You ran from infected. Joel ran in front, breaking the chain of the mall door and held it open for you and Ellie. He grabbed an axe and split open the head of an infected before you three ran to the back exit.

Ellie tripped and you ran back to pick her up before an infected fell from the roof. You screamed, kicking it off you before Ellie shot it, not before it sank their teeth onto your leg.

"Ah!"

Before you could register anything, Joel swinged down the axe onto your knee, cutting it off. You went into shock, letting out a heart wrenching scream from your lungs. Your brain failed to understand what was happening.

"Joel, what the fuck?!" Ellie shouted as you fainted.

He wasn't really sure what to say to that. He had just acted. He did a tourniquet around your thigh and took off his jacket, wrapping it around the remaining of your leg. He scooped you up, carrying you out.

"Do you even know if it's gonna work?!" Ellie argued with Joel while you laid on the far corner of the abandoned house he had carried you to.

"I don't know, Ellie... It might, it might not. I've never done this." Joel said as he ran a hand over his face.

He looked back at you, laid on the floor, covered by Ellie's jacket. He couldn't do this again. He couldn't lose someone again. Not you. Not like this.

"If it doesn't work... Then I'll do it, okay?" He promised Ellie.