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am i guilty? am i sorry? by jeonsgalaxy
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
30 May 2025
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Summary
Joel saved me at a time that I didn’t think I’d survive—that I didn’t want to. He brought me back from the edge. He taught me how to fend for myself in a world where weakness was a mark for death. He refuses to acknowledge the big heart beneath all that calloused skin and greying scruff, but he can’t fool me.
Which is why, when I walk into that cabin, guided only by the weak sunlight piercing through the snow drifts outside and the sound of Ellie’s desperate pleas, I have to do what he taught me. I turn it all off, like a switch.
This is about survival. Not just mine and Ellie’s, but his. The blood you bleed is the blood you owe, and I’m prepared to pay my due.