Rage, Love, Lust

Mission

As she blinks her eyes and adjusts to the lighting, she yawns and begins to sit up. She smiles in pleasure as she realises that shes woken up on her own terms.

She gets some pants on and wears the same top that she wore to sleep. As she hops down the stairs she hears the voice of a woman. As Eleanore reaches the banister of the stairs she spots Tess sitting beside Joel. Tess turns her head to face Eleanore.
"Mornin." She smiles at her.
"Hey, Tess." Eleanore walks over to the sofa opposite the two and sits on it. Her eyes go from Tess's face to Joels. And as always, he had the same expression on his face. A look of a drop of anger mixed with emotionlessness.

"Grab your shit." Joel demands while looking Eleanore dead in her eyes. His cold hazel eyes switching between glaring at each of her eyes. Not looking for an argument of any kind, she got up and hastily went upstairs to get her backpack. She opens it to check that what she wants is inside of it. She pulls her knife out and places it on the bed, along with a canister of water, some ammo and some bandages. She sighs out of frustration as she remembers that they took her gun. She puts the knife in her back pocket and everything else back in the bag, throws it onto her back and makes her way back downstairs.

"Got everything?" Tess asked while zipping her own bag closed and beginning to put it on her back.
"Mostly. Just remembered they took my gun." She notices in the corner of her eye, Joel turning his head towards her, so she does the same.
"Shouldnt we just leave her here?" He asks with full intent of making Eleanore mad.
"I can handle myself." Tess looks at Eleanore.
"You sure?" She asks her. Eleanore looks at her in dissapointment. "Im not doubting you, just asking. Because where we're about to go you never know what'll happen." She explains while walking towards the door.
"Ive been living out there my whole life. So yes, I am sure." She says coldly. Tess stares into her eyes and smiles a little.
"Good."

After sneaking around a little the three reached a small bungalow pretty close against the border. Tess lead the way as Joel and Eleanore followed closely behind. Tess opened the door and started to make her way in, as did the others. She made her way into the bedroom and looked around. She went up to a drawer set and opened one and pulled out two guns. She kept one and handed the other to Joel.
"Stay close to us. Even if you can handle yourself, we dont wanna take any chances." Tess told Eleanore. She nodded in response as Tess began to walk towards the bed. "Give me a hand will you, Joel?" They pull the bed from the side poles and underneath the bed, a hole in the floorboards is revealed.

"Through here." Tess jumped down. Joel then followed. He waited for Eleanore to jump down then began to pull the bed back over to the best of his abilities.

"What if he aint even there?" He asks Tess while catching up to her.
"We'll find him." She turns her head slightly, allowing Joel to hear her better from a short distance.
"Who?" Joel turns his head to Eleanore as she asks the question.
"He owes us some guns." He replies.
"Asshole was meant to meet us halfway about a week ago."
"He didnt show up?" Tess shakes her head in response.
"Thing is, his group dont know about it. So we're gonna have to go in quietly." Joel announces.
Eleanore nods to Joel. "I can do that."