Lost Hope || Ellie Williams fanfic ||

I hope you forget me

A man walks into the room, his hair into a bun and only has one eye. Earlier him and maria were arguing, he was saying they should kill me but maria pleaded not to. My heart was beating out my chest as he walked in, he looked at me and sat down his arms on his legs, rubbing his hands together and licking his lips before speaking.

"Now are you telling maria the truth." He says quickly looking up to me.

"Of course I- I told her my story in the quickest way possible"

"What do you know about ellie-" he says as he sits straight up staring into my soul.

"My dad- when he would drink he would ramble on about her, saying how she is immune and could have saved the world."

The man scoffs before I finish.

"But I never believed that shit, like her? "Immune" . Man he is delusional" I say in a undescribable tone.

"Man I don't believe that for one second." I say sighing.

"I don't either.." the man sighs looking back down.

"I'm Tommy."

"I'm y/n if maria didn't tell you.." I say rubbing the back of my neck.

"Look, I know you came here "for a new start" but we just don't let people in like that, and it's not like we have Eugene to confirm because he is dead, the world don't work like that and -" Tommy sighs before continuing

"That Ellie girl your father shit talks, you say her life is easy- why did you want to come here?"

"I saw the polaroids she seemed happy like she likes it here- like it's easier for her. I didn't say her life was easy, but it's less weight on her shoulders? I don't know how to explain it-" -y/n

"It's nowhere close to easy." Tommy

I look up at him furrowing my brows in confusion.

"That Joel guy, your dad talks about, that's my brother he uh- he passed away. Was like a father figure to Ellie" Tommy

"Oh I'm sorry-" -y/n

"She hasn't been the same sense..." Tommy says swallowing hard, I could tell it was hard him to say that. He must have loved his brother. Just like how I loved my sister.

"I shouldn't be saying this" Tommy says whispering.

"I know what it's like to lose a sibling, it sucks, it doesn't get easier, but I'm sorry." I say in a hushed tone.

It was a long pause before Tommy talked again. "Well uh we're gonna keep you in this cell for a few days, during these few days you will get food and water but you are not allowed to leave, you can ask a guard to lead you to the nearest restroom. During these past few days we will decide if you stay, or you go." Tommy

"By go you mean like death right?" I say a little bit worried.

Tommy nods and gets up opening up the door to let maria in. Maria has a few silver keys in her hand. She turns towards me and jerks her head to the right.

"Come follow me." She says jingling the keys in her hand.

I follow her. She leads me to this cell i look at it before turning to her. "What about my backpack?"

"It will have to come with me, sorry"

I sigh before handing it to her.

"Just don't steal my shit please"

"Only will be stolen if your shot." Maria says before locking me in the cell.

"You hungry?" Maria says looking back up at me after locking the cell.

"Yeah I haven't eaten today."

Maria comes back a few minutes later with a sandwich wrapped in foil she slides it through the gap staring at me.

"Thank you by the way- you and Tommy. For everything. I don't know if your gonna kill me, but still- thank you " I say looking at the sandwich then looking back up at maria.

She looks at me and smiles, then walks away. I look at the sandwich before unwrapping and eating it, Ive never had food like this before. But it was amazing , I'm so not complaining. I just wonder how long until they decide to kill me or not. A part of me thinks they will let me go. But a big part of me thinks they will kill me. I mean maria seems fond of me, right?

-------------- 2 days later. -----------------

I get up to Tommy calling me name. I stand up and look at him

"Yeah?"

"I got questions to ask you, important ones answer honestly and quickly"

I nod before telling him to go ahead and he nodded back and began.

"How many infected have you taken out in the past month."

"15" I say. "I was locked up for years until I escaped"

"Good" he says leaning back a little. "How many people have you killed"

"None" I claim, "like I said I was locked up for years couldn't go anywhere" I say sighing.

"How trained are you with armed weapons" he says crossing his arms.

"In our town we had a gun shooting range thingy, I would train in that building 3 to 4 times a week since I was 13."

Tommy nods. "That's about it- to be honest I don't know what to really ask usually maria does this stuff not me" he says before chuckling.

I let out a soft chuckle. He nods and leaves the room.

Maria comes in with food.

"Morning, here is breakfast, today is toast and bacon with some eggs, the usual" she says before sliding the plate under the door.

"Oldie but a goodie" I say letting out a small chuckle. I noticed she let out a small laugh herself. She got down to her knees in front of me, the only thing sperating us with the cell bars. "Your a good kid you know? I'm sorry for how it is for you right now, especially after leaving your home situation, but we gotta make sure your buddies aren't after us."

"I don't have buddies."

Maria looks at me with a concerned look.

"I was nothing to that town, just a grain of salt. Even if they cared they would be too lazy to even search for me. I stole multiple of my father's maps so he didn't know where I was going. I don't want my people to attack y'all, even though I doubt they would in the first place" I say picking up a piece of bacon and putting it in mouth.

Maria sucks in her lips before getting up and looking at me for a second, she paused like she wants to say something but all that musters out is, "people are such dicks sometimes" before walking away.

I stare at the piece of toast reminding me how my sister loved toast with strawberry jam, mom would make it every morning. Dad and her would always eat it, me and mom would just stick to oatmeal. Dad. I tried not to think of him while stuck in here, or think of mom, or anyone else. But sometimes all I can remember is the time he-

I stopped and paused. Clearing my thoughts. I finished my breakfast and put the plate under the door sliding it a bit so it sat perfectly outside the door. I salted back down in the hard mattress and fell back asleep. I didn't wanna stay up I would just think all day.