Now playing................LILY

"Lily was a little girl, afraid of the big wide world, she grew up within her castle walls."

"She knew she was hypnotized
And walking on cold thin ice
Then it broke, and she awoke again
Then she ran faster than

Start screaming, "Is there someone out there?" Please help me. Come get me
Behind her, she can hear it say

Follow everywhere I go"

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Episode two; Infected

𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖋𝖔𝖚𝖗; 𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖈𝖙𝖊𝖉
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After the night the three had, they were all fast asleep, Ellie was curled in a ball leaning against Madison's shoulder, and Malia was leaning on the blonde haired women's stomach. The women woke up and slowly sat up, she stretched, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, Malia and Ellie woke up with a start as their "pillow" moved.

Madison looked around then made eye contact with Joel and then Tess they both looked at the women with hard stares, they sat in the shadows on chairs
"Well aren't you two dramatic, Good morning to you too, by the way" she sarcastically said and went to reach for her jacket she had tossed in the night, but froze when Joel moved his gun up ready to shoot if needed. She understood why he would act like that, when a women claiming that she isn't infected with a healed bite mark on her arm. It would cause some suspicion. They don't prepare you for someone being immune.

Madison grabbed her jacket and put it on, pulling it tightly around herself. "Do I look like I'm infected?" Madison spat "Show us your arm." Joel stare hardened as he looked at the women. Madison lifted the sleeve of her hoodie and showed them the healed bit mark she had. "Yeah it's not getting any worse is it!" She spat

Malia looked as Tess leaned forward to get a better look at the healed marks on  her arm. Joel and Tess share a glance as they communicate through that look "if we're out in the open why aren't we getting swarmed?" Ellie asked Joel said something but Madison zoned it out as she looked in her bag, for toilet paper she needed to pee.

"and where is my jacket?" Malia asked realising her jacket wasn't with her or in her bag, she then saw it a few metres away, so she stood up but Joel moved his gun ready to shoot "can I get my jacket or not asshole" Malia stared at Joel and determined look on her face, she was going to get her jacket back and no one can tell her not too.

"Malia are you seriously going to get yourself killed over a stupid jacket" Ellie asked holding her hands out in front of her showing him that she meant no harm, Malia sounded stupid for arguing over her jacket "he can't touch me because Madison would kill him if he did" Malia said with a smug smile, Madison glared at the man with a warning look, Malia got a bit too cocky, she lips had a smug grin on it.

"Back to the crisis at hand....what was Marlene doing with an infected women?" Tess asked, Madison looked from Malia to Tess an annoyed expression on her face "I'm not infected" she stated getting annoyed with the other two adults. The two kept interrogating her, she crossed her arms and used the same excuse 'does it look like I'm going to turn' Malia felt bad for her sister being interrogated, it made her and Ellie mad that they couldn't do anything.

"Why would Marlene make us smuggle an infected girl" Joel questioned "she's not infected" Malia and Ellie shouted, Madison held her arms out to silence the two angry girls.

The blonde looked between Tess and Joel, she sighed seeing no way  around it "she found me after I was bitten"

"And she didn't shoot you." Joel was getting annoyed their was no way a women could be immune and that's not him being sexist it's literally impossible for anyone to be immune, she would have to have eaten something with the virus in it. She looked young enough to have been at least in her 20 when the apocalypse started theres no way her body could have know she was immune, when none of us knew it would end this way.

Madison glared at the man, in any different situation she would say that this man was very handsome, but she was currently being interrogated and threatened by a gun and she had sisters to protect.

Madison perched her lips as a annoyed huff left her. "Clearly not" she restored. The two other adults took a deep breath calming themselves from the defensive sisters. Madison wasn't helping her case, she was going to get shot if she didn't stop, but seeing the pissed off looks on their faces made it so worth it.

"She locked me up and had her guys test me everyday to see if I was getting sick" Madison explained as she played with the grass "test you how?" Tesss asked

"I have to pee" Madison said she looked at her sisters "do any of you two need to go?" Ellie nodded but Malia shook her head. "She has to pee too"

"Test you how?" The women said as she stood up her voice getting more annoyed as the conversation went on. Madison explained how they tested her "but you know what I think really impressed them was the fact I didn't turn into a fucking monster"

"Now can I please?" She asked as she stood up, Ellie following after her, Joel stood up immediately with his gun ready, Ellie, Malia, and Madison both lifted up their hands, Tess looked at the girls, her hands stuffed into her pockets. "Fine, back there. You can find a spot" Tess gestured to the room behind Madison.

Ellie turned around, Madison didn't move, she hesitated to leave Malia by herself but she really needed to pee. "I'll be fine" Malia said and Madison nodded Tess picked up and magazine and threw it to Ellie "tear out a few pages"

"There's not gonna be anything bad in here?" Madison asked "just you!" Joel spat at the blonde haired women. "Haha fuck you man" she said and flipped him the bird before walking into the other room with Ellie.

Tess ran her hands throw her hair as Joel slowly sat down, he looked at his bloody and red knuckle, it looked broken, his hand shook, he couldn't even hold anything in that hand very well at the moment. "Broken." Tess sat down as she stared at his hand, Joel quickly hid it from veiw. "Maybe a hairline. It'll heal fast"

The two fell into silence, as Tess stared at Joel who looked away. "She survived the fucking night Joel" Tess said after a while "it doesn't matter, it will happen, all right? We're still close to the wall. We can we sneak her back into the QZ, we find a different way to get the battery"

Malia watch as the two adults talked about her older sister, the two adults fell into silence "you're not going to kill my sister!" Malia spoke up in the silence of the two adults, making them jump slightly as they had forgotten she was still in here. "You're not going to kill Madison"

"It's gonna happen soon, and when it does there is no stopping her from ripping you and your other sister apart and turning you both too." Joel stated "but if we take her back to the QZ, there gonna notice her arm, scan her, and then they'll kill her"

"Well better then then us" Joel snapped, if Malia had a gun she would have shot him, he was getting on her nerves, she hated the man, Tess not so much. "You gotta stop talking about this women like she's got some kind of life in front of her!" Malia nearly snapped at the man but Madison and Ellie walked back inside.

Ellie threw the magazine towards Tess, and Ellie sat next to her sister, Madison sat next to Malia, who leaned her head on the blondes shoulder.

"You hungry?" Tess asked as she pulled something wrapped in a paper out of he bag. "You can share some of ours" Joel looked very against the idea "Thanks. Marlene sent us we put own" Ellie stated.

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Joel's hands shook as he tried to pull apart the beef jerky, Madison watched the man, she felt a bad for him his hand looked like it hurt.

The sisters all sat eating their sandwiches. Madison was eating Turkey, Ellie was eating Chicken, and Malia was eating Ham. "Is that Chicken, Turkey and Ham?" Tess asked confused on how they had sandwiches. When there's no way any factory's still run, or operate for that matter. The two looked in jealousy at the mouth watering sandwiches.

"Yeah, Marlene said they get it from smugglers." The three sisters looked at the two adults up and down "guess not you guys" Malia shot at them, causing them to giggle. Whilst Tess and Joel glared at them.

Tess stood up, walking up to the blonde who went into protective mode, "hey!" Joel stood up ready to pull Tess away from the infected girl, but Tess held her hand out stopping Joel in his tracks "why are you so important to Marlene?" She inhaled a bit "and don't lie to me, or we'll take you back"

"You take me back you don't get your battery" Madison raised an eyebrow, waiting for the women to bite back. The brown haired women, let out an airy laugh "you heard that?" Madison nodded "well then you also heard that he wants to shoot you" Tess said gesturing to the man behind her. Madison swallowed a little, She had terror in her eyes before they harded 'no! You have a job to do Madison! Let nothing happens to your sisters!' her inner voice shouted at her.

Tess kneeled Infront of the blonde, knowing she wouldn't let her get close enough to the youngest ones. "I'm gonna talk to you like an adult" Madison rolled her eyes "I am an adult but continue"

"Joel and I aren't good people, we're doing this for us because, apparently, you're worth something, but we don't know what you're worth, if we don't know what we have." Ellie glared at the women, who was interigating her sister. "So answer my question."

Madison stared at Tess, anger evident on her face, she rolled her eyes placing her left hand over her face as a long annoyed sigh let her. "Marlene told me not to tell- and now I'm telling the first person wh-"

She huffed fighting the internal battle she was having with herself. "Ugh. Fine. These's a firefly base camp, somewhere out west" she admitted, crossing her arms and resting them on her knees. "With doctors. There working on a cure." Joel got annoyed quickly he was tired of everyone making shit up about finding a cure, and giving the already fucked up world a glimpse of hope.

"I've heard this before"

"And whatever happened to me is the key to finding-" she stops when Joel starts saying the sentence "to finding the vaccine, that's what this is? We've heard this a million times. Vaccines. Miracle cures. None of it works." He stated.

"Hey fuck you, miller I didn't ask for this" Madison snapped standing up, to looked at the man directly in the eyes. Tess looked at Joel, with a 'shut up I'm talking' face. "You and me both" he stated looking at the girl before looking at Tess. "This isn't going to end well Tess, we need to go back"

Tess didn't say anything as she stood up, exhaled, looked at Madison, then Joel. "Let's just finish it" she said as she placed her hands on her hips. Joel looked at her, he was angry she was taking the side of a women she just met. "It's doesn't matter if she is or isn't what the fireflies say. If they believe that she is. Then we get what we want." Tess and Joel fell into silence as Joel thought about it. "Fine but if she so much as twitches" Ellie and Malia taking this as the right opportunity to pretend to be infected, began to make clicking noises and twitch around, like runners.

"Don't." Tess sternly said as she looked at the girls. Madison had to hold back a laugh. The two girls stopped clearing their throats and scratched their necks. "Okay" they softly said, getting a little nervous under both the adults intense glares.

"Okay?" Tess asked, Joel looked from Tess, to Malia, to Ellie, then Finally Madison. He looked back at Tess, throwing his arms out before letting them fall back down against his legs, he found it unbelievable the risk Tess was willing to take.

But was Tess found unbelievable was that he was willing to punch a guy to death for the women being threatened with a gun. Then not just take her across the country just to get rid of her. Joel picked dup his bag. Made sure everything was inside and he stood away from everyone. He picked up his gun, slinging it over his shoulder. Ellie and Malia both lit up as they saw the rifle "can we have guns?" They both said Earning hard no's from the adults. Ellie and Malia both rolled there eyes before packing there stuff in their bags.

"Fine we'll just throw out fricken sandwiches at them" Ellie sassily said, Joel moved the book shelf that was leaning against the wall blocking the door. Joel opened the door the sunlight pouring in filling a little bit of the dark ness. Joel looked around outside "clear" he walked out, Them Tess, Then Ellie, Malia and Madison took a moment, they took a breath, before Malia took Madison's hand "ready?" Malia asked more to reassure herself more then her sister.  "ready" Madison squeezed her sisters hand in reassurance, as she took a breath, giving Malia a firm nod she walked out into the daylight with her sister in tow

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Hello everyone, I'm sorry I haven't updated

I am sick rn, so if you have any questions or just want to chat I could use the entertainment.