Ellie's Adventure // Ellie x Female Reader// The Last Of Us

Meeting her

I'm still standing at this stupid bar, what am I still doing here? I should be out, hunting like the rest. I think to myself. I look at the water I'm holding and swirl it around. My back is to the bar when I hear someone behind me.

"Ellie?" I turn around. "Are you okay?" Casper says it. "Yeah, I'm fine." I turn back to the room. People are all dancing with each other. I'm not really a good dancer. "Hey, Casper. Are you sure you can't give me anything stronger?" I ask, Holding up my cup. Casper laughs. "So, here's the deal. Trust me I want to give you some, but if anyone catches me doing it I can forget this 'Job'." Casper says and I sigh.

A song comes on that I know all too well. I see Casper looking at his watch. "Hey, It's 23.45, My shift ended five minutes ago." He says with happiness in his voice. He comes around the bar and offers me his hand. "Would you care to dance?" He says with a funny voice. I smirk and turn around, putting my cup on the bar. "Sure." Casper leads me onto the dancefloor.

We're surrounded by other people dancing and singing along to the song. Casper takes both my hand and starts swaying a little. I move along with him. He lifts one of his hands, still holding mine, twirling me in a circle. I grin a bit. when I'm facing Casper again I catch the look of a girl on the other side of the room, leaning against a wall, watching everybody else have fun. I shake my head and focus back on Casper again.

While I was thinking about the girl, Casper had already taken my hands. Holding me closer to his chest. Why are you doing this? Maybe I'm not getting the right vibe here, but I told him I didn't feel about him that way, but maybe he's just a clingy friend. Who knows. Casper twirls me around a few more times and when the song stops, he bows. I follow his movements and we laugh.

I look over Casper's shoulder to see if the girl is still in the same spot. She isn't. I haven't seen her before. I scan the room but I can't seem to find her. I'll see her eventually, after all, we do live in the same town. I walk back to the bar with Casper. He takes a seat but I remain standing. "I think I'm going to get some sleep," I say. Casper nods, raises his cup and says: "May you find your long wanted rest." We laugh again. I walk to the exit and wave at Casper. He waves back. A smile forms on my face.

I walk through the streets and past the food centre. When I walk around the corner I see Joel. I want to say hello, but he's talking to somebody. I walk back a few steps to get behind the corner again. I peek around it. I see Joel checking his surroundings before walking into the alley. I look around myself too before walking up to the alley. I stop at the corner and peek around it. I see Joel's face and another person, but I can't see who it is. I hear Joel saying some stuff about keeping something a secret and that the mysterious person can't do anything until he says so. I see the person nod and turn around. Joel also turns around, which freaks me out considering the fact that there is nowhere to hide for me. I think fast, taking a few steps back before walking past the alley. "Ellie!" I hear Joel say. I stop to look at him and wait for him to catch up. "Where are you coming from?" He asks. "I was at the party." Joel nods. "Did anything interesting happen?" I think about the mystery girl but decide not to say anything about her. "I danced with Casper, That's really all." Joel looks confused. "I thought you told him 'I don't feel about you the same way'." He makes quotation marks with his fingers in the air. "Yeah, I did." I say sharp. "It was just some friendly dancing." Joel scoffs "If you say so." We walk for a few minutes, past some trees and flowers. We're silent. Nothing left to say anymore I guess. But then Joel says something. "Oh! I forgot to tell you." Joel looks at me. "You have a new roommate." He says while making Jazz Hands. I sigh. "Again?" I ask. "Does nobody like me?" I look at the ground. "Oh they like you, it's just that Martha's sister came in yesterday, and well, they want to share a room." I nod. "Who is it?" I ask. please don't say Sascha. I fucking hate that girl. "I'll leave that for you to find out. She came in at the same time as Martha's sister." Joel says.

We reach my house. I share a house with three others. Including Mystery girl four. Peter, Nathan, Catherine and me. before Catherine and I were sharing a room but she and Nathan got together. Peter now has a room of his own. In the beginning, I felt kinda bad for him, but I think he is pretty happy all alone. I don't even want to think about the stuff he does in there. Joel pats my shoulder, snapping me back to reality. "Sleep well. We'll be needing you tomorrow." He says as he walks away.

I sigh and walk to the front door. I open it with my key and stumble inside. I almost yell I'm back when I see, who I suspect is mystery girl, laying on the couch. She is with her back to me so I can't see her face. I didn't recognize the girl from the party, maybe she is that girl. I want to walk up to her but stop in my tracks. The girl turns around and I see that it is Catherine. Shit. I don't wake her up and walk to the kitchen. getting a cup of water. I slowly walk up the stairs.

When I'm at the top I see Peter's door open. I knock on it silently and hear: "Who is it?" Really soft. "Ellie," I stick my head through the door. "Come in." Peter says. "What are you doing?" Peter turns around, hiding what is behind him. "Since it's your birthday tomorrow, I wanted to get you this." He lifts what he was hiding and gives it to me. It's poorly wrapped. But hey, at least he thought about it. it's a rectangular box about the length of a soap bottle. "You shouldn't have." I say. Peter smiles. "Just open it." I tear off the wrapping to see a brown box with a small logo on it. It's a bird with a knife in its beak. I look at Peter who's eyes are as bright as the sun. I carefully open the box and see a knife. I take it out, looking at the beautiful structure. "I overheard you talking to Joel about needing a new knife." I can't speak. "I found it on one of my hunting missions and thought it would be perfect for you." The blade has carvings of plants in it and the handle is dark brown. I stab with it a few times to see how it feels and it feels just like my last one. "Thank you," I say. I give Peter a hug and sit on his bed. "Oh, also your new roommate is here. I think she might already be sleeping so be mindful." He says. I thank him again before walking out. 

I walk over to Nathan's room. It's weird that he and Catherine aren't together. I knock but don't get any answer. I carefully open the door and look through the small opening. Nathan isn't there. I walk back to peter's room. "Do you know where Nathan is?" I ask. "Yeah, he and Catherine had a fight. He went out on night patrol to lose some steam." I nod and close his door. I walk to my own room. I want to knock but think about what Peter said. So I slowly open the door looking for the girl. I see her on the spare bed that Martha used to use. It looks like she's sleeping. I open the door now and walk in. When I reach my bed I hear a voice behind me. I hadn't even looked at her before planning to jump in bed myself. And there she is. The girl from the party. She moans and sits up, she stretches her arms and pulls back her H/C hair. "You must be Ellie," she says. I don't say anything back. When I saw her at the party she didn't look as beautiful as now. "Hello?" I look up at her and smile. "Yes, sorry, I am Ellie." She gets out of the bed and shakes my hand. "I'm Y/N." I shake her hand a bit too long. "I saw you at the party." She says. I nod "You didn't look happy, or at least I think so." I smile. "I was bored," I say. "Yeah, that's why I left as well. It was hard finding this place but Joel helped me." She says and I nod, again. I really, really want to sleep. But I don't want to be rude, and I don't have to be. "I think I'm going back to sleep. I haven't slept in a normal bed for four months." She smiles as she lays back down in the bed.  "I'm going to do the same. gotta go on patrol tomorrow morning." She tucks herself in and so do I. It looks like Y/N fell asleep fast but I can't sleep. I felt this feeling once before, And I can't stop thinking about it.