Divided In War

Chapter 5

I Won't Let You Go Alone

Sylvia woke up with her head pounding and her right-side throbbing. She tried to sit up but yelping in pain feeling her stitches tug on her wounded skin. Sylvia took a deep breath and forced herself to fully sit up, dangling her feet over the edge of the bed. Turning her head to the nightstand she sees two pills, guessing it's painkillers she takes them before fully getting up, biting her lip in pain.

She leaves the room and goes downstairs to see Tommy, head down and in his hands at the dinner table, with Maria hugging him and rubbing his back.

Sylvia, confused, "Wha-What's going on?" she limped down the stairs, holding tightly to the stair rail.

Maria jumps hearing a new voice and gives a somber look towards her. "Honey... Joel's gone." Maria saying that sent Sylvia in a mental spiral, so many questions were running around in her head. "Was Ellie there? Is she okay? When did this happen? How? Oh no, how's Tommy taking this?..." Her tears were brimming her eyes as she watched Tommy show so much emotion. Sylvia, limped as fast as she could and collapsed onto Tommy, joining his crying.

"He was murdered... He saved her and she murdered him..." Tommy croaked.

"... Was Ellie there?" Sylvia asked knowing how much Ellie adores Joel. Tommy just nodded.

Like a switch, Tommy was now seething with anger. Sylvia jumped back letting him go, and Tommy stood up quickly slamming his fist onto the table.

"I'll fucking KILL HER!" he yelled at the two girls.

Sylvia was startled, causing her to rush back upstairs a little too fast as she felt a few of her stitches open. She groaned in pain, she started to limp towards the window and open it. Sylvia hears Maria and Tommy now in a screaming match and crashing of glass or porcelain on the floor. She slings herself over the windowsill dropping herself from it. As she landed, she felt most of her stitches rip apart causing her the hold back her scream by biting her finger trying to cover her mouth.

After a minute or two she finally got back up putting pressure on her side and hip. She starts to make her way to Joel's house, knowing Ellie has to be there.

As she's walking, she can feel her hand become wet with the warm blood from her side. Sylvia tried to hurry up and get to her destination.
Once she get's to Ellie's house she knocks on the door rather aggressively to get in fast. Sylvia doesn't here any movement and knocks louder again. This time the door opens, but instead of Ellie, Dina opens the door.

Dina, makes eye contact with Sylvia but her eyes dart to Sylvia's side which are staining her clothes red. Dina's eyes grow shocked and quickly grabs onto Sylvia's arm and drag her inside of the house.

"Oh, jeez... What happened to you!?" Dina panicked while rushing to get her first aid kit.

"I was here for Ellie, but it's really good to see you Dina... me and Jesse had a little accident after finding what looked like an old W.L.F base... whoever they are."

"W.L.F?" Dina stops looking back at her friend.
"Yeah, do you know who they are?" Sylvia says while pulling out a dinning room chair and sitting on it.

"They were the people responsible for... Joel..." Dina continues and brings the first aid kit to the table.

"Oh..."

Their conversation was cut short by another voice coming from upstairs.

"Great.. Who the hell is here now!?" a puffy eyed Ellie walks down the steps.

"Ellie..." Sylvia whispers, gently pushing Dina off of her, she goes up the Ellie grabbing her into a bear hug and holding a hand behind her head. It takes a few seconds of shock but Ellie hugs back a little too hard as it causes Sylvia to wince. They both let go of each other,

"I'm so sorry about Joel..." Sylvia holds onto Ellie's shoulder.

"Okay, Sylvia please sit down now, I need to sew you up." Dina tries to lighten up the mood a bit.
Sylvia obliged and sat down on the pulled out chair, lifting up her shirt she let's Dina work on her side. Ellie looks shocked and asked about what had happened.

"Clicker attack, of course." Ellie chuckles and sits across from Sylvia.

There was silence for a few minutes, but Dina broke it,

"Why don't you tell her El." Dina looks over to said girl as she dabs the alcohol rag over the wound.

"Oh, yea... So... We're going after her."

"It's a she?"

"Yea she's the one who killed him." The atmosphere got so thick that you could cut it with a knife.

"We heard from Tommy that she's in Seattle. It's where their group is.."

"The W.L.F? Right?" Sylvia asked.

"Yea?..." Ellie looks confused on how Sylvia knew who they were.

Dina had finished up stitching and bandaging Sylvia up, she also gave Sylvia more pain medication to help her. They all sat at the table and talked.

Sylvia, Dina, and Ellie talked for hours about the plan on getting there and how they were going to go about getting Abby. Their discussion got cut short as the door was knocked on. Sylvia got up to answer the door to be met with Maria. But she wore a distressed look on her face as she asked,

"Did you guess see Tommy anywhere? He left a few hours ago and it seems as though nobody saw him." This caught everyone attention.

"He went without us!?" Ellie's anger rising inside of her. Sylvia put a hand on Ellie's shoulder to relax her, which worked and made Ellie loosen up.

"I'll go get him Maria." Sylvia reassured her. Ellie and Dina both looked at Sylvia confused. That's when she turned to the two of them and said,
"I'll go ahead first and get Tommy, you guys come after when you guys are ready and all." Sylvia said leaving the house with Maria.

"Woah! No! You're never going alone, ever. I won't let you." Ellie grabs a hold of Sylvia's arm stopping her.

Sylvia nods in return.