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“Joel, who in the fuck-” “Language,” comes Joel’s voice, as sharp as when he was delivering orders not to smoke around Sarah. The surreal shock of it has him silent for a long moment, trying to convince himself that he’s not having a stroke. That’s all he needs with a wife and a baby on the way, stroking out after hallucinating a child talking to his brother who hasn’t even looked at a child in a decade. Hell, Joel had made them move once because the apartment next door had a little girl who tried to greet him with a chipper “hi!” each morning, and on day 4 of it, Joel had gone back into their living room and put his fist through the wall in total, eerie silence. From a man who used to be the first at any event to offer to hold a baby, it had been a stark reminder of exactly where his brother’s head is these days. (tommy pov of finding out about ellie and getting to know her via radio calls)

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