A/N= Wow. This is the longest FanFic I have posted on the internets. Is it any good at all? Someone please review! Anyhow, in the next few chapters we find out what happened in the mall! Get strapped in, this might get sappy!

Disclaimer= if I own Last of Us, or any characters, then everyone who is reading this gets £10000000000

She Was All I Had:

Chapter five:

"Hey," Riley said smiling, her eyes and voice distant, as though she was reminiscing. "Do you remember the first time I bought you here?"

I did remember. It was the best time of my life then. But Riley had managed to smash that record a lot of times.

"What are we doing here Riley?" I asked, annoyed that I still didn't know.

"I have a surprise for you," she said mysteriously.

"What," I said, now curious as to what the surprise might be, "is it a dinosaur?" if it was, I would kiss her regardless as to what her reaction may be.

"Maybe," she said, still not giving a straight answer.

"I'll be your friend again if it's a dinosaur," friend and more I added in my head.

"You'll just have to wait and see," she responded with a laugh.

I looked to the right to see a poster advertising water guns, and I decided to tell Riley, "I got them back you know."

Riley turned and saw the poster too, "our water guns? Bullshit! Are you tellin' me Corporal DickHead gave them back to you?"

"Of course not," I said in my best 'Duh' voice, "I had to sneak into his office!"

"Riley… I had them in my hands!" I said morosely.

Riley laughed as she realised what I was saying, "but yo' ass got caught!"

"But my ass got caught," I admitted.

We kept jogging towards Riley's surprise in a comfortable silence until;

"I can't believe Winston's gone," came through the silence in a sad tone.

"You heard?" I said, surprised and confused.

"Yea, do you know how it happened?"

"I don't know…" I said. Honestly I didn't. I only found out he was gone from rumors.

"Let's see what he left us," Riley said, breaking the awkward silence.

"Really?" I said. The world may have gone to shit, but I still have morals, and raiding my dead friend's home didn't seem to go with them.

She didn't respond, just walked into Winston's small but comfortable dwelling that was positioned in the middle of the mall. I walked in too, and immediately felt awkward and out of place. With Winston not here, I felt strongly like an intruder.

I saw Riley going through the guys stuff at the front, and went to the back of the room. I saw some papers, and moved two of them to the side, finding an old photograph. "Wow!" I exclaimed upon seeing the man in the center of the shot, "is that Winston? Guy used to be handsome…" Not my type though. My type would be… maybe two years older, dark skin, long dark hair, brown eyes. I stopped then, realizing I was as good as describing the girl who was no more than three meters away.

"Bingo!" the voice from behind startled me, but I didn't show it. I turned around to see Riley holding a bottle of alcohol. "Want some?" she asked.

"Nah I'm good," I said. I want to be able to walk in a straight line if the clickers come running!

Riley however, didn't share my concerns. She simply shrugged and said, "More for me. Cheers Winston." She took a long swig, before capping the bottle and putting it back down. "Wow. That's strong," she commented.

"Come on," she said, leading me outside.

I followed without question, walking close behind her.

"What happened to Princess?" Riley asked.

"I assume after Winston died they took her. Poor horse. She must be terrified," I answered sadly. I really liked that horse, and I know Riley did too.

We walked through the ruined mall a little longer, before we came to the metal piece of scaffold I knew too well.

"Hey Ellie help me lift this!" my friend called. I was reluctant. Wouldn't it collapse? I decided to voice my concern as I helped her lift it.

"I hate crawling through this thing. I always feel like we're gonna get crushed!" I breathed, air running out from the weight in my arms.

"Its fine," the girl said, going red because of how heavy the scaffold was. I made a mental note-Riley looks nice when she blushes.

"I'll go first," she said, reminding me to stop staring at her. That would probably freak her out. At that moment, the tunnel collapsed, an almighty crash ringing out- probably alerting ever clicker within a 10 mile radius.

"You know what?" Riley said, "How about we find another way?"

"Yea," I replied, still slightly shocked "sounds good."

We both walked around, flashlights in hands searching for another way, and I found one after around five minutes.

"Hey Riley!" I called triumphantly, "over here."

Riley pushed the large wooden doors, but they didn't budge. I gestured to the open window above the doors.

"Y'know what? I'll get you up and over. See if you can unlock it from the other side."

She grabbed my shoulder, but before putting her foot into my interlocked hands so I could give her a boost, she looked me in the eyes, "good call," she said with sincerity. I boosted her to the window, where she crawled through and dropped to the other side.

"Well?" I called into the silence, "you see anything? Riley?" No reply came, but I heard the click of a lock. I walked towards the door, and pushed it. Sure enough, the door swung open without hassle. Then a stereotypical growl came from my left. I turned towards it and recoiled in horror as a sadistic looking clown lunged towards me, only to hear the growl turn into laughter. It was only then that I took in the rest of the figure; it was fucking Riley!

"You dick that's two times today!" I said in annoyance.

Riley however, seemed to find it extremely funny and span in a circle, taking in the nearly intact horror shop.

"How the hell did we never find this place?!" she said, clearly still relishing in the fact she had pulled one over on me. She shook her head, "come on Ellie, I've got the perfect mask for you."

I sighed heavily at the immaturity of my friend, though I couldn't help but smile a little, "Riley-" but she cut me off.

"Perfect!"