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A woman is a changeling by treadlightlymydarling
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
23 Jul 2023
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Summary
Tess never intended to become a mother.
Some of the women she comes across in the QZ still call themselves that, mother, the first descriptor they’ll use for themselves, even though their children have been dead three or four times longer than they were ever alive.
The word they use for her is dangerous.
But now it comes down this, the woman who never wanted a kid and the man who has never gotten over losing one. A kid who has never known what it is to have a parent.
The woman who can’t even find the courage to ask Joel to love her, a man who can’t even refer to Tess as anything other than a business partner. A kid who doesn’t even understand what love is.
They’re an emotionally stunted trio who only have each other and it feels like a recipe for disaster.
(Tess lives).