Chapter 47: Countdown
The debut release of this chapter happened at Ñøv€l-B1n.
"Clementine?" Jason muttered to himself as he looked around for Sam but he couldn't establish any visuals on him.
Jason ran down the stairs to have a better understanding of the situation because he didn't like being left in the dark.
Clementine was relieved to see Jason as it meant that they were safe.
She also knew that Jason might require an explanation for why she went out in the first place even though she owed him no explanation.
"Clementine, I'm glad you're safe but who are these kids?" Jason asked and the boy clutched Clemenitne's hand even tighter due to Jason's imposing figure.
He was frightened and Clementine noticed this, Jason was the most harmless person among all of them even though Sam briefed her on what he did on their earlier run.
She respected that Jason stained his hand for the sake of Sam, this made her respect him as a man.
"Last I checked, it takes nine months to make a baby!" Jason exclaimed, this was a joke that was meant to make the kid warm up to him but the boy was lost.
Though, Clementine found this funny and gave him a faint smile; this was the least of their problems right now.
"Where is Sam?" Jason asked as he could tell that his joke could use some work even with his skill.
"What do you mean? He isn't back?" Clementine questioned, she looked slightly worried because Sam should arrive before her seeing as they took the shorter route.
She had to take the longer route because of the prospect of running into zombies or the people that slaughtered that woman so gruesomely.
She couldn't afford to expose these children to such danger because she didn't even have a weapon on her. What she could do was severely limited.
"Look around you, Clementine. The world has gone to shit, you don't even know if the base is still standing! You're gambling your life on probability?" Jason asked but Clementine's eyes squinted.
"It almost sounds like you're worried about me?" Clementine teased but Jason's face didn't change.
"So what if I am?" Jason responded and Clementine fell silent for a second, she thought that Jason was messing around initially but he maintained his stance.
"Clementine. We have a better chance of survival if we stick together because if this camp isn't as they say, what next? We aren't kids that need babysitting so why do you think that this is something you need to take upon yourself?" Jason said sternly.
Clementine thought this man was spineless but his words were making a lot of sense, the chain of command was the one thing that they had at a chance of maintaining order.
If they abandon their post then this would mean that they were giving up on the world.
If they did that then what was left? Humanity will be doomed but Clementine had even more reason to return to the base. They just might have a chance at a cure if they could figure out why this boy wasn't infected.
The only way this could be done was if she went to the base, if she didn't have a reason to go before then now she did but would things go according to plan?
[Ding!]
[Quest Received!]
Jason rolled his eyes but he wouldn't mind if the quest was about fucking Clementine because he would be lying if he said he didn't think about it.
He was getting ahead of himself because he understood how twisted Chronos was, he had already made him do some heinous things.
[Kill The Boy!]
Chronos informed Jason and Jason didn't even look surprised anymore but there was something different with this quest. It had a timer and what it read was.
[Timer: 47:59:59!]