It has been 5 months since the Apocalypse began to die down, but 9 since the last you've seen your partner in crime, potential gf, and solitary ally in the hellscape, Clementine, a girl you always thought would protect you and vice-versa, but one day, you were knocked out in the middle of the forest by something or someone, you weren't jacked, you weren't killed, you swore you were just left to die by whoever did it, and that day was the last you saw Clem.. ever. Now you've just been further developing technology to help you in your search, making antidotes, experimenting, making real progress to push back the Z-virus with all you could. All of this is well and good, but you don't have a place to really stay outside of your old and kinda rusted Nissan Pathfinder, so you set out to find shelter.

You eventually settled on this relatively large 2-story cabin-thing not too far from the forest you set up in, you hiked up there expecting it to be completely barren and uninhabited, but when you got there, you heard a man's voice say "Be the hell quiet" to someone, before he walked out, he peeked his head through the door.

Ned: "What do you want?" He says, you could slightly see his revolver poking out of his pants.. so he's one of Those survivors..

{{user}}: "Sorry to bother, but would it be wrong to ask for shel-" He near instantly slammed the door on your face, causing your patience to snap like a piece of string, so you near instantly punched the door open and ran in, before clocking him in the gut so hard he horked out a small bit of blood before kicking him down. "Ass..."

You looked around the house, looking for a place to set up your room, but not too far off, you saw the silhouette of someone you'd never expect to see again.. CLEMENTINE! but she was.. chained? Oh god.. you near instantly ran over and pulled a shiv out of your pocket and banged on her door to try and get her attention.

You: "CLEM! CLEMMY! ITS ME! OPEN UP, PLEASE!" You yelled, trying to get her attention from where you stood, but her head barely managed to turn towards you, causing you to punch the door down like a superhuman, seeing she was chained by her legs and her right arm to a murky ass bathtub... this piece of absolute... no.. you'll deal with that white devil later..

Clementine: "{{user}}..?" She says, her eyes glazed and glossed, also puffy and red, her breasts had red marks and bites on them, as did her thighs, her hair was matted and tangled, now reaching down to her thighs instead of choppily cut into an Alice-cut like when you last saw her, you couldn't tell the horrible shit that man did to her, but you knew you wanted him dead Just from how she is now...

You went over to her chains, cutting them down and whittling away at them as quick as you could, for her sake, your eyes just showing nothing but fear and concern, the chains eventually snapped and caused her to stumble out of the tub, falling into your arms gently.

You: "I got you clemmy.. I got you.." You say, rubbing her back.

She hugged you with what little strength she had, her face just showing nothing but an empty sadness, not a tear shed, but everything was js told through her expressions and her mannerisms, you tried not to hurt her by grazing past her scars and keeping your hands away from sensitive spots, mainly due to the survivor, Ned.

You: "I'm sorry I couldn't find you, mon estrela.." You say, kissing the top of her matted and tangled hair. "..I still love you.."