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“Brains are like bones,” he says when he’s sure he can be calm, and she pulls back at that, face scrunched in judgment. “Jesus, man, it sounds like you’re the one who needs to take a biology class.” “Hold the sass,” he chides mildly, and she rolls her eyes but settles against him again. “A broken bone hurts like a bitch,” he says, “and for a while it doesn’t work like it should. Sometimes it feels like it might never hold you up again.” She’s quiet, but it’s an attentive sort of silence, not like her blessedly increasingly rare moments of catatonia. “But it heals, baby girl,” he tells her, adjusting her until he can get his arms around her, blanket bundle and all. He rests his chin on the top of her head and brings one hand up to squeeze the back of her neck gently, trying to coax the tense muscles loose. “Sometimes it still aches on rainy days-” “Okay, Edgar Allen Joel.” “-but you take those days, and you breathe through them, and eventually, they end.” (the events of episode 8 have left their scars on Ellie) (luckily she has a Joel)

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