Little_jerk



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    “It’s not that,” Ellie interjects softly. Joel sighs.

    “Then what is it?”

    She doesn’t know how to tell him this- that it’s not school, its not him or even Cat. It’s not that easy. It’s her. She doesn’t know how to tell her girlfriend that she keeps hurting her feelings. She doesn’t know how to tell Joel how hard she feels like she has to work to make him proud. She doesn’t know how to keep all of them - her family, her friends, her girlfriend - happy and keep herself happy too. She feels like she did the first time Joel taught her how to swim: scared shitless on the edge of that dark pool, furious at herself for agreeing to this, like she was on the very cusp of drowning.

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    Ellie navigates the break down of her first relationship and all the shit that comes with it.

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    20 Feb 2026

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    Here’s the other thing about parenting he’s forgotten: sometimes there are no words. There’s nothing your child wants - or even needs- to hear you say. Sometime’s there’s just you and them and all the silence in between.

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    It’s August in Wyoming, and Ellie doesn’t know where she belongs.

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    20 Feb 2026

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    His first warning that something is very wrong is how quiet the house is.

    “I’m home,” he calls, sitting down on their entryway bench with a groan and working his boots off. “Ellie?” He calls when he doesn’t get a response. Her boots are haphazardly discarded by the door as usual, so he knows she’s home, but she only rarely doesn’t come barreling down the stairs the moment the door opens, making his heart skip a beat each time with fear that she’s about to take a header in her excitement.

    Even after the call, however, no Ellie appears.

    (a fic covering Ellie giving herself a chemical burn to cover her bitemark)

    (Joel would like if his kid would run plans past him for once)

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    19 Feb 2026

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    In his many years of taking on jobs for too-little pay, there’s one assignment he’s never worked. The other workers call it the “preschool brigade,” the FEDRA-school kids sent out into the field for what they call “work experience” to get them used to the real world. Really, it’s a behavioral tool, he knows, an example of “better act right or you’ll end up like these poor fuckers when you’re grown.”

    He's deliberately never worked on one, uninterested in being put in charge of a kid doing a dangerous job they shouldn’t be. The kids that get sent on the preschool brigade are the ones FEDRA doesn’t necessarily care about getting back, after all, and there are things even adults shouldn’t be doing, not as untrained as most of them are.

    And then comes the day one of the FEDRA guards assigned to his work detail that leads over a sullen-looking girl, who kicks rocks the entire way.

    (an AU in which ellie and joel first meet on job assignments)

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    19 Feb 2026

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    The day Ellie finds a Polaroid camera, she hasn't said anything to Joel other than a strained "morning" or "excuse me" in 246 days.

    Less than 12 hours after Ellie speaks to Joel again, she thinks he might be dead.

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    ellie wants a picture of her and joel but the road to forgiveness is long(ish) and treacherous

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    19 Feb 2026