*3rd Person POV*

(y/n) and Lev were walking ahead of Joel and Elliot as Joel looks over at him for a moment. He lets out a sigh then swallows as he tries to think of what to say to Elliot, if he even wanted to listen to him.

After a few moments of silence, Joel speaks up. “I know that we’re not on good terms before all this, but just know that what happened back then, it was my choice to keep the truth from you." He said and Elliot turns to him as they continued to walk. "I told (y/n) not to tell you because I thought it would safer for you, that way to not know what was going on behind closed doors. But...I realized that in the end, I only end up hurting, not only you, but (y/n) as well. That day when you cut ties with us, I almost lost her months later after that.” Joel explained, which made Elliot frown, slightly.

“She had been going through so much that she was in her room for days and I was worried she was going to do the same as well. But...Tommy was there to convince her otherwise. Since then, they became close. Like family." said Joel and Elliot turns his head away and looks down at his walling feet. “If there’s anyone to blame for this, it’s me you should be angry at, Elliot. Not her. I should’ve come clean about it when we got you out years ago, and for that...I’m sorry.”

Elliot takes this all in and Joel watches him, closely. When Elliot didn't speak, Joel was afraid that the young boy was angry at him again. That is, until Elliot speaks up.

"I-I understand why you guys did it. I just...I felt betrayed. You two are the closest things to family I've got. I trusted you guys. Hell, we traveled across the entire country to get to the Fireflies. I was nervous and excited but also...scared." Elliot said and Joel raises an eyebrow at this. "I know I didn't show it much but...each time we got closer and closer to them, I just felt like the entire world was on my shoulder. I felt like everyone relied on me since I'm immune." Elliot stops then bites his lips.

"And when I woke up in the back of that truck and you told me that it was all for nothing...I just...I felt like my life meant nothing. That everything I've done was for nothing. I mean...I knew you guys were hiding something, I just never knew the extent of the lie." He said. "And when I found out that the two most important people lied to me about that, I was sad, angry, hurt and, like I said, betrayed. I couldn't believe that you guys lied to me, especially (y/n)." said Elliot. "I also felt...guilty."

"Guilty?" Joel asked, curiously, and Elliot nods. "I kept asking myself why me? Why is it me that's immune? Why couldn't it have been someone else? Why can't I just be normal? Why does everyone I care about die but me? What did I do to deserve this..." Elliot explained as he holds up his arm, where the bite resided but was covered with the tattoo Cat made for him.

"I get it, Elliot. Not the immune thing but...feeling guilty about surviving when everyone around you dies. I know that feeling. I felt that way after Sarah died. For awhile, I didn't know if I wanted to continue on without her. But...I kept going. Like I told you a few years back, I struggle for a long time with surviving. I fought for Sarah, fought for the memory of my daughter."

He stops and takes a deep breath and says. "And then you and (y/n) came into my lives and both of you became my priorities." Elliot chuckles and said. "Really? It felt like you wanted to get rid of us real quick." Joel let's out a small laugh as Elliot looks over at him, smiling.

*(y/n)'s POV*

I look over my shoulder at Joel and Elliot and see that they seem to have a decent talk amongst each other. I smiled at this when Lev speaks up. "What's going on with those two?" He asked and I look over at him. "It's...it's complicated." I tell him and he raises a curious eyebrow at me. "The three of us have a long history with each other and...we've just been having problems lately and we're just now getting to resolve it." I said.

Lev looks at me as if he wants to keep asking questions but he decides against it and turns his head away from me. We keep walking in silence before I decide to change the subject. "How long have you and your sister been on the run for?" I asked him. "Two days." he replied.

"Where were you headed?" I asked him. "I dunno. Just...away." he replied, shrugging. "What the hell did you do?" I asked. "I shaved my head." He said and I turn to him, raising an eyebrow at him. "They want to kill a little boy because he shaved his head?" I asked, confused. "I wasn’t allowed. It’s a rule. I broke it." Lev said.

"Jeez." I muttered. "So why’d you do it?"
"I dunno..." Lev said, shrugging again. "Do you regret shaving your head?" I asked him. "We’re not supposed to have regrets." He grumbles. "Everyone has regrets." I said and he looks up at me then sighs a bit.

"I wish I’d just ran away. Then Yara wouldn’t be caught in all of this. She’d be back home, taking care of our mom." he said. "Does your mom...need taking care of?" I asked him. "She’s our mom...It’s our duty." Lev said.

Not wanting to push it, I close my mouth and we start to make our way through the streets of the city when Lev points off to the side. "Through here." He said and we follow him. "How long til we get to the hospital?" Elliot asked Lev. "Shouldn't be much further." Lev replied.

We make it to this one building, that didn't look like it was completely built, when we heard the familiar whistles. "It's Lily!" One voice said and they started to fire arrows at us. "Shit. Get down!" Joel shouts and we duck under behind an old desk. "You should've stayed away Lily!" A voice shouted and I furrow my brow in confusion.

"Lily?" I whispered, confused, and the boys shrug at me as Lev looks down, in shame. I look over at him and frown. "Is that...?" I started to ask but then Joel puts a finger up to his lips as we hear footsteps approaching.

"Where are you?" A male voice asked before he walks up to our desk. Elliot stands up and shoots and arrow at his head and the man falls over. Then we sneak away from the desk when a gunshot sounds out and hits Lev's arm. "Oh shit!" I exclaimed and me and the boys raise our guns and fire at the Seraphites.

"I think that's all of 'em." Joel said once he looks around. I turned to Lev to see him pulling out some bandages and was trying to mend his arm. "Here. Let me help." I said to him as I walk up to him. "I got it." He said and I raise my hands up and said. "Okay."

He finishes mending his arm then he frowns. "Did you hear what they called me?" He asked as Elliot and Joel come up to us. "You mean when they said Lily?" I asked him and he nods. "Do you wanna ask me about it?" He asked me but he seemed a bit bothered. "Do you want me to ask you about it?" I asked him. "No." He replied, shaking his head.

Elliot seemed a bit confused but Joel looked like he understood what was going on. He walks up to Lev and places a hand on his shoulder. "It's okay, kid. Whenever you're ready." He assures him. Lev looks up at him and nods, a smile forming on his lips.

"This way." He said and Elliot and I look over at Joel. "I'll explain it to you two later. C'mon." He said and we start to follow Lev to the hospital.

Finally, we arrived at the hospital but we could tell that there were WLF guards everywhere. "Okay, so...how are we doing this?" Elliot asked as we look out towards the hospital grounds. "Well, Lev has to stay here. I mean, he'll die if he's seen." I said. "Okay, so is one of us gonna stay with him or are all three of us gonna go inside?" Elliot asked but Lev speaks up.

"I can handle myself out here. You guys just need to get inside and get out as quickly as you can." He said and the three of us look at each other. "You sure?" I asked Lev and he nods. "Okay...well, boys...looks like its the old gang again." I said and Elliot and Joel nod before we start to make our way into the hospital grounds.

We tried our best to get around the guards, as quietly as possible, but there were a few that got in our way but we took them out, easily. We make our way into a room and see that there was one guard but they had their back to us. We snuck up on them and Joel grab the person and strangles them until they pass out.

At that moment, I heard music and I look over and it seemed she had some handheld thing that was playing music. "What is that?" I asked and the boys look down at it. "That is a portable game console." Joel said. "You can play video games on that?" Elliot asked and I could see his eyes light up, it reminded me of the boy I used to love or still love.

"Yeah. But we need to get a move on." Joel said and he goes ahead and I follow him. 
Finally, we come up to a door and Joel looks through the window of the door. "Okay, this room looks like it has supplies." He said then he turns to me. "You've got the list?" He asked and I nod and had him the list.

He looks it over then hands it back to me.
"Okay, the three of us should split up and find these supplies." Joel said. "And a pregnancy test." I added and he nods. "Okay, let's go." Joel said and he opens the door and he, Elliot and I split up in this pretty large room and look around for the stuff we need.

I look around the room a bit and found some bandages and even some medicine. I gasped when I found a couple boxes with the words Pregnancy Test written on them "Jackpot." I whispered as I grabbed them and start to put them in my bag when I felt something in the back of my head. 

"Don't scream." A female voice ordered and I growled under my breath. "Stand up." She ordered and I slowly stand up as I hold my hands up. I heard the woman walk around and I turn my head and my eyes widen as I recognized her as one of the people from Abby's group. She was also in one of the pictures we had, I believe it said her name was Nora. And it seemed that she recognized me as her eyes widen as well.

"You?" She whispered, shocked. "That's not possible."

"I'm alot tougher than I look." I snapped back at her. "I knew we should've killed you." She growls. "Maybe you should have. Or maybe you should've stayed the fuck outta Jackson!" I said, angrily.

Her eyes narrowed at me and she starts to take deep breathes through her nose as she shoves the gun closer to me. Her hands were shaking and, quickly, I disarmed her and aimed the gun at her. "You shoot me...the sound will have every solider come running." Nora said, a bit of shakiness in her voice. "You'll still be dead." I growled. "Now, I'm gonna ask nicely...where is Abby?"

"Seriously? You want me to give up my friend?" She asked me then she laughs a bit just as I see Joel and Elliot come up behind her. "If you tell me, you can walk away with your life. But...if you don't..well...let's just say it won't end well for you." I replied. "Now where's Abby?" 

She then spits at me but before she could do anything, Elliot jumps up and tackles her down to the ground. "Get off me!" Nora growls. "I believe she asked you the same question twice. You better answer her." Elliot threatened as he holds her down. "Why would I tell any of you where she is?" Nora asked us.

"Because she killed someone very important to me." Joel said as he comes up and he kneels down to Nora. "Figured she needs to pay the price." He said and Nora's eyes widen. "Joel Miller." She said and she chuckles as Joel raises an eyebrow at her.

"Yeah. I know who you are. My friend, Mel, told us about you." She said. "And how is it she knows me?" Joel asked her. "She used to work for the Fireflies. She was an assistant to that surgeon you killed." Nora growls and Joel looks up at us, both of us give each other worried looks. Nora gasped then looks up at me. "Which means...you must be that Firefly girl Marlene took in." She said then she looks over at Elliot. "And you're him. The immune boy."

Nora glares up at us and said. "All of you deserve to die. You guys have doomed humanity." Then I kick her across the face. "That's enough outta you. Now, tell us...where is she?!?!" I yelled. "I'm not giving up my friend." Nora said the three of us share a look before Joel speaks up.

"Elliot. Step aside." Joel said and Elliot gets up then Joel grabs Nora and pulls her up to her feet. "C'mon." Joel growls and we take her to a different room and found a chair. He shoves Nora down on the chair and begins to tie her up with the rope he had in his bag.

"Now...where is Abby?" Joel asked her. Nora glares up at him and said. "Fuck you."
Joel glares at her then his fist clenched and, suddenly, he punches her across the face. Elliot and I jump a bit at this as Joel continued to beat her. Elliot turned his head away as I looked down but back towards Joel as he punched Nora a few times, her face bloody and bruised.

Once Joel stopped, Nora was wheezing then she spits out blood on the floor. "Where is Abby?" Joel asked and Nora coughs a bit. "She...she's not here. She was but...not anymore. She's getting ready..." she said. "Ready for what?" I asked her. "For war. On the Scars Island." Nora said and the three of us exchange a look before we look back at her.

"War?" Elliot said, confused. "We've been fighting the Scars for years. Abby's...our best soldier....she's leading the attack on their island." Nora said in between her coughs and I look over at Joel and Elliot. They shared the same worried look then I asked Nora. "Why?"

"To finish it and protect our home." Nora said and I frown. Joel closes his eyes, shakes his head before he punches Nora so hard across the face she passes out.

"C'mon, let's get outta here." Joel said. "We got everything?" I asked and Elliot holds up his backpack. "All in here." He said and I nod and the three of us head out of the hospital.

We got out as quietly as possible and meet up with Lev, who was hiding behind some large debris. "Did you get the stuff?" He asked us and we nod then I sighed. "There's...something else." I said and he looks up at me. "What is it?" He asked. "We'll explain on the way. Let's go." Elliot said and we head back to the theater.