The group burst into the house, a front room mostly finished containing a fireplace that the Russians fortuitously left set up ready for their return which never happened.

Jane rushed over with Clementine in her arms as Kenny did the same with AJ. Kenny laid the baby in an empty box next to some seats that sat along the left wall of the room and quickly turned to Clementine, taking Y/N's old vest and Clementine's jumper off her as Jane got the fire lit.

"We gotta get you dry and warm darling" Kenny said worriedly as Y/N made it through the door, shivering as he took his jumper off and threw it to the floor.

"Boy, get over here" Kenny said quickly as he and Jane continued to try and fix Clementine's layers to help her get warm and dry. Y/N though was in a tailspin of rage, adrenaline and hatred.

Bonnie came through the doors and sat next to Mike, who had taken his jumper off and held it against his bleeding and broken nose. Arvo was stood off in a corner, by himself.

"He's gone. He's gone" Bonnie sobbed, as Jane got up and left the room quickly.

"Y/N get over here" Kenny said firmly as he wrapped his arms around Clem, trying to use his body temperature to bring her back up to a healthy and safe core temperature.

Y/N wasn't having any of it as he snapped:

"You fucking son of a bitch. This is your fucking fault" to Arvo.

"Y/N don't" Mike said as he held his bloody jumper in place, but Y/N wasn't hearing anybody at this point, least of all him.

"Look at this place. Just a bunch of fucking toothpicks. I bet these magical supplies are just bullshit too" Y/N roared in Arvo's face, even as his body was appearing to slip into hypothermia, his lips blue along with his face.

"Y/N get over here now!" Kenny yelled, followed up by:

"Jane! I need a hand in here."

Arvo stood with his head down, not answering Y/N, before he was shoved hard in the chest.

"What? No speaka da English?" Y/N snapped. Arvo looked up into Y/N's eyes with hatred and replied:

"Fuck You!"

Y/N threw a punch, landing it on Arvo's cheek, knocking his glasses off and breaking them. Arvo fell to the floor and Y/N was on him in a moment, swinging and swinging, attempting to beat the teenager to death.

Y/N was completely out of control. Mike tried to get up, Bonnie was sitting crying, it was complete chaos. The only thing  that stopped Y/N's tirade was Clementine speaking weakly, but loud enough for Y/N to hear.

"Y/N... please."

Y/N stopped, looking down at Arvo's heavily bleeding face, his own bloody hand and then became suddenly aware of how much pain he was in, how bad he felt. He walked over to Kenny before falling, Kenny catching him as he fell and lowering Y/N down, pulling his shirt off over his head and shifting him close to Clementine and the fire.

Jane walked back in the room with a duffel bag in her hand, looking at Arvo's beaten and sobbing body on the ground, Mike and Bonnie sat on a chair, and Kenny trying to get Y/N and Clementine in positions near the fire.

"What in God's name happened?" Jane snapped as she rushed over, placing the bag down.

"I'll- I'll tell you in a minute. Let's just get these two sorted" Kenny replied with a look of concern.

—~—

Clementine opened her eyes slowly, and as they focused she noticed Mike leaning down over Arvo, who was tied up in the corner.

"Jesus. He could have killed you. What the fuck is wrong with him?"

Her attention was brought to Jane, who was sat next her and asked looking down at Clementine with a forced smile:

"You're up. How are you feeling?"

"Better" Clementine said as she sat and looked around, asking:

"Y/N?"

"He's ok. He woke up about half an hour ago. He and Kenny are out the back trying to get some truck running. Here" Jane said as she handed Clem a tin of spaghetti.

"Has Y/N eaten?" Clementine asked.

"Yeah, he had a can as well. Eat. You need it" Jane replied.

Clementine sat and opened the can, slowly eating/drinking like out of a cup.

As she finished and the pair sat there, Jane said suddenly:

"I can't believe he's gone. I've lost people before but, it just hasn't felt this... shitty in a while."

"He cared about you too" Clementine replied as she got her jacket and vest back on.

"Goddamnit" Jane replied as she buried her face into her hand.

"I shouldn't have come back. I knew this would happen."

"Well I'm glad you did, as long as we can all be on the same side, instead of fighting with each other" Clementine replied. They sat in silence for a few minutes.

"Feeling better?" Kenny asked with a smile as he walked in the room.

"I am, thank you Kenny" Clementine smiled. Kenny chuckled.

"Ain't no need for any of that. Me and the boy are outside, we're... getting there, with the truck. Maybe come outside when you're feeling up to it? Boyo could definitely use some of your calming influence when you're up to it" Kenny said with a smile, but a tone and expression that said he was extremely worried.

"I will, just give me five minutes" Clementine smiled.

She looked down to her right, AJ was in a box, in a little makeshift cot.

"I'll watch him" Jane said, answering Clem's thoughts. As she got up to leave the room Clem was caught of guard by Jane saying:

"Clem... just be careful."

Clementine exited the house and walked over towards a pick up truck.

Kenny was stood with his head over the hood, calling out to Y/N who was on his back under the car. Kenny looked at Clem and smiled, saying:

"Hey boy, come out here for a minute."

"I just fucking got under here" Y/N grizzled. He quickly stopped cursing though as he stood and saw Clementine, rushing over and hugging her:

"Clemmy are you alright?" He asked as he held her in his arms, in a hug that felt different to Clementine than all the others they had shared over the years.

"I am. Are you?" Clementine asked just as concerned. Y/N smiled and nodded, Kenny looking around as he said:

"Kids let's jump in the car out the cold and have a breather for a minute."

—~—

The three sat in the pick up, Kenny in the front driver's seat, Y/N and Clementine in the back. Kenny checked his bandage in the rear view before speaking:

"What happened before... it may not be... ideal... but it's over."

"You mean me beatin' the commie?" Y/N snapped, instantly enraged again. "It's his fuckin-"

"I know, I know, I know all that" Kenny repeated quickly. "We both do, but things might come to a head. I don't know if we can trust the others, definitely not Mike and Bonnie, but we gotta think about AJ now. He's what matters, agreed?" Kenny asked, looking at the pair in the rear view.

"Him and Clem, yeah" Y/N replied fiercely. Kenny quickly spoke again- trying to move to placate Y/N:

"I know. I ain't sure if we're better off pushing off on our own, or staying with as many people as possible, but we just gotta play it cool for the time being ok. See how things play out. For the time being me and Y/N will get the car working. Clem can you stay with AJ, try and get a feel for what Jane's thinking?"

"I can do that" Clementine replied.

—~—

Clementine walked into the house to find Jane sat at a window seat, over looking the yard. AJ was laying in his make do cot, sleeping contently.

Clementine smiled, sitting on the other side of AJ's box. As she did their attention was drawn to Y/N, who uncharacteristically began cursing and yelling, kicking and punching the door of the truck.

"I've seen that look before" Jane said.

"Me too" Clementine replied absentmindedly, thinking at that moment about her worry for her best friend:

"Then you know what's going to come next" Jane replied, catching Clementine off guard.

"What do you mean?" Clementine asked angrily.

"I know he's your best friend Clem. He's a nice guy, right? I bet Carver was a nice guy once. Then one day he realised he could beat a man to death. He-"

"Y/N is NOT Carver!" Clementine snapped angrily.

"No, Clem, what I'm saying is-"

"I need to make AJ a bottle" Clementine replied, cutting Jane off as she got up and walked away.

—~—

It had been a few hours and was starting to darken. Clementine was stood in the 'kitchen' area, feeding AJ a bottle when suddenly there was the sound of the pick up starting from outside.

"Son of a bitch. They got it started" Mike said happily. Jane was sat at the same spot near AJ's box, when Mike and Bonnie rushed outside.

"Can you take AJ quickly?" Clementine asked Jane, who looked at the baby disgusted.

"No way it will puke on me!" Jane gasped.

Clementine was not impressed.

"He's a he, not an it. And it's not rocket science!"

She placed the bottle down, and carefully placed AJ in Jane's arms.

"Ok keep his head straight like that, place the bottle up so he can't swallow any air, perfect. I'll be back in a minute."

Clem went to take off when she lit up at Jane's next words:

"You're a natural mother Clementine. You know that."

—~—

Clementine rushed outside as Mike and Bonnie got to the truck, Kenny was closing the hood as Y/N turned off the ignition and pocketed the keys.

"It works" Mike asked happily.

"What'd I tell ya" Kenny replied.

"So what's the plan?" Mike asked.

"We head north. To Wellington. We got about a week's worth of formula left so we got a week to get that baby to high walls and food" Y/N replied as he stepped out of the cab.

"We should head back south, to Howes" Bonnie suggested.

"There ain't nothin' left of Howes. I got out while I could but the horde took it!" Y/N snapped.

"Well I don't know whose stupid idea it was to march up here, but it was a bad one" Jane suddenly said as she emerged from the door.

Clementine looked at her angrily and rushed inside despite Jane saying "he's fine!"

"Who the fuck asked you bitch?" Y/N snapped, stepping forward as Kenny placed a hand in his chest to try and calm Y/N down.

"My boys right. We're going to Wellington" Kenny replied.

"Fuck that! I was thinking more like Texas" Mike snapped back.

"Texas? What are you fuckin' retarded? We're going to Wellington. Me and Kenny got the car started and got the keys. That's what's happening!" Y/N snapped again getting even angrier.

"What about Arvo?" Bonnie asked, attempting to diffuse the situation.

"Oh the Commie? Yeah he ain't coming" Y/N snapped back.

"So you'd leave him here to die?" Mike asked, squaring up to Y/N.

"You damn fuckin' right I would. Fuck if it makes it easier I'll go kill him right now!"

Y/N began walking towards the house when Kenny suddenly added:

"Look everyone is cold and tired. Let's have a good nights sleep and we can sort this out in the morning."

The others begrudgingly agreed, but it was a tense stand off.

—~—

Clementine was gently stirred awake by a noise. She sat up and rubbed her eyes. It was dark, the middle of the night still. She suddenly heard voices outside.

"Y/N. Y/N." Clementine whisper shouted, getting a "mmhm" from a sleeping Y/N.

"There's someone outside" Clementine replied.

"Hang on I'll go look" Y/N replied half asleep.

Clementine stood, giving Y/N a second to wake as she quietly tipped toed towards the back door of the house. She silently opened the door and walked out, seeing in the moonlight Arvo and Mike at the car with the door open. Clementine pulled her gun as Bonnie came round the corner with the two duffel bags.

"I got the rest of it" she whispered as Mike added to her:

"Kenny or Y/N must have the keys on them."

"Don't move!" Clementine said suddenly, her gun aimed at the three of them. Bonnie and Mike turned quickly, looking extremely guilty.

"That's the last of our food. You would leave a baby to die?" Clementine snapped loudly.

"Look we just have to-"

"Y/N! KENNY! JANE! Help!" Clementine yelled, not noticing Arvo turn with a rifle.

A gun shot suddenly rang out across the desolate night sky as a body hit the ground.