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⊹₊⋆ JOEL AND THE TWO YOUNG GIRLS LEFT THE mother and the Firefly and walked onto the streets where Ellie gasped. "Whoa... I heard all the shooting, but..." Finely looked down at what Ellie was looking at where some dead Fireflies lay. "What happened?"
"The Fireflies," said Joel coldly. "Same things gonna happen to us if we don't get off the streets."
"You're the pro," Ellie rolled her eyes. "Just following yous."
"C'mon, kid," said Joel as he tapped Finelys shoulder before guiding the two teens down an alley, making sure they staid hidden from the soliders until they were safely hidden and Joel came to a stop. "Where we going?" Finely questioned curiously.
"Up there," Joel nodded to a fire escape. "That'll get us to the north tunnel." Ellie looked around, as if she wasn't seeing something that the Millers were. "How are we supposed to reach that?" she questioned, but Joel had already started walking around the corner.
Ellie went to follow when Finely put her arm out, stopping the smaller girl from going any further. "He'll be back. You don't want to get in his way when he's doing this kinda stuff, he gets crabby," Finely joked.
Almost on cue Joel turned the corner, pushing a large dumpster with a scrowl on his face. Finely turned to Ellie, raising her eyebrow, giving her a 'told you so' look. Joel placed the dumpster beside the broken fire escape, jumping up on top before reaching down to give Finely his hand. "I got it," Finely smiled as she pushed herself up, the last thing she wanted was for this new girl to think she was some damsel in distress just because she was with her parents.
Once they had made it up the fire escape, Joel led them through an old run down apartment building. "This tunnel. You use it to smuggle things?"
"No, they use it for group orgys," Finely turned to Ellie. "'Course they use it for smuggling. It's the go to way out of here that Fedra don't know about."
"illegal things?" Ellie questioned further. "Sometimes," Joel replied boredly. "You ever smuggle a kid before?" she looked at Finely then to Joel. "No, that's a first."
"What's the deal with you and Marlene?" Finely made conversation as they walked side by side. "Are you like her little prodigy?"
"I don't know," Ellie shrugged. "She's my friend, I guess."
"Your friend, huh?" Joel joined in. "You're friends wirh the leader of the Fireflies. What're you, like tweleve?"
"She knew my mom and she's been looking after me," Ellie explained. "And I'm fourteen, not that that has anything to do with anything." Finely turned to Ellie. "When were you born?"
Ellie seemed taken back by the question but answered anyways, "Uh, April 2019?"
"Goddam it," Finely huffed, earning a confused look from Ellie and an eye roll from Joel. "Why am I always the youngest?" she mumbled. She hadn't had many friends growing up in the QZ, but every single one she had, were all older than her. Even now, this 5'2 midget was older than her.
"What age are you?" Ellie questioned.
"Thirteen, birthday is at the end of the year" Finely huffed, Ellie's eyes widened slightly. "Really? But you're so tall."
"I'm 5'5, it's not tall," she grumbled. "I've got a tall mom." she thought of Tess who stood 5'9, and her father who was almost 6'0.
"Is Tess your mom?" asked Ellie. "She is," replied Finely. "What about you?"
"Don't really know that much about her," Ellie shrugged. "She's been gone a long, long time."
"So instead of staying in school, you just decide to run off and join the Fireflies." Joel added. "Is that it?"
Ellie paused for a moment. "Look. I'm not supposed to tell you why you're smuggling me if that's what you're getting at."
"You wanna know the best part about my job?" Joel questioned, but he continued before Ellie had the chance to reply. "I don't gotta kbow why. Be honest with you? I could give two shits about what you're up to."
"Well great."
"Good."
"God I wanna shoot myself," Finely mumbled, having a feeling this is what their encounters were going to be like until they dropped Ellie off. See, Finely wasn't the friendliest of people, she used to be, but not much now. She was closed off, and she was cold, but mostly she was just scared to let anyone else in.
She got that from her father.
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