(Evening)
There was a blizzard starting to brew, making the trail hard to see. Ellie and Dina had to stay inside a library after clearing out some infected.
Meanwhile, another girl was out on her own, about 20, a bit muscular with a long braid, was being chased by a whole horde.
She was trying to get around them, but was unsuccessful. She ran for her life.
However, when she got passed a fence that was caving in, she was tackled to the ground by a runner.
Joel and Enid see this and run to her aid. Joel shot the infected in the head to get it off the girl.
Enid wore a dark grey hoodie with a dark red winter coat. She had fingerless gloves.
"C'mon, gimme your hand! C'mon!" Enid shouted, pulling the girl to her feet.
"We're gonna have to run!" Joel shouted, running ahead while shooting down some infected.
Tommy was trying to shoot them down, but there was too many.
"There's too many of them!" Tommy shouted.
"This way! C'mon!" Joel cried, running through the building.
Enid followed suit and Tommy came after her. They barricaded the door to the building they were in.
Enid and Joel were looking for supplies while Tommy tried to find a way out.
"You okay?" Joel asked the girl. "Yeah," she nodded.
"Agh, where the hell are they comin' from?" Enid asked, reloading her pistol, the same pistol that she first got at fifteen in Pittsburgh.
"It don't matter. What does is where we're goin'," Joel replied to his daughter.
"I reckon we go out the back. We can make a break for the lodge," Tommy suggested, going through the back door.
"Sounds like a plan, Uncle Tommy," Enid agreed with a nod before looking at the other girl and asked, "Hey, do you got a gun on you?"
"Yeah," the girl replied. "Hope you're a good shot. You keep up with us," Joel said to her, going in the direction Tommy and Enid went through.
"We gotta warn everyone... come back with a clean up crew," Tommy said.
"Well, we gotta live through this first. Watch them windows," Joel tells them.
(Cable Car Lodge)
They make it into the lodge area. Several infected started to sneak into the building.
"Shit! They're coming!" Enid shouted to her uncle and father.
The girl grabbed an iron pipe so she could help them.
"God damn it! Those sumbitches are everywhere!" Tommy shouted.
"We gotta move!" Joel shouted, reloading his gun.
"What do we do?!" Enid cried, holding up her pistol.
"Get to the door! On the right!" Joel shouted over the overlapping screams of the infected, "Hurry, goddammit!"
They all sprinted inside a cable car lodge. Joel and Enid quickly shut the door and blocked it off with a chair.
"That door ain't gonna hold 'em for long," Tommy said, starting to look around for a way out.
"We need to hurry," Joel said, also looking for a way out.
Enid had spotted a window that would be good enough for them to crawl through.
"Hey! We can get out through that window!" Enid shouted, pointing to the window.
Joel and Tommy looked up to where she was talking about. "Good job! Here, use this!" Joel shouted, pointing to a cable car that laid in the middle of the room.
Tommy called the other girl over to help him. She rushes over to help him.
Then, the infected were starting to break through.
"They're getting inside!" Joel shouted, looking around. "We'll get the gondola to the window! You and Enid keep those infected offa me!" Tommy shouted, starting to push the gondola towards the open window.
"Okay!" Joel exclaimed. "Gotcha!" Enid replied, cocking back her gun.
The infected broke through and they started to ambush the four of them.
A runner jumped on Joel. "Dad!" Enid shouted, rushing over with her knife unsheathed.
She stabbed it in the neck and pulled it off of him. "Thanks," he said before turning around to fend off a few more.
A clicker suddenly broke through the abundance of runners.
"There's a clicker!" Joel shouted as it went for his younger brother.
He charged and he got the clicker away from Tommy.
"Uncle Tommy, hurry! I'm runnin' out of ammo!" Enid shouted, pulling out her knife again.
"I am too! Hurry!" Joel shouted, getting his shotgun out.
"Just need another minute!" Tommy shouted, still pushing the gondola towards the window.
Enid stabbed a few more to death and slashed another ones throat.
"Alright, I got it! C'mon!" Tommy shouted, climbing over. The others followed suit in a hurry. They all climb on the lowered carriage and jump out of the window.
"C'mon, go! I gotcha! Stick close to us!" Joel shouted, ushering the new girl along.
"Where are we going?" the new girl cried. "It's this way, c'mon!" Tommy shouted.
"Agh, they're everywhere!" the new girl shouted.
"Move your ass! C'mon!" Enid roared, sprinting as fast as she could.
"Head for those doors! Through here, let's go!" Tommy exclaimed, seeing an available doorway up ahead.
They all hide inside a barn. Tommy puts a large wooden bolt on the door. From the outside, the furious screams of the infected are heard.
Tommy puts a hand on the girls' shoulder. "Hey, I'm Tommy. That's Joel and his daughter, Enid. What's your name?" he asked.
"A-Abby," Abby said, now having a funny look in her eyes in when Tommy said their names.
Tommy and Enid noticed the look on her face.
"You good there?" Enid asked. Abby looked over at Enid, still having the funny look in her eye.
"Y-Yeah," Abby replied, still uneasy.
Joel looked back at the trio. "This ain't gonna hold. We gotta go back," he told them.
"We ain't gonna outrun them all the way to Jackson. We need to barricade the door," Tommy replied.
"Uncle Tommy, we can't stay here! We need to get the fuck out of here!" Enid exclaimed, heart racing in her chest from fear.
"The horses ain't makin' it all the way--" Tommy started but Abby jumped in.
"My friends! My friends are at a mansion just north of here. It's fenced in. We have the whole perimeter secure," Abby suggested.
They were unaware of what Abby was actually planning.
"It's the Baldwin place. That could work," Joel agreed.
"Sounds like a plan," Enid said, ready to get the hell out of there.
"Alright, I'll get the door," Tommy said, running to the doorway that would lead them to the horses.
"You ride with Enid! C'mon!" Joel shouted as they make it to the horses.
Enid quickly jumped on Dusty and she pulled Abby up behind her.
Joel and Tommy mount their horses and they quickly ride out of there as fast as they could as soon as the barn doors were broke open.
Meanwhile, Ellie and Dina lie half-naked at the basement of the library. Ellie touched Dina's scar which was toward her naval.
Ellie asked about it and Dina said she found a skateboard when she was twelve and it ended up shot out from underneath her. She had another one from falling on her knife.
Dina then asked about Ellie's scar, her bite mark.
"Oh this. The chemical burn. I uh, did it to myself. Enid was with me when it happened," Ellie said, looking at her mark.
"Why? What happened?" Dina asked, "It can't be the same mark as hers. You said she got bit by a dog that was in Boston?"
"Yeah. I know she doesn't like to talk about it. Like how I usually don't talk about my mark. We got jumped by an infected when I was fourteen. She was fifteen. Turns out, I'm... immune, so it healed with a ring of fucked up teeth mark and cysts--" Ellie explained, only to get a slap from Dina, "Ow!"
"Fuck you," Dina laughed. "Hey!" Ellie exclaimed as Dina crawled on top of her.
"I told you a real fucking story! At least Enid's scar has a real story," Dina laughed.
"I did tell you a real fucking story!" Ellie exclaimed.
"Oh, you want a bite mark?" Dina said however, they both heard the door from above them open, "Did you hear that?"
"Anyone down here?" Jesse called from below.
Ellie and Dina quickly get up and start to get dressed as fast as they could.
"Jesse?" Dina called out. "Dina?" Jesse responded, sounding like he was getting closer.
He then enters the room while they were getting dressed.
"Are you okay? What's going on?" Jesse said. Dina waved him off, or at least she tried to.
"Will you wait, please?!" Dina shouted. Jesse saw what was going on and he was in shock. "What-- just turn around, what are you doing?" Dina exclaimed.
Jesse turned around. "Are you kidding me... You're supposed to be on patrol," he said in exasperation.
"There's a blizzard outside!" Dina groaned. Jesse caught the smell of the marijuana in the room.
"Is that weed?" he whispered. "Why are you here?" Dina asked.
"People are counting on you! You get that? What we do matters!" Jesse exclaimed, turning back around when they were finished getting dressed.
"Well, then, why aren't you at the fucking lookout?" Dina asked.
"Because Tommy, Joel, and Enid didn't show up!" Jesse replied.
Ellie glanced over at Jesse, slowly raising upwards. She felt worried about them now.
"What do you mean?" she asked. "We waited for them for an hour. I was looking for their horses when I saw lights," Jesse replied to Ellie.
"Maybe they just went back to town," Dina said, thinking that's where they went.
"Without being replaced? No way. How much of their region have you covered?" Ellie asked, picking up her backpack.
"Not much," Jesse said. "Then we split up. Go at it from different sides. We can cover the whole thing in a few hours," Ellie suggested.
"I don't like you riding solo. We don't know what's out there," Jesse said, grabbing Ellie by the shoulder.
"Exactly! What if they need help?" Ellie exclaimed, a bit panicked.
Jesse looked over at her for a minute; She was right. Something could've happened to them and they wouldn't have known about it.
"Okay, I'll head west, Dina can take south, you come from the east. But be smart about it, yeah?" Jesse said, instructing them on where to go.
"Yeah," Ellie said with a nod. They leave the weed farm to go after Joel, Tommy, and Enid.