Pride Comes Before The Fall | Ellie x Male Reader

Chapter 7

Joel: Ellie? You're back!

Ellie: Uh, yeah. I just passed out, I didn't die.

Joel: Let's keep it that way.

Y/N: Ah yes, keep drinking and passing out, great advice.

Joel: You know what I meant, dumbass.

Y/N: You don't get to call me dumb after revealing your plan to me.

Ellie: What plan?

Y/N: He thinks it would be a great idea to waste more time and go after Tess, instead of heading to the Fireflies.

Ellie: Wait, where is Tess?

Y/N: We don't know, that's the problem. But he insists on finding her.

Joel: We can't just leave her out there.

Y/N: Why not? What's gonna happen if we do? She'll be eaten by undead? Come on, she has enough experience to survive on her own, she doesn't need us to babysit her.

Joel: You are not making the decisions here.

Y/N: Ellie, back me up on this one.

Ellie: Joel's right, we can't just leave her out there.

Y/N: What the fuck? Why are you two so scared for her? Is she some kind of useless granny that can't defend herself?

Joel: Okay, that's enough. You talk shit about her one more time and I'm putting you face down in the dirt, you got me?

Y/N: I swear to God, if you threaten me one more goddamn time, I'll-

Ellie: Stop!

She said in a loud, annoyed voice, almost yelling.

Ellie: Jesus Christ, this sounds like two toddlers arguing over a damn toy. Can you both just shut up and do what's necessary?

Y/N: I'm trying to, he doesn't want to.

Ellie: We'll go and search for Tess, period.

Y/N: Fuck this, maybe the best way to deal with this is to just knock you out and carry you to the Fireflies myself.

Joel: You don't know where they are, jackass.

Y/N: Oh don't you worry about that, I'll find them if I have to.

Joel: You ain't gonna find shit, kid. You'll be zombie food if you make one wrong turn.

Y/N: I'm not like you folks. I won't let a fucking zombie munch my arm off.

Joel: Then how about you prove how great you are and help us find Tess? Because we ain't gonna go anywhere without her.

Y/N: Fucking fine. Let's find that bitch and move on.

I said after a groan.

Ellie: So, where is she?

Joel: Follow me. It's gonna be a shot in the dark, but there is a possibility of finding her.

Y/N: A possibility.

I said mockingly, getting a nudge and a stern look from Ellie in return.

We walked deeper into the forest in an attempt to find Tess but found absolutely nothing.

Y/N: So...how lost are we?

Joel: We ain't lost.

Y/N: I'm pretty sure we're getting nowhere at all. We passed that fucking tree like four times already, dammit!

Joel: Calm down, okay?! I'm trying to get us outta here.

Y/N: We had no business being here in the first place. We have to get to the Fireflies!

Joel: I got it, okay? You want to bring her to the Fireflies and I do too but stop being a bitch about it.

Ellie: Joel, be honest, are we lost?

He scratched his neck and sighed deeply.

Joel: I guess we are...a little bit.

Ellie: You can't be a "little bit" lost, one is either lost entirely or not at all.

Joel: Okay, we're lost entirely, happy now?

Y/N: How about we go right the fuck back where we came from instead of running circles?

Ellie: We don't even know what way to go to return to where we came from, that's the sad part.

Joel: Ellie, are you saying you just want to leave Tess?

Ellie: Of course not, I just want to have a safe place to stay for the night, y'know? Don't wanna get eaten by walkers while I'm asleep.

Joel: We can't go back to our base, the only place that we could use for the night is the village where you have been.

Y/N: You guys wanna stop and go to sleep?

Ellie: Well duh, we all need sleep obviously.

Y/N: In other words, you wanna waste even more time.

Joel: Oh, sleeping is wasting time now? Good to know because I thought it was essential.

Y/N: It is for you, but how about we won't go back to the village, because that would be just a bigger setback than looking for Tess.

Joel: We'll keep going forward, and make the first safe place we'll cross ours.

Ellie: We don't even know where the next safe place is. We should head back to the village.

Y/N: You think we'll be able to get back there? We can't even get out of this fucking forest. We don't know how to go back, you even admitted that yourself like two seconds ago.

Joel: I don't know, going forward and going back to the village both seem reasonable, but we have to decide.

Y/N: How about you go wherever you want, while Ellie and I get to the Fireflies?

Joel: You're dumber than I thought if you actually believe I'd let you take her anywhere.

Y/N: First of all, why not? Am I not trustworthy enough even after saving your ass? And secondly, let's not act like you could actually do something about it.

Joel: You should be happy we're searching for Tess, otherwise I would've beat your ass into the ground already.

Y/N: Holy shit, how hard?

Joel: What?

Y/N: How hard did Tess suck your dick that you wanna get back to her so badly?

Joel: You-

Y/N: Her mouth must feel like a Hoover Deluxe.

Joel: Alright, that's enough you little shit!

He spat out before taking a swing at me, just for me to hit him in his stomach and make him fall to the ground with a groan.

Ellie: What the fuck are you doing, you idiot?!

She yelled at me and knelt down to Joel.

Y/N: He attacked me, how was that my fault?

"Holy Moly, what kind of party are you fuckers having over there, huh?"

Someone shouted from the woods.

We all looked over to where it came from and saw a bunch of men stepping out of the bushes, led by a guy wearing a black leather jacket and a red scarf, while playfully swinging his baseball bat, which was reinforced with barbed wire, in the air.

Joel: Oh shit.

"Damn right, Joel. Oh shit indeed. You're in some real deep shit, old man."

He said, smacking his lips and holding back a laugh.