The Last of Us: Mysteries *Canceled*

Chapter 2: Who are you?

Ellie held up her gun. "Show yourself!" She showed no fear. A boy, that seemed around her age appeared. "Who are you?" Ellie pointed the gun and the boy's heart. "Hey, Hey! Put your gun down! I don't mean any harm." The boy put his gun down and put his hands up. Ellie sighed and put away her gun. "Who are you?" She repeated. "My name's Don. I came from, well you could call it a settlement about 15 miles from here. I ran away." Don spoke. "And you are?" Don questioned. Ellie stared at him, not sure if she could trust him. "Ellie." She said flatly. "And why the hell are you here?" Ellie looked at him. "I already told you. I ran away. My damn parents never trusted me." Don crossed his arms. "How old are you?" Ellie questioned more. "You sure do ask a lot of questions. I'm 19. So how old are you?" Don asked back. "18." Ellie put her hands on her hips. 

"Trust issues, huh?" Don laughed. "What? No I don't!" Ellie frowned. "Then lighten up. You can trust me." Don smiled. "You don't know what i've been through." Ellie mumbled. Don frowned. "I'm sorry." Ellie looked down at Don's arm, where he was holding it with his hand. "Are you hurt?" Ellie looked up at him. "Oh that... It's nothing.. Really." Don brushed it off. "Let me see your arm." Ellie demanded. Don looked at her and then agreed. Ellie grabbed his arm and looked at it. Bite Marks. "You're infected..." Ellie pushed his arm backed away. "No! I'm not, I swear I'm not!" He said quickly. Ellie looked at him. "When did you get bit?". "About 2 years ago." Don admitted. "You're immune as well." Ellie smiled and lifted up her sleeve to reveal her bite. "Whoa." Don awed. "I've had this bite mark for 4 years now." Ellie smirked. 

While the two continued to get to know each other, several twigs snapped. "Get down!" Don whispered. He picked up his gun and the two hid behind some shrubs. "Infected?" Ellie asked. "No. Hunter." Don replied. Ellie looked through the shrubs to see a familiar person. "Wait, don't shoot!" Ellie whispered. "Why not?" Don gave her a confused look. "That's my dad!" Ellie grabbed the gun from him. "But you two don't even look alike." Don continued to give a confused look. "Well, he's more like my surrogate dad. I'll tell you more later I have to go." Ellie waved goodbye and snuck around Joel. "Joel?" Ellie pretended not to know he was there. "There you are!" Joel turned around. "Sorry." Ellie gave him a small frown. "Alice came back and told me you went back here. Deeper into the forest." Joel dragged out his words. "Joel, I'm sorry." Ellie seemed to plead for forgiveness. "Going out here. Putting yourself at risk. That's pretty god damn stupid if you ask me." Joel frowned.

"What the hell did I do to ever deserve this? All you ever do to me is yell at me! You treat me like when you first met me! I thought you loved me." Ellie had tears coming down her cheeks. "Ellie..." Joel seemed to show sorry. "Fuck this." Ellie ran off back to the settlement. "Ellie!" Joel raced after her. Ellie walked into her room and slammed the door. She sat on her bed and sobbed. "Ellie." Joel said behind the door. "Go Away!" She yelled. All of this brought her back when her and Joel first came to the settlement. Ellie had ran away as it seemed that Joel was dumping her off on Tommy. Joel walked through the door. "What do you want from me?" He gave her a furious look. "Admit that you just wanted to get rid of me from the start!". "It's not like that, Tommy knows the land better than I do.". "Well fuck that.". "Well I'm sorry, but I'd trust him better than I'd trust myself." . "Stop with the bullshit. What are you so afraid of? That I'm gonna turn out like Sam? I can't get infected! I can take care of myself." . "How many close calls have we had?" . "Well we seem to be doing alright so far." . "Well now you'll be doing better with Tommy!" . "I'm not her you know." . "What?" . "Maria told me about Sarah and-" . "Ellie, You're treading on some, Mighty thin ice here." . "Joel, I'm sorry about your daughter, Joel. But I have lost people too." . "You have no idea what loss is." . "Everyone I have known has either died, or left me. Everyone- Fucking except for you! So don't tell me I would be better with someone else because the truth is I'd just be as scared." . "You're right. You're not my daughter. And you're sure as hell ain't your dad. And we are going our separate ways."

Ellie snapped back to reality. "Ellie." Joel knocked on the door. "Just go away." Ellie whispered.