Fics like in sickness and in health

Watching him with Ellie feels like observing a stranger driving Joel’s body. “What?” He asks more than once, clearly self-conscious when he catches her staring. “Nothing,” she always says immediately. She doesn’t know how to tell him that things are clicking into place for her about him, watching how he parents. Even still determinedly grumpy, he’s gentle like he can’t help it, sweet with Ellie in a way that makes her eyes sting a little bit. He’s firm on rules and still acts a bit like a dick because he can’t admit that the kid’s cute and endearing, but she watches him negotiate naptime and stick hot food into the freezer to cool it down for a little mouth and sit on the floor to color and get bossed around playing imaginary restaurant, and all she can think of is that she feels like she’s really seeing the true him for the first time, the full scope of the man she’s only gotten to know through the cracks in the walls he’s built. She’d thought she’d done good work chiseling a way in over the years, but seeing him with Ellie makes it clear that there was a gate she was never going to be able to get through on her own. (tess pov in bb ellie verse ft. babey!ellie sickfic)

Fics like in sickness and in health

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