Love Aside | Ellie x Male Reader | The Last Of Us

Cuban Tobacco

*Readers pov*

We continue down the street as the central building is to the right upfront. We are so close.

???: Just so it's out there, I can't swim.

Joel: Cutter will carry you.

You: Why the-

Tess: Good idea.

I groan.

???: O-Oh...

I go infront of the water as I kneel down. She jumps onto my back.

Fuck me..

I swim with her.

???: I know Marlene is paying you to do this...but I want to say thanks. That it was you guys.

Tess: Sure thing.

I swim us across and place us infront of the building.

???: Do I have to get off?...

She mumbles.

She hops off.

Tess: That was cute.

Joel: Cute.

The girl gets red and flips them both off.

We go up the stairs and I push the door open. We enter in.

Tess: Oh...Oh, No... No!

She kneels over a dead corpse and searches it.

I look around to the bloodied bodies. Bodies of Fireflies.

Joel: Shit.

???: What now?...

You: I'm not following...Why are we bringing her here?

Joel: It's so she can picked up by the Fireflies...that are dead now.

He walks over to the panicked Tess.

Joel: What are you doing, Tess?

Tess: Maybe they had ah, maybe they had a map or something to tell us where they were going.

Joel: How far are we going to take this?

Her voice breaks.

Tess: How far it needs to go!

You never see her like this. She's tough. Real tough and have drinking battles with you for fun which she always wins. Why is her voice breaking and being scattered, something is up.

She looks up at the girl.

Tess: Where is this lab of theirs?

???: She never said. Only thats its somewhere in the west.

Joel puts his hand out on each word.

Joel: What are we doing here? This is NOT us.

She stands up. Angry.

Tess: What do you know about us? About me?

Joel: I know you're smarter than this.

Tess: Guess what, we're shitty people, Joel. It's been like that for a long time.

Joel: We are survivors!

Tess: This is our chance-

Joel: It is over! Now, we tried. Let's just go home...

Tess: I'm not going anywhere. This is my last stop.

Her voice breaking.

No...No...

She...She can't be.

You: Tess...Fuck...

I put my arms on my head in disbelief.

Joel: What?

???: Holy shit...She's infected.

Joel steps back in anger and pain but keeps his face.

Joel: Show it to me.

Tess: Joel-

Joel: Show it. Show it to me.

She extends her top shirt and on her collar bone is a bite mark.

You:...Fuck!

Jeol: Oh, Christ.

He says from his heart.

Tess goes over to the girl and rolls her sleeve back.

Tess: This was 3 weeks!

She drags her along.

Tess: I was bitten an hour ago and it's already worse! This is fucking real, you two.

She lets go as the girl puts her sleeve back.

Tess: Get her to Tommy's. He used to run with the crew, he'll know.

Joel: I am not doin' that!

Tess: Yes, you are! Look. There's enough that you have to feel some sort of obligation to me. So you 2 get her to Tommy's.

Theres military cars driving up front.

Tess: Shit. Go. Go get her to Tommy's. I'll hold them off.

???: You want us just to leave you?

Tess: Yes! I am not turning into one of those things. Come on, make this easy for me.

Joel: I can fight-

Tess: No. Just go!!

Pain in her voice as Joel has a whisper from pain.

Joel:...Cutter, make the girl get a move on.

Tess pulls me into a hug as I embrace it.

She whispers to me so no person can hear.

Tess: Y/N...please take care of the girl.

You: I will, Tess... I promise.

We pull off.

Nothing to say, nothing good to say. Pain, in all of us. No words but acknowledgement of love and understandment but mostly pain.

I turn around and push the girl forward as we get a move on.

You: Shit...

???: Look, I'm sorry-

You: Stop.

We move upstairs and around to the open part of the buidling.

???: Look...Cutter is your name?

You: Of course thats not my real name. I go by many.

???: Well, Cutter, I'm sorry for Tess.

You: I said stop.

We jump across and Joel appears behind.

I ready my gun.