I run into the frozen forrest. It's gotten so much colder. I don't know if Luke is following, I hope he isn't.
After I've ran a good distance from the cabin, I begin to feel weak and my legs get tired.
I stop running and start to walk. The snow fall has gotten heavier and its gotten even colder. I trudge slowly through the snow. I just realized I don't even have a weapon... I don't care anymore.
I sit down in the deep snow and start crying. The tears freeze to my face. I keep to my thoughts, crying about everything. Everything is so fucked. The cold snow and wind beat against me.
I put my head in my knees and close my eyes. I'm alerted by something grabbing my shoulder. I look up, more tears run down my face. It was Luke. He looked at me sadly.
I yank my arm away from him.
"Clem."
I give him a sharp glare.
He sits down next to me.
"Leave me alone." I say.
"Clem," he wraps his arm around me.
If I had a knife I would stab him in the arm. I didn't want to be coddled. I didn't want anything.
"I don't think you're a liability. I'm just trying to keep you safe, I want you to be safe." he says.
I don't respond.
"I can't risk something happening to you. I can't live with that." He says.
"We just need to go. Don't worry about me." I say.
"Clem, I can't not worry about you."
"Luke we have to go, we'll die if we dont." I snap.
"Clem..."
"We have to!" I beg.
He sighs, "fine get Carl, lets get movin'."
We make our way back to the Cabin when we see a trail of blood. I get chills as we slowly follow it.
When we approach the source, my heart sinks. I breathe heavily, my body freezes in place. Its Carl.
He lays in the snow, bleeding out. His organs are spilt out on the ground as a walker feasts on his dead body.
I have no words to describe this feeling. Luke takes his machete and kills the walker. I get one final look at Carl before my eyes roll to the back of my head and I black out.
-
I wake up in Luke's arms, AJ lays on top of me asleep, bundled in several blankets. He carries me through the snowy forrest. Everything is foggy, my head hurts so bad.
I remember Carl. I begin to panic.
"C- Ca- Luke!" I shiver.
He looks down at me sadly.
"C- Carl...?" I say.
"I took care of him... The poor kid didn't make it." Luke closes his eyes and shakes his head.
Tears stream down my face.
"I don't want to loose anyone else!" I cry.
Luke doesn't say a word. He stares into the distance and continues to walk through the storm. The sun is going down.
"Just close your eyes." he says sadly.
I cry harder. He's gone. Carl's gone.
The memories of us play in my head like a movie. The first time it saw him, to the last time I saw him. He's gone. The memories will soon fade, until there's nothing left to remember of him.
His fluffy hair, his kind eyes. All gone. My heart ached.
-
It was dark. I almost couldn't see ahead of us. I'm still in Luke's arms, he walks slowly. There so much snow and wind. It hurts my face when it hits.
"Luke, let me down. I can walk." I say.
He sets me down and I walk with him. I carry AJ keeping him as close to my body as possible for warmth.
"How long have we been walking?" I shiver.
"A-about two hours. The snow wasn't this h-heavy before." he says.
We walk and walk. Minutes feel like hours.
"I don't know if I can go further. I'm really tired." I say weakly.
"This is exactly why I didn't want us to leave!" Luke says upset.
I keep quiet and keep walking.
Something suddenly alerts us. There's screaming and gun shots in the distance.
Luke and I both look at each other hesitantly for a moment.
"If it sounds like the shots get closer, we run."
I nod my head.
We continue to hear gunshots, then twigs breaking in the woods near us heading our way.
I look at Luke.
"Run."
We both run as fast as we can trying to find an opening out of this forrest.
Someone comes running out of the woods knocking Luke and the person to the ground.
Luke points his pun at the person. It looks like a woman.
"Don't move." he commands.
The woman stays on the ground. She has brown hair, some pulled back and some hanging out in her face.
"Who are you?" Luke asks sharply.
"I could ask you the same thing." her voice rings in my head sending memories of back then.
"CHRISTA!!" I shout and run up to her.
"Clemen-" she's cut off and tackled by my hug.
"Wait- you know her?" He asks.
"Yes. I was separated from her a long time ago." I say.
"Look how big you've gotten. You've changed so much." she says shocked.
I smile.
"Why were you running?" Luke asks.
"I'm being chased! C-mon we gotta get the hell out of here!" She says running leading us the same direction.
We sprint as fast as we can trying to escape the people who are chasing her... or us now.
"Shit! They're right behind us!" She shouts.
"Get back here you stupid bitch!" The people shout.
"Why are they chasing you?!" I ask as we run.
"I was apart of there group but they... did stuff to me! I couldn't deal with it anymore so I left. Now they want me back." she pants.
They shoot there guns our direction. Luke runs behind us.
"Luke hurry up!" I panic.
"I- I can't Clem!" He pants breathless as he runs.
I look back and see the men. They've spotted us!
One sprints up to Luke and knocks him down.
I stop running and stare at him for a moment.
"Clementine! We have to go!" Christa panics.
"No!" I cry.
The four men circle Luke and begin to kick and stomp on him.
"Agh!" Luke moans in pain.
"STOP!!" I shout tears are already dipping down my face.
All the men stop and look at me.
"Look at this little bitch try'na be tough." one of the men say. I set AJ down, preparing to fight.
Two run up to me and grab my arms and legs so I can't escape.
"Clem..." Luke pants. Blood drips from his mouth and nose.
"Clem? The hell kind of a name is that?" Another man laughs.
They take rope and tie my arms and legs together.
"Okay watch this, Clem." The man who tied me up says.
They all gather around Luke and start to kick and stomp again.
"STOP STOP!!!" I beg and cry.
"Aye boys, you heard the lady. She said stop." he walks over to me.
"It's either you or him."
"Me." I say boldly.
"Clem no!" Luke begs.
"Should we do this quick and clean or slow and painful?" He asks his group.
"That's your decision, man." One of the other men answer.
I look away and close my eyes.
"Okay, let's play a little game. Two truths and a lie. Guess which ones the lie. Choose what you say carefully." He says.
"And if I guess wrong?" I ask.
"Oh trust me, you don't want to guess wrong." He says.
"I'll make this easy because you're just a little girl."
"I'm going to kill you, I'm not going to kill you, I'm going to kill your friend."
I breathe heavily, "uh... The first ones a lie." I say hesitantly.
"Wrong!" He shouts.
The man slaps me across the face. Harder then Carver did.
I feel my face getting hot where he hit me.
"Try again." He says.
"You're not going to kill me, that's the lie." I let out a shaky breath.
"Wrong again." He says.
He unexpectedly punches me as hard as he could in the stomach. I fall to the ground coughing.
I feel sick.
"Last guess. There's no way you can fuck up this time." He says.
I try to talk but I can't breathe. I gasp for air collecting my breath.
"Answer the damn question!" He shouts.
He marches over to me and kicks me.
"Answer now!" He shouts.
"You're... going to kill Luke." I wheeze out.
"I am?" He asks.
"No- that's the lie." I say.
He points the gun to Luke's head.
"What are you doing!?" I shout.
"You just said I'm going to kill Luke." He says.
"No that was the lie!" I say.
"Then you should of said, 'The lie is that I'm going to kill Luke.'" He says.
"I told you to choose your words carefully." He says.
"Please don't kill him!" I beg.
"Well, the you gotta do one more thing for me." He says.
"Clem, don't do this! They can't make you do anything." Luke pants.
"You sure about that?" He asks Luke.
Just as Luke's about to say something they shoot him in the head.
"LUUUUKE NOOOOOO!!" I cry so hard no tears come out. I've never felt this much emptiness in my entire life. Everyone is gone.
I cry loudly and I can't stop.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" He screams as he punches me in the face several times.
I breathe heavily. I start to panic.
I look around, AJ is gone. Christa took him and left me!
I hated this. I hated this so much. Why can't I just be dead. I'll be with Luke and Carl. But no, I sit here suffering, alone again...
"KILL ME!" I beg.
"You think I'm letting you off that easily?!" He says.
The gun shots much have drawn walkers. Tons of them come out of the woods and attack the men. One spots me and limps towards me.
I'm tied up. I can't escape! This is it.
The walker approaches me and sinks its teeth into my neck. Pulling out what ever arteries and muscles I had.
I scream in pain.
In seconds I bleed out.
Dead.
-
There's a bright light, my eyes flutter open. I'm in Luke's arms. I look up at him.
"It was just a bad dream Clem."