Reason to live (Ellie x OC/Female reader)

Chapter 10 - It's About Trust

Ellie's P. O. V.

-"What the fu-" As I was about to yell at Andrea for tackling me to the floor she put her hand on my mouth and finally I could see a truck in the streets. She helped me up and we ran to join Joel already covering behind windows, they had wooden bars over them of course. But we could still see all that was happening outside. The truck was heavy armored and and had a minigun on top of it. It shot two people that were running away from it, a man and a woman. After that, multiple man got out of the trunk. When they got closer to the woman I could see she was still alive. -"Please....don't-" BANG! She tried begging but the guy just shot her. They started searching the bodies. -"Shit, no food, no weapons and a pair of old shoes. They had fucking nothing. Let's get out of here." With that thay got back to the truck and drove away. Finally when I was sure I stood and spoke. -"Fuck. I must say they have pretty good weapons here." -"Yeah..." Joel agreed. -"Well I don't know about you but I want this for my next birthday." Andrea said. I chuckled and looked at her. -"Really? This?" -"Well, this or a skateboard." Joel just shook his head. -"We should continue." And so we found our way to the streets again.

-"There, we're getting close." Joel said and pointed out the brigde once again. It wasn't so far now. -"Okay, then let's get this over with." I said and started walking towards a road. Andrea grabbed my T-shirt collar and pulled me back. -"Ellie? You saw that big-ass truck before right?" She pointed out. -"Yeah we better avoid open areas." Joel added and looked around. -"There. We use that and cut through that house." He pointed out a fire escape and a small ledge leading around the house, from there it should be possible to climb to some window. And so we did what Joel described. As we were at the fire escape one of the trucks rode by. We quickly pressed our bodies against the wall and waited until we were safe again. -"Shit. Do you think they saw us?" I asked. -"I don't think so." Andrea answered. -"How can you know that?" I asked as we got on the ledge, Andrea went first Joel behind her and lastly me. -"Well we are still alive right?" She chuckled. In a nick of time the truck came back and imidietly turned it's minigun in our direction. -"Fuck! Hurry up!" Joel yelled at Andrea and she jumped to first window she could. Joel didn't hesitate and followed. And by some miracle I made it too.

When I got to the room I didn't have time to breath. Only then Joel noticed it too. Some man kneeling on Andrea, holding her hand between her shoulder-blades. She already had her nose blodied. -"Andrea! Get offa her!" Joel yelled as he pushed the man to the ground and started beating him to death. I wanted to help Andrea up but then I noticed another kid in the room with us, holding a gun and aiming at Joel. -"Joel." I said in order for him to stop. He didn't react. -"Joel stop!" I yelled louder this time pulling his shoulder. He looked at me and I pointed at the kid. Joel got up with his hands in the air. -"Easy there, son." Joel tried to calm him down. -"Let him be." The boy answered. -"It's okay Sam." The other man spoke. -"Put the gun down." Andrea got up looking for something to clean her nose with. -"Man, you hit hard." The guy on the floor spoke. -"Well I was trying to kill you." Joel scoffed as an answer. -"Yeah? Now give me a good reason why I shouldn't kill you now." Andrea raged at the man. -"I'm sorry okay. I didn't know who you were and I was just trying to protect myself. I didn't realize you're a kid, I was kinda focused on killing you. But then I saw your friend here." He pointed at me. -"And I knew you weren't from these people around here. They don't exactly carry kids around you know." -"Still didn't hear the reason." Andrea added angrily. The man took a deep breath. -"I'm Henry and this is my brother Sam. We were heading towards that bridge with our group. Maybe we can help each other out. That is of course if you're going to that bridge. But then again, who would come here for something else?" Joel looked at me and Andrea, then back at Henry. -"Okay." He said finally. -"No fucking way!" Shit I knew she'll have a problem with that. Andrea, with her nose already cleaned by some cloth she found, grabbed Joel by the shoulder and tured him around. -" I'm not fucking going anywhere with them!" He looked at her and with calm voice he said. -"Yeah I don't like it either, but what other choice do we have?" I went closer to them and placed my hand at Andrea's back. -"Come on Andrea, just for now. Safety in numbers and all right?" She gave me a really angry look. -"Do it for me." I smiled at her. After a while she nodded. -"Alright. Joel, Andrea and?" Henry tried remembering our names. -"Ellie." I introduced myself. -"Ellie." He reapeted. -"Okay, let me take you all to our "safehouse"." He said sarcasticly and we followed him.