crying blood, bleeding tears - JM

chapter 6

chapter 6 - death follows.

sam followed joel and tess as they continued their journey to the capital building, sam had now completed zoned out the questions ellie was now asking joel as they walked. sam couldn't be more thankful that this trip was almost over even though they'd have to fight for a way back into the QZ.

for sam the walk was quiet, calming as her energy levels dropped. maybe that was from the wound she'd sustained to her wrist from the knife but in her mind she was just tired. but she wouldn't let that show not one bit.

ellie continued asking joel and tess a series of questions which seemed to be a reoccurring theme with the teenager, before ellie looked over at sam. watching the older woman fix the white tank top beneath her unbuttoned shirt.

sam had began to feel hot, taking her jacket off and securing it through her pack and arm, as sam fixed her tank top ellie got a glimpse of sams blood soaked sleeve.

"sam what's wrong with your arm?" ellie questioned making the two other smugglers attention turn to sam, tess reaching for her gun concerned if sam was infected.

"point that gun at me i swear to god i'll make you eat shit. i just caught myself on my knife back there" sam scoffed at her trigger happy travel mates, as joel glanced down at sams arm.

"show us?" it was more of a question then a demand which is what particular shocked sam as she rolled her drenched sleeve up and removed the thin cloth she'd tied around the wound which revealed a two inch gash on her arm.

joel took his backpack off undoing the zipper and pulling a bandage from his bag, handing it to sam he put his backpack on again, sam looked at him with questioning eyes as she nodded. she did kinda save his ass back there so it did make sense he wasn't just giving her that out of the kindness of his heart. if he even had a heart.

as they continued their journey sam began bandaging her arm up in hopes of stopping the bleeding, ellie watched intently at the women tending to her own injuries, before ellie went back to her questions.

soon enough the group arrived at the capital building sensing something was off already, joel ordered them to stay behind him as the truck parked outside the building seemed abandoned.

"where the fuck are they?" tess questioned looking at the building in search of the fireflies they were supposed to give ellie too.

sam looked at joel as the two of them raised their weapons and headed toward the truck, joel opened the truck doors as sam headed around the side of the truck, seeing two dead body's sam immediately knew this trip was about to take another turn for the worst.

"i got two dead back here" sam called out to joel and he rounded the truck to investigate the bodies surrounded by millions of flies, making both adults feel slightly queasy.

sam and joel made their way to the back of the truck opening the doors to see what had been stashed inside the truck, discovering nothing the two adults looked at eachother before tess stormed her way over ellie by her side.

"joel? what the fuck is going on?" she exclaimed, sam looked at the woman who seemed way too torn up about this. sam knew once she got back into the QZ she would find a way to get what she was owed it didn't matter what stood between that.

"they went inside." ellie's voice came from behind sam, turning to look at the teen sam saw her following a blood trail up into the building. tess grabbing ellie's arm almost dragging the younger girl up the steps that lead to the building's entrance.

tess ignored joel's objections and made her way inside the building. joel and san following the two quickly. upon entering the building sam sighed at the sight, she'd wasted her time. dead fireflies, a wasted trip sam scoffed.

"holy shit" ellie muttered seeing the abundance of dead bodies laid out before her, sam watched as tess frantically looked through the supplies surrounding the bodies.

"who killed them? fedra?" ellie asked looking up at joel and san who were both looking down at the bodies, noticing only one looked to be infected.

"one of them got sick, tried to fight. everyone lost." sam muttered as she used her foot to turn over one of the bodies revealing its head had been bashed in.

"tess what are you doing?" joel questioned turning around to see his partner frantically searching the room for anything she could find to help.