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“Hey, kiddo,” he says, knocking on her door gently. “You up? Gonna have to leave soon if you don’t wanna be late for school.” It’s unusual for him to have to do this–just like Sarah, she’s usually the one who wakes him up, his youngest also a habitual morning person in some sick cosmic joke against him–and he’s trying not to immediately default to thinking something’s wrong. She’s a teenager. Teenagers stay up too late and then sleep in. He got back late from a last minute patrol to check out reports of a raider group in the area last night; she’d been asleep when he got back and peeked in on her, but he doesn’t know when she actually fell asleep. For all he knows, she could have been faking him out just to keep reading one of her books as soon as her door shut again. Silence. “Ellie?” He calls a little louder, trying to fight the knee jerk panic. “Kiddo, you up?” Straining his hearing, he can just catch the sound of her covers rustling, and he lets it settle him. The fact that she still hasn’t responded means it only settles him so far, though. (ellie starts acting strangely and won't tell joel why)

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