Joel x female reader

Chapter 11

Walking through the sewer was disgusting! There were bugs, dead people, clickers, runners, and sound traps. Trying to find a way out was possibly bullshit from where you were looking, which was down at a dead guy. Joel went to open a gate which set off a sound trap, which triggered a steel gate to close between you guys. Joel and Sam were on the other side while you, Henry, and Ellie were on the other side.

"Joel!"

You ran up to the gate and tried to get it open, sadly it was trolling you hard, you weren't getting it open.

"Joel, it's not budging..."

You said sadly while looking through the opening in the gate, Joel sighed and retched in and caressed your face, a sad smile on his lips.

"Don't worry sweetie, just stay with Henry and keep Ellie close to you, and before you know it we'll be together again."

You nodded and kissed the palm of his hand just in time to back away, because here comes a wave of clickers! Grabbing Ellie's hand, you  took one last look at Joel before taking off running with Henry behind you. Fighting off runners and clickers was never a pain in the ass, but hey you were in the sewers so you were already in the dead zone. Finally coming to a clear area, only to come across Joel and Sam.

"Joel!"

He looked up and saw you, Ellie, and Henry running his way.

"(y/n)."

He opened his arms to have you jump into them, hugging you close to him he grabbed your hand and ran.

"Doorway, over there."

The five of you ran to the open doorway and closed it behind you, pulling off some time to get away from the clickers. Henry ran over to a blocked door and called Joel over, turns out there was a crowbar ledged in the space so nobody could get through. Sam crawled through a space to the other side, you held the door closed as Sam got the crowbar removed.

"Alright, babe come on it's unlocked."

You nodded and let go of the door and took off running with everyone else, never in your life have you been happy to run. Henry boosted Ellie and Sam to the other side of the jammed door, Henry looked at you.

"You're going too (y/n)."

"WHAT!?"

Joel quickly covered your mouth and held you close to him, talking in a low deep voice.

"Please, go with Ellie and Sam to make sure they are okay. Please."

You nodded and leaned up on your tippy toes and kissed him quickly before getting into position.

"I'm going to run at you, all I want you to do is quickly boost me up okay?"

Joel rushed over to where Henry was and got in the same boosting position, you ran full speed at them and jumped up with your feet in the air. Both Joel and Henry boosted you up above the door, just enough speed and strength you were boosted out the door and outside. Landing on your feet, you knocked on the door.

"I made it, go on and kick some clicker ass!"

"Alright, take care of them."

"I will."

You ran over to where Sam and Ellie were, within a few minutes Joel and Sam wiggled out and pushed something very heavy in front of the door so no clickers could get through. While they caught their breath, you walked over to Joel and placed a hand on his back making him stand up and look down at you.

"You okay?"

You asked while looking him over for any bites or scratches, he wasn't bad, a few bangs here and there but he was good.

"I'm okay babe."

He took your hands and placed them on his neck, making you go onto your tippy toes as he wrapped his arms around your waist as he brought you into a warming hug. You hugged him back as he kissed the side of your head while inhaling your scent, all he wanted to do was hug you and kiss you until time itself stopped. You were his everything, ever since Sarah he hasn't seen light in his life, that was until you walked in. Light itself hasn't been more beautiful, huh glad that Marlene wiggled in because now he could actually be with you. Watching you from the distance was like he was a stalker, he would look at you when Sarah was doing the soccer game, or how during work he would look out his window to see you sitting outside drinking coffee while listening to music.

"Oh, are you fucking kidding me."

Joel pulled back from the hug to see everyone looking at a blooded sign saying that the area was filled was infected. You scoffed and nuzzled your face into Joel's chest, he rubbed your back as he asked how far away the tower was.

"Not far, we're close."

Letting out a sigh, you broke away from the hug and held onto Joel's hand.

~Skip to into the town!~

After jumping from house to house, you came to a house that had an attic! Joel went to pull it down, until the whole door came down with the string.

"Holy fuck."

You coughed while fanning the dust from in front of your face, whole goddamn house was falling apart. Looking up, you looked back down at Joel.

"Running jump boost?"

"Running jump boost."

Joel got into position as you backed up into a room, you stretched your legs and rolled your neck.

"Ready?"

"Ready as I'll ever be babe."

You launched at him and jumped in the air with one foot in his hands, Joel gave you a quick boost while gave you enough air to flip into the attic.

"...Wow... dusty."

"Find anything darling?"

You found a Melee's weapon upgrade manual just for Joel, you picked it up and walked back over to the broken entrance.

"Here, this could be useful for you."

You dropped back down and handed it to him, he took it and nodded.

"Yeah, it could be."

He put it in his magical absorbing backpack and took your hand as he walked downstairs.