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

➳ chapter 13

「 chapter 13 」
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I rub my eyes tiredly, my feet were going numb again from the cold and so much walking.

We hadn't seen any of the infected chasing us since mid day, so they must have gotten well and truly lost.

It was dark now, we didn't have a new place to set up a camp for the night, we hadn't even seen a house since a few days ago.
Now, we were still walking on the road, I was in the front of the group as usual. It was night and we were all freezing, but we had to keep going so we could try and find somewhere half decent to sleep.

Walking at this time of night was probably the stupidest idea I've ever been apart of, any one could see us. Bandits, gang members and infected will spot us out in the open and we weren't really in the right shape to defend anyone or anything off.

My eyes had adjusted to the very little lighting that the moon was providing by glaring down at us, it's reflection beamed off the road, but I swear I could see something up ahead on the side of the road. It looked like an abandoned car.

"What's that?" I ask, the first one to speak in about an hour or so. I was more than happy to sleep in a car, there was cushioned car seats and it blocked out most of the cold, plus I felt safer inside a small little car than laying out in the open on the ground.

"I think it's a car." I hear Michonne say behind me.

"I'll go see if it's clear." Rick volunteers. I turn around to him with a frown, he's about to run past me but I stop him.

"We. We will go see if it's clear, there's only three of us, we're not risking splitting up, even if it's just for a minute." I tell him, being sure not to raise my voice.

He gives me a look of surprise, probably because of my sudden outburst. "Alright." He nods, shrugging. We go over together, it was a car as we could guess, and it looked like it had been here for a while. There was a thick layer of dust and dirt spread across the top of it, but the doors were unlocked so we toss our stuff in side and set up a camp fire behind it.

Rick cooks up the rabbit for dinner and shared it evenly between the three of us, I was still hungry after it but I was putting up with it because I didn't want canned food again.

I felt like we had been only sitting around and eating for maybe a few hours, but it was pitch black dark now, apart from the moons glare that gave us enough light to ensure we didn't run into eachother.

"Ellie, I think it's time for bed." Rick says to me. My eyes fly open to him saying my name, I didn't even realise I was drifting off to sleep. "Okay." I nod, getting up off the ground.