The Last of Us

Chapter 3: Trapped

(Cassidy's POV)

Slowly I started walking up only to realize that I was handcuffed to a chair in a dark room. I glanced over to the floor next to me and saw Caitlin lying on the floor; her face was covered in blood. "Caitlin, are you okay?" I nudged her foot. She quietly groaned in pain and rolled over on her back. "I feel like I was hit by a truck." Caitlin slowly got up and sat against the wall next to me. "How come I'm the only one handcuffed to a chair?" Caitlin softly laughed to herself but suddenly stopped because the pain was unbearable.

 "I think I broke a rib or two." I glanced over at her. "Your face is busted pretty badly, try and find something to stop the bleeding." Caitlin lifted her hand and placed it to her face and pulled it back. Her hand was covered in blood. "Jeez, you would think the people that took us here would have the decency to at least patch us up or something!" From across the room a door opened at a group of men walked in."Well well, look who finally woke up." One of the men said as he walked into the room.

The other just laughed and stood behind him. "I was sure as hell that you were dead when they brought you in here." He said as he looked over at Caitlin. "Why did you guys take us here?" I yelled drawing the man's attention away from Caitlin. "Well, you killed one of our men." he said as he stepped closer to me, "and that's something we won't ignore." Caitlin looked like she was about to rip the guy's head off.

 "Well sorry but, your "buddy" was about to kill me. So the way I see things it's his fault he died!!!" The man calmly walked over to Caitlin and punched her in the side causing her to fall to the ground. "Anyways we decided that we aren't going to kill you, yet." I looked over at Caitlin with a confused look on my face but she just shrugged her shoulders and turned her attention back to the man standing in front of us. "We're going to let you try and fight for your lives." The man smiled creepily and stared straight at us. "We're going to let you try to find your way out of this hospital. But if we catch you, we'll kill you slowly and painfully." My heart dropped. There was no chance we would make it out alive, not with how badly hurt Caitlin was and by the look on her face she was thinking the same thing."We're going to give you ladies a 5 minute head start. But when the clock goes off we'll be coming after you."

With that said the man just laughed and walked out of the room with the others following him. Caitlin quickly got up and tried to get the handcuffs off. After a minute off pulling at them they finally broke off the chair and we both started running down hallways looking for a way out. "Cassidy wait... I need to stop; I'm in too much pain to be running like this." I quickly turned around and put my arm under Caitlin and helped her run down the hallway. "We can't stop, we ne-" Before I could say anything else a loud buzzer sounding noise echoed throughout the hospital indicating that our time was up. "Shit! We need to run!!!" Caitlin and I sprinted down the hallway and into the nearest room and locked the door. "Okay we need to find something we can use as a weapon!" Caitlin slowly got up and walked over to the desk across the room and picked up something off the floor."What about this," she said as she lifted up a shotgun. "Yeah we can definitely use that." I said smiling.

Caitlin walked over and handed me the gun. We started to look around the room and found four bullets."We better make these count, because once we go loud they'll know where we are." I walked over to the door waited. Caitlin sat down on the floor next to me with a bat in her hands that she found while looking around the room. "Do you think we're going to make it out of here?" I looked over at Caitlin unable to answer her question. There was no point in lying to myself because I wasn't even sure we would make it out alive. From down the hall the sound of a door slamming open echoed through the hallway. 

(One of the men's POV)

"I think I saw them run down this hallway!" John and Mark take the left side of the hallway as James and I take the right. I kick in the first door and search the room for the girls. "Maybe we shouldn't kill them as soon as we find them." I glanced over at James. "And why is that?" James had this stupid grin on his face and I knew exactly what he was thinking. "Oh shut up and help me search the room!" James just laughed to himself and went back to searching the room. "It was just an idea."

(Back to Cassidy's POV)

"We need to move to the back of the room and get behind the desk." I put my arm around Caitlin and helped her across the room and set her down on the floor. The door to the lad room slowly started opening and a tall dark skinned man walked in. I glanced over at Caitlin and grabbed the bat on the floor next to her. I slowly crept up behind him. The man slowly began to turn around but before he could see who was behind him I quickly put the bat to his neck, crushing his airway.

 He struggled to get away but his efforts failed. Soon his lifeless body fell to the ground. Before I could say anything to Caitlin shots rang through the hallway causing me to drop to the ground. At that moment I knew they had found us and they were going to kill us. But soon the gunfire stopped and all you could hear was heavy footsteps running down the hall away from the room. "I think something scared them away..." I said to Caitlin as I slowly stood up. "Well I don't want to stick around and find out what it was!" I walked over to Caitlin and helped her up and walked to the door. "Hey since we're in a hospital we should look around for medical supplies." I nodded in response to what Caitlin said and slowly walked out of the room and into the hallway. 

~No one's POV~

At the end of the hallway laid three bodies. There bullet shells scattered along the hallway. "What the hell happened out here?" Caitlin said as they walked down the hallway.

~20 minutes later~

 "Come on, we got to go!" Caitlin grabbed the rest of the medical supplies and ran after Cassidy. "Did you get the stuff!?!" Cassidy yelled at her from up ahead, "yeah, but we need to run faster! They're coming!!!" We ran down the hallway as fast as we could, the screams of the dead getting closer and closer with every passing second. "Where are they coming from??? We checked the whole building!" The two girls pulled out their guns as quickly as possible and pointed them towards the shadows they saw emerging from a doorway down the hall. "Do you think they're dead?" Cassidy's voice shook with anticipation as she spoke. "By the way the shadows are moving probably not, but we still need to be careful." The girls moved down the hallway as quietly as possible. Caitlin moved closer to the doorway the shadows were coming from."What are we going to do?" Cassidy whispered next to Caitlin."To be totally honest I have no idea."

The two girls slowly inched closer to the door."Did you hear that?" A voice from the room whispered. "Dude you're hearing things. No one's here we already checked the building, remember?" Cassidy and Caitlin stopped dead in their tracks. "Caitlin we need to get out of here." She grabbed the back of Caitlin's jacket to pull her back. "I know, but maybe they have supplies that we need." Caitlin whispered back to Cassidy as she tried to inch closer to where the voices were coming from. "Caitlin I'm being serious! You saw what happened to Jack. Those people didn't care to find out if he was dead or alive. They just shot him where he stood." Cassidy's voice grew louder."Okay tell me you heard that!?" The voice from the room called out again." okay I heard it that time." Cassidy and Caitlin both focused their attention back to the voices coming from the room. Cassidy quickly pulled Caitlin into the room next to them as they saw the two figures step out into the hallway

."We'll just wait for them to move on." The two figures lingered in the hallway for a few minutes but eventually moved on."Okay it's time to go." Cassidy and Caitlin quickly moved down the hallway back to their car. "Hey Caitlin, when we get back to the house we need to change the batteries in the cameras so they don't die." Caitlin nodded in agreement. As they ran down the hallway they didn't notice the two dark figures following close behind them. Caitlin quickly grabbed Cassidy and ran down a hallway leading away from the car."Hey! What are you doing the car is that way??" Cassidy yelled. "Shut up, we're being followed. Just follow my lead." Caitlin slowly moved her hand to the pistol attached to the front of her belt and nodded at Cassidy to do the same. The figures behind them began to slow down. The two girls quickly whipped around and pointed their guns at the two people behind them.

"Why are you following us?" Cassidy yelled at the two guys that had been creeping behind them. "We haven't seen another living person for almost 2 months...we were just wondering who you gu- I mean girls were." said the guy with shaggy dirty blonde hair. Cassidy eyed the other guy with bluish-green eyes. "Well as you can see we're just two normal teenage girls." Before anyone else could say anything a massive swarm of the dead came busting through the large metal doors, "We can talk later but now RUN!" Caitlin shrieked as they all ran down the hallways trying to find their parked car. The moans of the dead grew louder as they ran closer.