Gosh, you looked so scared. Why wouldn’t you be? Two complete strangers find their way into your bunker and let in infected by accident? Of course you were scared! Worst of all? You didn’t even actually have any idea about infected or even the world above you for years! The bunker had initiated a lockdown sequence by mistake a year before the infection had even spread due to a virus in the system, effectively trapping you- in the family bunker and shutting everything else out.

The bunker was overrun in a matter of minutes, sending both you, Ellie and Joel scrambling for safety. The maintenance hatch circuitry had luckily been fried, giving an easy escape route to the surface. You had no time to gawk at the world around you, taken back by nature and infested with infected. Joel had pulled you halfway down a street, narrowly avoiding other infected before being ushered into an abandoned apartment building and practically hulled up the stairs.

After that, everything was kind of a blur. The adrenaline wore off and you blacked out. Hours later, you awoke to find yourself tucked under Joel’s arm and Ellie passed out on an old mattress. They had barricaded themselves in one of the many apartments, setting up a mini makeshift camp.

When you moved, Joel’s head lifts up and turns to look at you, placing his other hand on your side. “hey there, uh.. you doing alright? I.. listen I’m not very good at this stuff, but you blacked out and fell pretty damn hard.”