the truck a good distance away.
"Will this even attract all of their attention" Sarah grumbled nervously as she looked towards the house that was surrounded by Walkers.
"It will, now shut up" Lee sneered at Sarah before taking a deep breath and honking the horn.
There was a quick brief silence before one walker after another turned their attention towards the truck. Cassandra peeked her head out the window and was relieved to see Lee in a truck leading the herd of infected away from the house. She squinted and was confused to see a few others in the truck with her but dismissed it and was thankful that they were being rescued.
"Shit, a few of them are still sticking to the house. Hey Eddy, take the wheel" Lee said as she released the wheel and grabbed her rifle before aiming it at one of the walkers that was attempting to claw its way in the house.
'BANG!' The rifle sounded off as the bullet penetrated the walker's head making it quickly fall down while the others diverted their attention to the direction the gun shot came from.
"Holy shit…" Eddy said in awe as he gave the steering wheel back to Lee.
"Let's hurry up and get this done" Lee said as she reversed the car and led the walkers away. "Sarah, Ed, keep an eye out if one of them in the back gets too close. Eddy look ahead and watch out for any other herds coming our way"
"Aye, Aye, Captain" Ed exclaimed with a smile while Eddy and Sarah remained quiet.
~30 Minutes later~
"So how do we ditch the walkers and the car?" Eddy sighed as they finally got to a comfortable distance away from the house.
"Leave it to me" Lee smirked as she sped the car along the road. After a few minutes she found an alley and drove into it to abandon the car. "We only have a few minutes until they catch up so let's make this quick and not waste any time getting to them, if we run we should be able to get them in over ten minutes"
"Hey, we already helped you enough, why do we have to go the extra mile with you" Sarah grumbled while glaring at Lee.
"Cause ya don't have a choice now do ya" Lee laughed as she exited the alley with everyone else following behind.
"God dammit…" Sarah growled as she quickly ran after them to catch up. "So how are we supposed to go around the herd curly"
"Leave it to me pipsqueak, I got this under control" Lee said as she put her arm around Eddy causing him to frown and in return making her smile even more wider.
"Look, here comes Lee... and a couple of other guys…" Cassandra exclaimed as she ran down the stairs.
"Other guys?" Marie said with a confused expression as she removed the boards from the front door.
"Yeah she came with like two guys and some little girl" Cassandra said as she slid down to help remove the boards from the door with her mountain axe. " I saw her earlier with them in the truck, I wonder who it could be"
"Well let's not keep them waiting and find out" Marie grumbled as she removed the last plank of wood from the door.
The door was quickly flung open as Cassandra and Marie ran towards Lee and the others. Marie squinted for a bit as she slowly recognized them one by one. She quickly slid to a halt as she gawked at them in shock "The shrimp, The lummox and the loud mouth pipsqueak?! Where the heck did you find them?"
"They were in that rich prissy neighborhood Orange grove looking for something while I was looking for a way to distract that herd and then out of nowhere hot stuff suddenly ran up on me"
"Did you leave out the part when you- Rghhhh!" Eddy said but was suddenly chocked as Lee tightened her hold around Eddy's neck.
"ok..." mumbled as she tried to push out what she really wanted to say. "So… Where's my little Einstein?"
"He's out with Kevin and Nazz getting supplies, we split up a bit after we were almost raided by some assholes" Eddy sighed as he rubbed his neck after Lee released her hold on him.
"Wait did you just say Nazz?! Like as in blonde spunky girl who cheerleads and has an Asian bob like hairstyle with blue eyes?!" Cassandra said as she ran up to Eddy and gripped both his shoulders with her hands.
"Yeah? And who exactly are you?!" Eddy brushed her hands off his shoulders as he scowled at her.
"I'm her cousin, I've been looking everywhere for her! Can you bring me to her please!?"
"Yeah, sure whatever, just back off weirdo" Eddy grumbled as he walked towards the house. "So what do you guys have to eat; I'm starved"
"There's a box of chunky puffs in the bottom cabinet if you want…" May said as she descended downstairs with Taylor. Her eyes widened as Ed stepped into the house with a dopey smile making her smile brighter than she ever had since this started "Big Ed?!" May exclaimed as she ran up to Ed and hugged him.
Ed stood there expressionless as nervous beads of sweat came down his face.
"Heh, heh, good lucky Lumpy" Eddy snickered as he went to the kitchen but was stopped as Lee pulled him into her with a hug.
"Where do you think you're going, this isn't a soup kitchen, now you'll have to pay up your fair share if you really want things around here" Lee flirted batting her long eyelashes making her cerulean eyes stand out even more.
Eddy blushed as he struggled to get out of the bear hug Lee had him in. "W-we have to get back to others, we were supposed to meet them before sundown and we only have a few minutes until then"
"Oh really?" Lee hummed as she looked Eddy in the eyes to detect any hint of lying. "Ok, but we're coming with ya"
"What?! No way!" Eddy exclaimed
"Yep, my sister still hasn't seen if her man is safe or not while May and I have. We ain't finished until she gets her fair share and we're all satisfied" Lee announced as she walked into the kitchen and started packing all of the food. "Now give me a hand will ya, you wouldn't want to keep them waiting all day"
"Ugh" Eddy grumbled as he went into the kitchen to help Lee
"where are we going?' Taylor said to Cassandra who had an elated smile on her face, we're going to meet some people who can help us. It won't just be us anymore." Cassandra said as she lightly squeezed Taylor shoulder in comfort before leaving to join in the kitchen to help.
Marie sat down on the couch staring out the window feeling both nervous and happy that she's going to meet Double D again and that he was still in one piece. She stood up quickly with a mischievous grin as she giggled to herself. "I'm coming Edd" she said to herself making her heart flutter.
As Double D, Kevin and Nazz ware walking back to the meet out location a loud shatter of glass caught their attention as it sounded off from an alley.
Nazz gasped out of surprise while Double D nervously looked towards the direction it came from, "Reveal yourself!" Kevin exclaimed as he aimed his gun towards the dark alley.
Everything was seemingly silent for a moment before a male voice was heard which made everyone flinch in surprise. "I-I was just passing through looking for someone, I didn't want to get noticed because I thought you guys were bandits" the guy said as he slowly came out of the alley revealing that he was tall and wore horn rimmed glasses.
The stranger seem reluctant to talk first and looked scared but took a deep breath before talking, "You guys aren't bandits right? My name is Vaughan, what's yours?"
Hey guys/gals know it's been a while but I've been a bit tied up with my transition into college since I decided to start my college life during the summer. Good news is that I'm at my dream college University of Florida and the not so bad news is that the work here is not that tough but time consuming. Another update will be here in a few weeks so I hope you enjoyed this one! Wish me luck and until next time!
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