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(A story that picks up on the night Ellie leaves the farm, from the moment the door closes behind her. She never makes it out of the yard.)
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“I said if you loved me, you would stay,” Dina says carefully, crossing the room to stand opposite Ellie, arms folded around her sides, like she’s trying to hold the pieces of herself together, keep her spine from crumpling under the weight.
“I am staying,” Ellie says quietly, eyes looking up to meet Dina’s.
Dina presses her hands on the table in front of her, leaning forward to look more closely at Ellie. “I don’t believe you,” she replies, hating herself for how vulnerable her voice sounds.- Language:
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07 Aug 2020
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The whole town couldn’t seem to stop talking about her coming. The immune girl. The one who brought them the cure. Dina doesn’t know what she thinks about it and she assumes the girl must be insufferable if people always talk about her like that.
And the girl is definitely what she expected when Dina finally sees her.
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Dina gets the cure several days after her 18th birthday. She is 20 when Ellie moves to Jackson. A canon divergent AU where Ellie reached the Fireflies in Salt Lake, stayed there for four years and shows up in Jackson with her meathead best friend in tow.
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07 Aug 2020
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“You should be really fucking sorry,” Dina says quietly.
Ellie is a bundle of raw nerve endings, her lips forming the beginning of words but not fully shaping them.
“I know,” Ellie breathes out.or
Ellie returns to Jackson to find solace in whatever scraps of Dina or JJ she can find.
Dina wrestles with the depths of her anger and her need to understand that Ellie is real.- Language:
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07 Aug 2020
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The girl didn’t move, only stared, until Ellie raised the talkie she stowed at her feet and made the call.
She was switched to a different position the rest of that night.
Later on, she would learn that the girl’s name was Dina.
She was seventeen.
And she was alone.
its cute i swear, just give it a shot
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07 Aug 2020
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What if Ellie had gone to relieve Joel and Tommy with Jesse instead of patrolling the Creek Trails with Dina that day?
What if Dina never got the chance to show Ellie her feelings were real before everything went wrong?
What if Joel had lived, but at a terrible cost?
A Canon-Divergent story that explores the repercussions of not saying what they meant to say when they had the chance, and the separation that follows.
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- Part 3 of ...For the Rest of Mine
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06 Aug 2020
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Dina fixes her with a soft, surprised expression; there in the flickering light from the bonfire, it’s enough to make Ellie feel the kind of happy she wasn’t sure she was even capable of feeling. A feeling so big, so good, that she hadn’t been sure it was possible for her to feel it. She had wondered, in the past, if maybe she just wasn’t wired for feeling these kinds of things--deep and pure and good. She’d thought maybe she was just destined for feeling lukewarm, mediocre at best.
But Dina proved her wrong, because nothing she felt about Dina was lukewarm or mediocre.
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- Part 4 of Look Out, Jackson Town
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06 Aug 2020
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****UPDATED VERSION RELEASING 07/08/25****
"Dina brought the button-up close to her face, slowly closed her eyes, and deeply breathed in the lingering scent.
It smelled like…
...like the earth out in the woods.
Like the soap they all shared in the bath, tinged with lavender.
Like the oil she had watched Ellie rub into the fretboard of her old guitar.
Like whiskey.
Like Ellie."
A slow burn, Dina-centric story, about whether or not love can ever find it's way back home through hurt and loss.
Complete.
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- Part 1 of ...For the Rest of Mine
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06 Aug 2020
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06 Aug 2020
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Ellie’s life since settling in Jackson has been filled with new experiences, from her first swimming lesson, her first patrol, her first "I love you", and many more. Here are some of her more memorable first times.
Latest update: Chapter 24 -- Ellie's first time meeting the in-laws
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06 Aug 2020
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Ellie returns to Jackson after her confrontation with Abby, unsure where she fits in or even belongs anymore. Unsure if she will ever be forgiven or if she can even forgive herself.
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06 Aug 2020
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TLOU2 spoilers ahead, don't read if you haven't finished the game!!
noun: absolution; plural noun: absolutions
formal release from guilt, obligation, or punishment.After Ellie returns home to find the farm empty she knows that she cannot live without knowing that Dina and JJ are at least safe, and so she sets off back to the town, a mixture of feelings inside of her.
But will knowing they are safe be enough, or will she find the strength for one last fight - the fight for her family.
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06 Aug 2020
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If Ellie thought surviving an apocalypse was easier than navigating university, she was wrong. She has to juggle school, sports, her feelings, and maintaining her relationships. Working hard to survive her adolescence is a struggle every day.
Or just an Alternate Universe where our favorite kids attend the same university and fall helplessly in love.
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06 Aug 2020