Jessie stealthily made her way back to the slum's which turned out to be easier than she thought it would be since there was suppose to be guards out checking to make sure there is no one outside like her but... not one guard to be seen. She walked down the narrow street's trying not to touch anything in case she would be made to buy it and headed towards the tunnel's "Hey you seen Amy today?" She asked Tim as she pulled herself up from the dark tunnel and into the building that hid it
"Yeah she came by not the long ago, headed back to her place" He told her "Oh and Steven came by" He walked around the couch and pulled up a guitar "Told me to pass this back to you since he couldn't hold on to it"
Jessie nodded and took the guitar, thanking him. This was better, she could surprise Amy with a song! It was cringy as hell and Amy would love it and then they would both laugh. Jessie would try not to take too long at Amy's since she had to get back to her dad and that kid but she felt like she had to apologise to her so she might be five minutes late
Jessie strolled along the street, her arms swinging by her side and a tune whistling from her lips. Again there was no military in sight which meant they must of had much better things to do than prosecute stragglers that where just trying to get home
She opened the door to the apartment building and jogged up the stairs until she was at the top level and quietly made her way to the very last door on the right. She pulled the guitar to her front and started quietly strumming a song as she entered the apartment
"We are one. one for sure" She started as she crept through. Amy's normally tidy apartment was a wreck; things were lying all over the place along with her fancy clothes. Amy wasn't in sight which meant she must be in her bedroom. Looks like she's gonna be getting woken up
"All united. You'll want some more" Jessie continued, stepping over a washing basket
"Oh oh oh oh. You make me" She sung a bit louder, pushing the bedroom door open with her feet "Oh oh oh oh. You make me..." Her voice faded out and her face hardened when she saw Amy laying on the bed with Cassandra on top of her
She always hated Cassandra
"Oh my god Jessie" Cassandra almost screamed when she saw the girl standing in the door way, guitar in hand. She gathered up some sheets to cever her body as she made her way over to try and say her apologies. This is why Jessie hated her; she was a woos, didn't have a mean bone in her body and was especially scared of Jessie which pissed Jessie off. Why the hell was she scared of her? Is she scary? Is that a good thing?
Jessie took the guitar straps off and lowered the instrument down, keeping one hand clutching the neck. Cassandra was in front of her now, crying and pouring out words that Jessie wasn't listening to. All she saw was red
"Please! She told me that you guy's weren't tog-" Jessie cut Cassandra short when she brought the guitar up and smacked her in the face. Cassandra did a flip as she fell through the air, clutching her cheek and screaming when she landed on the floor. Jessie's cheek flinched and she cracked her neck
"JESSIE STOP!" Amy was next to her now, grabbing a hold of her arm and Jessie just pushed her aside and she stood herself over Cassandra's quivering body. She snarled at the black haired bitch, raising the guitar up over her head and then bringing it down again and again until the guitar snapped and the walls were painted red
Jessie then turned her attention over to Amy who was a sobbing mess on the floor and was screaming hate at Jessie but that quickly stopped when Jessie advanced on her. Jessie's hand went to her throat and yanked her up so they were eye level. Amy was only around 5ft so she was dangling in the air, clawing at Jessie's Iron like grip
"WHY?!" She yelled, spitting in her face. When Amy didn't answer, Jessie threw her back down. There was no way in hell Amy was answering her in this state. She looked around and her eye's landed on the night stand where Amy's own knife was resting and then slowly looked back at Amy
-O-
Ellie was sitting on an old armchair that she dragged over to the window so she could watched the outside. She was so close. She had never been outside the zone before and this whole idea was so exciting to her. Then the reason she was going out came flooding back into her mind and her eyes rolled down and looked at her arm which was wrapped around her leg
"What are we gonna do?" Ellie sniffed into her hand. She never meant for this to happen. She should of never agreed to come to this stupid mall. Maybe then her and Riley would have another couple of years instead of days
"Well... the way I see it we got two options" Riley fiddled with the gun in her hands "Option one. We take the easy way out" She lifted the weapon up and turned it around in the air "Quick and painless" She dropped it down in front of her and rested her head back against the wooden bench's seat. They were to lazy to actually sit on it so they decided on the floor and to rest against it "I'm not a fan of option one" Riley looked at Ellie to see her thoughts. When Ellie didn't even look at her, she sighed and looked forward "Two... we fight" this caught Ellie of guard. What was there to fight for?
"Fight for what?" She said, putting her thoughts into words. They were going to die just like everyone else on the planet who met their fate "We're gonna turn into one of those things"
"There are a million ways we should of died before today" Riley replied sullenly "And A million ways we can die before tomorrow. But we fight... for every second we get to spend with each other. Weather it's two minutes or two days... we don't give that up. I don't want to give that up. My vote... let's just wait it out y'know? We can be all poetic and just lose our minds together"
"Whats option three?" Ellie asked quietly, hoping that just maybe there was a way that they could get out of this alive
"Sorry" Riley replied "C'mon.. let's get out of here"
Ellie wished that she had chosen option one. If she had then she would be dead like she should be and she might of even been buried along side Riley when their bodies were discovered. That would of been the nicer option; the option that stopped her from watching her best friend die while she was completely fine
Ellie was pulled out of her thoughts when the door was flung open and (Jessie?) fell through it. Jessie quickly crawled back over to the door and slammed it and then pressed her back up against it and buried her face in her hand's. Ellie stood up and slowly made her way over "Hey are you a- What the hell happened?!" she gasped when she saw the amount of blood Jessie was covered in
Jessie looked up and Ellie saw how her face was; Hollow eyes, mouth pulled into a straight line. Jessie wouldn't of known what was wrong with her if she hadn't spotted the dried tears that were stuck to her cheeks "I'll get Jo-" Jessie reached up and grabbed Ellie's arm, pulling her back
"No" she said, not emotion in her voice whatsoever. She was so hard to read it was unbearable. Clearly something went down but she wasn't giving anything away "I need to change" she said after a long pause. She was just starting to get her thoughts together now
Ellie watched as Jessie stood up and pushed past her and made her way towards the small bathroom of to the side "What the hell happened?" She called, her curiosity getting the best of her. Jessie stopped still and her shoulders slumped. She turned her head slightly and closed her eyes
"I don't know" she whispered before going into the bathroom and slamming the door which woke Joel
"What's wrong?" He asked, sitting himself up. Ellie was still standing by the door where Jessie had been. She turned to look at Joel with a mix of concern and confusion on her face
"No idea"
When Jessie emerged from the bathroom in a new pair of clothes that were blood stain free she waited for her dad to explode at her at why she was covered in blood previously but he never did. She stole a glance at Ellie and the girl looked back with a nod; she didn't tell him?
Jessie took her place on the couch next to her father who was leaning back with his arms crossed over his chest. There was no way in hell he was getting back to sleep now and they still had a lot of time to kill. Jessie however, needed some sleep bad so decided then that it was her turn. She rested on her dad's lap, brought her legs up on the couch and quickly fell asleep
-O-
Jessie was rudely awoken by a tough pair of hands yanking her off the couch. In a fit of rage and confusion, she jumped up and flung her fist out, hoping to hit whatever had grabbed her. Another hand grabbed her wrist and held her in place
"JESSIE!" it was only when Tess screamed her name did Jessie realise it was her
"Tess what the hell are you doing!?" Joel yelled at her but Tess was't listening, she was purely focused on Jessie
"Did you know?" Tess tried to make eye contact with Jessie but she kept moving her face away "Jessie" she shook her
"Tess" Joel warned
"Stay back Joel" she bit at him before turning back to Jessie "Was it you" she lowered her voice. Tess knew it was Jessie but she had to hear her say it. When she was making her way here, she noticed that there was a large number of people and soldiers around a particular apartment building so she decided to check it out. When she managed to get a view into the room she was almost sick. There was blood everywhere and if someone hadn't told her it was Cassandra she never would of known. The girl's face was smashed in and next to her was a very blood and broken guitar. Before she even got a good look at Amy, Tess was shoved out the room by a soldier and thenthe door was locked and more soldiers ordered everyone away with the threat that they would be prosecuted
"Well?" She asked again, her voice breaking. She was sure Jessie had her anger under control... she spent so long trying to help her with it
"Yes" she said quietly
"What?"
"I SAID YES!" Jessie screamed, yanking her hand back "I killed them" she turned away, ashamed
"Who?" Joel stepped in again but Tess put her hand up to stop him coming any closer
"Why?" She asked her
"Does it matter?" Jessie glared. She shouldn't feel bad. It was their fault not her's; atleast that's what she told herself. She would tell herself anything to justify what she did. To make herself feel better about the whole thing
"Tess do you mind explaini-"
"She killed Amy and Cassandra" Tell explained
"She what?!" Joel looked over at his daughter who was staring at the floor. It was then he started to notice the dried blood in her hair. His he did notice it before, he must of brushed it off; told himself that it was from when she was fighting "Why?!" he barked, demanding an explination
"Does it matter?" Jessie yelled back "It's done! Me telling you why wont change that! it wont make any of us fell better" Maybe the reason she didn't want to tell was because she didn't want Amy to look back. After everything, she still loved her and telling everyone that she was a cheater, a slut... that didn't feel right to Jessie "Let's just change the subject. Tess" she turned her attention to the older women "Would you be as kind to tell us about the guns you went to go see?"
Tess sighed. If Jessie refused to talk there was no point pushing it and that pained her "It's there... and there's a lot of it" She looked up at Joel who was still shocked and slightly annoyed that they were changing the subject so quickly "You wanna do this?" She glanced at Ellie
Jole paused, still thinking things over in his head. He was going to have the push the whole Jessie thing to the side, save it for later. They had bigger fish to fry at this moment "Yeah" he finally said and then the four of them made their way into the back room which used to be a kitchen but all the counters had been stripped for wood and the fridge and stove... well no one actually knew where they went
"Don't you think it's a little strange that they're havin' us do their mugglin'?" Joel asked, standing next to Tess who was staring out the window to see what it was like ground level
Ellie and Jessie were leaning against the wall. Ellie kept glancing up at Jessie. She was this, tall beautiful stranger who seemed to have some demons fighting in her head a lot. Ellie could relate. She wanted to say something to her; see if she was okay but she had no clue what words would help. What do you say to someone who has just killed two people? Violently aswell
"Marlene wanted to do it herself. We weren't their first choice, or even their second for that matter. She's lost a lot of men... Beggars can't be choosers"
"Let's just hope there's someone alive to pay us" Joel grumbled
"Someone will be around" Tess reassured him, walking to the opposite side of the room. She pushed a bookcase out of the way to reveal a gap in the wall that was just big enough for a person to fit through "C'mon" she muttered, ushering the two girls through
The gap led into a slightly smaller room that had a generator in the corner since the rest of the room was filled up with the elevator that was put there a while back. Before this became the smugglers tunnel, it was used by the soldiers to bring in all the rations and medical supplies and they used this lift so they wouldn't have to carry the boxes up and down the stairs. No idea why they suddenly stopped but oh well, good news for the smugglers
Joel turned on the generator then stepped onto the lift. He pressed a button that was attatched to the wall by some sort of extension cable and then the lift started moving "Who's waiting for us at the drop off?" Joel asked Tess
"She Said theres some fireflies that have travelled all the way from another city" She glanced over at Ellie "Girl must be important"
"You some big guy's kid?" Jessie asked, looking at Ellie. Jessie never took Ellie as some important type. She was just a job. But apparently not... they better not damage her or else they might get killed for harming some big-wigs daughter
Ellie looked up at Jessie and gave her a half hearted smile "Something like that"
Am I a bad person? I feel like a bad person... Poor Amy ;-;
Lol just kidding fuck that bitch. How DARE she cheat on Jessie with that annoying Cassandra. You aint even allowed to call her Cas for short. She aint no Angel *Supernatural reference*
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~Daniel