*currently re writing*
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❝ Endure and survive, right? ❞
ellie's pov;
tlou x twd
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*WARNING!! I WROTE THIS WHEN I WAS 14, IT HAS SPELLING ERRORS AND MISTAKES THROUGH OUT THE WHOLE THING, IM CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF FIXING IT*
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「 chapter 17 」 _______________
"I'd like to make a toast." I change my focus from Judith, who's on my lap, over to Abraham. We had just eaten dinner together, everyone was happy, everyone was full, we were having a good time for once.
He stands on one of the benches in the middle of the church, holding his drink in one hand and gazing out at everyone in the room. Everyone stops talking and faces him, waiting to see what he has to say, how ever I notice that Rick couldn't take his eyes off his smiling daughter. I hand her to him right as he starts a speech. "I look around this room and I see survivors, each and every one of you have earned that title." I look around at everyone, he was right. We've been through so much and some how we are all still here. "To the survivors!" He cheers, raising his glass up, everyone cheers and holds theirs up before taking a drink.
"Is that all you wanna be?" He then adds on, breaking the chatter through the room again. Everyone thought he was finished.
"Wake up in the morning, fight the infected pricks, go to sleep keeping one eye open, rinse and repeat? 'Cause you can do that. I mean...You got the strength, you got the skill. Thing is, for you people, for what you can do, and that's just surrender."
"Now we get Eugene to Washington and he will make the infected die and we will have this world again, that is not a bad take away for a little road trip."
Oh, the cure thing again. I sigh quietly to myself, if only they knew.
"Eugene, what's in DC?" Abraham turns to Eugene.
"Infrastructure constructed pandemics with magnitude. That means food, shelter, refuge... Restart." He answers quickly. I blink and the sudden use of the fancy words.
"You can all be safe there. Safer than you've been since this whole thing started. Come with us. Save the world for that little one," He looks over at Judith, "Save it for yourselves, save it for the people out there who don't got nothing left to do except survive." He finishes.
Silence fills the room until Judith mutters something out, I look to her and smile.
"What was that?" Rick asks with a grin and a warm laughter fills the room. "I think she knows what I'm about to say. She's in, if she's in, I'm in. We're in." Rick announces happily and everyone begins clapping and cheering.
"Yeah!" "Alright!" "Let's do it." He kisses her forehead.
Abraham smiles and the room goes into another buzz of talk, I watch Rick get up, probably putting Judith to bed.
I take a deep breath. Maybe I should tell them, I think I can trust them by now. It's hard watching them have hope for Eugene and his fake cure when the real one is sitting with them, they just don't know it. Times like these I wish I had someone my age to talk to. Not an adult, not someone that takes care of me.
