Well, this is probably gonna be chapter 1. Drex is in the process of editing it so it might be different when you see it on fanfiction.
Previously on the Walking Dead.
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Lucas then turned to Kenny again. "What are their names? They your kids?"
Kenny responded by crossing his arms and said. "None of your damn business."
"Why? I just want to know their names. You must have done a good job to keep them alive this far in. Can't remember the last time I've seen a baby."
"I'm Clementine. And this here is AJ." She introduced themselves to Lucas who turned his attention to her now.
"Clementine and AJ... good to meet you."
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Edith then spoke up, grabbing their attention back up to her. "Well, looks like a spot opened up... as long as you're not big eaters, I think you're little family here will be quite happy."
Kenny's eye widened in amazement. "You mean...?"
"Yep. I'll meet you down there. Hold on a minute." Edith smiled as she walked out of view to open the gates.
"Oh my god... we made it!" Clementine cheered with little Alvie. "We made it AJ." Then she looked up to Kenny. "All of us!"
"We did, didn't we?" Kenny chuckled as he wiped a lone tear from his eye. "I can barely believe it."
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"You think you really earned that? Maybe you're lying again; fuck, maybe you stole that off a soldier. What kind of man goes around and lies to people the second they see you?!" Wayne relentlessly berated against Dusty.
Clementine approached the two men and decided to end the fight herself; siding with the man she was going to work with. "Hey, leave him alone! He isn't hurting anybody."
The two of them turned their heads and were surprised to find a little girl interrupting them. Wayne exclaimed. "And who the hell are you?"
"I'm Clementine, and you should probably start being nicer to him."
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"Get the hell off of me!" Michael struggled to no avail, he was pinned. "You're on my throat, I can't breathe!" Michael coughed violently and desperately tried to inhale oxygen, but the pressure on his neck was too great.
Helga smirked at the display before her. "He might need a little timeout Wayne, why don't you put him down for a nap?"
Clementine had to act fast, she had to do something!
"Wayne! I know what you're trying to do, you're protecting your little sister, and I can understand that. But how are you going to explain this to everyone else? You're going to hurt him! It's not worth it, so just let him go and we'll all forget what happened in here! Please!"
"The hell we will!" Helga growled as he turned back to older brother. "Are you listening to this pacifist bitch?"
Suddenly, Wayne's grip slackened and Michael fell to the ground coughing, trying to catch his breath. The man in his early thirties backed away from the boy with shock on his face. "Fuck, I'm sorry... I'm so sorry I..."
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"Do you even think for yourself?" Kenny questioned him. "If Xavier ordered ya to jump off a bridge would you do it? 'Cause I wouldn't be surprised."
Clementine decided to take matters into her own hands, and she unzipped the whole duffel bag, much to Dustin's surprise. "Clementine! What are you doing?"
"She's doin' what she wants. Deal with it." And then they discovered the bag was full of medicine.
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Clementine had to chose who to run to... who to save first... the decision was at hand.
Vaughn the father and leader? Or Maree the daughter and medic?
With a heavy heart, Clementine ran over to the struggling Maree, knife in hand... everything sped back up as she heard the young woman's pleas. "Clem no! Help him! Help my dad!"
"RYA!" The twelve-year-old grunted as she dove Michael's knife into the walker's skull.
The lurker fell limp and silent, signaling that Clem's attack had worked, and the girl's life was saved. Maree pushed the walker off of her, and she took her own knife back that was out of her reach earlier. Then the two of them looked back at Vaughn, who was still managing by himself until...
"RAHHH! HAAA! HAA-!" Vaughn screamed in horrible agony when his lurker abandoned any attempt to bite down on his neck and instead dug its dead fingers and hands into his stomach.
"DADDY NO!"
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"Vaughn's dead?! That's impossible! That's..." Xavier paused and realized what had happened. "Those motherfucking imbeciles died while they were waiting for him? I knew they were sick... but I thought they had more time. God help us, this could be worst than I realized... the fucking walker virus wasn't bad enough, now we got this goddamn super flu!?"
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The still greasy Xavier looked down on a frightened Clementine with his gun pointed at her. "I didn't want any visitors tonight, little one..."
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Clementine stared fearfully as Xavier cocked his gun at her "Out" he ordered bluntly.
Clementine slowly stepped out of the cabinet and walked into the centre of the office, Xaiver's gun remained fixed on her the entire time. "Put your hands where I can see them"
Clementine put her hands in the air, a sign of surrender.
"Got any weapons?" He asked with narrowed eyes.
Clementine's thoughts returned to Michael's knife in her pocket. If she hadn't had that when Vaughn and Maree were attacked... They might have both perished.
[ Hand over knife ]
[ Don't hand over knife (Lie) ]"I don't have any, I gave them all to Wayne before dinner" she lied through gritted teeth.
Xavier smiled eerily "Such an honest child" his smile then fell into a grimace "Shame that won't save you"
As soon as Xavier showed signs of pulling the trigger, Clementine dived behind his desk, the bullet from his gun striking the wall. "Don't make this harder than it has to be!" He yelled
"You killed Vaughn!" Clementine exclaimed.
"I never intended for it to go that far. Listen, kid, I don't want to hurt you, you've just put me in a sticky situation that's all. This wouldn't be happening if you hadn't snuck into my room. So why don't you come out and we can agree to make terms?"
Fuck that. Clementine thought internally. As Xavier approached the desk she darted from her cover, throwing open the door to his office and sprinting down the stairs. No shots followed her as she made her way out of the building and towards the tents.
Once she reached them, she stopped to catch her breath before glancing over her shoulder to see Xaiver approaching the tents. Clementine glanced around fearfully, and without thinking, she dove into the nearest tent and collided with the ground.
"What the fuck?!" A familiar voice exclaimed.
Clementine lifted her head to see Michael sitting cross-legged on his bed roll and staring at her wide eyed. He had a bottle placed on his lap, and if she had to take a wild guess she would assume it was alcohol. She thought about questioning him but realised it wasn't the time.
"Clementine, what are you-" he began, only to be silenced as Clementine put her finger to her lips.
Without saying a word she vacated to the back of Michael's tent and waited as Xaiver shadow appeared outside "Michael! Get out here"
Michael sighed and stood up, moving towards the entrance of the tent and sticking his head out into the cool night air "What do you want, Xavier?" He asked gruffly.
"You seen a girl?" He asked.
"Lotta girls around here" Michael replied with a brief smirk.
"Dammit, I can't remember her name." Xavier cursed crossly.
"What does she look like?"
"She has a leather jacket, and a hat with the letter D on it. Her name is some sort of fruit..."
"You mean Clementine?" Michael questioned.
"Yes, Clementine. Have you seen her?"
"Not recently, no" Michael lied.
"Let me know if you see her, alright? We need to have a... Talk"
"Sure, whatever"
And with that Xavier disappeared out of sight. Michael came back into the tent and gave Clementine a brief smile, which she retuned. "Thanks, Michael"
"No problem. You stopped Wayne from strangling me to death and helped me out with that note earlier. Lets just say we're even now"
Clementine reached into her back pocket and took Lucas's note out, holding it out to Michael. "You didn't take it back?" He asked with an element of surprise as he grasped the note.
"I kind of had some bigger problems" she told him with a sigh "Vaughn's dead, there were walkers in his tent and... They attacked Maree and Vaughn and I could only save one so..."
"You let Vaughn die? You let the leader of are community die?!"
"I thought I could save them both! I didn't think...." He voice trailed off "I wouldn't have been able to save either of them if I didn't have your knife" she said, handing him back the blade.
"Well, I'm glad I gave it to you, then. But... Jesus. Vaughn's really dead? How did it happen? How could walkers get in here?"
"They were Xavier men, he wanted them to get Vaughn for him, but they turned before that. They were infected with some sort of new virus, and people can die from it"
"Wait, why did Xavier want his men to get Vaughn?" Michael questioned in confusion.
"Xavier planning a takeover, I overheard him talking about it, that's why he was after me" she informed him.
"Son of a bitch..." Michael muttered "That traitor.... I should've seen it coming"
"Nobody could've known" Clementine replied. "Listen, Xavier has a bunch of medicine in his office, it can help prevent the flu. That's why I was in his office. I need to get back there and take some, for me and Kenny and AJ"
"You go do that then" Michael responded, walking over to his bedroll and reaching for the bottle of alcohol.
"Come with me"
"Clem? Come on, I-"
"This medicine is important, you might need some too. And if Xavier's still around I need you to have my back"
Michael sighed and straightened himself up "Alright, I'll come"
The two walked out of the tent and out into the darkness. Michael paused "I think I might have a flashlight in my tent, let me go get it."
"Or we could stick to the shadows and avoid Xavier easily" Clementine suggested.
Michael smirked "I like the way you think. Come on, lets hurry"
They ran across the yard and towards Xavier office. Clementine just hoped he wouldn't be there.
It was quiet. Maybe a little too quiet. Clementine entered the office, giving the bullet hole in the wall a brief glance as she hurried over to the cabinet, where the duffel was.
Michael stood outside the door, keeping watch, his knife in his left hand, which Clementine assumed was his dominant one since he held the blade with confidence. "Make sure to get me some" he told her.
Clementine nodded "Yeah, sure, I wasn't going to leave you out anyway"
"I know, I was just making sure..."
Clementine dug her hands into the duffel bag and took out a reasonable amount of medicine for four people.
"We are so dead if we get caught" Michael mumbled, looking around nervously but keeping his eyes fixed on the stairs.
"I got some" she said, running out of the room with her hands full.
Michael held out his hand and waited to be given his share. Clementine paused and divided the medicine fairly, giving him the amount he needed.
"Thanks" he said gratefully, tucking his knife into his waistband and carrying the medicine in his arms. "Now lets get out before he shows up"
The two rushed down the stairs and out into the night once again "Do you think he'll notice?" Michael asked her.
"I didn't take much so I don't think so"
Michael paused beside his tent "What do you want to do... Y'know, about Xavier... I mean, what's going to happen now?"
"I don't know, Michael. But I'm sure we'll be able to figure something out in the morning."
Michael nodded "See you later" he said, going to enter his tent before pausing "Clem?"
Clementine was about to leave, but turned to face him. "Yeah?"
"Thank you... For everything"
"You're welcome"
Michael smiled and then entered his tent, leaving Clementine by herself. The twelve year old's thoughts returned to the bottle of alcohol she'd seen in Michael's tent. Was it wise to leave him alone? Surely he wouldn't drink all of it... Would he?
He seemed sensible enough and maybe she could trust him to do the right thing. Michael wasn't really her main concern right now, all she wanted was to get back to Kenny and AJ with the medicine and then get a good night's rest. Maybe things would improve in the morning.
She entered Kenny's tent to find him sitting cradling AJ nurturingly. The one-eyed man lifted his head and smiled at Clementine as she came in, his eyes fixed on the medicine in her hands. "I knew you could do it. You did good, Clem"
Clementine's face fell as she placed the medicine down "He knows" she stated.
"What?"
"Xavier found me in his office. But the worse thing is, he wanted his friends to bring Vaughn to him, he was planning a takeover, and now Vaughn's dead he can..."
"They'll be no one to stop him from taking power." Kenny muttered.
"The community will see him as a hero! They won't know the truth, that he was planning it all along, to try and forcefully take power, he caused Vaughn's death"
"That scum" Kenny growled. "There won't be much Wellington to lead if the virus keeps spreading" Kenny murmured "I hate to say this but... We might have to start thinking about leaving... It's the only option we got if things turn to shit"
AJ let out a small whimper and a cry "Sssh, ssh, easy there buddy, I got you" he said soothingly, rocking him gently "We'll have to see how things go. For now, just try to get some rest, okay? We'll talk more in the morning. "
Clementine laid down on some bedroll and closed her eyes. It didn't take long before sleep took hold and her consciousness slipped away.