Fics like when the walls come tumbling down

In retrospect, Joel will decide that he jinxed them in not going after Ellie right after their fight, in leaving things between them broken and unsteady. It’s like he was asking for it, really, flirting with the idea of something going catastrophic before they had a chance to make amends. In the moment, though, he can only focus on getting into place to try and buy enough time to make it up to her later. Picking off infected after infected after infected from his perch on top of the herbalist shop, Joel tells himself a lie he desperately wants to believe: Ellie listened to instructions and locked herself in a cellar with the other kids. She–for once–did the smart thing and not the Ellie thing, which usually involves something well-intentioned and brave but wildly out of the scope of what a teenager should be trying to handle. She’ll bitch and moan about missing the action later, but the greatest threat to her right now will be sharing air with small children, the petri dishes of- When he spots a familiar ponytail bobbing and weaving through the riot of bodies in the street, he decides in an instant that he is going to kill her himself. (what if infected got into jackson when ellie was younger?)

Fics like when the walls come tumbling down

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