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Lost in the Woods by cardigains
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
03 May 2024
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Summary
“This only works if you give me something to work with. You know that, right?” He thinks about telling her then and there: This is over. I’m done. I don’t go looking for missing girls. It’s not like she’s working with him, not like she’s doing him any favors on getting this investigation moving one way or the other.
With a heavy sigh, Ellie turns back and faces him. “Riley…she wasn’t exactly known for turning the other cheek.”
“You saying you’ve got a long list of potential suspects?”
She pulls her coat tighter around her middle, arms wrapped in a vice around herself in some useless attempt of defense, preservation. “She liked to protect me.”
Joel tries not to think too long and hard on why there was a time when this young woman was a stubby little teenager in need of so much protection. “You think she protected you from the wrong sort of person?”
Ellie’s tongue darts out to lick along her chapped, blue-tinged lips. She’s freezing. “I think maybe she tried to.”
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or: How digging up what's buried in the past brings about consequences in the present.
(The Private Investigator!AU nobody asked for.)