❝ just a flesh wound, here's your rifle
crawling up the beaches now
'sir, I think he's bleeding out ❞
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joel miller knows he has nothing. outbreak day comes and he decides to leave his daughter safe in the house, rushing down to the hospital...
Ellie's heavy breathing was taking up the room, the break in the glass still showing from where the bullet entered. "Who the fuck are these guys?" She asked.
"It doesn't matter, we need to go." Elva exclaimed.
"We know where to go, let's get the hell outta here." Joel spoke.
They ran out from the room they were in, still crouching below the windows to avoid being seen. Elva grabbed a hold of another tape recorder, putting it in her pocket before running down the halls after the other two.
Joel looked behind him, doing a quick headcount before running down the stairwell they had come up from just minutes before. He had to make sure both of them were there, he couldn't continue without them.
One of the enemies ran into the room they were in, grasping onto an axe. He held it over Joel's head, only to fall down to the ground, blood pooling at his feet. Elva stood behind the body, holding a bloodied shiv in her hand.
He picked up the leftover axe, and shoved the blade through another hunter's head as he ran in. They were filing in by the second, if they wanted to make it out, they'd have to do it fast.
They continued to run as fast as they could down the halls. Ellie began shooting at some of the men down the way, letting Joel reload his handgun before taking aim. Ellie took down one, Elva took down two others, and Joel took down the remaining two hunters in the hall area.
"Holy shit." Ellie swore, continuing to follow Joel down the hospital. Each room blended into the other, it was hard to tell if they were even heading towards the exit or not.
Joel slammed the axe into another hunter's shoulder, pushing him to the ground and letting Elva shoot another one who had run in. Before another one could take a shot at the two adults, Ellie pulled the trigger on her gun, killing the hunter.
Finally, they made it to the stairwell, running down the steps and being greeted by two more hunters. Elva took out the first one, switching her handgun out for the shotgun that Bill had given her. Joel did the same, it was useless to use a far-distance gun with people running at them from all angles.
The two hunters fell to the ground, completely motionless as the three continued towards the balcony. Another hunter stood, waiting, with his gun out pointed at the door. Joel shot him dead with one of his scoped weapons, grabbing a few boxes of ammunition from the man's body.
Joel opened one of the balcony doors, only for it to be kicked open into his face. His nose in pain, one of the hunters grasped him. "Got you, asshole!" He yelled. They both fell off the balcony and onto the ground below, the hunter dying from the impact.
Searing pain bubbled through Joel's abdomen as a piece of rebar slammed through his stomach. Blood began pouring through his shirt as he swore in pain. His breath became ragged quickly, his head pounding.
"Joel?!" Elva yelled, using the generator cord to slide down to the ground. Ellie followed her, both of them running up to the hurt man. "Joel, Joel, Joel-" The older woman repeated.
"Move..." He grunted painfully.
"What-?"
"Move!" Joel yelled, shooting one of the hunters that had come in behind the others. He couldn't move anything. It hurt too much to move.
"Joel, Joel- I'm gonna need you to bear this, okay? We're gonna pull." Elva spoke, her voice wavering with fear and worry.
Elva managed to pull him off of the rebar, blood gushing out of the wound in his lower stomach. She winced at the sight. She was used to seeing things much worse, having worked in a hospital for most of her life, but seeing Joel like this, her hands began shaking.
He stumbled as he stood, groaning in pain. "Joel, okay, c'mon, Ellie- get to the horse."
The young girl nodded, fear in her eyes as Elva carried the hurt man over through the rest of the hospital. Joel's vision began blurring, and he could barely make out the voices calling through his mind.
He watched as Ellie took down another one of the hunters, he watched as Elva's hands shook with fear, he had never seen her body shake. Joel's head began pounding, his heartbeat ringing through his ears.
Joel couldn't see, he was beginning to black out. Elva and Ellie took down another few hunters, but he had lost count. All he could smell was the metallic scent of blood as Elva carried him to Callus.
"Okay, Ellie, get on Liam." Elva instructed, hoisting Joel up onto Callus.
Night was closing in, the sky dark with the last light being sucked up from the sun. Elva sat behind Joel's barely conscious body as the two horses rode out of the city campus. Blood poured onto the saddle as snow began to fall onto the ground.
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Snow was falling effortlessly to the road as they walked through the mess of cars, they finally made it out of campus.
"Are we safe?" Ellie asked, turning to Elva. She had never seen such fear in the woman's eyes before, and it scared her.
"I think so." She nodded.
Joel suddenly slumped off of the horse, his eyes fluttering shut as his whole body fell limp onto the road.
"Fuck, Joel!" Elva cried, sitting down on the ground beside him. "C'mon, Joel, please, please, please- wake up." She begged. "Please- for the love of God, Joel please..."
Elva had never been as desperate as she had been in that moment, watching as life began to suck itself out of Joel. His face was desperately pale as the moonlight struck against his eyelids, snow falling onto his eyelashes.
"Please."
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