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    Inextricable by

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

    05 Oct 2025

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    The woman whips around, and yeah, she looks like she could be in her mid thirties, but Ellie is so confused because Joel never would have left her if there was even a chance Sarah were alive, he wouldn’t have abandoned her, and Ellie swings the scope back to Joel to see if she can read his face, but he’s facing the wrong way, and he’s hunched over like he’s physically in pain and—

    “Daddy?”

    She starts to move, slowly, towards Joel, taking halting steps like she thinks he’ll disappear. He doesn’t move at all.

    Distantly, Ellie hears Anna radioing for Tommy.

    “Daddy?” she asks again, and Ellie registers her southern drawl, even more pronounced than Joel and Tommy’s. She sounds like Scarlett O’Hara. Tommy made her watch Gone with the Wind last month, after Ellie had missed it on movie night.

    Joel still hasn’t moved. Sarah doesn’t step any closer to him.

    They just stand there, in a stalemate.

    Joel is breaking down.

    -=+=-

    Two years to the day of EllieandJoel, JoelandEllie, the prodigal daughter returns.

    (Sarah lives, and Ellie learns to live with it)

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    25 Nov 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    AGH this is my favorite fic ever! The miscommunication is killing me, but in a good way.