Just the last of us (Malin, and Karixia)

The world seemed so peaceful now. It had been a number of years since Cale had been left alone in this world. His family along with what he guessed was the entire population of earth had disappeared over night, leaving only him alive. Even now as he walked through the small sub urban area's and towns that humanity had left along the west coast of the united states he was surprised that he hadn't seen anything or anyone in years. Cale was now 24, he had been a student at seattle university when the event as he had chosen too call it had happened, leaving him alone in a city that had once housed over 10,000 people.

Those first few days had been rather maddening in their own right. Running through streets, trying too find family or friends in a city. Driving his car up and down the familiar roads. It had now been 4 years since then, and the roads had changed. At first the city had power, and the markets had food. Food he had no problem in taking when he realized there was no need for money. Now he carried a back pack with can's and other supplies he could find. He had gotten good at scavenging not that he ever felt he needed too. As he walked over the cracks in the road he gave a small sigh looking over a hill as he watched several more broken down towns. Tree's and over grown grass. Once again he had found absolutely nothing. Homes like these broke down after a few years of not using them. Things molded, and the dust piled up, making them hard too breath in. Whats more the water pipes rusted. Still as he found a house that had a wall mostly gone exposed too the outside world. It was better then nothing.

They said that humans had been social creatures, and that peoples minds would start too wear after only a hand full of days without contact with another human. Cale had never felt lonely before the event, at least he doubted he did now that he knew what real loneliness felt like. Cale had let himself go in many respects. He had stopped cutting his hair, letting it grow long, and about 3 weeks ago he had officially stopped shaving, giving him a light brown grizzled jaw too match his face. He wore shoes, only because he didn't like the feeling of bare gravel and soil under his feet, pants and shirt if only because of the sun.

Walking into the home He dropped his bag not caring as he heard the clatter of the cans of food, and bottles of alcohol. It had surprised him really how well the stuff kept, though it became a precious resource for cleaning out wounds, and at times setting things on fire. With humans gone from the face of the world, new threats came into being. Wild dogs, and zoo animals were his personal favorites. His arm was bandaged from an encounter with a wild panther that had escaped from somewhere.

He flicked the light switch a few times, shaking his head as he took sat down. He should have known better, electricity had died a long time ago. From what he could tell the power plants must have either shut themselves off, or overheated, and melted down. The black outs happened about a month or so after the human race disappeared, and now. Well now it was just Cale. He kicked his feet up onto the Sofa, yawning slightly as he looked out the window. Watching for anything, and everything, that could have crossed his field of vision.

Jessica sighed as she walked through the empty streets alone, dragging on the floor behind her was a book bag filled with water and some canned food. She was very hungry and she needed to refill in order to keep on going to the next town. She sighed and looked around before stopping and searching her bag for a bottle of water, “Bah perfect, all empty… just my luck”. She sighed looking around once again and taking a seat on the floor. Since humanity vanished from Earth she did not really cared what she wore or how well she took care of her body.

She could remember the first day this happened and how she spent hours looking for people to only have nobody left. Everybody seemed to just vanish into thin air as if they never actually existed. Dogs however were still locked inside the houses as well as other animals that soon died of hunger. She hummed out loud as she looked up to the sky and sighed, “Yo God…. Why you vanished everybody?”. Since long she stopped believing there was a god, ever since this happened.

Finally after resting her feet a bit she stood up and began walking on the middle of the streets. There were cars everywhere and she did noticed a baby seat on the back on one of the cars. She could not help but to wonder how would that family be like. Shaking her head she continued on walking checking on each car to see if there was something that she could use. Nothing was left almost like if someone had ransacked all cars, that could not be right nobody existed.

She thought that she was going to go crazy, she could not hold on much longer without having a single person to talk. The torture of it all was that she was afraid of actually finding someone alive, that person could had been a bastard and take advantage of her and nobody could help her. She sighed and continued on walking as she continued to softly sing a song that she loved, not even now five years later did she stopped hearing music.

Cale listened to the silence of the world, as he had for the past year, and blinked for a moment his head perked up as he listened for a moment. He heard something that was almost alien to him and the rest of the world at this point in his life. For a moment he thought he was going bat shit crazy, hearing music that couldn't have possibly been real. Getting up from the sofa where he was laying he tracked the sound following it for a moment. He honestly wanted to believe that he wasn't going mad but the last year had put so much evidence to the contrary. Music was dead, well at least that's what he thought.

He set his bag down for a moment as he walked to the windows of the house, peering out what he saw only made him confirm that he was now insane. He had gone mad with the need for companionship. So much so in fact that he was now seeing actual people, well one person to be exact. A young woman who was actually rather attractive to look at, which only made him think that he had gone crazy. It had been over a year in one of the most populated places in the world. She was up near the cars he had looted earlier, and he didn't know what to do for a moment. Part of him wanted to call out to her, part of him wanted to attack her. Defend the few things that he had though his brain told him that was the more insane path to take.

Walking out of the building he didn't make much of an entrance rather he just kind of waved. "Hello!" He called out loud enough that he knew his voice would carry, and winced slightly at it's use. He hadn't spoken in so long, at first he had started talking to himself, but when he realized that it was only making him feel like going crazy he had stopped talking. It had been entire seasons now since he had heard the sound of a human voice, and to hear himself speak was honestly kind of shocking.

"Are you real!" He yelled out again, kind of feeling stupid for his question. If she was real that meant there was something out here. if there was two survivors maybe there were others, he doubted that, it had taken him a year to just find one, part of him was really hoping that he could keep in contact with this one. If she was real, and not some kind of mental fracture. He could have understood if it was one honestly, it had been so long, that if his mind did break, he probably would have been okay with that.

Jessica hummed as she searched inside one of the cars for something to drink. She had a mini skirt on that let cool air on her body which was always nice. Since there were nobody left on this world she could wear whatever she wanted. Something spooked her out of her mind, she jumped out of surprise and hit her head with the top of the car, “outchhhh”. She rubbed her head as she looked outside and saw nobody out there. The voice spoke again and then she started looking around, her heart beating out of her chest.

The voice was apparently male and whoever it was the voice was being carried by the wind. “HELLO?” she yelled back not really wanting to sound stupid. She could not believe her ears, if the voice was really a man then she was saved from living her life alone in a word that only wanted her dead. She forced herself to learn bow and arrow in order to hunt and to eat since nowdays that was just about anything she could do.

She continued to look around until she indeed saw a figure of a young male. He was a bit attractive but she did not had anybody to compare him with, at least not anymore. She waved at him as tears began to flow down her cheek, if her mind was playing tricks on her then she would take her own life and be done with it, she was tired of being alone in a word that did not wanted her there. She waited to see if the figure would get closer holding the bow in her hand just in case he became violent.

Cale couldn't believe his ears when she called back. He was still thinking that maybe this was a trick, but he decided to walk up none the less leaving the safety of the home he had found he didn't take anything with him. Though he did keep a weapon or two along side his bag, he had found a fire hatchet that had been very useful for cutting and breaking things. Getting into homes when he needed a roof, and breaking down windows of cars for instance. Chopping up fire wood on those occasions that he had needed to do so.

The other weapon was currently tucked into his back, it's safty was on so he couldn't shoot anyone, and it was in a hidden holster. The small pistol had been something he had jacked from a gun store a while back, the sound was enough to scare off preditors, and feral dogs, but more then that though it was a humane way of hunting. He had become very skilled with it, and with so many gun stores around he had found plenty of amo which he stashed in the bag. None of that seemed to matter at the moment though as he continued to walk up to the girl he had found after almost a year of no contact.

Cale had let himself go he wasn't gonna lie, his clothing was old, and it had been a while since he had shaved though his complexion and skin he never seemed to have much facial hair even if it had mattered. Walking up to her he waved slightly, before looking around her. Was she alone? He couldn't hear or see anyone else, and so he had to assume that she was actually alone, and that meant they were probably the last two living people in this world, if she was real.

"Um." Cale paused for a moment still not used to hearing his voice anymore. He had no idea what he was about to say to this girl, but as he walked into about ten feet. He almost just fell to his knees he wanted to cry, not out of being alone, but because he wasn't anymore. He had finally found someone else in this hell hole. "If your real... Can I hug you?" it was honestly the weirdest question he had ever asked, but at the same time he didn't know anything else that would have fit into this situation.

She froze in place as she saw the figure of a young bearded male coming her way. He, like her stopped looking for himself a long time ago since it was not worth it. She had her clothing shattered and a lot of skin was revealed but she clearly did not knew there was another male in the world. Her bow was still steady but it began shaking as her mind started doubting that this was all real. She had no idea who this man was but to her she clearly was glad to see him.

Finally she opened her hand and the bow landed on the ground with a loud sound. She looked down and blushed as she tried to find the words to say to him, a hug… yes that is what she wanted as well. The feeling of someone else bringing her protection, the feeling of finally letting go of all worries, letting go of the search for another human. There was another person, another one like her and she wasn’t going to let that person leave, not without her.

Finally she ran towards him and embraced him on a hug, all the toughness she learned to have melted away and just the innocent scared girl came out once more. She began crying much like a little girl would, she cried and cried seeking comfort between the arms of the young man. “I…I thought I was alone… all this time…. I thought…there was nobody else… everybody suddenly vanished…. I was so scared…. You are real right?... your not a fragment of my mind?”. She began touching him up and down focusing on his arms and pinching his skin, he was indeed real.

Watching the young girl practically jump to embrace him, Cale honestly couldn't have felt happier, His hands held her close, as he took in things like her natural smell, and held her against his body. He felt alive just knowing that someone anyone was close to him again. His hands gripped her for a moment, feeling the fabric of her clothing, the softness of her back, before sliding lightly under her shirt and touching her bare back, just the feeling of flesh that wasn't actually his own made him feel at ease.

"I'm real." He said, as unreal as it all sounded to him for what he knew she was the fake, but she seemed to be having the exact same thoughts that he was having. His mind raced, and after a few seconds of nothing but silence from him he started to laugh, it had been so long since he had felt a reason to be happy, or just had some amusing thought, but now he wasn't alone. He pulled himself back so that his brown eyes could look at her practically drinking in the sight of another human.

"Your real... It's been.. Holy hell your actually real!" He practically shouted not that anyone was around them to actually hear him, he embraced her again lifting her off her feet with the strength of his hug. There were thousands of questions he wanted to ask, but nothing else seemed to matter. Out of the six billion people now missing, two were alive. "I'm... Cale. what's your name?"

He had to pause for a moment thinking of a name he hadn't had a reason to use in over a year. Did it even really matter what her name was, she was real! was there anything else that mattered? Caught up in his celebration he leaned into her and kissed her, the first human he had seen in over a year, he pressed his lips against hers holding the back of her head tightly before pulling back from the overblown motion. "I'd say you have no idea how happy I am to meet you, I think you are the one person who does!"

Jessica sighed as she looked at him, she was tired and hungry she haven’t had anything strong to eat in quite awhile now. She giggled as he began shouting of happiness but she just remained there between his arms safe as ever. When he pulled away she just blushed and tried to cover herself but clearly it was not working, the clothing she was wearing were made for comfort rather than covering her modesty. The next thing she knew her lips were locking with his and he was giving her the first kiss in a few years.

Finally she felt like she could let the guard go and she just dropped on her knees and started crying. “I…I have no idea what to say… you are real… you are the first person I seen in… god knows since all this shit happened”. She cursed to herself as she noticed her stomach rumbling in protest, blushing she looked around and searched her bag for the last bit of candy she had left and placed it on her mouth as she began chewing.

Finally she slowly stood up and sighed, “M…My name is Jessica”. She placed her hands on her throat as she blushed, rare to say her name for the first time in five years.”I am sorry… it’s just so weird you know….” She giggled and looked around before noticing the day was coming to a close, “We better get out of here, you never know what appears on the night with all the wild animals around”