It was now night time and time for us to make out move. I woke Sam up from his little nap and got him ready as Henry got his stuff together. I saw Ellie standing there as Joel slept on the couch behind her.

"Go wake him up. It's time." I nodded towards Joel to Ellie and she nodded and did what I said. Joel slowly arose from his slumber. I gave him a look before turning my attention to Henry.

"Now we're going to be moving really fast, okay? So no matter what, you stick to me like glue." Henry told his brother.

"Like glue." Sam repeated, knowing what to do.

"Like glue. Good boy." Henry patted his brother's shoulder before turning to me. "If we get separated and he ends up with you-"I knew where he was going already and I nodded understanding.

"Make sure he's safe. I know. I promise you I will." I told him and he nodded. I knew if anything happened to Henry, Sam would be my responsibility. He doesn't have to be, but for his own safety I would take care of him.

"Alright. Ya'll ready?" Henry asked us all and we nodded.

"Yeah." Joel's southern accent rolled off his tongue. I could see the fear in Ellie's face and to be honest, I was fearful too.

I adjusted the gun in the back of my jeans before following Henry into the room with the model of the bridge. We made our way through the exit door to some stairs. Henry went first with me walking with Sam. At the bottom of the stairs, Henry made sure he opened a door quietly before letting me go first. I crouched down as I could hear two guys talking at the other end of the room. I motioned for the others to follow me and they did. Henry game next to me and I pointed towards the two men having a nice warm chat near a fire.

"Two guys. One left one right. I got left-"I started to explain.

"I got right." He finished for me. I nodded and we made our way, quietly towards the men. My man didn't have time to finish his sentence as I wrapped my arms round his neck, and snapped it with one smooth move. Once they were down, I notice Joel come up behind me and slowly made my way outside. I grabbed Joel's arm as he was going too fast for my liking. He gave me a glare and I shook my head. We then heard a clicker and a few shots rang out as another guy was trying to take it out. After another shot, it was down.

"Boom, nailed it! You see that shit?" The guy sounded quite young. That didn't bother me. I quickly looked over the car we were hiding behind and saw around three guys walking around with a gun each. I noticed there was a guy on the light at the top of the scaffolding. I could shoot him, but would that attract unwanted attention? Fuck it they can handle it. I shot the bulb of the light then shot the guy in two swift shots, before ducking back behind the car.

"Quinn!" Henry whispered through his teeth and I shrugged my shoulders as men shouted, telling us they knew we were here.

"Yeah that was a bad idea wasn't it?" I wondered to myself. Joel groaned loudly, obviously annoyed at me and moved up ahead. I rolled my eyes at him and stayed hidden with Henry before two men came at us. Joel was already taking care of one so me and Henry took care of these two. One of them went to shoot me but I grabbed his hands, twisted them round, kicked him in his special place, and used his own gun to shoot him with. I took the ammo from that gun and reloaded my own. I noticed Joel was struggling with a guy so I ran up to him, took out my knife, jumped on the guys back and stabbed him many times until he was down. I looked up at Joel and he looked surprised.

"Thanks." He told me before going off to take another guy on.

"You're welcome." I mumbled before having to dodge a punch. I took my knife and stabbed the guy until he was down. After that, I looked around and saw no more guys around. I wiped under my nose before putting my knife back and regrouping with Joel and Henry.

"You guys okay?" Henry asked us and me and Joel both nodded.

"I'll get the kids." I said going back into the building to fetch Sam and Ellie. "It's clear. Come on." I told them before they continued to walk outside with me. We met Henry and Joel at the big gate as they tried to get it open. But an engine roared behind us and I could see the big truck coming at us.

"Shit!" I shouted as I helped both Ellie and Sam through the gate before Joel and Henry shut it. Henry pulled down latch to lock the door. I made sure I had Sam and Ellie and ran ahead, but a guy on the top of a truck stopped us.

"Hey! They're over here!" I began to get my gun out but Henry took care of him for me. We then ran to the truck which had part of a ladder on the side of it.

"Alright, check it out." Joel told Henry as he gave him a boost up to the ladder.

"It's clear." Henry called from the top of the truck.

"You go Sam." I pushed the little guy foreword and Joel gave him ma boost. I could hear the truck trying to knock down the gate making me take my gun out. "Ellie, next!" I pushed Ellie foreword and Joel gave her a boost too. But as he did, the bit of the ladder came off, leaving me and Joel stranded.

"We've gotta get them up." Ellie cried as she looked for a way to get us up.

"I'm sorry." Henry called before dragging his brother and running to where we needed to go. He left us. That motherfucker left us.

"What the fuck, Henry?" Ellie shouted before I noticed she jumped back down. "We stick together." Cute move, but a move that could be costly. The truck started shooting aimlessly as we ran to a metal garage door. I helped Joel lift it up as the truck managed to open the gate. Ellie ran underneath and held the other side so me and Joel could get through. We shut it just before the truck started shooting at us.

"Well this is wonderful." I whispered to myself as we rounded a corner into an Irish pub. I could hear guys coming in so we all ducked behind the bar. Joel threw some kind of trap thing for them to walk into, which they did. It blew up around two guys. Handy. I then shot another guy and Joel hit the last one with a metal pipe.

"Nice work, Texas." I told him but he seemed annoyed at the name.

"Don't call me that. "He huffed as we made our way to the door.

"Whatever." I said to myself before Joel managed to open a door just enough for us to crawl through. As we ran towards the bridge, the truck managed to get past a second gate, shooting constantly as we ran faster. I made sure Ellie made it as Joel was behind us. We managed to jump behind some cars but noticed the bridge was no more and there was one hell of a drop.

"Oh fuck!" Ellie shouted as I surveyed the surroundings and tried to come up with a way to escape. But the only way out I could think of was to jump.

"How many bullets do you have left?" Joel seemed fraught as the truck tried to push past the cars to get to us.

"Are you crazy? They're gunna kill us." I told him.

"What other choice do we have?" Joel urged.

"We jump." Ellie took the words right out of my mouth.

"No it's too high and you can't swim." Joel said and I looked down at Ellie.

"You can't swim?" I asked her and she looked at me weirdly.

"Ellie, I'll boost you up, you run past them. Quinn can follow." I can't believe he would think that would actually work. We had no fucking chance against the truck. The truck then rammed into a bus, making a car behind it go into the river.

"You'll keep me afloat." Ellie suggested but Joel was still hooked on getting past these fuckers.

"Ellie." Joel warned. But I saw that glint in her eye. She was going to jump. She looked at me for approval and I nodded.

"No time to argue." Ellie said before we both jumped together. Water surrounded me and as soon as I surfaced I tried to find Ellie. I heard her shout my name and I saw her not far behind me. I swam towards her and gathered her in my arms.

"I got you." I told her as she coughed. I looked around frantically for Joel. Not that I cared for him, but we were a group. We had to stick together, to survive.

"Ellie!" I heard that Texas accent shout from in front of us. I looked and saw him making his way to us. He wrapped his arms around us but turned us around so he was behind us both. I then felt us his something hard. I grabbed hold of Joel trying to keep both him and Ellie afloat and he was unconscious. I then felt Ellie being pulled from my arms and noticed Henry pulling her to shore. I saw Sam go up to Ellie as Henry quickly got both me and Joel to shore.

As soon as we were ashore, I knelt down next to Joel and checked him. I wasn't an expert in this sort of thing, but before this all started, my brother was a medical student, and he had taught me a few things.

"Is he going to be okay?" Ellie asked as she knelt down to the other side of him.

"He'll be fine." I said before glaring at Henry. I slowly stood up and made my way towards him.

"Are you okay? Sorry about-"Before he could finish I punched him square in the face. I couldn't control my anger at this point. He left us to die, and we nearly did.

"Henry!" I heard Sam cry before kneeling down next to him to check him.

"I'm alright. I deserved that." He said checking his nose for blood.

"How could you leave us?!" I shouted at him as Sam helped his brother up.

"I wasn't going to put him at risk." Henry started, pointing to Sam. "I knew you and him would get out of there. And you did." I scoffed putting my hands on my hips looking at the floor. "You two are alike, you know?" Henry said out of nowhere making me frown in confusion.

"Quinn! He's awake!" Ellie shouted after me. I looked and saw Joel was being helped up by Ellie. I walked to him and checked him over.

"You okay?" I asked him. But all he could look at was Henry.

"See. What did I tell you huh? He's fine. Everyone's fine." Henry cheered and I could see the anger running through Joel's face.

"You know, Sam's the one that spotted you-"Again, before he could finish, Joel had pushed him to the floor, gun quickly in hand, and pointing at Henry. I was angry at him too, but not angry enough to want to kill him.

"Get back son!" Joel shouted pointing his gun briefly to Sam, then back to Henry. That had it for me. You don't aim a gun at Sam, ever.

"Joel, stop." I put my hand on his arm but he shook it off.

"He's pissed but he's not going to do anything." Henry said from the floor.

"You sure about that?" Joel pushed.

"Stop!" Sam shouted as I put my hands on Joel's arm, yet again. Man this guy had muscles.

"Joel." I warned him slowly.

"He left us to die out there."

"No. You had a good chance of making it, and you did. But coming back for you, meant putting him at risk." He said pointing to Sam. "If it was the other way around would you have come back for us? I saved you." I took my hands off Joel and waited for his reaction.

"He saved me too. We woulda drowned." Ellie told Joel. Joel sighed heavily and threw his gun to the floor. Sam then knelt down to his brother and helped him up.

"First, Quinn, then, Joel. Remind me not to mess with them." Henry told his brother and Joel gave me a questioning look.

"I punched him in the face." I said proudly and he said nothing back. He relaxed a little, but I knew he was still unsure of me. Besides, I was still unsure of him. I knew I couldn't trust him yet, but I also knew I needed to trust him and Ellie for that fact, in not turning their back on me.

"Nicely done." He commented making me smile a little.

"Thanks."

"Y'know, for what it's worth, I'm really glad I spotted you. Now that radio tower is on the other side of that cliff. The place is going to be full of supplies. You're gonna be really glad you didn't kill me." Me and Joel shared a glance before starting to walk.

"I'm glad you're okay." I looked down next to me and met a smiling Sam. I smiled down to him and ruffled his short hair.

"Me too, buddy." I noticed Joel was watching us but ignored it to keep on walking. Joel's a weird man who seems to have built a very think wall around him. But has only just started opening up, but only to Ellie. I'm sure behind this tough persona he has, is a right softie who actually cares a lot more than he shows.