Ben took a deep breath and nodded, "y-yeah, let's get going." He said, standing up.

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Hour's of walking in mostly quiet, Kenny decided to break the silence. He rounded on Arvo and Ben who were walking together, leading the group. 
"How much further?" He demanded, looking at Arvo. 
"Close, very close." Arvo said with defeat in his voice. 
"You've been saying that every time I ask." 
"Please. Come." 
I'm really starting to think you're full of-" 
"Kenny! Look out!" Clementine shouted as a walker jumped up from behind a turned-over row boat.
"What the fuck!" Kenny yelped, and he began to wrestle with the angry walker. Clementine pulled out her gun and shot it, causing it to become limp and fall on Kenny, who quickly pushed it off him.
"Jesus Christ." He whispered as AJ began to cry because of the loud noise of the gun. 
"That was close." Mike said quietly, trying to hush AJ. 
"Fucker came outta' nowhere!" Kenny shouted.
"That was real loud, hopefully there aren't more of 'em." Bonnie said with concern in her voice. 
"Yeah well, let's move. We don't want to be around to find out." Jane said, hurrying forward.
"Is very close. Come." Arvo said, nudging his head to show the other's they needed to keep moving. 

Ben stood by Arvo with baited breath, he had been holding his breath as that whole ordeal went down, and now his breathing was shallow and loud, his mouth was dry and he felt sick. Every time any small thing happened he always felt like this, he was just so afraid all the time that something bad was going to happen.
He wanted to just sit down, to sit down and never move again. 

When the other's began moving, he moved as well, but it felt more like he was on auto-pilot now. He wasn't thinking about what he was doing. He wasn't focusing on where he was walking. He just felt empty now. He hated when he got like this, it was a moment of pure fear, and then he shut down, he didn't feel anything. This could last for minutes, or a month. The group had been with him when it had been at one of his worst moment's, for a week or two he just refused to move until they were chased away by zombies. 

He didn't want to think about it, thinking about it made it worse. He just hoped the sudden mood he was in now would pass soon, he didn't want Arvo or any of the other's to see him when he was like this. The group already knew about his "moods", but not Arvo. He had lost a friend or two because of this before, even if Arvo was his soul-mate, it didn't mean he would like to be around him when he was like this.

Suddenly Arvo's voice pulled him out of auto-pilot. 
"There." Arvo muttered.
They all looked forward, there was a small falling apart house on the other side of a frozen over river.
"That piece of shit??" Kenny said angrily. "It's half built!" 
"We're here for the supplies, not the house." Jane said evenly. 
"Is warm. Fireplace. Very warm." Arvo insisted. 
"Id just like a place to sit if I'm honest." Luke said, though he was very much serious you could tell he was trying to lighten the mood. 
"As long as there's food, who cares what it looks like?" Clementine interjected. 
"You're not gonna' think that when you wake up with a couple inches of snow coverin' you."
Everyone was silent for a moment. 

"So...Are we just gonna' walk over?" Mike questioned. 
Everyone took a few steps over to the river so they were at the brink of the frozen water. 
"Maybe there's a way around?" Bonnie offered. 
"I don't see any." Luke mumbled. 
It seemed everyone was at a loss, no one wanted to walk across the lake, but no one wanted to turn back now.
Arvo began speaking in Russian, which of course pissed Kenny off.
"Say it in American, asshole."
"Is...Is ok! Walk. Ice."
"No shit "ice", that's the problem!"
"I go first. I can be front." Arvo suggested. This gave Ben a little twinge of anxiety. He didn't know how he felt about this, he could lose everything, including his own life, and everyone, in less then 10 minutes. 

"We need to spread out, just to be safe." Jane ordered. "Less weight the better." 
"Let the ruskie go first, since he's so confident." 
This made Ben mad, he wished Kenny would stop saying racist stuff like that, but he crossed his arm's and kept to himself, giving Arvo a "sorry" expression. 
"Is okay!" Arvo assured as he turned around to face the water once again. Then he began walking forward, Kenny close behind, and slowly, one by one, all of them went on the water and began to spread out. 

Arvo and Kenny were at the front, Jane and Mike in the Middle, with Bonnie and Ben heading the back, and Clem and Luke at the very end.

Everyone was quiet, too nervous to speak to each other. That was until a cracking was heard. 
Clem let out a small gasp and Luke spoke to reassure her, "We're okay. Don't worry." 
Then the groaning and moaning was heard. 
"We got some walkers behind us." Jane said with a command to move forward in her voice.
"It's only a few of 'em, we should be alright." Mike, but worry was evident in his tone.
"Let's just get to the house!" Bonnie said, the panic in her tone more obvious than anyone else's. 

Then the attention was on Arvo, as he had began walking quicker than the others to the house, trying to leave the other's behind.
"Hey! Stay with us!" Kenny said angrily. 
"Fuck!" Luke yelled as a group of zombies that had been following them broke the ice and fell through weakening it.
It seemed that Arvo saw this as his chance to get away, as he began to run (or, more shuffle, because he couldn't run with the weight of his leg bringing him down) away from the group it seemed he would have kept running but the ice broke and Arvo fell through to his waist before pulling himself up, and Kenny grabbed onto him, pulling him by his collar as he had done earlier.
"Fuck, he's gonna kill him!" Mike shouted, this is when he and Ben ran forward to stop Kenny. 
"Don't hurt him!" Clem shouted at Kenny. 
Kenny pushed Arvo forward and pushed him onto the ground on the shore. 

Everyone was running to land now and after a few moments: Mike, Ben, Arvo, and Kenny, were all on solid ground. Which only left Bonnie, Jane, Luke, and Clem on the water. Slowly, the group of water-walkers carefully walked across the lake. The group of people on land headed into the house. 
As soon as they got in Kenny began shouting.
"You shit-head! What the fuck is wrong with you! You just had to run off like that!" Kenny screamed at Arvo. 
"L-Leave him alone!" Ben said, his voice shaky and breaking. 
"L-L-Leave him alone." Kenny said in a huge mocking tone of Ben's voice.
"I've had it up to you and you're f*g boyfriend over there!" Kenny shouted, then a horrified look crossed him face.
"Ben I-" His apology was cut off as suddenly Jane came rushing into the house carrying Clem who was soaked in water and shivering. 
"How the fuck did that happen!?!" Kenny shouted, forgetting all about Ben and Arvo. 
"There's a fireplace!" Jane said, rushing to set Clementine beside it. "We have to get her warm, she's going to freeze to death!" She shouted. 
"H-He's gone, Luke's fucking gone." Mike said, his usually calm voice riddled with sadness. "We should have gone around." 

Ben went and sat next to Clem. 
"Y-you're going to be alright, I-I promise." He said, out of everyone in the group, Clem was the only one he trusted with his life. If she died- no, he wouldn't think about that. 

"Goddammit!" Kenny screamed.  
"You could have- you could have helped him." Bonnie muttered to Clementine. 
"Don't listen to her Clem', this isn't on you." Kenny snarled, turning and glaring gaze on Arvo. 
"You. Son of a bitch!" He said, yelling at Arvo now, obviously needed someone to vent his anger onto. "This is your fucking fault!" 
"Kenny! Don't, man!" Mike said, stepping in between them.

Ben fault himself pause, he wanted to stand up, he wanted to stand up for Arvo and help him, but he was just so tired. 
They just lost Luke, they might lose Clem, he was just so- so tired. And he didn't want to fight anymore. He just watched it happen, anxiety and guilt and grief piercing his stomach and making his head fuzzy. 

"Don't what!" Kenny shouted.
"It's nobodies damn fault." Mike shouted in return. 
"The hell it ain't!" 
"Look at this place, just a stack of fuckin' toothpicks. Bet those magical supplies are bullshit too?! What?" He pushed Arvo, "no speaka de english?!?" Kenny said, being racist again. 
"Fuck you." Arvo said, the anger in his voice was obvious.
"You fuckin' commie piece of shit!" Kenny shouted, then raised his arm and punched Arvo square in the jaw, knocking him to the ground. 
Ben stood up then, his eye's wide and his whole frame shaking with anxiety and anger, but he didn't move from where he had stood, he *couldn't* move.
"Kenny!" Mike shouted, but Kenny was already on Arvo, punching him multiple times as hard as he possibly could.

"Kenny! Stop!" Clementine screamed, this gave Kenny pause. "J-Just stop." Clemetine stuttered. 
Kenny got up then, reviling that Arvo's face was now covered in blood. 
Jane walked in then, shock on her face. "What did you do to him?" She said, horror in her tone. She threw a bag at Kenny and it opened at his feet, in it was a bag full of food. 
"There's another just like it, he wasn't lying." 
Kenny reached down and grabbed a can.
"Would you like to tell me, how a can of fucking chili, is going to help the baby?" 
"How is beating a kid to death going to help anybody?!" Jane said angrily as she tried to start a fire. 
"This is your fault, and you damn well know it." Bonnie said. 

Kenny gave Bonnie and Clem a final look before turning to Arvo again. "I'm tyin' him up." He said, then pulled him up only to push him to the stair case where he then tied him to the railing. 
"Mike, help me start this fire." 
"Do you *need* help? He's hurt real' bad." Mike said, concern for Arvo in his voice. 
"Mike." Jane demanded. 

Ben was still standing where he had stood, still shaking, fists still clenched, Kenny had walked off to be by himself and Ben walked over to Arvo shakily, leaning down to where he sat as the other's started a fire.
"I-I'm so sorry, are you okay? Jesus..." He said, his voice as shaky as his body was.