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  1. Public Bookmark 30

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    “I c… I can’t keep going on like this, Joel,” Ellie sniffled from the hiding place she’d made in his shirt. She was so tired of the nightmares, and the panic attacks, and not being able to eat without being sick; she’d been waiting for all of it to lessen with time, but it hadn’t. In fact, it’d only gotten worse. “... I’m so tired.” Her words shriveled up, and were soon accompanied by the now familiar sound of her crying. It was softer, more tired sounding than he’d grown used to.

    “I know, baby girl,” Joel uttered, letting his breath fall warmly against the top of Ellie’s head as he sighed. If he could take all of her pain away and put it on himself, he’d do it in an instant, but he couldn’t, and so he was left feeling nothing but helpless. “Listen to me, things will get easier-”

    “... when, Joel?”

    TLDR// post episode eight one shot, exploring ellie’s trauma and recovery after david

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    18 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 42

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    When it’s done, she drops the knife because it’s covered in him and staggers outside, breath whistling around the puffs of frigid air and the swell she can feel where he kicked her ribs. Back home, she tells herself. She’ll just get home to Joel, and she can lay her head on his chest to check for a heartbeat and she can pretend it’s yesterday. If she can just get back to Joel, she’s sure everything else will sluice off her like dirt in a river. She’ll be fine.

    Ellie and Joel deal with the aftermath of the pedo-cannibals from God.

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    18 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 69

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    “She’s cold, Joel.” It’s the first thing Tess says about the kid that isn’t practical, isn’t about the job. It’s quiet, too quiet for the kid to hear since she’s wandered a bit away and found herself a spot to sit down, out of the rain still dripping from the roof. “She’s just a fucking little girl and she’s cold.”

    He stops trying to argue they should keep moving.

    Or: Joel doesn't like Ellie being cold.

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    12 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 66

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    She's whiter than sin and beat to hell, blood crusted up under her nose and around her mouth when he gently lifts the poorly stitched together sack up and away from her face with hands that don't feel like his own.

    All of maybe seven or eight, if he had to guess, kids somehow looking both younger and older than they're meant to these days.

    She looks like a baby to him, her features all soft despite being so damn thin.

    With an odd sense off detachment, he rolls up her sleeves and checks both arms before moving onto her legs in search of any sign that's she's been infected, but the tell-tale climb of Cordyceps is nowhere to be found, no bite mark to mock him. Not on her back that's a swirl of blackened bruising and bumpy spine or on the hollow of her stomach that's just as tender and hard to look at, the cut of her ribs striking.

    There ain't a thing on her outside of a list of hurts that's a mile long and etched into her skin.

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    Joel stumbles on Ellie at the bottom of a pile of dead bodies meant for the burn pits, one shallow breath and a steady heartbeat is all it takes to undo him.

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    13 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 72

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    “Kid, get the hell outta my tree.”

    Stupid fucking neighbors. She’s never even seen the person who lives here before.

    “It’s not your tree,” she calls back, infusing her tone with as much attitude as she can muster. “No one owns a tree.” Deep breaths, Ellie. Can’t give away how scared you are, especially not to a stranger. Especially especially not to a man.

    “Tree’s on my property. I own the property, so I own the tree. Now scram.”

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    ellie climbs a tree, and maybe finds a home in it

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    14 Dec 2025