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Joel’s on edge the entire time they’re in the hospital. He’s not stupid. He knows how science-types tend to put the why above the how. He sees the way they look at Ellie, like she’s a fascinating specimen instead of a child. There’s a calculation in their faces that he mistrusts immensely, and he knows at once that he won’t leave any of them alone with Ellie. They try to keep him out of the room at first when they do their tests, but HIPAA died twenty years ago along with the rest of their world, and it only takes pinning one doctor to the wall by his throat for them to see that he’s best left to his own judgment calls about whether or not he needs to stay with his kid. The gratitude in Ellie’s grip when she reaches for his hand when they start drawing blood tells him he made the right one. (an alternate ending in which Joel doesn't have to Rambo an entire hospital) (aka Joel being a great dad while terrorizing an entire building of medical professionals)

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