We Are Survivors - The Last of Us & The Walking Dead

➳ chapter 1

「 chapter 1 」
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Two days. It has been two days since I watched my best friend turn. Two days since I watch her die. Two days since I was supposed die, with her.

We were in an off limits area, the mall, just having some fun before she left. Before she was meant to run away to join the fireflies. We were actually about to leave the place, that's when infected showed up.

The music, it was too loud. Of course, how could we be so stupid? Sound attracts them, those things. We were dumb enough to play it full volume, dancing together. We forgot what the world was really like for a second, and it cost us her life.

I glimpse down at the bodies again below me. Their blood had sprayed across the ground, multiple holes in one of them from the bullets. Their eyes were even open, I could see blood still pouring out of one of their heads, even though they died fifteen minutes ago.

It probably wasn't even safe for me to be out here near them, I'm sure the hunters will be back for something else the scavenge off of them, maybe their shoes to something. Assholes.

I turn my head towards the other man that was supposed to be 'delivering' me. He didn't get shot in the head, his throat was slit. He died a much more painful death than the other escort.

I didn't even know their names, they said I didn't need to know because "The job will be done before you even have time to remember it". It was kind of ironic, but sad.

It doesn't matter anymore, they were both dead. Because of me. If I wasn't needed to be taken to this stupid firefly place, I wouldn't be standing here with the dead bodies of people trying to protect me. They would still be alive, going home to their families tonight.

I wipe the tears from my face as I turn my head around, looking back down the long road we had just come from. The wind gently blows my hair to the side as my brain starts to rack up some ideas of what to do.

I don't know the way back to Marlene in the quarantine zone, not that they'd let me in with a bite anyway. They would kill me on the spot. I didn't know the way to where ever I was meant to be taken, either. I'm stranded, alone. Shit.

The sun was going to set in maybe an hour, the air is beginning to get cooler. I don't have much food, maybe a bottle of water left, but no weapons. My knife being the exception.

I turn back to the bodies in realisation. They just had a gun fight with hunters, they will still have their weapons on them.

I kneel down beside one of them quickly to search, it doesn't take long to find a handgun, it was hiding underneath his arm. I check the magazine in it, empty. Fuck.