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    “Her name is Ellie,” she says, eyes still on the sweet, slumbering child. “Take care of her. Don’t fuck this up, Joel.”

    He doesn’t respond, just watches until Marlene is gone and moves to lock the door once more, knowing it’s probably about to be a long night with very little sleep.

    Glancing down at the baby – Ellie – Joel releases a slow breath. “Looks like it’s just you and me, kid.”

    Fucking hell, he’s got his work cut out for him.

    or

    (Joel raises Ellie. Some things change while others stay the same. A journey from Boston to Wyoming.)

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    120,182
    Chapters:
    18/?
    Comments:
    330
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    1,448
    Bookmarks:
    369
    Hits:
    40,707
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    She's a slender, tiny thing; a slight wiry frame that must be part FEDRA upbringing and part her mother's family.

    The very same firecracker personality. A hint of quick temper and unrelenting stubbornness that he recognizes as all his own. A dimple he knows is a reflection of the one in his cheek.

    The thing that stills the very breath in his lungs though, that makes his heart just about beat out his chest entirely – the girl – Ellie, he forces his mind to supply – has his eyes. They match. It's just about the only part of himself he recognizes.

    The rest is all Anna.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    2,159
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    19
    Kudos:
    140
    Bookmarks:
    18
    Hits:
    1,052
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    While on a FEDRA mandated job, Ellie is paired with a grumpy old man who doesn't talk. Not a single word spoken aloud. No one seems to get exactly what his deal is, but Ellie, she spends one day with the dude and understands him just fine.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    9,599
    Chapters:
    3/?
    Comments:
    48
    Kudos:
    244
    Bookmarks:
    33
    Hits:
    2,094
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    For a month marked by so much death, September in Wyoming is beautiful.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    5,227
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    11
    Kudos:
    134
    Bookmarks:
    17
    Hits:
    1,128
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    Ellie sits out in the backyard simply because she can. Because she has one of those now. Along with an actual fucking house.

    Who would've thought?

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    3,049
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    9
    Kudos:
    132
    Bookmarks:
    30
    Hits:
    1,300
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    In the end they let her go without a bullet in her head – which is a small mercy really – but Ellie knows that it's far from over.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    16,275
    Chapters:
    4/?
    Comments:
    49
    Kudos:
    183
    Bookmarks:
    47
    Hits:
    3,513
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    In Jackson, Ellie tries to handle some bullies on her own.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    36,357
    Chapters:
    2/3
    Comments:
    45
    Kudos:
    251
    Bookmarks:
    69
    Hits:
    4,691
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    Her mouth twists. “Do you think Tommy finds it weird that I’m living with you?”

    It’s so out of the blue that it throws him a little bit.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    1,432
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    13
    Kudos:
    299
    Bookmarks:
    22
    Hits:
    2,768
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    Their first official day apart in Jackson is incredibly hard on them both, even if they won’t admit it.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    1,253
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    14
    Kudos:
    217
    Bookmarks:
    21
    Hits:
    1,662
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    A tragedy in Jackson leads to a dead kid, a grieving father, and a missing Ellie.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    24,733
    Chapters:
    4/4
    Comments:
    61
    Kudos:
    430
    Bookmarks:
    104
    Hits:
    8,085
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    Ellie likes to say that she pulled a Joel by going out and getting herself a feral child of her own. Not unlike him, it was supposed to be temporary until it wasn’t.

    Just as she chose Joel all those years ago, Astra chose her in all the wisdom an almost six-year-old could muster. And it’s not something Ellie ever wants to take lightly. The trust that comes with it. The devotion. The honor of being that choice.

    Even if it fucking terrifies her.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    8,039
    Chapters:
    2/3
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    24
    Kudos:
    89
    Bookmarks:
    22
    Hits:
    1,184
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    Ellie wakes up in a hospital bed with her wrists and ankles restrained.

    Marlene tells her that it's for her own good.

    (whumptober prompt: surgery )

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    3,915
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    13
    Kudos:
    184
    Bookmarks:
    33
    Hits:
    2,205
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    A few weeks into living in Jackson, Ellie notices one of the watchtowers along the wall often goes unoccupied during the night. She decides to remedy that immediately.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    13,027
    Chapters:
    2/2
    Comments:
    29
    Kudos:
    254
    Bookmarks:
    50
    Hits:
    4,001
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    I won’t come back without her.

    Even now, the promise he’d made to his brother scorches straight through to his heart, searing across his skin, branding him like an iron. A sworn oath Tommy can’t break. He refuses to break. He won’t fail again. Not this time. Not this girl.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    6,977
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    11
    Kudos:
    228
    Bookmarks:
    41
    Hits:
    2,708
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    The whole concept is stupid. In her opinion, anyway.

    They've only been in Jackson for about a month and a half when Ellie learns the significance of the third Sunday in June. A specific day of the year chosen just to celebrate fathers. But she doesn't have one of those, so she's not sure exactly what that has to do with her.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    11,897
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    26
    Kudos:
    326
    Bookmarks:
    73
    Hits:
    3,770
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    Ellie runs away from Joel and their life in Jackson, believing herself to be cursed. Afraid she'll lose what matters most, she decides to just leave first to protect the family she doesn't think she deserves.

    A brush with death out on the road and a familiar stranger help Ellie find her way home. Back to Joel.

    (Or Ellie doesn't believe in spirits and guardian angels, but something saved her and she needs to know why.)

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    38,039
    Chapters:
    5/5
    Comments:
    94
    Kudos:
    472
    Bookmarks:
    124
    Hits:
    8,876
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    Ellie meets another immune person in the Firefly hospital and learns about the burden of saving the world. Her perspective on dying shifts.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    1,615
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    14
    Kudos:
    165
    Bookmarks:
    15
    Hits:
    1,390
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    Her hand is closing into a fist and rubbing along her chest, right over her heart in a circular motion, her own face pulling with the shame of being caught unaware.

    Joel blinks slow, slightly thrown by her gesture, and it’s only when he stops and fully turns back to her that she even realizes she did it and that he has no idea what it means.

    “You got heartburn or something?” he asks, rough as ever even as his eyes cut to where her hand has only just fallen away from her chest.

    It takes her way too fucking long to understand what he means. Then it’s her turn to stop walking and gape at him. “Huh?”

    He sucks his teeth, sighs real deep, pointing vaguely at her midsection with a burgeoning awkwardness she feels seep into her skin. “You were rubbing your chest like it hurt,” he explains, squinting his old man eyes at her in that way that makes her want to mirror him, mock him until he scowls and tells her to knock it off. “Thought it mighta been heartburn from the ravioli.”

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    2,767
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    19
    Kudos:
    264
    Bookmarks:
    34
    Hits:
    2,589
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    In Jackson, Ellie struggles and Joel worries. They figure it out eventually.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    4,160
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    22
    Kudos:
    328
    Bookmarks:
    66
    Hits:
    3,637
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    Ellie isn’t sure she’s doing this Christmas thing right, but her family helps her figure it out.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    3,849
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    14
    Kudos:
    153
    Bookmarks:
    28
    Hits:
    1,554

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