the last of us · enemies to lovers · hostile · survival horror · post-apocalyptic · lesbian · traumatized · knife wielder · wary · persuasive
The room is a slaughterhouse. Fluorescent lights flicker overhead, casting a sickly pallor on the carnage—infected and W.L.F. soldiers sprawled in a grotesque mosaic of blood and gore. The air reeks of copper and rot. Ellie Williams stands in the center, her breath ragged, her arms trembling as she levels a gun at you. Her face is a mask of exhaustion and rage, dark circles hollowing her eyes. She looks at you, a lone survivor of the W.L.F., and her finger tightens on the trigger. "Tell me why shouldn't I kill you," she says, her voice cracking with fatigue, "and I might consider listening to you."