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⊹₊⋆ JOEL AND FINELY HAD SHORTLY FALLEN asleep once they arrived at their hideout, much to Ellie's dismay as she was forced to sit quietly staring out the window for the past hour, that was until she caught sight of Finelys open bag lying on the ground, and a wire dangling out of it.
She reached over very slowly towards the bag, her hand just about to grab it when a voice came from the couch. "Touch that bag and I will cut your hand off and feed it to Marlene." Ellie quickly scrambled back to her spot beside the window, sighing in annoyance and prepared to be bored again, but thankfully Finely rubbed her eyes and stood up from the couch, pushing the wire into the bag and zipping it up.
"You mumble in your sleep, you know," Ellie spoke up. "You and him," she nodded towards Joel who was twitching in his sleep. "I hate bad dreams."
"Yeah, I think we all do," Finely muttered, walking towards the girl. "What are you doing?"
"Just watching," Ellie replied. "I've never been this close, to the outside. Have you?"
"A few times but never as far as we'll be going," Finely replied, Ellie nodded in return.
"What's it like?" Questioned Ellie, but Finely looked in thought and she turned away, ignoring the girl so Ellie turned her attention to Joel who was still on the couch but awake and she continued. "Can't be any worse out there... Can it?"
"What on earth do the fireflies want with you?" Joel questioned curiously, a question Finely had been wondering also. But before the three could discuss anything further, Tess had returned and Finely was running towards her mother with open arms. "Hi, Finn," Tess smiled as she kissed her daughter's head. "Hey," she said to the others. "Sorry, it took so long. Soldiers fucking everywhere."
"How's Marlene?" Ellie was quick to fire at Tess and Finely honestly admired her loyalty.
Tess shrugged. "She'll make it," she then turned to Joel. "I saw the merchandise. It's a lot." She turned to Joel privately. "Wanna do this?"
Joel glanced at Finely and then back to Tess. "Yeah."
Tess nodded. "Let's go," she said loudly for everyone to hear. The group of four make their way into the generator room while Joel continues to fill the silence by talking to Tess. "Don't you think it's a bit strange that they're asking us to do their smuggling?"
"Why wouldn't she? We're great," Finely shrugged her shoulders with a grin making Tess chuckle before turning back to Joel. "Marlene wanted to do it herself. We weren't her first choice, or the second for that matter. She's lost a lot of men, beggers can't be choosers."
