Chapter 10: Christa and Omid
The train stops as Kenny looks up at the bridge. There was a gas truck that had part of their cargo hanging over the bridge, blocking the way. All of you walk out of the train and look at the problem. "Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! FUUUUUUCK!!!" Kenny screams in anger and annoyance. "Maybe we could walk?" Ben asked. "That's fucking stupid, Ben." Kenny mutters.
"I'm just sayin'..." Ben said, shrugging, as Chuck climbs down from the train.
"Hmm. I dunno; I ain't got much experience with y'all's fortitude but we could probably deal with that. We got a damn train." Chuck said. "That thing's not full of milk, Charles. That's gas or diesel; something that's going to explode." Kenny said to him, annoyed.
"You gotta get ahold of yourself. This is a crew here." Chuck said to Kenny. Kenny glares at him as he gets in his face and said. "This ain't shit."
"This--"
"Yo, you keep screaming like that and you're gonna get your face chewed off." A male's voice called out. All of you look up to see a man and a woman on the bridge, looking down at all of you. "Are you guys going to be trouble? Because we could've just kept walking." The woman said.
"No, we're friendly." Lee shouted at him as Kenny started to raise his hand to get his gun. "Put you hand down, Ken." Lee told him. "That's what everybody says." The woman remarked. "We know." Lee said to her. "Let's give these guys a break." The man said to the woman. "We'll see." The woman said.
"You guys got a problem with your train?" The man asked. "Yeah, you're standing right in front of it." Kenny replied. "Dude, it's a wreck. It's not so bad from up here. Send your buddy up to have a look." The man said.
Lee started to walk forward but Kenny puts his hand out towards him.
"Anything goes sideways up there, we won't let them escape." He mutters and Lee nods to him as he walks up to a ladder that was leaning against a pillar. "If I come up there you better not be murderers or thieves." Lee shouted at the two people. "I guess you'll have to find out." The woman called out.
With no choice, Lee climbs up the ladder and meets uh p woth the two new people. "Hey dude, I'm Omid." The man introduced.
"Lee."
"Christa. What's the deal with the train?" Christa asked. "We're driving it." Lee replied. "Oh man." Omid said with excitement. "We're not really in the meetin' and greetin' mode. I just came up here to see about the tanker." Lee told them. "Well, there it is." Christa said as she gestures to the truck.
At that moment, you and Clem climbed up the ladder and Omid took noticed of that. "Oh shit! Damn, you guys have kids!" He said, happily. "What are you two doing here?" Lee asked as he turns to see you two.
"Do you know how long it's been since I've seen a kid? Shit!" Omid exclaims then he turns to you two and asked. "What's your name?"
"Clement." Clem replied.
"(Y/N)." You introduced.
"Oh, so he gets to swear?" Lee asked, sarcastically.
"Well, this is great! See. Things are looking up." Omid said to Christa. Christa, suspicious, looks over at Lee and said. "You're not their dad. They down there?"
"It's that obvious?" Lee asked.
"To me." Christa said.
"And no, they're not down there." Lee replied then he looked down at you then said. "She...she just lost her mother." Christa and Omid looked alittle shocked at this and gave you a look that said Sorry. Christa looks back at Lee and asked. "What's your story?"
"I came across Clement alone the first day all of this happened. We've been together ever since." Lee replied. "And everybody down there, they cool?" Christa asked as she nods towards the others. "Kenny lost his wife and kid." Lee replied.
"Man. How long ago?" Omid asked.
"What time is it?" Lee asked.
"I don't know. Four?" Omid said, shrugging.
"Maybe two hours ago." Lee replied.
"Damn..." Christa said in a sad tone.
"We're sorry for everything that's happened to you guys. That train is awesome, though." Omid said. "That tank is your real problem. We'll help you with it, but if we see anything we don't like, we're moving on down the road. Alone." Christa said to Lee.
"We'd appreciate the help." Lee said.
"You can't just blast through it, I guess." Omid remarks. Christa rolls her eyes then said. "If you could get it down, the rest would probably be pretty easy."
"We'll start there." said Lee. "We'll come down and settle in, and see if we can help." Christa said and Lee begins to look around the environment then he looks at a large van and opens the back of it, only to see safety cones and stop signs. He looks around and found a roll of tape and grabs it. Might be useful. He thought. Then he makes his way down the ladder, the rest of you follow him.
Kenny, Ben and Chuck jump in surprise as you, Clem and Lee walks down the ladder with Omid and Christa. "Guys, this is Omid and Christa." Lee introduced but the three men didn't say anything. "Not big on welcomes..." Omid said, nervously.
"Like I said, we're not really up for meeting folks." Lee replied. "I get it." Omid said as he looks over at the others. "We just wanted to say hi and that your train is pretty cool."
"But we're not looking for charity." Christa said.
"We could help you guys, though." Omid said to them with a smile.
"The plan is to cut that tanker down and be on our way." Lee said to the others. "Seems like plan enough to me." Kenny replied. "You want to start in on that tanker?" Omid asked Lee. "I'll get to know the kids for a minute, if you don't mind." Christa said to Lee.
Kenny turns to Omid and said. "And why don't I show you how this thing works, in case something happens."
"Really, Ken?" Lee asked Kenny, worriedly. Kenny nods and said. "It's probably for the best. Someone might want to have a look inside of that station back there, too."
"Sounds great. Let's do this thing." Omid said, optomisticly, as Kenny climbs up into the train. Omid follows him as Christa walks up to you two and begins to talk with you two for a while.
"You two interrogating this woman for us?" Lee asked you two. "Yep." You and Clem replied. "She set off any alarm bells?" Lee asked. "Not yet." You replied. "They're very thorough." Christa said, smiling. "That's what I like to hear." Lee said.
"That's a pretty useful radio for him to be holding onto, no?" Christa said as he points at the walkie-talkie in Clem's hand. "It's busted, but...it means something to him." Lee replied. "Ah, I understand." Christa said, understanding, to Clem.
"Careful, both of them are crack shots now." Lee warned. "You got these two shooting guns?" Christa said, intrigued. "Look, I don't need a lecture." Lee said, annoyed. He was worried she was gonna shout at him for showing you and Clem on how to survive. "You weren't getting one. It's good. They should be able to take care of themselves." Christa said and Lee nods at her.
"Where you from?" He asked her.
"San Francisco." Christa replied. "Jeez, a long way from home." Lee said. "I blame the one in there." Christa said, nodding towards Omid. "He wanted the great American road trip."
"He got a little more than he bargained for, huh?" Lee said. "Who the hell is into Civil War history anyway? Other than old white guys." Christa asked and Lee slowly raised his hand up. "Wonderful. You two will be thick as thieves." Christa said and Lee chuckles as he goes into the train and talks with Omid for awhile just to get to know him.
After bonding with Omid over some Civil War history and learning a bit more about Omid and Christa, Lee decided to head over to the train station. "Can we follow you over there?" Clem asked as you and him go over to Lee. "You don't like the new girl?" Lee asked.
"I do." You said and Clem nods. "Me too. But...it's like we're a team. Like you said." said Clem. "Yeah, all right. Come on." Lee said then he calls out to the others. "Clement, (y/n) and I are checking out this train station, all right? Hustle over if you hear anything." And the three of you head towards the train station.
The three of you approach the station and you happened to look up to see there was a message painted on the roof: Survivors Inside. You frown at this just as Clem started to run to one end of the station. You chase after him and the two of you see a door.
You were about to reach for the door when Lee said. "You two should wait for me before trying to open doors." You and Clem turn around and lower your heads. "Sorry." Both of you said. "Luckily it's locked. We'll get better at working together." Lee said and he goes to the door.
He tried to push it but it didn't budge then he looked up to see that the window was open at the top of the door. "Maybe I could look in?" You suggested and Lee goes over to you. "Why don't I put you in my shoulders and you can peek into that window up there." Lee said to you. "Sounds good." You said.
"You sure?" Clem asked you with worry. You nodded and said. "Yeah, I'm sure." Then you walk up to the door and Lee picks you up and places you on his shoulder. You look through the window and said. "Okay, I can see in, what do I do now?"
"What do you see?" Lee asked you.
"Lots of crates and stuff." You replied as you look around. "Maybe we can find the key or figure out a way to knock this door down." Lee said as you look and see the lock and began to unlock the door as Lee continues. "Kenny'd probably have me pick the lock, which might actually work now that we have the time..."
"I think I opened it." You said. "For real?" Clem and Lee asked in shock. "I think so." You replied and Lee sets you down back to the ground and opens the door. "Well I'll be damned." Lee said. "Let's go. Be careful." You said to Lee. "I'm supposed to tell you and Clem that." Lee said and the three of you smile.
The three of you walk in the station, only to realize that it was really dark inside. "It's really dark in here." Lee remarks. "Maybe I can hold the door open?" Clem suggests. "I don't like that. I'll prop it open with something." Lee said then he remembered that he still had that spike remover. He goes to the door, opens it up and places the remover down and it props the door open.
Now with light shining inside, Lee begins to look around and saw a blowtorch. Unfortunately, it was behind a locked gate. "We need to get in there and get that blowtorch." Lee said then he looks up to see a gap up top the door.
"There's alittle gap up there." Lee said.
"We're lucky I'm so little." You said and you walk over to Lee and he boosts you up to the gap. "Go on and grab the keys, (y/n)." Lee said but you saw something move behind them. Your eyes widen at this then you shout. "Behind you!"
Lee and Clem turn around to see a Walker was coming up on them. Clem gasped as Lee shouts. "Fuck!" Then he pulls out his gun but then another Walker comes up and knocks the gun out of his hand, which slides under the gate and towards you.
Clem backs up to the gate as Lee walks towards the remover and grabs it and hits one of the walkers and knocks it to the side. The second one comes up on Lee but he was able to push it to the side and bashed its head in.
Lee takes a deep breath and looks up to see you holding his gun and it was aimed at where the Walker was at, your hands were shaking. Clem looks over at you with worry as Lee walks up to the gate. "It's okay....it's okay....everything's fine." He said, calmly. You lowered the gun and Lee gives you small smile until he hear a noise and saw a Walker was coming towards you.
Clem's eyes widen in terror as Lee turns to you and said. "KEYS! NOW!" You run to the wall behind you and found the keys, grabbed them and handed them to Lee. He takes it and unlocks the gate. You run to him and he takes the gun out of your hand, aims it at the Walker and shoots it in the head.
"That didn't go so good." You said as Clem goes up to you. "No, it did not go so good. But we're okay. Everything's okay." Lee said as he looks down at you two. You smile and nod as Clem goes to hug you. You hug him back just as you hear Christa calling out. "What's going on? I thought I heard a gunshot."
"We're fine." Lee shouted as Christa walks in and sees the dead walkers. "We found some walkers." Lee said as you and Clem break away from the hug. "You and two eight year olds versus three of them, huh?" Christa asked.
"It was stupid." Lee said, honestly.
"You think?" Christa said.
"What do you want me to say? I'm trying to teach them how to take care of themselves. We're getting used to working together." Lee informed her and Christa nods at him. "I'm going to go make sure the noise didn't cause us any problems." She said. "That's a good idea." Clem said to her. Christa smiles at him and starts to walk out but turns to Lee and said. "I hope you know what you're doing with them." Then she walked out of the station.
Lee walks in and grabs the blowtorch. "Let's go outside." Clem said as Lee turns and said. "What did we learn?"
"I'm not ready for a gun." You answered as you look down on the floor. "No, you just have to learn to pull the trigger." Lee replied. "It's so hard." You whined. "Don't think, just do it. Live with what happens." Lee said to you, softly. "I'll try." You said and the three of you head out of the station and towards the others.
"I found a blowtorch in the station. Should make quick work of the coupling up there." Lee shouts as Kenny and Omid walks out of the train. "Excellent, I'll come up there with you to have a look." Omid said as he and Lee walk over to the ladder. Then the two men climb up the ladder and start to use the torch but there was a leak in the hose.
Lee turns it off then remembers he found tape and starts to cover the hole. He turns it back on and begins to take use it until the truck started to move. Omid grabbed him and moved him away. Lee thanked him and tried to figure out what to do since it was out of reach.
He looks over at Omid and asked him to try to reach it. Omid points out if Lee couldn't reach out then he couldn't but Lee tells him he's gonna dangle him on the edge. Omid didn't like that but Lee convinced him to do it anyway.
As they were cutting the truck, Ben looks out behind the train and saw a huge hordes of walkers coming their way. "Guys....there's something coming!" Ben shouts. "WHAT THE WHAT?!" Omid shouts. "There must be thousands...." Lee said to him. "We gotta go!!" Ben shouts as he runs across the top of the train and jumps down to the cab.
Finally, Omid and Lee get the truck cut and the gas tank falls down without exploding. Lee shouts at
Kenny to head out as you, Clem and the others start to board the train. The train starts to run under the train while Omid freaks out on what to do. Lee tells him that they have to jump but Omid thought he was crazy. Lee told him he could stay and they will go with Christa. Omid said. "The hell you are!" And he jumps off only to hit the roof of the train and falls off of the train.
Christa shouts at Omid and she jumps off the train and runs towards him as Lee jumps and lands on the roof. Lee walks along the roof then lowers himself down to the open door of the boxcar and gets in as Christa and Omid, who was limping, run along the car.
Lee pulls Omid in and he shouts at Lee for not grabbing Christa first but she was able to get up and climb in.
The three adults catch their breaths as you and Clem look at them with concern. "Are you hurt?" Clem asked Lee. "No, we're okay." Lee replied.
"Speak for yourself, my leg is fucked." Omid groaned. "We're fine, Clement. We're fine." Christa assured as the train passes the station, leaving the large horse behind.
Hours later, the train starts coming up to Savannah and Lee smiles at this. He looks over at you and Clem and saw both of you were passed out asleep. Clem was in a chair, leaning his head against the window while you were laying on the floor, on your left side.
Lee noticed a couple of pieces of paper were sticking out of Clem's backpack and he goes over to look at them. He realized that they were drawings. The first one was of Kenny, Duck and Katjaa, looking so happy. Then he flips to the second paper and saw it was a drawing of Carley and you, also looking happy.
He heard a door open and he looks over to see it was Kenny walking in as he sees the sun rising over the city line. "Next stop, the Atlantic." Kenny mutters as Lee puts the drawings back into Clem's bag and stands up. "We're finding Clement's parents when we get there." Lee said. "I thought they were dead." Kenny said. "Looking for them, then." Lee corrected. "That's not the plan." Kenny said, slightly angry.
"Well, it's ours. Clem, (y/n) and I talked it through. You'll be all right." Lee said to him. "I'll be alive, I guess. Blood in my heart, blood in my brain at least." Kenny replied as he looks out the window. "I'll leave you to your thoughts." Lee said and he looks over at you and Clem. "They're out cold like I never seen." Lee mutters when suddenly the walkie-talkie started to make noises.
Then a voice comes through.
"Hell...o...oo...there?" The voice calls out. "What the...?" Lee said in shock as Kenny walks up behind him, his eyes widen in shock. "Can't wait for you to get to Savannah, Clement. I've got your parents right here and you be sure to find me whether Lee wants you to or not. Now, what I need--" the voice started to say but it cuts out.
"Holy shit..." Lee mutters in shock. "I thought that fucking thing was broken..." Kenny said. "So did I." Lee said to him. "Who the fuck was that....if he's convinced Clement that he has his parents...."
"Y'all might want to rethink your plan." Kenny said as the train gets closer to the city.
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