(Joel's POV)

I wake up with a startled gasp after another nightmare about Sarah. As quickly as I could, I tried sitting up but was caught by the sharp pain in my stomach. It caused me to yell. It didn't take me long to see that I was alone in this basement; Ellie and Enid were nowhere in sight.

I get on my hands and knees and check to see if I was bleeding. "Ellie? Enid?" I call. I push myself up to my feet and get my backpack. Looking up the stairs, I knew that's where I needed to go.

I limp my way up the creaky steps and push the door open. It led me to a kitchen. I leaned on the counter for a minute before standing straight up.

"Where the hell are you two?" I say, walking through the living room. I open the front door and go down the steps. "Ellie! Enid! Where did they run off to?" I say. I continue walking down the snow covered streets.

When I reach the end of the streets, a string of bullets is fired at me. "Shit." I whisper, hiding behind a car. "Where are they?!" I shout, getting my shotgun out.

I raised up and fired the gun, blowing the insides out of two hunters. I wait a minute before running out from cover and avoiding shots from the hunters. "One way or another you're gonna tell me!" I shouted as I shot down 3 more guys.

I made it across the street and pulled out an axe that was stuck in the fence. The others start running from me. I throw a molotov and it explodes on two more guys, causing them to burn from the flames.

After that, I go through a house and grab some more gear and craft a few nail bombs, some shivs, and a molotov. I then hop out of a window. Hoping over some debris, I suddenly get grabbed from behind.

"Gotcha asshole!" the guy who grabbed me says. His friend comes at me with a knife. "Finish him off!" the first guy says. I struggle against his grip with all of my might. "Hold him still!" his friend shouts.

I then used my foot to kick his friend in the crotch as hard as I could, making him fall to the ground. I head butt the other guy in the nose and I shove him in the wall. I walk to his friend and stomp on his nose, hearing it crack under my shoe.

He falls over from the kick. "You're coming with me." I say, grabbing the guy by his underarms. I drag him towards the house I was just in. "Let me go… I'll fuck you up." the guy mumbled.

I punch the guy on the floor multiple times in the face. "What do you want? What the fuck?!" he cried. I silenced him with a final punch. "You wait here." I groan, walking over to his friend, who was tied to a chair.

I pull up a chair and sit down in front of the guy's friend with a knife in my hand. "Now… the girls. Are they alive?" I ask, looking at him straight in the eyes. "What girls? I don't know no girls!" he says.

I roll my eyes and stab the guy in the knee as far as I could, getting him to scream. "Fuck!" he shouts, doubling over. "Focus right here. Right here." I say, slapping him under the chin to make him look at me, "Or I'll pop your goddamn knee off. The girls."

He tries to calm down. "Those girls are alive. They're David's newest pets." he answered. "Where?" I snarl in his ear. I twist the knife deeper into his knee; he screams in pain. He was going to tell me where Ellie and Enid were. It doesn't matter what the hell I have to do but I'm gonna get the answers that I'm looking for.

"In the town! In the town." he answers. I pull the knife out of his knee and put it in his mouth by the handle. I take out a map and hold it up to him.

"Now mark it on the map. And it better be the exact same spot that your buddy points to. Mark it." I say. He nods with wide eyes. He marks a spot with the knife and spits it on the floor.

"Right there! You can verify it. Go ask him!" the guy says. I stand up and walk around him. "He'll tell you. I ain't lyin'. I ain't lyin'." he said. I grab him by the neck and strangle him before snapping his neck.

I then walk over to his friend while picking up a pipe. "Fuck you, man! He told you what you wanted! I'm not telling you shit!" his friend says, backing up. I then tower over him.

"That's alright. I believe him." I say. I then swing the pipe and hit him in the face, ultimately caving his skull in so that it killed him.