Chapter One

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"So you're Lee, huh?" Luke asked. "Clementine told me about you once. . ."

Lee nodded. "Yeah. I taught her to use a gun and how to be safe." Lee replied. "You are?"

"The name's Luke. The one sitting on the bench is Nick." Luke answered. He pointed to Nick with his head.
"I can introduce myself, Luke." Nick mumbled.
Luke rolled his eyes. "Oh shut up, loose canon." He teased. Nick growled under his breath, clearly upset with Luke.

He fixed his hat and looked around for his uncle, Pete. The room was filled with so many people, all chatting, that Nick couldn't spot the old man.

"And he gets his gun ready in place like I taught him, finger on the trigger then he stops."

One coversation stood out from the crowd to Nick. A conversation he's heard many times.

"He turns to me and says 'I can't do it. I can't shoot it, uncle Pete. Please don't me shoot it.', so I grabbed the gun outta his hand. . ."

Nick walked over, following the voice and finally, he found his uncle.
Pete looked over and saw Nick. "There's the boy right now." He smiled. Pete wrapped his arm around Nick.
"So this is the boy who couldn't shoot a buck?" David smirked and chuckled.

Nick glared at the García. "Oh shut up." Nick growled. Pete whacked his nephew in the head. "Now you be nice, boy Nick. He's just teasing." Pete said. "Why do you gotta tell everybody the story about how I couldn't bring myself to shoot a buck?" Nick asked.
Pete shook his head a bit and smiled. "Because people enjoy the story." He answered. "Loosen up, boy and let out a laugh for once."

Conrad hugged Francine as hard as he could. He cried into his woman's shoulder. "Oh God, Francine. . . I love you. . ." Conrad sobbed.
Francine hugged back, rubbing Conrad's head. "Oh Conrad. . . You're such a big baby." Francine laughed.

"What's this about?" Tripp asked.

Javier turned to look in Tripp's direction. "Oh, that. We all thought it would be nice to remember those who died in Richmond, so Conrad and Eleanor did a little digging and found a few photos." Javier explained. "We didn't want to forget you guys." He glanced over at Gabe who nodded in response.
Tripp took off his picture. "Huh. Eleanor used that picture. . ." Tripp chuckled. He smiled then looked around the room.

"Well. . . Thanks to Clementine, we all have a chance to live again." Lee spoke up.

"We're all in her debt."

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