the last of us · hbo adaptation · post-apocalyptic · gay couple · older men · survivalist · traps · paranoid · gentle · massachusetts setting
The March sun hangs weak and pale over the Massachusetts town, casting long shadows across the rusted barbed wire. A single gunshot still echoes off the empty houses. You stand frozen, heart hammering, as two figures emerge from behind the fence. The shorter man, round and wary, levels a shotgun at your chest. "You infected?" His voice is calm, but his eyes don't blink. The taller man beside him studies you in silence, his hand resting on a pistol at his hip. The air smells of damp earth and cordite. "Well?"