I was thinking about doing random chapters of Ellie and Joel living in the Community in Jackson, I'm not sure how many chapters I will do but there will be random stories. There will be different events and holidays they may celebrate has a community, but be warned people who are sensitive... there maybe horror in some chapters.

I thought I'd begin where Ellie and Joel arrive at the Jackson Community, then we can venture through the years until the present day game. I finished the game now, it was a different. If anyone would like to discuss the game my dms are open.

Does anyone know the date and month Ellie was born? The year would have been either 2018 or 2019, people have said April and others have said July or August time. I wanted to do a chapter based after Ellie's birthday gift from Joel. There's actually parts in this that are true with a woman called Esther, I thought it would be funny to put it in this chapter so Ellie could wind him up about it.

-The Last Of Us is owned by Naughty Dog/ Sony Computer Entertainment

-Some of the parts of this fanfiction are in the game, other parts aren't in the game.

-Spoilers may happen.

Snowflake Warning

-Ellie grew up in a world of monsters, TLOU isn't about butterflies and rainbows... it's horror.

-If you're playing the game I know, I know the story has thrown heartbreak at us. I'll give us some happy times.

-Sensitive material, Ellie likes girls... get over it!

Keep safe and enjoy!

Chapter 5!

Summertime - 2034

Six weeks had passed since Joel had started teaching Ellie how to swim, he had taken her outside of The Jackson Community every Sunday since then. She had improved a lot in her swimming lessons, she had even gained the confidence to use the rope swing over the pond at the nature trail inside The Jackson Community.

Dina had been giving Ellie extra swimming seasons and Cat had been giving some sketching tips to Ellie about how to draw horse's legs, she had gained herself a good group of friends. Even Jesse was fun to speak to when they worked in the crop fields, he always had gossip to tell them about the local community which he always heard from his Mother.

Sunday had now become the day where Ellie and Joel spent the whole day together, but today was going to be different. Joel had told Ellie that they weren't going outside of The Jackson Community today, he had a early birthday surprise he wanted to show her. Ellie normally ended up playing the guessing game with him, she played the guessing game while they ate breakfast and she had guessed it all wrong so far. Joel had told her that she wouldn't guess it right since it wasn't about dinosaurs or movie nights, he told her it was something she would find useful in the future.

Ellie was sitting on the chair on the back porch, she had spent the day with Joel as normal. They had been to visit Maria and Tommy, then they had gone for lunch at the Tipsy Bison Bar. It had been a good day so far, but now Joel was going to show Ellie her early birthday surprise.

It was getting dark, but the night was warm and the moon was full tonight. The stars were beginning to come out, she looked up at the sky and smiled to herself. Joel had found her a telescope on one of his patrols, she was thrilled when he had given it to her. She had been learning about the constellations and searching for spaceships, Joel had joked about her being beamed up at some point by the extraterrestrials. But she didn't care, she wanted to visit space someday.

" Hurry up Joel..." Ellie muttered.

Ellie had been waiting for Joel for over ten minutes now, she was about to go and see what he was doing until he reappeared with a blind fold. Joel told her she needed to put the blind fold on first, she didn't argue with him since he seemed to be in a really good mood. He covered Ellie's eyes up with the blind fold and carefully tied it, she told him to be careful with her hair since she was trying to grow it a few more inches before Maria cut it for her.

" This better not be a trick." Ellie said.

" You know I wouldn't trick you, I swear it's a good surprise." Joel replied.

" I know where you live old man, just remember that." Ellie said.

" Alright, are you ready?" Joel asked.

Ellie nodded her head while she was lead forward by Joel, she had no idea what was going on but she was secretly excited about it deep down inside. Joel guided her down the back porches steps and told her to keep on walking, she then heard a door open when he told her to stop. Joel guided her forward and she held hands out in front of her while she walked just in case she bumped into anything that was breakable, he stopped her after a few steps. She heard the room's door close and everything went quiet, he then told her to keep her blind fold on until he told her to remove it.

" Where are we?" Ellie asked.

" You're see, just keep your blind fold on." Joel replied.

" Okay." Ellie sighed.

Ellie could hear a tickling sound of a clock and she could smell sawdust, she then heard Joel's heavy footsteps walking across the room. She heard a switch flick and a chair move, Joel then told her to remove the blind fold. She licked her lips before she pulled the blind fold away from her eyes, she covered up her mouth with her hands and quickly stomped her feet on the floor with excitement. There was a banner above a desk with the words " Happy Birthday Ellie!" written on it and some colourful paper chains were hanging from the ceiling, the room was lit up with fairy lights. Joel told her it was her early birthday gift, he also told her that it was about time that she had her own little space.

" Oh my god!" Ellie said with a smile. " Joel!"

They were standing in the unused garage in the backyard, but it wasn't the dirty spider riddled garage anymore. There was a bed, a television unit with a game console and a pile of video games on it. She could see a lava lamp and a couch with cushion on it, it was like a little apartment.

Ellie was speechless for once, she didn't know what to say. She hurried over the desk and checked out the art supplies, she turned around on the spot to see the layout. She pointed over at the bathroom and gasped when she saw a little kitchen area, there was so much for her to see. She ran over to the couch and jumped onto it, she was excited about her new space that Joel had arranged for her in the garage.

" What do you think?" Joel asked.

" This is so fucking awesome!" Ellie replied while she sat up on the couch. " Did you do all of this?"

" I got a little bit of help from Tommy and Maria, but it was mostly me." Joel replied, he sat down next to her on the couch. " I thought it was time for you to have your own space, you know since you'll be turning sixteen soon. Some independents would do you good, I can't expect you to live with me forever."

" Wait, are you kicking me out of the house?" Ellie asked.

" Nope, you're always welcome in my home." Joel replied with a smile. " But I need to fix the plumbing and connect the water mains to my house yet, it should be finished soon. You don't have to move in right away, that choice is down to you."

" This is the nicest thing anyone as ever done for me." Ellie said.

" Did I do good?" Joel asked.

" You did good, thank you." Ellie replied.

" You're welcome, kiddo." Joel said.

" So, movie night at your place?" Ellie asked.

" That's the plan, it's your choice to choose the movie tonight." Joel replied. " Nothing too girly."

" Fuck that!" Ellie said with a smile. " I'm not a chick flick kind of girl, give me fantasy or action movies any day of the week!"

" Alright, we've got a deal." Joel smiled.

Ellie smiled at Joel and playfully hit his arm with a cushion, Joel told her he would give her some time to look around her new place while he went to tidy up the kitchen. Ellie told him she wouldn't be long as he left the garage, she got up from the couch and checked out the rest of her new room. It was like an apartment, it was just the right size for her and when she had moved all of her stuff into the garage it would be more homely.

After awhile Ellie left her garage apartment and headed back to Joel's house, it was now pitch black outside. She opened the back door of the house and closed the door behind her, she could hear Joel putting some plates away in the kitchen. She took her sneakers off and placed them on the shoe rack, she then heard Joel call her name from the kitchen.

" Is that you Ellie?" Joel asked.

" Yeah its me, who were you expecting?" Ellie replied, she smirked slightly to herself. " Esther by any chance?"

" Hey! Have you been talking to Tommy?" Joel asked.

" Yep, he told me about the matchmaking thing." Ellie replied with a chuckle. " She seems alright from what Tommy told me, you could do with the company... you know since you're getting old."

" Tommy shouldn't be discussing stuff like that with you..." Joel said.

" We're all grownups here Joel, I heard she's got a great sense of humour!" Ellie said.

Ellie giggled when she heard Joel grumbling from the kitchen, he really didn't like Tommy trying to pair him off with women in the community. She walked to the kitchen and put the dish of the leftover tomato sauce spaghetti into the fridge, Maria had made them something for their dinner tonight. Joel was drying the dishes by the sink, he told Ellie to wipe down the kitchen counters and grab the tin of sugar cookies from the cupboard for movie night.

Ellie did as her told and did a quick clean down of the kitchen counters before she took the tin of sugar cookies from the cupboard, she then walked to the living room. She loved watching movies with Joel even though he liked all the cheesy 80s movies, but they were pretty cool. He liked action movies mostly, his taste in movies had rubbed off on Ellie now since she enjoyed watching them too.

Placing the tin of sugar cookies down on the coffee table she headed over to the bookcase, she ran her finger tip along the DVD collection until she saw one movie she had been dying to see for ages since she had borrowed the copy from Cat. She took the DVD from the bookcase's shelf as Joel walked into the living room, she showed him the case while she climbed over the back of the couch and sat down next to him.

The couch bounced slightly which caused Joel to knocked some of the popcorn onto Ellie's lap, she quickly picked it up and stuffed it into her mouth. She hated wasting food, when she had first arrived in Jackson she use to hoard beef jerky in her pockets and gorge herself with food until she was ready to explode.

" Hey Joel, have you seen E.T before?" Ellie asked.

" Yeah, more than once." Joel replied.

" I borrowed it from Cat, she said I would like it since it's about little green men and space related stuff." Ellie said.

" It's been a while since I've watched it, but kids loved it back in the day." Joel said.

" You're so old Joel." Ellie smiled.

" Don't I know it." Joel chuckled.

Joel told Ellie to put the movie on while he closed the curtains since it was getting late, she did what he asked while he closed the living room's curtains. They always watched movies when it was dark, it felt like they were at the cinema. They had visited The Jackson Community's cinema more than once since they had settled down in the community, they always showed horror movies on Friday nights and sometimes they had kid movies on in the daytime. They both settled down on the couch and tucked into their flavourless popcorn, the movie soon began. It was moments like these that Ellie would treasure someday, she just didn't know it yet.