Chapter 5: Train Station

Clem, You, Vi, Louis, and AJ sneak up to the train station, which is swarmed with walkers. The group hides behind a rock the size of a bike. Which is in front of a train on the right side with debris stuck to the front of it.

Clementine: "There. That's where the food is. Lot more walkers than last time, though."

Louis: "We're gonna die."

Y/N: "No, Not if we're smart."

Violet: "It's either die here or die from hunger. Take your pick. Y/N, maybe you should scope things out. You know the place better."

Y/N: "Let me get a closer look. Can't be too careful."

You climb up to the train from the debris leading up to the top of the tain. You eye the walkers dead body under the door.

Clem looks at the train on the left side. "Could climb up there, but I don't know how that would get us inside." She finishes.

You look at the bell.

Y/N: "I used that bell to attract a walker before. Could try it again." You whisper back to the group.

Violet: "They do like to follow sound..."

After you examine the area, you return to the others behind the rock.

Louis: "You look like you've got an idea."

Clementine: "The noise from that bell could draw a lot of walkers. If one of us climbs up there and starts ringing it..."

Violet: "Louis. I vote Louis."

Louis: "Uh, hold on. I'd like to make an alternate suggestion."

Violet: "Come on, Lou. You're loud, dramatic, a little annoying... You're basically a walking distraction."

Louis: "I think you mean charming and theatrical. Entertaining is another word that comes to mind. Charismatic."

Violet: "See what I mean?"

Clementine: "Okay, Prince Charming. Let's see those talents in action."

Y/N: "What "Talents" I haven't seen anything like that since we got here." You smile at Louis and he glares at you.

Louis: "I can't say no to a face like that." He turns to Clem, glancing at you from the side of his eye.

Violet: "I'll go with you. Give you some cover." She nods to you and Clem.

Louis: "Fine, I'll do it. But if I die, I'm making sure walker Louis eats both of you first. I'll distract them until I see you guys reach safe cover. Then I'll try to redirect the smelly patrol to give you guys a chance to spring inside the building."

Clementine: "When we get into position, I'll signal you. Then you can do your thing."

Louis: "Good luck."

Louis takes the bell and climbs onto the train car. He hits the bell and the chair leg against the train car to distract the walkers. You sneak quietly, killing some walkers but generally not drawing attention to yourself.

Louis: "Hey, ugly! No, not you. Not you, either. Him! Fine. Make this confusing, why don't you?"

Louis: "Hey, look! Got your nose! Got your nose! I'm just fucking with you, you have no nose. Just a rotten hole in your face."

Louis: "Alright, someone guess the song. Ready? Nobody? Listen again. Nothing? Really? One more time. No, it's not "ungghhh". It's "Jingle Bells". How about this one? Really? Nobody knows that one? You guys are killing me!"

Louis: "Bet you can't grab the chair leg. Bet you can't grab it! Whoop, whoop! Too slow! Ha, ha! You suck! Yes, you do. Your turn. Oh, man! WAY too slow! It's like your muscle tissue is deteriorating or something. What's that? It is? Oh, I'm so sorry."

Louis: "I hate to break it to you, sir, but I think your eyeball just fell out of your head. Yeah, it rolled off in that general direction. Ma'am, if you could be careful. I believe you're standing on this gentleman's eyeball."

Louis: "Any requests out there? No, nothing? You know, I'm going to need a little more liveliness out of you all. You get what you give, that's all I'm saying."

You kill more of the walkers. You hide behind some barrels and signal to the others. Vi kills a walker as she, Clem and AJ run over to you.

Violet: "So far, not dead."

Clementine: "Yeah, luckily."

Y/N: "So far. I'll let Louis know we're ready."

Yoy stand up and signal to Louis, and he climbs down the train car. You go back to the hiding place.

Violet: "What is he waiting for? C'mon, c'mon... Fucking Louis..."

Y/N: "Just hold on."

Clementine: "Just...give him a second."

Violet: "We may not have a second."

Walkers approach the group. Louis rings the bell and the walkers are drawn to the noise.

Violet: "I'll watch the door for walkers."

Clementine: "Okay. I'll help, Y/N. You go in with AJ and grab all the food you can."

Y/N: "Yeah, got it."

Violet: "Sounds good. Let's make it quick."

You and AJ sneak up to the station. A walker on the ground grabs your leg but you quickly kill it with a stab to the head. And step into the once clean porch and into the station. Past the walkers, with AJ at your side. You enter the ticket booth. Inside under the shelf with the boxes is three duffel bags, you put each of them out and put them near the hatch.

Y/N: "Yes, these will be perfect."

AJ finds a lamp on a table near the ticket collector hole thing.

AJ: "Y/N, look!"

Y/N: "Try it out. See if it works."

AJ sets the lamp down and turns it on.

Y/N: "Gonna need your help on this one, kiddo. You still got your gun?"

AJ: "Just in case."

Y/N: "Just in case."

AJ jumps into the hatch. He returns with a jar of food.

Y/N: "Good job, AJ! Is there more?"

AJ nods. And you put the food in the duffel bag.

Y/N: "Keep it coming."

AJ brings more jars of food, and you put them away in the duffel bags.

You have: JAR OF FOOD - It's gonna be a feast.

Someone enters the room and points a gun at you. He wears a dirty blue jacket, with musty green jeans and smokes something, looks like paper.

????: "Stand. Slowly."

You stand up and raise your hands while AJ is still in the hole.

????: "Don't yell. Don't try anything. I won't hurt you. If I don't have to."

Y/N: "Do not fuck with me."

????: "I'm not here to fuck with you. I'm here to get some food. Same as you."

????: "You and your friends made a lot of noise out there. Wasn't hard to follow. You live close by? You knew about this place already. And organized some effort to get inside. So you probably also knew the stash was there." He steps closer and you finally notice he's smoking a Bible page.

Y/N: "I've seen those cigarettes before. You messed up our traps, didn't you?"

????: "Guilty as charged. But it was an honest mistake. I can be a real butterfingers sometimes."

The guy picks up a duffel bag that you haven't filled yet from next to you.

????: "You look a little young to be out on your own. You got a group? I count you, plus the three outside. I'm thinking, maybe more? You got a camp in these here woods"

Y/N: "You ask too many questions. I don't like it."

????: "Fine. We can play it like that, if you want." He still has the Duffel bag when he steps in front of the open window with walkers outside of it. He crouches down unzips it. And takes a look inside with the gun still pointed at you.

????: "Now...I'm going to fill this pack real slow."

Y/N: "We worked hard to get this stuff."

The guy reaches for one of the jars, and AJ appears.

????: "Well, hey there, squirt. Playing hide and seek, are we?"

AJ points his gun at the man from inside the hole.

????: "Now, that's impolite."

AJ: "DON'T steal from us."

????: "I'm not stealing. This isn't yours."

AJ: "I can kill you, you know."

????: "Come on, kid. I'm faster than you. Listen up, squirt, you're gonna quit pointing that gun at me, and let me go my merry, you understand? I'm just going to take a little bit, and then I'm leaving. Like it never happened. You wouldn't let a hungry man starve, now, would you? Kid...I don't want to do this."

Y/N: "AJ, get down!"

You push blue jacket guy against the window. Walkers grab him.

AJ won't forget that.

????: "FUCK! FUCK! You piece of shit!"

The stranger is dragged outside by the walkers.

Abel: "No! Damn it!" Shots are fired from his gun until it goes silent.

Clementine runs into the room.

Clementine: "What the fuck?!"

Y/N: "Just take a bag and fill it up!"

AJ brings out the last jars of food, and You and Clem put them in the duffel bag. You all run out of the station.

Clementine: "Run! Now!" She screams to louis who is on the red train still.

Louis starts to run as well. Vi kills a walker. Another one approaches Clem and AJ and take a left towards the blue train, and into the woods.

You kill the walker. Louis kills another one.

The group runs into the woods.

Louis: "What happened in there?"

Clementine: "I don't know." she huffs.

Violet: "Just move!"

Y/N: "I'll tell you on the way."

The group returns to the school.

Brody: "You are not listening to me. Marlon, listen to me--I'm telling you, the place was ransacked!" You overhear.

Marlon: "It's fine. We'll deal with it."

Mitch opens the gate. Vi, Clem, Louis, You, and AJ enter the courtyard.

Ruby: "Took y'all a while."

Louis: "How poor are they that have not patience!"

The group sets down the duffel bags and unzips them to reveal the jars of food. Everyone surrounds the picnic table where you have the for placed.

Willy: "Aasim! Mitch! Check it out! Food!"

Mitch: "That's, like, a lot of food."

Louis: "Observant as ever, Mitch."

Aasim: "I can't believe this. Look at it."

Willy: "You're our savior, Thank you both."

Mitch: "Like, seriously. It's a lot."

Y/N: "Yeah, tell me something I don't know."

Aasim: "I'll allow this hubris because I am starving."

Louis: "Thank you too, Louis."

Brody: "Where did you find all this?"

Louis: "The old train station. They knew where it was."

Brody: "Train station...that's outside the safe zone."

Violet: "But we ran into the creep that fucked up our rabbit traps."

Brody: "Creep? What creep?"

Clementine: "Y/N saw him smoking those nasty-ass Bible cigarettes."

Y/N: "He had weird different-colored eyes."

Brody: "Did he follow you?"

Y/N: "Nope, I shoved him into a pack of walkers. They took a chunk out of him."

AJ: "It was awesome."

Clementine: "Look, I don't know if he got out of there, but if he did, he won't make it for long."

Brody: "You attacked him?! What the fuck?! If he survived, you know he's coming back for revenge."

Brody: "What the hell were you thinking? This is fucked. How could you be so stupid?!" Everyone steps back from Brody's path of destruction, leaving you and Clem there.

Clementine: "Wanna try stepping back, Brody? I'd recommend it."

Brody: "I'd recommend you getting your head out of your ass before we'll all dead!"

Brody: I just can't...I won't...just not again...fuck!

Marlon: "What the hell's going on here?"

Brody: "She took them outside the safe zone... They SAW someone! You know what that means!"

Marlon: "ENOUGH! It just means there's a hungry guy out there looking for food. It's happened before. You are overreacting."

Brody: "You can't be serious!"

Marlon grabs Brody's arm.

Marlon: "Come on, let's go somewhere and talk about this."

Brody shoves Marlon to the ground.

Brody: "If ANYTHING happens...I'm holding YOU responsible!" (points to You)

Brody walks away, and Marlon gets up.

Marlon: "Clem, Y/N, I know I asked you for help... And you did. You did. But...shit. God. Nothing's easy."

Clementine: "It was risky, but it was worth it. Like you said... We can't lose another kid."

Marlon: "Yeah. Yeah, I did say that."

Marlon: "Well...at least we're eating tonight. And for the next few, I'd wager. Um, I'll go talk to Brody. Thanks for the haul, Clem. You guys should go enjoy it. You've earned it."

Marlon walks away and the two of you join the others at the table.

Louis: "Don't sweat it."

Violet: "Ever since we lost Sophie and Minnie, Brody's been freaked out by anything that happens past the safe zone. She'll be alright eventually."

Aasim: "Still, we should make sure this is a one-time thing. We can take Rosie out in the morning, see if she catches a scent. You know, just in case."

Aasim leaves.

Violet: "I'm gonna go clean up."

Louis: "I think I'll go, too. See you later."

Violet and Louis leave.

Tenn: "Don't worry about them. They're just sad."

Clementine: "Sad? Why?"

Tenn: "My sisters died around this time last year. I think it's starting to get to people."

Clementine: "Doesn't it get to you?"

Tenn: "Not really. Dying's not scary. I mean, it's sad, but...not scary."

Y/N: "You've been in here too long. When you see more death, you'll be a lot more afraid of it."

Tenn: "Or maybe a lot less."

Tenn: "I try not to focus on them being gone. I like picturing where they'd be now, instead." (shows drawing) "Sophie was awesome at making stuff. She'd build a place big enough for all of us to live, and paint it, too, and Minnie'd be playing whatever new song she wrote... I guess death doesn't scare me because I know I have something waiting on the other side. Someplace safe, and happy. All of us together."

Clementine: "Looks like a nice place to wind up."

Tenn: "Yeah, I think so, too. A lot better than some smelly old school."

Y/N: "Who are those guys?" You point to two people, ones a female in a dress and the other is a man with a hat. He has a mustache and looks over at the women.

Tenn: "The walkers who killed them."

Clementine: "You want them there too?"

Tenn: "There weren't always walkers. Wherever this place is, everyone gets to be a person again. Sometimes I draw the walkers the way they probably looked...sometimes I draw Minnie and Sophie the way they probably left them... But sometimes I draw this, too."

AJ: "Can I be there?"

Tenn: "Sure." (draws AJ) "You wanna be there, too? I promise I'll draw you well. You just gotta hold still."

Clementine: "Sure. Why not?"

Y/N: "Draw me too is that alright?"

Tenn: "Yeah, that's fine."

Tenn: (draws Clem) "Oh, almost forgot." (draws smile on Clem's face) "Here you go."

Tenn gives the drawing to you, a closer look shows a treehouse in the back. Why does there have to be a treehouse.

Y/N: "It's yours."

Tenn: "It's ours."

You have collected: Tenn's Drawing - Tenn's got some real talent.

Clementine: "It's getting late."

Y/N: "Mhm."

Tenn: "Yeah, you guys should get some sleep."

Clementine: "Aren't you coming?"

Tenn: "Not yet. I want to finish this first."

AJ: "Goodnight."

Tenn: "See you tomorrow."

Clem, You and AJ walk away towards the dormitory.

You, Clem and AJ walk down the hallway to their room.

AJ: "Stand back." AJ opens the door slowly, "It's clear."

Clementine: Time for bed, little guy.

AJ: "Can I stay up?"

Y/N: "Nope."

AJ: "Two more minutes?"

Clementine: "Tell you what. You lay down, and then we'll see."

Clem takes off her hat and you do too, AJ gets in bed.

Clementine: "You got in bed! By yourself!"

AJ: "I like it here."

AJ: "We got to go hunting! And there was so many rabbits to shoot! (mimics holding a bow) WHOOOSH! SPLAT! (Clem laughs)"

Clem and you sit next to AJ.

AJ: "It's nice. Not driving everywhere, or running away. But the ranch was nice, too. Before the blood."

Y/N: "This isn't the ranch."

AJ: "Do you like it? I like it, now that I'm used to it. There's games, and the walls make it feel safe."

Clementine: "I do. I really do. It's good to feel safe somewhere."

Y/N: "Yeah it's safe here, but Brody is acting weird." Clem nods.

Clementine: "There, you got to stay up two minutes more. Time for sleep."

AJ: "I'll lay down when you blow out the light."

Y/N: "Yeah, I got to talk to AJ about something."

Clementine: "Alright. Give me a minute." Clem hangs the drawing up to the wall while you talk to AJ.

Y/N: "AJ, why did you say killing that guy was awesome?"

AJ: "Because your not soft, we don't let anyone steal from us." He punches the air with his right hand.

Y/N: "No, I did that because. He had a gun on you AJ." AJ looks back at you with a confused look on his face. "You can't kill somebody just for the fun of it. I did that to survive, and only to survive." He nods, your not sure if he understands but you'll have to hope.

AJ: "Okay, I'll try not to hurt anyone alright? If I do, it'll be to protect you and Clem." You nod. "That's right." You get off the bed and sit on the other one.

Clementine: "Goodnight. Sleep tight. Don't let a walker bite. And if they try?" Clem crouches in front of AJ while you watch.

AJ: "I never let 'em bite."

Clementine: "Come on, play it right. One time?"

AJ: (mimics shooting a gun) "Bang!"

Clementine: "Good work. And thanks." Clem finally stands up, she walks over to the desk near the window and blows out the candle. Allowing you to get some long needed sleep.

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