The Last Of Us (Fan-Fic)

Winter- Chapter Four- Part 7 No Mercy

Joel's POV:

The cold came first, and then everything thing else came into focus. It felt as if I had been asleep for years but at the same time the lab, the shoot-out... It all felt like yesterday.

And then came the pain. As soon as I pulled myself up, I could feel the pain from my abdomen seeping through my body again, making me want to never move from where I was. That's where the memories started to come back. The night Ellie had first brought me to this old house, the night I woke up to find her reading comics while cooking a rabbit... "Ellie?".

I start to pull myself out of bed, and fall to the floor as my legs buckle beneath me from the pain. My hand goes instinctively to my stomach; however, this time it was different. There was no blood.

"Ellie?" I call out again as I move towards my backpack and place it on my back. This was the first step towards feeling normal, towards feeling safe.

The floorboards creak as I slowly make my way up the old wooden stairs and stumble into the piercingly cold kitchen. "Where the hell are you?" I ask as I use the countertop to help level myself, it had been a long time since I had used my legs it seemed.

I walk out of the front door and down the stairs until I reach the bottom before me was a (thankfully) abandoned village covered with snow. As I begin to regain my energy I call out for Ellie again to which brought no reply. Now I was starting to worry. For what I remembered Ellie never strayed too far away and always came back as soon as she caught anything.

Before I get to the end of the path the gunshots begin and I quickly run to whatever cover I could find which just so happened to be an abandoned car. I grab my gun and listen out for where the guys shooting at me are, and at the same time, I begin to put the pieces together. "Where is she?" I call out. I question myself after I do so, it was stupid to give away your cover, but there was anger pulsing inside of me which I couldn't contain. I will not let them hurt her. I will get her back.

I go from cover to cover and manage to take out three men before another one of them shouts out: "Move it. Don't let him get ya!". They're scared of me.

I move quickly to the nearest house for better cover where I pick up some alcohol and a rag. The front door was blocked, so I run to the broken window at the side of the house and jump out to a small alley.

As soon as I come out of the alleyway, a man grabs me from behind and places an arm around my neck. I also see another man in front of me holding a knife easing his way towards me. "Finish him off!" Called out the man who had me held by the neck. Before the man with the knife could come any closer, I kicked him in the balls, sending him crashing down to the floor in pain. I heard the man who was holding me say "Ah shit" before I pushed my head back with such force that he lost his grip on me as I pushed him into the side of the house, knocking him out cold. The man who had the knife was starting to get up, so I kicked him in the face, sending him back down before I started to pull his body inside one of the closest houses, "You come with me."

One, two, three, four. I was punching his face so hard that my knuckles had been plastered with the man's blood. "What do you want?" He pleaded as I continued to hit him again and again. As I I pulled back from the man I felt the pain starting to kick in again. "You wait here," I told him as I begin to move to his friend that I had tied to a chair.

I grabbed the knife that one of the men had tried to kill me with and pulled up another chair in front of the man. "Now..." I begin as I sit down on the chair and stare into the man's cold grey eyes, "The girl... Is she alive?".

The man shook his head with a hint of a smile on his face, "What girl? I don't know no girl". As soon as he had finished his sentence, I plunged the knife into his kneecap and pushed it as far as it would go. "Fuck..." He shouted with tears starting to fill his eyes as he tried to look down at the floor. "Focus right here. Right here" I said to him as I slapped his chin upwards so that he could look me in the eye. "Or I'll pop your goddamn knee off. The girl".

He started to nod now as his body slowly began to shake from the pain. "She's alive. She's David's newest pet". Not enough. "Where?" I ask him as I slowly begin to turn the knife. The man threw his head back with pain as his breaths became quicker. "In the town. In the town" He said quickly.

I pulled the knife from his knee and shoved it into his mouth as I withdrew a map of the town from my pocket. "Now you're gonna mark it on the map. And it better be the exact spot your buddy points to".

The man nods and quickly marks on the map, with his blood, the place in which Ellie was being kept. "It's right there," He said as he spat the knife out. "You can verify it. Go ask him. Go on" He said, trying to point to his friend with his head. "He'll tell ya. I ain't lyin'. I ain't lyin'".

I thought about it then. About his death. I could keep him alive; I'd probably... Hopefully get to Ellie before he could, he wouldn't even be a problem, I'd get Ellie out of this place as soon as I could, but there was always a possibility, that was the deal breaker. The reason I am alive right here and right now is because of Ellie. I won't let anyone get it the way. Ever.

I grab the man round the throat just as he did to me, however before I even strangled him I yanked his head to the side, breaking his neck before he could take his last breath.

The man fell to the floor as his friend watched in horror.

"Fuck you, man. He told you what you wanted" The man's friend said as I picked up a metal pipe from the ground. "I ain't telling you shit" He continued.

I looked at the pipe and then back at the man. "That's alright," I say, edging my way towards him. "I believe him."

Within one fatal hit, I broke his neck, and maybe every other bone in his face before he could even tell me to stop.

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Goodness me it has been a while. A long, long, long while.

I'm pretty sure everyone has already forgotten about this little book, and for good reason, it's been years since I've even thought about this book.

Why have I come back? I dunno really. I don't even know if I'm going to continue this, but in honor of the absolutely incredible news that we'll be getting a TLOU2 I thought it'd be nice to update this at least once.