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    First it was her parents. Then Riley, and then Tess. Sam and Henry came next. At fourteen, all Ellie knew was loss. She should be used to it by now- expect it, even. What she didn't expect was to become so fond and attached to the grumpy, emotionally-unavailable smuggler that's spent the last three months protecting her at all cost. Despite her initial doubts, they were in this together now. Or at least they were, until Ellie finds out Joel's plan all along had been to ditch her the very first chance he got.

    Or: Ellie overhears Joel's conversation about leaving her & rather than agreeing to go with Tommy, she takes off to find the Fireflies on her own. But David and his group have other plans for her. Basically episode 6 & Ellie dealing with the aftermath of episode 8 (with some changes & angst).

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    15 Aug 2026

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    The woman whips around, and yeah, she looks like she could be in her mid thirties, but Ellie is so confused because Joel never would have left her if there was even a chance Sarah were alive, he wouldn’t have abandoned her, and Ellie swings the scope back to Joel to see if she can read his face, but he’s facing the wrong way, and he’s hunched over like he’s physically in pain and—

    “Daddy?”

    She starts to move, slowly, towards Joel, taking halting steps like she thinks he’ll disappear. He doesn’t move at all.

    Distantly, Ellie hears Anna radioing for Tommy.

    “Daddy?” she asks again, and Ellie registers her southern drawl, even more pronounced than Joel and Tommy’s. She sounds like Scarlett O’Hara. Tommy made her watch Gone with the Wind last month, after Ellie had missed it on movie night.

    Joel still hasn’t moved. Sarah doesn’t step any closer to him.

    They just stand there, in a stalemate.

    Joel is breaking down.

    -=+=-

    Two years to the day of EllieandJoel, JoelandEllie, the prodigal daughter returns.

    (Sarah lives, and Ellie learns to live with it)

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    15 Aug 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 23

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    Joel makes a promise to a dying man.

    He doesn’t realize what surviving you will cost.

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    27 Jul 2026

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    In the time between when he took you to now, something changed. His hands grew gentler. Your fear turned quiet. And somewhere in the stillness, love kindled.
    inspired by Ethel Cain's A House in Nebraska

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    24 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 15

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    It started off as innocently enough. In fact, it started out justified.
    She’d gotten bit. She’d run into a shabby cottage (in the name of recon, of course), with only three bullets left in her gun. She’d missed the first two, but her last shot made impact with the rotting, snarling thing, sending a spray of blood onto the wall behind it. The metal buried into its shoulder, disabling its left arm. Then it pounced on her.
    She hadn’t even been mad about it. She hadn’t taken it out with three tries, it felt only fair that it got at least one shot at her in return.
    It sunk its rotting teeth into her shoulder, the acrid stench of the thing curling into her nostrils. It growled, teeth clamping down as it shivered at the taste.
    The second she saw the non-existent glow of flames, her knife was buried in its head. The fun was gone now.

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    Ellie reaches her lowest point, but Joel's there to pull her out.

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    21 Jul 2026