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.
-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.
-I wanted to explore Ellie's friendship with Tommy and Jesse.
- Sorry for the late update, I've been busy - Also the website has been acting up over the weekend.
-There will be a part in this chapter where I mention an event that is actually a fanfction I wrote called Farm House.
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 12!
Ellie and Jesse left the abandoned house, they continued to search the perimeter for Tommy. They checked outside of the hole in the wall and found broken glass, some of the glass looked liked it had been crushed underfoot. There was also some bloody footprints, they had to belong to Tommy since they were the only patrol group in this area unless there were Hunters around these parts. They looked along the street and ventured forward, their riffles aimed ahead of them just in case they needed to act fast.
The street was quiet, too quiet for Ellie's liking. They followed the bloody trail halfway down the street and stopped outside of a building, the gate to the front yard was wide open. Jesse noticed some bloody drag marks leading towards the steps outside of a house, he crouched next to them and pointed out some trotter prints. He said it looked like Wild Boar tracks, but there was still no sign of Tommy. Ellie joined his side while she stared at the building, it's windows were boarded up and part of the roof was missing. She had no idea why Tommy would have left the house they were exploring without telling them, it was all very odd.
" Do you think Tommy was hunting it?" Ellie asked.
" I don't know, we didn't hear any gunshots." Jesse replied, he got to his feet. " May be he stumbled across an injured Boar or something, it would have been an easy hunting target."
" We should check out that house." Ellie said while she pointed towards the building. " Tommy could be inside of it, he could be injured for all we know."
" Okay, we'll do a quick sweep of the house." Jesse said.
Jesse led the way and Ellie stayed close behind him, they walked up the building's stone pathway together. They stopped when they found bloody hand prints on the front door of the house, they looked fresh. Ellie noticed part of the porches banisters was missing, there was also broken wood everywhere. Ellie moved forward and looked down the alleyway that ran along the side of the house, she soon called for Jesse when she saw a carcass of a Boar halfway down the alleyway.
" It looks fresh, keep your guard up..." Jesse said.
" You too." Ellie said.
Ellie and Jesse walked back to back down the alleyway, by doing this both entrances were covered. They checked out the Boar carcass when they reached it, there was so much blood and the whole alleyway smelt of rotting flesh. The poor Boar's insides were hanging out from a massive gash across it's stomach, it looked like someone had torn it apart with their bare hands.
Jesse poked the carcass with his riffle, he was surprised to find part of an arm underneath it. The arm wasn't fresh though, it looked like an Infected person's arm. They carried on walking down the alleyway and soon they stumbled upon more bloody footprints, Jesse told Ellie that they were fresh. But there was more than one set of footprints, it looked like someone had been running.
" Do you think Tommy came through this way?" Ellie asked.
" Maybe, let's keep moving." Jesse replied.
Jesse walked ahead of Ellie, but he soon stopped dead in his tracks and pulled Ellie behind a wooden paneled fence. They peered through a hole in the fence and they saw about six Runners in the street ahead of them, they were feasting on something in the middle of the road. Jesse took some binoculars from his backpack and looked through them, he told Ellie that he could see the Runners feeding on another Boar carcass.
" Wait, I see something else!" Jesse said.
Jesse told Ellie that he could see someone hiding up a tree near the Runners, he told her that the person looked like Tommy. She took the binoculars from him and took a look for herself, he was right. Tommy was hiding up a tree, he looked in good health from what Ellie could make out. His riffle was aimed directly at the Runners below the tree, one of the Runners tried to climb the tree but Tommy soon shot it dead. The riffle shots soon alerted two Infected people to his location, this wasn't going to end well for him if he kept firing his riffle.
" Shit, we need to distract them!" Ellie said.
" I've got this, cover me..." Jesse said.
" What are you planning to do?" Ellie asked.
" Trust me, okay?" Jesse replied.
" Jesse..." Ellie said.
" Stay here." Jesse said.
Jesse soon left their hiding place and whistled at the Runners, he waved his arms around at them which soon caught their attention. Ellie soon heard Tommy yelling at Jesse, he was telling him to run. Jesse sprinted across the backyard and jumped over a fence, four of the Runners soon were chasing after him. Ellie put the binoculars away in her backpack, she mumbled to herself while she emerged from her hiding place with her riffle in her hands.
" Fucking idiot!" Ellie muttered.
Ellie aimed her riffle at a Runner that was still snarling at the bottom of the tree, she closed one of her eyes and took a deep breath before she shot at it. She managed to shoot it right in the back of it's head and it's brains splattered across the ground, she was getting really good with riffles since she took up patrol training. Tommy opened fire and shot at the other Runner, he fired three rounds at it and the Runner dropped dead at the bottom of the tree.
Tommy waved at Ellie before he began to climb down the tree, he reached the bottom of it and hurried towards Ellie. She lowered her riffle with a sigh of relief, but without any warnings a Runner appeared from nowhere. It was heading towards Tommy, she yelled at Tommy before the Runner rugby tackled Tommy to the ground. He hit the ground hard and grunted, he then began to fight the Runner off. He used his riffle's handle and hit it a few times in the side of it's head, but it didn't slow the Runner down.
" Tommy!" Ellie yelled.
Ellie fired a few shots at the Runner, she managed to shoot it in the head before Jesse reappeared from the direction Tommy had run from not long along. He kicked it's body off the top of Tommy and helped Tommy to his feet, they then hurried towards the alleyway in case anymore of the Infected were coming. Ellie was already running back down the alleyway, she soon came out onto the street they had been exploring earlier before they had found Tommy. She looked over at the abandon house they had ready explored earlier, she could hear distance Infected screams coming their way. They needed to get off the street, that's when she began running toward the house with Tommy and Jesse not far behind her.
" Head for the basement!" Tommy yelled.
Tommy and Jesse over took Ellie, they entered the house first. Ellie closed the front door behind them while her friends hurried towards the basement of the house, she pulled a small cabinet in front of the door before she followed after them. She could now hear the screams outside of the house, it wasn't long until she heard something being thrown through the dining room's window. She closed the door to the dining room and hurried along the hallway, she heard something throwing it's self against the closed door.
" Ellie, keep moving!" Tommy yelled.
Ellie looked back and saw a Runner crashing through the door of the dining room, she stopped for a moment and aimed her riffle at it. She fired a few shots at it and she managed to slowed it down, she then hurried forward. She soon heard banging at the barricaded front door, she hurried along the hallway and headed towards the basement's doorway in the hallway. Tommy immediately closed the door behind Ellie and reached for the bolt of the door, the door began to shake when one of the Infected began to bang at the door with it's fists.
" Keep going!" Tommy said while he bolted the door shut. "I'll be right behind you!"
" Tommy..." Ellie said.
" Keep going, Ellie!" Jesse said.
Ellie didn't want to leave Tommy behind, but Jesse grabbed hold of her arm and hurried her down the staircase. They passed through another doorway when they reached the bottom of the staircase, they entered the basement and waited for Tommy. They looked around the basement, it was dark and damp. Tommy soon joined them and closed the other door at the bottom of the staircase, he then bolted the door shut. He told them they should be safe as along as they didn't make any sounds, but Ellie knew that the Infected wouldn't leave a place when they knew people were around.
" Help me move these crates in front of the door!" Tommy said.
Ellie and Jesse helped Tommy with the crates, they soon had the door barricaded in no time. Tommy sat down in front of one of the crates, he leaned back against it and took a few minutes to catch his breath. Ellie knelt in front of him and stared at his bloody jacket, she had no idea if the blood belonged to him or something else. She placed her riffle down on the floor and took her backpack off, she then took a little first aid box from her bag.
" Are you hurt?" Ellie asked, she opened the first aid box and grabbed hold of one of his hands before she checked them for wounds. " That's a lot of blood on your jacket, does any of it belong to you?"
" I'm fine, it's just Wild Boar blood..." Tommy replied.
" You scared the shit out of me!" Ellie sighed.
" It will take more than a Runner to finish me off, I'm tough has old boots." Tommy said.
" What we're you doing out there?" Ellie asked, she let go of his hands. " You should have told us where you were going, you had us worried!"
" The Boar was injured, I wanted to put it out of it's misery.' Tommy replied.
" Dude, you could have been killed!" Ellie said.
" I know, I know..." Tommy sighed.
" Hey guys, do you hear that?" Jesse asked.
Ellie and Tommy looked up at the ceiling, they could hear footsteps above them. Dust fell from the ceiling above them, Ellie covered up her nose with her hoody's sleeve before sneezed loudly. Jesse sat down on a small wooden crate and aimed his riffle towards the barricaded door, he was ready in case any of the Infected got down into the basement. They could hear them moving around above them, Tommy told them that the kitchen was right above the basement.
" Do you think there's another way out of here?" Jesse asked.
" Nope, I already checked the basement out before I went after that Boar." Tommy replied. " We're trapped like sardines down here, let's hope that herd of Infected moves on in the next few hours."
Ellie got to her feet and told Tommy that she could easily fit through one of the basement windows, she told them she could head back to the community to get them some help. But Tommy told her that would be risky with the Infected moving around in this area, he didn't want Ellie to risk her life for them. Ellie agreed with him, the riffle shots probably had drawn most of them to this area. She sighed to herself and sat down next to Tommy, they could be stuck down here for hours or days at this rate. But her thoughts soon turned to the safety of their horses, they were trapped in the garage with no way out.
" I hope Shimmer and the other horses are okay." Ellie said.
" They should be fine, I made sure the garage was secure before we left them." Jesse said.
" Good, thanks Jesse." Ellie said.
Jesse, Ellie and Tommy listened to the shuffling footsteps above them. They had no idea how many Infected were up there, the odd scream and moan could be heard from the kitchen above them. Tommy told them he reckoned that there was about six Runners upstairs, he said that he could tell by their footsteps. Jesse questioned Tommy about it while Ellie stared at the basement's window, it hadn't been the first time she had been trapped in a basement. She must have zoned out for a few minutes until she heard Jesse's voice, she snapped out of her thoughts and looked over at her friend.
" Are you okay Ellie?" Jesse asked.
" Yeah, I'm good." Ellie replied.
" Penny for your thoughts?" Tommy asked.
" I was just thinking about the last time I had to hide in a basement." Ellie replied.
" What happened?" Jesse asked.
" Me and Joel had to hide in a farm house's basement once, it happened while we were travelling to The Jackson Community." Ellie replied while she looked up at the ceiling and pulled her knees to her chest. " There was storm, we thought we'd take shelter in an abandoned farm house until it passed. But unknown to us there was a child killer living in that house, he was a strange character. Nothing but a monster!"
" What happened to the guy?" Jesse asked.
" Joel took care of him, you know after I got into trouble. " Ellie replied with a slight smile. " I'd rather have a serial killer any day of the week than a herd of the Infected, at least they're easy to take down."
" I remember Joel telling me about that incident, it sounded nasty." Tommy said, he rested his hand on her arm. " I'm glad Joel killed that asshole."
" Me too, he probably saved many kids lives that day." Ellie said.
Jesse commented on Ellie's story, he had no idea how much Ellie and Joel had been through before they settled down in The Jackson Community. They sat and spoke quietly together about anything that came to their minds, the hours were passing and the Infected seemed to still be moving around in the kitchen above them. Ellie got to her feet and explored the basement, it was mostly junk in this basement. There were old crates of family items and canned goods, they were decades old from what Ellie could tell.
" It's getting dark." Jesse said." The other patrol groups will come looking for us when they realise we haven't returned to Jackson."
" You're right, this is kind of embarrassing." Tommy said.
" The almighty Tommy as fallen." Jeese said with smile. " However will you live this down?"
" With a pinch of salt and a bottle of Brandy." Tommy replied.
Ellie smiled slightly while she looked over at Tommy, his humour was refreshing even though they were trapped in this damn basement. She looked over at one of the windows in the basement, she had already checked them and they were sealed shut from the outside which was weird. Someone had sealed them shut with nails, there was no way out of here just yet. Ellie kept exploring the basement until Jesse and Tommy mentioned food, her stomach couldn't help but rumble loudly at the thoughts of food.
" There's some food and water in my backpack." Tommy said. " We should eat something to keep our strength up."
" I have a bottle water and some sandwiches in my backpack, may be a flask full of cold soup." Ellie said while she joined them on the other side of the basement. " Joel made me a packed lunch this morning, he insisted... I'm glad I yes to him now."
" I've got some fruit, but it's in my horses satchel." Jesse said.
" Alright, it seems like we've got enough food and water until morning." Tommy said.
Ellie knelt next to Tommy and opened her backpack, she took the sandwich box from it. She pulled the lid back on the tub and the smell of steak wafted from the box, there was about six sandwiches inside of the box. She also took the flask of cold soup from her backpack and her drinking canister, Joel always told her to be prepared for anything out on patrols. Jesse didn't have any food in his backpack but he did have a torch and two boxes of riffle bullets, they had bullets which was a bonus if any of the Infected managed to find their way into the basement.
Tommy found them some empty jam jars to use for the soup, Ellie poured them an equal share of the soup. They sat together on the other side of the basement with their backs resting against the wall, they could keep an eye on the barricaded door from where they were sitting. Jesse placed his torch facing upwards towards the ceiling and switched it on, he told Ellie that torchlight didn't bother the Infected if any of the light shone through the kitchen's floorboards. He also mentioned that if anyone came looking for them they may notice the light from basement, he was actually onto something which was impressive.
Ellie told Jesse that it was a smart arse, he was actually flattered by her insult which amused her deeply. They sat in silence and ate their food together, it had now become quiet upstairs. Tommy had unbolted the door at the bottom of the basement and ventured up the staircase, he wanted to see if he could hear anything moving around upstairs.
Ellie had put the leftover sandwiches back in her backpack, they had saved some of the water too in case they needed in a few hours time. She sat back down with Jesse and they waited for Tommy to returned, it was now pitch black outside which worried Ellie. She knew Joel would be learning soon that they hadn't come back from their group patrol, he would be really worried about them.