A/N: Hey guys, Q here. Well there's going to be a lot of twists and turns in this Fic. It starts at the end of Season 1 Episode 5 and we'll keep going into Season 2 where it will eventually end. By the way, I think I have a plan for Independent, but it'll still be a while till I update it. Sorry for inconvenience.

Also, FanFic Productions has recently released a story that will combine some important OCs from me and Magixben1124. I won't spoil too much to you guys, but you should really check it out. It's a huge project for him, but he has kicked it off with a good start. The first chapter is really awesome. The name of the Fic is called The Walking Dead: United.

Disclaimer: I do not own The Walking Dead. All rights reserved to their respective owners.

Lee kept walking further into the Marsh House in search of Clementine. He chose the decision of keeping his left arm as opposed to cutting it off, but he wasn't weary from the walker's venom. He felt the same as he always did. He looked down to his arm and was shocked to see that his tissue was starting close up around the bite. Usually, the skin would start decaying around the bite, but this wasn't the case.

He shook his head and continued on his path towards one of the doors. He placed his ear against the door to hear any possible voices. He really hoped to hear Clementine. After hearing nothing he opened the door to a room with an average set up. There was a dining table that was surrounded by a couple of chairs. There was also a table that was against a wall. However, the most noticeable section in the room was the two doors. The two doors were attached by a white chord. Lee approached the chord but then he heard the clicking of a gun. He turned around and was staring face-to-face with a man. He was very gaunt and didn't appear threatening, yet something about him was off. His eyes read insanity and paranoia with a hint of revenge in them. He didn't look right.

"I got us conjoining rooms." The stranger said.

"Hello." Lee said.

"This is civil." The stranger said somewhat surprised by Lee's behavior. "You're things… over there." The stranger said as he indicated to the table against the wall.

"Hey, let me out!" A young girl exclaimed which came from the direction of one of the doors. Lee's eyes widened; he knew who the little girl was. It was Clementine! "Who's out there?"

Lee was about to speak but the stranger shushed him and held him at gun point. "Quiet, please, sweetie." The stranger said to Clementine. The stranger then looked to Lee and said, "Your things… over there." Once again, the stranger indicated to the table against the wall, except he gestured with the handgun as opposed to the head gesture from earlier.

Lee approached the table with the stranger keeping his gun pointed to Lee. "Just be cool man." Lee said as he placed an empty 8 mm handgun, cleaver, and Clementine's walkie-talkie on the table.

"Do I not seem cool?" The stranger asked.

"You want my honest answer?" Lee said. "No, you don't seem cool."

"If I wasn't cool, you would be dead already." The stranger said. He looked to the equipment on the table and said, "Good, go sit over there." He indicated to one of the chairs to which Lee obliged. The stranger followed him, making sure to keep Lee at gunpoint. The two men sat down across from one another with the coffee table separating them. "Do you know who I am?" The stranger asked.

"Yes, I saw the Volkswagen out front." Lee replied.

"See anything else that you want to take?" The stranger asked. "There's not much left. You and your group took almost everything." Lee looked down with a regretful stare. It wasn't like he wanted to take the supplies, but he didn't have a choice. "Have you ever hurt somebody you cared about?" The stranger asked which interrupted Lee's thoughts.

"Yes." Lee replied. "My wife, she travelled a lot; I didn't like that. All I ever wanted was a family."

"A reasonable thing to want." The stranger remarked.

"That should have been my first clue that something wasn't working." Lee said.

The stranger stared down with a frown appearing on his features and said, "I hurt her… so badly. I took our son Adam into the woods to go hunting, even against my wife's wishes, but then I couldn't find him. I came back and the look she had said that I was a monster. We went looking for him but we couldn't find him, then we went back to our vehicle. I could have gotten her trust back Lee, but not after what you and your people did." The stranger sighed as he continued his story. "The hungrier we got, the more she blamed me. Until finally, she took our daughter, Elizabeth, and left. They didn't get far. I found them a day later, in the road." The stranger paused to get his bearings and continued, "Do I look like a monster to you?"

"We all are." Lee said. "We've all done the worst things imaginable, just to stay alive."

"Some of us are worse than others." The stranger said. "You walked her into a dairy full of sick people without any consideration."

"If I knew what they were, I would have never let Clementine go near them." Lee responded.

"You let a man get eaten alive to save a pretty face." The stranger said.

"There's no way I could have saved both of them." Lee responded.

"The sweatshirt she is wearing was my boy's." The stranger hissed.

"Everything was just out there for the taking." Lee said. "We were cold and hungry."

"SO MY FAMILY WAS LEFT COLD AND STARVED!" The stranger bellowed. He sighed to calm himself down.

"Listen, I'm sorry for what happened to you. My group and I came across what we thought was an abandoned vehicle." Lee explained. "If I would have known what I know now, I wouldn't have taken a thing from you."

"That's supposed to mean something to me." The stranger said with an insincere tone in his voice. "But it doesn't. Look, I'm not a man of vengeance, but vengeance is all I have left."

One question did plague Lee. How did this man know so much about his group, even before they stole from him? "How do you know all this?" Lee asked.

The stranger pulled out a walkie-talkie and said, "You're a monster. You're a murder and a thief, and I'm going to hurt you so bad."

"Just give me Clementine back." Lee said.

"I'd rather shoot her myself before I ever let her return to you." The stranger said. Lee shuttered from the awful thought as the stranger continued, "Lee listen to me, before what happens next, I need you to know that she will be in good hands. We can have a family. I bet you don't even know how old she is."

"She's eight." Lee replied.

"Wrong." The stranger said.

"What?" Lee asked surprised by what the stranger said.

"She's nine; her birthday was six days ago. I know how to be a dad." The stranger said. "She wouldn't be put through some of the things that she has been put through with you."

"You'll have to kill me." Lee said. "I'm not letting that happen."

"I intend to." The stranger said with an evil smirk. He then looked down to a bowling ball bag and said, "Hey hon, I think things are going to work out."

"What are you-?" Lee tried to ask but then he noticed the white chord between the doors snap off. He looked up to see Clementine poke her head out of the room. Lee looked to her and then eyed an empty bottle of beer on the table where the rest of his supplies were. Clementine got the hint and grabbed the bottle. She slowly approached the stranger as he continued to ramble.

"Yeah, I'm happy too. You're going to love Clementine. She's not Lizzy but she's sweet; she wouldn't even harm a fly." The stranger said as he looked up to Lee. Clementine took her chance and swung the bottle and she hit the stranger across the head. "OW!" The stranger exclaimed in pain as he grabbed his sore head. He lost focus of Lee from the hit to which Lee used to his advantage.

He jumped over the coffee table and attacked the stranger. The stranger immediately reacted and placed his foot between him and Lee. The chair fell backwards and Lee and the stranger fell to the ground.

The stranger quickly regained his composure and tried to shove the gun into Lee's face. Lee pushed the gun away and did two jabs with his elbows to the stranger's ribs. The stranger grunted from both blows until Lee was able to kick the stranger back, and the gun was sent to the other side of the room. The stranger wheezed as he got back up and headed for the firearm; however, Lee got back up and tackled the stranger into the other door which must have been a closet.

Lee began to choke the stranger with as much of his strength as possible. After several tense-filled seconds of choking the stranger, Lee released his grip upon seeing the stranger was no longer struggling. The stranger's body fell to the ground with a thud. Lee huffed as he picked up the handgun and fired a shot into the stranger's skull. Clementine watched on somewhat terrified by the whole scene.

"He-He would have come back, right?" Clementine said.

"Yeah, that's right." Lee huffed.

Clementine ran up to Lee and Lee bent down to her level. She hugged around his neck and cried, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." Lee wrapped his arms around her small body in a hug.

"Sh… it's okay honey." Lee said as he started to rock her. Clementine smiled and looked to her guardian while they continued to hug. She was glad to be with him again.

They separated and Clementine crinkled her nose. "You don't smell good." Clementine said.

Lee chuckled and said, "I had to get through a lot of them to get here."

Lee stood up straight and asked, "Did he hurt you?"

"No, not really." Clementine replied tearfully. "I'm really sorry, Lee."

"It's okay honey. You couldn't have known that he was going to take advantage of you like that." Lee said as he put a supportive hand on her shoulder. "Clementine, we need to get you somewhere safe and then we need to talk, okay? We need to figure out how to get out of Savannah as fast as we can." Lee looked to the door and asked, "You ready to go?"

Clementine nodded and Lee slowly approached the door with Clementine following behind. As soon as Lee opened the door, he was greeted with a walker. It growled as it sniffed him. Lee immediately stiffened up, but to his surprised the walker didn't try to bite him. Instead it looked to Clementine with a satisfied growl and started to approach her. Lee immediately grabbed the walker and threw it to the ground. It growled as Lee pulled out the handgun that the stranger had and shot the walker.

The gun clicked indicating that it was empty. Deemed useless, Lee tossed the gun aside as Clementine said, "It didn't bite you."

"Yeah it didn't." Lee said with a questioning glance

"You're covered in that gross stuff." Clementine said indicating the walker blood and guts.

"I think this is how we're going to get out of the city." Lee said as he went to the table. He grabbed his cleaver and empty 8 mm handgun, figuring that finding ammunition would be easy for his particular weapon. He approached the walker with his cleaver and started to slice the walker open. He gestured Clementine to come over. She did as he asked and he started to cover her in the walker's entrails. Clementine whined and cried from disgust as Lee covered her.

"This is so gross." Clementine whined.

"Alright, I'm going to need to do your back too." Lee said.

Clementine cringed but she turned around anyway. Lee wiped the guts over Clementine's back and she started to whine and cry again.

"Don't worry, we'll get you bath soon after this." Lee said.

"Not soon enough." Clementine replied. "Are you done?"

"Just a little more." Lee said. "I want to be sure." He then slathered more of the walker's guts on Clementine. Lee got up and said, "There, that should do it."

"I hope so." Clementine said.

"And you're missing something." Lee said as he pulled out Clementine's hat. He smiled to see her face brighten at the sight of her trademark hat.

"I thought it was gone." Clementine said as she grabbed the hat to place it back on her head.

"I thought you were gone." Lee said with a smile forming on his lips.

"Thank you." Clementine replied. Lee nodded to the girl and the two made their way out of the room and down the hall to head outside.

Lee was back in the walker infested streets of Savannah. He hoped that this plan would work; it has to work. He kept an arm around Clementine to keep her going at his pace. The two started to walk through the herd with Lee having to weave around any incoming walkers that got close to him and Clementine.

Suddenly the girl stopped altogether. Lee looked to her and saw her terrified by something. His eyes widened when he looked up and saw Ed and Diana. They were both walkers and must have been walkers for a long time. "Oh, no." Lee said with a saddened look aimed at the two walkers. His gaze turned to Clementine and he noticed that she was like a statue; she couldn't move. Lee quickly tried to get her to move, but Clementine was kept in place by what she saw.

Lee got down on the ground to her level and whispered in her ear, "Sweet pea, I know it's hard, but we have to keep going."

Clementine didn't respond. She just continued to stare at her parents with a horrified look. "Hey, hey, Clem." Lee said trying to get her attention. He even grabbed her small hand with his large one. Still, she didn't move as she continued to look on horrified by the walkers that used to be her parents.

Finally, Lee had exhausted all his options, he was going to have to do something that he hadn't done to Clementine before. He would have to carry her. "Sorry, sweet pea." Lee said before he picked up the recently turned nine year old.

She yelped from the strange feeling of being picked up, but with the exception of a couple of walkers that turned around and growled at the noise that she made, there were no advances towards the two. Their cover remained intact. Lee kept advancing further into the walker infested streets while he carried the small girl. Clementine was stiff in his grip at first, but she eventually relaxed.

Hours Later

Lee was finally outside of Savannah with the young girl in his arms, but Clementine was still unresponsive. She had been unresponsive since she saw her parents. Eventually, he found a log and placed Clementine on it. He could now see why she was so unresponsive when they were getting out of the city. The young girl's eyes were puffy and her cheeks were red. She must have been silently crying as he was carrying her. Lee crouched down as the girl looked down distantly. She looked to the ground in a daze as Lee grabbed her small hands with his large ones. "Sweet pea, hey." Lee said. He was concerned over her well-being.

"They-They're gone." Clementine said. "My parents are… dead." She looked up her guardian for confirmation to which he reluctantly gave in the form of a nod.

"I'm sorry, sweat pea, but they are." Lee said as he rubbed her small hands. All at once, the pain and sadness of losing her parents hit Clementine hard. She started to whimper again.

In response, Lee hugged the devastated nine year old and shushed her while offering some comfort. "Shhhh, I know. I know it hurts, honey. I lost my family, too. All I can tell you is that everything is going to be alright." Of course, Lee knew that was a lie. The pain of never seeing his parents again still caused him pain and the fact that he had to kill his own reanimated brother haunted him to this day.

After comforting the child for a couple of minutes, Lee heard her gasp. "What's wrong, sweat pea?" Lee asked as he pulled her away by her shoulders.

"There… there are two people on a hill… coming this way." Clementine said with her eyes widened in fear.

Lee turned and saw the two figures that Clementine saw. He got up and drew his empty gun. He would have to use the gun to threaten the two figures away. He knew that they weren't walkers; they were too fast. "Stay behind me, sweat pea." Lee said.

"I will." Clementine said as she held on tightly to Lee's pants leg.

Eventually, the figures got closer and closer until Lee shouted out, "That's far enough! I got a gun and I will shoot you if you come any closer." He hoped that he could intimidate the approaching figures.

Lee held his breath and waited for the figures' response until he heard a familiar voice. "Lee, is that you?" It was Christa! The two figures must have been her and Omid.

"Christa? Omid?" Lee called out for the two as both figures came up the hill. It was revealed that they were the two lovers.

"Hey, man." Omid greeted. "I can't believe you made it. You got Clementine, right?"

Lee smiled as he stepped away to reveal the small nine year old to the young couple. "Yeah, I got her back." Lee said.

"Hi, honey. Are you okay?" Christa asked as she approached the young girl.

Clementine looked down with a frown. Christa looked to the child with kind eyes and hugged her. "It's okay, honey. You're safe now." Christa said. Christa released the girl from her grip and looked up to Lee. "I guess you told her what happened."

"No, I didn't." Lee said. "She's sad because she lost her parents. She saw them in the herd. The only way I could get her out of there was by carrying her."

"You didn't tell her about the…" Omid said but he trailed off as Lee shook his head.

"Speaking of which, how are you feeling?" Christa asked as she got back up.

"I'm… fine." Lee said as he looked down to his body. "I don't feel any different than I normally do."

Christa placed her hand on Lee's forehead and was surprised when she felt that Lee wasn't warm or cold. His body temperature was normal. "That's weird. You're not building up a fever at all."

"What are you talking about?" Clementine asked the bewildered adults. "Where's Ben and Kenny?"

Lee squatted down to Clementine's eye level and said, "I'm sorry, sweat pea. Ben fell and got hurt really bad… Kenny stayed behind to make sure that Ben wouldn't feel any more pain." Clementine lowered her head with a frown. She understood what Lee said and was saddened that she lost two more friends in the unforgiving world. "There's one more thing I need to tell you." Lee said as he placed two fingers under the girl's chin and gently raised her head so that she was looking at him. Lee pulled his left sleeve up and revealed the bite to her.

Clementine eyes widened in fear and her mouth dropped. Her whole body shook and her eyes threatened to burst out in tears again. "N-No… No, no, no, please no!" Clementine pleaded as tears fell from her eyes. "You can't be bitten. I just lost my mom and dad. You're all I have left."

"Clementine, honey, I was bitten yesterday morning when I was searching for you. I should be a walker by now." Lee said which made the girl stop crying. She looked to him with hope coming back into her eyes. "I don't think I'm going to turn sweat pea. I think I'm immune to the walker's venom."

All at once, Clementine's mouth turned into a wide grin and she ran to Lee. She hugged him as tightly as she could with Lee returning the hug. "I don't know if you want to make that assumption. It's been a while since you were bit, but I've heard that there are people who can last two days before they turn." Christa said.

"I know, but… I don't feel sick in the slightest." Lee said.

"Let's just see how it goes for the next couple of days." Omid said. "Who knows? You might be right which would be cool." He then turned in the direction that Lee and Clementine came from and said, "So, I'm guess we're not allowed back into Savannah?"

Lee chuckled as Clementine released him from her hug. "I'm afraid not." Lee said as he stood up.

"That is awesome! I never been blacklisted from an entire city before. I should get a plaque or something." Omid said.

"Yeah, that's quite an achievement, Omid." Christa joked. "You've been blacklisted from bars and casinos, but an entire city is extraordinary."

"I know. I'm finally in the big leagues now!" Omid said. Christa, Lee, and Clementine all shared a smile with one another over Omid's antics.

"We better move on." Lee said. "It won't be long until walkers find us."

"You don't have to tell us twice." Christa said as she started to walk off in the opposite direction of Savannah with Omid, Lee, and Clementine behind her.

Weeks Later

A flock crows were startled and flew off into the sky as the group of four made their way through the woods. One of the group members, Clementine, watched the crows fly off with an intrigued look until she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked up to her guardian as he said, "Come on, sweet pea, we need to catch up with Christa and Omid." Clementine nodded and they walked over to join the couple.

"Omid, you can't be serious." Christa said. She and her boyfriend watched the road for both walkers and humans.

"Oh, but I am." Omid said.

"We are not doing that." Christa said as she got up.

"Why not?" Omid asked as he joined her.

"Because…" Christa said as she started to laugh.

"Oh come on, Christa. What's wrong with Omid?" Omid asked as he chased after the woman. Lee and Clementine followed behind the two.

"We are not naming our baby Omid. One of you is enough." Christa said while she tried to stifle a chuckle. "You two a little help here?" Christa said as she looked back to her other companions.

"I think Omid is a fine name." Lee said.

"See, even Lee agrees with me." Omid said.

"Lee, you are no help." Christa said. "Clementine, please talk some sense into these two."

"Think about it. Omid Junior, OJ for short." Omid said.

"No." Christa said with a chuckle.

"What if it's a girl?" Clementine asked.

"Then we'll name her Christa." Omid said as he turned back to the small girl. She hadn't grown an inch since the passing of her ninth birthday which made Lee worry. She was nine years old, but she was still small enough to be thought of as an eight year old. He hoped that she would hit some growth spurts eventually.

"But, I'm Christa. I don't want to name her that. That's just confusing." Christa said as they got closer to the rest stop.

"Then name her Genevieve. I don't care." Omid said as they stopped in front of the bathrooms at the rest stop.

"How can you not care? You're not taking this seriously." Christa said as she tried to hide her smile. Her boyfriend was just being his usual rambunctious self, so she couldn't help but smirk. Even Lee and Clementine weren't immune to his comical taste.

"I take everything seriously, including little Omid's future." Omid said with a satisfied smirk.

"Keep talking like that and you'll be sleeping out in the rain." Christa said with a smirk. "Remember that time in Barstow?"

"Vegas weekend." Omid said as Christa walked over to one of the bathrooms. Omid smirked and turned to Lee. "Hey um-"

"I don't even want to know." Lee said as he held his hands up to stop Omid.

"Cool, how about you help Clem clean up. We'll meet you back out here." Omid said as he went into the bathroom that Christa went into.

"What are they doing?" Clementine asked.

"I'll… um tell you when you're older." Lee said. "How about we go wash off your face? You look like you've been pushed into the mud." Lee said with a chuckle.

"I'm not a baby, Lee. I can do it myself." Clementine said.

"Well okay. Just come and get me if you need help." Lee said. Clementine nodded and went into the bathroom. Lee sighed and said, "I miss having her be my little girl. She used to let me help her with everything, but now nothing." He sulked silently as he remembered how the girl would let him help her in everything until he noticed a walker heading towards him.

Lee sighed before he walked over to deal with the walker. He quickly dealt with the walker with the use of his cleaver before he walked back over to stand on guard.

Eventually, Omid and Christa came out. They both noticed that Lee was rather upset. "What's wrong man?" Omid asked.

"It's Clementine. She's been trying to be independent since Savannah, and I feel like I'm being left out." Lee said. "I'm not ready for her to grow up yet. She's too young."

"Don't worry, Lee. She'll come around and start looking to you like a father again." Christa said as she placed a supportive hand on his shoulder.

"I hope so." Lee said. Suddenly, both were stunned when they heard a gunshot. They looked around and saw that Omid was nowhere to be seen. Omid must have went to check on Clementine.

"Omid?" Christa called out. It was evident that she was starting to panic.

Lee quickly ran into the bathroom where Clementine was and found Omid on the ground. Christa soon joined him as they heard an unknown girl. "I-I didn't mean too. I swear, I didn't-" The girl cut herself off and dropped a handgun on the floor.

Christa immediately glared at the girl and shot her in the stomach which made the girl stumble back until she hit the wall of the bathroom. She clutched her wound with her hand and started to hyperventilate until her body gave out on her and she died.

Lee looked from the girl to Clementine and saw the girl whimpering in fear. "It's okay." Lee said as he approached Clementine. "It's okay."

"HOW IS THIS OKAY?" Christa shouted with tears coming down her face. Clementine shuttered from the woman's loud scolding as Lee turned back to Christa.

"Christa, it's not her fault." Lee said to calm the woman down. "It was just an accident."

"NOT HER FAULT? LEE, THAT IS HER F****** GUN!" Christa exclaimed as she pointed to the handgun that the unknown girl had dropped on the ground. "This is all her fault!" Christa turned her angered gaze to Clementine and said, "I'm glad that you're so eager to grow up, because you're definitely going to grow up now!" Christa turned away from the two and headed for the door of the bathroom. "Come on. Walkers are going to be hear any minute and I don't want to hear any whining or whimpering." Christa said as she turned her gaze back to Clementine. She then exited the bathroom leaving Lee shocked and surprised. He had never seen Christa act that way. He looked to Clementine and gestured her to hold his hand.

Clementine obliged as her whole body shook. Lee could tell that the girl had never been scolded like that in her whole life. He felt sorry for her. He wanted to reassure her, but he couldn't… Christa was now in charge. All Lee could do is try and be as fatherly to Clementine as possible while letting Christa have her way. She would move on eventually. The two left the bathroom, but nothing would be the same ever again.

…To be continued.

A/N: Yeah, Christa-haters unite. And no, I don't really hate Christa.