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"You dropped it."

"Dropped what?"

"Your gun."

"Oh man" Ellie trailed back a few steps to where her small 9mm was laying. She swung her arm down to pick it up and when she lifted her head up she saw Joel had picked up his pace quite a bit. "Joel i'm fucking tired! Slow down ok?" What an ass hole, Ellie thought.

"If you didn't drop your gun every five seconds i wouldn't have to slow down." Joel shouted without looking behind to the small girl running up to him.

"What do you mean every five seconds, this is the first time! We've been walking through this shitty town for an hour anyway... Me dropping my gun is probably the most excitement we've had all day." Ellie said, making Joel sigh.

"You do know that gun has no clips right." He pointed out. Ellie quickly checked the gun to see if what he said was true. It was.

"You know what fuck you Joel, what if a fucking clicker or a runner appeared out of nowhere, and i tried to take it down all by my self and died. You'd feel real bad when that happened wouldn't you." She slammed the useless gun on the floor and walked ahead of Joel, who picked it up and lodged it into the back of his jeans.

"Maybe when your'e older kid." He chuckled to himself.

Ellie and Joel had been walking for another half hour, one of them saying few words and the other never shutting up.

"Hey Joel stop"

"What"

"Did you hear that..." They both stopped In front of an alley way.

"I don't hear nothin', now lets get goin', we need to get to Bills before dark."

"No no wait Joel, seriously i heard something. Just wait ok."Ellie stood there with her hand up to signify Joel to keep listening for something. 'BANG!'

"You hear th-"

"Yeah i hear it." Joel interrupted whilst storming past the empty trash cans leading to a rusty iron door. The hinges where being knocked of the door frame from the other side by something that was throwing itself into it. When Joel got within inches of the noise maker, it scurried upstairs. He stood at the side of the door, and lifted his finger to his lips telling Ellie to be quiet.

"Shit your'e goin' in there!" she whispered loudly in disbelief.

"Just wanna see what i can find." .

"You'll e find my body when i die of a heart attack." Ellie retorted.

The stocky man creaked open the door and crept up the half demolished stairs, hunting rifle in hand, poised at the ready. Joel turned a corner into a hall way, and within seconds, a crazed runner charged at him screaming and spluttering possible victims blood from its mouth . Ellie was at the bottom of the stairs, listening for anything abnormal. She expected a few rabid noises from a runner or clicker, and that's what she heard at first until everything went silent. Ellie sighed in relief and began to jog up the stairs.

"Man that was tense." She laughed as she turned the corner expecting to see Joel. but she didn't. Nothing was there.

"Joel?" No answer. A frown line appeared on her face as she drew her knife. She slowly started to walk backwards towards the wall so nothing could sneak up behind her, Ellie's back hit the cold white surface as her eyes scanned the room, no dead runner or clicker, no dead Joel either. "J-Joel?" she said in a hoarse voice. Her throat had dried up so she gulped. What the fuck do i do now. Ellie began to slide down the wall to sit down, but instead she found herself falling backwards into nothing. Her heart skipped a beat and she was waiting to find herself on her feet again, but she just kept falling backwards.

"Ugh... shit." Joel slowly sat up, his worn out shirt peeling from the warm tarmac floor. He realised his back felt naked. Where the fuck is my bag? He thought. His forehead creased as he started to shuffle around looking for the extension of himself that he'd lost. Eventually when he gave up he decided to stand up and find his bearings; the last he remembered he was tackling that damn runner into a wall and then nothing. Wherever he was, it was to dark to see. Joel fumbled around in his jeans pocket and plucked his a flash light from himself. 'Flick' "FUCK!" His flash light had found a dead runner, hanging upside down from a telephone wire centimetres away from his face. Joel used his light to explore the runners body, and then anything above. maybe i crashed through the wall or somethin... He pondered. "Hey, hey Ellie! you there?" Joel waited a few seconds for her to reply.

"Yeah... I'm here" A voice replied behind him. He quickly turned his flash light to face it. It was Ellie, on the floor and covering her eyes from the blinding light.

"Ellie?"

"Yeah its me Joel, who the fuck else would answer to my name." She snapped.

Joel hesitated, and he returned his flash light to the runners mangled body.

"Whoa" Ellie said, standing up and dusting herself off. "That's really tangled up there huh."

"Yeah."

"Wait, why is your bag hanging from its foot!" Ellie exclaimed whilst pointing at Joel's beloved rucksack which was indeed hanging from the runners bare foot. Joel let out a low chuckle.

"Must've missed it..." He began to try reach the bag by jumping but it was to high.

"Shit."

"Look there's a ladder, just use that. We must've used hundreds of ladders to get here." Ellie said pointing at a ladder that was on the wall next to them. Joel hoisted the ladder onto his shoulder, placed it on the wall near the runner and started climb.

"Hey, have you even wondered how we even got down here? I mean when i got to the apartment you or this bastard weren't there, and then i fell off something and hit the ground hard. I think its pretty weird if you ask me." Ellie said.

"Yeah well i didn't ask you" Joel sighed whilst concentrating on reaching his bag."But yeah, its weird." When he had nearly grabbed the bag, the window his ladder was resting on suddenly lit up. Joel noticed that behind the unusually clean window was a pink room, and standing by the light switch was a little girl, all dressed in pink pyjamas with blonde curls resting on her head. what the...

"Joel what is it!" Ellie shouted. just then the little girl noticed Joel, and she let out a very high pitched scream.

"SHIT" Joel shouted. He slid down the ladder and stood next to Ellie who looked as puzzled as ever.

"Hunters? She asked staring up at Joel's flabbergasted face.

"No, a little girl."

"What? What do you mean a little girl! Joel!" Ellie started to hit the frozen man on the arm to try and get him to move. "Joel what are you doing we need to go!"

"Ellie stop it! something aint right!" Joel shouted at her.

"Geez all right! But seriously we need to go now!" Joel finally came to his senses.

"Yeah, you're right. Stay close."

"Got it." Ellie started to run down the alley way, tripping over slightly as she went. Joel followed her slowly, trying to piece together what he'd seen. when they got out of the alleyway everything got brighter, brighter with orange light. he looked up.

"Joel what the fuck are those." Ellie said.

"Uhm, well they're street lights... What in the world."

"Street lights?" Ellie repeated. "All right, but just one question. why are there hunters in bills town. You told me he had it safe with nothing but the odd runner or clicker!"

"I- i don't know!" Joel was still looking at the street lights. "Anyway i told you its not hunters, i saw a little girl. bout 5 or 6."

"Whatever, we just need to go before whatever it was comes after us." Ellie turned and started to run across the road, when a car blasting music skidded around the corner.

"Ellie i said stay close!"

When he noticed the vehicle, his eyes could not have opened any wider. Joel reached out a hand warning Ellie about the car. She stopped in the middle of the road, and with the car hurtling at her in full speed, everything went black.

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