Author’s Note: To all who have watched this story since I began writing this in 2013 I thank you. It has been a long journey since I began this story, and it is far from over! What originally was just a spin off idea inspired by games of that year, Destiny, Last of Us turned into a little story that I fell in love with. I quit writing this story as I left college for a multitude of reasons. Mainly, I had lost the original flash drive that contained the rough draft I was working on, and I had hit a brick wall. The original ending I had chosen for this story simply no longer fit, and I found the ideas for the next chapter simply not working. It wasn’t until summer 2019 that I finally decided to dig my teeth back into this project and finish it. What follows is completely different from the initial ideas I wrote years ago. I have since reworked the old ending into an extended epilogue, and many ideas for the sequel I thought up have been roped in as well. I would consider the following