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.

I'm going to start this chapter after The Birthday Gift, I wanted to explore more into what happened after they left the museum and if the atmosphere was different when they camped out that before they returned back to The Jackson Community. Also I had an idea for a fanfiction with an oc character, so I thought I would involve her in this story to see what people think of her. I'm unsure if it will be a romance since I would like to see Joel happy, it's work in progress.

-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!

Thank you for all the Faves, Alerts and Reviews.

Keep safe and enjoy!

Chapter 6!

The second birthday gift Joel had given to Ellie had topped her new garage apartment, she couldn't believe he had taken her to a Dinosaur Exhibit. She wasn't expecting anything like this to have survived the apocalyptic world, it was the best day ever. She had jumped from the big model Tyrannosaurus into the pool of water below it, Joel hadn't been too pleased about that little dive bomb incident even though Ellie thought it was cool.

They had explored the exhibition together, Ellie played a silly game by putting hats on dinosaur's heads and she even got the chance to make fun of Joel because he was old. Joel showed off a little bit with some dinosaur knowledge from some movie he had seen decades ago. Ellie wanted to see that movie when they returned to Jackson, but other than that she enjoyed seeing the old dinosaur skeletons and the other artifacts that were still at the museum.

The part that Ellie enjoyed the most was The Space Exhibit, it blew her mind. She could hardly contain her excitement when she got a glimpse of the rotating solar system, Joel had outdone himself. Especially with the Space Shuttle and the cassette tape recording of the Apollo 11 blasting off, she loved how he had written happy birthday on the cassette tape with love Joel written after it.

They had left the Space Exhibition through a side door and discovered another part of the museum, they had to dive bomb from a great height to reach it. Ellie had gotten into the building with a leg up from Joel, but the main entrance was blocked inside the building. She had no choice but the venture on alone while Joel searched for a way in from the outside, the building was dark and creepy.

It turned out to be a Natural History Center, there were stuffed Mooses, Owls and Wolves. She used her torch to light her way through the building, but she soon heard a crashing sound and some weird noises coming from around the abandoned museum, it didn't sound human. She didn't have many bullets for her pistol, but she had managed to find some supplies to make an alcohol bottle bomb. She had seen messages written on the walls in different parts of the museum and found a human skeleton, the person had gone mad from what she had read in a letter the person must have wrote before he had killed himself.

The building seemed to get more darker as Ellie ventured forward, she heard the weird sounds once again. She stumbled upon a pack of stuffed Wolves which scared the shit out of her, their eyes shone when her torch made contact with them. She took a deep breath before she jumped over a wall, but without any warning she was knocked to the floor by some unknown beast. She managed to get a glimpse of it, it looked like a Wild Boar. She got to her feet and stumbled forward, that's when she saw a familiar symbol painted on the wall.

Ellie stared at the Fireflies symbol on the wall, it seemed like whoever had painted it here in this unexplored part of the museum had a grudge against them or they knew something she didn't know. She felt the happiness she had felt earlier draining from her body, her stomach felt unsettled and she just wanted to get out of here. She heard Joel banging against the door, it wasn't long until the doors flung open and Joel barged into the room. He hurried over to Ellie and asked her if she was okay, but he soon went silent when he saw the Fireflies symbol of the wall. He told Ellie they should leave this place and setup camp before it got dark, she wasn't going to argue with him after what she had just seen.

They left the Natural History Center and made there way back to where they had left their horses, Ellie packed up her guitar before she mounted Shimmer. She remained quiet as she rode behind Joel, her mind was full of questions and thoughts about the word lair written beneath the Fireflies symbol. She had no idea what it meant, all she knew about the Fireflies was what she had been told by Marlene and Riley. Even Joel had told her they were studying to find the cure and that there was dozens of immune people out there, the Fireflies couldn't be lairs since they were trying to find a cure for humanity.

They kept on going until they reached an abandoned town not that far from The Jackson Community, the streets were overgrown with plants and most of the buildings were falling apart. It was getting dark now, they needed to get off the streets in case any unwanted company was lurking in this town.

Joel told Ellie that there was a garage in this town that they used to shelter in when they were out on patrols, he had stayed there more than once with Tommy. Ellie hadn't been out on patrols yet, she had been helping in the crop fields and also Maria had been showing her how to repair the outer walls of the community. But she was hoping at some point to start training for patrols with Jesse, they had made a packed to be patrol buddies one day.

Joel stopped his horse outside of a building, he told Ellie this was the place as he dismounted his horse. There was a sign over the garage still, it was called Willie's Place. She sniggered to herself as she dismounted Shimmer, she found the name of the garage amusing. She held onto Shimmer's reins and waited for Joel to open the garage's door. He unlocked the garage's door with a key and he opened it up, Joel's horse Priya walked through the doorway by herself and Ellie lead Shimmer inside the garage. It was dark inside the building, but as soon as Joel closed the garage's door he lit two oil lamps which brightened up the room just a little bit.

There was a box of supplies and some hay for the horses, Tommy had made sure that this shelter was stocked at all times. Shimmer and Priya immediately made their way over to the pile of hay, Ellie took her backpack off and leaned her guitar against the wall near a chair to keep it safe. Joel was going to cook supper tonight with the aid of his trusty camping stove, he had brought some steak sandwiches and some homemade soup for them from Jackson.

Ellie was looking forward to a good meal, she was so hungry right now. She watched Joel stirring the saucepan of soup while she set out a little table for them on an overturned wooden crate, she had taken two metal camping mugs and plates from Joel's bag for their soup. It wasn't long until their supper was done, Joel carefully poured the soup into the camping mugs and Ellie unwrapped the steak sandwiches. She placed the sandwiches between them and she helped herself to one of them, Joel sat across from her at the makeshift table while he spoke to Ellie about the museum.

" So, what was your favourite part in the museum?" Joel asked.

" The Space Exhibition, it was out of this world!" Ellie replied, she smirked for a moment before she took a bite of her sandwich. " Do you want to know what the oldest dinosaur fossil was in that museum?"

" I don't know, what was the oldest dinosaur fossil in the museum?" Joel asked.

" You!" Ellie laughed.

" I walked straight into that one, huh?" Joel asked.

" You did." Ellie replied.

" Dammit..." Joel chuckled.

" But other than that the whole day was amazing, I loved every moment of it." Ellie said with a smile. " You're the best, thank you."

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

They both tucked into their supper and spoke about everything they had seen today, but Ellie didn't mention anything about the Fireflies to Joel. She didn't want to ruin the mood, she planned to speak to him more about it when they returned to The Jackson Community. Ellie pulled her sandwich apart and dipped some of it into her mug of soup, she told Joel that she liked the way the soup made the steak taste.

They finished their supper and Joel rolled out his sleeping bag for the night, Ellie said she would sort out the dirty plates. She cleaned the mugs out with some water and dried them with a rag, next she put the plates back into Joel's backpack. She wrapped the leftover steak sandwiches up and left them on the crate, she was about to pick up her guitar when she heard some weird sounds coming from outside of the garage.

" What was that?" Ellie asked.

" I don't know, it sounds like Clickers." Joel replied.

Ellie peered through the door's window, she could see two Clickers venturing into what looked like an old abandoned Coffee Store just a few buildings down from the garage. Joel told her to get away from the window, but she hushed him and jumped when she heard some gunshots. Joel joined her side and looked through the window with her, they heard a woman's screams for help coming from the building not far away from them. Ellie went to unlock the door while she pulled her pistol from the back of her jeans, but Joel told her not to be too hasty.

" Dude, we can't just let her die!" Ellie frowned.

" Dammit Ellie, just do has I say!" Joel said.

" Fuck you!" Ellie said.

Ellie unlocked the door and opened it wide, but Joel tried to stop her by closing the door slightly. She managed to duck beneath his arm and squeeze through the gap in the doorway, she then hurried along the street towards the Coffee Store. She heard Joel yelling her name, she glanced over her shoulder while she ran and she saw Joel chasing after her with his shotgun.

Ellie heard another gunshot being fired as she entered the store, she found a Clicker's lifeless body hanging through a dividing window and the doorway to the kitchen was hanging off it's hinges. Ellie switched her torch on and slowly walked towards the doorway, she heard a woman calling for help again.

There a lot of noise coming from the kitchen, Ellie hurried through the doorway and saw a Clicker attacking a woman. She aimed her pistol towards the Clicker and fired five shots at it, it fell dead at the woman's feet. Joel entered the kitchen and aimed his shotgun at the woman, but he lowered it when he saw that she was unarmed.

Joel spoke to the woman and told her that she was safe now, he then asked her if she had been bitten. The woman told him no while Joel slowly approached her, he then told Ellie to help him when the woman told them that was stuck on something. Ellie watched Joel wrapped his arms around the woman's waist, he tried to pull her away from the wall but she screamed out in pain.

" What the fuck did you just do Joel?!" Ellie asked.

" She stuck on something, help me out..." Joel replied.

Ellie hurried over to the woman and tucked her pistol into the back of her jeans, she moved her hand behind the woman's back while she shone her torch behind her. She ran her hand over the woman's shoulder, she could see something metal digging onto the top of woman's right shoulder. Something warm was tickling down her back, it seemed like the wound was bleeding quite badly. She told Joel that a thin metal pipe must have pierced the woman's back when the Clicker had attacked her, they were going to have to be careful pulling her off the pipe.

" What's your name?" Joel asked.

" Lucy..." The woman replied.

" I'm Joel and this is Ellie." Joel said. " We'll get you out of here, I promise."

Joel supported Lucy while he spoke to her, he explained to her that they were going to have to pull her off the pipe to free her. Lucy seemed hesitant to answer Joel at first, but she soon nodded her head at him and agreed to allow him to do whatever he had to do to free her.

Ellie wiped her bloody hand on the back of her jeans, she felt sorry for Lucy. Joel was telling her to breath through her nose and exile threw her mouth, he wanted her to take deep breaths. Ellie told her to breath like she was taking a bad shit, Joel told Ellie that she wasn't helping.

" I'm not gonna to lie, this is going to hurt." Joel said.

" I know..." Lucy said.

" Good to know we're on the same wavelength." Joel said while he beckoned Ellie to move the Clicker. " Just brace yourself, that's all I'm going to say."

Ellie grabbed hold of the Clicker's legs and pulled it away from Lucy while Joel helped her take her backpack off, he placed it on the floor near the counter. Ellie soon returned and watched Joel cup his arms underneath Lucy's arms, he was going to have to yank her off the pipe. Ellie winced as Joel pulled Lucy from the metal pipe, she scream out in pain before she collapsed onto him. He told Ellie to grab Lucy's backpack while he scooped her up into his arms, they needed to get out of here in case anyone heard them. She did what he asked, she grabbed the backpack and picked a pistol up from the floor as she followed after Joel.

They hurried out the Coffee Store and headed back towards the garage, Ellie kept her guard up just in case there was anymore Infected in the neighbourhood. She opened the garage's door for them when they got to the shelter, Joel carried Lucy inside and Ellie locked the door behind them. Joel laid Lucy down on his sleeping bad, he told Ellie to get his medical kit from Priya's satchel.

Ellie placed Lucy's backpack and pistol by a chair, she then hurried to get the medical kit. She patted Priya's neck before she got what Joel needed from the satchel, Shimmer nudge Ellie's shoulder to try and get some attention from her owner. She itched behind Shimmer's ear before she hurried over to Joel, she gave him the box and knelt on the other side of Lucy.

" Do you see any bite marks?" Ellie asked.

" Nope, she's clean." Joel replied.

" Will she be okay?" Ellie asked.

" Maybe, her wound doesn't seem too deep." Joel replied.

Ellie chewed at her bottom lip as she watched Joel removing Lucy's checked shirt before he checked her wound, he seemed to know what he was doing. He rolled Lucy onto her left side and put pressure on the wound, he asked Ellie to get Lucy something to drink.

Ellie grabbed Joel's water bottle and told Lucy to take little sips of water, she even feed Lucy some of their leftover sandwiches. Ellie spoke to Lucy about anything while Joel began to stitch up her wound, she found out that Lucy's favourite colour was yellow and she loved apples. After awhile Lucy passed out, the woman was dreadful pale with dark circles underneath her eyes.

" I've got this, why don't you go and get some sleep." Joel said.

" Okay, just wake me if you need any help." Ellie said.

Ellie left Joel to clean and dress Lucy's wound, she rolled out her sleeping bag before she grabbed Lucy's backpack. She unzipped the bag and rummaged through Lucy's belongings, she was checking the contents of the bag just in case this unknown woman was sinister.

There wasn't much in Lucy's backpack, there was some folded up clothes and a can of beans. A box of bullets, some women's products and some energy bars. She did stumble across a small photo album and a driving licence, it had expired back in 2015. Ellie looked over at Lucy and watched Joel dressing her wound, the woman must have been living rough for years by the looks of it.

Taking the photo album from the backpack Ellie couldn't help but have a quick look through it, there was loads of pictures of Lucy with a blonde haired girl. She checked out the birth date on the driving licence, Lucy had been born in July 1991. That made her around forty-four years old, she was pretty old like Joel. Ellie was surprised to find out that Lucy was born in Boston, she was from the same city where Ellie had been born.

Ellie continued to look through the photo album, Lucy must have been in her early twenties when the apocalyptic times had began. Lucy had long brown hair, she was tall with blue eyes and a curvy figure. Lucy was quite pretty in some of the pictures, they looked like holiday snaps. There was a sign saying Rhode Island in one of the pictures, it looked like a beautiful place to visit before the world changed.

The blonde haired girl must have been her friend or maybe her Sister since there was written messages underneath some of the pictures, it made Ellie wonder what had happened to Lucy's female companion.

" What are you looking at?" Joel asked, he sat down next to Ellie. " Anything interesting?"

" Just some pictures from Lucy's backpack, she's was born in Boston like me." Ellie said, she showed him Lucy's driving licence. " She's a few years younger than you, not like dinosaur old but it seems like she's getting there."

" Hey, enough with the old jokes." Joel smiled.

" They're never going to stop, you know because they're funny." Ellie said.

Joel shook his head at Ellie, she gave him a smile and continued to look through the photo album. Joel pointed out that he had visited Rhode Island with Tommy and his parents when he was young, it had been a family vacation. Ellie had never been on a vacation before, she often wondered what it would be like to swim in the ocean and lounge on the beach while sipping fruity cocktails.

Ellie turned a page in the photo album and covered up one of the pictures with her hand, she told Joel that he may have an heart attack if he saw some bikini clad babes. He rolled his eyes at her, but he told her he needed to speak with her about what happened earlier. Ellie had scared Joel when she had ran off to rescue Lucy, he didn't want anything to happen to Ellie since she was like a Daughter to him.

" Ellie we need to talk about what you did, it was reckless." Joel said.

" I couldn't just let her die, we're meant to be helping people..." Ellie said while she looked over at Lucy. " She seems nice enough, we should take her back to Jackson with us. Tommy and Maria will find a place for her to stay, she may also need medical care."

" You're right, but running off like that... you had me worried." Joel said.

Ellie sighed to herself and closed the photo album, she knew what she had done was reckless but Joel sometimes treated her like a child. She told Joel that she was sorry and that it wouldn't happen again, Joel told her to forget about it since she was now safe.

They sat together in silence before Ellie began to put everything that she had taken from Lucy's backpack back into it, Joel told Ellie that he would take the first watch while she got some sleep. She told him okay while she zipped the backpack up, she lay down on her sleeping bag and put her hands behind her head while she looked up at the ceiling. She wasn't tired yet, but she closed her eyes anyway and listened to the horses chewing at their hay until she dozed off.