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    Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)  

    13 Jun 2023

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    His first reaction when the backpack he’s carrying starts fucking wiggling is irritation. It wouldn’t be the first time some juvenile fucker riding high on their own importance because FEDRA gives teenagers guns and calls it a day tried to pull a prank. He can only imagine what it is this time. A fucking raccoon? Bag of snakes?

    He slings it down, irritated, and freezes when he hears an “Ow!”

    An “Ow!” said in a very, very young voice.

    “No,” he says at once, voice hard, like just saying it can make it not true. “Fucking-no.”

    This isn’t happening, he thinks, as Tess stops to walk back to him. There’s no goddamn way there’s a fucking kid in-

    The top of the backpack unsnaps and pops open.

    And out emerges a tiny head with huge brown eyes and her hair in a little ponytail messy enough that he just knows she did it herself.

    A little girl where there should have been drugs.

    Jesus Christ.

    (AU in which joel and tess meet ellie ten years ahead of schedule)

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