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a long, long road by archetyped
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
22 Feb 2024
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Tommy watched his brother bury his soul with his daughter, cradled in the roots of a tall, looming oak tree on the side of Route 71. The man who woke up in the military hospital two days later was a ghost of the one that Tommy’d known his whole life. Like when he tried to put that bullet in his head, he really had died, and he’d come back wrong.
Somehow, this girl’s brought his brother back to him. Has reshaped broken pieces into something similar enough to who Joel used to be that if Tommy ignores the jagged edges, he nearly looks the same. By some miracle, Ellie has taken him by the hand and led him out of the hell he’d stayed trapped in for twenty years.
That's why, when Joel asks Tommy to take her, he knows he's going to agree before he can even think about it.
(tommy's the one who takes ellie to the university)