Over the next few days, Sarah refused to speak to Clementine despite her trying repeatedly to talk to her. Luke wasn't having much luck either. Every time Luke tried talking to her, Sarah would just tear up and kick him out too. Carlos had still not given up in his search for Nick despite the efforts of everybody else chipping in, with the exception of Clementine giving in her two cents to back Carlos up.

One day while Clementine was setting up dominoes with Luke, Sarah had come downstairs. It was a surprise since after Nick left, Sarah didn't come downstairs afterwards. Seeing her down here was a rare event and Clementine was going to make the most of it.

"Hey, Sarah." Clementine said cheerfully. Sarah gave her a neutral look. It was hard to read her face. Was she mad? Was she going to say something? She wasn't ignoring her like she usually was. "Luke and I are playing with dominoes. You wanna play with us?"

"Okay." Sarah sat down on the floor with them. Clementine fell over so hard in surprise she kicked up the table and the dominoes fell onto the floor.

"Damn, Clementine! Are you okay?" Luke said as he and Sarah looked over at Clementine.

"I-I'm surprised." Clementine admitted getting up. "Are you sure you wanna play with us?"

"Yeah." Sarah nodded and the three of them began stacking up dominoes on the table.

"Uh…Sarah?"

"Hm?"

"I'm…uh…I'm really sorry about what I said about Nick yesterday. It was too soon." Clementine said slowly, it being a couple of years since she apologized to anybody. "I forgot I actually liked you…as a friend I mean."

"It's alright. I'm sorry I threw all of that stuff at you." apologized Sarah.

"You're forgiven." They all went back to stacking dominoes, only for Clementine to shake the table and send the dominoes crashing down.

"Will you stop doing that!?" Luke said in frustration. "You've been doing that for the past hour!"

"It's fun when you get mad!" Clementine giggled. "Okay, I promise I'll stop this time for real."

They played for a while more it was time for dinner. After dinner, Clementine decided to question Luke in his bedroom. "Hey, Lukey Pookie."

"Please don't call me that." Luke said rolling his eyes.

"Too bad, Skywalker. I wanna talk to you about…" Clementine looked over to the side quickly and then whispered into his ear. "…Nick…"

"What about him?"

"Do you think he's okay?"

"What? Are you worried about him?" Luke raised a brow. He doubted Clementine cared for Nick at all to be honest after what happened when they first met.

"No. You knew that answer before I even said anything." Clementine shook her head. "I was just seeing what you thought about Nick's survival skills. Do you think he's safe? You know, seeing as he's your best friend and everything."

"I hope so." confessed the brunette. "I doubt he went back to the shed in the woods and he doesn't have a gun to my knowledge."

"True, true." nodded Clementine. "Nick's probably a walker or starving to death."

"Don't say things like that! Maybe he found somewhere to stay or he found a new group!"

"Yeah, a new group of walker friends." she smirked.

Luke looked upset, but didn't say anything. To be honest, he couldn't find a good agreement against it. Deep down, if Nick didn't find a group or a place to stay, he'd most likely die from hunger or get bitten. Nick obviously wasn't coming back anytime soon and he was worried about his best friend. Why the hell did he have to have sex with Carlos's daughter of all people?! As protective as Carlos was of Sarah, didn't it provide him of the huge clue that Carlos would flip if Nick's hotheaded ass dated her, let alone had sex with her? Was he crazy or something?

"Well I'll see ya later, Skywalker." said Clementine waving good-bye to Luke before leaving.

The next day everybody had gone off. Carlos had went off looking for Nick and everybody else was off fishing. Rebecca had only left to get out of the house so Alvin went with her down to the river. It was just Clementine and Sarah in the house. Now that everybody was gone and Sarah was talking to her, the two decided to make the best of it. Clementine taught Sarah how to properly hold a gun, they took pictures of each other, and the two jumped on the bed for a while until Sarah noticed something out the window.

"Hey look, Luke's back!"

"Just Luke?" The younger girl peeked outside. That was odd. Why was just Luke coming back? Why not the others? Had something happened? Clementine headed downstairs and saw Sarah peeking from around the corner. "What are you standing there for? Let him in."

"That's not Luke." she whispered.

"The hell? What do you mean that's not Luke?"

"I thought it was, but I got a good look at him."

"For real?"

"I think I know who it is!" Sarah looked scared.

"Well who is it?"

"I-I-I can't remember his name. You have to make him go away!" Sarah looked like she was about to have a panic attack.

"Calm down, bitch. First off, I'm the child here. You're older than me. As a matter of fact, you should be protecting me from whoever that is outside."

"Please, Clementine!" the raven begged. "You have to! Nick isn't here to…to…"

Sarah was about to cry again. Clementine quickly spoke up. "Oh please don't cry! I'll check the damn door. Just shut the fuck up and go away. Go hide somewhere! Nick's horny ass would want you safe!"

Sarah nodded, wiping her eyes and ran off to go hide. As she heard talking downstairs, she was finally able to pin the name. It was Carver, the man that they had all been running from for quite some time now. She was actually glad that Nick wasn't here and Clementine was. He wouldn't recognize Clementine, but he would Nick. But wait a minute, what if they had caught Nick and they had tortured him until they had given up their location? She could feel the tears creeping, but she had to keep quiet for her and Clementine's sakes.

When Carver had found her picture, she could have fainted, but thankfully he seemed to be satisfied about everything and left. Soon Clementine came back for her. "Sarah, he's gone."

"Do you think he's coming back?"

"I think so. I have a feeling he's coming back. I wonder what the asshole wanted." Clementine rubbed her chin.

MEANWHILE

Nick had gotten used to living at the ski resort with Matthew and his group. Everybody there was pretty alright and he was pretty much free to do as he pleased. He usually spent his time helping out with repairs and helping Matthew keep a lookout for walkers and strangers. Deep down he was hoping that his group would come by, but knew any chance of that was pretty slim. The group had gotten used to living in the cabin and with a river nearby, they had a good supply of food coming in. Perhaps Sarah wouldn't put up with Carlos's shit anymore and would come running his way any second now.

He shook his head. There was no chance of that happening. Sarah loved her dad and wouldn't live his side, not even for her boyfriend. With him being her last family member, he could understand her wanting to be around him. Nick then thought about his Uncle Pete. Even though he did get on his nerves, he did miss him. Besides he was the last family member he had left and he had been the father figure that had always been there for him. Even though they had given each other shit over the years, they still cared about each other and each other's safety. Was Pete thinking about him? Was he worried about him?

"You alright man?"

"Huh? Oh yeah." Nick said absentmindly. "I was just thinking about my uncle."

"I see." Matthew looked at the clouds. "Looks like a storm's coming soon."

"I thought so." said Nick looking up at the clouds. "We'd better put more wood up on the windows or something before a branch or some shit comes flying through."

"Yeah. We'd better tell Kenny and the others we need to put some more wood up then."

"I'll stay here. You go ahead and tell him."

"You sure."

"I'm sure."

"Alright then. I'll be back." Matthew headed back while Nick went back to his thoughts. After a few minutes of alone time, he heard a voice.

"Well if it isn't Nicolas Daughter Fucking Cage!" Nick nearly shat himself, but not quite. It was Clementine and Luke approaching him on the bridge. Without thinking he pointed a gun at them.

"Whoa man! Don't point that shit at us!" Luke put up his hands. "We're your friends here!"

"S-sorry." Nick put down his gun. "Where's Sarah?"

"Oh, don't worry about Sarah. You need to be worrying about Carlos." smirked Clementine. "Luckily for you, he's way back there and can't see your daughter fucking ass."

"I'm gonna be sick." He looked as if he was about to throw up and he felt like it too.

"Nice to see you too, mother fucker." Clementine rolled her eyes.

"I'm gonna die…he's gonna kill me." Nick turned pale.

"He's not going to…"

"Nick…"

"AH!" Nick turned around and pulled the trigger and shot Matthew. Everybody's eyes got wide as Matthew went over the bridge and fell. "Oh shit."

"Nick, you just..." Before Luke could finish his sentence, Nick had took off running.

"Who the hell was he?" Clementine said peering into the river.

"I don't know, but we'd better get the others." Luke went back a little farther on the bridge and waved the others to come onto the bridge. Clementine just shook her head as she looked towards where Nick had ran off. Nick just couldn't escape misfortune these days, could he? From the looks of it, he was heading to the resort farther ahead. This day was about to get a whole lot more interesting.