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  1. Public Bookmark 53

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    “Okay. Look, kid, you can use my phone. I get that you got no parents, but you must have someone lookin’ out for you.” He pulls out his phone and goes to hand it to her.

    “Sure, whatever, man.” She says, holding both hands in front of her, palms up. He goes to place it on her hands, and as he lets go, it just falls through her. It's as if her hands are just images with no substance, which she guesses they kind of are.

    She looks at him, and his face is pale, and it finally clicks: he actually didn’t know.

    “What the hell kinda trick is this?” He says, his voice tight with just the hint of hysteria.

    “It's not a trick man. I’m a ghost. How did you fucking not know.”

    IE: Ellie is a Ghost, and Joel is the only one who can see her. She needs his help to figure out what happened to her before it's too late.

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    Oh, good, the kid’s got a knife. Great. Because the thing Joel really needs today is to be stabbed by a kid with a knife and not enough brains to know when not to use it. The cherry on top of this shit sundae would just be an ER trip.

    Or: The no apocalypse AU foster kid!Ellie au!

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    19 Dec 2023

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    Riley gets bit in the mall, but Ellie doesn't.

    Joel takes her anyway.

    There’s no grand purpose for her existence, nothing to make her worth saving.

    Joel loves her anyway.

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    19 Nov 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 72

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    "She's, uh. She's not here today. I'm cover-"

    "You're Ellie, right? Joel's girl?" He interrupts.

    Shit.

    Shit. Shit. Shit.

    He's looking straight at her shirt now. He's not even sutil about it. And then she remembers:

    She's soaking wet. She's wearing a white shirt, no bra.

    She's alone.

    And she's fucking terrified.

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    29 Sep 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 57

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    There was a body. Even far away, the smallness of it was clear. It had to be a kid. A little girl. Her face was turned over, hidden in the snow. From the opposite direction, there was a trail of bloody footprints, their petite size matching the smallness of the body.

    It was a nauseating sight.

    Tommy stared, his eyes made dark with gloom. “God, look, Joel,” He said, his eyes boring into the girl, her frame so small that it was nearly completely hidden in the snow. Only her hair moved, its snow-kissed edges spurred on by the breeze. “It’s just a kid.” There was mourning in his voice, an immediate assumption that the girl was dead.

    Then she shivered.

    "Christ, Tommy.” As quickly as he could, Joel climbed down from his saddle, and then quickly started towards the girl. “She’s still alive.”

    TLDR// Instead of meeting in the Q.Z like the show, Ellie is alone until the aftermath of episode 8, where Joel finds her outside of Jackson, alnost frozen to death. There are a lot of kids in Jackson. He sees Sarah in all of them, but with her, it's even more obvious. He takes her in. AU mixed with post-ep 8 recovery.

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    27 Aug 2023