I slowly open my eyes then look around to see that Elliot had come in and fell asleep a couple of seats away from me. I give a small smile towards him then I start to stretch out my arms and back until my bones popped. I let out a sigh then stand up and look over at him. I smile a bit at him then lean down and brush back a strand of his red hair, that had fallen over his face.

I smile fondly at him as I start to remember all of the good times I had with him. The talks, the jokes, the laughs, everything we had and here I am hoping that we can fix it and go back to how the way things were.

Suddenly, I heard static sounds and I stand up and look towards the door. I go towards the door and open it only to see Jesse sleeping on the couch nearby at the entrance of the theater. I raise an eyebrow as I continue to hear the noise, which sounded like it was coming from upstairs.

"What the hell?" I said, confused, and I make my way upstairs. I make my way up to the room that had that radio when i also heard hushed whispers among the static noise. I walk closer and realized that it was Daniel and Dina arguing.

"You have to tell him!"

"How?"

"By talking to him! He has the right to know, Dina!"

"But that means we'd have to go back to Jackson."

"Dina, you need treatment. And I didn't bring anything really for this particular emergency!"

I walk up to the door and see Daniel and Dina standing in the room as they argue. Dina goes to open her mouth but then covers it with her hand and kneels down to a trash can and pukes.

"Dina? You okay?" I said as I walk in and Daniel looks at me startled. "(Y/n)! H-How long have you been standing there?" Daniel asked as I raise an eyebrow at him. "What's wrong with her?" I asked, concerned. Daniel looks down at Dina, who was taking some deep breathes, then she shakes her head.
On closer inspection, she looked horrible. She had sweat running down her face and she looked a bit pale.

"Just tell her." Dina said to her brother. "Tell me what?" I asked and Daniel looks at her then back at me. "Dina thinks she's pregnant." He said and my eyes widen. "What?" I said, shocked, and they give me worried looks. "What are we su--" I stop in the middle of my sentence, blindsided by this information.

"What are we supposed to do now?" I asked them. "Nothing. I just need to rest for a second." Dina said. "You need a lot more than rest, Dina." Daniel said and Dina shakes her head in annoyance. "How long have you known?" i asked her. "I was late a few weeks ago." Dina replied. "A few weeks?! We could've--we could've still turned back!" I shouted. "I didn't know! I wasn't for sure! I didn't want to be a burden..." Dina said and I give her a concerned look then I look down.

"Well, maybe you, Daniel and Jesse should head back to Jackson. Elliot and I can stay here and get Joel." I said. "What? No! We're not leaving you guys behind!" Daniel said. "Yeah, the quicker we find Joel, the faster we can head back." Dina replied.

"Are you gonna tell Jesse?" I asked, nodding at Dina. "I mean, yeah, if there's a way to tell if I'm really pregnant." She said. "What about a pregnancy test? I remember Maria telling me about those." I suggested and Daniel scoffs. "Yeah, good luck finding one." Daniel said.

"Finding what?" A voice asked and we jumped and turned around to see Elliot and Jesse standing at the door. "Ah shit." Daniel mutters as Jesse looks between the three of us. "What's going on?" He asked then he noticed how bad Dina looked. 

"Dina!" He shouts, with worry, and he goes over to her. "You alright? What happened?" He asked her and she closed her eyes, tightly, then she begins to sob. "Jesse...I think I'm pregnant." She said and his eyes widen. "What?" He whispered, shocked.

"We think, we're not for sure. That's what we were talking about. (Y/n) suggested to go out and find a pregnancy test." Daniel said. "Well, we've got to be sure. I mean, what if it turns out she has a bad infection or something." I said. "She's right. Is there a hospital around here?" Elliot asked and Daniel nods.

"Yeah, that's what we were figuring out here." Daniel said as he gestures towards the map on the floor and the pictures we found and the radio. "Surprised to see that radio working." I said and I squat down. "Yeah. Just a loose connection was all that was wrong with it. Antenna." Daniel said. "They found our mess at the school." Dina informed us and I nod. "Good." I said then a woman's voice comes through the radio.

"Unit Romero, you are requested at site Two. Repeat. You are requested at site Two."

"So the numbers are locations. The TV station we were at. That's Six. There's a lot of chatter coming out of Two, so we assume that's their home base..." Daniel said as Dina holds her stomach in discomfort. I frown at this then Jesse rubs her back, comforting her. "That helps." She said and the two share a smile 

"Casualties reported at Fourteen. All available units report. Over." The woman's voice said. "This is site Thirteen. Unit Lima nearby. How many Scars you get? Over." Another woman said and all of us exchanged looks. "We've had a few but there seems to be a lone male trespasser. Armed. He doesn't seem to be a Scar. Over." The first woman said.

"Lone male trespasser?" Dina said.

"Joel." Elliot and I said and I look over the map.

"Where's Fourteen?" I asked. "We're not a 100% sure." Dina said as Daniel looks over the map. "But...if I were to guess...if this is Seven...." he said as he points at one part of the map. "Twelve's all the way over here...." he points towards the other side of the map. "I guess it's somewhere in this neighborhood." Daniel said as he circles his finger around the word Hillcrest and I nod at him.

"Okay, we can go over there, get Joel then head over to the hospital, which is where?" I said and Daniel points at a different part of the map. "Right here." He said and Elliot and I nod. 

Later, we make our way the front door and start to remove the chair off of the door so that we could head out. But at that moment, I noticed that Dina looked tired, sick and just worn out. "Dina?" I said, worriedly, as Dina bends over and catches her breath. "Yeah. Not good." She said as Jesse places an hand on her shoulder.

I frown as I look at them then I let out a heavy sigh. "Guys..." I said and they turn to me. "I think someone should stay here with Dina while the rest of us go after Joel." I said and the others nod. "I'll stay. I'll keep an eye on her." Daniel said. "You sure?" Jesse asked him and Daniel smirks.

"Don't worry, man. I've got this." Daniel said and Jesse nods. "You better keep an eye on her and my kid." Jesse said and Daniel chuckles. "Please, like I'm gonna endanger my future niece or nephew." He jokes and Jesse smirks then looks over at me and Elliot.

"Alright, guess it's just the three of us." He said and we nod. "Be careful." Dina said and I look at her and smiled. "Of course." I said then Jesse leans down and kissed Dina on the cheek. "Here...take this with you." Daniel said and he hands me the map. I nod my appreciation to him then Elliot opens the door and me, Elliot and Jesse run out.

"Okay, Hillcrest." I said as I look at the map then around the area. "Is this the right place?" Elliot asked when we heard gunshots off in the distance. "Definitely the right place." Jesse muttered as I put the map away and we began to run, while the gunshots become more frequent. Gotta be Joel. I thought as we run up to this truck and get on top of it to see some buildings up ahead.

At that moment, a sound of a truck revs on by and we jump at this then duck down. The truck, luckily, drives on by. "Too many of these assholes." Elliot mutters and I nod. "Hold on, Joel." I muttered and we make our way through this area.

Eventually, we jump down inside this old building when we hear a guy and woman talking. The boys and I go over to the window, only to see two of them walking pass by with a dog on a leash. The moment we look through the boarded up window, the dog turns and begins to bark, aggressively, at us.

"Fuck." Elliot grumbled and we run towards the back area of the building and make our way around the room, just as the dog comes in. "You think this man is connected with those kids at the school?" The male soldier asked his companion as we walk around and the dog goes to the door we went through. "It'd be one helluva coincidence if it was." The woman said as Jesse grabs a bottle then throws it across the room, throwing off our scents.

The dog begins to lead its owners a different way while the three of us make our way out. But it seemed that these guys were everywhere as every turn we made, there was a soldier near us. "These guys are everywhere." Jesse whispered as we try to make our way around them. "Yeah, no shit." Elliot mutters as we started to enter the forest area of the suburbs.

We walk through the forest when we heard whistling. "What the...?" I started to ask when suddenly I was knocked back and felt a pain in my shoulder. "(Y/n)!" Elliot and Jesse exclaimed as they go over to me and we hide behind this ridge. "Fuck." I growled as I look at my right shoulder to see an arrow sticking through it.

"Okay, hang on." Elliot said as he grabs the arrow then looks at Jesse. "Cover her mouth." He said and Jesse nods then comes up next to me and covers my mouth. "Alright, count of three. One...two...three!" Elliot said and he yanks the arrow out of my shoulder and my screams were muffled from Jesse's hand.

Elliot gets the arrow out then tosses it aside and quickly patches my wound just as we heard more whistling and small murmurs of people. Jesse removes his hand from my mouth and I nod at them. Jesse raises his head up to look over the ridge then ducks down, quickly. "I think these are the Scars the WLF were talking about." Jesse whispers.

"What are we gonna do?" I asked in a whisper as Elliot looks over the ridge and thinks. "Spread out." A male voice ordered and Elliot looks around. "This way." He said as he gestures to the side and we make our way to the side.

As we try to make our way, we could hear the Scars whistling at each other almost like they were using it to communicate. It was creepy and unsettling.

We try to sneak around when one of the Scars popped up out of nowhere and grabbed Elliot. "Hey! Let me go!" Elliot shouts as the guy whistles, urgently, before Jesse and I take out the man.

But it was too late as we heard the sounds of arrows coming towards us followed by footsteps. "Run!" Elliot said and the three of us run. But at one point, the three of us split off and I ended up alone as I kept running and dodging the Scars. That is until I was hit with something across my face, and everything went black.

*3rd Person POV*

Elliot ran out of the woods then turned around to see Jesse and (y/n) were nowhere. "Shit!" He growls when a couple of Scars started to come out of the woods. "Over there!" One shouted as he points at Elliot. Elliot runs off towards another section of the suburbs as they chase after him.

He jumps over a wooden fence and makes his way through the backyard of a house when he heard other voices up ahead.

"Fuck." Elliot growled as he goes and ducks in cover. He heard a couple of people talking when suddenly there was the whistles of the Scars. "Scars! Over here!" A voice, obviously someone that was a WLF, shouts and gunshots followed soon after. 

"Yeah, kill each other." Elliot growled as he looks through the window to see about three WLF shooting at the Scars that were chasing him. As he watched, Elliot's heart began to race and he tried to figure out where Jesse and (y/n) might have went. 

Even though he knew that they could handle it, it didn't stop the fact that he cared about both of them, especially (y/n). He started to fear about what could happen to her when he just now started to patch things up with her.

​​​​Take a deep breath. He thought to himself as he does just that then started to make his way through this house. Once through it, he went and ran towards the house next to it and tried to make his way around the WLF, who had finished taking out the Scars.

"Spread out! There could be more nearby." A female voice ordered and Elliot heard footsteps behind him. ​​​​Fuck, fuck, fuck! ​​​​He thought, frantically, then he goes to pull put his gun, turns around and aims his gun, only to see that it was Jesse.

"Shit, man. You almost made me shoot you." Elliot whispered yelled. "Sorry. I was trying to avoid not getting detected." Jesse tells him and Elliot looks around and noticed that (y/n) was not with him. "Where's (y/n)?" He asked him and Jesse gave him a look of confusion. "I thought she was with you?" Jesse asked and Elliot's heart sank.

"No, no, no, no...." Elliot mutters, panicked, as Jesse looks outside to make sure they were still clear. "This can't be happening." Elliot mutters and Jesse looks back at him. "We've got to go find her. Those Scar bastards probably have her." Elliot growled. "Agreed but first, we need to get around these guys." Jesse said as he gestures towards the window where they see a few more WLF walking about.

Elliot nods and the two boys make their way to the back of the house and start walking through the backyard and through a sort alleyway behind all of the houses.

But at one point, passing a fence, a dog jumps out, barking and growling. The boys run into a hole that lead them to a basement of a building, which lead the WLF soldiers to chase after them and throw smoke bombs in there. "Smoke them out!" One of them yelled as Elliot and Jesse cough and try to get out, while taking a few soliders out.

They make it up the stairs and through the collapsed building and jumped down from what had to be the second floor and landed on the grass. The moment they stood up, a pair of hands grabbed Elliot with one around his mouth. Elliot started to fight back and Jesse turns and aims his gun but stops, and Elliot noticed his eyes were widen in shock.

Elliot stopped struggling and Jesse lowers his gun as they hear the trucks drive by off in the distance and the hands were removed off of his mouth. Elliot turns around and gasped at the person that grabbed him.

"What the hell are you boys doing here?" Joel asked them, confused. "Come to bring you home." Elliot said and Joel sighs. "I told Maria to keep you and (y/n) safe." Joel said. "Sorry, Joel but...we couldn't let that happen." Jesse said and Joel glares at him. 

"Is it just you two?" Joel asked them and the boys share a look. "No. Dina, Daniel and...(y/n) are here too." Elliot replied and Joel's eyes widen a bit then he sighs, heavily, at this. "Okay, so where are they?" Joel asked them and the boys, once again, give nervous look. "Daniel and Dina are safe. They're hiding out at this theater. They stayed behind because Dina is sick." Jesse replied. 

"And (y/n)?" Joel asked. "We-we don't know. We got separated in the forest." Elliot replied. "What?!" Joel asked, anger rising in his voice. "We got separated just a moment ago. Last time we saw her, we were running away from these people called the Scars." Elliot explained. "Yeah, I've been hearing about those bastards." Joel growls then he begins to pace, his heart and mind were racing a mile a minute.

He had seen and heard what these people do to people that were not part of their group. And he started get scared and worried that these sick fuckers will do the same to (y/n).

"We need to find her." Elliot said, panicked, and Joel looks over at him and the glare he was giving him, soften as he sees how worried and scared Elliot looked. Joel stops pacing and goes towards the front door where they see three soldiers and a couple of trucks.

"All right. See that truck?" He points out to them and the boys look to where he's pointing, seeing a truck. "Could work. Just need to get around our friends." Jesse said and Joel and Elliot nod. "You boys ready?" Joel asked them and they nod. They make it over to the door then run out and duck behind a fence as they hear three of WLF's nearby.

As they started to walk by, Jesse, Elliot and Joel grabbed them and killed them. "Got the keys! Let's go!" Jesse said and they run to the truck as they hear more soldiers calling out to their friends.

The three of them get into the truck and Jesse started to turn the key but it sounded like it wouldn't start. "Come on." He growls at the truck when Elliot heard a gunshot and then the glass from the back window explodes behind them. All three of them cringe then turn to see some soldiers coming their way.

"Now would be the time to get this thing started!" Elliot shouted as he and Joel pull out their guns and fire at them. "I'm trying!" Jesse said as he turns it a few times. Finally, he got it started and they drive off but then the soldiers began to follow them trio in their trucks.

They come up and get in front of them so that a couple of soldiers in the back could fire at them. But Joel and Elliot were able to shoot them a bit faster than them as they kept going and got along side by side with them. Once they reached the window, Joel shot at the driver which made the truck swerve a bit and hit them before it swerves off a bit.

The truck jerks to the side then hits a pole but luckily it was still running. Joel runs his hand on the back of his neck and sighed. "I'm gonna feel that in the morning." He grumbles as Elliot raises up his foot and kicks out the window shield. Then infected and Clickers started to come out.

"Oh shit!" Elliot exclaimed and Jesse starts the car but it wouldn't start. "Oh come on!" He shouted as Elliot and Joel started to fire at the oncoming infected. "Get us the fuck outta here, Jesse!" Elliot shouted as Jesse turns the key again. "I'm trying!" He said and just as the truck started, a runner comes up to the window and grabs Joel's arm.

Joel holds it back and kept it at bay when Elliot comes up and stabs it in the head with his switchblade. "Joel? You okay?" He asked Joel. "Yeah, let's just get the hell outta here and find (y/n)." Joel said and they drive off when some of the infected got closer and a Clicker comes up to the truck. Jesse drives forward and hits the Clicker and it latches onto the hood.

It starts to crawl towards them but Joel shoots it in the head a couple of times just as they drive off a ledge and impacted into the water below. "Shit." The three of them said as the truck begins to sink into the river. The men hold their breaths and started to make it out of the truck and swim up, resurfacing.

They swim over to some land and pull themselves on the ground and the three of them lay there to catch their breath.

"You okay?" Elliot asked them. "Never better." Jesse replied. "I'm getting too old for this crap." Joel remarks and Jesse and Elliot chuckle a bit. Then Elliot gets up then helps both of them up and looks between them. "Come on, let's go find (y/n)." He said and the three begin to head off.