"Joel help!" I scream as someone drags me away, grabbing at my face as they do.
"JOEL!" I yell more and I thrash my arms about wildly as they drag me further away.
"ELLIE!" Joel calls and I scream as I hear gun shots and then suddenly all the people let go of me and I fall into darkness.
I wake sweating. Hands reaching round me and I grab my switchblade, sitting up, and looking round the place we decided to stay in.
"Joel" I call softly into the darkness.
"Ellie?" He says and I sigh.
"I thought you were gone" I mumble and he puts an arm round my shoulder. Its pitch black and Joel reaches forwards and lights the gas lantern. I sigh, looking round, the light hurting my eyes.
"Joel...do you think we'll make it back to Tommy's?" I ask and he nods.
"Of course" He says and I sigh, "Get some rest Ellie" He says and I lie down and put my head on my black and red checkered jacket, using it as a pillow. I sigh, looking down at the black tank top vest, with grey stripes over it that I wear. I sigh, looking at the light from the latern, fireflies floating outside the window in the dark night.
"Joel..." I say, sitting up, but his already dropped off into a sleep. I get up, slowly walking to the window, tip toeing to cause less noise. I peer out onto the abandoned street, cars piled up in heeps, burnt out and abandoned, our car the Fireflies 'gave' Joel sits just under the window on the drive away to the house. I hear a scream and quickly put out the gas lantern light, Joel waking and grabbing his gun.
"Ellie..." He whispers and I shuffle so he can hear me. He comes towards me and then I watch as about 7 people come running down the road and they being followed by infected. I look at Joel.
"What're we gunna' do?" I say, looking back out the window at the people trying to fight the infected.
"You stay still" Joel says and I feel the urge to argue, but I do as told.
"We should help them..." I say ad Joel and I watch as they finish off the last infected.
Only 4 of them remain.
"Fuck this...Lets move" shouts one of them, another is shoving an infected off herself.
"Shit...Olly..." She screams as she notices a young boy lyings dead on the floor.
"Joel, we can fit them in the car" I tell him, and he sighs.
"Fine" He says and he grabs his backpack, me shoving my jacket into my backpack and then pulling it on, before we pull out our pistols and run down to them.
"Hey!" Joel shouts, holding up his hands, me following his actions.
"Survivors?" says a dark skinned man with greying black hair and he wears a vest and shorts.
"Yeah.." I mumble and he grins.
"We've lost men today, brilliant men, but we've also gained" He says and he offers his hand to Joel. Joel shakes it wearily and then me.
"I'm Jerry" He says and I nod.
"This is...shit...Olly..." He says, running towards the woman, whos lifted the boy into her arms. I stare at Jerry and what must be his wife, and their child.
"Farrah?" Someone cries as he falls to his knees, his wife on the floor, dead in a pool of blood.
"Joel...what do we do?" I ask, looking at him and he shrugs.
"Take them to Tommy's" He nods and I smile.
"Everything will be fine" I say, looking over the people.
"I'm Ellie" I say and they all look up.
"Ellie" Jerry grins, and he looks at his wife.
"I'm Jackie" She says, holding her son in her arms, crying heavily.
"I'm Harry" Says the man in his late twenties says, the one who was saying 'Farrah'. Then the last person stands, he's only about my age, if not, a little older.
"I'm Finn" He says and I nod.
"I'm Joel..." I hear beside me and I look at Finn as he looks down at Farrah.
"Dude...I'm so sorry..." Finn says to Harry and Harry nods.
"Its okay bro" He mumbles, getting up.
"She and you are why I'm still here...lets not give up now" He says and I smile.
"Yeah, don't give up..." I say, looking at Joel.
"We've made it so far, me and this guy...I'm sure you two can too..and them two" I say, nodding towards Jackie and Jerry, still crying over their son.
"He was only 9..." Harry says, obviously talking about Olly.
"Oh..." I mumble, looking at Joel.
"So...What brings you out here?" Joel says, folding his arms, moving in front of me. I move to stand beside him and he scowls at me. I sigh, shifting back and he looks back at the boys.
"We were gathering supplies...for our group near by...We recently learned we weren't even eating animals...We were eating people..." Harry gulps and I feel myself become lightheaded.
"Wheres your group situated?" Joel says.
"Not far...A few miles...we were in Colorado before, we moved...Wanted to get away from it all...We only brought a few with us, there was 30 of us, now we're only about 20, thats with whats left of us too" Harry explains and I look at Joel, who looks at me.
"Okay, get those two, this car is ours..We'll drop you back at your camp" Joel says and I nod.
Joel and I walk towards the car, me jumping into the passenger side, Joel in the drivers.
"Do you think they're from Davids group?" I offer and he nods.
"Most likely..." Joel says, turning over the engine and the backdoor opens.
"Theres four of us..." Harry says and I sigh, looking over my seat.
"Someone can ride on the back" Joel says and Harry nods.
"I'll do it" He says and Jerry smiles, getting in and sitting in the seat behind me, then Jackie in the middle and Finn next, who shuts the door. I sigh as Joel pulls off and I turn in my seat as he turns the corner.
"You know the way?" Joel asks.
"Yeah, just follow the main road" Jerry says and Joel heads up onto the highway.
"So...what brings you out here?" Jackie questions and I look at Joel as he looks at me.
"Its a long story" I say and Joel smiles, "And it was a long journey"
And thats a wrap!
*Note this book takes place after Joel and Ellie leave the fireflies*
~ChloeCumberbatch~
