Firefly

Sixty-Two

Yn

Ellie and I eventually made it all the way across this shitty ass town. We had to take out eight guys to get here, which wasn't too hard with this whout-out going on. We found a window to crawl through that went into some restaurant. There were lights on in here and it was warm. Ellie and I had no jackets on so being in the warmth felt amazing, but that was short lived. When we got to the front door Dave walked through it.

I pushed Ellie behind me as we walked backwards. “You know you leave a trail,” David said. “Go fuck yourself!” Ellie yelled behind me. After that shit was a blur. Ellie and I were separated, there was a fire burning near the front doors, which David locked. Speaking if that asshole, he was hunting us down inside this restaurant. I saw Ellie run back out into the dining area from where I was in the kitchen. David was closing in on me so I had to move. Minutes later I heard him scream out in pain and swear. Then I heard Ellie yelling.

I ran rowards the dining room from the back office to find David onto of Ellie, she was trying to reach the machete he had dropped. “You motherfucker! Get off her!” I screamed, running and wrapping my arms around hisnl neck to pull him away from her. He had his hand on his belt, trying to undo it. “You sick fuck!” I wrestled with him, straddling his waist And started to punch him until he got the upper hand. He flipped us over, trapping me beneath him, bringing his fist down across my jaw. Then he slammed my head against the floor. “I'll come back to you once I'm finished with Ellie over there.”

I was so disoriented and dizzy that I couldn't move. I tried to get up but would just fall back down. I could hear Ellie crying and that broke my heart. It pissed me off too. I flipped onto my stomach and tried crawling to her but my vision started to blur, the edges going black. The last thing I saw was Ellie lifting something in the hair and then I heard David screaming in pain. After that everything went black.

Joel

Joel made his way across the town killing anyone that got in his way. An orange glow caught his eye and he ran towards it. Running into the building. The last building he was in had dead bodies hanging on hooks. This time he found yn unconscious on the floor and Ellie repeatedly hitting someone with a machete. The place was on fire and burning quickly. He ran over and checked on yn, letting out a breath when he knew she was still alive. Then he went to Ellie.

She hit him, yelling to let her go, but he managed To calm her down. “It's me! It's me! You're alright, I got you, baby girl.” He pulled her into him and she sobbed into his shoulder. He helped her up onto her feet, walked over and picked yn up, and got them out of there before anymore people could come.

YN

When I woke up I was looking up at the ceiling of a car. I groaned, putting my hand on my forehead. Wincing at the pain in my head. “You're awake!” I turn my head to see Ellie looking back at me from the front see. I make eye contact with Joel when I look up to the review mirror. “You're alive,” I whispered. He let out a low chuckle. “Can't get rid of me that easily, darling.”

“Where are we we? Where are we going?” I asked. Joel looks back at the road and I try to sit up but that just makes my head hurt more. “We're heading to Salt Lake City. We've been driving for about two hours now. But it's getting late so I want to try and find somewhere we can rest up for a few days.”

That's what we did; we found a a quiet small town an hour later. Joel and Ellie searched the stores for any usable supplies. When they were finished we drove to a neighborhood just outside of town. The place almost looked like Bill and Frank's neighborhood; untouched. It didn't have the fence around it and everything with extremely overgrown, you could see the tall grass peeking out of the snow. The windows of the houses were boarded up. Joel went to the furthest house and parked in the driveway. “Stay here. I'm going to check it out, if itunsafe I'm going to try and  open the garage to pull the car in.”

I didn't think he would find anything in the house. This place looked like it was evacuated early. There were X's on the doors, no bodies lay around that I could see. Every house was boarded up. Even in town things looked like everyone simply just dropped wherever they were doing and left. The garage door opened ten minutes later and Joel walked out. “Everything's clear. Place doesn't even looked touched,” he said, getting back in the car. He drove the car into the garage and shut it off.

After he got out and shut thebgarage door again, Joel came around to the back and helped me out. “How are you feelin’, darling?” He asked. I shrugged, “Like I've been ran the fuck over. How about you? How does your side feel?” I ask, gently touching where he had been stabbed with the broken baseball bat. “It's tight and hurts but not like it had been. Whatever you gave me is helping.” Ellie got out of the car and grabbed our bags.

It was pretty clean inside, besides all the dust and a few stains on the ceilings. The air was a little musty but nothing we couldn't handle. Joel sat me on the couch and looked at the fireplace. “I saw a small wood pile covered up out back. Im gonna go get some and start a small fire.” He stood up and headed towards the kitchen. Ellie had gone looking around the house and came back with a couple blankets. “I found these upstairs.” She handed me one and sat down beside me.

Joel came back inside with a stack of wood in his arms and dropped it on the floor beside the fireplace. “Ellie looked, get me those matches in my bag and find somw newspaper or something.” Ellie stood up and grabbed the matches and a couple magazines off the coffee table. She handed them to Joel and he got small fire going. At least we would be warm and kind of safe tonight.