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  1. Public Bookmark 15

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    She's sitting with her legs tangled and her hand still clutching her switch blade in mid air, and when she looks at him, he wants to cry for her. He wants to take the horror for her, but he knows that he can't. A tear catches on the web of her bottom lashes before streaking down her ruddy, bruised cheek, the shellshock living vibrantly on her dazed face as she shudders in place a sight, he'll never be able to wipe clean from his memory.

    Too goddamn young to be wearing so many invisible scars like it is.

    "I killed him." She stutters, chest jumping and breath hitching. Blood dripping from the tip of her knife. "No, you didn't." The denial is instant, his tone firm but low as he inches toward her. "No — you didn't." He repeats again, hand held out as she shakes. "Joel." She cries, sorrow contorting her features. He finally gets his unsteady hands on her, cradles her face and steers her horrified gaze to look at him and only him.

    She sobs as she clings to his wrist with her free hand and cries openly, stunned and frightened — scared out of her mind.

    He's getting blood on her.

    "Give me the knife and grab my keys, baby."

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    Joel and Ellie and trauma and tornadoes. Just as God intended.

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    03 Oct 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 79

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    "She's your fucking kid too, Joel. Just because you went and found yourself another one doesn't mean Sarah didn't happen." And that's real rich coming from the jackass who'd disappeared for days at a time as Sarah's life had come to an end and took off when he couldn't handle her absence after she'd passed.

    "Don't you ever suggest that I don't give a damn, Thomas. You don't know what it's like to watch your baby die and then put them into the ground where you have to leave them." His hands shake and his voice is lined with thinly veiled rage, but there's still a wobble when he thinks about her funeral and that too-small coffin she'd been in.

    His head still aches from the bullet he'd tried to put through it that very same day.

    Another thing Tommy had missed; only finding him almost two days later, unresponsive and crusted in dried blood.

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    A story of 'What If's'

    What if Sarah died some other way? What if there was no outbreak? What if Tommy fell apart too? What if Ellie came into Joel's life before he got the chance to spend twenty years spiraling?

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    29 Mar 2025