SHE WAS UNDENIABLY, UNDOUBTEDLY, SCREWED as she continued to run through the ruined cityscape she had found herself in. Despite the fact that she had left Marlene for dead behind her, or that she was bleeding profusely from a bite wound on her arm. Even though her body screamed with protest, limbs heavy like lead and weighed with fatigue, she pushed herself forwards. If she had to crawl her way to safety, she damn well will.

Five weeks, four days and eleven hours; that was how long she had managed to stay alive since the outbreak. Everything had deteriorated so quickly in front of her eyes and now it seemed like her luck was running out. She had been an ordinary citizen, almost at the end of her engineering degree, with a stable social life. At the time, she thought that she had it all but none of that mattered anymore- the entire world had gone to shit.

Ellie dodged a drifter with outstretched hands on her left, veering towards the alleyway on the opposite end. Panting heavily and with a stitch in her side, she dragged herself towards the open basement window she had been looking for. "One more push," she started to chant to herself as another oncoming horde started down the pavement towards her. "Shit. Come on."

She threw her bag of supplies through the window first. Clutching the metal baseball bat tightly in her hand, she dropped herself to the ground with a forceful grunt. The build up of lactic acid in her calves burned as much as the fire in her lungs. She was painfully aware of the groans and snarls that were quickly approaching her. Crawling on the back of her elbows, she squeezed herself thorough the dark opening with her legs first.

Her feet dangled from the window, trying to find some kind of surface to support herself with but it didn't seem likely that she would find anything. As she was about to drop herself down, she felt a sharp tug on her scalp. A drifter had caught up to her and was now attempting to take a bite out of her neck. She screamed and thrashed around with her arms, trying to hold the creature away from her. It snapped its teeth wildly by her ear, then a loud bang caused her to wince painfully. She felt the pressure drop from her head and she promptly fell down in a crumpled heap on the cement ground.

Gasping for breath and groaning from her jarred senses induced by the fall, she managed to look up. A burly man had rushed over to her side and shut the window above her. Numerous heavy thumps resounded as the drifters banged their bloodied hands against the glass. He then bent down to pick up her bag before turning to her.

"Let's go," he grabbed her arm and hauled her to her feet.

"Joel," she breathed out in relief. "You made it. Thank God."

He gave her a small smile in greeting before dragging her out of the basement room and through the door. They climbed a set of wooden stairs on the side into a boarded up apartment. Ellie looked around, the only source of light coming from several candles placed around the living room. Joel walked around her towards a table and threw his gun on top of a pile of some heavy artillery.

"How did you get all these?" she asked.

"The first thing I did was to go back and raid the gun store," he told her. She nodded; thinking that Joel having worked part time there before must have helped in the matter. "My car's parked in the garage but we'll probably have to clear the way outside. They're swarming the entire area."

"Hey," she started slowly. "Do you know how all this started?"

Joel shook his head. "No... the last thing I heard before broadcasting went down was that there was some kind of outbreak, they suspected it was some kind of viral disease."

She sighed and raised a hand to rub her face tiredly. "A disease..."

He looked up at her before starting violently and stumbling away. Ellie looked up at him in surprise and confusion before furrowing her eyebrows at the look of terror on the young man's face.

"What the hell's wrong with you?" she questioned.

"You've been bit," he pointed at her arm before reaching forwards to grab a gun from the table.

"Shit," she took a step away instinctively and raised her arms in the air. She had almost forgotten about that fact while trying to get away from the horde. "Joel."

"I saw others got turned from being bit," he told her and his throat bobbed up and down as he gulped. "You can't stay here, Ellie, I'm sorry."

"No, wait, I'm okay," she tried to reason with him. "Look at me, god damn it. I was bit more than a day ago."

He frowned dubiously and lowered his gun a fraction. "That's impossible. Are you telling me the truth?"

"You're a med student, you should be able to tell," she held her arm out in front of him. "Look, it's not that fresh. And I'm completely okay, I swear."

Hesitantly, Joel lowered his gun all the way down. His eyes kept flickering between her face and the bite wound before he slowly pushed himself away from the wall. He took careful steps towards her before grasping her arm and examining the wound curiously. Then he pressed a hand against her forehead to feel for her temperature.

"How is this possible?" he murmured, eyebrows pinched. "You're... you're immune?"

Ellie shook her head. "I have no idea. All I know is that I feel fine."

"This is..." he gestured, a look of awe now making its way onto his face. "Nothing short of a miracle, Ellie. We need to get you to the CDC."

"CDC?" she frowned as he let go of her arm and went back to the table.

"Center for Disease Control and Prevention," he replied, picking up a map and tracing a route with his finger. "If there's any hope for a cure, it's with them."

"I know what it is, numbskull," she hit him lightly on the arm. "But the entire block is crawling with those things, how are we even gonna get out of here?"

He shifted the things around on his table and pulled a jukebox towards them. Ellie looked at it with a raised eyebrow before turning to look at his smug face.

"You're kidding me..." she started.

"We just gotta plant this baby on the other side of the building, wait for those suckers to go and get the hell outta here," he told her.

She shook her head. "Okay, we'll do it tonight."

CAST LIST

Glenn Rhee : Steven Yeun
Ellie Luciole : Emilia Clarke
Joel Hale : Tyler Hoechlin
Riley Abel : Emeraude Tobia
Hunter McCall : Rami Malek

AUTHOR'S NOTE

omg i've been wanting to write a glenn rhee fanfiction for ages now! so i got this chapter written up and thought why the heck not post it? PLEASE leave a review if you like this story! i also have a negan fanfiction if anyone is interested lol.