I woke up early after last night and left my house to make my way to the stables which coincidently is a few miles from my house in the fields. I made it there I met the man in charge of the stables Johnny he sent me to take care of a horse named Callous, that's a stupid name for a horse. As I enter the stable that holds Callous. I began brushing him when a girl enters the stall.

"What the fuck… get away from him!" She yells, as she pulls out a gun as I roll my eyes as I grab the gun from her grip and hold it above her grasp, as she jumps attempting to reach it eventually she gives up.

"Have we calmed down now?" I ask, as she hangs her head.

"Yeah… what are you a Hunter?" She asks.

"Listen if I was a Hunter, do you think I would make it past the wall that's heavily guarded just to take a horse?" I ask, as she looks at me.

"No, I guess not." She says, as I pick up the brush and continue, while still holding her gun as I'm brushing I feel her gaze on me.

"Something on your mind?" I ask, as she looks at me some more.

"Have I seen you before?" She asks, as I look at her.

"I think you do after all I did perform at the cookout." I say as she gets a look of recognition crossed her face as she gasped.

"Your Jack." She yells as I give her a smile.

"You got it, so if I may get your name?" I ask as I keep brushing Callous, seriously it's a stupid name for a horse.

"Ellie… its Ellie." she says as I hand her the brush.

"If you get that side of Callous, I'll treat you to lunch." I say as she smiles.

"Sure." Ellie says as she brushes callous. Eventually after getting the work done we walked back to my house as I opened the door as we stepped inside as I closed the door.

"So… how about Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup?" I say as I see slight confusion on her face.

"What's Grilled Cheese?" Ellie asks as I look at her in shock.

"Well you're in for a treat." I say as I pull out a pan for the Grilled Cheese and a sauce pan for the soup, as I butter the bread and add the cheese and place it in the pan butter side down as it starts cooking. I start up the soup as I pull out a spatula from the drawer, it only took me a couple of minutes to make both Grilled Cheese sandwiches and get out a couple bowls and fill them with soup, as I place the bowl of soup and the Grilled Cheese in front of Ellie as I grab a spoon and place it next to the soup bowl as she takes the spoon in her hand and digs in combining sop and Grilled Cheese.

"This is so fucking good!" Ellie exclaims through as a mouthful as I look at her.

"Young lady, I believe you need to watch your language 'round here." I say as my accent becomes prominent as she looks at me and swallows her mouthful, as she laughs between breaths as I look at her crossly.

"You sound just like Joel." Ellie says between laughing and breathing.

"Ellie I'm serious." I say as she stops laughing and glares at me

"You're not the boss of me." Ellie says maintaining her glare.

"Actually I am, this is my house, and I'm older than you." I say as I lean against the counter with my arms crossed as I smiled smugly as she looks at me.

"Bullshit… I don't believe you how old are you 20?" Ellie says defiantly

"it's true, and I'm 17. how old are you 12?" I say as my smirk widens

"No I'm not 12, I'm 16." Ellie yells as she sits back down as I sigh and walk over to my garage door and unlock it, as I hear her shift in her seat.

"Where are you going?" Ellie asks as I turn and look at her.

"I'm going into my shop what does it look like… your welcome to come in if you want." I say as I fully enter my shop eventually after a few seconds of silence I hear her footsteps enter the shop, as I turn on the lights and open the garage door I turn to Ellie as I see her staring at a corner of my shop.

"Holy shit… you have a motorcycle; can I ride it?" Ellie asks as I look at her.

"No." I say as I go behind the counter and grab two 9mm hand guns and a couple boxes of ammo.

"But why not?" Ellie whines as I turn to the wall I grab my bow and several arrows as I place them in a bag I put on my shoulders.

"Because I only use it for when I travel long distances, and gas is extremely hard to come by." I say as I stand outside as I look back at her.

"Maybe I'll give you a ride… come on." I say as I walk out as I get a little further I hear her hurried footsteps.

"Where are we going?" Ellie asks.

"You'll see." I say as we walk around the corner to the gun range as I look at Ellie to see she's already running ahead.

"Holy shit, you have a gun range." Ellie says as I walk up to the stall of my range as I set down the pistols, the ammo and my bow and the arrows as I turn around I see Ellie looking at me.

"What are those for?" Ellie asks as she watches me.

"For shooting annoying girls who ask to many questions, what else?" I say sarcastically as I fully load the clip of the pistol, as I briefly hear her mutter 'dick' as I chuckle and turn back to her.

"You know how to use a gun?" I ask as she just scoffs and takes the gun and walks into the stall as she fires the clip into the target set up 30 yards away, nearly all her shots made it to be more precise 3 of 7 shots hit the bullseye, I just chuckle as she spins on her heel and places the gun down on the table and glares at me.

"What think you can do better?" Ellie challenges as I grab the other loaded gun and walk over to another stall that was set up 45 yards out without looking at the target I fired every shot from the clip, I placed the gun down on the table as I saw Ellie walk out of the stall with a look of shock on her face. All my bullets had hit the bullseye as she looks at me.

"How…" Ellie trails off as I give her a smile.

"I trained in using guns since I was 5 years old." I say as I pick up my bow and an arrow I knock the arrow and pull it back and let it fly as it hits the bullseye, as I lower my bow Ellie walks up holding a couple arrows.

"Mind if I try?" Ellie asks as I hand her my bow.

"Sure, knock yourself out." I say as I stand back as she knocks an arrow lifts it up and tries to pull it back. after a few moments of Ellie trying to pull the string back I decided to step in.

"Need any help?" I ask as Ellie turns to me.

"No, I got it." Ellie says as she tries for a few moments before sighing.

"Okay, I could use a little help." Ellie says as I walk up behind her and guide her through when she gets to the bow string I decide to talk.

"Okay now remember, this bow has been modified to its fullest extent so it's gonna be harder to pull the string back." I say as I help her pull the string back.

"Yeah, no shit." Ellie says as I roll my eyes as I step back and let her shoot the arrow, after a while Ellie steps away and sets my bow and the arrows down as I smile at her.

"You did good." I say as she smiles, I turn to see tommy coming towards us when he finally reaches us he looks over the weapons on the table and chuckles.

"Getting in some shooting practice you two." Tommy says chuckling.

"Yep." I say as I chuckle as well, then Tommy gets serious.

"Hey Jack, I'm askin' if you want to join us in a supply a run and hunting trip tomorrow." Tommy says.

"Sure." I say as he smiles.

"Good." Tommy says as he starts to walk away when Ellie speaks up.

"Wait, what about me?" Ellie asks as Tommy faces her.

"No Ellie, you know what Joel would do to either of us if I let you go." Tommy says.

"But-"Ellie says.

"No means no, Ellie." Tommy says stubbornly.

"Oh, come on, I can handle myself you and Joel know this, please give me a chance that's all I ask." Ellie asks as Tommy sighs in frustration.

"Fine, but ask Joel first if he agrees then you can come." Tommy says as he walks away as I look at Ellie with a smirk on my face as she looks at me.

"What?" Ellie asks as I smirk.

"Nothing, come on I'll take you home." I say as Ellie and I start to walk as we exit the back I lock the back gate as we walk to her house, which coincidently is a couple houses down from my house as we say goodbye to each other as I head home to sleep.