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

Antidote

*Readers pov*

I wake up, my body not working.

The drug is still inside me, paralyzing me. All there is are sounds coming from my mouth.

The FireFly crouches next to me, making sure I see his face.

???: What? What did you say?

He mocks.

You: Fuck...you.

I manage to say as he smacks me across the face.

???: FireFlyHunter, huh? Betrayed by Marlene.

???: What a fucking idiot. Be glad she still wants you alive.

I slightly move my fingertips as sweat pours down my face.

You: Hn...fuck...you...

I groan.

You: Fire...Fly...bitch...

He smacks me again as he shoves a cloth into my mouth that I can't maneuver.

???: I'll kill him.

His friend speaks up.

???: Are you crazy?! Marlene wants him alive!

???: But he killed our friends! So many of them!

The garage door opens to Marlene entering in, I'm on the cold concrete.

Marlene: I'm sorry, Cutter. Joels fighting back and I have to finish him. Leave, guys.

The 2 leave.

Marlene: Maybe in another life, we were family.

My hand slowly moves as the drug is still active.

Marlene: We were at one point. You know...you once met Ellie before.

Riley: Hey!...I'm Riley and-

The girl is 11 just like me by the looks of it.

I point my gun at her, my feet kicked up high on Marlenes desk.

Riley: Woah...Relax...nice mask.

You: Leave before I shoot.

Riley: I know Marlene...She needs these meds for some FireFlies. Who are you?

You: FireFlyHunter.

I stand up, she backs up to the wall.

I stand close to her face as her eyes expand.

You: Oh...Riley. Yeah. I know you.

I pass a switchblade and she passes the meds.

Riley: This is?...

You: A gift. From her.

I leave and bump into a girl.

You: Watch where you're going.

She backs up.

Riley: Well...Thank you!

She smiles as the girl looks away, scared.

Riley: And for scaring my friend...

I move past

Marlene: Riley told me the story and I laughed. I miss those times where me and you were best buds.

She removes the cloth from my mouth.

You:...Go...die...

Marlene: You're only alive because of me. Although, it took a life.

You:...What?...

Marlene: Be glad I'm not the only one to have betrayed you.

You:...They...never...betrayed...me.

She hears the elevator as she raises her pistol to it and moves forward.

Out comes Joel, holding Ellie thats in a hospital gown. I am turned the other way from them, unable to move.

Marlene: How long until she's ripped apart by a bunch of Clickers? That's if she hasn't been raped and murdered first.

Joel: You killed Cutter......You killed him...

Marlene: Give me Ellie, it's what she'd want. And you know it. Look...

I breathe slowly, unable to gasp for air.

Marlene: You can still do the right thing. She won't feel anything.

Shots ring out.

I hear a body drop dead.

Joel runs over to me, checking my body.

Joel: Come on...Cutter!

You:...Help...

Joel: Thank God you're alive..

He is relieved.

Joel: I'll get a car.

After some time, he picks me up and places me in the back with the sleeping Ellie. She's tranquilized or something.

You:...What did she mean "Won't feel a thing"? What was meant to happen to her?

Joel:...They stopped looking for a cure...There's many of Immune.

I close my eyes slowly.

*Ellie pov*

I slowly wake up.

I begin rummaging around.

Joel: Calm down, kid. The drugs are still wearing off.

Me: What happened?

He explains theres more immune and why they stopped looking for a cure.

I turn around slowly, Y/Ns sleeping as I have my head on his lap.

Joel: Y/Ns safe too. He's been drugged aswell, they immobilized him. Marlene talked about injecting him with this...prototype thing while he was tranquiled.

He sighs.

Joel: Something about...it being from you and should do something to him. We have to hope he'll be okay with whatever they did to him.

I hug him.

Please be okay...This was all pointless if you just die on me.

*Readers pov*

Ellie: Swear to me. Swear to me everything you said about the Fire Flies is true.

Joel: I swear.

I move past.

You: Please...Let's just fucking go.

I move forward.

Ellie: Whats wrong with him?...

Theres pain in my lungs as I move forward.

Joel:...He's just tired. He had enough. Betrayal by his best friend and all.

We move as I feel agitated. What did they do to me while I was asleep? Fuck...