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  1. Public Bookmark 56

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    Of all of the things in the entire goddamn world he could possibly have guessed for what Tommy left behind in the box, a kid would never have made the list.

    Especially a kid with a goddamn knife.

    The girl popped up the moment they finally managed to get the crowbar just right to crack the lock open, and her battle cry startled them almost as badly as the glint of steel in her hand. He’d grabbed Tess entirely on reflex to yank her back, and he barely registers the one hand she has fisted around his shirt as they stare in disbelief at the kid who appeared like the world’s worst magic trick.

    “Hey!” He snaps as their surprise Jack-in-the-Box waves her knife around wildly, looking far more likely to stab her own eye out than come anywhere close to hitting him or Tess. “Knock it off.”

    “Funk you!” The little girl cries, waving her knife with more fervor even as she struggles to try and get over the wall of the box. He darts forward to grab her when she tips over with a squeal, horrified without meaning to be at the idea of her landing on her knife.

    The moment she’s safely on her feet, however, she’s back to being stabby.

    (joel finds tommy's note) (and then he finds a whole lot more)

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    03 Nov 2023

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    “Do a trick.”

    She blinks, more than slightly startled, her struggle ceasing for a moment under the force of her bewilderment. In her defense, she’s still being held by a hand that feels like it could snap her wrist like a twig just by squeezing too hard, so she thinks she has a right to be a little confused.

    Also the words make no goddamn sense.

    “What?” She asks blankly, giving another testing tug against the hold. No dice. His grip doesn’t go tighter, but neither is he anywhere close to letting go.

    “You’re out here doing magic and shit so you can steal from the crowd, right? Do some magic if you want the money.”

    She gives him an incredulous look.

    “Dude, I just tried to,” she’s suddenly aware that they are in public and that she and Riley will likely need this section of the park in the future, “rob you,” she says in a low hiss. “And now what? You want a fucking show?”

    “You want the money? You ain’t stealing it from me. Do a trick and earn it, fair and square.”

    (modern verse AU in which joel and ellie meet after she tries to pickpocket him)

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    22 Sep 2023

  3. Public Bookmark 66

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    She’s not expecting the bombshell he drops on her.

    “Ellie, this is Joel.”

    “What?” She’s not sure why Tommy thinks this is the time to joke around. “No, that’s my dad. Marlene said so.”

    “I’d know my brother anywhere,” Tommy insists, eyes still locked on the photo.

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    (Joel is Ellie's biological father, and it takes a couple of old journals and some 15 year old photos to uncover the truth.)

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    16 Sep 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 26

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    She lied down, the water covered her ears, her eyes kept spilling tears and that knot in her throat was released letting her sobs to be louder.

    And she remembered him.

     

    “If somehow… the Lord gave me… a second chance…"

     

    “Is that what you want?” someone asked, but she didn’t hear them “Stop crying, child.”

    She heard the voice sigh and the next thing she knew was that she was being swallowed by the ocean.

    She didn’t know who or what was in front of her. It was an entity, magical, mythical or heavenly, she didn’t have a fucking clue.

    “A second chance, is that what you want?” they asked without moving their lips.

    “It is, but…” her tears kept spilling from her eyes but instead of roading down her cheeks they floated on the water around her face “Are you asking because you can make it true?”

     

    “If that is what you want.”

     

    Or the one where Ellie is the one with a selfish path in front of her... and she takes it.

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    31 Aug 2023

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    astra inclinant, sed non obligant (the stars incline us, they do not bind us)

    . . .

    Of all the fights Joel has dragged his brother into, none of them have ever been worthy of Tommy’s loyalty, until this one.

    “You don’t know what she’s been through, Tommy. She’s just a kid. She needs—“

    To be held.

    To know that she deserves to live.

    To know that she’s setting the world right just by existing, just by breathing.

    Tommy finds the words he can’t. “She needs people to love her, a safe place to grow up and do some healin’. I reckon you, me, and Maria can give her that.”

    Or: the Part II where Ellie gets her chance at saving the world (or at least her little corner of it) and finds out just how loved she is along the way.

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    31 Aug 2023

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