Clementine was furious as she walked back to the group. First Jane and then Luke. Why were they against Y/N all of a sudden? She muttered to herself angrily as she arrived back at the fountain. She heard Rebecca panicking as she approached:

"I'm not supposed to be in labor yet, Kenny. What if something's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong. Babies know how to be born" Kenny said with warmth in his voice. Rebecca looked up pained but smiled, remarking:

"Clementine!" as the girl approached.

"Is everything ok?" Clementine asked as she looked at the distress Rebecca was in.

"Rebecca's water broke" Sarah replied quickly from the other side of Rebecca where she sat, rubbing the pregnant lady's back.

"You have any luck darlin'?" Kenny asked with a strained smile, the loss of Sarita weighing heavily against him.

"The building around back has an observation deck and a gift ship up high. Somewhere safe for the baby, and there's this."

Clementine smiled as she held out the bottle of painkillers.

"OxyContin? Where'd you get these?" Kenny asked in shock.

"It's uh... complicated" Clementine replied nervously.

"I don't care, you are my favourite person" Rebecca replied as she grabbed the bottle and opened it, swallowing two tablets quickly.

"How are you feeling?" Clem asked with a sympathetic smile.

"Scared. And it hurts. I wish Alvin was here" Rebecca replied sadly.

"Everything Alvin did was for you and the baby. Back at Carver's, in the office, he stayed behind to stop the people chasing us. He died to keep us safe" Clementine replied as she rubbed Rebecca's shoulder.

"Jesus. Of course. Of course he did. I know it's a waste of time, but I can't stop thinking about things I should've said to him... Things I should've talked to him about. How am I ever gonna do this without him?"

"You're going to be a good mom. And you've got us, Rebecca- me, Kenny, Sarah, Luke, Y/N. You won't be doing this alone."

Kenny smiled at Clem's words, adding: "You Goddamn right. As soon as Mike and Bonnie are back we'll go. If Y/N's not back by then we'll get Luke to-"

"They're back now and look-" Clementine said pointing at Mike who was carrying two large sealed water containers.

"Oh shit good find guys. Now we just gotta... SHIT!" Kenny yelled, his eyes opening wide. The horde had reached them, and there was a lot.

"Shit! Walkers!" Bonnie panicked.

"How'd they get that close without anyone seeing 'em? The hell's Luke?" Mike added.

"Fuck! Clem, you lead the others to the visitor centre! Mike you get that water there. Bonnie, Sarah, you two help Rebecca. I'll buy you time!" Kenny roared as he walked towards the approaching walkers.

"Kenny!?!" Clem yelled in fear.

"Go darlin- I'll buy you as much-"

Kenny stopped mid sentence, the walkers also turning as a loud screeching/revving noise could be heard suddenly approaching.

Out of nowhere a truck burst through the brush, the one that had brought the group to Howes in the first place.

It was now totalled though, it was blood red at the front- branches and blood and viscera on and in the front, smoke pouring out of the engine. The others looked shocked, Clem though yelled out happily at the driver:

"Y/N!!!"

The truck ran over the closest walkers before screeching and grinding to a halt, the driver door opening and Y/N sliding out with an AK 47 over his shoulder, another one in his hand. He rushed over to the group, handing Kenny the AK before he was crashed into by Clementine.

The hug was agonising for Y/N, but he didn't care, squeezing Clem back quickly before releasing.

"Y'all got a plan?" he asked as the others looked at him in shocked silence.

"Visitor centre about a half a mile out, it's up high so we can get Rebecca in and make a stand" Kenny said with a smile, relieved to see his boy again.

"Alright, I'll cover your backs. We can come back for the supplies in the truck later."

—~—

It had been a slow walk towards the elevated haven, Rebecca moving as quick as she could given the pain she was in, but Y/N was true to his word, keeping their backs safe. The problem was for every one he put down two more seemed to show up.

Clementine arrived at the centre first and rushed up. She ran round the corner to the now open gift shop to see Luke and Jane sitting next to each other dishevelled.

"That's about as human as I've felt in a long time. I almost forgot what- Clementine! Jesus, Clem. It's not... um. We were just..." Luke stammered in awkward shock.

"Seriously? Now?" Clementine yelled angrily. Before Luke could answer Bonnie had burst round the corner with Rebecca, saying:

"Quick, in here Bec, you can lay down in here. Let's get you comfortable."

Kenny was next round the corner. He saw the pair of them and was immediately furious:

"What the fuck are you two doing up here?"

"Kenny! What's going on?" Luke asked as he shot to his feet and quickly zipped up his fly.

"Bec's in labour, we've got God-knows-how-many walkers out there, which you were supposed to be keeping an eye out for!" Kenny roared.

Sarah and Mike were in next, Y/N slamming the shutter gate from the stairway and yelling:

"I fucking need guns out here now!"

AK gunfire ripped through the air again and as Mike ran out Y/N yelled:

"Chew them up on the stairs, use them to make a blockade!"

More gunfire erupted against the moans of the dead as the late afternoon light was quickly fading. The others began to exit before Rebecca asked with fear in her voice:

"Stay with me Clem, please?"

Clementine smiled and nodded. Sarah stood quickly, saying to Clementine:

"Give me your gun Clem. I can help the others."

Clementine looked at Kenny unsure before Sarah replied:

"I can do this Clem. I need to."

Clementine nodded and gave Sarah the gun Y/N had given her back at Howes with the silencer on it. Sarah nodded and rushed out the door as Clementine sat next to Rebecca, holding her hand.

—~—

Y/N fired and fired, trying to shoot the walkers that were halfway up the stairs- Luke, Mike, Bonnie and Jane firing at the ones near the door on the left side of the entrance, while Y/N moved up on the right side, pointing the barrel of the AK through the fencing and desperately trying to hold the rest of the horde back.

Sarah joined the others, and once Bonnie had taken the safety off for her, began firing at the walkers as well.

Y/N fired and fired before he ran out of ammo, quickly releasing the magazine and pulling another from his pocket. He loaded it, pulled back the safety bolt and opened fire again.

"Fuck! This is my last mag, there's more ammo in the fucking truck!" Y/N yelled before he was cut off by Mike yelling:

"They're coming in!"

Y/N turned to his left and saw the door buckling from the force of the walkers at the top of the stairway. He rushed over at the same time as Luke and Mike in a desperate attempt to hold them back.

"Sarah, Jane, push that cannon over here" Luke yelled.

Sarah and Jane both rushed over to the deactivated cannon that was sat in the middle of the decking, and tried to push the heavy object towards the door. Bonnie yelled: "the hinges are breaking"

There was suddenly an ungodly creaking and cracking, the weight of the cannon and the huge numbers of walkers on the stairway in too close a proximity to each other, their combined weight ripping through the decking, causing it to tear in half.

"Oh shit, move!" Luke roared. The four holding the door were able to jump clear, Jane on the left hand side of the cannon was as well.

Sarah, on the right, wasn't as lucky- she plummeted to the ground, screaming in pain as her legs were crushed under the weight of the cannon.

Y/N was first on his feet and seeing the predicament Sarah was in rushed and slid down the broken decking.

"Sarah get up, quick" Y/N yelled, and having lost the AK in the commotion, pulled his glock and fired at the three closest walkers. He rushed towards where Sarah cried, trying desperately to push the cannon off Sarah's broken and crushed legs. He had no chance as the other's yelled:

"Y/N get up!"

"There's nothing you can do!"

"They're on top of you!"

Y/N felt a hand grab him from the side, a shot from Luke dropping the walker that had grabbed him. He yelled desperately:

"Y/N get up now. You can't do nothing!"

Y/N strained and heaved, unable to lift the broken cannon as Sarah screamed and cried:

"Don't let them get me, Y/N. Please don't let them get me!"

Y/N looked at her, then back to the dozen walkers who were nearly on them both. He aimed his gun at Sarah, and said with genuine heartfelt regret:

"I'm sorry"

Before he shot her in the forehead. He rushed over to the broken decking, Luke and Mike quickly pulling him up to safety.

The walkers had already began feasting on Sarah's corpse as Y/N looked at Luke with tears nearly breaking in his eyes:

"I'm sorry Luke, there was nothing-"

"Of course there wasn't. You tried man. You tried" Luke replied before Mike yelled:

"The fuckers are climbing up!"

Y/N stood and looked down, the growls of the walkers partially blocking out Rebecca's agonised screams as Luke yelled:

"C'mon give us a fucking break!"

Y/N looked at the right side of the remaining decking above the stairs- the support cable had snapped, and then looked at the left side where it was loosely joined to the wall still.

"Luke- machete! We've gotta drop the rest of the deck!"

Y/N held his hand out, Luke unsheathing and passing Y/N the machete as he quickly climbed up on the railing, ignoring the agony he was in.

"Drop the- are you fucking crazy?" Mike yelled. He was ignored though, Y/N smashing the machete into the steel plate on the wall, the fifth blow working as the cable came away, the rest of the deck dropping leaving a small foot long piece of flooring between the gift shop and utility corridor and the ten foot drop to the walker infested ground.

"Good fucking job man! You did it!" Luke smiled as he took the machete back and helped Y/N down. They edged along the utility corridor's opening and into the now silent gift shop-

Kenny held a blue baby in his arms- Rebecca whimpering "no no no!" as the others stared in horror.

"Not again" Y/N whispered before the baby coughed and cried as he sprung to life, a healthy brown tone on his skin, quickly replacing the deathly blue.